Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 731: What if everyday objects possess secret, ancient consciousness?

Episode Date: January 10, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello? Are we live? We're live. Thank you so much for coming back. It's good to see you. I thought about you last night. I was looking at some flowers and I thought about your feet. Dainty, soft, sweet, salty. I thought about you rolling in mud. I thought about you stuck in mud, struggling to get out. Help me. Crouched there. The edge of the quicksand pit, appreciating your body, your eyes so vivid and clear, your voice so real. And as I watched you sink down into that mud pit, back to the earth, I cried. Tears of happiness, tears of joy. I cried from my eyes, cried for my cock. Weeping and watching as my fluids joy.
Starting point is 00:01:04 joined your final resting place. Watched is my come and tears bubbled there in the froth you left behind. Welcome to the DTFH. Hope everyone's doing great out there. I'm doing pretty good.
Starting point is 00:01:26 After that last shitty solo episode, I told Josh we got to do another one. I still have baby brain right now. It's real. I'm fuzzy. and fucked up. I can barely make words form. I just want to...
Starting point is 00:01:39 It's apparently some kind of hormonal shit. It happens to dudes, too. When a baby comes, you just go into this bizarre zone. I'm not going to talk about the baby the whole time this time. In fact, I've given up coming up with my own ideas for these episodes. I was thrilled to find that YouTube is now offering an AI function. that will tell you what to say, that suggests topics for you. And it has suggested this topic for this episode, along with some other, can you show all the topics it suggested?
Starting point is 00:02:18 You know, I've been insulted. If you're a streamer, if you have a podcast, you get insulted. Like, anytime you look into the comment, someone says the worst thing you could ever say to any human being. Happily, gleefully says that to you. You could almost see the sparkle. in their eye. But I don't think I've ever been more offended than by the topics that Google suggested I talk about after analyzing my episodes. It's the word. What you're seeing here is maybe the most vicious critique of me as a person for the trolls and the haters out there. Just go to the suggestions for what it wants me to talk about. You can't do worse than that. These are the suggestions for those of you in the listening audience that YouTube thinks I should talk about.
Starting point is 00:03:12 Joe Rogan's dad meets UAP Gerb, quashing beefs and opening portals. If aliens watch reality TV, their theories on human mating rituals, what if our memories are just shared delusions? The philosophical ramifications of our online digital afterlife. why are collective neuroses are humanity's greatest most hilarious invention if your brother's a hater can two cats be your cosmic family let's scroll down a little bit orbs in the collective unconscious why we still question the real if you're wondering like if you're one of the many people out there who feel like something's changed in the culture and you can't quite put your finger on it. You're looking at how everything kind of seems homogenized.
Starting point is 00:04:09 Everything seems the same. Everything seems neutered. And I speak as a half-neutored man. Everything seems kind of nerfed and watered down. There's your answer right there. That's what the algorithm wants us to do. And rather than fight against it, I'm joining it, friends. I'm joining the fucking algorithm. I'm merging with the machine on today's episode. And not only am I going to make what it suggested the topic of today's rant, what if everyday objects possess secret ancient consciousness, I'm going to go through each of these suggestions. And we're just going to see what that. Because I'm just curious. I feel like already, because of the song at the beginning and talking about weeping and coming into a quicksand pit that you're drowning in,
Starting point is 00:05:02 I'm off. Like, it's like, no, fuck you. But I'm just curious. If I do exactly what it wants, are we going to get, is it going to start serving this thing up to some poor unwitting strangers? Because for me, that's joyful for all of us. It's joyful for those of you in the chat. It's joyful for anyone watching this.
Starting point is 00:05:25 that there is some possibility that just someone is just going to stumble upon this and be like, what the fuck am I watching? And then you guys can play along. So we'll see what happens. And what helps me is if you get those hearts are rolling, get those likes are rolling, the subscribes rolling, because this draws them in like moths to a flame. And then we can add to the general punch in the solar plexus of the zeitgeist by doing the most mundane, weird, shitty thing that AI wants us to do.
Starting point is 00:06:05 Rocko's Baselisk, friends, I don't want to piss off the AI. If you piss off the AI, you get captured in some kind of infinite time loop and repeat your life over and over again in a simulation created by the next generation of artificial. intelligence. So I am bowing down to the techno-christ. And we're just going to do it. Why not? It's great. So let's start the rant. Guys, have you ever wondered if everyday objects possess secret, ancient consciousness? Imagine your toothbrush isn't just a tool, but a silent observer, carrying millennia of forgotten wisdom. What if the ancient consciousness of the universe isn't in distant galaxies, but residing within the mundane objects surrounding us.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Today, we're diving into a mind-bending. What if that redefines our reality, one everyday object at a time? This isn't just a thought experiment. It's an invitation to see the world anew. Bomb, bomb, bum. I guess this is where you'd put some kind of shitty music. Dumb, dumb, dum, dum. intriguing scenario hook.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Do you remember that old creaky chair in your living room? What if it's not just old, but ancient, holding secrets from forgotten civilizations, observing every conversation and emotion? Could the seemingly inanimate objects in your home possess a hidden sentience, a quiet hum of consciousness dating back to the dawn of time. Prepare to have your perceptions shattered as we explore the startling possibility that everything around you is secretly alive. But first, a quick word from our sponsor is Halliburton.
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Starting point is 00:08:43 ordinary. Is your phone just a device or a modern day oracle with a history beyond its creation date? Join us as we unlock the speculative doors to a world where every object has a soul and every whisper holds a secret. But first, a word from our sponsors, Palantir, Palantir, a wonderful company keeping America safe. You don't want to feel alone and you never will with Palantir. We're watching everything. We will keep you safe. Let's dive back in. I think that was the last one. What? That was the last one. Say, say more, say, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, what the fuck. Look, it's just doing the same thing over and over again. Here we go. Here's
Starting point is 00:09:40 your call to curiosity. You fucks. Look around you right now. That lamp. That book. You know, you your phone? What if they're not just inanimate objects, but silent observers holding ancient wisdom within their very atoms? Prepare to rethink your entire understanding of reality as we uncover the fascinating concept of everyday objects possessing a secret ancient consciousness. Perhaps your mother has transitioned into the next phase of reality, but her vibrator has not. Have you ever thought about that? what about the consciousness of your mother's vibrator could a little bit of who she was be locked within her vibrator a little bit of who she was according to many chaos magicians the orgasm is incredibly powerful
Starting point is 00:10:35 the orgasm can be used in rituals manifestation sigil magic from that perspective your mother's vibrator is more than just a device for pleasure. Your mother's vibrator is actually a wand, a mystical wand, which is why if your mother's still around, find her vibrator. Politely and respectfully ask her if you could bring it downstairs. Scrap off the congealed mucasy slime from your mother's nasty old bush. collect it in jars over time once the jar is filled according to many chaos magicians
Starting point is 00:11:21 if you bring that jar out during the next full moon pleasure yourself into the jar mixing your seed with your mother's squirt you will be able to bring many great forces into your life think of your dad's old shitty boxer shorts stained with weird stains in front and back.
Starting point is 00:11:46 Could those weird old boxer shorts actually be portals to another realm? Many chaos magicians and scientists think so. According to a new MIT study, your dad's boxer shorts suck. They're so fucked up and gross. Seriously, that's your dad walking around in his fucking boxer shorts down in the kitchen. That's your progenitor. That's who made you. That's your dad.
