Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 714: Broken News

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

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Hello, Duncan Trussell Family Hour. I danced in the morning when the world was begun, and I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun Came down from heaven, and I danced on earth. At Bethlehem I had my birth. Dance, dance, wherever you may be. I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, and I'll lead you all wherever you may be and I'll lead you all in the dance, said he.

I dance for the scribe and the Pharisee, but they would not dance and they would follow me. I dance for the fisherman for James and John. They came to me and the dance went on. Dance, dance wherever you may be. I am the Lord of the Dancetti And I'll lead you all wherever you may be And I'll lead you all in the dance at ye I danced on the Sabbath

And they cured the lame The holy people said it was a shame They whipped me stripped and they hugged me high And they left me there on the cross to die Unfollowed Unfollowed Unfollowed Unfollowed

Wherever you may be Oh god He's lost it Shut up They got me down and I leapt up high I am no light I will never never die

Unfollowed Shut up You fucking shut up Shut up, you piece of shit. I'm trying to sing Lord of the Dance. Nobody wants to hear that. You're cucking for Christ. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. This is a great song. It always makes me cry every time. Oh, you, you baby good to cry. Fuck you, you fucking piece of shit. I could sing whatever the fuck I want. You fucking piece of shit.

I'm gonna fucking docks your ass. Oh, really? I thought you roll that free once in Paris site. You fucking shit. You fuck. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're the fascist. Fuck you're fascist, you're fucking fascist. No, you're the fascist. No, you're the fascist. Now you are. No, you're the fascist. No, you're the fascist.

No, you're the fucking nonsense. No, you're the facts. No, you're the not. I protect the marginalized. Piece of shit. Fuck you. This is an emergency broadcast of the DTFA. Everybody out there, God bless you all.

That was me singing one of my favorite hymns, Lord of the Dance. I've always loved it. It's very sweet. It's actually, I think, I don't know which came first to the Quaker version of that or that version of that. Maybe somebody in the chat knows, but the Quaker version of that is called Simple Gifts. And it goes, tis the gift to. be simple tis the gift to be free tis the gift to come down where you ought to be and when you find yourself in the place just right it will be the valley of love and delight beautiful too but i like the

christian version of it too and mr zombie field it definitely makes me cry to us and and before we get going with the main chunk of this podcast, I'm kind of mortified that I have to do this. Because, you know, my theory when you're getting swarmed by people is it's better to either like double down and lean into it or ignore it. And I think some of you know, some time ago, a video pops. up. And in that video, a clip got used of me in a podcast with Johnny Pemberton. Johnny Pemberton says that is Peter Thiel the Antichrist. And the reason this was perfect timing was because I had recently gone to Peter Thiel's talk on the Antichrist. Now, if you

want to watch the totality of this clip, I was going to play it, but just watch the Johnny Pemberton episode. It happens like, I think, in the last quarter of it. And so, in this clip that they used, I say I don't think Peter Teal's the Antichrist. And I don't think Peter Teal's the antichrist. I also said, so I'll just summarize what's in that clip. I said, I went to that talk because I had heard Peter Thiel was evil. And I wanted to see that. I think I heard he was Darth Vader. uh, wondered if the temperature in the room would drop a few degrees. And, you know, I'm a very curious person. And so if there's a chance for me to like be like directly in the presence of somebody who is a, uh, has been labeled as like a very evil person, I want to see that. Like,

what's going on there? What are they like before the show starts? How do they talk to people? What's going on there? And, uh, in this video, I said, what is my direct observation? of the experience of watching this, he didn't seem evil. And he seemed smart, really smart. And I feel like I have like fundamental theological differences when it comes to his interpretation of the book of Revelations. Now, because I said that, and because this landed on this video,

which in a broader sense, and I think a sort of satirical way seems to be saying, that I am part of a cabal of Austin comedians who are fascists, who are maybe trying to take over the federal government. And I think from my clip, the anonymous person said that implied or said directly that, like, I can't say things that go against what Rogan thinks and, like, that I'm getting paid off by Peter Thiel or Palantir. which is not true at all, at all.

