Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 687: Podcast Listeners Hate This One Weird Trick

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

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Welcome my loves you are watching the DTFH broadcasting from Comedy Frequency Studios with my wonderful producer Josh Kabaza. How are you Josh? Doing great. Good. That's good. I'm doing pretty good too. I got a lot we got a lot of ground to cover today. Boy I hate it when people say that and I've been very tempted to do a trick I've noticed. I think I've been on Instagram more than normal. If you notice this trick, do you know the trick? I'm about to tell you about this trick. This is a trick that will definitely increase engagement

with your content. Now, this trick has its roots in an ancient system, a system that has been lost for a while. I'm gonna tell you what this trick has its roots in an ancient system a system that has been lost for a while I'm gonna tell you what this trick is. But first a little backstory. I learned so they They don't give you the fucking stupid shit. They're gonna say Is like one sentence it would be a three second real, but they know that. And so they do this sort of preface towards whatever obvious shit they're gonna say.

Like even right now, people are like, wait, what's the trick? What is the trick? And it drags people via some awful manipulation through this very, very long lead up which gets engagement, which makes the algorithm like it, and it makes it go viral. And that's the trick.

That's it. Just say you have a trick and then lead up to the trick for as long as you possibly fucking can. And it is so annoying. So annoying. But I've been thinking about doing that. The other thing you can do is booty shaking videos. So just put a girl like pop, pop, pop.

That will get me. Yep. That will get me for sure. Booty shaking videos are just gonna get you. And then also, cause the thing is, you know, some of us on Instagram are not married. Some of us are married and don't give a shit. But let's take our private porn habits. You erase the history.

I don't really like porn algorithms. I don't wanna know that much about what I like. I don't like it when I'm, you might like this too. Like, whoa, I actually, yeah, that's pretty awesome. So, but you've erased the history. I washed my hands of this and theoretically, you're somehow freed from, you're jerking off your pathetic late night jerk off Sesh.

But if you look at the boobies on Instagram, you're gonna be haunted with boobies because the algorithm will just suggest them, meaning, and it's a more public thing, we all are comfortable looking at Instagram together. No one that I know of watches porn together unless they're like fucking. You don't watch porn with your friends.

Well, no, actually I've heard a lot of- Well, stop. Okay. Wait, no, don't stop. Go ahead. Wait, what? Yeah, so people on podcasts have said that they have they invite their friends over to their house and that they jerked off there and they'd go to a corner of the room and watch and What yeah what podcast a few different parts a bench of hero? Yeah, that would be amazing Yeah, so they just find a friend who has access to porn and they all go jack off at his house Which I didn't do that. It was very foreign to me when I heard that so it kind of freaked me out. So, okay Can you pull that up? Can you find that podcast? I kind of want to see that because that seems to be one of those like

Moments where like you real in real time you can see people kind of realize they're gay. They did okay I might delete this part because I don't want to fuck up your algorithm or anything like that. Oh yeah don't show it you're right forget it no you're right. Okay. It'll fuck up that look I get the point but Now let's really talk about this like because this is an important thing and there's nothing wrong with jerking off with your friends You're gay It's totally I mean that it's like it's a bisexual or whatever it's fine no judgment there

But you just don't entertain the idea. You're straight anymore. And I don't think these guys are even entertaining that idea. Well, no, what they said was it's kind of like when you're in your dorm room and your roommate's having sex and you're having sex in your bed. No. Because there's women there. That was my point. It's like you invited your friend to your house to jerk off.

Yeah. That's what it's like. It's not like you're in your dorm room. It's not like you're in the shower in a dorm room. None of those things. You were on the phone with your friend. You're like, hey, what's up, Johnny? What's up, dude?

What are you doing this afternoon? Ah, no plan. Just kind of fucking off. Hey, you want to come over and jerk off with me? That's gay. I don't think they said it over the phone, but the deficit come watch some nice movies with me. So they planned it. No, okay, so For sure

First of all, it's not weird to like go over to your friend's house to watch movies with your pal. That's fine You get stoned whatever it's cool But you get to your friend's house. Okay, let's say they didn't plan it. They were just like hey come over man Let's just play some video games or whatever. Okay, yeah, I'll be over. Come over to your friend's house, smoke a bowl. Dude, what was the best porn you watched lately? Oh, let me show you.

Damn, that's kind of getting my dick hard. Yeah, man, it's so fucking hot. What porn have you been looking at? Dude, I see your dick's getting hard. Man, go jerk off in the corner, and I'll jerk off in this corner. That's about more gay than gay! It's like, it's something out of, like,

Call Me By Your Name. Did you ever see that movie? No. It's, like, erotic. It's, like, hot. It's, like, call me by your name. Did you ever see that movie? No. It's like erotic. It's like hot. It's like two repressed dudes with their backs turned to each other, listening to the sound of the porn

and the plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, hearing each other go, oh. Oh. It's gay. Yeah. You know, which is totally fine. I'm not judging the gay part. I'm not judging any part of it.

I'm just saying that's one of those moments where two people have somehow not stumbled upon sort of the reality of, it sounds like they haven't stumbled upon the reality of their sexual proclivities, which many haven't. Yeah. They don't wanna face the reality, which is it's not just the porn you are enjoying,

you wanna jerk off with your friend. Yes. I don't think it's uncommon. I mean, I know, and also just cause you've jerked off with your friends doesn't mean you're gay. It's a pretty common, like it happens with kids and stuff. I can remember when I was a kid, at a sleepover.

And I had not discovered this yet. But my friend, we were sleeping in sleeping bags. And my friend was like, you know if you push against the floor, it feels good. Humping the floor. Somehow I had yet to discover humping the floor. And I started, we were humping the floor together in our sleeping bags.

And I was just like, I mean, this is like somebody's share, it's like Prometheus, it's someone giving you fire. You're like, holy, whoa, does feel good to hump the floor. It's amazing. So that doesn't mean one thing or the other, but I would say that if you're an adult male and you go to another adult male's house and in the same room, maybe, now,

I don't think even in a different room. Knowingly. Knowingly, jerking off, this is, I would say if we're gonna create a, you know the Kinsey scale? Kinsey scale basically was this guy Kinsey was like some kind of sex doctor, people have problems with him. He came up with a scale of like heterosexual versus gay.