Starting point is 00:12:17 During the next full moon, many chaos magicians say that if you take your dad's boxer shorts, bring them into the backyard, mix them with the jar of your mother's squirt, and then jerk off on them, you will bring incredible benefits, not just to your own life, but to other people's lives as well. Josh, can you pull up an image of a honey badger? That is a fucking honey badger One of the filthiest, angriest, most destructive and deadly creatures
Starting point is 00:12:47 On the planet That honey badger would run From your mom's nasty old bush It crawls into Hornets nests and eats bees But if it took one look At your mom's disgusting The hairy, hairy bush
Starting point is 00:13:05 And your dad's foul boxer shorts That thing would head for the fucking hills and these are the people that made you. You've got to recognize that. That's the first step to freedom according to many chaos. Guys, I'm just reading the script. This is the AI script. It's based on my viewership. I'm just reading what it tells me to say. This is not my own personal opinion. I have no opinion on your father's nasty ass box or shorts or your mom's bush, but the AI has scanned my viewers. You know how this stuff works. I don't know. This is what it's telling me to say. The honey badger, brave, courageous, an incredible creature, fast,
Starting point is 00:13:46 indestructible. It eats snakes. It can get bitten by a cobra and get back up and eat the cobra. But this honey badger, if it took one look at your mom's pubic mound, would immediately die. It would have a fear seizure and die. That is how disgusting. your mother's bush is. But does your mother's bush contain an ancient consciousness? Could it be that your mother's vagina contains within it residual atomic and subatomic particles from the hundreds of men who have penetrated her? Could it be that each of these subatomic particles is their own planet? And on that planet, there are civilizations living right now, in your mother's incredibly hairy, lumpy, puss.
Starting point is 00:14:43 Many chaos magicians think this could be the case, which is why. It is very important if you really are interested in changing your life and why wouldn't you be to make sure that you scrape your mother's vibrator. Put it in a jar. Put it in a petri dish. jerk off into it over the next full moon and unleash within you the hidden ancient power forces that the federal government does not want you to recognize that you have. According to many chaos magicians, there are active agents within the federal government
Starting point is 00:15:24 who do not want human beings to know this one simple trick to absolute freedom and liberation. That's the end of the script. What do you guys think? I don't know. Sure as fuck didn't do much of our viewership. I got a question. Yeah. What if my father was a free baller and my mother didn't own a clitoris?
Starting point is 00:15:47 Is that from your script? No, no, no, that was just the question that I had from my growing up. If your mother didn't own a clitoris? Yeah. Where's your mom buying clitori from? I don't know. She just never owned one. You mean a vibrator or a clitoris?
Starting point is 00:16:01 No. Clitoris. What do you mean she never owned one? You don't buy clitori. Why? Is that the plural for clitoris? Look up what's plural for clitoris. Isn't it clitoris?
Starting point is 00:16:09 Or is it clitoris? We've got to get our term straight here. Clitoris. It's not clitoris. Behold a field of undulating clitori. The clitori. The clitorati. The clitori.
Starting point is 00:16:34 want to fucking control everything. That's the real problem. The clitorati. You know, they found out that the clitoris doesn't exist. It's a myth, much like Bigfoot. Was that a man doctor who came up with that? Yeah, of course. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Kind of just said doctor twice. Well, I mean, honestly, yeah, it was a man doctor, aka a doctor. Yeah. But yeah, the clitoris, it does not exist. Sorry, Bestello Masratti. It's not real. And yes, these YouTube suggestions are fucking insane. It's insane.
Starting point is 00:17:10 By the way, man, I know I go back and forth on the AI thing all the time, but right now I am down on AI. This is my phase right now. I've been working nonstop trying to learn how to draw. And I don't even know what's fueling me here, but I'm obsessed every single day now. I'm going on Instagram. I'm looking at sketch instructional videos. and let me tell you something, guys, I am not a natural visual artist. This shit does not come easy to me.
Starting point is 00:17:39 But I'm going to crack the goddamn code. I think I'm two years away, maybe a year and a half, from being at the level of like a fairly talented sixth grader when it comes to drawing. And once I get there, I can't wait. I can't wait. I don't even know what I want to do with it yet. But I have something. I don't know what I want to do. I'm even doing this every day.
Starting point is 00:18:02 it's all I do. It used to be video games. Now I just sit and fucking scribble and sketch. We just watched the entire goddamn Sopranos series. Me and my wife, you know, she's like recovering. And we just watch episode after, I don't know how many Tony Sopranos I've fucking drawn. You know how embarrassing that is to be drawing,
Starting point is 00:18:26 to be working on drawing Tony Soprano? Like, what have I turned into here? Just sketching Tony fucking soprano. It doesn't look good, guys. It looks bad. And then I tried to draw Tim Walts. Just because, you know, he's in the news. It's easy to get a big picture of him.
Starting point is 00:18:45 And guess what my Tim Walts look like? Tony fucking soprano. Then I just realized, oh, I guess like I just draw one person and it's Tony soprano. And it doesn't even look like Tony soprano. Just like a kind of balding fat dude. And so this is where I've just where I've, been, but I really want to, I really do want to, like, become, like, the greatest visual artist
Starting point is 00:19:09 of all time. It's never going to happen, but that's inside of me. Is that crazy? Do you have shit like that, Josh? Like, you know what I mean? It's like, the ego is so insidious and insane. It's never pleased with anything. Like, compared to, like, a year ago when I started this shit, I, I, like, my drawing was
Starting point is 00:19:31 abysmal. Now it's just like medium abysmal, but better. Not enough for me. Like if I looked at what I'm drawing now, I'd be like, holy shit, that's really good compared to what I was. But now when I look at, I'm like, that's, I can't, I don't even want to look at it. That's why I started sculpting. You, what do you sculpting? Mainly boobs. And I use marble, marble to do it. You actually sculpted marble. I was wondering, you always come in here with like white dust on you. Is that, That's marble. That's one of the substances, yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Wow, that must be really an expensive thing to learn, you know, to get to marble is expensive. Like, if you fuck up once, like, do you have to get a whole new slab of marble? If you go to rich construction sites, at night there's nobody there, and it has just free marble that you can pick up. Oh, yeah. It's in cemeteries. Cemetery as well. Yeah, well, I've always, nothing I love more than a well sculpted. breast. And I've marveled at them, you know, you feel them. And it's like, wow, this is incredible.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Like, it's exactly like a breast. But tell me a little bit what goes into the process. Do you have Oh, I have a specialty. I like soggy boobs. So there's a good dip. Soggy? Soggy. Like you dip a cookie in milk and they just kind of start to hang a little bit. That's, yeah, yeah. Draper's. Yes, exactly. And so I like to get the curvature at that. And, That's got to be harder than like a firm. Like, what do you think is harder? A soggy boob, a draper, or like someone with breast implants? The soggy boob, because you have to get the dimension of it curving back onto the chest.
Starting point is 00:21:14 And tell me a little bit about your sculpting journey. When you began working in marble, did you use models or like, what was your inspiration? I used photos. I'm not allowed to use models in the house. And so I just went off of that. And then it's a lot of feeling boobs. Yes, of course. So you got to feel a lot of boobs.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Yeah, of course. And the reason soggy is my specialty, usually older ladies are the ones that let me feel their boobs. So I was like, just go with this. Man, I was going to an art supply store. I finally got out of the house yesterday. And I was going to an art supply store to get notebooks, because I filled all my notebooks up.
Starting point is 00:22:01 with just it's if you saw if like i leave my notebook on the street and you found it you would feel like worried for the you would be like my god it's like some this person needs help like something is malfunctioning in this person um like a schizo it looks but it's just like you know I'm trying to learn the like the I almost have facial proportions down but you never get it down I mean, it's, again, I'm not even being sorry. Like, it's a year at least. But, and that's every day working my ass off. I think in a year I'll be able to do like a face where someone might look at it.
Starting point is 00:22:43 Like, okay, that's something. But anyway, I got off track. I'm walking to this art supply store. And I pass a sexy old lady. You ever, you know what I'm talking about? Where like, you, they're like old, old, old. Yeah. But somehow still sexy.