None of that's true. None of it's real. None of it's true. The idea that I'm censoring myself for fear of upsetting one of my best friends is just bad shit. The idea that maybe I have to run things by Rogan before I say them, bad shit. The idea, the idea that, a technocrat oligarch is interested in infiltrating the podcast of a mid-level podcaster

to disseminate ideas is batshit. And I thought it was hilarious. I really did. When people started sending me DMs and stuff, the whole suey eyes, I've got suicidal eyes. when those things started coming in, I legitimately thought it was funny. Creepy, but funny. And the reason I thought it was funny

was because, my God, like, I was trying to imagine what that looks like, getting checks from Palantir, getting checks from Peter Thiel. I was trying to imagine a scenario where in some serious phone call with Rogan, I'm like, Joe, I just wanted to say some things about Peter Thiel.

on my podcast, just want to run it by you to make sure it's okay. Like, if I did that, like, if anything, if I actually did that, I bet I, he probably, we probably wouldn't talk for like a month. He would be so weirded out by me. And so looking at something fundamentally incorrect, fundamentally wrong on every level, which, by the way, if you've listened to my podcast for any amount of time, you should know that. If you've listened to my podcast for any amount of time, you know my feeling when it comes

to war. You know what I've said on Rogan's podcast, this podcast. I've said it over and over again and weirdly gotten in trouble for that too. It's always bad, always wrong, always horrifying, terrible, bad, terrible, terrible. And me making a direct and honest observation about an experience that I had and then taking that direct and honest observation and spinning that, that in some way I've been compromised by the oligarchs that I'm a bootlicker fascist Nazi is bat shit crazy it just is now again all of this was very funny until a few days ago charlie kirk got assassinated and then it stopped being funny and became just fucking creepy and here's why on top of those of you have been like harassing me through my DMs and in my

comments gleefully on top of that many of you have chosen to start attacking my wife because she's Christian so that's real that's a real fun thing when you're living with a very pregnant person who's making the the bad decision of going online and reading comments written by people happily saying things like Duncan's wife has controlled him, is changing him. Duncan's wife is the reason that any of this stuff is happening. Attacking her faith, attacking what she fully believes, and then applying some distorted reality to that.

And again, this is like the swarm, it's been insane. like it's been crazy the amount of people who've been doing this and i think i would have let it go on forever and i would have kept making pangolin videos just because it was so funny if there wasn't just this massive act of political violence that just happened and so then it just gets spooky i you know i got to go on the road and thanks to many of you before i go on the road i have to like like hug an upset pregnant person and try to make her under understand that I'm not going to get shot. So hopefully this response, though I doubt, it'll do anything for some of you.

Hopefully some of you out there who have been picking up bits of information from this video or from other videos and using that to spin some kind of distorted reality, understand that like by participating in harassing people for saying something that you don't agree with or even worse for saying something that was taken out of context, not just from that podcast, but from all the podcasts I've ever done, spinning that into some crazy distortion that I'm compromised, that I'm getting paid. that I'm like have phone conversations with oligarchs is is psycho man and you should watch out and I don't mean watch out because it's something I'm going to do other than this video I hope I never

have to do anything like this ever again in my life but watch out because this stuff is poison man and it's really sad to think that many of you have a genuine interest in making the world a better place. Many of you have a legitimate, genuine desire to see a more harmonious, beautiful world and to imagine that your brain is being hijacked and that you're being directed to attack people

who, again, my theory of podcasting from the get-go, it's always been just say whatever's on my mind whatever it may be that's what I've always done like I've been podcasting since I don't know 2012 and all I would do is just ramble you know which is what I still do

like I guess what these solo episodes are that used to be the opening monologue that I would do in front of the podcast now the weird thing about doing this live is I can't edit it but back in the day I would just like spend all this time trying to like come up with like a cool intro. Usually in that intro, I would say like whatever was on my mind.

And back then, you know, what was on my mind is a little different than what's on my mind now. For those of you have been with me since the beginning, some of you have. You've seen me go through testicular cancer, both of my parents dying, getting married, having kids. you see me go through like a lot of crazy shit and quite often like I would say like in those opening monologues it would sound like I was giving some kind of advice but really what I'd be doing is I would be kind of like

saying things that I wanted myself to hear and a lot of you really responded to that you loved it you know like because you know I have like dealt with like endogenous depression because I have had really suey eyes like I've been suicidal like in the past and uh have like really confronted that in my own life and it realized like how horrific unaddressed unacknowledged depression is I like

like I had to find a way to like communicate to the world like fuck man what am I going to do here's what you do and it was me trying to give pep talks to myself it sounded like I was talking to you and I was but I was also talking to myself The point is zero latency is what I was always going for. I didn't want to have to think about what I was saying. I didn't want there to be any kind of filter in between whatever was going on in my head and what I was saying to you guys. Pure honesty.