And he said, no one falls pure gay or pure heterosexual. It's everyone's different. Some people are a little gay, some people are like a little straight and a lot gay, but there's nowhere, no one lands on any certain place in that scale. But I would say on that Kinsey scale, if the ability to stream porn in real time was available,

then jerking off with your guy friends in the same room to porn is gonna land Closer to the like hyper gay. It's not gonna land on the straight side of the scale. No No, so the so I know you know, I did have this experience once Which is really weird go Oh, the same friend? No, this is when I was an adult. Oh, okay. Comedy condo.

And no, this is like, don't try to guess the comic because you definitely won't. This is like early phase standup. I can't remember his name. I'm laying in bed, I'm falling asleep. It's a comedy condo. There's three comics in it. We were definitely not the headliners.

The headliners in the room with one bed. There's two beds next to each other in the fucking comedy condo. You don't care. I'm falling asleep. Duncan. What? Hey man, look, I can't fall asleep unless I jerk off. You care if I jerk off?

I was, you could have jerked off. Why do you, why did you need to tell me that's what you're doing? Like, it was just weird. Cause it's like, now I know you're jerking off. Which means I'm gonna have to suck your dick No, you have to add a courtesy Basic manners, okay, if your friends jerking off suck his dick that is not gay

That's pretty much the Romans used to do that before battles and that's very very heterosexual Because then you care more for your mate and then you'll protect them. It's just do unto others kind of stuff. You know, it's like if you're, you know, first of all, you're dry jerking because you're, you know what I mean? It is weird if you do pull out lube.

It feels very premeditated. Right, so there's the compassion part. It's like, oh, I'll just, you want me to spit on your dick, man, or like suck you off.'ll just, you want me to spit on your dick, man, or like suck you off? Like just, you know, I'll pretend I'm sucking a lady's cock. So it's straight.

But in the same room. Yeah. That's a different type of throat chant that I thought you were gonna do. I thought you were gonna do your throat chant, but instead you gave him throat. Throat chanting whilst, wow. Wow.

I think you just stumbled upon something powerful there, man. Wow. Interesting. Let me make a note. Okay, I wanna show you guys something. Now that we've covered that, it's very important. I don't know where we're going with that. Oh, porn. Instagram algorithms, boobies jiggling. So yeah, I've noticed this is a new thing, which is the thirst traps figured out that guys don't wanna just watch the jiggling boobies. So if you add the jiggling boobies

to some kind of philosophy, now you're kinda like, look, god damn it. I just wanted to know about stoicism. I didn't wanna see like a hot jiggling ass. I just am really interested in Marcus Aurelius. But you know, this is actually kind of interesting. So yeah, I'll watch it, but pfft. Kind of wish this wasn't there.

So you could trick yourself into thinking you're not there for the jiggles or the tits. So that's a new thing I've been noticing. I keep getting served up this one. It's the funniest thing ever. I wish I could remember her name But she dangles her tits in the camera while saying how what a good person you are. She's brunette, right? You were listening to the message I don't really remember. You were listening to the message.

I don't really remember what color it did swear. Can you find it? Cause it's maybe the most genius thing I've ever seen. It's like really cracked into some new terrain here when it comes to like dispensing spiritual wisdom on Instagram. Instagram woman dangles breasts while talkingencing spiritual wisdom on Instagram. Instagram woman dangles breasts while talking about spiritual wisdom.

I'll show you some other contagions that are happening right now that are really fascinating. And while Josh is trying to find this, which is really funny, you will remember we've talked about her before. I mean her no ill will, but there was that hippie who took a little acid, took a little DMT or whatever, are you talking, was that tree talking or was it me

or whatever and so like that spawned for a while a terrible plague of like cute hippies doing some kind of new spiritual rap songs or something. Remember that? It wasn't just her. Cause that's the crazy thing about this stuff is like people see something that seems successful

and then they try to imitate it and it spawns and it grows genres and sub genres and sub categories of some initial style. You're not gonna find it, man. Dang, yeah. And she's gonna pop up in my algorithm because we're talking about it right now. Yeah, you're not gonna find it.

It's not gonna come up. It's not easy to find this stuff on Instagram. The search functionality is different. You have to remember their names. But I'll show you some more contagions. So look up, this is the channel where everybody knows Bashar. Can you pull him up? Oh yeah. So pull knows Bashar and you pull him over. Yeah, so pull up Bashar Everyone knows about this is the channel or very successful channel or just pull up any video of him talking

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like public speaking stuff they learned in theater school. He projects to the back of the room. I guess when he's just on camera, it's a little de-emphasized. Play it a little bit more though. All right. All right, let us continue with our transmission regarding the next phase of open combat.

Phase out. Okay, now, just hopefully this will come up. Google channeler. There it is. Other times there are agreements that are made in the Astral plane. Yeah, he's channeling right there. So like- And while the human is asleep-

Well, you gotta get his arm up. That did not exist prior to the incarnation, but because that person made certain choices. What is he channeling a crab? And took themselves. So, okay, go back and then look up a woman channels. So this is, so Bashar probably watches this shit and is like, dude, that's my style. Okay, pull that up.

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It's the easiest thing to fake yeah, it sounds like they're repeating the same thing too. I can do it. Watch me channel. I'm going to channel now. From the seventh layer of the dark wind I come bearing messages of the ship. The ship is made of pollen. The pollen is an interconnected Vortex which you currently call your ethereal human body. It is a soul vessel within which your soul is held in

time-space. It's like because it's you can't say if you say anything these people are saying Normally, it sounds like horse shit, but if you can do some kind of weird I don't know what, like alien transmission voice, then somehow it makes it more powerful. Mm-hmm. You know, like you could say like, what's like some basic bitch spiritual wisdom, Josh? Just like cereal box spiritual wisdom. Anything to do with manifesting. Just believe it and it'll happen.

Okay, so yeah, okay. Anything to do with manifesting. Just believe it and it'll happen. Okay, so yeah, okay. Many think that they want the thing they desire, but the desire itself is that you're pushing it away. It is from the act of not desiring that which we desire that paradoxically we can manifest within our own material universe those things which we want, because as we all know know we are all the same consciousness the regenerative force of light and love Something like that you I think will make it more powerful as if you close your eyes and put your arm above your head crab arm Yeah, and then close eyes

The secret of manifestation is not to desire the secret of man is the stage or just to know that you already have that what you desire and then knowing you become a The secret of man is to state you just to know that you already have that which you desire and then knowing you become a Receptical and vessel through which the universe expresses itself in the form of things you desire Something like that. Yeah more believable. Yeah, it's way more. It's way more believable You just say like you if you say the normal shit. It's like nobody wants to hear that anymore and Now the next phase is somebody needs to figure out the booby thing with channeling. Because if you, you know, do the jiggle and boobs and channel an alien.