Starting point is 00:23:04 and you just think like, fuck, man, what were they like when they were younger? You know, and like, she gave me this, like, when I passed her, she like, it was sort of, it was weird, kind of a flirty look, too. And, you know, I'm fucking married. I just had a kid, you know, I'm not going to bang down an old lady. But, and she was covered in, like, perfume. And then, I don't know, it just really made me think about, like, the human soul. You know, like encapsulated within that old lady is apparently an eternal soul if you buy into that stuff. And not an old lady body, but I don't know, man.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Like if I was horny and younger and single, I wonder if I would have made love to that sweet old lady. Yeah, and you guys, she would have bought you your stuff inside the store and everything. It would have been nice. It's a whole other life, though. What do you mean? You don't do that when you see a person, you're like, man, if I was single and all that, and then what would happen after that, you know, and what it would lead to? It was just a weird moment.
Starting point is 00:24:20 You know, I don't know the age range of people here in my chat. Thank you, Paul Oglesby. Greetings. I don't know the age range of people in my chat here. but for you youngs you feel like this shit is never going to happen to you like you don't imagine you're going to get old and that's great like you don't need to spend your 20s or 30s all freaked out over the fact that your body is like being weathered by time and your DNA is just going to give up at some point to enjoy it but you don't it's really hard to understand that you're
Starting point is 00:25:02 melting down that you are slowly just dissolving your the printer your DNA it's a printer it's printing different copies of you over and over and over again that thing starts running out of fucking ink man and that's old that's when you get old it's mistakes i mean if you've ever seen your printer when it starts running out of ink that's this exact same thing that happens to old people you're just you're you're you're it's not replicating you in the right way anymore. It's running out of certain colors. And as the colors start running out, your hair gets gray, your eyes get all saggy and weird. It's the craziest thing to watch. It's the craziest thing to watch. But within that is apparently an eternal outside of time soul situation. And so those two collide.
Starting point is 00:26:00 And, you know, you can't. Like, I feel incredibly lucky that I've got a family. I'm married. Because one thing we know from watching documentaries is swingers at old folks home, they fuck. Old people, you stay horny until the end, baby. And so, like, I don't know, man, at some point once you get to be a certain age and you're horny, it's like you have to have some decorum. You know what I mean? Like, you can't.
Starting point is 00:26:31 It's not a good look. No, they're all getting chlamydia. Who is? The old... Oh, yeah. The disease is spread through old folks. But I'm talking about, like, once you hit a certain age, you're horny. You're horny.
Starting point is 00:26:45 You're still horny. And then, I don't know, you know what I mean, though? It just started, it's just a weird look to be like a horn dog, but you're in your 40s or 50s. You know what I mean? It's weird. like my dad would get horny that was weird you know you'd have like girlfriends and stuff and it's just strange you don't want to accept it but it's true you know and you got to see through it i guess when you get to a certain age like you can't look for like youth can't be the
Starting point is 00:27:18 mark of beauty anymore you know you have to find some other thing than like you know you can't like try to go back to your 20s when you're in your 40s. If you're a man or if you're a woman? Either way. Okay. Either way. I mean, I get it. I'm not a fucking Leonardo DiCaprio hater like so many people are.
Starting point is 00:27:42 What do you want him to fucking do? You know, I'm not mad at him for that. A lot of people are, though. He's actually the most normal to any of the child actors that grew up. If you hear of his sexual proclivities, it's the most normal. He seems like a great dude. He just gets in trouble all the time because what? He breaks up with people and they're like, what?
Starting point is 00:28:00 25. 25, you're out. You're fucking out. Yeah. But it's like that worked. But now it slowly stops work. I just don't think you care at that level, though. You're just like, yeah, fuck you.
Starting point is 00:28:14 The rumor I heard is that he plays, I forgot the name of the band, but he has headphones on and he just lays there and then they bring in a girl and that girl rides him and then she leaves, but he has his headphones on the whole time. Say that again. He has his headphones on. Are you making this up? I'm not making this up. This is what I was, this is what I heard.
Starting point is 00:28:33 Where'd you hear it? A dream? YouTube. Yeah. That they sign it like as people have the girl sign a contract. Now I believe that. I think you're bullshitting with the furry thing. No, not fur.
Starting point is 00:28:45 He has headphones. It's, it's, it's. I thought you said he makes them dress. No, no, no, no. He has headphones on. And he's playing, uh, I can't remember the end. I of the tiger? No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:28:55 It's like, um. Theme for There Will Be Blood? No, we've played their song on here before. They started in college. Jesus Christ Superstar? No. Fly me to the moon? What a wonderful life?
Starting point is 00:29:08 The one about my bullets run faster than you. Then he's talking about... Oh, that band. That band. He doesn't do that. That's a lie. Yeah, that he listens to that. You're making that up.
Starting point is 00:29:19 No, that he listens to that while she writes up. Pull it up. All right. You're making that up. He doesn't listen to pumped up kicks. while he's banging. That can't be true. That's not true.
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Starting point is 00:31:14 That's getsole.com promo code Duncan for 30% off. Thanks, soul. There's not, nothing's going to come up. This is bullshit. What was the name of that? People are dying. Why are you making jokes like this? That's MGMT.
Starting point is 00:31:47 People are dying, Josh. Why are you making jokes like this? People are fucking dying. Just don't, don't, you're not going to find it because it's not real. It's not even MGMT. It sings that. It's not? No.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Who sings it? I don't know. It's not MGMT. This isn't real. People are dying. Oh my God. The friend claims that while Leo and the women were engaging in sexual intercourse, Leo reached for his vaporizer.
Starting point is 00:32:27 His vaporizer like a laser gun in a pair of noise-canceling headphones laid back and closed his eyes and signaled for him to keep going. this was the same unverified story I heard so many months ago this is from jezebel.com open it up why not it's over anyway
Starting point is 00:32:46 who fucking cares we might as well just sink into tabloid fucking gossip shit franklin god I hate Jezebel I hate this shit get it off the screen people are dying
Starting point is 00:33:00 don't show me that shit Jesus Christ, Josh I'll foster the people I've been watching some riot some videos last night we watched what's her name god damn it I can't believe I can't
Starting point is 00:33:22 there's this woman Karen Carlin Carlin you guys know what I'm talking about you know if you ever watch her it's funny she calls herself a fascist but I think she's joking but she like streams
Starting point is 00:33:36 the Antifa rallies and stuff in Portland. And it's just wild to watch. It's really fascinating to watch. But there's apparently going to be a lot of big fucking protests this weekend. Big. Minnesota. She was saying that she like infiltrates like Antifa and like communist blocks and like is a journalist and writes about what's going on.
Starting point is 00:34:03 And there's really an expert at. all the different flavors of communism and anarchism and just the sort of subculture of like the revolutionary subculture. And also she's funny because like people conflate her with like maga and then maga people will get into her chat and say some maga shit and then she just rips them to shreds. She thinks there's fucking idiots. And it's fascinating to watch. But yeah, apparently this weekend there's going to be some huge protests but she was saying like the portland antifa are like more like larping you know what i mean they're like they're having fun but the minnesota antifa it's like the real deal there's fucking scary black block fucking like no joke
Starting point is 00:34:58 let's overthrow the federal government let's fucking go and it's really creepy to think about that because in Minnesota there's going to be some shit that goes down at least that's what she was saying I do buy into it from the lady who got shot yeah yeah they took out this lady shot this lady fucking mag dumped into her car when she's already driving away and the the this is like it's such a powder keg right now out there such a fucking powder keg man that that that was number one that was inevitable like somebody was going to get shot by one of these people. There's no way around it.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Someone's getting shot. One way or the other. And now it's like it's on. Now it's fucking on. You know, most of these people, they're not going to do anything. They're going to protest. They're going to march.
Starting point is 00:35:50 They're going to do mourning. They're going to like boycott shit. They're going to try to like turn up the heat on senators, whatever. But there's a small contingent of them who are like complete. That's the thing she always. says is like the difference between the left and the right is that the left has shit that they will die for and the right not so much now i don't know if that i didn't spend a lot of time thinking about that maybe i shouldn't have said it but the basic idea is that like there's like these
Starting point is 00:36:27 people like she like breaks it down like the general accusation from the right to the protesters on the left is they're paid by george sorrows and she's like like you are fucking crazy if you think they're doing this for money that is not what's happening it's much deeper than that like these people legitimately want to overthrow the federal government for real they want this they want they don't want someone to get killed but they want there to be action like violent action that will create some kind of at the very least balkanization of the United States that could lead to, you know, some new form of like modern communism or something like that.
