We're back with Tracee Ellis Ross, who gave her first TED
Talk last week.
She's both super smart and a fantastic actress,
so we're going to play a game.
We're calling it Tracee Talks.
And I'm going to give you a subject,
and you're going to talk about it, like you're
an expert giving a TED Talk.
And if I guess that you're telling me the real facts
or you're bluffing, I have to guess
if you really know what you're talking about or not, OK?
So the medical benefits of swearing.
Wow.
There are tons of benefits to swearing.
Right into it.
It lets off endorphins, and it makes
your body think that it's actually doing something,
like an exercise or something.
So for example, if I were like, [BLEEP] you, Ellen,
it would be--
I would never say that, but it would be like I'm doing--
I just did a yoga class, or I had an orgasm.
Your body actually feels like it has made a punch or done--
All right, I'm going to stop you,
and you're full of [BLEEP].
[LAUGHTER]
Don't you feel good?
Well, I feel like I just had an orgasms.
I'm so sorry I told you to [BLEEP]..
I'm sorry.
That's all right.
Oh, my god, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.
OK, that's right.
OK, so--
Wait, was she right or wrong?
You're wrong, Ellen.
I'm wrong?
Ha, ha!
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
What?
That is true.
Oh, my god.
I thought for sure that I was correct in that
and that the buzzer didn't come in.
All right.
Wow.
Really?
[BLEEPING]
See?
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]
Oh, my god.
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry, but I just needed to get some endorphins in me.
Oh boy, this is going to be a good one--
mating habits of the prairie vole.
Oh, OK, so the prairie vole is actually
one of the only mammals, or the only mammal,
that prefers monogamy.
I don't know if you knew that.
There are a lot of mammals that prefer monogamy.
Well, this one really prefers it.
[LAUGHTER]
And also, the prairie vole is an animal that prefers alcohol
to water, and it prefers naturally
occurring alcohol, which is the nice thing
about the prairie vole.
And one of the things that has been determined,
which is fascinating, is that when the male prairie
vole drinks the alcohol, it actually
makes them want to wander beyond their monogamy.
And when the female prairie vole drinks the alcohol,
they want to get closer to their mate.
Well, you're talking about humans,
because that's what happens to the male human
and the female human.
[APPLAUSE]
Am I right or wrong?
No, I'm going to say you're wrong.
[BUZZER]
I'm wrong?
What kind of natural alcohol is out there?
I don't know, but apparently, that sugar is out there.
All right.
I may know something about this, so I'm
going to test you on this-- daddy long legs spiders.
OK, the daddy long leg spider is not actually a spider.
And it's incredibly old.
And the reason it's not a spider is because it
has an extremely long penis.
This is like the most x-rated [INAUDIBLE]..
These are facts.
I'm just saying facts.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
That's-- wait.
That's what makes it not a spider,
is that it has a long penis?
Yes, and on top of that, recently, a very, very, very,
very, very old daddy-long-leg-not-spider was
found with a fossilized, extremely large erection.
[LAUGHTER]
I am done with my facts.
Is it true or false, Ellen?
It was fossilized?
Fossilized erection.
Can you say that?
OK, it died having an erection?
That's actually, I think, what killed it.
All right.
Just because now I've been wrong on everything,
I'm going to say that's true.
[BELL TONE]
[APPLAUSE]
Finally.
This has been wonderful.
Well, I'm glad you brought your mom to the show today.
That's great.
Oh my god, and she's not having it.
No, not your mom, somebody else's mom.
Well, I knew that wasn't my mom out there.
I know, I'm so terribly sorry.
I apologize.
This is not the kind of show I like to do.
She is a bad influence.
[LAUGHTER]
I-- I am sorry.
Yeah.
This is so rude.
Ever since we were together at the Medal of Freedom,
she has been a bad influence on everything.
I'm being awful.
Black-ish airs Tuesdays at 9:00 on ABC.
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Yeow!
[BLEEP]
God.
[BLEEP]