Josh (Co-host or Friend) (2:53)

Hello, everybody out there.

Duncan Trussell (2:58)

God bless you all. That was me singing one of my favorite hymns, Lord of the Dance. I've always loved it. It's very sweet. It's actually, I think. I don't know which came first, the Quaker version of that or that version of that. Maybe somebody in the chat knows. But the Quaker version of that is called Simple Gifts. And it goes.

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Tis the Gift to be simple. Tis the gift to be free. Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be. And when you find yourself in the place just right, it will be the valley of love and delight.

Duncan Trussell (3:42)

Beautiful, too. But I like the Christian version of it, too. And Mr. Zomba Field, it definitely makes me cry, too. And before we get going with the main chunk of this podcast, I'm kind of mortified that I have to do this, because my theory when you're getting swarmed by people is it's better to either double down and lean into it or ignore it. And I think some of you know, some time ago, a video pops up. And in that video, a clip got used to of me in a podcast with Johnny Pemberton. Johnny Pemberton says, is Peter Thiel the Antichrist? And the reason this was perfect timing was because I had recently gone to Peter Thiel's talk on the Antichrist. Now, if you want to watch the totality of this clip, I was going to play it. But just watch the Johnny Pemberton episode. It happens like, I think in the last quarter of it. And so in this clip that they used, I say, I don't think Peter Thiel's the Antichrist, and I don't think Peter Thiel's the Antichrist. I also said, I'll just summarize what's in that clip. I said, I went to that talk because I had heard Peter Thiel was evil, and I wanted to see that. I think I said, I heard he was Darth Vader. I wondered if the temperature in the room would drop a few degrees. And I'm a very curious person. And so if there's a chance for me to be directly in the presence of somebody who has been labeled as a very evil person, I want to see that. What's going on there? What are they like before the show starts? How do they talk to people? What's going on there in this video? I said, what is my direct observation of the experience of watching this? He didn't seem evil, and he seemed smart, really smart. And I feel like I have fundamental theological differences when it comes to his interpretation of the Book of Revelations. Now, because I said that and because this landed on this video, which in a broader sense, and I think a sort of satirical way, seems to be saying that I am part of a cabal of Austin comedians who are fascists, who are maybe trying to take over the federal government. And I think from my clip, the anonymous person said that implied or said directly that I can't Say things that go against what Rogan thinks and that I'm getting paid off by Peter Thiel or Palantir, which is not true at all. At all. None of that's true. None of it's real. None of it's true. The idea that I'm censoring myself for fear of upsetting one of my best friends is just batshit. The idea that maybe I have to run things by Rogan before I say them, batshit. The idea. The idea that a technocrat oligarch is interested in infiltrating the podcast of a mid level podcaster to disseminate ideas is batshit. And I thought it was hilarious. I really did. When people started sending me DMs and stuff, the whole suey eyes, I've got suicidal eyes. When those things started coming in, I legitimately thought it was funny. Creepy, but funny. And the reason I thought it was funny was because, my God, like, I was trying to imagine what that looks like. Getting checks from Palantir, getting checks from Peter Thiel. I was trying to imagine a scenario where in some serious phone call with Rogan, I'm like, joe, I just wanted to say some things about Peter Thiel on my podcast. Just want to run it by you to make sure it's okay.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (8:22)

Like, if I did that, like, if.

Duncan Trussell (8:25)

