748: Has artificial intelligence already destroyed reality?

Summary

Duncan Trussell Family Hour – Episode 748: Has artificial intelligence already destroyed reality?

Release Date: April 26, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Duncan and recurring collaborator Josh dive headfirst into the dissolution of reality as we know it, focusing their philosophical and comedic gaze on the impact of artificial intelligence and technological change. With their signature blend of humor, existential inquiry, and self-revelation, they explore the shifting boundaries between dreams and waking life, the myth of default reality, the creative democratization made possible by open-source tech and AI, and the impending transformation (or demise) of what we call “reality.” The episode builds toward Duncan’s tongue-in-cheek campaign to destroy the “ultimate symbol of centralized power”: the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Is This a Dream? The Nature of Reality and Consciousness

• Duncan opens with a riff on the ancient butterfly dream of Zhuangzi, questioning the line between waking life and dreams.
• He encourages listeners to reflect on their state of consciousness: "Are you dreaming right now?... How do I know it’s not? Am I positive that I’m even awake right now?" (03:00)
• He laments how society ranks different states of consciousness, dismissing psychedelic and dream experiences as less real (04:22).

Notable Quote:

"Focus mode is a kind of gallant battle against the fundamental reality, which is that you blink in and out of awareness like a firefly." — Duncan (03:30)

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2. Lucid Living and the Limits of Self-Control

• The discussion pivots to “lucid living”—the idea of acting with intention in waking reality, as in lucid dreams (07:31).
• Duncan humorously examines the paradox: if we truly have radical control, why can’t we move objects with our mind or, as he jokes, perform impossible acts of self-pleasure? (14:28)
• This becomes a thread about the nature and boundaries of self-determination, both physically and technologically.

Notable Quote:

"You could say, well, Duncan, you’re arguing here that we have more control over reality than we think. Why don’t you just grow your pee pee longer? My answer to you is: I can’t. I can’t yet. I’m trying." — Duncan (13:55)

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3. Technological Freedom, Open Source,and Data Moshing

• Duncan details his obsession with “data moshing,” a video editing effect created by manipulating codecs, and how accessible these tools have become through open-source repositories on GitHub (18:19–25:00).
• He extols the revolutionary culture of free software, championed by figures like Richard Stallman, contrasting it with the profit-driven, restrictive models of commercial software.

Notable Quotes:

"This is like kind of decentralized, anti-establishment revolutionary shit here because these people...build stuff for fun and post it on GitHub." — Duncan (22:19)

“The world that we live in right now is the opposite of that...if you’re not a programmer, the shit that you could do with your computer is limited to apps that you will pay for.” — Duncan (27:42)

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4. AI as the Death Knell or Liberation of Reality? "Inshitification," Self-Expression, and Creativity

• Duncan and Josh discuss “inshitification”—the decline in quality and originality of art, software, and culture under profit-driven platforms (28:00).
• Duncan positions AI—especially the rapidly advancing, largely open tools like Codex and Claude—not as destroyers, but as liberators: “I just don’t think it’s caught up with people how much power you guys have when it comes to making stuff.” (36:44)
• He argues that personalizing and building your own tools shatters old creative limitations and reveals that many boundaries are illusions enforced by outdated systems.

Notable Quotes:

"Because humans have become convinced that the 2D reality is reality, that we are watching world leaders use 2D reality to wage war, that the shit in our screens has become reality." — Duncan (54:05)

"If suddenly people who don’t have millions of dollars in the bank, people who don’t know how to code, people who don’t know how to do anything...if suddenly those people now can get in there...Reality is dead. I declare it." — Duncan (70:42)

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5. Auto-Drive Mode, Paradigm Shifts & Letting Go of Old Realities

• Returning to the theme of “lucid living,” Duncan likens most of human existence to “auto-drive mode,” easily hijacked by outdated routines and values (58:35–63:00).
• Technological and societal changes (AI, remote work, etc.) require everyone to “pull out of auto-drive mode” and abandon self-imposed limitations rooted in a dead paradigm.
• The urge to maintain “reality” is, to him, akin to clinging to an old dream that cannot return.

Notable Quotes:

"That negativity [about AI] might just be a form of attachment. People are trying to cling to a dead dream...But a lot of people want it to come back. It’s not coming back. It’s gone." — Duncan (61:00)

"You need to just pull out of autodrive mode...start questioning any self-imposed limitations that you might have right now regarding your capacity to co-create the universe. Because what’s happening right now...it might just be a moment in time right before they crack down and start regulating everything." — Duncan (62:35)

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6. U.B.I., Centralization, and Anti-Pyramid Riffs

• Josh introduces the question of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and whether it will further entrench auto-drive, comfort, and centralization (63:29).
• Duncan is ambivalent: supportive of reducing existential anxiety, yet mistrustful of any top-down centralized system ("...you're still sucking on the teat of the fucking demiurge, aren't you?") (64:00–66:10).
• He criticizes the societal equation of pain with virtue, and challenges listeners to reject masochism disguised as meritocracy (66:32–68:50).

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7. The Pyramid as the Ultimate Symbol of Centralized Power

• Duncan’s final comedic-philosophical crescendo targets "the ultimate symbol of centralized bullshit power": the Great Pyramid of Giza (80:03+).
• In a surreal campaign, he asks listeners to subscribe so he can "buy the Great Pyramid of Giza and blow it up," symbolically rejecting all hierarchical, archaic structures that perpetuate false realities.
• The segment is loaded with absurd humor, mythic references, and calls for global, creative uprising.
• The satirical “Operation Beast Blast” envisions replacing the pyramid with a new, decentralized, creative, collaborative reality.

Notable Quote:

"The Great Pyramid of Giza...this stupid fucking thing sitting out there in Egypt fucking up views built by slaves for some dumbass who tricked people into thinking he was a God.... We've got to blow up the Great Pyramid of Giza, and that's what we're going to do. It's called Operation Beast Blast." — Duncan (80:03–82:30)

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Dream vs. Waking Life: "I've had full blown psychedelic experiences in dreams that are better than the ones in real life." (08:20)
• Data Moshing & Free Software: “They have licenses in there...The general rule is: don’t sell it, but you can use it and you could share it and you can revise it, you can make it better, and then you can upload it again and then other people can grab that and make it better. And so you get this crazy decentralized brain that evolves software.” (29:28)
• AI Creation: “Let me reiterate. I do not know how to code...It just did it. And this time it made no mistakes. Like before, when I was making stuff with it, it would make mistakes. This time, zero mistakes. It just made it.” (46:35)
• Society’s Equation of Pain with Worth: “Pain equals virtue. Pain equals…So in other words, if you aren’t feeling...It’s like the bumper sticker: If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. And that is nuts.” (66:32–67:10)

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Timestamps for Critical Segments

• Dream, Reality & Lucid Living: 03:00–09:06
• Data Moshing & Open Source: 18:14–30:00
• Stallman & Free Software Song: 24:15–27:42
• AI’s Powers, Limitations, & Accelerated Change: 35:37–54:05
• On Autodrive Mode & Paradigm Shifts: 58:36–63:29
• UBI & Centralization Critique: 63:29–68:50
• Rejection of “Old Reality” & Pyramid Riff: 80:03–86:00

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Closing Thoughts

Duncan’s episode is an exuberant, spiraling meditation on the mutability of reality and the deep possibility that technology—particularly AI—has already killed the "default reality" we took for granted. He urges listeners to embrace the power of self-made tools, shed collective auto-pilot, and join him (half-seriously, half-parodically) in blowing up the ultimate symbol of centralized, oppressive order. The tone oscillates between playful absurdity, heartfelt vulnerability, and wild optimism—making for a wholly original, mind-bending hour of existential comedy.

