Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 648: Solo!!

Episode Date: November 10, 2024

The Poisoner ("Mr." "Beast") has attempted to derail Operation BeastBlast with an unwelcome supplication, but a timely assist from Sir Bitch himself has only made us stronger! Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg and Duncan Trussell. This episode is brought to you by: Soul - This holiday season, give the gift of Soul. Head to GetSoul.com and use code DUNCAN for 30% off your order! Bilt - Earn points by paying rent Right Now when you go to JoinBilt.com/DUNCAN. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/duncan and get on your way to being your best self.

Hello to you my beloved listeners watchers Family, it's me duncan. This is a solo episode. I've been excited to do one. We've got so much to talk about But before we get into that and before I give you an update on operation beast blast And show you what mr beast himself sent me and show you what Mr. Beast himself sent me, the Poisoner Mr. Beast, I want to play a music video for you. Every once in a while I'm shocked to find out the people who actually listen to the DTFH.

It blows my mind. And sometimes I'm honored by being given the opportunity to premiere a music video. So when Elton John reached out to me and asked if I would play this new song that he's releasing from his upcoming album, Free Climbing, I wept. I'm a huge Elton John fan. I've been to over 500 Elton John concerts and he's just an incredible performer. Candle in the Wind, the lyrics are tattooed on my on my ass. I'm not ashamed of it in very small letters and it took a long time and it hurt. And I have to shave my ass now or no one can see the tattoo and it's worth it. It's worth it. I love it. Sometimes I have my wife read it to me from my ass. It helps me fall asleep So now everybody I would like to premiere Elton John's

brand new music video free climbing What's the point of living when your heart has died? What's the point of singing when you're singing somebody else's song? That's when he climbed up and he said to me, Where are your ropes? What are you doing up here? I laughed and told him I was free climbing. He told me that he'd always want to try free climbing and he threw his ropes off the ledge. He smiled and said, you inspire me. me a little ways up he lost his grip and fell I watched his body splatter on the ground And his last words to me were, You set this cage bird free.

I think about it every now and then, Wondering who was luckier, Was it me or him? Did I kill a man or did I help a caged bird fly? You know, you know, you, when you love a musician as much as I love, excuse me, as much as I love Elton John, you, now I'm sorry if you're watching this Elton, you worry, you think, you worry, you think, can he make something as beautiful as candle in the wind? And to see that not only can he do that, but he made something infinitely better. And I feel like free climbing is the message that the world needs to hear right now in this is the message that the world needs to hear right now in this... in this confusing world, you know, like we're all kind of free climate.

Operation Beast Blast! Alright, I want to give you some updates on what is going on with Operation Beast Blast. For those of you who are just joining us on audio boom or joining us on YouTube Many of you are probably aware of mr. Beast mr. Beast Influencer mr. Beast the most popular channel on the YouTube mr. Beast He has Contests where he locks people into grocery stores, gives them money. Mr. Beast helps the blind see, removes cataracts.

Mr. Beast apparently being investigated by the FBI. Mr. Beast, who likes to send me gifts, I guess. And Mr. Beast by now I'm sure is well aware of the fact that you and I and all the other DTFH community are engaged in a campaign that is designed to make enough money so that we can blow up the Great Pyramid of Giza, filling it with Diet Coke and Mentos, creating an explosion that will destroy the pyramid once and for all. Of course, we all know the pyramid is a symbol of hierarchy. The pyramid is a symbol of slavery. The pyramid is a symbol of what happens when an idiot convinces enough people that they're God. They play blocks with human lives and they build stupid shit in the middle of nowhere that everyone thinks is important.

Who gives a fuck? If we weren't so small, the pyramids would just seem like blocks. It wouldn't seem that great. Who cares? But because we're small, it's a big deal. Just grow a few stories and no one gives a fuck about the pyramid. So we're talking about just a size issue here. We're so small that some stupid pyramid is exciting to us. Therefore the pyramids themselves are a mockery of humanity. They laugh at us out there in the desert. At night they say if you get close enough to the pyramid, you hear laughing at people as a whole, at the planetary civilization that we have developed. And any place you find that kind of hierarchy, such as the YouTube subscriber amounts, then

at the top of that pyramid you've got a pharaoh. And at the top of the YouTube pyramid, we've got a Pharaoh and at the top of the YouTube pyramid we've got a Mr. Beast. And Mr. Beast thinks he's smart because he sends me things and he thinks that by sending me stuff I will be stupid enough to give him free ads on this podcast and it's infuriating because he thinks I'm a fool and I'm not. Now let me give you an example. He just sent me this. Feastables, this box of feastables. I guess that's his logo. We've got the leopard with the lightning bolt, Luciferian symbology there.

And let me just open this up. Now, he's got a little, uh, QR code there. Can we pull that up just so you can see what this, this Mr. Beast sent to me? This Mr. Beast, the great manipulator? This Mr. Beast who thinks, oh you just send shit to people with YouTube subscribers and you the shit goes on the air Here you go scan that shit, it'll probably hack your phone Welcome to I wouldn't keep that in my pocket after that. I'm sure the fucking

I'm sure the people people in I don't know where that happened in Lebanon people Pagers blew up. I guess they were scanning mr. Beast QR codes. So let's uh, let's take a look at what Jimmy had to say To me In this volley look at that. Look look at that smug Look if you're watching this video, that means just opened our peaceful creator box as you know I like to give away money It's a lot of fun. Can you pause it for a second? Let's do a quick analysis here What's going on in the background because this is how these people work folks. It's how they work They put it all out front and mr. Beast. He's not hiding anything look in the background here what we have there is the arachnid

hot in anything. Look in the background here, what we have there is the arachnid, half of a spider. Notice how we can't see the other four legs. So the spider, of course, a representation of time, of Kronos, and by cutting off four of the legs, he is saying, I am in control of time. He's not just Mr. Beast, he's the time master, is what he's saying there. Now, behind him, you'll notice some kind of series of cut out orange rectangles. It kind of looks like a window, a church window, doesn't it? Like, so, oh, I see now, we're in the Church of Time. Mr. Beast is the time master in the Church of Time, and he's basically trying to hypnotize us into thinking that he controls the flow of time. Maybe he's saying he's a time traveler or that he is corrupting the time-space continuum via his no-doubt blasphemous rituals where he attempts to meddle with the fabric of space-time.

And I don't know if it's true or not, but I have heard that he's building his own particle accelerator and he's gonna shoot chocolate through it. So let's keep rolling This Halloween so go make some trick-or-treaters happy because this Halloween we're actually giving someone who gets feastables on Halloween night A million dollars in cash. Enjoy it. Hope you have a great Halloween Wow So there you go I hope you have a great Halloween. Wow! So there you go. Mr. Beast wants me to not just do a free ad for him, but to give this poison, for me it's poison, I'm diabetic, which brings me to the central point of what's actually happening here.