Anything, if I actually did that, I bet we probably wouldn't talk for like a month. He would be so weirded out by me. And so looking at something fundamentally incorrect, fundamentally wrong on every level. Which, by the way, if you've listened to my podcast for any amount of time, you should know that if you listen to my podcast for any amount of time, you know my feeling when it comes to war. You know what I've said on Rogan's podcast, this podcast, I've said it over and over again and weirdly gotten in trouble for that too. It's always bad, always wrong, always horrifying. Terrible, bad, terrible, terrible. And me making a direct and honest observation about an experience that I had and then taking that direct and honest observation and spinning that, then in some way I've been compromised by the oligarchs that I'm a bootlicker fascist Nazi is bat shit crazy. It just is. Now, again, all of this was very funny until a few days ago, Charlie Kirk got assassinated. And then it stopped being funny and became just fucking creepy. And here's why. On top of those of you who have been like harassing me through my DMs and in my comments, gleefully, on top of that many of you have chosen to start attacking my wife because she's Christian. So that's a real fun thing when you're living with a very pregnant person who is making the bad decision of going online and reading comments written by people happily saying things like, duncan's wife has controlled him, is changing him. Duncan's wife is the reason that any of this stuff has happened. Attacking her faith, attacking what she fully believes, and then applying some distorted reality to that. And again, this is like the swarm. It's been insane. Like, it's been crazy, the amount of people who've been doing this. And I think I would have let it go on forever, and I would have kept making Pangolin videos just because it was so funny if there wasn't just this massive act of political violence that just happened. And so then it just gets spooky. I gotta go on the road. And thanks to many of you, before I go on the road, I have to hug an upset pregnant person and try to make her understand that I'm not going to get shot. So hopefully this response, though I doubt it'll do anything for some of you, hopefully some of you out there who have been picking up bits of information from this video or from other videos and using that to spin some kind of distorted reality, understand that by participating in harassing people for saying something that you don't agree with, or even worse, for saying something that was taken out of context not just from that podcast, but from all the podcasts I've ever done, spinning that into some crazy distortion that I'm compromised, that I'm getting paid, that I'm like, have phone conversations with oligarchs is psycho, man. And you should watch out. And I don't mean watch out because of something I'm going to do other than this video, I hope I never have to do anything like this ever again in my life. But watch out, because this stuff is poison, man. And it's really sad to think that many of you have a genuine interest in making the world a better place. Many of you have a legitimate, genuine desire to see a more harmonious, beautiful world and to imagine that your brain is being hijacked and that you're being directed to attack people who, again, my theory of podcasting from the get go has always been just say whatever's on my mind, whatever it may be. That's what I've always done. Like, I've been podcasting since, I don't know, 2012, and all I would do is just ramble, you know, which is what I still do. Like, I guess what these solo episodes are. That used to be the opening monologue that I would do in front of the. Now, the weird thing about doing this live is I can't edit it, but back in the day, I would just spend all this time trying to come up with a cool intro. Usually in that intro, I would say whatever was on my mind back then, what was on my mind is a little different than what's on my mind now. For those of you who've been with me since the beginning, some of you have. You've seen me go through testicular cancer, both of my parents dying, getting married, having kids. You see me go through a lot of crazy shit. And quite often I would say in those opening monologues, it would sound like I was giving some kind of advice, but really what I'd be doing is I would be kind of saying things that I wanted myself to hear. And a lot of you really responded to that. You loved it, you know, like. Because, you know, I have, like, dealt with, like, endogenous depression because I have had real SUI eyes, like, I've been suicidal, like, in the past, and have, like, really confronted that in my own life and had realized, like, how horrific, unaddressed, unacknowledged depression is. I, like. Like, I had to find a way to communicate to the world, like, fuck, man, what am I gonna do? Here's what you do. And it was me trying to give pep talks to myself. It sounded like I was talking to you, and I was, but I was also talking to myself. The point is, zero latency is what I was always going for. I didn't want to have to think about what I was saying. I didn't want there to be any kind of filter in between whatever was going on in my head and what I was saying to you guys, pure honesty. That's all I ever wanted to do, and that's what I did. And to me, one of the things that really sucks about some of these accusations is that you're saying that I'm changing the way that I. What I'm saying isn't reflecting who I really am. And where it gets paradoxical is that if I started doing that, if I let this weird harassment campaign from a bunch of people affect me and started. If I came out and said some horrific things about the people you would love me to say horrific things about, if I came out and out of some kind of cowardly fear, threw one of my best friends in the world under the bus just to appease you guys, at that moment, I would cease being anything that I could look in the mirror and think was okay. At that moment, I would become a monster. I would become the very thing many of you are accusing me of. If you think knowing my audience, if you think, knowing, like, maybe the people who came here from the Midnight Gospel, that I have some financial gain or benefit from saying things that don't align with a specific worldview, which these days gets categorized as progressive or leftist or whatever the fuck you want to call it. You don't understand my audience. There is no real benefit in articulating the way I feel right now. Probably in the sense that just by saying. Just by saying, I don't think this man that I've never met is the Antichrist has gotten death threats. People have sent me fucking death threats. An anonymous video goes up online, and people have sent me death threats from this. So if you think that in some way I'm grifting for the right, that all of a sudden money's pouring into me from the fucking Heritage foundation or Palantir, some other fucking massive corporation, you need to do some thanking, because that's not happening. But even worse, what you've accomplished is you've upset a pregnant person. So congratulations. If that's what you were going for, if you wanted to freak out a very pregnant mom who's trying to take care of three kids while her husband goes on the fucking road, you did it. Mission accomplished. If that was what you were going for. But the other thing is this. If somehow your goal in this was some weird form of intimidation or coercion, if you thought, like, if enough of you suddenly started blowing up my DMs and my comments, ridiculing me, attacking me, or doing all of the things that you've been doing, that that was in any way, shape or form going to affect what I say publicly, you're fucking crazy. Like, nut. That's nuts. That's not going to work at all. That just doesn't work. And also, and this is the last thing I hope I ever have to say about this, for those of you who are posting things along the lines of, oh, my God, what's happened to him? He's not one of us anymore. He's changed. For those of you who are, like, I'm out of here, man. I can't do this anymore. I don't want you here. If you feel okay, like, doing, like, harassing me, talking shit about my family, publicly speculating on, like, what my home life is, like, what my relationship with my amazing wife is like. If you, like, are calling yourself some kind of fan, but then you're also saying his wife is, oh, my God, I'm so disappointed. His wife is Christian. Oh, my God, I'm so fucking like. He's talking about Jesus. Oh, my God. I just can't. If this is you and you're doing this publicly, just know that, like, though you're not sending death threats or anything like that, you're part of a bigger momentum, which in the like, of which a tiny, infinitesimally small percentage has already sent me death threats. Now, I don't know who made that fucking video, but I do have a feeling that your intent wasn't to get me killed by a psycho. Pretty sure. If it was, then who are you? And I would invite all of you who have in some way, shape or form been influenced by this video or by whatever crazy shit you're seeing online to really ask yourself if the conclusion is that I'm being paid by Palantir, that I am having to censor myself for Rogan or anybody for that matter. If that's what you've gathered because of the influence of something you've seen online, you should really ask yourself if maybe you're not diving deep enough into the media that you're consuming. You got to really do your own research and use your own rational mind to try to make sense of reality as it is, not as someone else tells you it is. Because, man, one thing I think we all agree on in this world is we've got to de escalate. Things have got to cool down somehow. And if I seem angry, yeah, it does make me angry. It does make me angry. It does. It makes me angry that I have to comfort my wife because people have decided to believe that I'm being paid off by oligarchs. It does make me angry. And it is scary. If you wanted to scare me, yeah, not gonna lie. It's scary. But the main thing is it's not true. That's the saddest part of it. It's just not true. I don't think the path to the sort of harmonious reality that you're seeking is through intimidation, coercion, aggression, or lying. I just don't. And I don't care what the media is you're consuming. If that media is distorting reality, you got to ask yourself, who does this serve? What does this do? Most importantly, does this get us any closer to a more peaceful world? And if the answer to that is no, then why are you doing? Why are you letting that into your head? Like, why? What's the good of that? Where does it get us? I don't think it gets us anywhere. So listen, if you're upset, if you think I've become some kind of, like, any of the number of things that you've called me, I think the very best thing you could do if you think this media, if my podcast, if this in some way is influenced by technocrats, oligarchs, or nefarious status forces, then I think the best thing for you to do is turn it off. Tune out. I'm going to put a list in the comments down below of a lot of really great political leftist podcasts, some of them that are very funny, that you should go to and watch and enjoy and absorb. But this is not that. This isn't a political podcast. This is just a podcast where I like to talk to people who have interesting things to say and ramble. And generally it's absurdist. And generally, whatever the fuck I'm saying. I might seem very confident in it at the time, but quite often my mind changes, sometimes in a matter of minutes. And so if you want to take anything that I've said on this podcast and then weave some insane conspiracy theory about it, then that's fine. But do me a favor, leave my fucking wife out of it, man. What are you doing? Leave my family out of it. And really, honestly, it's not fine. Like, I don't. I don't. I legitimately just don't understand it. I don't know what it is. I don't know what you guys are. I don't know what it is. But one thing I can tell you wholeheartedly, I'm not you. And you are never me. If you're someone who thinks intimidation, harassment, political violence of any kind is okay, we are not the same. I'm not you. And if, oh, my God, my views just went down by 90%, I lose 90% of my viewers.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (25:05)

