Duncan Trussell Family Hour - Mikey Kampmann

Episode Date: August 29, 2015

World Explorer, Mikey Kampmann, tells of his wild, supernatural, adventures in the south pole. ...

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Starting point is 00:01:13 And I did the whole thing- I'm excited No, I'm too excited too It's a green-soul day It's Greener Sunday It's Greener Sunday You've been excited too That's all I've been thinking
Starting point is 00:01:29 I've been thinking about I've been excited You've been excited I've been excited I've been excited I've been excited too And you know I said Well, we're gonna cook
Starting point is 00:01:45 We're gonna cook We're gonna cook We're gonna cook You said you're gonna be so excited The poignancy I will be excited I've been excited I've been excited I've been excited
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Starting point is 00:03:51 And I don't want to place a hierarchy on podcasts But as far as I'm concerned, this is one of my favorite podcasts of all time Because he told me one of the creepiest, spookiest, weirdest stories About what it was like being up in Antarctica as a breakfast cook And I'm not going to spoil it for you I'm just going to let you listen to it But I didn't want you guys to get a shitty version of that sound file With my very loud, clanky, portable air conditioner running in the background
Starting point is 00:04:23 So I sent this file over And this human being did the most magical work that I've ever seen on this sound file Because the sound file before I sent it to him Sounded like somebody had placed a microphone inside a experimental monkey cage Where the monkeys had been injected with some kind of high powered, deadly, adrenal plague venom That was making them go into an orgy of death So thank you, Rob Crew You are truly an sonic necromancer
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Starting point is 00:12:58 Stories of adventure And contact with the supernatural That happened in Antarctica Everybody, please welcome To the Duncan Tressel Family Hour Podcast, the intrepid Mikey Cameron Welcome
Starting point is 00:13:14 Welcome Welcome Welcome Welcome Welcome Welcome Welcome Welcome
Starting point is 00:13:30 Welcome It's the Duncan Tressel Family Hour Mikey Well, my mind is hard for me Mikey Welcome to the Duncan Tressel Family Hour Podcast, thank you so much for coming on the show Thank you, Duncan
Starting point is 00:13:46 You are the only person I know On the planet that has been to Antarctica, I think Why'd you go there? Why did I go there? It was a long time dream And I've always kind of lived
Starting point is 00:14:02 A little bit like that where I come up with these visions These dreams and then try to Find a way to make them happen Maybe I had a friend who went and worked on there Once he went, in my mind I was like, okay, it's possible now Once I knew someone Previous to that, I'd seen just like Werner Herzog
Starting point is 00:14:18 Documentary, read a little bit about Shackleton Who's one of the most badass People in history Can you talk about Shackleton a little bit? Shackleton is one of the true heroes Of the Early explorative days In Antarctic history
Starting point is 00:14:34 He led a few missions, he went to Antarctica A couple of times Most of them failed Including the most famous one Where he went in an attempt to Traverse Antarctica It was in 1911 1908
Starting point is 00:14:50 And they got stuck on the ice for two years And they never made it to Antarctica It was like a crew of 64 people The ice came around And Frozen the boat in the water And they got stuck there So what did they do
Starting point is 00:15:06 For two years? I mean, past the time I don't know Two years They celebrated Christmas dinners Down there They were hunting for seal They did have their supplies
Starting point is 00:15:22 Their rations But eventually those started to run out The ice was slowly crushing the ship To the point where eventually then They realized we have to abandon the ship And just take the row boats And now sort of try to Field some
Starting point is 00:15:38 It's like Miraculous escape And they were able to do it 64 crew members And not a single one died How did they escape? They slowly made their way across the ice At times having to get in the boats
Starting point is 00:15:54 And sort of sail And then drag them And then sail drag them And they knew with their maps That there was an island of South Georgia And And they thought If we can get to that island we have a chance
Starting point is 00:16:10 Because there's on the opposite side of this island There's a little outpost And So they They didn't know It was kind of like blind sailing And I think Worley, I think was the name of the captain
Starting point is 00:16:26 Who was the navigator I mean You couldn't He just knocked it out the park basically In terms of navigation And sailed them Through horrible storms I mean that part of the world gets
Starting point is 00:16:42 The waters are frightening The waters so ice cold They're freezing to death basically They have no water, you can't drink Isn't that water so cold that if you fall in you're dead Within 10 minutes you're like Hypothermic And they had no drinking water
Starting point is 00:16:58 They finally What were they drinking? Nothing They had Some melted ice that they had But that ran out And so the first thing The image, because there's all these diaries that were kept
Starting point is 00:17:14 And the first thing they did when they landed On the island was there was a waterfall And they all just went and ran up to it And it was just trickling down And they just put their lips to the rock To taste the rock Can you imagine What's going through your mind
Starting point is 00:17:30 Month 3 Into being trapped In Antarctica You've got your wife, a lot of those guys had Like girlfriends They knew what they were doing They knew they were going into A expedition where
Starting point is 00:17:46 Death was There was likelihood of death Or not, yeah That their technology didn't really Suit them for that Place The clothing they had Was fairly ridiculous
Starting point is 00:18:02 Not barely waterproof Or anything like this How much did they know about Antarctica? No one had stepped foot on Antarctica Until 1904 Or 1904 Or 1902 But no one had even seen it until
Starting point is 00:18:18 1890 something They just know there's a big Mass of ice up there But it's unknown There's so much of it that was this unknown territory And most of it was being Motivated by this sort of Arbitrary goal
Starting point is 00:18:34 Of reaching the South Pole Which is The axis of the earth So it's got significance in that respect But other than that, it's just a place Are you familiar with Hollow Earth theory at all? No See, this is kind of interesting
Starting point is 00:18:50 And it's one of my favorite conspiracy theories Obviously I don't believe in it But I don't think you need to believe in a conspiracy theory To really enjoy it But the concept is that So At the poles
Starting point is 00:19:06 There is a portal Or like an entryway Into the inner depths of the earth Where there's actually another earth Underneath us And it's tropical down there It's somehow Heated by this
Starting point is 00:19:22 It's heated by some kind of Luminance Luminous I don't know what, there's theories about how it's heated But there's all these interesting stories About people Who get up that way And see some weird shit
Starting point is 00:19:38 You hear about people seeing weird stuff up there There's a story of a German Summarine commander Who took his submarine Into some kind of subterranean cavern And like Came out of the water Into a cave
Starting point is 00:19:54 Where there were mammoths Weird stuff like that All these prehistoric creatures Fled into the interior of the earth So Antarctica in that part of the world Is a fascinating place Even if it isn't an entryway into a place
Starting point is 00:20:10 Where there's still mammals That used to be tropical Yeah, once upon a time And there's landmass actually beneath the ice 9300 feet of ice At the south pole Can I also tell you what is physically Beneath the south pole
Starting point is 00:20:26 My last night Because I was working at the south pole station And I stared at the south pole every day And It was phenomenal, it's a flat Nothing in place, but in the last night We go out Led this mission
Starting point is 00:20:42 There's a metal marker That actually marks The south pole and it moves every year Because the ice is sliding But we go out to it and he pulls it up out of the ground And He had stashed a joint there So there's
Starting point is 00:21:02 Why that? So that joint Was charged The energy of the entire planet That's got to be Some kind of energy conduit That's got to be some kind of Was it a quote?
