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Duncan Trussell (0:00)
The North Pole used to be green it was covered in flowers and beautiful trees flowing with rivers and laughing streams that you could drink right out of all but they changed Nothing on earth can remain the same yeah, they change Nothing will remain the same. See them with their trees dying in their homes Ask them why they do it they'll tell you they don't know See them take their children to a shopping mall to meet a false prophet Claiming to be set to clown. Things have changed oh yes, they change. If they knew the real story they wouldn't say his name Ignorance is bliss but gather out your grit I'll tell you the true story of grace. What's up? Welcome to the DTFH live. Hi everybody. Hope you guys are doing great. What you just heard, I'm incredibly excited about. It's in process and I know that probably when you're making something, you shouldn't play it before it's done. Quite often I do that. Never finish the damn thing. But this I'm trying to get done before Christmas. It's the band Cat. It's my solo band, Cavern of the Pig Emperor and that's Cavern of the Pig Emperor Christmas, which is the actual story of Santa Claus. So that was just the first few tracks from it. There's over 230 tracks in my mind for the album. It's going to take me some time to get all those done and. Yeah, there. Did you get. Yeah, there it is. That's the COVID that we're working with right now. Cavern of the Pig Emperor Christmas. It's going to be incredible. My guess is that this will be one of the last DTFH episodes I do because as soon as this thing hits Spotify, I'm going to be invited to New York. They're going to want to make it into a Broadway show starring me, which is a problem because I am not a great singer and what I've been doing, which is just amazing. And I'm you for you anti AI people out there. I legitimately want to know your opinion on this. What is your feeling? Because like with Suno AI, what you could do now and you could do this for a while with it, but you can get it to generate a song with lyrics that you wrote, remove the lyricist and then sing your own. Like your. Put your own voice on it. Just record your own voice. Is that still up? I'm curious, what do you think about that? For those of you who don't give a, I don't either. But I am curious what level of fear and trembling what blowback I'm gonna get if I write the lyrics, record my own voice, but don't do the music because I don't have time to learn how to play guitar, piano, and all the things this thing does in, like, one minute. I feel like I can write lyrics no problem. And I think it's funny if I try to sing very difficult things to sing for a Christmas album, that's funny to me. The shittier it sounds, the funnier that is to me. But as far as the composition of the music, forget it. Like, there's just no way. And there's no way I'm gonna, like, get a band to do it for me. I don't even know where to start with that. And even if I did, I can't afford that. I got three kids, one on the way. It would cost so much money. It would take till next year if I want to get this album out. My goal being, I don't know, sometime before Christmas next week, then I can't get a band. So what about. What do you. What do you anti AI people think about that? You can leave it in the comments down below, but I'm not going to read it as the problem because I've gone back to my no reading comments policy mostly. Which brings me into something I wanted to tell you guys about. Fascinating thing happened to me. Really weird. Like, I don't know, five days ago, something like that, maybe. Let me give you some backstory here, guys. Aaron, my wonderful wife is inches away from blasting the next trussel out of her vagina into timespace. And so, you know, what that means is that we're trying to get her to wind down. And that is not an easy thing to do. She's a very ambitious, focused person, always doing shit. She goes to Costco, dude. Like, what? Fuck that. I actually went with her to Costco because, again, I've got to go into full servant mode here. And I just. I don't know, man. I'm still shook from that experience. It's just messed up in there, dude. It's messed up. I can't even. I've thought about. I woke up at night thinking about it. Just the. There's some kind of aggressive energy in Costco. Like, it's hard for me to understand what's going on there. Maybe it's because the carts are too big, but I don't know. Costco rules. Like, I've never been in a place with carts that you could fit a fucking casket in. Like, they probably sell caskets at Costco. So it's like hitting you at all sides 1. You don't want to run into anybody with a cart. I don't want to seem like I don't have my Costco card. I don't. I don't have a card. Aaron does. Yeah, I'm ashamed of that. But there, like, I'm trying to, like, turn off a