That's all I ever wanted to do. And that's what I did. And to me, one of the things that really sucks about some of these, like, accusations, is that you're saying that I'm changing the way that I what I'm saying that isn't isn't reflecting who I really am and where it gets very paradoxical is that if I started doing that

if I let this like weird harassment campaign from a bunch of people affect me and started if I came out and said some horrific things about the people you would love me to say horrific things about if I came out and out of some kind of cowardly fear like through one of my best friends in the world under the bus just to appease you guys at that moment I would cease being anything that I could look in the mirror and think was okay at that moment I would become a monster I would become the very thing many of you are accusing me of if you think knowing my audience

if you think knowing, like maybe the people who came here from the Midnight Gospel, that I have some financial gain or benefit from saying things that don't align with a specific worldview, which these days gets categorized as progressive or leftist or whatever the fuck you want to call it, you don't understand my audience. There is no real benefit in articulating the way I feel right. right now probably in the sense that just by saying just by saying i don't think this man that i've never met is the antichrist has gotten death threats people have sent me fucking death threats an anonymous video goes up online and people have sent me death threats from this so if you think

that in some way i'm grifting for the right that all of a sudden money he's pouring into me from the fucking Heritage Foundation or Palantir, some other fucking massive corporation, you need to do some thanking because that's not happening. But even worse, what you've accomplished is you've upset a pregnant person. So congratulations. If that's what you were going for, if you wanted to freak out a very pregnant mom who's trying to like take care of like three kids while her husband goes on the fucking road, you did it.

Mission accomplished if that was what you were going for. But the other thing is this. If somehow your goal in this was some weird form of intimidation or coercion, if you thought like if enough of you suddenly started blowing up my DMs and my comments, ridiculing me, attacking me, or doing all of the things that you, you've been doing that that was in any way, shape, or form going to affect what I say publicly, you're fucking crazy. Like, nut, that's nuts.

That's not going to work at all. That just doesn't work. And also, and this is the last thing I hope I ever have to say about this. For those of you who are posting things along the lines of, oh, my God, what's happened to him, he's not one of us anymore. He's changed. for those of you who are like i'm out of here man i can't do this anymore i don't want you here

if you feel okay like doing like harassing me talking shit about my family publicly speculating on like what my home life is like what my relationship with my amazing wife is like if if you like are calling yourself some kind of fan but then you're also saying his his wife is oh my god i'm so disappointed his wife is christian oh my god i'm so fucking like he's talking about jesus oh my god i just can't if this is you and you're doing this publicly just just know that like though you're not sending death threats or

anything like that, you're part of a bigger momentum, which in the, like, with which a tiny infinitesimally small percentage has already sent me death threats. Now, I don't know who made that fucking video, but I'm, I do have a feeling that your intent wasn't to get me killed by a psycho. Pretty sure. If it was, then who are you? And I would invite all of you who have in some way, shape, or form been influenced by this video or by whatever crazy shit you're seeing online to really ask yourself if the conclusion is that I'm being paid by Palantir, that I am having to like censor myself for Rogan or anybody for that matter. If that's what you've gathered because of the influence of something you've seen online,

you should really ask yourself if maybe like you're not diving deep enough into the media that you're consuming. You've got to really do your own research and use your own. rational mind to try to make sense of reality as it is not as someone else tells you it is because man one thing i think we all agree on in this world is we've got to de-escalate things have got to cool down somehow and like you know if i seem like angry yeah it's it's it does make me angry it does make me angry. It does.

It makes me angry that I have to comfort my wife because people have decided to believe that I'm being paid off by oligarchs. It does make me angry. And it is scary. If you wanted to scare me, yeah, I'm not going to lie. It's scary. But the main thing is it's not true.

that's the saddest part of it it's just not true i don't think the path to the sort of harmonious reality that you're seeking is through intimidation coercion aggression or lying i just don't and i don't care what the media is you're consuming if that media is distorting reality you've got to ask yourself who does this serve what does this do most importantly does this get in us any any closer to a more peaceful world. And if the answer to that is no, then why are you doing, why are you letting that into your head?