Did you want wanna say something? No, no, no, I was just. You can chime in whenever you want on these solo episodes, please. Have you tried the candy? If I tried it, I would get sick, but let's take a look at the candy. I mean, I could probably eat a little bit,

but oh shit. Well, well. Look at, look at here. Look, looky here. Mr. Beast, that's crazy. Mr. Beast sent me $100. This is an insult. You know, it's an insult, uh, you know

It's an insult essentially to me, but I mean it's probably fake anyway, let's take a look see what we got here It's real It's a stack a hundred fucking dollar bills. So yeah, I guess mr and mr beasts world Everyone can just get paid off. I guess that's his plan and it makes sense, right? This is totally in line with the book of revelations and what one might expect from the beast of the apocalypse just I will Send you money and then you'll do you'll be my little marionette and I don't care if you say shitty things about me Because you're still Promoting my product which I'm absolutely not I would I couldn't eat this shit. I would get sick and die And

Like so but here's the real torture Apparently within these chocolates um Oh, this is really good Peanut butter, huh? Mr. Beast Within these chocolates Oh This is really good peanut butter, huh, mr. Beast peanut butter one of my kids has a peanut allergy He fucking monster you

Should be ashamed And I guess like if I open up these maybe I could win a million dollars But then if I give them out some kid in my fucking neighborhood gets a million dollars Which would torture me for the rest of my life? Right that's his plan right he's trying to be Willy Wonka golden ticket Yeah, Willy fucking Wonka the Willy Wonka of the apocalypse Mr.. Beast huh and who are the Oompa Loompas in your chocolate factory? That's what we wonder but yeah I think if I took like one bite of this I would be okay

I've had Chocolate and I'm over a year or any you have like a shot that I need to give you if you go into like. I left it in my car but I'm sure I'll be fine. Okay. Cookies and cream. See what we got here. I'll just have a square.

You want some? Yeah, I'll try it a square. You want some? I'll try. There you go. Let's see what we got here. And guess what Mr. Beast? It's not going to work. I just maybe once you recognize that I don't have the kind of diabetes where if I mean I don't think I would die.

Mm. Mm. Mm mm mm. I haven't had chocolate in so long. Mm. Honestly, I don't wanna cry. Mm. Got that nice crunch to it.

Wouldn't hurt that other square. It probably tastes so good to me because I haven't had chocolate in so long, I'm sure to anyone who's eating sweets. What's your take on it? I like it. I like the creaminess of it. It has a good texture. It's a really good bar. When was the last time you ate a chocolate bar, but it's been at least a year doctor says I shouldn't But mr. B says you should mr. I'm not following mr. Beast fucking directive I'm just living according to my true well freedom do is that well shall be the whole of the law love is the law of

Love under well house to croy Basically means eat chocolate even though you have diabetes Hmm Hmm you all right. No, I'm fine. I'm just I didn't get a lot of sleep last night Um I'm fine, I'm just, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. Pfft. Um. Oh. ["Sleeping Beauty"] Josh, do you know what happened to me on the road recently? Whatever.

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Every one of these will go to an artist working on their craft. So guess what? This isn't going to some bullshit. This will go to help so many beautiful performers out there Just bring enjoy to the world I will see you later diamond Friends okay. Look I this is something occurred to me. I'm gonna ramble about something for a second here But before I start rambling about it

For those of you who are still hanging around Listeners and viewers alike One of the complaints that have been popping up in my comments and I totally get it is that have been popping up in my comments, and I totally get it, is too many fucking ads, and that's annoying the shit out of people, and I don't blame you. The solution to this, there's a few different solutions to the problem.

One, and I would highly encourage this for many of the billionaires, and I know that 80% of my audience are billionaires, any of the billionaires watching, one excellent solution would be to sort of take over the financial aspect of my role as a father. You could just buy my kids food, pay the mortgage, and pay for like car payments and stuff.

And if you do that, then I will definitely like, I probably won't get rid of the ads, cause you know, this isn't gonna go far tonight, but that would be one option and I will totally take that option. The other option, which is more realistic, is starting in November. So if you're watching this in November

and you're sick of being assailed by ads, then just become a member. Look down there somewhere on the page. I don't actually know where it's going to be. Subscribe and become a member to my YouTube and you will get instantaneous access to uncensored, sexy, erotic, you don't know what's over there. Honestly, we haven't really censored anything yet.

Have we censored anything yet? No, not really. Yeah, but because of the way YouTube works, certain things if you put up or you say the wrong thing, then you get dinged. And so that's a pain in the ass, but it also feels really fucked up to censor yourself. One thing you'll get is uncensored episodes. The other thing you'll get is commercial free episodes of the DTFH. Just straight, raw, free-based, raw dogging episodes of the DTFH. You will be rid of the commercials. And I know there's a lot of them. And so that is one thing you can do. The other thing you could do, though I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to, this experiment is going to

determine the next part of this, if you want just commercial free audio episodes you can find them over at patreon.com forward slash DTFH. You can subscribe and get audio versions of the podcast there with no commercials. Now there's gonna be two tiers and I don't know I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck do you charge for a tier. The whole thing feels weird on some level but then you know we live in a market place and so we've got to we got to make money somehow you have to have a job and I'm lucky enough this is my job but whatever it is I'm thinking like 500 to 700 dollars a month there's gonna be two tiers one of them you just get the basic commercial free episodes.

The second tier, we are going to start up with something I was doing with the Patreon for a long time that I really enjoyed, which is we had a meditation group. We'd meet once a week. In this case, we're going to do it twice a month because I don't want to disappoint anyone again. And so I know I could do twice a month, no problem. It's called Journey into Boredom. And if you're interested in meditating, I know I yap about it all the time, but one of the things I loved about the group is it got me to meditate because it forces you to do it,

which sadly is where I'm at in my spiritual life when it comes to meditation. But if you're interested in it, there's something really nice about having a group of people to sit with. And I know it might seem weird to like sit quietly in front of your webcam or whatever, but you might be surprised at how powerful it can actually be. I certainly was every time. And it's nice to make friends with other people in various stages of their own like spiritual meditation life and bounce ideas and talk

about it. And then the other thing that we're going to do connected to that is what I used to call family gatherings. And that's just us sitting around yapping. Also the other thing at the second tier that you're going to get is when I do these solo episodes and once we figure out how to do it here, it's where I'm going to live stream the solo episodes. So and there'll probably be other stuff too, but that's the starting point.

So I've heard your complaints. I'm going to fix it. I will give you a way that you can enjoy the sweet, baritone, booming glory of my voice without being interrupted by commercials. So that's coming. If you're watching this in November, it's already started. You know, the craziest shit when you have taken a psychedelic is looking at money.

I don't know if you've ever done that. You ever do that, Josh? You ever like get, you ever like take mushrooms or acid and look at like money? I was the guy folding the bills showing people on drugs. Yeah. Yeah, the symbols in there. Which there are. What's wild to me, and I know this is kind of like basic stoner 101, like high school

tripping, you start realizing this stuff, but to me it still is a 50-year-old aging acid and it never fails to astound me how weird money is. Like just the thing itself is so absolutely bizarre. But American currency, specifically the one dollar bill, is so insanely weird to me. And you know, God, it's like now it's a whole genre of hilarious content, which is some like paranoid person attempts to dissect some bit of, I don't know, some movie, some commercial, some music video, and they sort of reveal all of these occult symbols that show up in the content. And usually when they do that, they are alluding to a grand conspiracy. And this is right now, I mean, this is like a hot topic.