lot of parts of my, like, sensory input in there because I'm being drawn into, like, the electronics section. I haven't looked at TVs in years. Jesus fucking Christ. Looks like you could walk right into the TV and hang out with the lizards on the tv. Beautiful. Incredible. But then also it's like, whoa, why do they have these weird coffee machines? And then you look and it's like, shitty pants. And then there's Christmas toy. Holy fuck. They're not gonna have good Christmas toys. What the fuck? They've got a fucking pinball machine. You could buy a pinball machine at Costco. So all these things are going through your head. You're overwhelmed. And then some fucking asshole smacks into you with their car, like on purpose. Cause I guess you went too far into whatever the Costco lane is you're not supposed to go on. Which makes Aaron laugh because I'm a Costco noob. She thinks it's funny. And then you start realizing, like, oh, my God, this is hell. This is some version of hell that I'm in right now, that everyone's miserable. They're selling timeshares. They're literally selling. You can buy timeshares, health insurance, life insurance. You can buy all the food you could ever want in your life, flannel shirts. And I think what's happening there is. It's just like a mix of preppers, people from militias up in the country coming down there to like, stock up on canned foods. People who are certain we're on the precipice of the fucking apocalypse mixed in with budget minded parents. It's. We. We got gas at Costco, man. We went into the fucking Costco gas line, which is exactly like some post apocalyptic movie. You're just fucking sit there like. And I'm. You got to do it all right, man. You got to do it. All right. Aaron was explaining it to me. You can't go ahead when you think you would go ahead because there's some code, Costco code, some way you get gas. It's all fucking overwhelming. So that. That's just part of what I've been doing. Like, you know, it's just. I can't Even explain the number of plates I'm trying to spin right now. Then on top of it, you've got like just the normal kind of like catastrophes that happen when you're a householder, you know what I mean? Just like, just crazy fucking shit just happens out of the blue. Water heater fucks up, plumbers have to come, just shit like that. You know what I mean? The fucking. Of course, right when literally at any moment it could happen right now, I should actually turn my phone on that she could go into labor at any fucking second. And of course that's when the heater goes out, you know? Of course. And like, things that just any normal person, you're gonna be like, okay, that sucks, I'll get it fixed. For a pregnant, it's like it feels like there was just a drone strike next door, so. Because when you're nesting and then suddenly it's like, oh, great, with my new baby, the heat's gonna be out, which isn't the worst thing in Texas, but try saying that to a pregnant. Try saying that to a pregnant person. See how that comes out at the end. Try telling someone who could go into labor any moments. Like, you know, we could. We got. We'll just use extra blankets. I mean, it's Texas. Oh, fuck, dude, you'll get your eyeballs ripped out of your fucking head. So that's sort of the universe I'm living in. And actually I like it. It's fun in a kind of brutal way. And just in the sense that it's like you're just on the precipice of, like, God knows what birth, you know, the ancestors come in, spirits come in. It's a mystical thing. It's a portal. It's, you know, the beginning of a life. It's all the mystical stuff is simultaneously happening and it's a wild, wild experience. And so somewhere over the last few weeks, which have been something of a blur for me, I had this thought which was, wow, man, it seems like people right now are less upset, like, online. And then I realized, wait, no, I just haven't been going online. I haven't been going on. I've barely been going online compared to what I was doing. And you guys, I know this is the most basic bitch observation anyone can make these days, but I feel so much better. It's night and day, man. Like the world that I'm living in right now. Having stayed offline, I still dive into a little doom scrolling here and there. Nothing, you know, nothing compared to what I was doing. The world I'm living in now is pretty great. It's busy. Traffic in Austin sucks right now for some reason. Like, people drive like fucking assholes around the holidays. Everyone's stressed out, freaked out into the year, responsibilities. But, whoa, it is so obvious, you know, the Black Plague. Can you. Josh, do you mind just Googling how many people the Black Plague killed? We all know about the Black Plague. It was this horrific global pandemic reduced the Earth's population by a healthy amount. The Black Death, 1346-1353, killed a staggering 75 to 200 million