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How to Listen:
Skip the ads, tune in to the stream-of-consciousness, and question everything—including whether you’re even awake.

Participate:
Subscribe to the DTFH and join “Operation Beast Blast” because, as Duncan says, “Reality’s dead, but a new reality is growing from it right now.”

Transcript

[Duncan Trussell]

Friends, I got some great shows coming up. Check out this tour schedule on the screen. You can find me at helium in Philadelphia, May 1st through the 3rd. Then I'm going to be in Cleveland at Hilarity's May 7th through the 9th. Then May 15th through the 17th, you can find me in La Jolla. Got a lot of dates coming up. You could see all them there. I hope you will come and see me live. And now, let's get this day stream going. Hello, hello, hello to you. And welcome, my cheery goblins, to another beautiful DTFH livestream day stream. You are here in the stream of day, and why not start with an incredible story? I'll try to pronounce his name. I never met him because he's long dead. Thousands of years ago, a poet by the name of Chong Tzu, if you say it really fast and loud, you don't have to pronounce it right. He said. He said, last night, Cheong Tsu dreamed that he was a butterfly. And now that I'm awake, I don't know if I'm Cheong Soo that dreamed. You should say God bless you when I say that. And now that I'm awake, I don't know if I'm Chong Soo.

[Josh]

God bless you.

[Duncan Trussell]

And had a dream that I was a butterfly or if I'm a butterfly. Dreaming is Cheong Soo. God bless you. Thank you. We gotta really spend some time these days going deep into our own experience of reality. These days are strange days. Strange times are upon us and they're getting stranger by the moment. And so these are good times to start thinking about the Tibetan Yoga of dreaming and to really ask yourself one of the most important questions, which is, are you dreaming right now? It's an important question. Every person should ask themselves that every time they wake up. Is this still a dream? How do I know it's not? Am I positive that I'm even awake right now? It's a scary question to ask yourself. Sure. Maybe you don't want to confront the reality that your life during the day is really not that different from your dreams. And much like your dreams, sometimes you don't remember huge chunks of your day. You lose your keys, you lose your wallet, you forget where you put the remote control. You lose track of time. Suddenly you come to for a moment and you're there. Everything comes into focus. Now you're focused, you're in focus mode. Maybe you take prescription meds or non prescription meds to get you into fake food. Focus mode is a kind of gallant Battle against the fundamental reality, which is that you blink in and out of awareness like a firefly. Blink, blink, blink, blink, blink, blink. And yet you hold the day up above the night. You hold this experience above your dream experience. You hold this experience up, some of you, and shame on you for this. Over the experiences that you might have had on psychedelics. I can't tell you how many times people have told me some grand spiritual epiphany, mind blowing. A mind blowing moment they had on psychedelics where they saw a whole different landscape, something completely different than waking life or their dream life. And it taught them something. It woke them up a little bit. It helped them in a real way. It gave them a sense of wonder that wasn't fake. But yet they say, well, but you know, also I was on whatever. And you see this. This is part of the conditioning, children. This is part of the conditioning. They want you to believe that there are states of consciousness that are above other states of consciousness. They want you to believe that your direct encounter with reality, if it doesn' match default reality, means you're nuts. They want you to think you've lost your mind. Suddenly you might have had that moment. You didn't even need psychedelics. You weren't on amanita or psilocybin. You're just walking in the forest. And for a brief flickering moment you had a sense that this was the most important thing. Your 401k, your stock portfolio, your car lease, your mortgage, your rent. That raise you've been hoping for. The way your BO smells like shit and you can't say anything about it. His humid, wafting crotch smell those pheromones blasting all through the fucking office because he doesn't wash his balls. A demon, demon stinking up your life. You can't say a damn thing about it. Can't get that smell out of your nose. They say that's what happens sometimes when you're burying a corpse, by the way, you can't get the smell out of your nose. The nose gets haunted. A height gets up there in your nose and you can't get that stank out, that old stinky old corpse. Procrastinated burying, because you got adhd, you're neurodivergent. You kept kicking that corpse can down the murder road. And instead of doing what anybody should do, which is if you're going to do it, do it quick. You waited. Now it's rotten. It's rotten in that humid Texas summer heat. Now you go out and you finally take care of business. And for the next two weeks, your nose is haunted by the smell of a corpse in the same way your nose is haunted by the smell of your boss's pubic mound. It's just in there. You don't know what to do about it. You don't know what to do about it, but there you are, taking a nice hike. For one flickering moment, you realize all of those things don't really mean much. In fact, none of it really means much. There's just you, that beautiful forest path in front of you. You look around, look at the trees blowing in the wind. You hear the gentle chirping of the birds. Stream somewhere far away, the babbling of a stream, like some long forgotten language that humans once understood. And in that moment, you realize this is all that matters. This is it. This is the only thing. This is it. Just now. And then your fucking phone bleeps like mine did right fucking now, God damn it. And you reach for your fucking phone during your. Your stream, your whole goddamn flow of thought.

[Josh]

I like it though the dream, because now I've done a full 360 and I know I'm dreaming, but now I want to play the character that I'm dreaming and I'm really into it.

[Duncan Trussell]

You're talking about lucid living. Hang on. My wife's boyfriend just texted me.

[Josh]

How's he doing?

[Duncan Trussell]

Not good. Damn, not good. He has got a really, really bad case of syphilis.

[Josh]

Oof.

[Duncan Trussell]

I know. This reality, this thing we're all encountering together, and God damn it, I'm glad to be sharing it with you sweethearts, you beautiful people. This transient thing, it's a stream. It's a day stream. We're all in it together right now. You woke up this morning. I did too. I had a dream. I went to Burning man with Matthew McConaughey. It was fucking awesome. Really, really cool. Really, really fun. He is fun. And it was going to be great. In the dream, I had some incredible MDMA that I was really excited about enjoying with Matthew McConaughey, and unfortunately I woke the fuck up before we took it. So that sucks, because. Have you ever had it happen, Josh? In a dream, you take a psychedelic. Have you ever had that happen and it works. That is wild. I've had full blown psychedelic experiences in dreams that are better than the ones in real life. And the implication being that you could just flip. That there's a switch you could flip in your brain.

[Josh]

It's already in you.

[Duncan Trussell]