Starting point is 00:21:18 Tell me what it was like to smoke a joint That had been seeded By the energies of the pole It was exciting It was an I would go out there On a regular basis Because I was there as the breakfast cook
Starting point is 00:21:36 At the south pole station I was making breakfast for 250 people As part of a larger kitchen crew That sounds incredibly stressful I'm not a chef How did you get the job? I said I had cooked in I had done
Starting point is 00:21:58 A little bit of cooking So I guess based on what you're saying There's not a lot of people in line To cook breakfast in Antarctica I got lucky I couldn't believe how easy it was For me personally After years of thinking about going there
Starting point is 00:22:16 To try to get myself to Antarctica And the best way was to work through For the United States Antarctic program It was a government job I have even awarded a medal from congress It's kind of cool in that respect I actually feel good about that That is really cool
Starting point is 00:22:32 I don't know Now you're the only person I know has a medal from congress What is the process In applying for this job? Tell me from the very beginning Something clicks inside of you You're ready to make this leap
Starting point is 00:22:52 To go to Antarctica You do have to physically qualify Which I thought was going to be A pretty good title Of like okay I'm fit I'm in good shape I've got my go to the dentist Make sure you don't have any cavities
Starting point is 00:23:08 Think about the headache If you have any of that stuff go wrong Down there they have to fly you out There are medical staff on hand They're trying to avoid everything I thought showing up in Antarctica Was going to be part of this Fairly fit crew of people
Starting point is 00:23:24 It's amazing How not true that was Some people Not very in shape What do you mean just There's obese people out there Antarctica is about 80% obese Really?
Starting point is 00:23:42 No But there were some big boys and girls It seems dangerous to be a big boy But there's also some big boy jobs Down there that Most of it is Maintaining this Insane
Starting point is 00:23:58 It's inhospitable It's a station in the middle of somewhere That no one should be What are they studying? Specifically at the South Pole They're using radio telescopes To map the universe Using light that's like
Starting point is 00:24:14 Left over from the Big Bang It's about light that's 400,000 years old After the Big Bang It's been traveling Through the universe for about 13 billion years I do indeed That is crazy to think There's some crazy
Starting point is 00:24:30 What do they look like? What are the gauges? They look like a sort of giant satellite And they're not visual They're not visual light telescopes So you're not zooming in on a star And seeing this beautiful nebula Electromagnetism
Starting point is 00:24:46 It's just microwaves And that's what light is Right? It's just like the most Sensitive camera in the world That's detecting the tiniest Faintest microwaves Left over from the Big Bang
Starting point is 00:25:02 That are Like traveling through the universe And as that light would bend Around galaxies And stuff They can detect that So they can create a map Of the universe
Starting point is 00:25:20 Even I was like I would go to the telescope after work And try to get this explained And still doesn't quite make sense But They could create this sort of And the map looks like Green dots
Starting point is 00:25:36 Clusters Almost like static But what those clumps are Clusters are galaxies And Huge But that's only also looking at like Temperature on the sky
Starting point is 00:25:52 Universe man It's insane And it's insane that they're these kind of Cosmological wizards Who have Become so interested In what the universe is That they've created an entire
Starting point is 00:26:08 Essentially a temple to science In one of the most inhospitable Parts of the world So that they could study the first The first I guess Breath The first breath of creation
Starting point is 00:26:24 They're up there studying the very first Exhalation of Matter Trying to find if there was any sort of Pattern or any sort of Like structure behind how All this was formed And on a personal level
Starting point is 00:26:42 A lot of these guys were the same age And that was the part that for me Was You know, I mean I dealt with that in my own ways Go back to my room and cry Because I'm cooking the breakfast And had committed their lives to this
Starting point is 00:26:58 Science and this pursuit of Oh, you felt that there was some kind of hierarchy there No, not even a hierarchy But I was inspired by them And felt like, wow, you know I've been trying to chase these different little Physical pleasures in my life And trying to
Starting point is 00:27:14 You know, have fun, go to shows And whatever, whatever Go to the beach Meanwhile, these guys are just Probably locked themselves up in A classroom or study hall For 15, 20 years And now I was paying off
Starting point is 00:27:30 Because they're part of this sort of International science project To map The light From the Big Bang And how the universe was formed I mean, it's fascinating Yeah, it really is, but I don't think you should be so hard on yourself
Starting point is 00:27:46 I think people are You know, man, like that thing Where you're You look at these brilliant Scientists studying Microwaves In the South Pole And then you look at your own
Starting point is 00:28:02 Personal life Of what you seem to consider to be Edenism to some degree Self gratification And you think, ah, man What have I done? All this time I could have been Locked up in a classroom
Starting point is 00:28:24 Learning how to peer into the heart of the universe Into the lifeless Empty Dead Inexplicable Part of the universe If you were sending people To a planet
Starting point is 00:28:40 To explore the experience of existence And they were all getting different assignments True. I have a feeling the people Whose job it was to sit in the coldest Fucking place on earth staring at Microwave signals, if that's their mission They're gonna be jealous of the guys Who got sent to the same dimension
Starting point is 00:28:56 To experience orgasm True. Great beers Incredibly good times You know, it's all Isn't it weird though how there's this like Hierarchy of experience or like There's certain experiences which are considered mundane Pedestrian
Starting point is 00:29:12 And somehow unimportant Which is generally the experience of like Getting high, going to a bar Playing video games, having sex Enjoying walks Going to barbecues Somehow that Is less of an exploration
Starting point is 00:29:28 Than exploring the deep In a recess in the universe Of existence at all. It seems like it's all A worthy exploration, isn't it? I agree. I mean ultimately And yeah Ultimately it's like this way I feel We