That's all of us. I'm not you.

Duncan Trussell (25:07)

I never was you. I never was you. So you gotta ask yourself, am I. Am I the one that changed? Are you the one that changed? By the way, the idea that change is upsetting. I get it. It is upsetting. Change is scary. I don't like it. I don't like it. I would love to be able to press pause on blissful, beautiful moments in my life and world history. I would probably do that. I'm lucky that doesn't exist. Because if their ability to pause reality at the best moment of your life was there. I would be stuck at fucking Burning man on DMT right now forever. So there's so many moments I would have paused and then I wouldn't have experienced all the moments that followed, whatever tumult was in between. Yeah, I've changed. I'm going to change. Hopefully. My God, if I stop changing, fuck, that's when you should get worried. I'm human. I change all the time. Honestly, I probably should change more. My clothes stink. But the truth is, whoever you are, whatever you are, even the bots out there, lay off, man. Like, it's like, move on. Find some other, like, pregnant people to harass.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (26:54)

There's gotta be ones who are, like, actually evil. I don't know.

Duncan Trussell (26:58)

Don't harass pregnant people is what I should have said. But, yeah, don't fuck with my family and stop fucking with me. And in general, I really, truly hope that we can all find a way to press reset because that thing that just happened with Charlie Kirk just did a podcast with David Nichturn, which you guys can watch, addressing it, talking about, like, what the fuck do we do now? And one of the many things he said that I really loved is it's like, you know, you gotta, like, feel it. You gotta get in your heart and it doesn't feel good. Like, no, like, just strip away all of the. Everything except the event itself. Horrible, Horrible. Let yourself feel it, how bad that feels, how sad it is, how tragic it is. And then don't participate in anything that moves the needle closer to that happening again. And that's the last I'm going to say about this shit. So fuck you.