Everyone's talking about it because of the P-Diddy shit. And before that, the Epstein shit. And a general sense you get when you're living in America that there is some dark, shadowy underworld or overworld in which huge decisions are being made that are not based on democracy, but that are in fact based on a sort of, oh God, there's a great Paul Simon song. These are the days of lasers in the jungle. It's called, fuck, will you look that up for me? These are the days of lasers in the jungle,

lasers in the jungle somewhere, staccato signals of constant information, a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires. of millionaires and billionaires. That actually pulls up a fucking, that's so funny. Well, that must be based on the Paul Simon song. You don't have to pull it up. Google those lyrics. I don't remember the name of the song, but it's great.

Old school Paul Simon. But that loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires that he's pointing to, we've given it a lot of different names and The names that we've given it range from oh the boil the boy in the bubble. That's it Did it we call the deep state we call it the illuminati? We call it. What are some other names for it the? Freemasons the global elite yeah global Yeah. Global elite. My favorite is

extra-dimensional beings that run the world. Extra-dimensional beings that are actually being channeled through the millionaires and the billionaires that are ruling everything. That's a good one. But generally the way the story goes is all of us, and thus the name the boy in the bubble, everybody thinks he's talking about that kid who lived in some kind of hyperbaric chamber or something because his immune system was wrecked. Jake Gyllenhaal. Jake Gyllenhaal lived in one of those bubbles? He was in a movie called Bubble Boy. Oh Bubble Boy. Yeah. But he didn't live in a bubble. He wasn't one of them. He was created in a bubble that's

why he's such a good actor. I know Gyllenhaal was created in a bubble in Beijing. Yeah him and his sister. A lot of great actors are coming from those bubbles It's one company in Beijing that just is producing some of the most incredible Foxconn. I think she's Alamed came from a bubble, but the the Boy, where the bubble that's what he's pointing to is like you're sort of like humanity as a whole or like the the the sort of war the you and me, the people like George Carlin was talking about when he said, they're in a club and you'll never be in it or however that joke is, that's us. So that bubble is an information bubble. And on one side of the bubble you get propaganda on one side of the bubble you get all of the news

all of the non top secret information now on the other side of that bubble are People who have gotten quote security clearance now I don't literally mean security clearance, but certainly those people are on that other side of the bubble But they've been vetted, essentially. So if you get a job in the CIA, the FBI, the government, if you become the president, if you become a senator, whatever it is, you get security clearances. So those security clearances give you access to databases of information, which are essentially the ingredients that get cooked up into the

propaganda that goes into the bubble that we all hear. So some event will happen and it's just raw data, whatever the fucking thing that happened, it happened. Who knows what it is? Maybe, I don't know, a nuclear test happened in Iran or something underground in Iran caused an earthquake that seemed to match exactly what a nuclear test would look like. Now because you can't hide that there are signals there's an earthquake. What do they call it? Seismographs. The earthquake needle thing, ticky ticky ticky thing, suddenly it like pops up, some shit

happened in a place where maybe that doesn't normally happen and also the way it happened seemed to have matched a lot of signatures of what a nuclear test might look like but it was too far underground, are they really testing shit like a mile underground or something? That doesn't make sense. But bottom line, you have that data. So now you have to find a way to get that information into the bubble and you're going to put whatever your particular political angle is on it that serves whatever purposes you're trying to achieve. That's what we get. So when a reporter is giving us the news, it's very similar in a lot of ways to the way a

bird feeds the babies. It has some kind of data that it's chewed up and is vomiting into our brains in a kind of like watered down version of the data that inevitably has some kind of angle to it, which is why everyone picks their flavor of news. You get people who like CNN, Rachel Maddow's way of vomiting information into your brain, or you get like Sean Hannity's way of vomiting information into your brain, that's Fox. But it's all essentially regurgitated data that has made its way through the membrane of secrecy into popular culture default reality. That's where we're living right now.

And so this was a wonderful system prior to the hyperconnectivity that we've been given via the internet because it was very easy to control the data set. And even if you did have a fantastic leak, even if you did have information about, I don't know, UFOs or some impending nuclear war or someone who didn't actually kill themselves but they were assassinated or something and you knew it for sure, you were there in the room when they planned it, it didn't fucking matter. You could go to the newspapers the newspapers Maybe they would print it

But even if they did print it it wouldn't have the same impact that today like leaks can can have so this Membrane that used to be I don't know semi permeable the bubble It was more difficult to get to get information through um through through non Vetted sources, but now it's becoming permeable. So we're getting all this information dripping into the fucking bubble and This is like letting a lot of people get very confused, because you start connecting dots that aren't there. Whenever there is a lack of information,

at least I project onto it generally, the most terrifying thing. Like if you're laying in the woods at night and you're in your tent and it's completely dark and you hear twigs snap, you're never thinking it's a squirrel, at least if you're me, you're like, that's a fucking bear, that's a dude with a hatchet, that's something thinking it's a squirrel, at least if you're me. You're like, that's a fucking bear. That's a dude with a hatchet.

That's something that's going to kill me. And so this is what we do with a lack of data. We project the most terrifying thing upon it. But objectively, what we do have in default reality, unless you have security clearance, and maybe even if you do is a big wall of unknown of question marks and then you start looking at little patterns and shit and from that you can extrapolate this sense of there being a grander plan An architect that lives outside the bubble that's affecting reality

So when I look at it when you look at a dollar bill, it actually seems to confirm that idea, like verifiably. I mean, you look at this fucking thing and what do you have on it? A pyramid with an eyeball floating at the fucking top of it. And well, that's just weird.

You know, like when you think about whoever decided the design for the dollar bill, which I should probably look up if I'm going to ramble about it. Who designed the dollar bill? Whoever fucking did this? I mean, there's so many things you could have put in that circle. You didn't have to put like a creepy ass pyramid with an eyeball floating above it and some kind of barren wasteland that said, Novus Ordo Secularum underneath it, new order of the ages.

I mean, surely there was something less cryptic and scary you could have put in that circle. Gilbert Stuart! Let's look up Gilbert Stuart. Sure doesn't sound like an evil person. You know, when I think of of evil I don't think Gilbert. It's like one of, whoa doesn't look like a nice dude. Can't judge him based on that oil painting. How it'll go down a little. Gilbert Stuart Wikipedia? What the fuck? Where is he? I mean you'd think the guy who designed the dollar bill would be more well known. Artist Gilbert

Stuart. There click on over here Josh. Artist artist Gilbert Stewart. Let's see what guy here. There he is All right, let's go to his Wikipedia and check this this weirdo out Gilbert Stewart I painted the president's Well, it doesn't matter. It's not like fucking Gilbert Stewart I painted the presidents Well, it doesn't matter. It's not like fucking Gilbert Stewart was like let's put a creepy pyramid on the thing They told him to do that right they told him to paint that Or he was the Masonic leader was he a Mason look up Gilbert Stewart Freemason I Don't I think the Masons are evil. I don't think they're evil. I've never bought into that

