Episode Details

Is your body just an animal, and if it is, who's in charge? Kyle's back from Las Vegas, and the trip turns into a ramble through penny slots, the Sphere, 30-day dry-aged ribeyes, the Venetian's painted sky, a walk to Caesars under a merciless sun (Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun), and a desert drive past Hoover Dam to West Texas. From there we get to the spine of the episode: humans as one more animal, and the body's appetites against the spirit and mind that can rule them. Along the way we take on Sherlock Holmes's flies, Chris' war on fruit flies that seem to know when he's watching them, a red-winged blackbird that only attacks when you look away, tigers and back-of-the-head masks, Andre Williams on who built America, Roark and Toohey from The Fountainhead, test-tube babies, gene editing, and what kids get away with in school today.

This episode contains strong language; slurs have been bleeped.

Enjoy ;)