Like why? Like what's the good of that? Where does it get us? I don't think it gets us anywhere. So listen, if you're upset, if you think I've become some kind of like any of the number of things that you've called me,

I think the very best thing you could do, if you think this media, if my podcast, if this in some way is influenced by technocrats, oligarchs, or nefarious status forces, then I think the best thing for you to do is turn it off, tune out. I'm going to put a list in the comments down below of a lot of really great political, leftist podcast, some of them that are very funny, that you should go to and watch and enjoy and absorb. But this is not that. This isn't a political podcast. This is just a podcast where I like to talk to people who have interesting things to say and ramble. And generally, it's absurdist and generally, whatever the fuck I'm saying, I might seem very confident in it at the time,

but quite often my mind changes sometimes in a matter of minutes. And so if you want to take anything that I've said on this podcast and then weave some insane conspiracy theory about it, then that's fine. But do me a favor. Leave my fucking wife out of it, man. What are you doing? Leave my family out of it.

And really, honestly, it's not fine. like i don't i don't i don't i i i legitimately just don't understand it i don't know what it is i don't know what you guys are i don't know what it is but one thing i can tell you wholeheartedly i'm not you and you are never me if you're someone who thinks intimidation harassment political violence of any kind is okay we are not the same i'm not the same i'm not you. And if, oh my God, my views just went down by 90%. I lose 90% of my viewers. That's all of us. I'm not you. I never was you. I never was you. So you got to ask yourself, am I the one

that changed? Are you the one that changed? And by the way, The idea that change is upsetting, I get it. It is upsetting. Change is scary. I don't like it. I don't like it. I would love to, like, be able to press pause on blissful, beautiful moments in my life and world history. I would probably do that.

I'm lucky that doesn't exist because if their ability to pause reality, at the best moment of your life was there, I would be stuck at fucking Burning Man on DMT right now, forever. So there's so many moments I would have paused and then I wouldn't have experienced all the moments that followed whatever tumult was in between. Yeah, I've changed. I'm going to change. Hopefully.

My God, if I stop changing, fuck, that's when you should get worried. I'm human. I change all the time. honestly I probably should change more my clothes sting but the truth is whoever you are

whatever you are even the bots out there lay off man like it's like move on find some other like pregnant people to harass.

There's got to be ones who are like actually evil. I don't know. Don't harass pregnant people is what I should have said. But yeah, don't fuck with my family and stop fucking with me. And in general, I really truly hope that we can all find a way to like press reset. Because that thing that just happened with Charlie Kerr. I just did a podcast with David Nictorne, which you guys can watch, addressing it, talking about, like, what the fuck do we do now? And one of the many things he said that I really loved is it's like, you know, you got to, like, feel it.

You got to get in your heart, and it doesn't feel good. Like, just strip away all of the everything except the event itself. horrible horrible let yourself feel it how bad that feels how sad it is how tragic it is and then don't participate in anything that moves the needle closer to that happening again and that's the last i'm going to say about this shit so fuck you Grab a coffee and discover non-stop action with BudMGM Casino. Check out our hottest exclusive. Friends of one with Multi-Drop.

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no no I got I got I gotta get to the there's more you're gonna get from that you're gonna get some stuff that's true but fuck dude a lot has been happening since then and

hang on one second let me find it okay this is real fun. This is real fun. So as many of you know, and I'm so sorry that I keep talking about this, but imagine if, imagine being my kids or my wife. This is what I'm obsessed with. We have an interstellar object called 31 Atlas, which is going to be closest to Earth on October 29th, whatever, no big deal. I mean, it is a big deal in the sense that it's, there's only been a few of

these interstellar objects that have been recorded in the course of human history. And that's fascinating no matter what, just from like a, I guess from the perspective of an astronomer or a cosmologist, whoa, that's fucking cool. We're used to these motherfuckers coming in from the or cloud. We're used to these things in our galaxy that have their own little paths and patterns. So anytime you get a visitor from deep space, it's fucking wild. Just that alone is wild. It's cool.

It's weird. Now, as many of you know, a while back, we had one of these visitors. Umamuma, Muma, looked like a big old, healthy turd, went shooting around the sun, did the slingshot maneuver, as it's called, which launched it out of our galaxy. And that was weird, but an anomalous, but, you know, an Avi Loeb, the Harvard astrophysicist, who's taking a lot of shit right now for his open discussion on this, the possibility, of like if this was an alien ship, that's probably what's one of the things you might expect,

has made a lot of interesting commentary on the great space turd. Umamuma. Now, Alice is another of these things, but here's what's interesting about Alice. And you can look up all the anomalous shit about Alice, but there's a few really interesting things about it. One is when a comet,

which is usually made of ice, enters into the heliosphere, the ice, it starts melting, and this was what creates the tail of the comet. Atlas, for some reason, which nobody understands, the tail is in the front, and there's a lot of other aspects to it that don't make any sense either. Let me see if I can find some more anomalous things about Atlas.