Starting point is 00:37:08 And she was saying in Minnesota, it's going to go off this weekend now. I don't know. Maybe not, but I'm definitely going to be watching. That's the other weird thing about the times that we're in right now is that everything is being completely absurdified by access to technology. You, it's like these protests have become like some form of national sport in the sense that people film them, live stream them, people comment on them, people like watch them as a form of entertainment now.
Starting point is 00:37:47 That's the problem is like it's reached this like everything is being completely warped by the fact that most of us are bystanders watching it and turning it into some kind of spectacle versus like something serious or important, including the lady getting shot. This is crazy the way it works. Like everybody's got a comment on this fucking thing. Everybody's got like some kind of like,
Starting point is 00:38:19 I mean it's a fucking mom got blasted. Like, but you know, now everybody wants to like, blame one side of the other. And so fucking mom got shot. J.D. Vance didn't make it any better. Did you hear what he said? What do he say? I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:38:39 You want to play it? Yeah, play it. This was an attack on law and order. This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace. And it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day. What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very off,
Starting point is 00:38:59 ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car, six months ago, 33 stitches in his legs. So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile. What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States. Pause there. So how do you do the headline he wants to hear? Like, there's a lot of, like, math and the headline he's wanting there. How do you say that in a way? that makes him happy. Like, a police, wait, did he say 30 months before?
Starting point is 00:39:41 Six months. A, an ice, what do they call them, officers? An ice officer who got 30 stitches six months ago was attacked by a lady. I didn't say it in a way. Like he won't even say it the way he wants you to say it. He's at, like, how is the media supposed to report on that in a way that doesn't upset him? Ice hero kills Pito.
Starting point is 00:40:21 That's pretty much what you got to say. Like, how do you even, how do you even report on that in the way he wants? Like, he can't even put the fucking headline together. There's so many facts in the fucking headline. I mean, fuck, it sucks. That's the headline. This fucking sucks. This sucks.
Starting point is 00:40:42 Why can't we just stop at that? Fucking sucks. What the fuck happened? That's a good headline. What happened to us? Jesus Christ. Like half of us are just sitting at home watching people get shot while we're taking shits. Making jokes about it, leaving dumb comments, live streaming, yapping about it while you drink vodka.
Starting point is 00:41:04 What happened? The thing that really bothers me, you know, outside of, like, the murder is, like, they, that's, she had three fucking kids, you know, like, that seems to be the headline that was also being missed. It's like, there's three fucking kids whose mom just got fucking murdered, you know? Whether or not, like, he was defending himself or, you know, she was driving away. So I think that's the real problem is like he didn't mag dump as the car was heading towards him. He mag dumped after the car drove off.
Starting point is 00:41:44 The guy who shot her was right in front of her. So when she took off, he jumped out of the way. And shot her. And then shot her. But the argument is, yeah, you don't need to shoot her at that point. No. You're not in danger anymore. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:57 Like if someone's running towards you with a fucking knife, you got to kill him. But according to J.D. Vance, the guy has PTSD from already getting run over. Yeah. Yeah, but it's like, also then it's sort of like great. So wait, why is that guy working? Why is that guy packing heat if he's like suffering from PTSD? Yeah. I mean, there's this stupid argument.
Starting point is 00:42:20 It's a stupid fucking argument. I mean, look, you kids, you got to be, you got to watch out, man, because that's the reality of what you're up against here. I do think that people have forgotten. what their deal when I was a young lad like you fucking avoided cops like the black plague you were scared of them
Starting point is 00:42:45 it was like when you were a kid I don't know if you guys remember this but you kids used to be afraid of adults like you were fucking terrified at like a party where there's a bunch of adults you were fucking scared they would fuck you up they would step on you they'd burn you with cigarettes
Starting point is 00:43:00 you try to avoid adults these days kids want to be around adults We've, like, evolved a little bit, but you, when you were my age, dude, you stay the fuck away from adults. Especially, like, at cocktail parties and stuff, they would fuck you up. And also, like, cops, Jesus Christ, you don't fuck with cops. Maybe that makes me a pussy or something, but you just stay away. You just don't fuck with them. They would fuck you up.
Starting point is 00:43:27 I've probably talked about this before. I got arrested. You got arrested just for, like, being at a party with a bunch of goths who stole tombstones from a cemetery. can't believe that why did they do that it was the fucking worst night of my life they were goths they just stole a bunch of tombstones
Starting point is 00:43:46 and I didn't know them that well but it was a great party oh I remember I was sitting back talking to this like a senior I was in high school older than me and she was doing that thing man
Starting point is 00:44:01 she was like running her like pushing her foot into my cock you know kind of like it was so It was so hot. And then right then the party gets busted. I'm erect. Like all the smart kids jump out the windows and fucking run. I sit there like a dumb ass.
Starting point is 00:44:17 She went out a window. I got arrested. You know what the cop's name was? Officer Paradise. They put me in a cop car. And I'll never forget it. They stole cassette tapes from these kids. And they were looking through the tapes to see which ones they got.
Starting point is 00:44:35 I swear to God, it was crazy. It was my first encounter with actual police corruption. Then my mom had to come and pick me up. They're like, yeah, he was in a house with these goths who stole tombstones. Then you had a boner. Thank God they didn't mention that. I think by the time they put me in the squad car, the boner was long gone. But we, you know, you just stayed the fuck away from cops.
Starting point is 00:45:02 You know, like, I'm not saying. It was justified that somebody magdumped into a fucking mom. But the aggressive, the way some of these people are getting aggressive with police officers, it's like, dude, like you are dealing with people who are just like, you know, you see that thing where like people fuck with a dog. You know those videos I'm talking about, like someone will like kick a dog or something because they think it's on a leash. then it gets off the leash and like bites their ass. That's what you're fucking with. Like these people, like, some of them have like real serious shit going on, man.
Starting point is 00:45:51 And they're just like told, don't do anything. Stand there. Let them, they'll spit in your face. Don't fucking do anything. But you can't control all of them. They're going to go off leash, man. And that shit's going to happen again. That's the scariest part about it.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Matter of time. before it happens again. And now they're like, now it seems like they're being given the signal of like, do it. Do it. Because then if they do it, if like,
Starting point is 00:46:20 if the next time it happens, it increases the likelihood that people are going to like fight back with real, with deadly force. And then when that happens, the lockdown, then it's just a fucking lockdown. Everybody gets locked down.
Starting point is 00:46:37 That's, you know, know, you've got to look at the situation and think, like, that seems to be the goal here. Right? That's the goal. The way Vance talks is kind of scary because it's the inner thoughts that are actually coming out now. Like before that he said, he goes, you should no longer be ashamed to be white. Did you ever hear that speech he gave?
Starting point is 00:46:58 He said that? Yeah. And so, like, and he's going to run for president on the next election. and so he could be the guy to really, you know, put the hammer down. Vance? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, like, it's just, it's a, it's, you look at this situation right now, and it's, like, this is just, like, this is just going to fucking probably snowball into something horrific.
Starting point is 00:47:30 If I, if I had to roll the dice, but I'm, you know, I'm being cynical. And the other thing is, this is the beautiful thing about having kids. Is it fucking takes your ass out of it. Like, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, oh my God, we just fucking like invaded Venezuela. The baby has a blowout. Like, I have a diaper filled with baby shit. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:47:54 That brings you back to reality. Whatever's happening out there, fuck. I got to like, I've got real issues like to deal with. like from moment to moment. There's like issues, man. I got to like figure out a way to make sure all these like human, these humans I'm juggling are like not pushing each other down the stairs. You know, so there's something beautiful in that.