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Duncan Trussell (29:24)

Now we've got much more important things to talk about. Specifically, can you pull up Comet Atlas for me, Josh?

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (29:33)

Got it.

Duncan Trussell (29:46)

Wait, I'll pull it up. I don't think you're on the same feeds that I'm on. For the better. Let me pull this up. You guys hang on one second here.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (29:54)

Is this it from NASA?

Duncan Trussell (29:57)

No, no, I got to get to the. There's more you're going to get from that. You're going to get some stuff. That's true, but fuck, dude, a lot has been happening since then and. Hang on one second. Let me find it. Okay, this is real fun. This is real fun. So, as many of you know, and I'm so sorry that I keep talking about this, but imagine if.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (30:29)

Imagine being my kids or my wife. This is what I'm obsessed with.

Duncan Trussell (30:37)

We have an interstellar object called 31 Atlas, which is going to be closest to Earth on October 29th. Whatever. No big deal. I mean, it is a big deal in the sense that there's only been a few of these interstellar objects that have been recorded in the course of human history. And that's fascinating no matter what. Just from like a. I guess from the perspective of an astronomer or cosmologist. Whoa, that's fucking cool. We're used to these motherfuckers coming in from the Oort Cloud. We're used to these things in our galaxy that have their own little paths and patterns. So anytime you get a visitor from deep space, it's fucking wild. Just that alone is wild. It's cool, it's weird. Now, as many of you know, a while back, we had one of these visitors, Ooma Muma looked like a big old healthy turd, went shooting around the sun, did the slingshot maneuver, as it's called, which launched it out of our galaxy. And that was weird, but an anomalous. But, you know. And Avi Loeb, the Harvard astrophysicist who's taking a lot of shit right now for his open discussion on this, the possibility of, like, if this was an alien ship, that's probably one of the things you might expect, has made a lot of interesting commentary on the great space turd, Ooma Muma. Now, ATLAS is another of these things, but here's what's interesting about atlas. And you can look up all the anomalous shit about Atlas, but there's a few really interesting things about it. One is when a comet, which is usually made of ice, enters into the heliosphere, the ice, it starts melting. And this was what creates the tail of the comet atlas. For some reason which nobody understands, the tail is in the front. And there's a lot of other aspects to it that don't make any sense either. Let me see if I can find some more anomalous things about atlas. Let's see. Anomalous. Anomalous atlas characteristics. I'm bummed that I didn't. Here we go. This is Avi Loeb writing this. He was on the podcast. I've been wanting to reach out to him, but I figure he's getting so many interview invites. I'd love to talk to him about this. A tantalizing feature of the highest resolution image of the interstellar object 31 Atlas is the unexpected appearance of an anti tail. This image of 31 Atlas was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope where the object was at a helio blah blah blah. The anti tail is an extension of the glow of scattered sunlight around 31 Atlas toward the sun and not away from it. It's typically the case for comets. This anomalous anti tail is is not a result of geometric perspective. Had never been reported before for solar system comments. In short, our new model associates the glow around 31 Atlas with scattering of sunline by ice fragments that are shed from its surface rather than refractory dust particles as previously assumed. The point is, this fucking thing isn't acting the way it's supposed to act. It's not following the script. Now here's where it gets cool. This just came in today. Astronomers just spotted a fourth interstellar intruder, bigger than 31 Atlas, roughly 40km across, barreling in on a hyperbolic path. It's labeled whatever. God, please let me name these things. Please. I will happily do it for free. Stop naming it C2025ZTFQ2. Come on. Call this Pegasus star inbound from the Oort cloud perihelion blah blah. But the point is, this fucking thing is going to be somehow coming in. Well, I'll just read what it says. October. That puts it in puts the sun from Earth's view around October 29, the exact day 31 atlas swings closest. So both of these things coincidentally happen to be coming in not just at the same time, but are gonna be.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (35:21)

Closest to Earth on the same fucking day. What the fuck is happening?

Duncan Trussell (35:29)

It's probably just a beautiful cosmic coincidence again, and I hope that God in the universe forgives me for the ear beatings that I've been delivering to my family about this stuff, But I was talking about this with my oldest son he's so wonderful. I'm like, I was explaining it to him and he's so wonderful because he really has this kind of scientific mind. And he goes, well, dad, it's probably a comet that just has things that are different in it from any other comet. But it's just a comet.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (36:11)

He's so brilliant. I'm like, yes, yes, my little Neil Degrasse Dyson, you're right.