people across Europe, Asia, and Africa, wiping out 30 to 60% of Europe's population, making it history's deadliest pandemic with devastating impacts on society, economy, and culture. Now, we do know. We do know the. One of the cultural impacts, because to this day, kids still sing Ring around the rosy Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes, we all fall down. They still sing that creepy song. I didn't know that song was a black. Was a Black Death song until I was no longer singing it. When kids are singing it, they mostly don't know that the Ring around the Rosies. These are symptoms of the bubonic plague. Pocket full of posies. They thought that somehow, I think having flowers in your fucking pocket could keep it away. They didn't know the Black Plague was caused by fleas. That was it, just fucking fleas. Because of the Silk Road, we got more connected, and then, boom, this massive disease was just wiping people the fuck out. They didn't know what was going on. And I got to tell you, man, I'm pretty sure the Internet is the technological flea causing a psychic fucking pandemic that is crushing our species, not killing us. Which, by the way, maybe that's worse because with the, you know, you're motivated to figure out what the fuck is causing the bubonic plague. You're sick of smelling that stinky barbecue smell of dead, diseased corpses burning in your village. You don't like it. You don't like the fact that everyone you know has died. You don't like the fact that you. That your doctor wears those creepy fucking stork mas masks they used to wear the. The. The. The ancient version of the COVID mask. Can you pull up those stork masks doctors used? 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Just like an electron microscope scan of a virus. Yeah. These little fuckers. No one's quite really like, are they alive? Are they sentient? Do they, you know? Look at that fucking thing. Pick up the. Look at that thing. Open that up. That. Touch that weird thing there. What is that? Is that a machine? Looks like a robot. But the point is we have created a parasitic relationship with technology, with this hyper connected world that we're living in. And I've innovated something. If you want to do it, do it. I think you're going to be. And you got to be very honest when you do it. Sit down and write a list of everyone who bothers you in the world. Just a list. Somebody who fucking hates Trump. Write it down. You pissed off at Putin? Write it down. You think Nick Fuentes is a piece of shit? Write it down. Candace Owens got your goat. Are you worried about Kanye? Whatever it is, just write them all down. Then whatever your fucking uncle, he's a piece of shit. Write it down. Then mark off the list all the people you're never going to fucking meet and the people that are left. That's your problem. Everything else is not your problem. It is irrelevant. None of it matters. You're not going to. You know what you're not going to do? You're not going to have anything to do with whether or not the United States blows the fuck out of Venezuela. You're not going to have anything to do with whether or not there's a peace deal between the Ukraine and Russia. You're not gonna have anything to do with fucking Nick Fuentes. None of it matters. It's completely irrelevant. But it soaks into our minds. It gets into you, man. It doesn't even matter. I used to think that you could approach some of this stuff and not be harmed by it, but I don't even think it's possible. It's like handling plutonium. It doesn't matter. You might think you're the most skeptical person who has just. Who's a master at media literacy, a master at discerning what's real from what isn't real. It doesn't matter. Any interaction with this shit is gonna fuck you up. That's the problem. It's the Most brilliant parasite ever. Because it pretends like there's some possibility of symbiosis, a balanced relationship with it. Like there would be a way, theoretically that this technology could make it so people had to work fewer hours so that people could like enjoy their lives more, so that things were done more efficiently. There could be some way, but it hasn't happened yet. It either makes it so that you are completely trapped, tethered to your company, your job, some group of people spam. It either does that or it makes it so that you actually end up working more. And this is one of the interesting things in the utopian vision of the future that we're currently experiencing. The idea was that we would transition out of the grind, the technology would start doing things, we'd get into some kind of weird Star Trek world where the entire planet shifted from this like never ending grind, this horrific work thing that we all do, to a sort of more utopian, less stressful, peaceful picnics, but with androids or something. Didn't happen. It hasn't happened. All that's