Starting point is 00:29:44 Have been given this Window into this to be able to be Alive, okay, regardless of what it is Uh How real it is or whatever We're here and we have the ability To observe and we have the ability To have curiosity and so
Starting point is 00:30:00 I guess no matter what direction you Explore that in, whether it's to The far reaches of our limitless universe Or into The interior, the far reaches of The mind and whatever It doesn't matter. There's no such Wrong way to be alive
Starting point is 00:30:16 As long as you are Think, like this is what I personally think As long as you're actively exploring And staying curious, my friends Yeah Yeah, I don't know That's kind of what's marked my own life And led a lot of the decisions that
Starting point is 00:30:32 I've made in my experience To try to Just to try to Take a sip from every glass or whatever I don't know, I mean Yeah, I mean there's certain things I'm like Okay, I'm not gonna do that, but at the same time I don't know, that's what I think, so
Starting point is 00:30:50 Ultimately I guess yeah, I don't actually feel that Sorry for myself for being the breakfast cook Or whatever like that, but Because without the goddamn breakfast cook Those nerds aren't going to be able To survive long enough To stir their best stupid microwave Man, by the way
Starting point is 00:31:06 I'm obviously joking about that I consider those people to be kind of Some, to me those are the magicians Or those are the wizards And what they're working with With science, which to me it might as well be magic Because I don't understand it At all, and I don't really
Starting point is 00:31:24 I'm not drawn into the deeper Understandings of things like that I just trust that those people When they articulate what they're picking up That It's real, and it does seem so Fantastic That to me it's
Starting point is 00:31:40 So many people For whatever reason Feel like science and god Can't really get along That There can't, that Conceptualization Of a
Starting point is 00:31:56 Higher intelligence That breathed all of this creation Out It can be made To apply to science, but that Application is always wrong And that application is Plugging in a primitive, archaic
Starting point is 00:32:12 Paradigm Into a brand new paradigm And the two Can't go together, but I just can't disagree That more, I think that If god represents If you look at the old descriptions Of god, there are always things like
Starting point is 00:32:34 The highest of the high The In a supreme dream The supreme dream In the Hare Krishna's call it Bhagavan, I believe Which means The greatest of all things, so the most
Starting point is 00:32:50 Attractive, the most intelligent The most beautiful, the most perfect And everything is An emanation from That Thing that they call the godhead And so Those scientists
Starting point is 00:33:06 They're peering into The godhead They're peering into This inexplicable Energy burst And within it All information All data, they're recording
Starting point is 00:33:22 That initial exhalation Of all data Into time And how is that not god? Isn't that god too? Why can't you worship data? Why can't I worship the sum total of all data? People do, people already are
Starting point is 00:33:38 Yeah I was inspired by their work And I was there in the summer Okay, here's the other thing I was in there in the summer, it's population 250 while I was there Four months, it's light the entire time Weird
Starting point is 00:33:54 So you don't see the night time, the sun just Does spirals in the sky I would start my day at 2.30 in the morning Walk out of my little hut And just get full blasted Sunshine Every day is like you are leaving a rave Yeah
Starting point is 00:34:10 And there were good parties Down there too People are cutting loose Down there, especially the scientists This is their chance to be in the field And enjoy The fruits of the present What kind of intoxicants are they taking?
Starting point is 00:34:26 A lot of alcohol A lot of alcohol And that's because a lot of alcohol Is government subsidized So it used to be $10 For a bottle of any booze And then slowly, the year I was there It was $30
Starting point is 00:34:42 Anyway, big parties on the weekend Dance parties, scientists cutting You know, cutting loose Dancing into the late hours People passing out around the station And a lot of people are pumping Yes, free condoms in every bathroom At the South Pole, in Antarctica basically
Starting point is 00:34:58 Any US base, because they know What's going on, it's a small Isolated population People are fucking And how do you deal with that Such a small population Aren't people jealous of each other There's horror stories
Starting point is 00:35:14 Of relationships gone to shit Full couple swaps In the course of a winter Because the winter Specifically at the South Pole The winter is eight months Six of those months are in complete darkness So it's the opposite of the summer
Starting point is 00:35:30 And during that six months Things go a little squirrely So there's stories of I mean Things go a little squirrely In the six months of darkness It sounds like the Beginning of
Starting point is 00:35:46 What you just said, it feels like It should be followed by a story Involving vampires Like ice vampires That's where they I mean, they talk about Things like that They talk about things like that
Starting point is 00:36:02 My first day on the ice When you're there, it's called the ice My first day on the ice, my boss And his assistant Without being Solicited, they mentioned the graze What they say about the graze They said don't fuck the graze
Starting point is 00:36:26 You can make love to anyone on the base But the graze They're very jealous Because they're going to get weird on you Don't fuck the graze Yeah, definitely don't do that No, they just said You won't see them much in the summer
Starting point is 00:36:42 Because they mostly come out in the winter And both of them had done winters I had one small experience With sort of an unknown Element And there was a couple there They said they were from Colorado I mean, this is absolutely true
Starting point is 00:36:58 From my perspective of experience They were working in the kitchen I love them They were great, good people But they said they were from Colorado But they had these accents That were bullshit You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:37:14 That's not a Colorado accent If anything, it sounded like From Spain or I don't know Something was off And There were a couple Three years they'd waited to come down to Antarctica Antithesis is my experience where I applied
Starting point is 00:37:30 And suddenly a week later I had the job So they waited three years And they were working as dishwashers Who waits three years to become a dishwasher? Okay, whatever That's another point One day they're in the Dish pit and I'm
Starting point is 00:37:46 Taking in some dishes from breakfast Whatever And I walk in on them having a conversation And it was I'm not joking, they were speaking in a language That was not English It was not Spanish And I just didn't recognize it