Let's see, anomalous. anomalous, atlas characteristics. I'm bummed that I didn't. Uh, here we go. This is Avi Loeb writing this. He was on the podcast. I've been wanting to reach out to him, but I figure he's getting so many interview invites.

I'd love to talk to him about this. A tantalizing feature of the highest, resolution image of the interstellar object 31 Atlas is the unexpected appearance of an anti-tail. This image of 31 Atlas was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the object was at a heliot, blah, blah, blah, the antitail is an extension of the glow of scattered sunlight around 31 Atlas toward the sun, and not away from it. It's typically the case for comments. This anomalous antitail is not a result of geometric perspective had never been reported before

for solar system comets. In short, our new model associates the glow around 31 Atlas with scattering of sunlight by ice fragments that are shed from its surface rather than refractory dust particles as previously assumed. The point is, this fucking thing isn't acting the way it's supposed to act. It's not following the script. Now, here's where it gets cool. This just came in today.

Astronomers just spotted a fourth interstellar intruder bigger than 31 Atlas, roughly 40 kilometers across, barreling in on a hyperbolic path. It's labeled whatever. God, please let me name these things. Please. I will happily do it for free. Stop naming it C-2025 ZTFQ2.

Come on. Call this Pegasus Star. Inbound from the Orch Cloud Parahillian, blah, blah, But the point is, this fucking thing is going to be somehow coming in, well, I'll just read what it says. October, that puts it in, puts it the sun from Earth's view around October 29th, the exact day, 31 Atlas swings closest. So both of these things, coincidentally, happen to be coming in,

not just at the same time, but are going to be closest to Earth on the same fucking day. What the fuck is happening? It's probably just a beautiful cosmic coincidence. Again, and I hope that God in the universe

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

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

somebody slowed this video down but this is fucking crazy man just watch this shit There's the missile. BAMP. Now, pause it right there, Josh. Go back a little bit. Right there. Now press play and pause real quick. So you can see the stat.

Stop. So this thing laid eggs. It shit its pants. It freaked out. But it ejected these three things that in the debunking videos, they were saying, well, that's fragments from this thing that got hit. But somebody is like, somebody, I don't know where it is, and we're not going to waste time trying to find it,

but those are not fragments. They all have the exact same shape. They're all symmetrical. And so basically this little guy, I mean, I don't know if it's a little. It could be big, but in this video I like to think of as a cute little guy, got hit by a hellfire missile, bounced, the hellfire missile bounced off of it, and then these little probes came out of it and nobody knows what the fuck it is are they eggs there's a hellfire missile one of the most advanced missiles in the arsenal boom these little guys

and then they just start following it around and nobody knows what this is guys so when you take videos like this which didn't i don't think this happened recently this this video like i don't know when it happen. But if you take videos like that and then mix that in with now we got these two big ass motherfuckers flying into flying into our flying in at the same day, it's like, dude, why are we shooting the babies here? Why are we shooting their babies with hellfire missiles? What are we doing? They're coming now. They're coming. This is like, this is like a bully at a playground and whoever was bull and called home. Now we got these things coming in.

They might not be so happy with the fact that we've been beating up their kids. Dean Williams says, that's called mitosis. Is it mitosis? Wouldn't it split in half? Not to be a biology nerd, Dean Williams. Wouldn't it split in half if it was mitosis? That looks more like laying eggs. I think that's a scientific term.

That little guy laid eggs. Fear eggs or something. And I don't know what it is, but this is all happening right now. And let me tell you, if I was a weather forecaster, I would do weather reports for good times and bad times to eat weed. And right now, I'm going to say this might be one of the worst times in human history to eat weed, at least in the last hundred. years. Wouldn't you agree, Josh, having edibles right now? Bad idea. I've been doing extra edibles, actually. Are you serious? If I can push past that, I think I'll get a, you know, it'll come together. I like you more every day, Josh. I might be wrong. I might be wrong.

I just can't imagine. I just feel, I do feel a deep compassion and empathy for all the people out there who are eating too much weed and turning on the TV because it is not a good time to be stoned and watch TV. Let me just say this. If you are someone who likes psychedelics,

if you're somebody who likes ingesting marijuana, raise your right hand and repeat after me. I hear by solemnly swear I hear by solemnly swear that wild stoned out of my mind. The wild stoned out of my mind. I will refrain from looking at my phone. phone. I'll refrain from looking at my phone or my TV or my TV until I come down until I come

down. Thank you. Thank you. I love you God. I love you God. And Buddha and all I love everything. I love everything. And I can't remember what I was going to say. And I can't remember what I was going to say. I think I'm going to go eat something from the pantry. I think I'm going to go eat something from the pantry. Amen. Amen. The world right now, though. It's so wild, man. Like, I am legitimately shook.

