Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I’m your host, James Navé. Today my guest is Jay Hill, whose TEDx Asheville talk may be one of the funniest and most unexpectedly thought-provoking presentations I’ve encountered in years. Jay’s subject? Men sitting down to pee. Yes, really.
What begins as a provocative comic premise quickly opens into a larger conversation about responsibility, habit, fairness, emotional honesty, rehearsal, public speaking, and the strange vulnerability of standing on a TEDx stage revealing something deeply personal and surprisingly universal.
In this conversation, Jay and I revisit the rehearsal process at the old Black Mountain College barn at Lake Eden, explore improvisation, audience psychology, and the tension between structure and spontaneity. We also discuss why certain ideas stick in the mind long after the laughter fades.
Part performance theory, part social observation, part comedy routine, this episode moves from splash physics and “fluid dynamics” to existential questions about the messes human beings leave behind—and who winds up cleaning them up.