Starting point is 00:38:02 It sounded Digital, truly! Can you imitate it a little bit? Can you try to do it? I mean I'm gonna Just give it a shot I swear So they're doing clicks
Starting point is 00:38:22 Yeah, there was like little clicks And just like I said, digital sounds Okay, and The way I walked in Is the female Kind of part She had her back to me She couldn't see me
Starting point is 00:38:38 She was the one talking Her husband Was kind of at an angle Towards me Face of me So he eventually saw me out of the corner of his eye And she's still talking In this language
Starting point is 00:38:54 And eventually he looks at me He sees me and he looks at her And just says, stop What? He said stop Holy shit What do you think that was? I have no clue
Starting point is 00:39:12 No clue You connect it with the gray thing The gray thing was mostly fun You know, it was fun to like Point around, we'd sit there I would sit there with one of my co-workers And we'd point out who do you think is the gray So the concept is that
Starting point is 00:39:28 Some of the people Working in that Station could have been aliens Or They're Exactly, for some other reason And that's some kind of spy language That they're speaking
Starting point is 00:39:44 Could be I kind of would keep my eye on what they would do With their free time With their free time around the station Because there's parts of the station That you can explore Each person kind of carves out the world That they want to inhabit while they're at the station
Starting point is 00:40:02 So for me, it was a lot of walking outside Taking in the actual Antarctic landscape Going to check out the science With them, I don't know They kind of stuck to themselves a little bit Kind of fairly quiet They were great, like I said, they were great And I did start
Starting point is 00:40:22 Like a little Rumor That I had heard all this And that I had a thought That maybe they were aliens Or something like this, you know Did you get any blowback from that? I did, eventually
Starting point is 00:40:38 Last week there at the station It's like any place where At the end of the season, a couple big parties People open up about everything And she goes She goes, you think I'm an alien? And I was like, hey I don't know
Starting point is 00:41:00 I just don't know Yeah, I heard you Remember that day in the dispatch? She was like, yeah I don't know What are the cliques? Did you ask her what the cliques were? I don't know
Starting point is 00:41:16 Because you know what ended up happening instead? We were all drinking In some symbolic gesture This obviously doesn't do anything But it's a cool story We expressed how much we really Just ultimately liked each other And working with each other
Starting point is 00:41:32 And her and her husband and me We all leaned in and tried kissed So I was in my mind I always pretend that I Made out with a couple aliens You Made out You had
Starting point is 00:41:48 The kinkiest Makeout session That's the oddest make out Now that is the strangest Makeout session Perhaps I would guess That day on planet earth If there was a way
Starting point is 00:42:04 To scan and say bring up the top three Strangest make out sessions that happened today In this 24 hour period Yours would be number one It feels like a privilege to be in that group A human made out with a male And female alien In a base in the north pole
Starting point is 00:42:20 And found in some kind of way In that moment perhaps you Unity, connection To the whole universe In that moment it was You don't even know When everything was teetering in the balance You could have created an alliance
Starting point is 00:42:36 With some race that Yeah Listen man, you know, that's what That's the funny thing about hollow earth theory Because you are not clearly the people That they know about this You do know that a lot of people say The UFOs and the grays don't come from outer space
Starting point is 00:42:52 But they come from within the interior Yeah And this is the, so the mythology is There's all these stories Of these subterranean beings That, you know Dwarfs Creatures that live under the earth
Starting point is 00:43:08 They're in all kinds of mythologies And Many people say That there is a race Of beings That live within the core of the earth And that it's actually kind of strange That
Starting point is 00:43:24 We as humans have decided to live On the outside of the spaceship Right And that the fact that we have decided To make camp on the outside of the spaceship Is Not something that happens In other planets
Starting point is 00:43:40 So Because other advanced Species after Infinite catastrophes Involving Meteor impacts Realized that to truly build A lasting civilization
Starting point is 00:43:56 You can't do it on the surface Of any planet because Those planets are always being smashed To pieces by meteorites So you gotta go inside So Mars Pluto Venus, all these planets
Starting point is 00:44:12 Are just the exterior shells Of these spaces And they're just watching us thinking Fucking idiots Yeah, they're watching us Maybe they'll figure it out Yeah Of course, again man
Starting point is 00:44:28 Earth is incredible, we have the beach Yeah, we have the beach, we have the mounds We have so many varied landscapes Even here in the United States The more I travel The more I realize that We essentially have From a landscape perspective
Starting point is 00:44:44 We have everything you would ever want From other parts of the world Oh, you mean the United States? What we have, it's so crazy That we have that I was in the Olympic Peninsula last weekend Up in Washington State It's a rainforest
Starting point is 00:45:02 That centers around Mount Olympus But it's big, so it's a peninsula So there's coastline all along the exterior It's a beautiful part of the country It's pristine, it's Fairly empty, there's not much Many people living up there, it's nice to know That these places still exist
Starting point is 00:45:18 We were in a small little fishing village In LaPouche And then there's beach camping You hike in three-quarters mile And that night we were camping And it was a new moon So there's no moon, but also It's the Pacific Northwest of the Olympic Peninsula
Starting point is 00:45:34 It was completely fogged over So you couldn't see a single cloud I mean you couldn't see a single star You couldn't see the moon So there was no light We had a little beach fire going Just perfectly It made no sense to us because there was no light
Starting point is 00:45:50 So we get up, we walk closer to the beach And we realize it was phosphorescent Waves that It was bioluminescence in the water And every time it was churned up It would essentially create That energy that would create the bioluminescence To light up
Starting point is 00:46:06 So we watched these waves Just crash and create these little Green lines Of light down the whole coastline Wow Man, that is so... You are a traveler You don't stick...