happened is that people just have to like, work more. We're all getting hunched over because we're not standing up as much. There's a massive vitamin D deficiency all around the planet. They're wanting to call it like a vitamin pandemic. Vitamin D. You need that for your brain. So people just aren't going outside as much. We're not getting sun, we're not eating good food, and so our brains are getting all foggy and fucked up, which is exactly the perfect way you would want a brain to be if you wanted to inject it with a bunch of bullshit. So everybody that is being tilled, the soil of the human mind is being tilled by the dark tractor of the Internet. And it's driving people fucking nuts, giving you this sense of some impending threat, some danger. And I'll tell you what's really cool about taking a little Internet break. And I didn't do it on purpose. And again, the hypocrisy here is I'm about to talk about some shit I found on the Internet. So I'm not clean, I'm not clean all the way. I guess I'm California sober when it comes to the Internet right now. And I'll probably go on another bender before you know it. But the, the, the, the benefit of going off the Internet, by the way, I also recognize how crazy it is to be saying this when I depend on people being on the Internet for my job. So fuck it. But the benefit of going off this technology is that when you revisit seems fucking crazy. It's less normalized. When you're going on it all the time, all that you're seeing, it kind of seems normal. It makes sense. You're seeing the repeating pattern of whatever your fucking algorithm is serving up to you. You're solidifying some kind of worldview based on that algorithm. Probably you're getting cynical about the world and the state of people in the world. Why wouldn't you? The algorithm is hand picking the craziest motherfuckers on the planet and throwing them into your feed. Because we're interested in that. Crazy is interesting. Of course it is. You're interested in crazy because when you're around crazy in the real world, you want to get away from crazy. Because crazy is what stabs you in the fucking throat. Crazy is what throws its shit at you or whatever. You don't want to get crazified. So of course that's what we're all interested in. There's a sense this is the other way this poisonous fucking dark machine works is it gives you some sense that if you gather up enough information regarding geopolitics, domestic politics, what's going on with the government, what's going on with the president, what's going on with some stupid culture wars bullshit, that you are going to somehow extend your lifespan. You're going to be safer. That's the underlying feeling you get. That's why when you're doom scrolling, you'll notice there's like a dark cozy feeling. Dark cozy, that's my term when I'm sure that'll take off. Dark cozy. This feeling of like you're kind of like, you feel. It's like when it's raining outside and you're inside, except it's not raining outside. You're like watching horrors upon horrors on your phone. You're watching like fucking technological wombs being created where theoretically you could just grow babies in a factory. You're looking at like all of the possible fucked up things that are coming down the line. You're watching insane porn just fucking up your head. And then you know what happened is because I kept hearing about that the Nick Fuentes, oh my God, what's his name? Piers Morgan had Nick Fuentes on. And I had not been online that much. I'm like, you know what? I gotta watch that. That sounds really, really funny. And because you've got like the old blowhard and the young blowhard and you know, you got the old, you got the old alpha the old silverback and the young up and coming silverback contending with one another. And it was really fascinating to watch because Piers Morgan doesn't have the immune system to deal with Nick Fuentes. He's dealt with all kinds of fucking people. But it was wild because Fuentes doesn't care at all, apparently, about what Piers Morgan thinks about him or what Piers Morgan's audience thinks about him. And also has a kind of satanic lucidity to him. Like, he's like, real sharp. And so it was wild to watch this old fucking boomer go up against this young buck. But also because I hadn't been online, it just seems so silly. Just. Just like, I don't know, like at the level of like, you know, when you watch your kids get in a fight or something. I don't want my kids to fight. They're gonna fight. But sometimes when the things that they get in fights over, arguments over are ridiculous, you know, the energy behind it is no different from an adult fight. But the what they're arguing over, like, who gets to hold an acorn or something? You know, it's like, it's hilarious. And that's what it looked like. That's what it feels like if you just get your head out of the fucking porta