And it's, if there ever was a time where your brain is going to get hijacked, it's right now, man. Truly. Like, one way or the other, your brain's going to get hijacked. I've never seen. Whoever, like, turns up the propaganda faucets, boy, they got them on high right now. And it is wild out there. It's rough on, it's rough in them streets. And I'm a key, I'm the king of doom scrolling, baby. Let me tell you, I go deep, I go down dark, terrifying, rabbit holes happily. Just peel off all my clothes. and squirm down into the mud, going deep.

But fuck, dude, I have met my match here. I've met my match. This is too much. Nobody should have to deal with this stuff. And like, I just, I'm one of the, like, one thing that, like, I'm worried about. I feel so terrible about it's like, you know, I'm not proud of this, but I did go through a period of, like, before I would go to bed. I would watch footage of Ukrainian drone kills.

I don't know why I did that. But I did. I guess I was fascinated by just how absolutely dystopian and terrifying it was that, like, you know, we had this new form of high-tech war happening. And I would just watch and it would feel so bad. I'd go to sleep and have horrible fucking dreams. I'm just saying, like, I have a fairly, like, thick, calcified callus around my pineal gland from my horrific lack of internet hygiene.

but a lot of people who haven't seen shit like that who might not be like us they just saw some of the most horrifying shit anyone ever saw that was just wretched so when things like that happened man people's minds get opened up and you know this is why like when you hear about cults and stuff and when you hear about like how quite often mind control is achieved it's like you freak someone out and then you inject scary and i keep saying this to myself like i'm not going to go online but how do i stop when there is a beautiful massive anomalous comet headed towards the earth I need to know when there's UAP footage

coming out every day imminent disclosure when there's terrifying cultural ripples happening from the Charlie Kirk assassination how do you stay offline anybody have any ideas

let's take some super chats Josh Ah, slurne, I love you back. Thank you so much. Haley, thank you so much. We are very excited at the Trussle House for a new edition. Let me tell you. Oh, Silver is waiting for a baby. Isn't that the best?

It's especially the best when you don't have to have. have it inside of you like i could just put my i get the joy of putting my hand on my wife's belly and feeling the baby move and talking to the baby and then i go to bed you know i don't have some someone's arm punching my bladder um haley ann is asking me if i've played cult of the lamb on switch i have i love it great game really really good i played it for the longest time it's so fun I didn't play it on Switch. I played it on PlayStation and on from Steam. I got into that game for a second.

It's pretty cool. Vin Maxwell? You know me, Duncan. Oh, Vin, hi! I do know you, Vin. How are you doing? I'm still watching every cast and always thoroughly entertained. That, Vin, is the goal for sure.

and okay let's move on i have some other things that i would love to share with you guys just one moment what is it called when you enjoy showing people disturbing things on your phone just so you can absorb their reaction what does i say about you as a person well that's a great question i've thought about that before the bad news spreaders yeah um so well i mean ages ago we we had one of these solo episodes where we talked about memetic possession which is you sort of like get contaminated with a meme

or like you know a little packet of fear data and for some reason you want to share it the closest I can come to what that is is when you fart on a plane and even though you're embarrassed you take a little bit of like you're kind of like oh that was like so many people must have

endure this you know what I mean like it's like but you're like the difference is like if you fart unless you're like a teenager or something you're probably not going to be like dude come here you got to smell this fart

it's so rancid speaking of which Josh go on YouTube would you there's something something I have to show you. I hope you can find this. Pull up someone sprays fart spray because it makes me, it connects to what you're saying.

Someone sprays fart spray on, what are those things called that spin around? Those spinny rides. Oh, yeah, yeah. Gravitron. Someone sprays fart spray on Gravitron. This is fucked up. God, I hope you can find it.

Of course it's not there. It was on Instagram. Well, do just quickly show dinosaur costume fart spray. These are important. No, do the montage there. Don't play sound. Do the Pikachu. Do the Pikachu.