Starting point is 00:46:22 You've made this decision You're not going to get caught up In any kind of single pattern You're always doing things like that While I'm inside With the home of the air conditioner And the binding of Isaac The video game I'm currently addicted to
Starting point is 00:46:38 iTunes, Netflix Game of Thrones Which is a portal to anywhere that you want to go Well, yeah, but it doesn't There's no, as far as I'm aware Bioluminescent waves That I can watch it I'm not making out with aliens in there yet
Starting point is 00:46:54 Yeah But you are someone Who's done this thing Where you've decided To plunge Into the energy of life And you You're an adventure
Starting point is 00:47:14 When I was 16 years old I'd been studying Chinese in high school And then Again, someone before me At the school went to China for a year And it's not an exchange program It's just you go to A little school year abroad
Starting point is 00:47:30 And that opened my eyes And I went to China at 16 I only did a semester because I didn't want to go too far When I was young So six months in Beijing And the first time I'd Been exposed to other culture And everything
Starting point is 00:47:46 And in that six months I learned more about Not only the world, but myself And everything Meanwhile, just taking an incredible New array of sights and sounds And flavors, whatever And Made great friendships
Starting point is 00:48:02 For that time You're always making friends I realized immediately that My true education was going to be defined Through travel So then it became this hunger To go explore as many places Because the more
Starting point is 00:48:18 I started to travel, the more I realized There is no one right way To live It's what we have Our greatest Characteristic as a species Is our diversity, truly In the way that
Starting point is 00:48:34 We started Studying social anthropology At college as well And that kind of Reinforced that Because you started learning about Ethnographic societies that Experienced the world with sight
Starting point is 00:48:50 I mean smell as their primary sense As opposed to sight Or you know Yeah, all these There was a group of people In South America that believe Humans are real Body form as a snake
Starting point is 00:49:06 And we take We put on like a body To experience this world, but as our spiritual form It's like you It's like almost like you zipper down the Front of your face and peel out of the skin And you're a snake I want to ask you your opinion on this
Starting point is 00:49:24 I'm reading right now this Great, I'm really enjoying this book By Sam Harris called Waking Up Sam Harris is, I haven't finished the book yet So if I say things that he That he doesn't That he says later on, I'm sorry For those of you who are big Sam Harris fans
Starting point is 00:49:40 And I know a lot of you are He Talks about The idea that certain Religions, most religions Christianity Islam About theosophy
Starting point is 00:50:00 Madame Blotovsky He talks about a lot of these Very esoteric Metaphysical systems As though They are kind of impediments To a person's Discovery of truth
Starting point is 00:50:16 So a person who believes That he has a snake inside Of him And I'm sorry, I don't mean to speak for Sam Harris I might I don't know what he would say about that person Necessarily, but I think Maybe you could, it would be safe to say
Starting point is 00:50:32 That Dawkins, someone like Richard Dawkins Would say That's a bunch of superstitious bullshit There is no snake Inside of you my friend You're a person with bones And cells and a spine And though it's quaint and cute
Starting point is 00:50:48 That you believe there's a snake inside of you The reality of the situation is That belief in the long run Is impeding you From achieving the kind of Health Perhaps longevity Or
Starting point is 00:51:04 The ability Or technology that can only be Obtained From coming into direct contact With quantifiable truth So when you say Diversity Is the most important thing
Starting point is 00:51:20 The most beautiful thing How would you respond to the concept That this diversity Is much of this diversity Is made up of Superstitious thought patterns That are completely Unverifiable and have no basis
Starting point is 00:51:36 In reality Well, who's reality first? Okay, reality is this Is what you make of it In a way, or you choose truth Is you're making those choices all the time To live in what the world you want to live From my perspective, when I think about that
Starting point is 00:51:52 And those two very different Points of view, I think first of all How lucky I am to be able to sit here And know that both exist And make my own conscious decision about Which one I think is valid or Choose in my life when I want those points to be valid But outside of that
Starting point is 00:52:08 I I, it makes me happy To know that There were people Who were existing in their own Slave community, where that's How they found meaning It doesn't matter, it like
Starting point is 00:52:26 What are we chasing? What does Richard Dawkins want? What's his end game goal? I don't know what he wants, but I can Guess what he doesn't want And what he doesn't want Is the people who believe That there's snakes inside of them
Starting point is 00:52:42 Or the people who believe That their god Telling them that Homosexuality is evil Or the people who are saying From time to time You need to put on dynamite And walk into cafes for the lord
Starting point is 00:52:58 I know that Dawkins And I'm pretty sure Harris Don't want those people To have any kind of Political power Because if they do They fuck shit up And if you look at the age of faith
Starting point is 00:53:14 And the breaks that were put on Human evolution by the Catholic Church, the Christian Community, they went from being These kind of quaint Interesting sweeties And I don't mean the Christian community The fundamentalists, because the Christian
Starting point is 00:53:30 Community is its own diverse wild beast But the fundamentalists Went from being what they currently Are, they went from being Rather they went from being Essentially like if there is a Satan In the hand of Lucifer on earth They became the
Starting point is 00:53:46 The wall That got in the way Of the great thinkers, they killed a lot Of the greatest thinkers, in the same way ISIS is demolishing Ancient temples in Syria In the same way that ISIS is throwing gay people
Starting point is 00:54:02 Off of roofs And I know there are very small cluster of people That have probably been inflated in danger By the media, but still they exist That's what It used to be like Everywhere Which was that you would get burned at the stake
Starting point is 00:54:18 Tortured, executed, and destroyed For your beliefs Because many of these religions Which in small microdoses And thought patterns seem very quaint And cool And you can really dig your teeth into And think, man, I can see I'm a snake
Starting point is 00:54:34 If that expands Too much and becomes a dominant Paradigm Then the end result is The complete slowdown If not stopping Of technological progress And technological progress
Starting point is 00:54:50 Holds within it the key For human beings To migrate into space And populate Now, by the way, what I did I have played devil's advocate there Because I don't know
Starting point is 00:55:06 From two perspectives, it's like The great question is Here As population grows And its access to technology Becomes As technology becomes increasingly accessible To larger portions of the
Starting point is 00:55:24 Human population Then what that means is That It becomes increasingly dangerous For people who believe In things like Angry Jehovah God I don't know about the snake people