Yeah, it's already in you. Because when you're dreaming, you could Just do it. And that brings me to the point here, friends, my dear friends, that brings me to the point of the Tibetan yoga of dreaming and sleep. Not that you could induce a hallucination that you are at Burning man with Matthew McConaughey, though I think you actually could. And I wouldn't be surprised if there's at least three people right now walking through the streets having full on conversations with Matthew McConaughey and thinking that they're on MDMA. The mind, the thing that we call insanity, madness also points in the direction of the incredible power of the human mind, the interpreter of phenomena. Here you are, wherever you may be. My guess is that you're swimming in your alligator pond again, because it gives you a rush. Don't do it. It's bad, it's fun. I've done it. Went through a whole period of swimming with alligators. It's exciting. But this is why I walk with a limp, because they'll get you and they're fast and I got lucky. But it does point in the direction of something that you're not gonna fucking hear on a Chevy Blazer commercial. You're not gonna hear on a fucking Toyota commercial. You're not gonna hear this from Greg Gutfeld, I don't think. Which is that you're interpreting reality right now. And that interpretation is very controllable. You have so much power over the way that you interpret reality. We all know that. If you're, I don't know, you take theanine or some shit and you wake up in the middle of a dream, you're still dreaming, but now you know you're dreaming, suddenly the freedom that you experience is phenomenal. Now you can fly. Now you can fuck. Now you can make houses appear. Now you can jump and teleport from one part of the dream to the next. And you know, if the dream really sucks, you can just shift into a whole brand new dream. What if that is possible while you're awake? You see, friends, reality is dying. Reality's dying. It's dead. It's over, it's done, it's out. Reality's out. Reality was just a fashion trend. Reality was raver pants, reality was bell bottoms, reality was denim. One of you motherfuckers shoved a knife in my heart on a previous stream. I still can't get it out. One of you bastards slid a knife right in my heart. Some of you are poisonous snakes. And I got bitten by an asp the other night during a night stream when someone asked if I was dressing like Jay Leno. I love wearing denim. All right, we let. We gonna let Leno take away denim from us. Man, you gonna take my one last fucking thing, you know. You know what it's like to have this old mush pie up here in my skull? You know how hard it is for me to pick out fucking clothes? You know when I go to a fucking clothing store, I have full blown panic attacks and just want to leave. Cause when I was a kid, I was fat and my mom would take me to buy husky jeans. And it still gets me, man. It still gets me. You know how I go into a clothing store and get all weirded out? Want to fucking run to the hills? I want to run to the hills. I want to find a hole, climb into it and curl up in the fucking fetal position. Suck my own dick. I want to suck my own dick in clothing stores. I go into the dressing room, I try to suck my own dick. Because of my mom. Because of my mom. And you know, that's an embarrassment for everyone. My wife, especially if she goes shopping with me. You're doing it again. She says as she looks and sees I'm curled up down there, unable. Unable to suck my own pee pee. And that's not what I chose. You could say, okay, Duncan, well, then you're arguing here that we have more control over reality than we think. Why don't you just grow your pee pee longer? My answer to you is, I can't. I can't yet. I'm trying. How much control do we have over reality? Well, I don't know. I've been trying to be telekinetic since I was a kid. After I saw the poltergeist movie, I tried to become telekinetic. I know technically that's not telekinesis. In the poltergeist movie it was. You could get ghosts to move things for you. But I got into my head, like, what if I could fucking move things with my mind? How great would that be? And I would spend some amount of time trying to move things with my mind. No success. I still do. Watch. This episode of the DTFH has been brought to you by Squarespace Friends. You gotta dive into Squarespace like, it is the most futuristic web creation software out there. I love it. I use it. Go to douglatrustle.com and set those beautiful eyes upon the most beautiful website ever created. Nominated for a triple Golden Apple Award by the HTML lords of Lower Bulgaria. It's fucking great. And not only is it great, it just works. I can use Squarespace to update, change, edit, do anything I want to that site instantly. 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There's nothing keeping you from building the most beautiful website of all time, like Duncan trussell.com. all you got to do is head to squarespace.com Duncan, try it out for free, ride that baby around the block. And then when you're ready to launch, use Offer code Duncan to get 10% off your first order of a website or a domain. Again, it's squarespace.com Duncan. You can use offer code Dunkin to get 10% off your first order of a website or a domain. Thank you, Squarespace. Can't do it. Can't do it. For those of you listening, I just tried to move my water bottle and have yet to be able to do that. So the question, I'm just challenging myself. That's what you're supposed to do when you're trying to make a point. You create the counter argument. The counter argument being, if we have massive control over reality around us, how come you can't suck your own dick? Or how come you can't move water bottles with your mind? These are the two things that if we could do this on this planet, it would create a revolution. It would transform everything. Everything would be better if we could pleasure ourselves. Ladies, I don't mean to leave you out, but it's just, it's already a big ass to try to blow yourself. Like, trying to lick your own pussy is like. Now we're like, that's canine. That's dog stuff. Like you could find videos online of, you know, gentlemen pleasuring themselves, fellating themselves, as they say. And I have yet to find a video of a woman lapping upon her own pleasure zone like the Madonna song.

[Josh]

But I've seen that where.

[Duncan Trussell]

Really, Josh?

[Josh]

Yeah, it said a woman sucking her own dick. And I was like, oh, that's very impressive.

[Duncan Trussell]

Yeah, but, yeah, that's true. You could see women sucking their own penis. It's just more difficult to find women sucking their own vagina. Yeah. And I have yet to find that. Maybe people in the chat could. Could tune us into that. Am I slurping on my pouch again? Guys? Somebody was complaining about that in the other stream, and I can't blame him for that. It's gotta be disgusting. Point is, reality as we know it is dead. Reality's over. I do want to show you something that you just watched. Josh, play that video again real quick. I want to show you this video I played at the beginning of the stream. We have new people joining us, so it's worth playing it. Play that video, Josh. This video here, I'm really quite proud of it because what you're seeing here. Okay, you can take it off. So what you're seeing there is. I made that. And, Josh, you can verify this because I showed it to you. I made that video. And using a video editor that I made with Codex that was made using something that I just. I've always been into data moshing. I like watching the videos. I just think it's so fucked up to, like. It looks so cool. For those of you listening, please go to YouTube. You can watch this. I'm sorry, I don't want you to feel left out, but data moshing, it was like, for a second, everybody was data moshing, and then it kind of faded away. Like everything else but data moshing, it fucks with the codec of videos. So the way we watch videos online is really fascinating. And I still barely understand it, but apparently there's all these, like, interstitial frames in between actual video frames that the computer is using to interpret the data and create most videos that we see. That's called the codec. It's the way, I guess it interprets video. And so these frames can be fucked with. And by fucking with the frames, it produces the effect that you're seeing there. Play it one more time, Josh. I just like looking at it. Like, I could watch this shit all day long. So what you're seeing there, this is. It's like it's interpreting the frames wrong. You're basically messing with the codec and it's like smashing videos together in really weird, fucked up ways. It's looping right now. It pauses on this gentleman here who's licking himself in the tub. Now this little baby eating a phone, boom. Dude slides out of the baby's head and it just looks so cool to me. Little bunnies appear and you see how weird that looks. Well, anyway, data moshing is something that I've attempted throughout the years. And for those of you who've tried data moshing, I'm sure you've experienced the same level of frustration because a lot of these things are like, it's possible they could be done, you could get like a Premiere plugin to do it. And I did that once and with very little success and it took a long time. Pull up GitHub real quick. This is something I'm really like becoming increasingly enamored with. For all of you programmers listening or watching, obviously you know what GitHub is. Look for Datamosh on GitHub in the search there, Josh. So GitHub is where programmers can put their creations up. And this is all the different. I believe I used datamosher Pro from Akascape, maybe not Supermosh. I definitely use that. Click on supermosh. So for those of you. Is it on the screen, Josh? No.

[Josh]

Now it is.

[Duncan Trussell]

So that's what it looks like, right? This is like all the shit that goes into the code that allows you to data mosh. And for most of you probably looking at this, you're like, yeah, I'm out. I'm not doing that. What the fuck is that? I don't know what that is, or I don't understand it. What the fuck is that? I'm not messing with that, I'm not doing that. But what you're looking at here is incredible because what it is is free software. And these essentially, I don't know what to call them. They're like revolutionaries, these people. They just spend all this time building stuff for fun and then Post it on GitHub and other programmers can grab their repositories is what it's called. I know some of you listening to this are like, duncan, you're so dumb. Everyone know this. I didn't know it. I'm assuming many of you don't know about this or have heard about it, but aren't familiar with what it is. And so this is like kind of like decentralized, like anti establishment revolutionary shit here because these people are, a lot of them are really invested in free software. But because the learning curve of learning how to code and apply some of these repositories in a way that you could actually use them used to be very steep. It's sort of an underground thing. Now I'm going to send you a link, Josh, because I have to show you this. There's a song that this hacker dude, and I've played it before, but I feel like I need to play it again. The Software Free. So let me find this. I might not even find it anymore. Hacker. I'm going to look this up real quick, guys. Maybe we can cut out this job, this part here.