And ASMR, whisper it. Oh my God. Try effective. Woo! Somebody out there get to work. I guess you could have an AI do it now. But then, so that's one of the contagions that has emerged on the Grams. And it's an interesting contagion, which is channeling dialect. And there's many others. We've already seen this, but just pull up, took a little acid.

I've already talked about this before. And man, I'm sorry to do this to you, because once you like land on her song, it will show up eternally in your Instagram. It's like a curse. You can't get rid of it. Okay, so this is the beginning. Song it will show up eternally in your Instagram. It's like a curse. You can't get rid of it Okay, so this is the beginning I would have been like that's the most beautiful song I ever heard Now okay now see if it starts

The problem is I don't know what genre this is But see if it suggests more because there was a rash of these. What are you bull- Your algorithm is like crazy, Josh. Yeah, it's a lot of podcasts. A lot of podcasts. Look up, I don't know, spiritual hippie rap. Oh my God, I already want to puke. Are YouTube shorts the same as Instagram reels? Uh, no. Well, I mean, they're the same type of thing, but.

Let's see, ancient, scroll down, scroll down. One will pop up. Maybe put up singers like Shannon Blake. Look, she's on a rock. She's selling tour tickets, I believe it. Oh yeah, she. And also, I think you could pretty much argue that Shannon Blake was also,

it also sort of like figured out the spiritual booby thing. Yeah, cause this was her before. Yeah, and then, yeah, so it's kind of like the sexy like hippie thing. That's Shannon Blake? Yeah, this one. Click on that! Well, no, it goes to that, no. It doesn't show

This picture. Oh my god She looks like Gabby Petito. Is that Gabby Petito? What if we find out Shannon Blake is Gabby Petito? Who's Gabby Petito Gabby Petito? Holy shit, remember that so Another contagion. Mm-hmm. Some people started posting van life stuff. We live in a van now where we've sort of disconnected from default reality, we're free as birds, and it became a genre. And so you just show off your van,

you show off how cool it is, you make it seem like you're having the best life ever, because you're not showing like the interstitial stuff. Though that was another genre is realistic van life videos. But Gabby Petito wanted to do van life videos and ended up going out in a van with this dude who fucking killed her. Oh shit. Yeah.

This guy right here? Yeah, it's a great documentary, American Murder, Gabby Petito. Play the trailer. Go back to his face, go back to his face. Pause right there. See, that face, if you look at the eyes, you see a man who is fucked up,

fell in love, he's crazy. There's some horrible shit brewing just under the surface and it's being exacerbated by living in a van with your girlfriend who wants to be an influencer, even if you're not insane. Well, what if he just really wanted to live the van life and the influencer, let's reshoot it again, the last time was just like, oh, and he took that fucking tooth around his neck

and just went off. Dude, I mean, that tooth says a lot. If you're gonna dangle the tooth out front, I get it if you have your special fucking tooth that you wear under your shirt, but if you're, if you're showing off the tooth, something's fucked up with you, man. Why are you showing off the tooth? Put it under the shirt. You decided to, no one wears necklaces like that. Nope. Wear the necklaces, you wear it under your shirt. If you're, if you, if it's above your shirt, you're displaying something.

Might as well put a name tag. Now I get the cross, you're showing other Christians, I'm a Christian, okay. But who is he indicating to other people that he is? Like a Viking, a barbarian? Is he, I guarantee he didn't pluck that fucking tooth out of anything's mouth. Maybe, maybe it's a wolf's tooth.

That means he thinks he's a wolf. It's awful all the way around, but the wolf, probably as he views himself, the wandering wild stepping wolf, the outsider, he probably pitched to this woman he was in love with that we gotta get out of society, he's reading Emerson, he's watching movies like Into the Wild. And he convinces this cutie to use her money

to buy this van. And part of the way he did it was saying, and you know, maybe you can become an influencer. Oh shit. And then now he's like Ralph Waldo Emerson, but he's in a fucking van with somebody who's trying to get brand deals, and he's also clearly insane.

Wolf Tooth says that, and the weird piercing. So this is an awful collision. This is like the Shining. Yeah. It's the Shining in a van. And so as he's going around With his stinky fucking feet because if you're on video, she's like your feet stink That's a bad stink enough that it made her think say your fucking bit your feet stink. Keep playing it Stop it for a second. The other creepy thing about it is his family protected him

And the other creepy thing about it is his explanation for why he did it was the most insane shit ever Which is that she had fallen or something in the creek and he wanted to put her out of her misery so it was a mercy killing and So he was nuts. He's out of his mind and then he went off in the woods and blew his brains out. He like killed himself too, but. That's like end of the world a little bit. Yeah, but I don't think, I think you could say, I think what killed that guy was a combination of

if I had to roll the dice, bipolar, manic depression. He said, I think he might've been a little manic. And hubris, which is he imagined he could survive out there and he wasn't ready to do that. And people told him, you know, he was a little too, like I'm protected by the earth or something. I don't know. I don't know if he really, you know,

some part of me thinks if someone gets themselves in an avoidable situation like that, there is a part of them that kind of is ready to die. I don't know if that counts as suicide or not. A sort of, I don't know how to put it, a kind of like trick in your, is it, oh shit, are we supposed to say unaliving?

Ah, it doesn't matter. Anyway. Most people are disconnected, I think. From the fear part. So they're just like, they're disconnected. Personal example, remember I had a Vicodin one night and I thought in my head this could kill me.

Yes. And I was like, eh. And I took it. I didn't want to die. But if I did die. Okay, I got you. Yeah, right. That's the scary thing with drugs. Yeah. Is that it's not that you're suicidal, it's that you are prioritizing.

Stan Hope has the best joke about, what does he say? I ruin every joke I try to fucking regurgitate. Some things are better than life. You know, like, yeah, the drugs will kill you. It's better than life, that's why. You just sort of re-prioritize the hedonic experience over maintaining your physical body. And, yeah, that's definitely a kind of suicide, I would say.

