Shane Battier
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so this is like a festival.
And I swear to you, there was like 20,000 people at this festival.
And they want me to sing Billie Jean.
And I'm like, all right.
No biggie.
I'll do it.
Well, I get up on stage.
And so I start singing.
She was more like a movie queen from across the scene.
And all of a sudden, the words just cut out.
And so I have no monitor.
Your prompter goes dead.
My prompter goes dead.
The ultimate politician's nightmare.
And so I'm in front of 20,000 people playing Billie Jean.
You know, fumbling my way through this song, trying to dance to take the, you know, the eyes off my horrible, it was a nightmare.
It was a nightmare of epic proportions to be in Qingdao, China, in front of 20,000 people.
At a beer festival.
At a beer festival with no words.
But they still cheered for me.