[Josh]

Sure.

[Duncan Trussell]

Oh, my God. You can't even find it anymore. Maybe if I do a Google search for it. Keep the software free. It'll be funny if I get an IP strike for playing this song. If I can find it. Eat the Software Free song. Hold on, guys. I'm sorry. Don't leave yet. Let me just find this Richard Stallman. The Free Software song is an anthem for software freedom written by Richard stallman in the 1980s. Set to the melody of the Bulgarian folk song Sadi Moma Bela Loza. It encourages sharing software and ending restrictive licensing with lyrics like, join us now and share the software. Here, I'll send this to you. And I'm gonna be really bummed if I get a strike for this. I guess it'll be a mark of the times that we're in, but. Here you go, Josh. Pull that up. So this guy Stallman is. I don't know anything. If Stallman's like. I don't know anything about Stallman that much. So if Stallman was on Epstein island or some other fucking shit, I didn't know that. And what are you going to do these days? What was like, probably found in a cemetery or something, dancing in old lady flesh. But

[Josh]

One second.

[Duncan Trussell]

Kyle Johnson, in the chat for the listeners, is saying, nothing made with AI will be remembered or have any spiritual substance. But it's neat to mess with for a couple of hours. I couldn't disagree with you more, my friend. Okay, play. Play this here. It's coming up, guys. So this is this kind of eerie, haunting song. This, like, deep, hardcore hacker nerd Stallman invented. And I love it. He's showing it. Join us now and share the software. You'll be free, hackers. You'll be free. Join us now and share the software. You'll be free, hackers. You'll be free. Keep it going. Worders can get piles of money. That is true, hackers. That is True. But they cannot help their neighbors. That's not good. Hackers. That's not good. They're like, what the fuck? Where is. He'll kick out those dirty licenses ever more. Okay, good. So what, you know this. Let me look up who this guy is. I feel like it's just gonna be terrible. I don't.

[Josh]

Richard Stallman.

[Duncan Trussell]

Richard Stallman. Please. God. Let's see what's going on with Stallman,

[Josh]

the founder of Free Software foundation, the most active free software advocate.

[Duncan Trussell]

So he's a good guy. He's a good guy. You know, these days you play anybody's anything and it's like, yeah, but you do know that he, like, loves big game hunting or some crazy shit. You do know what he did in that daycare center? Yeah. So I'm on his Wikipedia. Richard Stallman, also known by his initials RMS as an American Free Software Movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute and modify that software. Software which ensures these freedoms is termed free software. SALMAN launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software foundation, developed the GNUC compiler and GNU Emacs, and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License. So the world that we live in right now is the opposite of that. It's like, you know, and we've been constrained in ways that we just accept now when it comes to the shit we can do with our computers. Because if you're not a programmer, the shit that you could do with your computer is limited generally to apps that you will pay for. And those apps have been designed in ways that are not just made to help you with this or that, but to make back the money that was paid to program them. And so that means that there's all kinds of like, you know, subscription models, tricky subscription models, things that are hard to subscriptions that are hard to get out of. But most importantly, it's not tailored to you, the individual. It's tailored to as many people as possible to make the most amount of money. This phenomena, if you ask me, is what's behind what's known as inshitification. Inshidification is the collective experience of things seemingly diminishing things, seemingly sucking. All of a sudden, suddenly, movies suck, music sucks, everything kind of sucks. Everything seems downgraded, everything seems less creative. Everything has this feeling of homogenization and it makes people feel real bad. It feels could feel a little crazy when you're going through Netflix or Amazon and you're looking at the movies that are there for you to watch, and you're like, dude, what the fuck? None of these seem that good. It just seems like. It was just made with this. It was. I'm pissed. All right. It was made just to make a lot of money and it's not good and I'm not interested. And so all the inspiration that you might have gotten from watching a really good piece of art, all the inspiration you got or the creepy feeling you got from watching things like, I don't know, Antichrist. I don't know if you guys ever watched that or watching just a great movie, it's out the window. In those moments of inspiration, they lead people to make cool stuff and it creates a chain reaction and it creates positive shifts. And in default reality, it can create global contemplation moments where people are just enamored with this or that. And so the moment things start veering towards profit, then the art side of things starts falling away. And so the reason I really like that data moshing thing is that I just went on codex, went into GitHub to that repository a few other repositories for data moshing. And you're invited to do that by these people. They have licenses in there. And in the licenses, the general rule is don't sell it. But you can use it and you could share it and you can revise it, you can make it better, and then you can upload it again and then other people can grab that and make it better. And so you get this crazy decentralized brain that evolves software and. And what's fucking nuts is that instead of having to pay for a data moshing plugin, or instead of having to find actually Google data moshing app, This episode of the DTFH has been brought to you by BetterHelp. 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Josh Instead of having to find some kind of data moshing app or something like that, I just got codecs to make it for me and for my own just me wanting to do it. I created a tailor made app that's just for something I wanted to do because I'm sick of trying to make data moshing work and I like the way the effect looks and I especially like the way the effect looks on top of AI generated videos, which I know a lot of you are going to recoil that I would say that, but I feel like if you're making stuff, it's fair. Everything's fair game. It's more of the intent behind it. There you go. Datamosher Pro. Pull that up. I don't know if it's free or

[Josh]

not, but it's free on Android though.

[Duncan Trussell]

Okay, there, that's a free one. That's cool.

[Josh]

I can't get it on Android. I got to get it on Apple.

[Duncan Trussell]

What about my shop?

[Josh]

Maybe we'll get that

[Duncan Trussell]

