Jesse Welles

He lost the ability to speak and everything.

A rare genetic disorder.

I don't really know what it does other than, yeah, look, he was pretty young.

Yeah, yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

He was sitting next to, he was in East Palestine.

Pennsylvania?

No, no, I'm kidding.

Oh, you're joking.

But, I mean.

Maybe he was riding on trains and boxcars and stuff.

There's no telling what they were hauling around and that sort of thing.

But he played the political tunes.

He – I don't – and maybe he's a continuation of –

of a longstanding human tradition of like bards going from town to town and singing the news.

I don't know.

Maybe there was some medieval dude going around singing about the King, you know, and I don't remember, maybe, maybe, maybe there was just cause I don't, I like, I don't know if it's a uniquely American tradition, but,

when I do it, I like to, I get romantic about it and kind of think of it as a uniquely American tradition because you got the freedom to do it and no one's gunning me down in the, in the field there or anything for anything I say, you know, so I get to,

Or maybe you hired, you co-opted the bard, you turned him into your fool, your jester or whatever, and then he sang songs for you about how fat the neighbor king was.

Who was in Lord of the Rings?