It's just a little watered down by your own sense of living life, even though the way you're living life is gonna like kill you. Listen, there's a lot of different ways to live in this world. But it's interesting to me these examples like this, because this, it's the first person who did the van life video was not thinking

this is gonna get someone killed. Someone's gonna see this and end up getting murdered because their boyfriend's gonna go insane being this disconnected from the grid and weirdly in love with someone who wants to be an influencer. But something about repetition and scaling on social media increases the probability

that someone's gonna die because of it. The contagion doesn't just annoy inevitably, just because of statistics, it gets someone killed. Remember, what was that called? Not planking. Remember that thing where people would like lay with their bodies straight? What was that called?

I thought that was planking. It's not planking, it's like they would lie in between things, they wouldn't, what was that called? The planking. It's like they would lie in between things. They wouldn't what was that called the planking challenge or something? That shit Planking fat Wikipedia pull that up Planking or the lying down game is an activity consisting of lying in a face-down position Sometimes in an unusual or incongruous location

Scroll back down. Let's go to the controversy part. Controversies. The Planking Fab made news in September when seven accident emergency staff workers at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, England were suspended for playing the lying down game. Oh, that's, there we go. On 15th of May, 2011, Acton Beale,

a 20-year-old man plunged to his death after reportedly planking on a seventh floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia. Google Acton Beale. But this is what I, like, no, the first person who decided to do, there he is, Acton Beale, whole life in front of him. This is the death? Oh no, nevermind, I thought they showed it. I'm in front of him. This is the death. Oh, no, never mind.

I thought they showed it. I'm sure it's recorded. It's gone from Internet fad to deadly controversy in the blink of an eye. Anyone who hadn't heard of planking certainly has now. Following this so funny and crazy. The man who introduced him to the craze says alcohol, not planking, was to blame for the 20 year old's death That's bullshit in a very short time planking has become the in thing But the tragic death of what feel who fell seven stories from a unit balcony early Sunday morning has been a sobering

Oh my god, that's a terrible fall Richard Luton way now you get the point planking you think you held the plank all the way down No, I don't I think think he screamed and time slowed down I think he thought of his parents and I think he maybe remembered his birth and I think he had to reckon with the absurdity of the sort of death that he was having like the pure absurdity and and he had his parents It's just like imagine that happening to one of your kids. You know, he's a little nuts, fun guy. Maybe he's just having a fun phase and then you get the call.

Yeah, I'm so sorry. I don't know how to say this, but he was he fell off a balcony. But how what happened? He was planking. He was doing the planking fad. Have you heard of it? It's a fad. And it's crazy that when you scale up,

someone's gonna die. This is kind of like the weirdness of concert death. Like this is where I get weirded out by all the various concert deaths. Google concert deaths. You know what's sad too when they did the funeral all he had was pictures of planking. Do you I don't listen I'm offended that you're making planking jokes. We've got to end this fad. It's way over. I'm old. What was it? You wanna be Google? What? Oh, Google concert deaths.

There's so many and it's so creepy. Concert tragedies. Astroworld! Go to joins a list of historical concert deaths. Click on Astroworld Festival. Eight people dead at the Travis Scott Astroworld event in Houston. Now that got memory hold. I think Travis, is Travis Scott Astroworld event in Houston. Now that got memory hold.

You would like, I think Travis, is Travis Scott still performing? Yeah. Okay, so yeah, scroll down a little bit. It's crazy because the the audience starts to look like an ocean the way they move. Oh, it's horrible. Horrible death too, crushing death. November 2021, Abbot Tribute concert. death too, crushing death. November, 2021, ABBA tribute concert. Oh God, can you imagine your last breaths? It wasn't even ABBA.

It's a tribute concert, your whole life, everything, all your loves, all your successes, all your failures, all your aspirations, your dreams, just smushed while you're hearing like, dancing queen, mine and me, but it's not even ABBA. Okay, scroll down, ghost ship fire, what's that one? A fire broke out in an underground electronic music party. The Indiana State Fair collapsed, scroll down a little bit more.

Didn't someone just die at a Taylor Swift concert? Google Taylor Swift concert death. Yep. A Taylor Swift fan, Anna Clara Benavides died at her Aris tour concert in Rio de Janeiro due to heat exhaustion. Now, this is where it gets interesting to me, especially with concerts. So once you get to that level, where like Lady Gaga level, she just had the most sold concert of all time.

Before that, it was like Romstein would have these massive concerts. So once you get to that level as a performer, you know someone's gonna die from these shows that are this big. You know that there is a probably inevitably a 90% chance someone's gonna kick the bucket. Look up, I don't know know Lady Gaga concert death. I

Didn't hear about this, but I'm just curious. Oh There you go, Lady Gaga Lady Gaga fan dies brought back to life What open that she resurrected her with her magic with her magic. Yeah, Thornton suddenly began to experience what appeared to be a seizure. Tugman frantically waved down an usher, immediately paged the on-site medics.

The patient was unconscious with no heartbeat. So this classifies as a death. Now, what's another person who has huge concerts? Metallica. Look up Death at Metallica concert. Now, what's another person who has huge concerts? Metallica? Look up Death at Metallica concert. Like pretty much any concert, any great band that you can come up with. ["Death at Metallica"]

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Like in other words, like, let's just say it came to you and I was like, listen, Josh, I know this is gonna sound like something that the devil would say to you. I'm not the devil, but I'm gonna make it so you're gonna sell out arenas. You're gonna sell out more arenas than any other comic before you.

And one person is gonna die. They're gonna get trampled at your concert, for sure. Do you keep doing the concerts? If I can pick them, yeah. What do you mean? If I can pick the person that gets trampled. You can't pick. It's gonna be random. You know, they died doing what they loved.

Now it's coming to see me. Okay, great. Just sign this and we'll be on our way. In blood? Yeah, thank you. Or cum. It is weird you sign contracts and blood and not jizz Yeah, the okay. So the the

Now if I come to you and Say listen You will sell out all these great concerts. You just have to sacrifice one person You don't even have to be the one who drives the dagger to their chest will take care of everything But are you willing to sacrifice one human for fame? I mean That sounds reasonable Exactly, it's so like when you see these deaths. It's one step away from human sacrifice for fame It's not that the human sacrifice caused the fame it happened as an effect of the fame But still in all somebody fucking died because of your ass

Well, that's what they were saying an Astro or that there was demonic- Pull it up Astral World, demonic symbols. I got way down this rabbit hole. All right, so look, I'm watching the Travis Scott and Drake's concert, but what the fuck is this? What the fuck was that? Go back, that was weird. What the fuck is that? That's just someone throwing water.