potty for just a few days. When you stick it into the porta potty again, you're like, damn, this stinks. This smells like a fucking shitter. And that's all you gotta do. Just a few days. I promise you. I don't think all of you are necessarily at the level of Internet addiction that I was at, but for those of you who are there right now and you recognize it, you know it, you're fucking raw right now. You've just been plunging your head over and over and over again into that muck, sticking your head down into the digital toilet, sucking on big fat peanut encrusted digital turds. And then you're like, why does my stomach hurt? Why do I feel so bad? Why do I keep getting angry and freaked out? Why am I tired all the time? Why am I having nightmares? What's going on with me? It's because you've been sucking turds out of a global fucking toilet that we call the Internet. It's blinders. It's the worst kind of blinders, my friends. It's like, you know, you put horse blinders on a horse, it knows it's got blinders. I don't know horses. I don't know if they even fucking know. You can Only see right in front of it. You put blinders on a person, they're like, what the fuck? I can't see in my periphery. But if you put blinders on humans that imitate the world when it isn't the world at all, they're never going to try to take them off. And that's what we're dealing with here, man. The most sophisticated, incredible blindfold that's ever been created. All you're seeing is what's online. That's gives you the impression that's all there is. You start thinking, that's it. That must be the world. The world is being covered by the Internet. We're capturing all of it. I'm not saying you guys are that stupid, but you know what I mean. All the music, all the movies, all the whoever the fucking celebrities are that you're into, all of it. The only reason you know about it is because you've seen it on the fucking screen and that's it. But it's. There's a whole other undiscovered country out there, friends, and you won't find it with the Internet. It won't matter. It doesn't matter. Whatever the fuck you're seeing on the Internet, I promise you, is a sliver, a fraction of what's going on out there in the world. And then when you add to that, if you're like most people, you just have a certain set route that you take every day. You have a grocery store you go to, you might have a job that you go to, maybe a friend's house that you go to, maybe a bar that you go to. Though I don't even know if people are doing that as much anymore. But a certain set number of places you go, your bank, and you have a set way that you get there. And the way that you get there. How do you know how to get there? Your phone fucking tells you. Your phone tells you to go left and to go right and go this way and that way. And that's just what you do. That's what I do. Like some kind of fucking zombie. You just do it. And God help you if your phone goes down and you've been dumbed down and de skilled by this fucking technology and you're lost, embarrassingly lost in your own neighborhood. And by you I mean me. That's what happens. And so then add to it the rise of AI. It's like now instead of a phone telling you where you go, I don't know if you've seen the commercials for the like, new phones with AI in them. But it is the most depressing shit you've ever seen in your life. And by that I mean depressed. I would need it, but it's like, hey, chat, how do I change a tire? There's blood in my stool. What does that mean? Is it weird that my nipples are bleeding? It's like, where all of this leads is exactly what Jaron Lanier predicted. Can you pull up a picture of Jaron Lanier? Lanier L A N I E R. It's a weird name. This dude right here. Check this guy out. This guy is, well, partially the reason we have a bunch of technology that we have right now. But look up Jared Lanier. Why to delete your social media. 10 arguments for deleting your social media accounts. Now, Jaron Lanier argues for deleting social media because these platforms, driven by targeted ads, hijack our free will, degrade truth, foster unhappiness, and make politics terrifying. By constantly manipulating behavior for profit, turning users into products. He says it brings out the worst in us, fosters addiction, creates fake realities, destroys empathy, and ultimately disconnects us while claiming to connect us, advocating for a humanistic, paid social model instead. Now, this book is fucking great. And it's sinister, by the way. It's like, it's much more than that. Like, he goes into detail about B.F. skinner, the behavioral psycholog Skinner boxes, and how we're all being, like, hypnotized by this shit. And I believe that book came out before AI had gotten where it was, which adds to the power of social media. But the impacts this is having are very real. Can you Google woman driven crazy by refrigerator ad?