No, well Gilbert Stewart painted george washington as a freemason So he probably was yeah wouldn't surprise me So yeah, this is some kind of masonic shit that you'll never understand because the masons live Outside the bubble and a lot of masons definitely have access to the data live outside the bubble. And a lot of masons definitely have access to the data sets outside the bubble. And regardless, when you look at this thing with a rattlesnake rattle sticking out of the circle, the spider webs, the sort of dark, dull, swampy green,

the fucking eagle holding arrows in its claws, the sort of somber George Washington who looks like annoyed, like his order isn't coming to his table as fast as he would like, then it all combines together to produce something that's really quite spooky. And especially when you consider, obviously, they didn't have to pick these symbols. They could have put anything there. They could have put a log cabin. They could have put a skunk. They could have put like a, I don't know, a fairy or something holding like a magic

wand but they chose a fucking scary ass pyramid, a really depressing fucking pyramid with the all-seeing eye at the top of it now, I'm sure that the Interpretation of this is probably the all-seeing eye doesn't represent the invisible cabal of people who are Manipulating us to create the new pyramids, which is what America is the greatest, like the what is it the the Here hyrum a bebe. I believe that's the masonic, you know about him hyrum So, you know just from like Surfing the net. I'm not a freemason um

I believe the story goes there was this Architect who was hired to build the Temple of Solomon. Now the Temple of Solomon is really interesting. Actually Isaac Newton was fascinated with the Temple of Solomon, and I believe the Temple of Solomon, the idea is like this is a direct transmission from God about how to build something. So it's like you're getting plans from God about how to build the perfect building. Let's Wikipedia that, the Temple of Solomon. The first temple. Blah, blah, Book of Kings, blah, blah, blah blah blah blah Okay

Let's scroll down even further here Keep scrolling down Construction blah blah The Hebrew Bible records the Tyrians played a leading role in the construction blah blah Yeah, there it is David and and Hiram, forge an alliance. This friendship continues after Solomon. The point is, I don't know, that's the fucking point. I don't know, I'm not a biblical scholar,

but I do know the Temple of Solomon, the instructions were given by God. And so Hiram Abib represents this incredible foreman, I guess you could say. He was able, he was the one that was given the responsibility of not diluting or changing the transmission of the divine and the construction of this temple. He was the one that they trusted to do it exactly the right way.

And so apparently he was just the ultimate boss. He was able to synchronize workers. He's able to do this incredibly powerful job. The temple was the house, the ark of the covenant, which contained within it another direct transmission from the divine, the Ten Commandments. And so his job was to sort of create this perfect space. And so as I understand it, a lot of what the Masonsons are into and I'm probably confused any masons out there feel free to correct me and

Truly not a freemason. I don't know if I could tell you if I was I'm pretty sure if I was I'd do some kind of like I'd be signaling right now. Is that I don't think that's Masonic. Isn't it? Is that Masonic? I I don't know Regardless the idea would be that that the bubble that we're in, we're workers, and we are being—the whole thing is being orchestrated, though it might look chaotic and insane. It's being orchestrated by a divine architect working through humans to build this new temple, which is all of society, a perfect harmonious sanctum within which the divine will of God is embodied in every single form.

I don't know if that's actually correct or not, but that's sort of the idea. Regardless, what's wild to me when you sort of trip out on money, is not just that it's covered in bizarre occult symbols and that even, and you would think this would be the primary focus if you were someone who was like really interested in investigating the influence of the occult in the modern world. It's the other aspect of it which is really mind blowing, which is how like value,

just the idea of value itself, like currency value. When I went to Canada, like as a self-proclaimed idiot, it really blows my mind, the exchange rate. It's very weird to me that here in the United States the dollar bill has a different value than it does in Canada. This is worth more in Canada. But in Canada, because they're dealing with inflation too, it doesn't fucking matter because shit's expensive in Canada because of inflation because their currency has been devalued. And that's what we're talking about, which is with inflation. The dollar, it doesn't work as well as it used to,

meaning shit gets more expensive. You mean you need more dollars to buy stuff. And that's bullshit, because we're all getting paid the same. So that's the other crazy thing. Like you look at minimum wage through the years and it doesn't really change that much at all. You would think like in an actual like working system that minimum wage would have to change with inflation because if you're talking minimum, you're talking like this is the bottom thing. But that minimum wage was the bottom thing when the dollar meant a lot more than it does now.

So even legally, if the idea is legally this is the very least you can pay your employees, then it's everyone who's getting paid minimum wage. In a weird way, it's kind of illegal in the sense that you're getting paid the very least amount of dollars when dollars were probably worth double than they are now. So you should at least double the minimum wage or something like that. I don't know. I'm not an economist. I can't even say it.

So this is a really fascinating thing. If you're in America right now, Jesus Christ, it's all you hear about, inflation, the economy. These motherfuckers running to be presidents talking about inflation, they're gonna fix inflation, they're gonna somehow make the dollar worth more than it is right now. There's a lot of shit that causes inflation, by the way.

But this brings me to what I wanted to talk about. I don't know why I started looking it up, but do you know who Diogenes is, Josh? So this guy is fascinating. So Diogenes is from the fourth century BC, and he was a cynic. He was essentially like the original edge lord and Diogenes got into trouble like him and his dad got into trouble because they were actually fucking with currency. They were defacing currency. They said he lived in a clay fucking jar. Now for Elden Ring fans out there You gotta wonder can you pull up the Elden Ring jar people?

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pursuit of true happiness. So if you were caught up in whatever the particular games of your time period are, and for most time periods throughout all time periods, that game seems to be acquisition of power, acquisition of resources, acquisition of mates. You know, to get too caught up in that bullshit means that you're robbing yourself of a sort of divine birthright that all of us have,

which is like you're born already with everything, mostly everything you need. Obviously you gotta get water, you gotta get food, but even the pursuit of those things in a kind of basic way was more noble than getting caught up in the complexities of the systems that you're born into. So he was a cynic and the cynics were really into fucking dogs. He loved dogs. He when he died, his tomb, they I think they put like a marble dog on his tomb because he saw the way that dogs lived as being more advanced and noble than the way that like the most sophisticated people live.

Now, he was also filthy, like he was disgusting and one of the things that he would do was like jerk off publicly. I don't know if a lot of people know about that, but he liked to master, he would masturbate publicly and when people are like, can you please stop jerking off in front of us? He famously said, if only my appetite could be satiated by rubbing my belly.

So he was really smart, but he was also pissing on people and shitting in public. He was basically an edgelord. And the point of him doing all of that was a kind of like what I guess you call culture jamming. He was trying to disrupt culture in the hopes of waking people up and helping them understand that the entire game of modern life is sort of absurd. There's something about it that is the reason that you inevitably hear about someone with massive amounts of wealth, massive amounts of resources, massive amounts of power, blowing power Blowing their brains out or Being completely miserable is because they were tricked into believing that getting all this stuff would somehow like make them feel better

their anxiety would dissipate their suffering would be reduced and all that was happening in their furious ambition is Essentially cutting themselves off from the natural world. And you look at the natural world, you know, you get the... Do you mind pulling this up? This was a great verse of the Bible. Behold, the lilies of the field. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.