Give me a break. There's so many What the Fuck Was That videos. They're really funny. Yeah, just like creepy, creepy shit. He's eating you. He's eating you. Yeah. I'm sure he regretted doing that shit, like in retrospect. He didn't know that people were going to die. I doubt it. But the people are also saying because the stage kind of looks like a portal. Yeah, a portal to hell. A portal to hell or somewhere.

Yeah, it's a CGI like, it looks like like a like a not an angel but a demon flying around Yeah, which is not uncommon at You know, here's the thing. There it is It's an owl It's a burning owl That's not satanic at all It's just a burning owl But you know, here's the thing.

What happens at these concerts is I fully doubt that Travis Scott with whatever the fuck his busy schedule was, doing rituals to get ready for the show, actually walk through the light show phase. It's not like he looked at all the assets some dude was like projecting up there. So, you know, I don't know.

I don't think it was literally, I don't think Travis Scott is a demonic being or anything. What about the flyer? People were talking that the flyer is demonic. Click on it, let me take a look. I was trying to, it keeps just downloading it. Oh fuck, don't open that. Go ahead and open it.

Oh, someone wrote a paper on this, what the fuck? Yeah, it's a full paper. Oh my God, scroll back up, this is amazing. Somebody did an actual, serious bit. Oh my god uh Symbols and forms of satanism represented in travis scott concert astral world festival 2021 by tasir ahmadina and muhammad husni ratonga From where the what university is this indonesia? The purpose of this research is to depict the symbols and forms of satanism in the travis scott concert

Due to riots that occurred during the concert a few months ago, eight people were declared dead. Researchers discovered satanic symbols and forms in Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival." Wow! Thanks for doing the work for us here, guys. It seems like this was written at some kind of Islamic seminary. And among mankind are those who use useless words to mislead people away from Allah's way without knowledge and mock Allah's way. They will be subjected to a humiliating punishment. Yeah. Well, whatever.

We don't have to go through all the satanic symbols. You know it's there. But there is something interesting about the satanic symbols that seem to inevitably pop up at rock shows. Like, pull up the Lady Gaga satanic ritual that she did at Coachella. I don't even know if you can find it online. I mean, is it just that the satanic aesthetic is cool? I think so. I mean, you know what I mean? They're just something like, it's an easy way to seem edgy or something. That doesn't, I can't tell.

I'm not up to date on my rituals. Taylor Swift too. Taylor Swift's concert had a lot of weird shit in it. Let's see this. This seems more fascist than does satanic. That seems fucking hot. That's exactly the lec, I would love that. Getting a lecture by somebody dressed like that, angry at me.

Look, I mean, I don't know, Taylor Swift has got weird shit in there, but there you go, Willow, you could pull up. There it is. Yeah. Coven of witches. Yeah, they're saying it was a seance in front of a bunch of children. And then, okay, so there's that.

And then, it is interesting, though, how you do see this recurrence. Now, the truth of the matter is, the occult is artistic. Like you know, it's wild, it's, you know what occult means? What it actually means? No. Hidden.

Hidden in plain sight. So, you could say the Christian drawing of the fish in the sand to say you're a Christian secretly would be an occult symbol. It's a hidden symbol hidden in plain sight. So, you know, it definitely fits the literal definition of occult that in plain sight, people in front of kids are performing powerful rituals because it's like what you told me about the tabernacle

earlier, which I didn't know. Someone always has to be watching the tabernacle. There's some kind of power in human attention and they know that. So if you focus the energy of the crowd into your ritual, then it will be more likely to bear fruit than if you don't. And they know that. And so they are, they, and also's like, if you look at it from the outside in,

definitely spooky, definitely creepy. But that's because we don't know anything about it. Well, have you seen the Justin Timberlake thing, like his latest video, and now he's going through, people say, humiliation rituals, you got a DUI, they put him in this sling, this harness that lifts him up, and everybody's like, oh, he got a little dick. And yeah, so all these things.

But his last video, he gets blood poured in his mouth, and his eyes turn white, and the devil comes out. Play it. Yeah. I mean, again, if it's just one of these, you don't really think much of it. But when it's so many of them, I get why people get a little creeped out.

Whoa. Go click on that sweet lady. So this is the lady that was the one who's in love with and then she does that. Oh my God! Into his mouth. Oh, gross! Stop smoking, lady.

That's why I was gonna vape too much and they all start attacking them Right Blood orgy what the fuck what the fuck And then at the end of the video He gets in the car with her And he looks at the camera. Yeah He's been converted. Free.

We're both blind. We're blind now. Okay, so yeah, that's definitely spooky. And now he's having humiliation rituals. You don't have to pull up Justin Timberlake little dick. Oh, okay. Are you saying like because he did the video, now they're doing humiliation rituals?

Well, you have to go, just the same thing as Doja Cat went through where they shaved her head and her eyebrows and made her do all this weird shit and made her look ugly. And now she's saying like, whoa, the same thing. Have you seen her videos about, she's literally writing the devil. Let me see.

Where's the devil? That's a dra... Oh, some kind of, I mean, you could argue that's not the devil. It's like an ogre or something. I'm not trying to protect. Oh, she's hanging out with the Grim Reaper, dressed as the...

Oh, okay. What the fuck is that? So they all have a rebirth. So like Travis Scott, at the end of one of his songs, he gets rebirth and his wings come out. What's that one that Whisper sings? She's very famous. Billie Eilish. She has one where she falls from heaven.

Let me see. Okay. I mean, there is a point. Or maybe they're all using the same video producer. What did I say her name was? Billie Eilish. The injector with whatever they have. Yeah.

And then she grows the wings. Yeah. And she's cast out of heaven. I mean, I get it. So this is her getting cast out. And she falls. Ow. Remade crater. That was lucky.

And she walks out and her wings burn off. Yeah. And I think it also has to do something with the size of the wings because hers are huge. And you look at Travis Scott and he has these little tiny baby wings. So they're just like, you got a little dick, you got little wings. It's like the size of your hands. If you're in hell, you can know the size of a demon's dick by the wingspan. There you go.

Some kind of like satanic math. So okay, so we've got all that and we're covering a pretty wide variety of performers. We already did Travis Scott. We know, we already got that. What about, what's some, I'm trying to think, Kacey Musgraves. Who's that? No, I'm kidding.