Starting point is 00:55:42 I don't even mean to bash them, man I'm just using them as a point It becomes increasingly dangerous What are we going to do When you can 3D print A fucking bio weapons laboratory What are you going to do When you're able to somehow create some kind of like
Starting point is 00:56:00 When you're able to This is what I think I think the biggest lesson That we need to teach our future generations Is that Very simple concept That there is no one way To do things
Starting point is 00:56:16 And I heard a 4 year old child Say this the other day He was playing with a friend And a friend was trying to build some blocks And the kid was struggling And so this boy came over 4 years old And he's like, hey, let me show you The way to do this
Starting point is 00:56:32 And I was like, dude, the future Okay, there's some hope There's a chance I don't know I'm constantly conflicted with our current State Of things going on in the world I sit and
Starting point is 00:56:48 Kind of think about this And have existential crisis all the time Because I'm not sure if this is the most exciting time Where it's like finally People are starting to Be able to recognize The folly and so many of the decisions Of our societal structure
Starting point is 00:57:04 Especially western society For the last 500 years Or, you know, there's that view Or just think Fuck, the population is too big The people who did Begin the kind of clutch of power 500 years ago have now gone to
Starting point is 00:57:20 A place where they control so much Beyond what we even know It's always Mind blowing to think about What we don't know in terms of Decisions that are actually being made on a day-to-day basis To run the world And think, okay, we're fucked
Starting point is 00:57:36 There's no way So what are you supposed to do in the meantime? I don't know, I think all you can do is just focus on In your own world, I hear that The kids say that Or think about people Starting to maybe come back to Our earth and be like, oh, let's treat it a little bit better
Starting point is 00:57:52 Or whatever like that and awareness for That and I think, okay Just live small And slowly Maybe they'll make A difference or something like that Yeah, I think you're right But it's so funny because when I think
Starting point is 00:58:08 You make a personal decision Your first thing that you Mentioned with a 3D printer Is bio warfare Oh, yeah I mean, I guess that's a Realistic look at the world Here's the problem
Starting point is 00:58:24 So the problem is this The technology Is an amplification device And the way it amplifies things Is like any other amplifier It can amplify The lectures of Ram Dass Or Jack Cornfield
Starting point is 00:58:48 Or Gandhi Or it can amplify The YouTube comments Of Derek7964 Who wants to leave comments In every single video About how the person who posted the video Is
Starting point is 00:59:08 A faggot And deserves to die You know what I mean? Now if you look And see, now I think YouTube comments As much as people decry them I think they're a fantastic way To understand
Starting point is 00:59:24 The problem Of technology Because when you see an angry YouTube comment Written by a racist homophobe Maybe a 12 year old Maybe a 30 year old Filled with violence and just
Starting point is 00:59:40 Pure deep sizzling Anger Essentially like putting a Stethoscope to the wall Of hell and hearing the moans Of the damned That's what YouTube comments remind me of I think if you were in hell
Starting point is 00:59:56 Walking through hell You wouldn't hear people crying for help You would hear people saying You stupid fat shit Get the fuck away from me you stupid fat fuck You fucking shit fuck I think that's what you'd hear mostly in hell You wouldn't hear oh god please help me
Starting point is 01:00:12 You just hear The lashing The lashing out of the damned Sure So when you Read YouTube comments We got one DJ Doug Pound
Starting point is 01:00:28 And I And now J. Wang are as well We have a show called And we make videos for it And thank you On one of the videos Someone just said Eric why would you want to be faggots
Starting point is 01:00:44 And I'm just like What is that coming from Well it's coming from pain It's coming from a deep Because you have to put yourself In the position Of a person leaving The comment
Starting point is 01:01:00 And you also have to analyze So every time you Read a shitty comment It gives you a tiny Penprick of sadness You do feel bad Little bad maybe a lot bad It'll get to you but there's an initial
Starting point is 01:01:16 It doesn't feel good No matter how advanced you want to be It still sucks So that's one little pixel of suffering That that person has generated on earth Now if you take the sum Total of all shit Comments being posted per second
Starting point is 01:01:32 On this planet Then you can see that technology Is not only creating wonderful This entertainment and knowledge But it's also Generating a pretty Steady rate of toxic Emotional pain
Starting point is 01:01:48 And it's probably For all the good it's doing You could say it's there's an equivalent Hopefully not equivalent But potentially equivalent amount of bad That's happening simultaneous And the problem with that is that Because of what Kurzweil calls
Starting point is 01:02:04 The law of accelerating returns Those two sides are going To amplify their energy Is going to increase and increase and increase As we move Into the future And so what that means is that idiots Are no longer going to just be using youtube comments
Starting point is 01:02:20 As a means to spread Their poison into the world But they are going to adopt Or they are going to use Any technology that they can Or anything that you give an angry person That person will use it to hurt If I give an angry person
Starting point is 01:02:36 A pen The angry person within a certain amount of time Is going to write a shitty note to somebody About how they suck If I give an angry person a gun Depending on how angry they are There is a very high probability That angry person is going to use that tool
Starting point is 01:02:52 To kill a person If I give an angry person Access To the entire Mind of the planet Anything they want to all of humanity To be recorded eternally In the digital transcript
Starting point is 01:03:08 That is being created thanks to The growth of technology They will use that to imprint Not some beautiful thing But to permanently imprint A tiny poisonous Thorn Which will last as long as there is a planet
Starting point is 01:03:24 Or as long as there is hard drives These curses and thorns I have heard you talk about the curses before How awful they are So I don't know what I am getting I don't mean to get so dire But the point I am getting at Is the next thing down the line
Starting point is 01:03:40 And the next thing down the line Is going to be increasingly powerful When these shitheads Get a hold of it They are going to use it To wreak havoc Stupidity is Equally as big as an amplifier
Starting point is 01:03:56 Where does that come from That comes from pain Not only pain But it also comes from Regardless of Whether it is temporary or permanent A very narrow View at life
Starting point is 01:04:12 And maybe that is from the pain Pain has a way of Bringing everything down Into this little one tunnel Of vision and that is all you want to feel And You are blind Into all this incredible
Starting point is 01:04:28 Positive energy that is around you So Personally This is how I deal with that And how I deal with people who are doing these insane things Around the world Killing people Creating
Starting point is 01:04:44 Making people feel bad for just trying to express themselves In whatever way they feel Happy Happiness is whatever It is bullshit in some respects You think so? It is a shallow pursuit Happiness
