It’s a good ole’ Friday night on The Mike & Tony Show, which means two things:

We start with normal topics like pickleball…
…and somehow end up talking about creatures that explode toxic butt-juice at their enemies. 🤷‍♂️🔥

This week we kick things off debating the “gentleman’s sports”: pickleball, badminton, tennis, and which one secretly launches balls at 190 miles per freakin’ hour (spoiler: it’s NOT pickleball unless you’re playing against an angry retiree).

From there we dive directly into the What Even Is Nature Doing? segment:

Fire ants building living, shape-shifting bridges out of their own bodies like tiny red construction workers with zero OSHA regulations.
The Werewolf Mouse — an actual creature that sheds its skin like it’s auditioning for a horror film, then regrows everything like Wolverine on steroids.
Hydrogels — the shape-shifting, skin-imitating, brain-mimicking goo that sounds like it escaped from a Marvel lab.
Lemurs getting high on millipedes like tiny, furry Deadheads.
Root Fires (Zombie Fires) — wildfires that won’t die, just like that one friend who refuses to leave your house after the party.
The Bombardier Beetle, a creature whose defense mechanism is basically “BUTT FLAMETHROWER, ACTIVATE.”
Caterpillars turning themselves into complete biological soup and then rebuilding like it’s no big deal.

And then… we get real.

We talk Albert Einstein the activist, his stance against racism, his support for the falsely accused Black teens in 1931, his connection with W.E.B. Du Bois, and how he immersed himself in Black communities long before it was socially safe to do so. 🧠✊

Finally, we wrap with the most “2025 headline ever”:
A Chinese company is building a robot with an artificial womb that might be able to grow a human baby by next year. Yes… a pregnancy robot. With fake amniotic fluid. And a plastic umbilical cord. And a projected price of $14,000.
We’re not saying Skynet has entered its third-trimester era… but we’re also not not saying it.

Basically:
Sports → Science → Bugs → Activism → Pregnancy Robots.
A perfect Friday night.

Cheers!

m&t