She's the farthest thing away from that. So you do, like you have to wonder, oh you know another one is out, what's his name? I'm gonna take you down to the old town road. Remember? Pull that one up, because he did one too. Lil Nas. Lil Nas.

Lil Nas X. Yeah he gave the devil a. Lil Nas, not. He gave the devil a lap dance. So again, he falls to hell. He actually takes a stripper pole to hell. That's hilarious, that's so funny. So he takes the stripper pole.

See you later, God. Goes to hell, he sees the devil and then shakes his booty cheeks on him. Wow. God goes to hell he sees the devil and then shakes his booty cheeks on him Wow But then at the end he kills the devil well, he's good. Yeah to take over right? Well, that's the this is the first one that actually killed the devil snap the devil's neck and took it. There you go Now I'm the devil ha again little wings. Oh Now I'm the devil, ha! Again, little wings.

Oh my God, so that's like, if you got little wings, if they sign little wings to you on one of these videos, they're making fun of your dick. That's what we figured out here. Okay, so now we've seen, how many videos? So now we've got... It's like five or six. That is crazy.

It's again, it's just one. Look, we all like to bring tarot cards to school. Who hasn't toyed around with Satanism, but I certainly have. But when you see this magnitude, it doesn't just make you think, like I guess they're all still got a weird secret Satanic cult.

It also makes you think that it's overplayed at this point. Like we've burned out the Satanism thing. What are you looking up here? The weekend? Not the weekend. Don't tell me the weekend is falling in with the devil. Not my weekend. Please no, please no.

And this one's a little more forward with it because he's singing and then the audience, they don't really care, they're talking and then the devil comes and he sits down. Yeah. So that's the devil. Oh, great. And he sits down and then throws a cigarette

and alcohol or a lighter at him and then he lit on fire by the devil. And then now everybody loves everyone's dancing the satanic transformation. Yep. Where's the dad? I want to see the more the devil. He walks in with two girls. The devil does.

Yeah, there he is. Kind of a mutated dude. This version is like a meth addict. Yeah, some kind of spooky alien fucking. Yeah. So there you go. There you go, folks. This is, listen, if you're out there, you're a performer,

even if you are a Satanist, you gotta find a better way to do this because it's overplayed at this point. It's just silly now. At some point, it's not even like, it's just silly. Right? Like the whole, like the sort of allure of Satanism or, you know, the occult is that it's edgy. That's what draws you.

And that's how the devil draws teenagers in, right? You wanna be special, you wanna be different. You're not like all the other jocks. The cool kids were never into worshiping the devil. You're an outsider. That was what the devil was, an outsider. And so you align with the great rebellious spirit of Lucifer who said,

"'Listen, why do I have to worship you? I don't have to worship you. What, wouldn't that come spontaneously? Anyway, like fuck off, I'm gonna worship myself. And you align with that. You've been rejected, outcast, kicked down. You're not getting laid basically. No one's fucking your ass. You're wearing trench coats to school

I'm talking about myself And so what do you do you turn to the dark Lord? But now if the cool kids are all worshipping the devil Is this why everyone's becoming Catholic could be oh my god This is the reason there's a Christian resurgence in this country It's because the cool kids Started praying to Satan and once the cool kids start praying to Satan. It's not cool anymore Nobody wants to it's too many of them

Taylor Swift Travis Scott Justin fucking Timberlake. Like, ugh, that's embarrassing. So if now, if you wanna be a true outsider, you have to become Catholic. It's the craziest world ever. We're in upside down world right now and the devil played his hand, didn't he? Thought he was more clever than the Lord!

Thought he could... The devil did the exact same thing Kamala Harris did. Kamala Harris thought getting fucking Beyonce to sing for her would get her elected. Didn't work. It probably lost her votes. Remember she surrounded herself with famous people thinking that that would get her elected. And it didn't work.

Instead of focusing on like revising the messaging, she just poured money into. How many celebrities sing for Kamala Harris? And Beyonce didn't even sing, people were pissed. She just came and introduced some stuff. That's a dick move, because I think they paid her. Just fucking sing something, man. What are you doing?

There is no evidence that anyone, okay, okay, whatever. How much the campaigns did in on? She got Oprah. It was a real, real poor read on America. A million dollars. She paid Oprah a million dollars? God, that's crazy. The report said between October 25th and November 25th, the Harris campaign raised $160 million

and spent $277 million, Jesus. In comparison to the Trump campaign, it raised $87 million and spent $130. It's expensive to become president, man. That's how you know there's money in it. Katy Perry performed at a rally in Pittsburgh. Lady Gaga. Lizzo.

Wait, these are endorsements. Cardi B, that was a weird endorsement, I remember that one. John Bon Jovi, James Taylor, I get James Taylor. Megan Thee Stallion, go back up. Stalin, go back up. Google Lady Gaga performing at Harris rally. See if she changed her tone a little bit for the political rally. Oh there you go, edge of glory. Here we go, at final Harris rally Oh, we're gonna get dinged for this, aren't we? I wanna hear one bite.

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You know, you could only get so far as a musician, but if the state seems to be opening its arms to embrace you, there's something exciting there. You feel like you're gonna have some power. It's kind of like a get out of jail free card probably. Kind of feel like you hit up the president, man, I'm friends with the president. It's not uncommon.

Happen on both sides. A lot of people hitch their wagons to Trump too. Like, you just get sucked in. It's powerful. You want to know about the aliens. You know, I get it. I don't judge any of them for it necessarily. I mean, I get it.

It's not like, I mean, it's not like they thought they were embarrassing themselves. I don't think they care. Yeah, I think it's just more of a kind of messianic sort of like, you know, I don't know, it's easy for me to get cynical about these things. You have to wonder to yourself, what's the analysis? How much of the problem is, if you spontaneous as an artist, whatever you do spontaneously, that's you.

That's your true voice. That's your authentic nature, right? So, you do the kind of art that you want to do, you have to do. It feels good to do. You don't know why you're doing it. You don't care if it's going to go anywhere or not. You're just in it for the moment of making something. Of course you want to make money.