Duncan Trussell (36:17)

That's right. Probably. But it's so exciting to imagine that it wasn't. It's so exciting. Now we have got to pull up and then I'll move on from the UAP topic. Josh, please look up Yemen. UAP hit by Hellfire missile. I know I already showed this, but there's new video with this fucking. Find the video, please, Josh. This fucking thing. We gotta show the one where it lays the little eggs. Maybe just go right on YouTube and see if you can find it. It lays eggs. These little guys shoot out of it. And we didn't show that in the last one. Maybe just play that one. I don't think that's the same one we played. It sucks. I gotta start when I'm doom scrolling, dude. I gotta start sending you links. Josh, this is not fair to you. Get off of that guy.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (37:29)

Is this it?

Duncan Trussell (37:30)

Yeah, somebody slowed this video down, but this is fucking crazy, man. Just watch this shit. There's the missile. Bam. Now pause it right there. Josh. Go back a little bit. Right there. Now press play and pause real quick so you can see this. That Stop. So this thing laid eggs? It shit its pants. It freaked out, but it ejected these three things that in the debunking videos, they were saying, well, that's fragments from this thing that got hit. But somebody is like, I don't know where it is. And we're not going to waste time trying to find it. But those are not fragments. They all have the exact same shape. They're all symmetrical. And so basically this little guy, I mean, I don't know if it's little, it could be big. But in this video, I like to think of his little cute little guy. Got hit by a hellfire missile. Bounced. The hellfire missile bounced off of it. And then these little probes came out of it. And nobody knows what the fuck it is. Are they eggs? There's a Hellfire missile, one of the most advanced missiles in the arsenal. Boom. These little guys. And then they just start following it around.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (39:05)

And nobody knows what this is, guys.

Duncan Trussell (39:07)

So when you take videos like this, which didn't. I don't think this happened recently, this video. Like, I don't know when it happened, but if you take videos like that and then mix that in with. Now we got these two big ass motherfuckers flying into. Flying into our. Flying in at the same day. It's like, dude, why are we shooting the babies here? Why are we shooting their babies with hellfire missiles? What are we doing? They're coming now. They're coming. This is like a bully at a playground. And whoever was bullying called home. Now we got these things coming in. They might not be so happy with the fact that we've been beating up their kids. Dean Williams says that's called mitosis.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (39:56)

Is it mitosis? Wouldn't it split in half?

Duncan Trussell (39:59)

Not to be a biology nerd, Dean Williams. Wouldn't it split in half. It was mitosis. That looks more like laying eggs. I think that's a scientific term. That little guy laid eggs. Fear eggs or something. And I don't know what it is, but this is all happening right now. And let me tell you, if I was a weather forecaster, I would do weather reports for good times and bad times to eat weed. And right now I'm going to say this might be one of the worst times in human history to eat weed. At least in the last hundred years. Wouldn't you agree, Josh? Having edibles right now, bad idea.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (40:47)

I've been doing extra edibles actually.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (40:49)

Are you serious?

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (40:50)

If I can push past that, I think I'll get a. You know, it'll come together.

Duncan Trussell (40:57)

I like you more every day, Josh.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:00)

I might be wrong. I might be wrong.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:04)

I just can't imagine.

Duncan Trussell (41:06)

I just feel. I do feel a deep compassion and empathy for all the people out there who are eating too much weed and turning on the tv because it is.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:17)

Not a good time to be stoned and watch tv.

Duncan Trussell (41:21)

Let me just say. Let me just say this. If you are someone who likes psychedelics, if you're somebody who likes ingesting marijuana, raise your right hand and repeat after me. I hereby solemnly swear.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:34)

I hereby solemnly swear.

Duncan Trussell (41:36)

That wild stoned out of my mind.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:38)

That wild stone out of my mind.

Duncan Trussell (41:40)

I will refrain from looking at my.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:42)

Phone I will refrain from looking at.

Duncan Trussell (41:43)

My phone or my tv. Or my TV until I come down.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:48)

Until I come down.

Duncan Trussell (41:50)

Thank you.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:51)

Thank you.

Duncan Trussell (41:52)

I love you, God.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (41:54)

I love you, God.

Duncan Trussell (41:56)

And Buddha and Buddha and all sin. I love everything.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (42:03)

I love everything.

Duncan Trussell (42:04)

And I can't remember what I was gonna say.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (42:06)

And I can't remember what I was gonna say.

Duncan Trussell (42:08)

I think I'm gonna go eat something from the pantry.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (42:11)

I think I'm going to go eat something from the pantry.

Duncan Trussell (42:12)

Amen.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (42:13)

Amen.