These are some of the funniest videos of all time. Pause it for a second. Pause it for a second. So, okay, here's what's happening here. For those of you don't know, for my dear innocent children out there, these inflatable costumes, they're kept inflated by a fan that blows air into them and keeps them inflated. So that means some monster, some demon, some truly evil person

figured out that if you spray, fart spray into the fan, these people are essentially in an inescapable fart prison. But because they're wearing silly costumes, it just is so funny. Go ahead and roll it. It's, watch it. Watch, this one's the best. It turns and looks. It's really bad, man.

If you've ever sprayed that stuff, it is. There's that ball. Why wouldn't you take your hands out of the sleeves immediately? Dude, it smells so bad. You're panicking. You can't. You know, it's so horrific. Oh, that's a real fart.

Okay, stop. See, that's all of us right now. That's all of us. You see, what's going on here is we all are wearing some kind of inflatable costume. And right now, man, if you go into the, if you don't have good internet hygiene, you're just spraying fart spray into your own zeitgeist and you can't get out. You panic. You know, you panic.

And that's what's really interesting about what you're saying. It's like, not only do we like to share horrifying things with each other, but we like to just, like, if there was an internet for farts, no one would... It's called Reddit. Truly, truly. Truly. But there are good corners of Reddit.

I've discovered them. What's it called? What's the, there's, I've discovered a great subreddit. Because you know, there was a time when Reddit wasn't always like this. There's a time when Reddit was like actually not what it is now.

But hold on. You just have to like, with Reddit, you have to take control. You know what I mean? Like you have to really like actively mute a bunch of subreddits and only subscribe to a few. And then suddenly you like you can cleanse your Reddit. Like it is possible.

But let me see if I have. find this it's called reddit what's it called oh i bet if i just i'm subscribed to it it's so funny i'll send you some clips from it oh let's see my reddits that i'm subscribed to reddit silk song reddit ufos of course somehow red at hollow night but i didn't mean to subscribe to that bad reddit i just never go on there reddit telepathy tapes hold on where is it i'll find it it really changed after the game stop thing when they kicked everybody off for that i don't remember i just remember all of a sudden it was just like all this just felt different it was like in 21 reddit pepe cryptocurrency reddit marty cryptocurrency reddit mars

Reddit made me smile. Let me see here. Reddit Factorio. Hold on. Some of them I didn't subscribe to, but they're just there. I don't know what's going on with that. Like sometimes Reddit will just like throw shit that you don't want to be right in front of you that you weren't interested in, but it thinks you're interested in it. Reddit, am I overreacting?

It's very funny. Hold on. I'm sorry, you guys. I've got to find this, though. It's a really good one if you've, you're looking for Reddit Discordian Society. I like. Let's see here. Reddit science is really good. Hold on. let me see well now i see well now i feel like an asshole because it's not it's called reddit doom it takes the most dumer reddit posts and repost them you see if i find it doomer subreddit

I feel like such a dummy. I've like, it's all that's been showing up in my... Does anyone know the Reddit I'm talking about? Oh, Dumer Circle Jerk! Thank you, Claire Barton. Pull up Dumer Circle Jerk, Josh. This is the funniest fucking subreddit of all time. so this just finds like the funniest um let's see i rarely come across politics if i choose to stay away

from it on my phone you you can create your own environment pick up a hobby so someone is saying this pick up a hobby focus on your personal network and improve yourselves politics is everywhere and the internet exacerbates all bad things response must be nice to be so oblivious for real tell me you're a horrible person without telling me you're a horrible literally the person's like just do a hobby you don't have to be online all the time

let's see what you do let's see keep scrolling down hold on go up um oh yeah here we go click on that one I despise lazy affirmationist hope posting somebody's mad

somebody's mad at these ideas the indomitable human spirit why should I sulk when I can love and grow these people hate this okay find another one keep scrolling down Josh Anyway, this is a good one It's up to subscribe to.

Internet culture in the face of optimism. Hope is just cope, but with better branding. It's so sad. Scroll down. Keep going. There's a really good one that's about to come up. Okay, wait. Oh, yeah.

There we go. I just... This is... Actually, that looks like it was from 4chan, not Reddit. But... I just... I just cannot believe this is it. This is life.

There is no magical third act where I am the star in some fantasy adventure. I won't suddenly gain superpowers and fight cartoonish villains. This is it. This is all it will ever be. Fifty more years of quiet, drab misery. Our one shot at consciousness

is spent on something so unimaginably boring. my gift of sentience has spent wage slavery consuming media messing around with hobbies that will never fill the void eating, chitting, cleaning and that's all there is now what's really funny about this is you could just change you can read the exact same thing

but just change the tone Ram Dass used to talk about this you could be like this is the worst depression I've ever had I'll never come out of this You could be like, wow, this is the worst depression I've ever had. You know what I mean? That's a comedic brain. It's a comedic brain.