And yet I say unto you that even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these." So that's like one of Jesus's many like, fuck yous to the pursuit of wealth. Like look at the natural world. It's beautiful. And it doesn't give a fuck about the economy. It's not thinking about inflation presidential elections

squirrels aren't in credit card debt Fucking hilarious babies aren't credit card debt. Oh, yes You better watch out You better watch out if you're a baby and you your parents need some credit cards because they will fuck you up That's a common thing. Yeah, for those of you don't know what Josh is talking about. You missed it somehow for one You're lucky if you missed it, but I certainly did thank God But yeah, what happens is baby, you know, they say baby brings the bread But in this case baby brings like good credit

And so the baby's born parents take the baby's fucking Social Security number Somehow get a credit card in the baby's name and just by the time the baby's old enough. They're fucked They're so in debt their credits wreck Is this the guy that Alexander the Great was like if I I could be anybody else, it'd be this guy? Yeah, Alexander the Great loved this guy, supposedly. Now, they say this could be mythological, people aren't really sure, but there's like all kinds of myths about like,

Diogenes died on the same day Alexander the Great died, so there were like twin souls or something, there were like Batman and the Joker or something, and there's stories of how like, Twin souls or something they were like Batman and the Joker or something and the there's stories of how like Alexander the Great came to Diogenes and So what are you doing and Diogenes is like sifting through bones Again, this is a filthy dude. Like he's like shitting in public pissing in public He likes to sift around and I guess there were bone piles back then in Corinth, but he's sifting around through bones.

And he's saying, I'm trying to see which of these were your ancestors, but they all just look like bones to me. Basically saying, you ain't shit. Essentially, it was always just Alexander the Great was always going to get roasted by Diogenes. Like supposedly, he went to hang out with Diogenes and was so impressed with him he said, is there anything that I can give you? And he's like, step to the side, you're blocking my son, bitch. But he was very much against hierarchy, he was very much against classism,

he was very much against any kind of hierarchical system that placed a person's value on a symbol set that wasn't real, like this. So, just because you have a bunch of these things doesn't necessarily mean you're more important than somebody else. It doesn't mean anything, in fact. It's like, so what? You just have a lot of, like, paper fucking rectangles that clearly don't have any true value in the sense that the value of these things is always changing, always shifting. Whereas like if you look into nature, speed of light, that doesn't change. There's no inflation when it comes to the speed of light or basic physics because if there were, then we wouldn't be able to do anything.

Shit would be the rotation of the Earth. Now, you could argue, yeah, sure, the fucking magnetic poles change every once in a while, and certainly the Earth and the way the Earth changes, the continental drift and all that shit over long periods of time, you could argue, well, there's deflation or inflation when it comes to maybe the size of the earth some

People actually think it's getting bigger ever heard that no there was kind of like swelling up like a balloon regardless His point was don't fucking connect your value structure to transient cultural norms, but rather figure out what is of true value in the world and connect to that. Now, he went to the Oracle of Delphi, or do you say Delphi? Do you know? Is it Delphi? I don't know. Point is, there was this like Oracle, some people say that maybe in the temple, they were like burning some kind of psychedelics, so you go in there and trip out. And somebody would usually say something very cryptic to you, which generally had a lot

of like profound meaning. So he went there and they said to him, deface the currency is what they said to him. So he took that to mean not literally like deface the currency as in like, you know, do the thing that people do, are they right? Fuck you on a dollar bill or like, let's go, Brandon or whatever. He was saying like deface cultural currency, help people understand that culture tokens are ultimately meaningless relative to the earth and the rhythm of the earth. And this is why he was really into,

he called himself a cosmopolite, which means a citizen of the world. He thought that you should throw- He was a globalist? He was the first fucking globalist. Yes, he, Dantonese was part of the global he no he was a what he was like a benevolent globalist you know right now the term globalism or is actually been corrupted so the term globalism now doesn't doesn't mean what he thought it

meant the term globalism now just means that the pyramid is planetary. That there's some one-world government at the top of which is the Antichrist running the fucking show. But in this case you have this hierarchical value set based on who knows whatever they come up with is what value is, but certainly not based on just some innate basic human dignity, basic human value that we're all equal, regardless of what symbol set we have access to, whether that symbol set is rectangles with occult symbols, whether that symbol set is top secret information, whether that symbol set is a more complexified set of emojis, which we call being educated, it's just, it doesn't matter. Fundamentally we're all good, and that you can't create this hierarchical structure

and expect anything good to come from it, at least if good means reflecting nature. So there's a lot of critiques of him by the way. People criticize him by saying like isn't aren't cultural aren't cultures a reflection of nature? How are you saying anything cannot be part of nature? Diogenes you filthy fuck. Put your dick back in your tail go what are you fucking talking about? And by the way if we all just just shake off cultural norms what then? What's your plan, asshole? What's next? What are we supposed to do?

Okay, now money doesn't mean anything. Families don't mean anything. Religion doesn't mean anything. No more leaders. What then? You motherfucker! Get back in your jar, you filthy piece of shit! Those are the critiques of diogenes.

But, and you know, I think they're pretty valid critiques actually, and this is the problem with edgelording is that if everyone became edgelords, there would be no more edgelording. Edgelording only works when there's a few edgelords and a lot of offendable people. Edgelording can't work as a way of running civilization. It wouldn't work. But there's different intent when it comes to the troll. People think all trolls are nefarious or evil.

This isn't the case at all. Many trolls are like artists. Many trolls are just doing social, psychological experiments with, now that they have access to populations that normally they'd never gain contact with. And many of them are just doing it for fun. I mean, they're not all evil. They're just silly. A lot of them. Andrew Tate, yeah. Andrew Tate, what about him?

You mean the greatest man that ever lived? The troll. He's the greatest troll to ever live. Oh, you think Andrew Tate, the whole thing's a troll? The troll. He's the greatest troll to ever live. Oh, you think Andrew Tate the whole thing's a troll? The sex trafficking? Yeah, that guy. You think Andrew Tate is all the way through trolling? Yeah.

Fuck, that's crazy. Where do you get that from? Where do you get that information from, Josh? Because I've never heard that take. I mean, first of all, he's doing all of his... He does his shirtless, right? He doesn't know sure when he does his podcast. You said he would never do a cryptocurrency Right that if that's just and now he's doing a cryptocurrency. It's gonna be the best cryptocurrency He's trolling everybody think it's a gag the whole thing Andy Kaufman level troll on another level

Yeah on another level like where to the point where he's convinced himself that he is that. Okay, so right. So like, see that's, you know, that when it comes to conceptual comedy, which I love, and you know, you look back at the, like one of the original trolls in modern comedy, it's 100% Andy Kaufman, and the genius of taking on the personality of a Hollywood snob and then wrestling in front of like wrestling fans trying to like Crapping on women crapping out wrestling women. Yeah Genius all the genius all the way through and we look back at it and we are like, it's hilarious But back then it wasn't so funny

Back then people were really offended like this. How could he this Hollywood this this? Hollywood elitist ruining our wrestling Yeah, so whenever I contemplate Whoever happens to be the Week the flavor of hate of the week, you know every week we're month. Generally we're instructed about who we're supposed to hate and various people