Duncan Trussell (42:16)

The. The world right now, though, it's so wild, man. Like, I am legitimately shook. And it's. If there ever was a time where your brain is gonna get hijacked, it's right now, man. Truly, like, one way or the other, your brain's gonna get hijacked. I've never seen whoever turns up the propaganda faucets. Boy, they got them on high right now. And it is wild out there. It's rough in them streets. And I'm the king of doom scrolling, baby, let me tell you. I go deep. I go down dark, terrifying rabbit holes happily. Just peel off all my clothes and squirm down into the mud. Go in deep. But fuck, dude, I have met my match here. I've met my match. This is too much. Nobody should have to deal with this stuff. And I just. One thing that I'm worried about, I feel so terrible about is like, I'm not proud of this, but I did go through a period of like, before I would go to bed, I would watch footage of Ukrainian drone kills. I don't know why I did that, but I did. I guess I was fascinated by just how absolutely dystopian and terrifying it was that we had this new form of high tech war happening. And I would just watch and I would feel so bad and go to sleep and have horrible fucking dreams. I'm just saying, like, I have a fairly, like, thick calcified callus around my pineal gland from my horrific lack of Internet hygiene. But a lot of people who haven't seen shit like that, who might not be like us, they just saw some of the most horrifying shit anyone ever saw that was just wretched. So when things like that happen, man, people's minds get opened up. And this is why when you hear about cults and stuff, and when you hear about how quite often mind control is achieved, it's like you freak someone out and then you inject scary. And I keep saying this to myself, like, I'm not going to go online, but how do I stop when there is a beautiful, massive, anomalous comet headed towards the earth, I need to know when there's UAP footage coming out every day, imminent disclosure. When there's terrifying cultural ripples happening from the Charlie Kirk assassination, how do you stay offline? Anybody have any ideas? Let's take some super chats. Josh.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (45:37)

Ah, Slurn.

Duncan Trussell (45:39)

I love you back. Thank you so much. Haley, thank you so much. We are very excited at the Trussell house for a new addition, let me tell you. Oh, Sulphur is waiting for a baby. Isn't that the best? It's especially the best when you don't have to have it inside of you.

Alastair Campbell (46:02)

Like.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (46:06)

I could just put my.

Duncan Trussell (46:07)

I get the joy of putting my hand on my wife's belly and feeling the baby move and talking to the baby, and then I go to bed. You know, I don't have someone's arm punching my bladder. Hayley Ann is asking me if I've played Cult of the Lamb on Switch. I have. I love it. Great game. Really, really good. I played it for the longest time. It was so fun. Really good. I didn't play it on Switch. I played it on PlayStation and on from Steam. I got into that game for a second. It's pretty cool. Vin Maxwell. You know me, Duncan.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (46:45)

Oh, Vin, hi. I do know you, Vin. How you doing?

Duncan Trussell (46:50)

I'm still watching every cast and always thoroughly entertained. That, Vin, is the goal for sure. And. Okay, let's move on. I have some other things that I would love to share with you guys. There's one moment.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (47:07)

What is it called when you enjoy showing people disturbing things on your phone just so you can absorb their reaction? What does that say about you as a person?

Duncan Trussell (47:17)

Well, that's a great question. I've thought about that before. The bad news spreaders.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (47:22)

Yeah.

Duncan Trussell (47:23)

So? Well, I mean, ages ago, we had one of these solo episodes where we talked about memetic possession, which is you sort of, like, get contaminated with a meme or, like, you know, a little packet of fear data, and for some reason you want to share it. The closest I can come to what that is is when you fart on a plane. And even though you're embarrassed, you take a little bit of, like. You're kind of like, whoa. That was like. So many people must endure this. You know what I mean?

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (48:03)

Like, it's like. It's like.

Duncan Trussell (48:04)

But you're int. Like, the difference is, like, if you fart, unless you're like a teenager or something, you're probably not going to be like, dude, come here. You got to smell this fart. It's so rancid. Speaking of which, Josh, go on YouTube, would you? There's something. Something I have to show you. I hope you can find this. Pull up. Someone sprays fart spray. Because it makes me. Connects to what you're saying. Someone sprays fart spray on. What are those things called that spin around those spinny Rides.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (48:51)

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Duncan Trussell (48:52)

Gravitron. Someone sprays fart spray on Gravitron. This is fucked up. God, I hope you can find it. Course it's not there. It was on Instagram. Well, do. Just quickly show dinosaur costume fart spray. These are important. No, do the montage there. Don't play sound. Do the Pikachu. Do the Pikachu. These are some of the funniest videos of all time. Pause it for a second. Pause it for a second. So, okay, here's what's happening here. For those of you who don't know. For my dear innocent children out there, these inflatable costumes, they're kept inflated by a fan that blows air into them and keeps them inflated. So that means some monster, some demon, some truly evil person figured out that if you spray fart spray into the fan, these people are essentially in an inescapable fart prison. But because they're wearing silly costumes, it.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (49:59)

Just is so funny.

Duncan Trussell (50:00)

Go ahead and roll it. It's. That's it.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (50:10)

Eat.

Duncan Trussell (50:10)

Watch. What?

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (50:11)

This one's the best.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (50:13)

It turns and looks.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (50:19)

It's really bad, man. If you've ever sprayed that stuff. It is.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (50:33)

Why wouldn't you take your hands out of the sleeves?

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (50:36)

Dude, it smells so bad. You're panicking. You can't, you know, it's so horrific.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (50:47)

Oh, that's a real fart.