To some degree, it could be an enlightened brain. Because you could be like, wow, I can't believe this is it. This is life. There's no magical third act where I'm the star in some fantasy adventure. I won't suddenly gain superpowers and fight cartoonish villains. This is it. This is all it ever will be, 50 or more years of quiet, trap misery. It's like you can make anything.

okay you can alchemize anything this is the power of being human friends it it's not that you shouldn't acknowledge reality as it is it's not that you shouldn't look out at the landscape and that you're wrong because you see things that are terrifying horrible awful fucked up but where you get to be a human versus like a dog is that you can actually alchemize that instead of turning this send us some doom or post you can make the next step you know what the next step is there we we stop thinking about just yourself guess what there's lots of other people who think that way too and they feel like shit like you do but you know what instead of bemoaning reality as it is all you got to do this flip the switch you got to flip just think about there's a way that knowing all

these things, you can still help. You can get out there and help. Not by posting shit on Reddit, but just help. Think about all the poor people out there who think just like this, but maybe even worse. Because your gift of sentience doesn't have to be spent wage, slave, and consuming media and messing around the hobbies. Your gift of sentience while doing these very things can be spent having pure autonomy over who you interact with, how you interpret the universe, and what you do with your sentience. This is a problem.

This is victim. This is victimy. It's like you have been given sentience. You are self-aware. You've become aware of some facet of reality that is, you know, I mean, I would critique, criticize some of that. It's like, no, you're not going to suddenly gain superpowers, but you never know.

I think the problem is at the very beginning, or I am not the star. Oh, God, you caught it. I didn't even catch that. They're mad because they didn't, you know, become the center of all attention. Oh, my God, that you're so right. There it is. That is the nucleus of it, isn't it, Josh? Oh, my God.

Just be a regular dude. It's all right. Yeah, it's like that, that's the problem. It's like, that's the problem, isn't it? you just you want to be the star i'd be fun to be the star i guess but it'd probably get old you know that can't be fun after like you know having superpowers like you you want to sleep like in the middle of a nap shit happens jesus christ i don't know if you've heard of the pop patrol but like you could just call them for anything and they have to show up that would suck

i'm sure sometimes the pa patrol is like taking a shit and then they get a call somebody's chicken stuck in a tree and they got to go they're on the cake Now, we're going to wrap this up. I got to go and thank you for listening to me in the beginning. That was quite cathartic and I do appreciate all of you very much for sticking with me. But before he split, does anybody have anything else they want to say? Ego be like the butt plug of suffering. Ego be like the butt plug of suffering.

Now that, friends, is a great tattoo. That's a good one. And a nice beautiful sort of calligraphy, a nice, elegant calligraphy. There you go. Ego is the butt plug of suffering. The only problem is, but plugs aren't always bad. I guess it's contextual. Thank you, Stacey Chan, and I got you too.

You got it, Indigo Ravencat. My pleasure. immortal dude says please move your mouth closer to the microphone and get his shave god damn it i'm so tired of people criticizing my beard but that's justifiable criticism that's true i can't argue with you that's real i need to shave my beard i need to get it groomed maybe that's one of Aaron's alt accounts. Yes, Angelo, I would love to see your art. Hit me up on

Insta. Thank you, Capi. You guys are sweet. Thank you so much. Love you guys. And I love my job, and I love that I get to do this, and I will never, ever, ever forget that I couldn't do this without you guys. and I will never stop feeling lucky or grateful that I get to do this at all. And thank you for that. God bless you.

I don't know what to tell you about the whole Charlie Kirk thing and all the other stuff that's going on. Just be, you know what, here's the most, the lamest, cliché, as hackiest thing to say, try to be kind to yourself right now, man. Just if you can avoid going online, and I'm thinking, talking to myself now avoid going online there's nothing you're going to find there right now that i think is going to cool you off or make you feel good or soothe you and god it's the most cliche thing i'm sorry because sometimes the haggiest most cliche things are they're like that

because it's true get outside man get some sun like like just basic shit non-complex things if you want to like i'm sorry for self-promoting listen to the podcast with david he's so he's such a beautiful teacher and he really like i think had a lot of great things to say about this that sort of cut to the cut to the core of what's going on for a lot of people and we actually he did a meditation that maybe if you're interested you could do that but i love you guys i got to get out of here i'll see you next week until then hara krishna That went