And then most people just accept it I guess I have to hate this guy this month and then they fucking hate this guy so whenever that happens I do often wonder They call it rage-forming basically like and that's a real thing like you know People have figured like you know you're scrolling through your Instagram and if you scroll through it long enough for your tik-tok or whatever You see some repeating patterns. And one of the repeating patterns, and when at least when it comes to rage

forming, is a genre video where the mother shows the food she's sending her kid off to school with. And it's like a cupcake, tater tots, and a fucking Bud Light or something. Mr. Beast Lunchable. And the Lunchable, yeah. And the outrage, the outrage. People are furious, but they don't care because they want that outrage

because the outrage triggers the algorithm, the algorithm elevates their fucking content and they get paid. It's called rage farming. It's a horrible form of solar panel. Like a rage panel. It's one step away from being able to run your house on rage. Like, do you have solar panels converting the hate

of your, of people around the planet into actual electricity? No, it's being converted into this stuff, which then you pay the power company with, but it's one step removed from, from alchemizing people's rage anger disdain judgment into Energy and that's called rage farming. So then biscuits really good at that

Who limb biscuit? Oh, yeah, yeah the best. Yeah, the best break your fucking face and there be like Yes, tear it apart. There you go. It's a skill set. It's a brand new skill set, by the way. I mean, it's fairly new. I'm trying to think in history. Hitler? The muckraker. You'd have the person who'd write, like, you know, fucking edgy editorials and stuff.

And like, I don't think Hitler was a troll. Josh? No. No. He has the most fucked up thing I ever heard. He didn't really believe that stuff. He was just trolling us. Josh You don't really believe that stuff he's just trolling us oh my god oh My god, that's what is it is that worse Is it worse if like you fight? I was just like a very like focused performance artist who wasn't afraid to murder people

You know it's it wasn't based on ideology, but he was just trying to entertain. Terrifying to think about that. He just wanted meth. That's all he wanted. Who doesn't? Yeah. So the point I'm trying to get at here is that Um... We have inflation. And the way most people think about inflation is our money isn't worth as much anymore. But as above, so below. I hereby coin the term, and if it already exists, I'm sorry. I wouldn't surprise me if it did. Get ready. Cultural inflation!

What we are experiencing right now is... don't even google it. I don't want to know. No, please google it. God damn it. Inflation culture? No. Scroll down. Nope. I'm sure there's something in there. I mean, this is like fucking freshman, I don't know, liberal arts school essay or something,

but cultural inflation. So if like money, currency, is really just a symbolic representation of value, then you have to start thinking about what are other tokens of value that aren't represented in money? And so this brings us, can you pull up Eric Burn? This brings us to someone who came up with a psychological framework called transactional analysis. This dude's name was Eric Byrne. There we go. Let's just pull up. Eric Byrne's transactional analysis theory is based on Freud's psychoanalytic theory,

which states that the things people experience as children impact their lives. Essentially though, there's a few different aspects to it. I don't have time to get into all of them, but one of the things he came up with was this idea of strokes, which are a form of token. So, or a kind of currency that happens whenever you interact with people. So, an example of a stroke in the most basic level would be I send you a text. How are you doing?

That's a stroke. Now I've given you a token, a stroke token. Now if you don't respond to me, there's an imbalance there. I've given you a stroke token. You need to give me one back. If you don't give me one back, in a weird way, you're in a kind of social debt to me.

I feel owed. There's a sense of now you need to give me something. And I start thinking, why didn't he give me my stroke token back? Is he mad at me? Is he a dick? Why is he ignoring me? Who the fuck does he think he is?

So these exchanges of tokens create what Eric Byrne called games. And so maybe pull up some transactional analysis games, because the games are fucking cool and you're probably going to be familiar with some of these. Maybe like what are some transact, you know what I actually pulled it up on chat GPT here. I'll give you an example of one. Check this out. One second, I have to scroll back a little bit. This thing is incredible by the way. This is it. Oh Yeah list of life games, let's let's do number four now. I've got you you son of a bitch Let's see You can find we have to find more come let me find it. Let me just ask chat GPT

Can you give a brief summary of Eric Byrne's transactional analysis game called Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch? Eric Byrne's transactional analysis game, Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch, involves one person setting up another for a perceived mistake or wrongdoing, only to then pounce on them with anger or blame. The player of this game typically feels a sense of righteous indignation and satisfaction from catching the other person in the wrong. In Niggisab, the person setting the trap often doesn't really want resolution or an apology. They want the chance to vent frustration and reinforce their role as the wronged party. It's a way for the player to gain psychological satisfaction

by blaming and attacking someone else, often over a minor issue. This game can damage relationships as it reinforces negative patterns where people feel constantly on guard or manipulated. My wife does this all the time. She's been playing this game. What are some other examples of these transactional analysis games? Each with its own unique dynamics Here are some common ones one. Why don't you yes, but one person brings up a problem and others offer solutions, but the person always responds with yes, but to each suggestion. The real goal isn't to solve the problem,

but to reject advice and reinforce that their situation is hopeless. Two, see what you made me do. In this game, one person blames another for a mistake or accident, often amplifying the drama to avoid taking responsibility It shifts accountability to others rather than accepting personal fault. Hey, let me let me interrupt you He's king gaslighter

Can you explain one of these games in terms of Eric burns stroke token idea? Let's use the game Poor Me as an example and look at it through the lens of Eric Byrne's stroke token concept. In Poor Me, a person consistently shares stories of hardship or difficulty, not necessarily to find solutions but to receive sympathy and attention.

In transactional analysis terms, they're seeking strokes, units of recognition or validation. Since strokes can be positive, like compliments, or negative, like pity, the player in Poor Me is often looking for sympathy strokes to validate their identity as someone who is struggling and in need of support. Here's how the stroke token idea plays out in Poor Me. One, seeking sympathetic strokes. The person playing Poor Me feels a need for recognition or validation, but may feel unable to ask for positive strokes directly,

perhaps due to low self-esteem or because they're used to receiving attention in negative ways. By sharing stories of hardship, they prompt others to offer sympathetic strokes, comments like, that sounds so tough, or I'm sorry you're going through that. Two, dependence on the role of the victim. This game creates a steady supply of sympathy strokes that reinforce the player's identity as a victim or someone constantly facing adversity. Over time, they might rely on these sympathy strokes

to feel validated, making it harder to break out of the victim role. Three, cycle of temporary fulfillment. Each time they receive sympathy strokes, it's a temporary boost, a little token of validation. However, because these strokes are based on a passive or negative form of recognition, they don't provide lasting satisfaction.

The player then needs to seek more sympathy to feel validated, creating a cycle where they continuously present themselves as struggling or negative impact on relationships. For those around the player, constantly providing sympathy strokes can become draining or frustrating. People may feel manipulated or feel their empathy being exploited which can lead to resentment. Yet by feeding the need for sympathy strokes, the game perpetuates itself as both the player and the listeners remain in their roles.

In Poor Me, the pursuit of stroke tokens based on sympathy creates a loop where both parties stay stuck in a transactional pattern. The player's reliance on sympathy strokes prevents them from seeking more positive, self-affirming strokes that could help them move beyond the victim role, keeping them locked into the game for the temporary reward of validation. This episode has been brought to you by BetterHelp. Friends, it's almost Thanksgiving! And you know someone you don't thank enough?