Duncan Trussell (50:50)

Oh, okay, stop.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (50:58)

See, that's all of us right now.

Duncan Trussell (51:03)

That's all of us. You see, what's going on here is we all are wearing some kind of inflatable costume. And right now, man, if you go into the. If you don't have good Internet hygiene, you're just spraying fart spray into your own zeitgeist and you can't get out. You panic, you know, you panic. And that's what's really interesting about what you're saying is, like, not only do we like to share horrifying things with each other, but we like to just, like, if there was an Internet for farts, no one would.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (51:43)

It's called Reddit.

Duncan Trussell (51:50)

Truly. Truly. But there are good corners of Reddit. I've discovered them. What's it called? What's the. There's. I've discovered a great subreddit because, you know, there was a time when Reddit wasn't always like this. There's a time when Reddit was, like, actually not what it is now. But hold on, you just have to, like, with Reddit, you have to take control. You know what I mean? Like, you have to really, like, actively mute a Bunch of subreddits and only subscribe to a few and then suddenly you like you can cleanse your Reddit. Like it is possible. But let me see if I can find this. It's called Reddit. What's it called? Oh, I bet if I just. I'm subscribed to it. It's so funny. I'll send you some clips from it. Let's see my Reddit's that I'm subscribed to. Reddit silksong, Reddit UFOs. Of course, somehow Reddit Hollow knight, but I didn't mean to subscribe to that. Not that it's a bad Reddit. I just never go on there. Reddit telepathy tapes. Hold on, where is it? I'll find.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (53:08)

Really changed after the GameStop thing when they kicked everybody off for that.

Duncan Trussell (53:12)

I don't remember. I just remember all of a sudden it was just like all of us just felt different.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (53:17)

It was like in 21.

Duncan Trussell (53:19)

Reddit Pepe cryptocurrency, Reddit Mars Reddit made me smile. Let me see here. Reddit factorio. Hold on. Some of them I didn't subscribe to, but they're just there. So I don't know what's going on with that. Like sometimes Reddit will just like throw shit that you don't want to be throwing right in front of you that you weren't interested in, but it thinks you're interested in it. Reddit. Am I overreacting? Is very funny. Hold on. I'm sorry you guys. I gotta find this though. It's a really good one. If you're looking for Reddit Discordian society. I like here. Reddit science is really good. Hold on. Damn it. Let me see. Well, now I feel like an asshole because it's not. It's called Reddit doom. It takes the most Doomer Reddit posts and repost them. Let me see if I can find it. Doomer subreddit. Oh, I feel like such a dummy. I've like. It's all that's been showing up in my. Does anyone know the Reddit I'm talking about?

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (55:02)

Oh, Doomer circle jerk. Thank you, Claire Barton.

Duncan Trussell (55:05)

Pull up Doomer circle jerk. Josh, this is the funniest subreddit of all time. So this just finds like the funniest. Let's see. I rarely come across politics. If I choose to stay away from it on my phone, you can create your own environment. Pick up a hobby. So someone is saying this. Pick up a hobby, Focus on your personal network and improve yourselves. Politics is everywhere and the Internet exacerbates all bad things. Response. Must be nice to be so oblivious. For real. Tell me you're a horrible person without telling me you're a horrible.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (56:00)

Literally, the person's like, just do a hobby. You don't have to be online all the time.

Duncan Trussell (56:07)

Let's see what you. Let's see. Keep scrolling down. Hold on. Go up. Oh, yeah, here we go. Click on that one. I despise lazy affirmationist. Help posting. Somebody's mad. Somebody's mad at these ideas. The indomitable human spirit. Why should I sulk when I can love and grow? These people hate this. Okay, find another one. Keep scrolling down, Josh. Anyway, this is a good one to sub to subscribe to Internet culture. In the face of optimism, hope is just cope, but with better branding.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (57:03)

It's so sad.

Duncan Trussell (57:04)

Scroll down. Keep going. There's a really good one that's about to come up. Okay, wait. Oh, yeah, here we go. I just. This is actually. That looks like it was from 4chan, not Reddit, but I just. I just cannot believe. This is it. This is life. There is no magical third act where I am the star in some fantasy adventure. I won't suddenly gain superpowers and fight cartoonish villains. This is it. This is all it will ever be. 50 more years of quiet, drab misery. Our one shot at consciousness is spent on something so unimaginably boring. My gift of sentience is spent wage slaving, consuming media, messing around with hobbies that will never fill the void. Eating, shitting, cleaning. And that's all there is. Now, what's really funny about this is you could just change. You can read the exact same thing, but just change the tone. Ram Dass used to talk about this. You could be like, this is the worst depression I've ever had. I'll never come out of this. You could be like, wow, this is the worst depression I've ever had. You know what I mean?

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (58:23)

That's a comedic brain.