in app purchases. Whatever. It's like, that's cool. Whoever made Mashup, I'm not bashing you, man. It's like it's fine, I get it. But what ends up happening here is you are plugging yourself in to a structure that that might do some things you want, might not do some things you want versus this new thing that's emerging, this new possibility that I don't think people are aware of, which is that you can just make your own app for yourself and you could do it. It's so fast. That thing that you're looking at there, I probably worked on it for a total of maybe three hours. And the initial thing itself just worked and was like, I would say less than 10 minutes. And then I started adding things to it that you can't see it. And I don't think there's a way I can show. Maybe I could take a screenshot and send it to you, but one second, I'll find it real quick. I just don't think it's caught up with people, how much power you guys have when it comes to making stuff. I'll just send you a screenshot of this thing. Pull that up on the. And another thing I'm really excited about is like, I don't even know how to do it because I have to scrub it to make sure that I haven't left any API traces or, I don't know, ways people could hack me through. The thing I made is like, I'm going to post it on the Discord and all of you guys can have it. And that's so cool. Not only that, those of you on the Discord who are programmers, those of you on the Discord who like, know how to like do that, I definitely don't know how to do, can improve it or add to it or whatever. So that's what it looks like. You know, that on the screen is just some AI generated shit I made, but down below is an actual editor. Just like Premiere. It made an editor for me. So I can go in and do this sort of this. It's obviously not as smooth as Premiere, but I could go in and like cut and paste on the right side there. Those clips that you see, those are just clips from my Downloads folder because that's where most of my AI generated stuff lands. And what it does is either I could just grab clips, drop it in the timeline, and then do the data moshing effect and do different types of data moshing. But it will randomly select clips for me because to me, I'm really into chaos and letting something emerges in chaos that I think is really beautiful and isn't chaotic at all. It will do that. It will. Then the splat frame that you're seeing there, that's not done yet. I wanted to do something called Gaussian splats, which takes a still image and then flies into the image. It kind of makes it 3D. And the Mandelbub segment, Mandelbulb segment, which definitely doesn't work. Yet is I wanted to take keyframes, turn them into mandelbulb fractals and fly into the fractals. Essentially this is like a chaos editor. So it grabs random shit, creates different weird 3D effects at random times and then flies through it at random times. And the smart randomize requires AI. Probably the thing I put on Discord won't have these things, it'll be simplified. But the smart randomize, the AI actually scans the clip itself and picks segments that have movement because that looks really cool with data moshing. Okay, you could take it off Josh, but. But dude, I just, I don't think when I say reality is ending, I mean how can reality end? Like as long as there's awareness. If we're going to get technical with terms here, you could argue that's reality, whatever it may be. When I say reality is ending, I'm saying the false reality that we've been living inside of the dream reality, which is a corporatist, you know, for profit reality is ending, it's over. And like for those of you who are like AI skeptics, I just don't think. My guess would be that you haven't spent much time with the current state of things would be my guess. My guess would be that you have not like or maybe right now you don't have the money to like get like the insanely expensive hundred dollar a month subscriptions that you might need to get the high level AI to do this shit. And I know that flies in the face of the Stallman thing I just played. I've been working with local LLMs on my computer. That is my goal is everything to be local on the computer. But in the meantime I like diving into stuff like this and I like it because the trajectory it's putting us on seems to be antithetical to the trajectory that a lot of doomers think we're on when it comes to AI. The trajectory that it feels like this thing is putting us on is one of incredible possibility when it comes to self expression. Incredible possibility when it comes to personalizing tools to manifest ideas in the world and no longer having to just get the tools that are already out there. And you know what that does by the way, is just by the nature of the thing itself, the non malleability of the thing. In other words, let's take Adobe Premiere for example. You just gotta accept that's how it works. Adobe Premiere works the way it works. And you have to sort of implicitly subscribe to the idea that that's the best way that it could work. And so since, like, Premiere is what many of us use to edit video, you are theoretically being limited in ways that you don't even know just by the structure of the thing itself. For those of you who've fucked around with any kind of video editing, those of you who fucked around with Photoshop, those of you who fuck around with Blender, those of you who fucked around with any of these, like, badass, incredible tools, you know that sometimes things you are trying to do get lost in some kind of technical difficulty. You're like, how do I do this? How do I make this turn into that? How do I keyframe? How do I make the transition that's in my head here? And then you're like, I don't know how to do transitions. And then you go on YouTube videos and you watch these YouTube videos, and then by the time you kind of understand it, you've lost that initial spark. You've lost that initial like, okay, this is it. And we don't know how much of art that is using technology is being reduced in quality by the limitation of the tools and the learning curve attached to the tools themselves. So this has produced reality as we understand it. Which when I say reality in this context, what I mean is the reality of this is what the zeitgeist is. This is what the algorithm is showing you. This is it. These tools are what's available to me. This is it. This is all I can do. This produces an illusionary, formerly not illusionary, limitation to human expression. And so that to me, like, every time I revisit AI, it's gotten better. I made that with Codex. I just fucking got into Claude. Now I'm going to start messing around with Claude code. I've heard it's somewhat better, but it's like more expensive. And I'm already spending way too much money on fucking AI. But, but dude, for those of you who are the AI haters out there, dude, you just gotta go just check it out. Like, I understand. Like, I get it. Like, I understand why you think that. It's VR. Remember VR? I had the very first Oculus Rift, the very first one. I was so excited about that technology that I ordered like one of those fucked up oculuses which were just would make. There were puke machines and, you know, I still don't think VR has like gotten to where it needs to be. But in those days, people are just like, fuck that. It's, it's nothing. And in that case, I get it. They were right. I Don't know. VR is cool. It's like a fun little thing, but you don't like having the thing strapped onto your head. It makes your eyes sweat.

[Josh]

Yeah, it's a. It's our.

[Duncan Trussell]

Makes your eyes sweat. I mean, not literally, but the area around my eyes don't sweat. They cry.

[Josh]

It's. As for adults, your vestibular system crystallizes. So you know how little kids can spin and get dizzy and it's fun. And then we spin a little bit and we're like, I'm a puke.

[Duncan Trussell]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That's what VR does to us. So little kids can use it, but

[Duncan Trussell]

as you get older, it makes you sick.

[Josh]

It makes you sick. That's why VR won't work. But augmented reality can't work.

[Duncan Trussell]

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. An augmented reality and AI, there's already incredible use cases, pieces of it. But the. The. Oh, shit, T.K. mills is in their open claw psychiatry, psychosis era. Well, that's the other thing about it is, like, this AI psychosis thing, you know, it's one thing to be talking to your AI and it's been slobbing your knob and making you think you're Albert Einstein or some shit like that. And then you're, like, telling everybody you're Albert Einstein and you figured out a way to create free energy from your farts or whatever. But. But it's another thing to actually make shit that you can use and have been wanting to use on your own. That's a whole different thing. And then maybe the excitement around that could be deemed AI psychosis. But we're going to start seeing more and more proofs of the efficacy of this technology that are going to fly in the face of all you AI haters out there. And which is why I would say, like, I don't think you're Luddites. I think any kind of, like, nervousness around a new technology that's disruptive, like, this is absolutely rational. I'm just saying, before you say things like, I don't remember who said that, which I've seen many times. I'm not trying to shame you for it. I get your point. But before you say things like, it's good for a couple hours, then it's bullshit. You need to revisit it, or you need to ask yourself if that's just your lack of. That's your own limitation that you've put on yourself, which is something really wild about this, is like, I'm so used to shit not working. I'm so used to tech not Working. I'm so used to these limitations that the first version of this thing that I made, I didn't even. The idea that it could actually make a functional HTML video editor. It didn't even occur to me. And then just on a whim, I'm like, can you make this into an editor? And it's like, yeah, no problem. Makes the fucking editor. And then it's like, well, but can you. And then there's. Suddenly there's an editor there. But it's got problems. Like, I can't. I can't cut the video in the editor on my browser. So I'm like, but I need to cut the video. Can you do that? It's like, yeah, no problem. Well, can I drop things into the middle of it? Yeah, no problem. Well, can I drag certain data moshing filters on top of segments of the timeline? Yeah, no problem. Well, but can I layer things? Yeah, no problem. It just does it. And it's not like ChatGPT, where those hilarious videos of the dude who, like, shows what a lying piece of shit it is. It's not like that because it works. It just does it. And then there's the proof of concept is what I just showed you. Let me reiterate. I do not know how to code. I did not code that. I did not write a single line of code. I did not have to go into a browser and cut and paste code. I did not have to do any of that. It just did it. And this time it made no mistakes. Like before, when I was making stuff with it, it would make mistakes. This time, zero mistakes. It just made it. So I would invite you all to ask yourself if your ideas of AI being a bubble are based on a month ago, two months ago, or are they based on your current exposure to the thing itself. Because it's moving that quickly, it's terrifying in its own way that it's moving that quickly. And also there's something really weird about realizing that so much of the way you express yourself is just based on what you think you can't do and how things have changed so quickly that all of us are going to have to confront the reality that there's. When it comes to, like, making things, the things that we can't do or thought we couldn't do or thought we didn't have time to learn, that's going away. And that's reality. That's this old reality. It's passing. And that's why I would invite you to really think a little bit about whether or not this is some kind of dream. And just because you're having to use technology to change things in the dream right now, right now, that's what we have to do. You must look back and I would say maybe set your start date to 2012, December 21, and look to right now and ask yourself, is this a dream? This is some kind of shared dream? Because not only are we suddenly able to manipulate reality, and I know you're saying, look, being able to like make data moshing fucking videos doesn't mean that you're literally manipulating reality. But I would argue back imaginary person, that because humans have become convinced that the 2D reality is reality, that we are watching world leaders use 2D reality to wage war, that the shit in our screens has become reality. Reality. It used to be like when the sun came up, whether or not there was a drought, hopefully you didn't over fuck your donkey, you horny weirdo, and it was going to pull your plow for you. I don't even know if people use donkeys to pull plows, but you know what I mean? Stop banging your animals. You don't have to worry about those things. You had to worry about those things. That was reality. Reality wasn't like checking your fucking phone to see what Kyle Sheep was predicting as far as World War 3 goes. That wasn't real. That's reality now. This has become our new Farmer's Almanac and you're looking at this fucking thing not to see when the best time to plant your fields is. You're looking at this thing to see if you're a good person or not based on how many followers you have. It's demonic and crazy, but it's reality. And so if suddenly people who don't have millions of dollars in the bank, people who don't know how to code, people who don't know how to do anything when it comes to the. The creation of the apps that are responsible for expressing reality to the world, if suddenly those people now can get in there. 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[Josh]