Starting point is 01:05:00 Because it ignores pain You have to accept pain As part of your daily process I think that sometimes If you really analyze pain You realize that it is actually making you happy too Absolutely I have been going through that quite a bit lately
Starting point is 01:05:20 How so? I find myself That sometimes I like being Addicted to painful scenarios Because then it gives me something To brood about Or to think about And then when something in that situation changes
Starting point is 01:05:36 Slightly better Then it creates this ephoric sense Of delusional sense That things are going to be great Like the wave form You are sort of getting off on the wave form Of course The story of
Starting point is 01:05:52 Most of our cultures Is about riding that wave Between Happiness and pain We like watching people fall and rise And come up over again Because it reminds us of parts of our own day to day life Right
Starting point is 01:06:08 But ultimately some people do feel more pain than not But you have to understand That is a voice That is one voice Our population is 7,000 people Let's think about the populations of people Who exist outside of ourselves Whether it be other
Starting point is 01:06:24 Animals or plants on this planet Or People outside of Earth Everyone in that universe Is experiencing Some sort of level From pain to ecstasy
Starting point is 01:06:44 And so At that point in your life You are going to feel every one of the motions That is in that range And so When I see people just crying out In such Like
Starting point is 01:07:00 Terrible Agony or suffering And it just reminds me That hey That is okay, been there And I have a choice To either inhabit that space Or put more positive energy into the world
Starting point is 01:07:16 That is how I personally go about my life Because I find that I enjoy myself more I enjoy the people around me more I enjoy this planet more when I am putting positive energy into the world It is that simple It is that simple ultimately It is that simple
Starting point is 01:07:32 And it is just God Such a waste of time So it is a And I am sorry guys I have to always say Ramdas says Because he does say and I don't want to see him Like I am lifting his brilliant idea Which is that
Starting point is 01:07:50 We Exist on a lot of different levels at once I just read this great essay by him actually Where he is talking about When you are playing Monopoly On one level Your friends Play a Monopoly
Starting point is 01:08:06 Like hey let's hang out and play Monopoly It will be a blast Being friends You are vicious enemies trying to fuck each other over In the most extreme way And these two things are happening at once And if you remove The vicious enemies
Starting point is 01:08:22 Or if you move the competitive aspect of Monopoly And it is not just happy competitive It is generally a kind of mean Competitive capitalist That is part of the fun of the game right So if you remove that Then it is not that fun to play You almost need both of those levels
Starting point is 01:08:38 Functioning at the same time for it to be fun I don't want to have A friendly game of Monopoly I am sorry That is the most boring thing you could do I want to cutthroat Vicious Mean spirited
Starting point is 01:08:54 Unhappy Poisonous game of Monopoly After the game you kind of have to like Me and my brother and my dad When we played Monopoly We actually had A dollar of shame And whoever won
Starting point is 01:09:10 Could say right whatever Statement they wanted on the dollar bill And whoever lost had to sign Underneath the statement The bill is filled With things like my dad saying Like I am the greatest father That has ever lived
Starting point is 01:09:26 You know like something like that We have to sign it but that is part of the fun So When we are On this planet You have You get to decide Which of these games you want to play
Starting point is 01:09:42 Right Do you want to play the game of being the depressed Angry, unhappy, bitter, jaded victim Or do you want to play the game Of being an expansion Of the most beautiful Perfect, incredible Ever-amplifying
Starting point is 01:09:58 Harmonized energy That has ever existed All that does exist Do you want to let that be the wind in your sails Or will the wind in your sails be A kind of zombie like Dull movement In the direction of fleeting temporary pleasure
Starting point is 01:10:16 Generated from causing Your fellow human beings Pain I mean it's a no brainer for me It's been a no brainer for a long time I don't know why I feel like I had a lot of people growing up who were like
Starting point is 01:10:32 Wow you know that already And I'm like what are you talking about How do you not figure that out Well some people fall asleep When I think about when I've been a true Cunt in the world In the times that I find myself Being a cunt
Starting point is 01:10:48 When mindfulness comes back And I'm able to look at what I've done Or how I acted It appears that I've gone to sleep It appears that I've gone into a very Congealed State where I'm rushing From meaningless point
Starting point is 01:11:04 To meaningless point A lot of people in hell Are always in a hurry To get to the worst part of hell It's like people In hell I guarantee there would be Long lines of angry people Waiting to try to get to certain
Starting point is 01:11:20 Fire pits That are worse than the ones they were in That sounds like a perfect description of Los Angeles as well The interesting The thing that I've been playing around with Lately It all comes from that incredible
Starting point is 01:11:44 And I'm going to mispronounce it again I got corrected by a lot of people last time I said this but there's this thing called The Emerald Tablet of Try I'm not going to mispronounce it this time Thanks for correcting me you guys There's this
Starting point is 01:12:00 This thing called the Emerald Tablet of Trimest Trimestiges I was saying Trimestigeries The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trimestiges
Starting point is 01:12:16 Which is this alchemical Text That is very simple It's very simple It's just a few lines Let's see if I can find it Really short But the first part of it is
Starting point is 01:12:32 True without error Certain and most true That which is above Is as that which is below And that which is below Is as that which is above To perform the miracles of the one thing I'll read the whole thing
Starting point is 01:12:48 Why don't we read the whole fucking thing By the mediation of one So from this one thing came all things By adaptation Its father is the son Its mother is the moon The wind carried it in its belly The nurse thereof is the earth
Starting point is 01:13:04 It is the father of all perfection In the consummation of the whole world Its power is integral If it be turned to earth Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire The subtle from the course Gently and with much ingenuity And descends again to earth
Starting point is 01:13:20 And receives the power of the superiors And the inferiors Thus thou hast the glory of the whole world Therefore let all obscurity Flee before thee This is the strong fortitude of all fortitude Overcoming every subtle And penetrating every solid thing
Starting point is 01:13:36 Thus the world was created Hence are all wonderful adaptations Of which this is the manner Therefore, am I called Hermes, the thrice great Having the three parts of the philosophy Of the whole world That is finished, which I have to say
Starting point is 01:13:52 Concerning the operation of the sun That last part is kind of like a He's like a rapper Like what's thrice great He had to like He gave himself props at the end real quick Like he says all these brilliant things at the end He's like, I'm not great once