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Thank you, BetterHelp. There you go. So, so. They're energy vampires. Energy vampires. And what happens in those relationships and in those fucked up transactional games is that they're not going to be able to do that. They're going to be able to do it.

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You have shit credit now for my stroke tokens. I'm not giving you anymore. Like, I don't want to give you anymore. And then they freak out. And that's the thing. That's how you – any of these games, they function, they only work if you don't recognize the game. The moment you announce you recognize the game and the dynamic of the game and what's happening, the whole thing collapses. It's very hard to keep doing any of these games. Poor me, whatever it is, when you start understanding it's a game and you just realize, oh my god, we're playing

like the most ridiculous, non-consensual, that's the other problem with the game, it's non-consensual monopoly. It's like, dude, I don't want to play this anymore. It's a fucking game. And the more I play it with you, the more addicted to the game you get. So I'm not helping you by playing it with you anymore. And so this is everything can be broken up into these games. Everything can be broken down from the hello game. That's a very simple game, which is, hi, how you doing? I'm great.

How are you? I'm great. Bye. See you later. That's a game. We're exchanging tokens. We leave with having exchanged an even amount of tokens. The game gets fucked up When you go, hey, how you doing and the person walks away? Oh, what the fuck?

They didn't say hi to me. Where's my token man? And then shit gets weird. So if you look at this from the perspective of Cultural inflation We have a whole new thing Cultural inflation. We have a whole new thing happening, which wasn't around when Eric Byrne came up with transactional analysis. You could check out one of his books. It's great. It's called The Games People Play, if you're interested in it.

Now we are no longer getting our stroke tokens from human to human interaction, but rather we're getting stroke tokens online. And so these tokens in YouTube used to be likes and dislikes. So you could get positive and negative reinforcement, but you were getting a token. Any kind of comments, anything people are saying, you're getting all of these tokens. So here's how inflation would happen. What do they say about inflation here? Printer go brrrr, right?

Printer go brrrr, but the printer going brrrr here is the stroke token printer and it's going brrrr online, which is now because stroke tokens are no longer limited to human-to-human interactions, but theoretically between bots online, between paid shows, between people working for political campaigns, you are not getting actual human-to-human strokes. Therefore, the currency has been devalued. The currency is devalued, meaning that we have fucking

cultural inflation. Now, it's not just that. The other forms of cultural inflation, you could say there's linguistic inflation. And so what this would look like is overproduction, overproduction of words. For example, trauma. This word has via the internet via The Internet Started to lose Its original meaning like fuck trauma Trauma was like You were sitting on a park bench

next to some dude a brick fell from a construction site 40 stories up and Splattered his head right next to you. Brain all over your face. He was on the phone with his kid. Phone lands on the ground. Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Trauma! Dude, you're not gonna be okay! You're gonna fucking every night when you fall asleep hear that little kid's voice. You're gonna wonder what if I just like said something to him to make him turn his head. Trauma that was trauma. And now but what's happening now is trauma having been co-opted by so many different

people it starts getting watered down. Now the meaning of trauma begins to change. We are traumatized by not by some horrific event, but traumatized simply by someone failing to play the game of hello even or we are triggered and traumatized and so this is overproduction of a symbol. The symbol gets overproduced. It's meaning it's watered down and you have The symbol gets overproduced, it's meaning it's watered down, and you have cultural fucking inflation. And so the more that this is happening, the more that cultural currency is being defaced. And this, ultimately, I think, is a good thing because if you don't, like, you know, I don't want to blow your mind,

but I will. I've been studying, my brain, it gets obsessed with stuff as people have been listening to me ramble. Thank you so much for doing that for so long. Probably no. And right now my brain has sort of gotten like sucked into learning how to draw. And I just want you to know right away, I am not good at drawing, but I'm obsessed with it right now. I'm trying to learn how to do it.

I know it takes years and years and years. I'll give you an example of like one of my incredible works of art I'm working on here. I'm thinking about putting this on a t-shirt. I'm working on here. I'm thinking about putting this on a t-shirt a Man in a field is saying marry me and be my wife now the the What's crazy about drawing? I even know this term, but like when you're like drawing from your brain You're using symbolic drawing.

So you have an idea of what an eye looks like, you draw the eye, you have an idea of what the nose looks like. So there's all these tricks, and if you know proportions and stuff, you can get really good. This is like comic book art and stuff. You can get really good at like emulating faces and stuff.

So that's different from looking at a person and painting or drawing the person. When you do that, whoa, you realize that the way things actually look versus the way they look in your brain is very different. You realize there aren't such intense lines dividing up parts of the face. Things kind of flow into each other. You start learning about shading and tone and like it's fascinating, but you start, it forces you to see the world as it is versus symbolically. And so this,

the problem if you ask me, one of the big problems is most of us are seeing the world symbolically. Like we are living in the world the way you draw Doodle, the way you draw cartoons. You draw what the eyeball looks like. It's not what the eyeball looks like. And so this is like emojis. This is our essentially the various like teams that everyone seems to have gathered on are people who are using a set of emojis that identify them as part of the team and that produce a symbolic representation of reality as it actually is versus like what it is.

So why would it be good if all of a sudden people are beginning to realize that the symbol set being used by power structures and people to gain power and the hierarchy and all this stuff Actually are ultimately empty of meaning. They don't mean anything anymore Any more than a dollar bill means anything or anything means anything that isn't directly from reality You you know like they you if you're in the fucking desert and you need water It doesn't matter if you have a hundred sweet Mr. Beast bucks. You can't drink it. It's valueless.

There's nothing there at all. And so this is blowing my mind thinking about this. Maybe you guys can think about like other versions of this. But just think of any term that has been overproduced. Think of any term that within the like bubble of whatever the particular you got one Josh What whatever in the bubble of whatever particular team people are aligning with has been overproduced to the point that it's meaningless And there's also terms that have zero value depending on the team that you go to I mean essentially we're talking about all of these like cultural identity filter bubbles within

which if you go there and try to swing around your fucking cold hard identity cash with your symbol set, it is meaningless there or offensive even. Racist, that's the word I was thinking of. So many people throw around the word racist now that it's like I've seen real racist and it's like that's you just throwing that it's like not or Nazi Nazi racist all these like What God what's another fucking word that gets thrown around like um?

Okay, so those are the those are the right wing No, those are the left wing insults. What are the right wing insults that get thrown around? What do we call them snowflake? snowflake yeah What else? Snowflake I Don't know we got to look up at my own look up a list of fucking MAGA insults You know copium cope coping trigger, I don't know. The point is, yeah, all these words that are generally serious.