Is it a cybertruck?

[Duncan Trussell]

No. Oh, I fucking. I really don't like those things. No offense to any you cybertruck weirdos out there, but like, fucking doors on those things are so heavy. Have you ever opened one? Yeah, when I went to. When I went to get my new Tesla, I had to go to the fucking factory. You ever been to the Tesla factory here? I'm driven by it, dude. It's crazy. It's a city. It's like. It's a whole city. It's Willy Wonka over there, man. It's the craziest shit ever. And so I went to get my new. The new Tesla, the model Y, I think is what it is. It's. I'm not a car.

[Josh]

The curvy one. It's the SUV looking one.

[Duncan Trussell]

Yeah. SUV looking one. And you know, I didn't. There's still midlife crisis in me, guys. And, you know, I for a second was kicking around the idea of Getting some kind of like fast fucking sports car. Tesla. But I'm a, I got four fucking kids. What am I doing? Doing? I'm gonna make it so that my, my brood can't ride in the new car. What a prick I would be. So I was just thinking like, and fit a lot of kids in this thing and what do I need to drive fast for? Like I can, I'm a shitty driver. Like I don't need speed attached to my. I drive like an old man. Anyway.

[Josh]

They're still pretty fast.

[Duncan Trussell]

They're fast as. But this thing has got full auto drive on it. So it just, you, it just. Number one, it drives infinitely better than I do. Way better. And it just drives your ass around. So you just sit there. You kind of got to touch the wheel every once in a while. And other than that it just drives your ass around and does it well, feels good. It's like a pro level driver driving your car. I watch the decisions it makes. I'm like, whoa, whoa, that's crazy. I, I wish I'd thought of that. That's really good driving. I'm neurotic when I drive. I get over in the turning lane like a mile before I need to turn. It's, it's. I get either too close or too far away from the car in front of me. It's amazing. I haven't been in a million more wrecks than I have. And this thing is just smooth sailing auto drive. It's great. It's really great. I was used to be against this shit. Not anymore. It's fucking incredible. That being said, the fucker just broke. For like three days and the fucking light on the front just stopped working. He says I have to get his service. What the fuck, Tesla? Come on, man. Like, give me a break. It's insane. So annoying. The windshield wiper's conked out. I dropped my kid off at school today. It was like going to get in the car and like the front light is just on like some like blinking eyes staring at me. And now it's got all these problems. So that's annoying. But other than that it's awesome and I'm sure they'll fix it.

[Josh]

Jade Visual says if AI was a comedian, it steals jokes and poops on the microphone. And your next up next. Duncan, understand that question mark?

[Duncan Trussell]

What?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Duncan Trussell]

Say that again.

[Josh]

If AI was a comedian, okay. It steals jokes and poops on the microphone. And you're next up next. Duncan, understand that question mark, question mark?

[Duncan Trussell]

It's so weirdly menacing and threatening. But it's also meaningless. That's the strangest comment ever. Ever. It's like, it doesn't. It's like number one, somebody who doesn't seem to like, understand stand up comedy at all. Like, number two, it's like, what do you mean I'm next? None of that makes sense. But I guess, I don't know. Point taken, I guess. I don't know what you're saying. The lucky, my friend, lucky saying you're next. All I'm saying is the auto drive mode, that's what you go into in default reality. You go into auto drive mode. We're all in auto drive mode. And the auto drive mode is, is based on the way you've learned to navigate reality. And so the brain is a very efficient thing. We don't have time to relearn how to get in a car, open the door, sit in the car, how to start a car, how to unlock a door, how to make lasagna. We don't have time to relearn how to do these things. So a lot of these things, we just do them. How to make coffee, your morning ritual, that's auto drive mode. More than likely. You wake up, you're tired as fuck, you jerk off seven times. You go to make coffee. We all do that. You go to make coffee, and you have a way of making your coffee. You have a way of doing your morning ritual. You have this thing. If you watch the way you do it, a lot of it is auto drive depending on how tired you are. And that extends throughout the whole day. I'm not saying it's bad. I need to be in auto drive mode. Sometimes it's good. I don't have time to like, you know, scrutinize every single thing that I do. But if all of humanity has gone into auto drive mode, navigating reality, and that reality is currently doing some kind of high level transformer movie thing, then our auto drive mode is no longer useful. Meaning we all have to pull out of auto drive mode for a second. You got to pull out all the assumptions that you might have regarding your potency in the universe could be completely wrong. They were right a few months ago, they might not be right anymore. And the negativity surrounding AI that you're seeing and sometimes you might scratch your chin and be like, why? That negativity might just be a form of attachment. That might be a form of clinging. People are trying to cling to a dead dream. You know, I don't know if you've ever done that. But you're having some dream, you try to get back to the old dream and you can't. There's no way to get back. You're not going back to that old dream. It's not coming back. This whole fucking MAGA bullshit, that's ultimately what it is. It's just like it's a. It's over, man. That dream's over. But a lot of people want it to come back. It's not coming back. It's gone. Not only is that dream not coming back, but three months ago, whatever that dream was is not coming back. And it might be that every single fucking day we have to reorient ourselves to a completely new paradigm that could happen. And so I would say pull your ass out of auto drive mode right now. Any assumptions that you have right now regarding what you can do, what is possible, ways that you can interact with technology, even ways that you think that you're limited when it comes to making money, writing, art, any of it. I think you gotta, you need to just pull out of autodrive mode. It's scary to do that. But you have to just really start questioning any self imposed limitations that you might have right now regarding your capacity to co create the universe. Because what's happening right now, it might be a window that could close, I don't know, it might just be a moment in time right before they crack down and start regulating everything. Because they're like, no fucking way. It feels, this feels like one of those things that's going to get cracked down on. And so you might just have a blissful. We might have a blissful few a year maybe before the whole thing gets shut down. I don't know. All the other things going on too, so.

[Josh]

But aren't you excited for ubi?