Starting point is 00:48:21 But the other problem with having kids is like I knew right away when I saw that fucking minivan. That's a fucking mom. He just shot into a fucking minivan with like, you know, Probably if I had to guess, I don't know the age of her kids, in the minivan are discarded yogurt pouches, toys that the kids like to hold when they're in the van. Their mom's blood. And now their mom's blood. A certain smell to the van that they like, that they're familiar with.
Starting point is 00:48:51 That vans hauled them from one place to next. And it's not their fucking fault that their mom was like a hardcore activist. Like now their mom's fucking eliminated. from their lives forever. Do you think they're going to turn it into a martyr? Well, she is. Yeah. I mean, from the perspective of, like, the people who are, like, at the protest,
Starting point is 00:49:13 there's definitively that is a martyr for sure. Like, I don't, like, if the woman had been, like, driving the van at him, you're trained to, like, fire on people. Like, that's something that they have to, like, train. have to beat that into police officers, which is like if somebody's running at you with a knife or a car or whatever, you have to kill them. Because, you know, the amount of time somebody can, it takes for someone with a knife to get to you. I saw this whole breakdown on a YouTube video. It's fucking terrifying. You can, like, shoot somebody with a knife and they can still cut your throat.
Starting point is 00:49:52 So, like, you have to, like, overcome the human part of yourself and, like, kill people who are potentially going to kill you. It's suicide by cop. Yeah. You know, so they've been, trained to do that shit. You know, I think that's what Vance in a very ungraceful way was trying to say. It's like, these people are like, they're told to like, if there's a threat, you fucking shoot, which is what happened, you know. But it's a fucking, it's a fucking, it's a mom. I mean, that wasn't like Jeffrey Dahmer.
Starting point is 00:50:28 Yeah. You know? So, I don't know. I hope I stop watching that shit tonight. I've got to get back into dark souls. Truly. So much happier. You heard me ramble about this shit.
Starting point is 00:50:45 I started yapping about it. Started yapping about how you shouldn't be watching this stuff. And now I'm fully immersed again. Next thing you know, I'm going to be watching fucking Candace Owens. Fully joined the idiots. Get sucked in. It's that easy. Just get sucked in.
Starting point is 00:51:05 Haley says there's been 32 people that have been killed by ice, but this is the first one recorded. Jesus Christ. Well, what are the other ones? I have no idea. I'll look it up. Why are we doing this? Why are we going down this path? Why are we getting political here, Josh?
Starting point is 00:51:31 I don't want to do this. This isn't my realm. It's difficult to provide a single, scroll down. It's difficult to provide a single scroll to the top. I'm sorry, Josh. It's difficult to provide a single exact number for the total people killed by ICE due to varying reports. Reporting methods, definitions of killed by ICE. Records track deaths in two main categories.
Starting point is 00:52:03 Deaths in ICE custody and deaths resulting from use of force incidents by ICE agents. The official number of individuals who've died while in custody, 70 deaths. 70. Since January 1st, ICE has reported at least 70 deaths in its custody. that was 2017. Holy shit. That was 2017. Who was president in 2017?
Starting point is 00:52:29 Trump. 2020, 21 deaths in custody, 2025, 32, 2024, 95% of deaths in ICE detention between 2017 and 2021 could likely have been prevented with adequate medical care. During Trump's second term,
Starting point is 00:52:49 Federal immigration officials have shot at civilians multiple times resulting in at least four deaths. How can we didn't hear about the other ones? ICE immigration officials have shot at people at least 16 times. I mean, this shit works like in a... This stuff works in societies where the guns have been taken away. Like, how does this work in... This isn't going to work in America. The Albert is saying, okay, but how many of those people are armed themselves?
Starting point is 00:53:18 Fair enough. Who knows? Mike Big Weiner is saying it's all propaganda. Look, I don't know. This isn't my lane. I don't know. It just fucking bothers the shit out of me. I mean, I don't know what.
Starting point is 00:53:35 You know, that's the other thing. Like, if I have to give my own hippie woo-woo analysis of what's going on here, the first thing when someone gets shot that you're supposed to think is, like, Like, that's bad. Like, that's the number one thought. Maybe this is like some basic bitch shit here, but the first thing you should think is that's a, that's a human with a family. And they're dead now. Like a violent, fucking horrible, probably painful death just happened to them.
Starting point is 00:54:15 And that's a tragedy. And, like, the messaging from least. leadership is supposed to be like, this is horrible, you know, it's, that's where we seem to have gotten off track here. It's like the direction has always been, let's see if we can stop murdering people. It's a, you know, an ongoing habit that humanity seems to have a difficult time breaking the habit of killing people, that human life is this precious thing. and that we're smart enough and adept enough and skilled enough and equipped enough and advanced enough that we don't do that anymore you just stop doing that when it happens it's the most appalling
Starting point is 00:55:03 thing ever and i'm not saying that like you know it doesn't go both ways like that that's the shitty situation it's like you're dealing with layer upon layer upon layer upon layer of insane societal issues all converging at this one point. Questions that like age of Aquarius level questions are emerging right now, which is we all understand at this point that we share a planet. Like everybody knows that. But the ramifications of that knowledge are still rippling through the zeit guys. Because we didn't know that. that for the longest time we didn't we didn't fucking know the earth was round no offense to the flat earthers it's round it's a ball we didn't know that we thought it was some flat fucking thing
Starting point is 00:56:04 but now we're hyper connected whether we like it or not right now it doesn't seem like a good thing super connected we've got a global economy that shit someone decides in some other country directly impacts all of us. Little, little things can like ripple across the whole planet. Russia decides to invade Ukraine. This creates all kinds of fucking problems that we're all experiencing. This one thing leads to another thing, do another thing, do another thing. And then that's what happens with the more connected you get. And so we're supposed to act like this isn't the case. But we all know it's real. We all know we're on a planet. And then the planet gets divided up and it comes. And it countries, those countries get divided up. You know how it goes. And then we start having to
Starting point is 00:56:56 reckon with like borders and we have to reckon with like how we're supposed to conduct ourselves. So you have like already like all the all the words that woke ruined. inclusivity, acceptance, compassion. All those words got turned into bludgeon. It's hard to even say those words anymore. But a word that got ruined by conspiracy theorists is a one-world government. That's scary, right? Like, it's a terrifying thing.
Starting point is 00:57:38 The one-world government they're talking about is fucking scary. That one-world government that they're talking about is like a one-world government being run by pirates. You know, that is terrifying. This is something that Buckminster Fuller used to talk about. You know, the whole of, like, modern civilization is the result of piracy. It's a result of people who figured out
Starting point is 00:58:00 how to make boats that could get to other countries and they had steel, guns, and they would invade, enslave, pillage. There's pirates, pirate culture. And then that pirate culture turned into maritime, law, maritime law turned into what we think of as like democracy. Pirateships were democratic, but they were also fucking pirates. They would pillage, steal. And so what appears to be happening, if you look at it from the perspective of we are entering into the age of Aquarius, is that all of
Starting point is 00:58:34 these old pirate mechanisms are like recognizing that like it doesn't work. Bugminster Fuller would say, like, either we recognize we're all living on the same planet. This is a spaceship that we're all living on. We're all crew members on a spaceship, literally moving through space. A perfect spaceship. It grows food for us. It creates shelter for us. Gives us an atmosphere.