There's certain words, by the way, that you can't do that to. Like murder, for example. Murder can't really get, murder is you kill somebody. You know, obviously you can use the word to say I murdered on stage or some bullshit like that, but murder as a term for like it's murder or not whereas with like racism crazy Crazy is another one that like, you know, that doesn't mean anything anymore. Crazy used to mean something man. Like you were fucking Autistic everybody's autistic. There you go um, yeah, so what ends up happening, this over-saturation of words that used to have specific meanings,

that's spreading out of these words, ultimately reveals that we are living inside of a linguistic bubble. We live inside of a pseudo-reality composed of the symbol sets that we are using to describe what's around us. And because we're starting to, in other words, like, let's take a word that generally doesn't get diluted. Tree. Right? Like I point to a tree, you know what I'm talking about. If I say a tree, I sat underneath a tree, I took a shit under a tree today, you know what I'm saying. But if people started using the word tree to refer to telephone poles, cars,

you know what happened with book? Do you remember when everyone started calling magazines books, I don't know, that's growing up in North Carolina, but you know, I remember when people started calling magazines books, it's like dude, that's not a book, it's a magazines books. It's like dude. That's not a book It's a fucking magazine. That's playboy. That's a playboy. Don't call that a book. It's about reading. So but ultimately though this is what's good about it is that I think

When you hear people and it's across the board you hear the great awakening people waking up that waking up. That waking up would mean leaving the dream state of living in a world of symbols that don't accurately represent reality. Living in a world where you recognize that the very thing you're building your identity of, your sense of self-worth is based on how many imaginary stroke tokens you have in your fucking stroking bank. And those are meaningless, irrelevant.

They don't mean anything. Like, it's really funny too when you think about stroke tokens. This is called the imbued personality. I think Alan Watts talked about this, but like you are sitting on an airplane and you've been having a conversation with some dude for like 30 minutes. Great conversation. The flight attendant comes and is like, would you like something to drink, Senator? And you're like, oh, suddenly the conversation has all this

extra fucking meaning because you realize you've been talking to a fucking senator and you didn't know they were a senator. Whoa. Nothing's changed. It's just a person you were having a conversation with because this is an imbued personality. Their stroke tokens suddenly have way more value than the stroke tokens of just some rando that you're sitting next to yapping

about mutual masturbation. And then you find out they're a state senator? Oh, never mind. Oh, give the fuck! Wyoming? What the fuck? By the way, that's a great idea for a name for a kid. Senator. Oh, yeah? Because then anyone talks to him like people will be like, God, Jesus, there's a senator over there. But the point is,

Jesus, there's a senator over there. The point is, once you start playing around with this Diogenes shit, it's pretty trippy. Like just start playing around, not with shitting in public or jerking off in public, I would not recommend that, but like start playing around with the idea that you aren't an American, you're not Mexican, you're not Iranian, you're not Israeli,

but you're a citizen of the cosmos, like literally you actually are. Not in some hippie fucking way, but you actually are. You're the shit in your bones, the shit in your cells. It came from exploding stars. And when you start playing around that idea, suddenly your sense of value changes, as it should. Because when you realize, oh my God, I live on a planet,

I'm a planetary citizen, it feels almost blasphemous, depending on how bad you've been conditioned, but it feels a little weird to say, I'm not an American. I live in America. I didn't choose to be an American. I'm actually a Earthling. I'm a person of Earth. And then it gets even deeper when you say I'm a person of the galaxy of the universe. Then you start throwing off all the heavy duty weight that goes with being whatever your fucking nationality is. Dude, there's a lot of weight. You're like, we're carrying all this bull. We're carrying a big backpack full of fucking emojis based on whatever state. Heavy fucking emojis.

It's the greatest country on earth. No matter who, where you are, if you're watching this, I would love to know, where you are, if you're watching this, I would love to know, have you heard that? Like, no matter what country you live in, because I kind of think that in any country you live in, you hear some version of this is the greatest country on earth. And you hear that with cities.

Oh my God, the vile, like weird team war, like against Los Angeles. and Los Angeles against Texas or you tell people you're from Texas and they'll be like are you okay? Yeah. It's like shut the fuck, of course I'm okay! But this is again ridiculous high school fucking pep rally bullshit. Who fucking cares? That's the point. If this cultural inflation keeps going on, we begin to realize that ultimately, like,

the entire symbol set that we've based this whole goddamn thing on is ultimately empty. Then at the other side of that is the possibility of, like, real liberation in, like, the Buddhist sense and the Vajrayana Tantric sense, which is everything's empty

Things are empty of real value. There isn't any real value in the dollars the fucking rectangle There's an any real value and the stroke tokens you've been getting from people doesn't mean anything It's an echo like if a person gives you a stroke token. It's nothing it goes away all the fucking Exhausting games we've been playing, trying to fix the people around us, or as they try to fix us, all of them, all the tricks and traps that we've been putting in front of people or being fallen into ultimately are meaningless, empty of any real value, because how can you gain anything when you are an expression of nature itself, the entire universe, the cosmos,

that's you. Which means what is of ultimate value? That's the real question. What's real value? I know a lot of people might say compassion, but if you want to find some kind of currency that works anywhere you go, it's compassion. It's if we live in a place where fundamentally empty things are being mistaken for things that are full and people are getting addicted

and attached to meaningless symbols, cast, lost in the spells cast by wizards using linguistic tricks to make us hate each other for no reason at all, then the only answer to that must be compassion and I don't think that's it I think the ultimate currency the thing of true value in this world is my subscribers on YouTube and in this world is my subscribers on YouTube.

And I know that sounds like a cheap fucking joke at the end of a long solo rambling episode, but it ain't, because here's why. Here's why. If I can fucking get these subscribers up to Mr. Beast's level, guess what I'm gonna be doing? I'm gonna be sending Mr. Beast my own box of chocolate, but it ain't gonna be sweet chocolate. It's gonna be Diogenes chocolate. It's gonna be Diogenes street chocolate. I'm gonna shit in a box!

box If we can get these fucking subscribers up gang We're gonna blow up those pyramids we're gonna send mr. B some chocolate and Most importantly by destroying the pyramids We symbolically and physically destroy the entire hierarchical framework that this entire idiot dinner party that we all got born into is based on. And that's true freedom. No more pyramids, no more suffering, no more pain.

And most importantly, Mr. Beast will no longer be on YouTube We're gonna take him out We're gonna do it the way we've been doing it. What's the subscriber count out now? We're at 109,000 subscribers right now What was it two months ago? We're at what, 70? Now we're up to 109. That is 39, what is that? 39,000 extra subscribers.

And I love every single one of you and I appreciate what you're doing out there. I've gotten reports and thank you. People are going door to door. People are going door to door, asking people to subscribe to my podcast. That's good work. But I have one last mission for you

and it is an embarrassment truly. And I have one last mission for you. And it is an embarrassment, truly. And I've never understood it, but now I get it. I need you to participate in an experiment with me. Based on everything I just said, we must become inflationary accelerationists when it comes to cultural tokens. We've got to accelerate this bullshit to the point that all symbolic cultural tokens become devoid of meaning and To do that I need you to press like on this video Because I want to just do an experiment and see what happens just like it. It's so dumb. I would never do that I full disclosure. I've never do that. I full disclosure I've never liked a single YouTube video ever and I've loved many

There's YouTube videos I think about to this day and I never click like why? That thumbs up. It's an embarrassment Yeah, thank you for changing my life, but Do it just I want to see what happens just press like on this fucking it. Just, I wanna see what happens. Just press like on this fucking thing. I just wanna see what happens. I'm trying to understand the algorithm. And again, when you press that thumbs up thing,

I just want you to imagine you doing a thumbs up to the beautiful spray of Diet Coke, Mentos, and old shitty Egyptian rubble blasting through the air as the pyramids at last are wiped from our planet. I Love you guys. I'll see you next week Hare Krishna