[Duncan Trussell]

Universal Basic Income. Wait, what is it? Who was it Musk? Who said Universal Basic Income is going

[Josh]

to have to happen because you're going to have all these. And apparently they can do it right now, but they're afraid that the civil war would pop off because not only would you get rid of all the lower level guys, you'd get rid of the middle managers and the upper class managers making like half a million dollars a year. And those are the people that know how to organize and start a revolution. So they want to slowly do it and then they just pay us off with ubi.

[Duncan Trussell]

Yeah, I mean, sure, send me the fucking checks. I've got so many goddamn kids. Please. I'll take the government checks. But the reason I don't like, I'm all for it. It, I'm all for it. But UBI smacks at the same bullshit, which is centralized power. UBI means someone up there is like, okay, okay, peon, here's some fucking gold coins. Here you go. I don't like that because you're still sucking on the tea to the fucking demiurge, aren't you? I hope it happens, dude. Are you kidding me? Like, like knowing like the shit that many of us are like paying in taxes is going to blow up people is fucked up. I'm all for like, it would be great if the insane amount of dough we're coughing up goes back to the people. That'd be amazing. Good free fucking healthcare. Let's fucking do it. It. Let's make it like, oh my God, autopay fucked up on my health insurance. Which is fucked up when you have a bunch of kids because they are out of their goddamn minds. Like any second one of them could do God knows what they're how they. What could happen. And so for like a few fucking days, my lucky ass experienced the day to day reality of so many parents, which is I had no fucking health insurance for the whole fucking family. That was scary, dude. They got it to work, but in that moment it's like, what the fuck? This is nuts. Any second I could just go bankrupt. You know, I fucking didn't get my goddamn diabetes medicine filled. So I hadn't got, I hadn't taken the shit that gets my blood sugar down. My blood sugar went through the fucking roof. I was feeling sick and thinking like, God damn it, I'm gonna have to go to the fucking er. And I didn't go because I didn't have health insurance. I'm like, I gotta try to fucking survive this shit. I have to. That's scary. So, yeah, I'm all for it, man. Yeah, I'm all for whatever it is that like reduces the gnawing fucking anxiety that most people living around the planet feel every single day when it comes to like their ability to survive.

[Josh]

But then with ubi, doesn't that put you deeper into the self driving mode? You know, like, it's like, oh, that's something less that I have to wear. Because people go to the thing. Most people go to the thing that makes them comfortable. I don't want to think of that. You know what I mean?

[Duncan Trussell]

Well, this is. Yeah, I know what you're saying, but this is also the tortured. This is all part of the tortured old man default reality situation that we're in, which is pain equals Success. Pain equals virtue. Pain equals. So in other words, if you aren't feeling. It's like the bumper sticker. I feel like I've talked about this bumper sticker before, but it's the funniest bumper sticker. I still see it every once in a while, which is if you're not angry, you're not paying attention. And that is nuts because it's like, first of all, it's virtualizing anger. It's like being angry is like a useful state of consciousness. I have never experienced that with anger. When I get angry, I make mistakes. When I get angry, I would make rash decisions. When I get angry, I do things to like, get revenge and go. And it makes you sick. So it's like it's saying there's some kind of. The more awake you are to reality, the angrier you're gonna get. I just reject that. Reject that. And I think that, like this masochistic that we all engage in people, they'll, you know, maybe you finally get the gumption to go exercise, right? But because you have been beating yourself up over your laziness, you then overwork out, you fucking hurt yourself. It hurts. You throw up and then you don't want to work out anymore. Like, it's like, you know, you don't have to destroy your entire body the first day you work out. You can just like, be proud that you made it to the gym. Be proud that you, like, did a couple of push ups. You don't ha. We've started equating pain with prosperity, pain with success. Pain. What's gonna happen if you don't have to worry about food for your children anymore? You'll become a piece of shit. The only way this fucker can function is if everyone's scared out of their goddamn minds underneath their fake smiles. I don't I ever reject that completely. And I'm so blackpilled when it comes to centralized fucking government systems at this point that like, fuck that.

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[Duncan Trussell]

Whatever they say, even if there is some universal basic income situation, they'll fuck it up or it'll work for a few months and then they'll take it away. You know, they'll destabilize. Suddenly everyone will experience what? You know, the good parts of the pandemic. Like, for a little bit, everyone's like, wait, we don't have to drive to work and smell our boss stinky balls all day. We could do this from home. Wait, what the. You can actually order booze to your house. You can order mixed drinks. Wait, what the There doesn't have to be traffic all the time. Wait, what the. You remember, that was the good part of it. There's a lot of bad things. There's good things. And then they're like, oh, forget about that. There's some something that happened. We're back to business now. War again and all that. You know, it's maybe start a draft

[Josh]

left, but then you have the people who have to work even harder and set and take you that liquor and take you though. You know what I mean?

[Duncan Trussell]

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[Josh]

Yeah.

[Duncan Trussell]

Playing salsa.

[Josh]

Just pours it in your mouth.

[Duncan Trussell]

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[Josh]

The old paradigm.

[Duncan Trussell]

The old paradigm, it's dead. It's fucking been dead for a bit. And right now there's this underground, secret, but not so secret and completely new place every single one of us can explore and fuck around with. And the first thing you have to do is shake off all of the limitations that you think you have. Just shake it off. Stuff like. See how hard you can push this stuff like, yeah, dude, they're gonna use AI for all kinds of up things. Of course, they already are. They're gonna use AI to kill people. They're gonna use AI to, like, limit people. They're gonna use AI for mass surveillance. They're gonna use AI to interpret data in horrific ways that lead to all kinds of suffering. But, yeah, I mean, dude, well, look what happens when you give Darth Vader a lightsaber. He's gonna cut your goddamn hand off with it. It's Darth Vader.

[Josh]

You see what they did in Mexico? That every person has to register their biometric data to order to use their cell phone. And if you can't use your cell phone, you're not gonna be able to get into your bank or anything.

[Duncan Trussell]

Yeah, this is like social, credit score stuff like that they're doing again. All of these things fundamentally depend on the mass. On groups of people adhering to an old system. That's all. All of this shit. Everything. I've been thinking a lot about it, man. I've been thinking, like, what is the theme right now in the world? You got a crazy old man at war with a patriarchal theocracy with possible dimensions. You. Yeah, with positive. You. You. You. So you have a. A. But the. This. The theme behind it all is they're fighting over the spice. They're fighting over oil. Right. And so. Which is also a. A dying thing. It's. It's going to die and I know. Go ahead, say, well, what about plastics and all the other stuff? I'm not saying that like we're gonna shake off the oil thing right away. But what things like this do is emphasize how crazy it is that our entire economy is centralized around black poisonous goop. Oobleck, I believe, is what Dr. Seuss called it. Will you pull up Oobleck?

[Josh]

So, with a U. I believe it's

[Duncan Trussell]

O, O, B, L, E, K. I had this book when I was a kid. Oobleck.

[Josh]

Yep, there it is.

[Duncan Trussell]

Bartholomew and the Oobleck. It's green in this, but Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Yeah, go back. I want to read the description of it. Where King Derwin, bored with rain, sun, fog, and snow, orders his magicians to create a new substance to fall from the sky, resulting in sticky green goo called Oobleck that covers the kingdom. You know, clearly, Dr. Seuss is like, weird pushback against oil, if you ask me, but this fucking Oobleck situation is ridiculous.

[Josh]

You know he wasn't a doctor, right?

[Duncan Trussell]

Shut the fuck up, Josh. What are you talking about? Of course he was a fucking doctor. He did surgeries. He invented the lobotomy.

[Josh]

He just wanted to make his father proud, who was just like. You're just writing these stupid books.