Duncan Trussell (58:24)

It's a comedic brain to some degree. It could be an enlightened brain because.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (58:28)

You could be like, wow, I can't believe this is it. This is life. There's no magical third act where I'm.

Duncan Trussell (58:33)

The star in some fantasy adventure. I won't suddenly gain superpowers and fight cartoonish villains.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (58:39)

This is it.

Duncan Trussell (58:40)

This is all it ever will be. 50 or more years of quiet, drab misery. It's like you can make anything okay. You can alchemize anything. This is the power of being human friends. It's not that you shouldn't acknowledge reality as it is. It's not that you shouldn't look out at the landscape and that you're wrong because you see things that are terrifying, horrible, awful, fucked up. But where you get to be a human versus like a dog is that you can actually alchemize that. Instead of turning this into some doomer post, you can make the next step. You know what the next step is. There we. We stop thinking about just yourself. Guess what? There's lots of other people who think that way too. And they feel like shit like you do. But you know what? Instead of bemoaning reality as it is, all you got to do this flip, this switch, you got to flip is think about if there's a way that knowing all these things, you can still help. You can get out there and help. Not by posting shit on Reddit, but just help. Think about all the poor people out there who think just like this. But maybe even worse. Because your gift of sentience doesn't have to be spent wage slaving, consuming media and messing around with hobbies. Your gift of sentience, while doing these very things can be spent having pure autonomy over who you interact with, how you interpret the universe, and what you do with your sentience. This is the problem. This is victimy. It's like you have been given sentience. You are self aware. You've become aware of some facet of reality that is. I mean, I would criticize some of that. It's like, no, you're not going to suddenly gain superpowers, but you never know.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (60:43)

I think the promise at the very beginning, I or I am not the star.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (60:47)

Like, oh God, you caught it. I didn't even catch that.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (60:52)

They're mad because they didn't, you know, become the center of all attention.

Duncan Trussell (60:57)

Oh my God, that. You're so right. There it is. That is the nucleus of it, isn't it, Josh? Oh my God.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (61:02)

Just be a regular dude. It's all right.

Duncan Trussell (61:06)

Yeah, it's like that that's the problem is like that's the problem, isn't it? You just. You want to be the star. It'd be fun to be the star, I guess, but it'd probably get old, you know? That can't be fun. After having superpowers, you want to sleep in the middle of a nap. Shit happens. Jesus Christ. I don't know if you've heard of the Paw Patrol, but you could just call them for anything and they have to show up. That would suck. I'm sure. Sometimes the paw patrol is taking a shit and then they get a call somebody's chicken stuck in a tree, and they got to go. They're on the case now. We're going to wrap this up. I got to go. And thank you for listening to me in the beginning. That was quite cathartic, and I do appreciate all of you very much for sticking with me. But before we split, does anybody have anything else they want to say?

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (62:03)

Ego, be like the butt plug of suffering.

Duncan Trussell (62:05)

Ego, be like the butt plug of suffering.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (62:07)

Now that, friends, is a great tattoo. That's a good one.

Duncan Trussell (62:12)

And a nice, beautiful sort of calligraphy. A nice, elegant calligraphy. There you go. Ego is the butt plug of suffering. The only problem is butt plugs aren't always bad. I guess it's contextual. Thank you, Stacy Chan. And I got you, too. You got it, Indigo Raven Cat. My pleasure. Immortal dude says, please move your mouth closer to the microphone and get a shave. God damn it. I'm so tired of people criticizing my beard.

Josh (Co-host or Friend) (62:54)

But that's justifiable criticism. That's true. I can't argue with you.

Duncan Trussell (62:59)

That's real. I need to shave my beard. I need to get it groomed. Maybe that's one of Aaron's alt accounts. Yes, Angelo, I would love to see your art. Hit me up on Insta. Thank you, Kathy. You guys are sweet. Thank you so much. Love you guys. And I love my job and I love that I get to do this. And I will never, ever, ever forget that I couldn't do this without you guys. And I will never stop feeling lucky or grateful that I get to do this at all. And thank you for that. God bless you. I don't know what to tell you about the whole Charlie Kirk thing and all the other stuff that's going on. Just be. You know what? Here's the most. The lamest cliche as hackiest thing to say. Try to be kind to yourself right now, man. Just. If you can avoid going online and I'm talking to myself now. Avoid going online. There's nothing you're gonna find there right now that I think is gonna cool you off or make you feel good or soothe you. And God, it's the most cliche thing. I'm sorry. Because sometimes the hackiest, most cliche things, they're like that. Cause it's true. Get outside, man. Get some sun. Just basic shit, non complex things if you want to. I'm sorry. For self promoting. Listen to the podcast with David. He's such a beautiful teacher and he really I think had a lot of great things to say about this that sort of cut to the core of what's going on for a lot of people. And actually he did a meditation that maybe if you're interested, you could do that. But I love you guys. I gotta get out of here. I'll see you next week. Until then, Hare Krishna that went how.

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