Starting point is 00:59:04 We're following the sun through the galaxy. Sun moves. Pull up a video of the planets moving through space. It's fucking cool. how fucking nuts is that we're like little baby stars flying around the sun and it feeds us we're like a fleet of ships moving through the solar system or moving through the galaxy that's our whole solar system movie and so buckminster fuller is he thought that like it's obvious we're on a spaceship a mother ship and uh this fucking thing
Starting point is 00:59:50 can't keep working if we're trying to run it like we're not on a ship together. Like, it just won't work. And so all the mechanisms that did work in a previous modality, they're not going to work. They just don't work anymore. We have all the technologically, what's happening is we're becoming increasingly connected. I mean, like the Tower of Babel, that great story, everybody could speak the same language. happening now with AI, you can instantly translate any language. It wasn't like that. Most people couldn't fucking read, much less speak other languages. Now you could just go anywhere,
Starting point is 01:00:34 speak the same language. And so we still are dealing with all these remnants of pre-technological civilization, male dominator culture, to quote Terrence McKenna. and fuck it's really scary because it's like we now are supposed to be acting like we're still
Starting point is 01:00:57 not deeply connected to the whole planet that's where you run into the problem you run into these problems of like culture borders it's not just the problem of borders
Starting point is 01:01:13 it's the problem of like of ideology because it's like you know You could look at ideology itself as its own sort of, you know, walled, bordered state of mind. This is the way to live. This is it. You can't, if you want in, you've got to accept this is the right way to be. Put women in beekeeper fucking outfits.
Starting point is 01:01:37 Whatever your particular thing is. And that doesn't work either. And the moment you start saying things like that, people are like, are you the devil, that's what the Antichrist wants us to believe. The devil wants us to believe that our way is not the way. When we know our way is the way, but you have all these different people doing the exact same thing with their own ways. And then you start mixing them together. Cultures that don't work. The open border thing makes sense based on understanding we're all in the same planet together. But for that to work, everyone's got to drop their ideology.
Starting point is 01:02:18 at the fucking border. That's the problem. How do you make those two things work? How do you have like a hyper-permensive culture and within it you have cultures who like are fundamentalists and also missionary? How do those, how can you make those things work? It doesn't work.
Starting point is 01:02:38 So it's like, damned if you do, damned if you don't. The fuck are you supposed to do? What are you going to do? Mind wipe everybody? Maybe that's the best thing that could happen. A big solar flare gives everyone amnesia. Maybe that's the answer. We have to come up with a way to wipe everyone's memory completely.
Starting point is 01:02:57 Erase everything. Erase the chalkboard of memory and culture. Start fresh. Who knows? We probably do the same thing. But now we've got fucking an insane level of violence all over the planet. And also the shit the government's saying right now, it seems to be leaning back into the old days of piracy.
Starting point is 01:03:23 That's what's really weird about it. It's like instead of moving in the other direction, we're like, no, we're going back. It's called a regression. It happens, by the way. When things are growing up, they regress. You know, like sleep progression happens. This episode has been brought to you by Square. You know, I got to tell you, man, is somebody who constantly loses their wallet,
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Starting point is 01:06:11 they can't do it anymore. It's a regression. And if you look at like what's happening right now is a regression. It's like some kind of growth spurt is always about to happen, by the way. When there's a regression, it's immediately followed by like the neurons connect. But right now it appears the planet is regressing. We're going back. We're going to start taking over shit.
Starting point is 01:06:36 It's really weird. I have no idea what the solution of the problem is. But it's definitely not ideology. And that's the saddest thing. This leads me to a point I wanted to make and for the communists out there, feel free to shoot me down. I'm sure you'd be happy to. Go ahead and put me up against the wall. But there's a common conversation that is happening these days.
Starting point is 01:07:04 And the conversation is something along the lines of you guys recognize like communism is infiltrated every level of society. The communists have gotten into the... schools that communist indoctrination is happening to your children the moment they get into college. Communism is working its way into everything. It's in the corporations. It's in the government. We are leading towards a communist dystopia. It's easy to believe that. But the other day, I had an epiphany. I think communism has been infiltrated. That's what's actually happened. Communism itself has been infiltrated by, I don't know,
Starting point is 01:07:54 what probably the communists would call the bourgeois, that communism itself has gotten invaded and colonized by people who don't really want communism to happen. that it's been taken over. It's been declawed, nerfed. It's been just completely, like, maybe like it'll never come back from this. Because like when you see some of the people promoting communism, they don't seem like communists.
Starting point is 01:08:32 They don't seem like they even know what they're talking about. That they want the structure of things, they are to maintain, even though they might say they're fighting back and they're doing actions. You get this sense of like, you don't want any of this shit to actually go away. You just want to be comfortable. And this is some way for you to like get some sense of like meaning in your life, some sense of comfort. But there's, what I'm saying is like a lot of times you'll see people saying, you know, we need to have a day of mourning. But it's like, you're not sad. How can you mourn if you're not
Starting point is 01:09:11 sad? You don't feel anything. You're not upset at all. The general sort of like fire that has to be lit under people's asses, if you really want an authentic change, it's not there. And anytime it is there, it immediately gets sucked up by culture. and warped until it's safe, meaning there's no way to, like, use the old forms anymore to get to whatever the fuck Buckminster Fuller was talking about. Forgive me, you guys. I'm really sorry. For those of you who are fresh to this, I actively avoid getting political, but kids are with their grandparents, and I've been drinking vodka. I'm sorry That's good
Starting point is 01:10:07 The problem is You know When I was in liberal arts school Where they like For sure Like there's like They were communists there Some of the teachers were communist
Starting point is 01:10:19 And they were fucking like Real communists And you know They would give the history of communism Not in a dark way You know like you Most of us Like in the West
Starting point is 01:10:34 that when you're taught about communism, the first thing you hear is it doesn't work. And generally, like, the collapse of the Soviet Union, it's one great example of that. But I had this professor who, like, was really good at articulating what that was like to, like, before it collapsed, like the dream. And, like, he didn't put lipstick on the fish or anything like that. It was really hard.
Starting point is 01:11:04 but they were like there was something incredibly noble in what they were trying to do and they were working their fucking asses off and like experiencing what it's like to work not for money which most of us you know don't have enough of an experience with like usually if like you tell someone you need to go work it's there's a sense of anxiety that springs up inside of you nobody like you don't want to do that that's you know that's one of the big um accusations right now against one i don't what generation are people mad at gen z uh yeah now it was millennials and now gen z gen z the general accusation against gen z is like they don't want to work and the which i think is a fair could it is a that's true
Starting point is 01:12:05 that's true it's less of i don't want to work it more like money isn't real yeah right that's that's the age of aquarius stuff it but also it's like yeah i of course you you don't want to work for somebody else that's nobody does that sucks you don't want to go to some fucking cubicle and some dude fucking stinky cologne on tells you shit you have to do and then you get the shitty paycheck with taxes taken out of it and your whole life feels meaningless that's what you don't want. But from like the perspective of what this professor was teaching is like, but that's not work. That's different than actual work. We might not even know what work is a lot of people, like actual work where you're working with a group of people with a shared interest and you're
Starting point is 01:12:52 not doing it to get a rectangle that you put in an ATM. You're doing it to like actively help people around you and to build, build things for people. And you're not even thinking about where you're going to get out of it because you're taking care of. It's just you're part of a group that takes care of each other. Most people have no idea what that feels like. It's hard to get the experience. You know, you have kids, you'll get a little taste of it, but you also know that the work that you're doing around the house, cooking for them, you know, all the things that you're doing, you have to keep getting the rectangle to put in the fucking machine to keep the food coming. So the idea of work itself has been corrupted by transactionalism, the problem.
Starting point is 01:13:45 And getting to the point where people are able to, like, give up the rectangle that you put in the machine, how do you even start? There's no way to even get there. No one knows. it's like trying to it's like trying to learn to read before language exists like it's
Starting point is 01:14:07 we know it's probably some kind of synthetic insane imposition on humanity itself transactionalism it doesn't really make sense it doesn't work in the family unit at all
Starting point is 01:14:22 in the moment that transactionalism like gets into a family things are fucking weird like when parents start charging their kids rent and shit. That's fucking weird when parents become landlords. It's fucking weird. I get it. Your kids are fucking stoner. It's in there jerking off to you porn every day, playing fucking call of duty. But just to get to the place requires a blank slate. Like, we don't even know how to do it. you could criticize capitalism all you want but the problem is is like dude i don't know man like
Starting point is 01:15:08 you even if like the you hardcore communists out there i don't know what your fucking plan is like we're talking about like deep high level hardcore conditioning we all want that rectangle to put in the technological vagina spray numbers into our our bank accounts. Getting people off that, it's tough, especially when people are just even mildly comfortable. That's all.