[Duncan Trussell]

Dr. Seuss didn't invent the lobotomy.

[Josh]

No.

[Duncan Trussell]

Nope. Learn something new every day. Anyway, if you look at the world right now, and even though maybe you shouldn't do this, try to create a holistic view, look at the repeating patterns, look at what's going on, I think what you're going to see is various systems trying to run, even though the world that they were designed to run in is completely different, and that's causing a sort of ontological shock, which is a word that people are using a lot these days. Ontological shock. And that ontological shock, I would say, is clinging to A dead dream. A dream that's changing. And you can either be one of the people who clings to the dying dream, or you can be one of the people who builds the new world. And this brings us to the core of this podcast. And then I'm going to show you something else that I've been working on, something I want to share with you. You see, if you had to think about it, don't answer this, Josh. You already know the answer. Chat everyone's self banned for 5 minutes, 2 minute, 1 minute. If you had to think about it, what is the ultimate symbol? What is the ultimate symbol of centralized bullshit power? Ultimate symbol, what is it? Answer it, Josh. I told you to answer it.

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McDonald's. No, no.

[Duncan Trussell]

Oh, ancient. The ultimate symbol. The fucking pyramid. The Great Pyramid of Giza. Here you have this stupid fucking thing sitting out there in Egypt fucking up views built by slaves for some dumbass who tricked people into thinking he was a God. It's the stupidest shit anyway ever saw. Aside from the pull up a pyramid of the Great Pyramid of the picture of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It's fucking hideous. Hideous. Look at this. Look at this hideous thing that we just accept. Look at that. Have you ever seen anything that's disgusting? Pull up the main focus with the first one right there, Josh. Look at that awful pile of shit bricks right there. It's horrible. That beautiful blue sky blocked by that big dumb pile of fucking idiot rocks. And you know, I love doing these streams. It's a joy to hang out and talk with all of you. And for the listeners out there, I would invite you to join the YouTube stream from time to time. But the real reason I'm doing this is because I have come to understand along with a great many of other people in the Beast Blast community, that the problem in the world right now is the Great Pyramid of Giza. Not only is it a symbol for what happens when one dude tricks you into thinking he's God, he's gonna make you build an idiot thing like a pyramid. And the whole it aligns with this or that. I don't give a fuck. Aligns with Sirius or. I don't know. No one cares anymore. No one even understands that anymore. Oh, but the bricks are laid so well. Who cares? All the time spent to build that big dumb piece of shit could have been used for cuddle puddles, back rubs, just floating down the Nile, having fun. No fucking building a goddamn pyramid for some con artist who tricked you into thinking he was Horus. Give me a break. Gotta get rid of it, guys. Gals, we gotta get rid of it. Gotta blow up the Great Pyramid of Giza, and that's what we're gonna do. It's called Operation Beast Blast because of simple math. Once I get more subscribers than Mr. Beast, then I will, within two months, have more than enough money to buy the Great Pyramid of Giza. Maybe three months. Talking to my biz managers about it. They want to sell it to me. Those negotiations are over. The Egyptian government is ready to get rid of that old piece of shit. All we got to do is get more subscribers than Mr. Beast. If you've been watching this and you haven't subscribed yet, please subscribe. Your subscription is a powerful thing. You ever heard of the starfish story, Josh?

[Josh]

No.

[Duncan Trussell]

Little boys walking down the beach, throwing starfish that have washed up on the beach back into the sea. An old man walks up to him and says, what are you doing, kid? The kid says, well, I'm saving these starfish. You know, they're gonna die out here on the sand. And the old man says, but. But I don't understand. I. I was walking with. I was walking with Jesus, and I looked down, and at one point, it's like Jesus disappeared, and I only saw my own footprints. And the kid said to the old man, you're in the wrong story, old man. You're in the footprint story. This is my starfish story. This is fucking. I don't know. Jesus carried you. And the old man's like, what? Jesus carried me. And the kid's like, no, he didn't. To be honest. I saw you walking with Jesus. You were ear beating him, old man. You boomer piece of. You were ear beating him. You'd been brainwashed by Sean Hannity. And you're just regurgitating state fucking propaganda to Jesus Christ himself. And he went up to that margarita bar up there. Look, he's still there. You understand that, right? You did. You are walking alone. You drove Jesus away. You actually told Jesus that it was a good thing that we're dropping bombs on other countries. That's a Christian thing to do, you dumb old piece of shit. And the old man took that young boy and threw him into the ocean. That's the starfish story.

[Josh]

Yeah, I haven't heard that one.

[Duncan Trussell]

Yeah, starfish story. Now your subscription, your subscription would reflect that little boy's intent before he was murdered by that old man. Little boy couldn't swim. He should have couldn't. He was too old to not be able to swim. That's what the old man yelled at him as he was drowning out there. Because the old man was a boomer. And he's like, I learned to swim that way, you piece of shit. Maybe your starfish will help you swim. Oh, what do you know? They're not helping you. Cause they're basically vegetables, you dumb piece of shit. Then he went up to the margarita bar and beat the shit out of Jesus. You see, that little boy had the right idea before he was murdered by that old boomer. Every starfish counts. Every subscription counts. You subscribe. Subscribe, subscribe. And you become part of a global movement. Because once I get more subscribers than Mr. B, once I have the income from those subscribers, we're going to buy the Great Pyramid of Giza. We're going to cut off the capstone. We're going to fill it up with a cola beverage. Not sure what yet. Maybe Mountain Dew. And then we're going to fill that motherfucker up with Mentos. And the explosion will destroy the Great Pyramid of Giza. It will eradicate it. It. And it will blow up the other two little shit pyramids next to it. And then we will all be living on a pyramid free world. They don't want you to think it's possible, by the way. You're not going to hear that. You're not going to hear that. You're not going to hear anybody on msnbc, cnn, or Fox News saying what they should be saying, which is we could live in a world without pyramids. Pyramids. Why? Because they support the pyramid. They want it there. Their entire identity depends on it existing, centralized, hideous, obviously stupid. They need it, but we don't. I'm just a man. I'm not a God, just like you. Just like all of us, we're all just one person when we're by ourselves. But no man is an island. No lady is an island. No island is a lady or a man. Except for Dick and Pussy island, which is the name of my new onlyfans Shoot. Dick and Pussy Island. You will see my beautiful feet walking through an island made of dicks and pussies. You could find that it's a different thing altogether. Getting off track here. Point is, you could do this. We could do this, subscribe, become part of this great movement. Because not only are we blowing up the great pyramid of Giza, but we're going to have the most incredible music festival surrounding this incredible global event. And I'm in pre, pre negotiations with Kanye West's team right now. Ye. Ye might be performing right there. Right there. Ye might be performing. Just think of that in the background as ye performs. Watch you see it in your mind's eye right now. Can you watch as that pyramid just boom. Gone, gone, gone, gone. Freedom tearing up. My eyes are sweating just thinking about going to my kid's room. It's time to get up. Time for school, honey. But is the pyramid still your dad? No. It's over. The nightmare's over. We can wake up from this nightmare together, friends. Reality's dead, but a new reality is growing from it right now. A new reality? That place you buried your cat when you were a kid. I'm sure there's all kinds of beautiful flowers there now the cat's dead, but a new reality is there now, a better reality? I was a shit cat bit your grandma. Subscribe, won't you? And thank you for joining us. We're not going to leave yet, but I got to wrap it up for the listeners out there. Listeners, check out our night streams, our day streams, people in the chat. Thank you so much for being here. God bless you and I'll see you next week. Hate cleaning.

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