You want to support yourself. But the primary focus is the music and the art. That's it. And you follow this bizarre compulsion. And that either leads you to failure, mediocrity, never making it work. But you just keep doing it. You don't care. Or you end up, you know, with little demon wings

flapping around in front of a million people in an arena, but that's what you wanted to do. You can't judge that. That's them. That's who they are and who they wanna be. So anybody who makes a decision to perform for any fucking politician, if that's an authentic,

if the same compulsion that's got you to make stuff is getting you on stage at a Kamala Harris rally or a Trump rally, who are we to judge? They're fucking artists, I don't know. I don't think, the problem was that a lot of people were saying that with the Democrat side, that it didn't seem authentic, they were being paid allegedly to perform there versus people like Kid Rock who actually

really love Donald Trump. And that's not a fair judgment because I guess we pay these fucking people to perform anywhere they goddamn perform. They don't perform for free. So, and that's agents. That's agents getting in between the whatever, the two. The agent is just kind of like,

hey, what's the budget here? And how much did you pay Beyonce? And then how much did you pay Oprah? Well, you got to cut out some of that dough. They know about super PACs. They understand. And also I think it's like, I'm guessing once you get to the level of any of these people we just showed,

your autonomy is diminished, probably. You don't even realize it's a slow boil loss of autonomy. Is it a satanic humiliation ritual, or is it just what happens when you let too many people handle your shit, and then you're just getting puppeteered here and there, this and that, and you stop looking at things in the way normal people do, and then you do, then you veer into the realm

of what I would think of as like not occult Satanism, but something maybe worse, which is you're just thinking about your demographic. You're just thinking about your audience. What did they want me to be? What did they wanna see? Who do they support politically? How do I affirm that I'm with them all the way through?

And then you start voicing things for their sake only. You don't even know what you think or feel. That's where it gets- You're a zombie. You're a politician at that point. Whereas the artist just sort of, I don't know, stumbles around and says whatever they're thinking at the time, suffers for it, gets successful for it, but they're just... That's all they've got, and that's what they do. It's a big difference. And so that's, you know, yeah, like Kid Rock. So that's, you know, yeah, like Kid Rock.

He, you know, he 100%. Do you see him in the White House? Yeah. Jesus Christ. That's America. Man, I'll tell you, once you start dressing like that, it's probably hard to wear anything else. Yeah. I get it. It's cool.

I want to go to the fucking White House. I would love to go to the fucking White House and dress like, I don't know, like I sell acid at Grateful Dead shows in the Oval Office. I mean, that's pretty cool. But it just feels like, I don't know, something about it does feel weird. Like look up REM. Remember REM?

Are you too young for that? Look up REM waltz rally. REM got teamed up with waltz. They didn't make it to the Comma level for real. Like on YouTube, it really, I love REM, man. Hello. You're gonna have to jump ahead. Can you hear me?

2018, my friend's birthday and her husband invited five of us to have a birthday dinner with her at a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. I heard that. We're gonna do a song that I performed, I'm sorry, that I performed once in public at another one of these rallies. Yeah this one fucked me up. And we were great and hopefully we're not gonna fuck it up today. I still love R.E.M. This is a song that I wrote with Aaron Desner from the band The National.

And it's called No Time for Love Like Now. Here we go. Aww. See, it's well intended. Like, I don't know who we need to fucking judge. It's R.E.M. They're great. Who fucking cares? Case by case basis. Yeah, it's just who cares? It's this whole judgment of people. Who fucking cares? They're great. Killer band. Like why do why do our artists have to align politically with us one way or the other? Why does it bother me when Stephen King fucking keeps tweeting like political shit?

You know, it's none of my business. He's a person. He gets to voice his, what, old man opinions. We'll need to lighten up a little bit. I don't, like, who cares? If we start abandoning our artists because they worship the devil, we're not gonna have anything less to listen to. We're not gonna listen to anything. Start abandoning our artists because they kneel at the foot of Trump or the devil or Kamala or whatever. Maybe there's no difference between the three. What do we have left? Who are you gonna listen to?

Apolitical? What musician has ever been apolitical? They're all political. Electronic and Tejano music. What? Electronic and Mexican music, Tejano. There you go. Yeah.

I don't know if Tejano music, I bet there's some political Tejano music, right? There's gotta be, I just don't know, I don't speak Spanish. There's some about drug dealers and stuff. Yeah, and like EDM, I'm sure there's, yeah, you're right. That's for sure, EDM is avoided getting, I'm sure someone will send us something though,

some fucking EDM song that's political. Look up political EDM song. But yeah, it's out there, man. Like, I get it. There's definitely a place for it. It's just sometimes it doesn't land right. You know what I mean? Like when Green Day or Rage Against the Machine

supports the state, right? Didn't Rage Against the Machine just do some shit that like, or was it Green Day or both? Probably both. Because Rage Against the Machine originally felt like, like almost like terrorists, they were so against the government. And then they start supporting the government

and it weirded everybody out. It was Tom Morello, it says, which is their guitarist or bassist. Oh, he said vote Trump. Voting for Dick Cheney. Wait, who? Like this one? Oh no, he wanted to vote for Kamala Harris. Yeah. Yeah, I think that weirded people out a little bit. Just because, like, Just because, like, they seem so anti-establishment. Like, on both sides, you know. System of a Downsillers.

What? They don't, I don't remember them ever saying, vote for this person. But pull up like the Green Day. Green Day always fills in like- American Idiot and all that. You could make a montage of like Green Day filling in American Idiot

with whoever they disagree with at the time. I'm not a part of the American Idol trailer. You know, cause the thing is it's like, is that really courageous at the show, a Green Day show to say that, in the sense that like, it's not like you're gonna get a boo out of that, you know your audience but Something about that felt a little like like talking shit about the president

Is a important american pastime Presidents are fucking ridiculous across the board. It's an im... Chogiam, Trump, or Rinpoche talked about this as it's embarrassing to run for president. The whole thing from top to bottom is embarrassing from beginning to end. I don't care if you're Kamala Harris. I don't care if you're fucking Trump. I don't care if you're Obama. You're going to do some embarrassing... You're going gonna say some embarrassing shit up there. You have to pander and you just look like an inhuman, like

alien imitating what you think humans are. You have to sum everything up in these sound bites that are digestible and also super PACs. Also, you're funded by so many corporations and you're trying to appeal to the corporations and the people and you wanna seem like you love humanity but you don't wanna piss off BlackRock and you security around you at all times and then you start, you know, getting high on your own supply. You start believing you're fucking Maudib.

You go crazy, the people around you start thinking you're Maudib. You feel, you sense it, the shift. When you go from, am I gonna run for president? I'm running for president. To holy shit, I might be president. And you feel the change in the audiences and the way people are treating you.