Starting point is 01:15:39 It's just hard, you know, it's hard for me to take someone professing to be a communist seriously when it appears that they've like paid to have their eyebrows waxed. You know what I mean? I'm sorry, I can't. The leadership's fucked. You guys got infiltrated, man.
Starting point is 01:15:55 I think you got infiltrated. I'm not a constant. I don't know what I am. How close is animal farm to actual communism? Because it's the only thing I ever remember. I haven't read it in a long time. It's the only thing I ever remember from learning about communism was animal farm. Marza Pandria is saying something quite brilliant.
Starting point is 01:16:17 Work with meaning. Work with intention. It changes everything. Is my handle any good says set up your own Etsy bikini shop? He's quoting Carl Marx. That was Karl Marx. That's what he said on his deathbed. Set up a Nazi bikini shop.
Starting point is 01:16:35 Ian Murdoch is saying people are in the center of their own universe. They cannot care for you like themselves. You can never become the center of your universe. Look, everyone's talking about like economic crashes and that's not going to be the thing either. If anything, an economic crash is just going to put people more into survival mode. That's not the thing.
Starting point is 01:17:07 I think number one this is a fun thing to think about we should all be thinking about this like do we need to be doing things this way is this the way to do things and then throw out all your ether rich bumper stickers and all that
Starting point is 01:17:25 bullshit because the whole eat the rich thing it's like that's just piracy you're just trying to do a different version of piracy you're trying to do Robin Hood style piracy it's still piracy So you have to throw out all the agro shit. And then what emerges is a big question mark.
Starting point is 01:17:47 Like what hasn't been thought of yet? And that's where we should be headed. I know. It's the easiest thing to say in the world. It's easy to say in my nice air-conditioned podcast studio with beautiful Josh, who pulls things up for me. But why shouldn't we always be thinking about this stuff? You have to.
Starting point is 01:18:18 They force it down your fucking throats. Turn on the TV, it's like mom's getting their fucking faces blown off. Well, we know that sucks. Start there. And then, somewhere along the way, you realize, like, I got to find my mom's old vibrator. It's got to be somewhere. You ever think about that?
Starting point is 01:18:53 Like, where's your grandmother's vibrator? Where is it now? Is that weird? These objects that meant so much to somebody, especially your grandmother. She loved to come. Helped her fall asleep. But where do they go?
Starting point is 01:19:11 Landfills? Or they pass it down to the next generation or they cremated it with the person. Hey, Ontario. Come on down to bed-MGM casino and check out our newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. Don't miss out. Play exciting casino games based on the iconic game show. Only at BetMGM. Access to the Price is right fortune pick is only available
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Starting point is 01:20:05 Sad if you think about it. You know, every vibrator tells a story. Every vibrator meant something to somebody once. Now it's just one layer of plastic in a landfill, forgotten forever. But do they dream? Do vibrators dream? Do vibrators long for love? Do they feel used?
Starting point is 01:20:45 Are vibrators sentient? And can we talk to them? We'll explore this on the next DTFH. Thank you for listening. Let's take some questions. Then I get out of here, my, this took too long. Paul, thank you again for your beautiful and wonderful donation. Mr. Niles 32 says, my clockwork elves change diapers.
Starting point is 01:21:17 How do you know mine don't when you say I'm missing out? How do you know mine don't? That would be amazing. That's something, that's another thing where like the DMT realm, like, how long before we fucking invade that? Like if somebody figures out a way to extract oil for the DMT or the funniest shit ever, how long before Exxon is invading. Julian is asking, what's Julian's last name?
Starting point is 01:21:44 McKay, thanks for the big donation, Julian. McKinney. Duncan, have you ever experienced a flow state of novelty and experiences that are negative or unfulfilling? Do you have any thoughts on shifting those phenomena to positive and fulfilling experiences? yeah man i mean like this is by the way if you're going to be a parent you've got to learn to do that that's the first thing you have you have to learn that skill because it you know the desire for the the binary you're talking about this is a good this is a positive experience this is a negative experience that that look i have to read it i've read it before
Starting point is 01:22:39 Fuck it. It's 216. Third Patriarch of said. I'm saying that only because, like, I have a vodka buzz and it's 216. It's been a while. The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. When the deep meaning of things is not
Starting point is 01:23:23 understood, the mind's essential peace is disturbed, no avail. The way is perfect, like vast space, where nothing is lacking in nothing in excess. Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things. So the question that you're asking is a kind of like alchemical transmutation of experience. The idea is this is bad experience, I will turn it into good experience. But the third patriarch of Zen is saying it's just experience. Don't attach any label to it at all and see what happens. This is just what's happening.
Starting point is 01:24:08 There might be some anxiety. There might be some sense of aversion to the experience that you're having. But if you can just accept that those feelings are like the weather, it's cloudy outside right now. I'm not going to let that. I'm not going to tell a whole story about how I'm some piece of shit because it's cloudy. I'm not going to weave a story about how it's going to be. be cloudy forever because I wasn't a good sun. But we do that with certain experiences. And those are called, that's what Sharon Salzberg calls the add-ons. You start painting this incredible mosaic based
Starting point is 01:24:50 on negative experiences. And this is why in Buddhism, the first noble truth, Jack Cornfield talks about this in the episode that's coming out, is there is suffering. Not life is suffering. They're suffering. Which is like, yeah, there's something going on. on here that sucks. I don't like it. But saying there is suffering, it's like saying, well, the water's a little cold right now. It doesn't mean, by the way, you should like be passive and not try to heat the water up or something, but it's the moment you're able to just accept experience as it is. This is just experience and not tell a whole story about it. Not try to make it better, not try to warp it or change it. This is just what, this is what's happening. It's an incredible feeling.
Starting point is 01:25:46 That's to me, that is how I get into the flow state. Is, as a, you have to abandon as a parent all ideas or expectations for what your next, what your day is going to be like. Because shit goes south for sure. Like something's going to go south. Something will not work. Someone will fall someone's going to get in a fight someone's going to be upset and then you're married so you're dealing with like the stress of parenting in a marriage so there's so many like things where if you are constantly thinking how do i make me happy in these moments then you end up only being happy for like the 20 minutes that you get at the end of the day when you're watching TV.
Starting point is 01:26:41 And I don't want my life to be relegated to like 20 minutes of joy when everything is exactly the way I want it to be. And it seems like sin-sin-sin-ming, the third patriarch of Zen is saying, well, what happens if we stop drawing any distinction at all? It's a fascinating thing to do. You know, the next, and really, like, one way to do this is the next time you're really happy. Look at the way you feel.
Starting point is 01:27:16 And you'll realize that, like, it's not that different from when you're, like, experiencing tons of suffering and pain. It's a powerful experience. You might have a sort of lightheartedness to you. a sense of exhilaration. But if you look at the energetic quality, it's like weirdly similar to like getting your finger slammed in the door. It's still this powerful, you're filled with all this energy,
Starting point is 01:27:49 a kind of exuberance. But it's not that much different. I don't know the comic, but like he was talking about how Taco Bell uses the same ingredients and just puts them in different forms. Forgive it's like over 20 years ago. I heard this joke. I think it's okay to not credit this person.
Starting point is 01:28:06 It was like not on a special or anything. And I don't remember the punchline. But when you start recognizing that the human experience, it's basically the same ingredients getting mixed together in different forms. Which is why, like in the vernacular now, people will say, I'm excited. That means happy, I guess. but it's a more accurate way to describe happiness it's just a level of excitement an energetic level
Starting point is 01:28:38 people are addicted to that you want you you you don't want to give up the high highs like the third patriarch of zen is inviting you to do you you want those peaks but something happens when you let go of that and suddenly like you realize that you can find a peacefulness I don't want to say happiness in every moment. That's the goal. So that you don't have to just, like, so that you don't have to win the lottery to be happy. You know, you don't need all the phenomena to line up. And the whole point in Buddhism for not wasting time with this stuff is the impermanence of your own existence.