And you start believing there's something incredibly spectacular about you. You ignore the fact that you're being funded by the military industrial complex, by a variety of corporations, probably by like private billionaires with their own vested interests. You ignore the fact that you're gonna have a lot of favors after this shit, a lot of favors. You're gonna be pardoning some people. You don't want to pardon. You're gonna be letting some people off the hook, but you're gonna have to do it because it's worth it, because you want to, you are the one. Oh my god, am I the one?

Like imagine being Kamala Harris in front of one of those fucking rallies. You are already a little insecure, maybe you don't know, but then you look out. People are crying. People believe in children. Are telling you, you've gave them hope. Even if there was insecurity in you, you're going to start believing like, I think that I have a divine mandate here to some degree, whatever your language is for that.

This does make sense. I am the chosen one. It's embarrassing, you're not the chosen one. You're not the chosen one if you have to raise $50 billion to get in front of people. You're just someone who got a lot of money from rich people is parading around like you give a shit. And you do in your own mind, you kind of give a shit,

but not in the way people think you do. You know, like you can't, you've lost all connection with reality. How is there anything normal about the whole situation? So you have to make fun of the president because the president is like, basically the White House is a trap for narcissists. The White House captures our nation's top megalomaniacs,

imprisons them in the most surveilled place in America. I guarantee they measure the president's shits every day. They test it to see how it's held. And he's shitting in golden toilets. They replace the toilets with gold, but let me tell you, they all run to the same CIA fucking laboratory. There's some poor CIA scientist who has to take every one of the president's shits

and run it through some analysis device. It gets sucked through pipes Underneath the ground who knows maybe it gets shot all the way to like DARPA or I don't know where it goes DARPA is from not DARPA Lockheed Martin Raytheon, whatever the point is If You want to delure the most dangerous megalomaniacs in your country into a place where you could control them,

that's the White House. Get them in there, let them do their little, let them do this and that. You don't care, just as long as you get to keep dropping those fucking bombs. That's all. And it's crazy to watch. It's crazy to watch the change as they slowly get compromised. You know, as they slowly become increasingly like just the last president. You know, they've got their own little like winks and nods

and their own little style. But why is it always the same fucking thing? Why is it always just war? Bombs. War. Bombs. War. Bombs. It's always that. You can't get elected saying you're going to do more war

and bombs. You have to get elected saying, you know, whatever, we gotta make America great again or whatever, hey, we're not going back. What does that even mean? Both of those sayings are idiotic. They mean nothing. In analysis, they mean nothing. And then when it finally happens, nothing.

I don't mean to sound cynical or anything like that, but this is why, you know, Beyoncé wants money from them. Because she understands what it is. Fucking milk it. Why not? Kid Rock fucked up if he didn't get paid. You know, why not, I guess. That's probably why they age so bad, they have to hold that within them. Oh, I know.

Can you imagine? Just think about that. Well, it's either that, you know, or they, or we like to imagine that everyone's like us. And by us, I mean you and me. I mean super geniuses with the hearts of gold. Certified. Certified. But it isn't like that.

Some people don't, I just don't think like they see things the way we think about things the way, or they just, they're so into the, did you ever play Monopoly with your family? Mm-hmm. Did you play nice Monopoly or mean Monopoly? Mean Monopoly. Same. My brother and me and my dad would play, we would over the course of a game of monopoly

turn into the worst people on earth. We would cheat, we would lie, we would steal, we'd hide money. We would fight over rules. And whoever lost had to sign the dollar of shame. And the dollar of shame, whoever won could write whatever they wanted above what you had to sign. So it could just be like, if it was my daddy won, it would be like, my father is the greatest man that ever lived or whatever.

You just had to sign it, you had no choice. And it sounds silly now, but at the end greatest man that ever lived or whatever. You just had to sign it, no choice. And it sounds silly now, but at the end of a two hour game of Monopoly, you're pissed. You don't wanna sign that fucking thing. But the game ends, you get back to life. Maybe you're annoyed with each other, but in a different way.

But I think some people, that's how they live. The whole human experience is an extended game of mean monopoly. And they don't think about things the way we do. When they get away with something, they're not thinking, fuck, I'm a piece of shit, man. I can't believe I lied at that level. I betrayed one of my dearest friends.

They're just like, that dumb piece of shit. Got one over on him. That's the same, hey, it's just business. Hey, it's just business, which is the same thing as saying like, hey, I'm just a piece of shit. Yep. It's the same saying. It, yeah, it's that, so I think that maybe initially when you get called the service of your country

in that regard, you aren't a piece of shit But somewhere along the way you get timberlaked Somewhere along the way you're wearing tiny little fucking demon wings to indicate the size of your dick or whatever somewhere along the way You just lose Whatever that North Star is that makes a human a human. And then you're tired. And then when somebody comes in and says, listen man, we're gonna have to drop some bombs on some like places in Yemen.

Fuck up these Houthis or whatever. And you're like, but the part of you that would have before been like, yeah, but I mean, we're sure that these people were blowing up are like terrorists, right? We're not gonna kill any kids. You didn't get enough sleep last night. You just wanna go to bed.

All right, I'll sign it. And that's it, you're gone, baby, you're gone. So anyway, the bottom line is, and I guess something one must consider is what's worse? Is it worse to parade around in tights and devil horns on a music video? Or is it worse to like speak at a Kamala Harris drum rally? Isn't it both sort of idolatry? Isn't both sides of it like, I don't think it's bad. It's just look, man, we all want to believe some person's going to save us.

People want to be on the winning team. Damn right. That's right. Well, kids, I got to get out of here. I guess what we've established from this incredible episode today is that the satanic aesthetic is out that being a president is embarrassing but Art is still alive and well and yeah, who cares if your fucking artist is a leftist or Conservative or whatever judge them based on what they make. I don't have some stupid allegiance with the devil Come on make some stupid allegiance with the devil.

Come on. Give them a break. They're artists. They don't know what they're doing. Just stumbling around, kissing the feet of any succubus that comes their way, doing humiliation rituals at the Bohemian Grove, lapping up jizz from the smattered glazed balls of lapping up jizz from the smattered glazed balls of people you'll never meet who

Run the nuclear missile silos getting punched in the face Getting black eyes getting humiliated with their little demon wings because their cocks are small. I Already know what size my wings would be Yeah I already know what size my wings would be. Yeah. So we gotta give everyone a break. Everyone's just trying to do the right thing. Especially the devil. Thank you. This has been the Duncan Dressel Family Hour podcast.