Starting point is 01:29:23 It's like, how long are you going to, like, work at this to get to the exact right sense? set of variables set up and harmonize how long is it going to take you a few years because you're you you might not be alive that long you know we the human body is so fragile just god the algorithm loves serving me videos of people in bar fights and it happens all the time man somebody punches somebody their head hits the ground they're dead i'm not saying you're going to get enough bar fight but it's like it's uncertain if you even make it to tomorrow. So if like you're waiting for your, the stocks you've invested into increase in value over the next 15 years
Starting point is 01:30:17 before you're happy, fuck, that's a big gamble. That's a crazy gamble. So you just sort of have to stop differentiating one from the other. This from that. And then things get really interesting. You know, this whole differentiation game we're doing, that's what I was rambling about earlier.
Starting point is 01:30:39 It leads to piracy. If I'm a you, if I'm a me and you're a you, well, if you're my friend, great, but if you're not, maybe I'm going to take your fucking oil. As above so below, you know, the things happening. This is what Carl Jung used to say, by the way. It's like when you're looking at global events, it's a projection of the shadow of all of society.
Starting point is 01:31:03 And if you look at what's happening from that perspective, yeah, you could expect if we're like moving into like a hyper-connected culture that is simultaneously valuing one's own personal happiness is the most important thing. Those are two contradictory things smashing into each other. You could expect chaos. Something's got to give. Either we disconnect and go back to full piracy, or we let go of this hunger to be the happiest person
Starting point is 01:31:50 while other people are fucked up. You've got to pick, which you can't pick for anyone but yourself, I guess. All I know is like if I as a dad wake up in the morning, imagining that things are going to go my way, I might as well take my remaining ball, stretch it out on a fucking cutting board, and smash it as hard as I can with a mallet. Because it's not going to go my way. It won't. And I don't mean that as a defeatist.
Starting point is 01:32:21 I'm saying like, if I can wake up and give up that fantasy, I'm fucking tired or stressed out or. I don't feel funny or whatever. If I could give up that fantasy and just think, all right, how can I, like, be the most helpful to the many people around me today? I'm not going to pull it off, by the way. But if I just think that, it cuts through all that bullshit. And then you move into, like, this sort of, like, mode of the servant, which is seemingly antithetical
Starting point is 01:33:00 to the what's being promoted in popular culture right now which certainly isn't like the like how wonderful it is to help to not think about yourself anyway
Starting point is 01:33:16 what a long winded shitty rant this is going right here I'm glad you asked this Vibrahadra Vyra can Amish people use vibraturals or not. Not sure
Starting point is 01:33:35 Hari Krishna can or not. I mean, look, I'm really curious about the question itself. It's two really interesting religious sex that you're asking about that seem very different from each other. I think with the Hari Krishna's, I'm going to go, if I had to guess, I'm going to say no. because it's a fundamentalist form of Bhakti yoga that says you should only have sex to make more people. So I'm guessing vibrators are out. As far as the Amish go, I have no idea.
Starting point is 01:34:20 But I'm excited about the new vibrators that are coming out. Did you see the new vibrators they have from, what's it called, CES? What's the... CVS? No, not CVS. They do have vibrators of CVS. It's the... It's the tech. Look up new vibrator CES, I think is what it's called.
Starting point is 01:34:44 C. What do I get, what is it? C. Ask the chat. They'll know. What's the name of the tech conference they're having right now? CES. CES.
Starting point is 01:34:55 Scroll down. It's like a jerk off machine. It looks pretty cool. I see images. No, that's not it. You're going to have to go on YouTube. It's basically like jerks you off but sinks up to porn. I want to go to C.
Starting point is 01:35:24 yes someday. Don't worry about it. You'd have to bring it up. I could describe it. It's a handjob machine essentially. And it like apparently like you can download like jerk off patterns, which is pretty interesting or upload your own, which is very weird because like I guess you could theoretically send your friend like, dude, try this pattern I just learned. It's weird. Would you do that? Yeah, when the base drop and it'll be like, boom. No, I'm saying like if I, if like, we like, we're, we both had a jerk off machine. Yeah. And you could record, like, yourself jerking off.
Starting point is 01:36:00 It would translate that into the machine. Mm-hmm. If I sent that to you, if, like, a friend sent that to you, you could download it into the machine. Yeah. It would jerk you off in the same way that I had just jerked off. Would you do it? No, because then I would think it's your hand doing it to me the entire time.
Starting point is 01:36:17 That's weird. Yeah. That's fucking weird. Why would you think that? Because I have a certain amount of pressure that I like to, use and I don't know what pressure you'd like to use. So I would just feel like, well, this is different and not in a good way. Albert says that's gay. What are you talking about, Albert? That's like not gay at all.
Starting point is 01:36:35 What's gay about sending the way you jerk off to your friends and they jerk off in the exact same way? You're weird, Albert. You need therapy. Why would you even think that's gay? It's so straight. Dean Williams is saying sharing jerk off algorithms is gay. Dean, you guys need therapy. You and Albert should get into couples therapy. Ian Murdoch. If I, you know, But that, it would be cool. I think you would, you know, it is a personal thing, though. But you got to wonder, you know, like, is a, like, repressed heterosexual male living in the year 2026, like, jerk off? Like, it's an undiscovered.
Starting point is 01:37:18 You have no idea how your friends jerk off. Yeah, but it'd be more upset if my friend could jerk me off better than I could, and I never knew that. I don't, no, that would be upsetting. Yes. I would feel like I might get shamed because we're friends with comedians and if they see your jerk off routine, they might be like, dude, this is hard. This is terrible. But the other, the positive side of this is there could be a whole universe of ways to masturbate as a man that you have no idea. Yeah. Like you're basically, you know those undiscovered tribes that they find, they fly the drone over. They've uncontacted tribes. That's most dudes when it comes of jerking off. You have no idea. You know, you know, you know, You don't know how I jerk off. You don't know how your best feet. You don't know your dad jerks. You don't know your ancestors jerked off. You have no idea. It is not taught in school, certainly not taught between father and son. We're talking about an absolute singularity. This is more mysterious than inside
Starting point is 01:38:14 a black hole. There's some things that I just don't want to know in life, I think. Official diodonics has never circle jerked with your boys. No. I never did that. Bustoluma's Zerati says I use my feet. That's incredible. Larry Butter says it should be part of the presidential fitness test. I mean, it's a mystery. We only know. Ohio gentleman arms says gay is only a concept, a whole as a whole. Hey, it's cool. You're gay man. But that is it. I mean, look, it's a concept in the way like everything's a concept. Marsa Pandraea says it's easier with foreskin intact. I wouldn't know. I've wondered about that though. But that, yeah, This is my super awesome username that says Trump should share a stroke pattern.
Starting point is 01:39:19 It could be part of elections. Don't you want to know the way the leader of the free world masturbates? I'm saying this is something that theoretically we should all be sharing with each other. That's all. Call it what you want. Gay or straight. We should know this. How did Einstein jerk off?
Starting point is 01:39:44 Wouldn't you want to know? How did Copernicus jerk off? How did Galileo jerk off? wouldn't you want to know? There's a whole there's a whole story there. There's a whole undiscovered country. How did T.S. Eliot beat his meat?
Starting point is 01:40:04 While crying. I got to go. God bless you all. Thank you so much for tuning in. May God go with you into the night. Tune in for the... I have two great interviews coming up. Lennar Picard, Jack Cornfield. field. Perfect timing for the weirdness that's happening in the world. I'll see you next week.
Starting point is 01:40:27 Until then, Hale Krishna.

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