Starting point is 01:14:08 Motherfucker, I've been great Three times, whatever that means But I've been thinking a lot about the That which is As above so below And I've been thinking about how I, and most people I know Want love
Starting point is 01:14:24 We want to be loved We want to be loved so bad And when we're being loved We feel complete When love is happening we feel so good And so complete and like we're getting this incredible Sustenance, this food We're like Shackledon's men
Starting point is 01:14:40 When love comes Lapping at the waterfall And drinking it up as though we've been Out in the ice forever So if you consider As above so below And imagine that that is within us And then just as a thought experiment
Starting point is 01:14:56 Imagine that that is a Desire not just in humans But in all things That the entire world The entire universe and we're part of the fabric Of the universe is longing For this love And then you start
Starting point is 01:15:12 Instead of trying to Pull that love to you Start giving it not just to the people Around you but to every single Moment as though All things were some super entity And you had been called here just to Love it
Starting point is 01:15:28 Then that shifts you from one frequency To another Instantaneously And all of a sudden you look around And you think about the words of all David Jesus Christ Who said the kingdom of heaven is at hand It's here right now
Starting point is 01:15:44 Of course Around you all the time You are truly in heaven The only thing keeping you from it Is the fact that you keep trying To suck Love from the world Instead of breathing love out
Starting point is 01:16:00 Well when I've been truly in love In my personal life I find that What I Know about it most is it actually makes me Be expressive Towards other people In the world around me in a loveful way Like when you see someone who's truly in love
Starting point is 01:16:16 They walk into a room And they are Beyond happy They are there Like an open Book Or cup or whatever ready to just sort of Drink in their environment
Starting point is 01:16:32 Open window When you look into it you can see Heaven And that Creates Other openings and other windows And then before you know it There's no more windows
Starting point is 01:16:48 It's just all heaven And then that's when you start experiencing Those crazy synchronicities I think I've told you this story before But it works perfectly about this Because the opposite of that when you're not in love Like we said you're closing your world down And you're seeing this such a narrow
Starting point is 01:17:04 View and you're creating paint You're eating yourself up from the inside out Right? I had come back from Africa Ethiopia was the first time I traveled to Africa And It was a heavy trip Every time I've come back
Starting point is 01:17:20 There's a post Post-trip Depression You just see certain Things Like what? People's day to day living conditions Their quality of life
Starting point is 01:17:36 The sort of The conditions they live in That they didn't have a choice about That they were born into And they're being held at bay by Corrupt people and greedy people Because there's tons of money in Africa Whatever
Starting point is 01:17:52 Tons of resources Yeah There's some crazy things going on in Africa And it just goes Fairly ignored But anyway every time I've come back I've been pretty depressed Why is it ignored?
Starting point is 01:18:08 This is something I wonder about all the time Why do we ignore that? Why is that part of the world completely The world turns its back on Africa I don't know I honestly I don't know Like Africa and North Korea
Starting point is 01:18:24 Like North Korea you can kind of understand People are just like We were not really sad about them We were just like I hope it doesn't make it over here I don't care if it Liquifies everyone over there Let's hope that they don't get on our airplanes
Starting point is 01:18:40 It's kind of fucking strange isn't it? Is it because they don't have oil? Do you think if Africa had A bunch of oil over there Like if there was a Saudi Arabia level Of oil reserves That we would be helping them more Possibly
Starting point is 01:18:56 There's still racism Let's be honest You think it's racism? I think it's a little bit of racism But I'll tell you man Racism has never stopped The United States military From helping folks
Starting point is 01:19:12 If there's some fucking oil out there That's absolutely true There is this weird coincidence Isn't that a weird coincidence? That's one of these great coincidences Of our Military Our war strategy
Starting point is 01:19:28 Is that it does seem like The most evil people are to be found around oil Like you definitely When we're going into like rescue And help people There's always oil nearby It's so crazy to imagine If the United States actually
Starting point is 01:19:44 And maybe it's scary if they were Driven by some ethics Instead of pure financial desire Technology was done Just if that technology could just be done It'd be crazy It'd be wonderful If we actually started using all of our resources
Starting point is 01:20:00 Not to suck oil from the earth But to help people Sending out troops to go into other countries And distribute food Why don't we do that? Someone let me know why we don't do that Write an email please I'd come back from Africa
Starting point is 01:20:16 Feeling pretty Shit, just depressed Had a small fling That didn't work out It was compound stuff A fling with you in Africa No It was a relationship back home
Starting point is 01:20:32 But it was these compound things So relationship going to shit Coming back from Africa Having seen some pretty hardcore things Like on that level You saw some dead bodies and stuff You see people On the side of the road who
Starting point is 01:20:48 Who are Dying People are just dying In certain places Not all So this is In cities you see the most hardcore things How are they dying?
Starting point is 01:21:04 They're just poor So this is The United States It's a pretty easy thing to forget That our version Of being down and out here Is a lot of people's version Of doing just fucking great
Starting point is 01:21:20 In some parts of the world You can actually starve To death People don't realize that You can actually starve to death They just start like That guy doesn't have food We're not going to give him food
Starting point is 01:21:36 So you saw that I've never seen that kind of poverty I've been to India but I don't think I've ever seen anyone Starving to death I've seen people very poor in India But They're taken care of to some degree Yeah, poor and sick
Starting point is 01:21:52 And just don't have any No means There's no government programs in Africa Africa is so huge In Ethiopia Ethiopia is its own Place And I'm not
Starting point is 01:22:10 Knowledgeable enough to truly Speak on it Yeah, I don't know I don't know what the deal was going on I don't know, there's just I wish I could talk about it So I'll just move on Come home
Starting point is 01:22:26 Dealing with all these Issues in a funk First I think I can just Change it with my willpower Tell myself I'm okay But that's just Actually, I'm just trying to hide it Mask it
Starting point is 01:22:42 So eventually having done Psychedelic mushrooms in the past And knowing that their ability to sort of Expose things going on inside Forced you to sort of take a look Inward and face yourself in the mirror I said I'm going to seek these out as a
Starting point is 01:22:58 Tool as a medicine To try to Deal with this funk So I take them Myself at a friend's house I had his house for a little bit And I leave And I start to
Starting point is 01:23:14 Go through my trip and I'm walking In the streets of Portland, Oregon And Eventually I I'm feeling all these dark, dark thoughts Just extremely dark and it's Working, I mean it is working In this
Starting point is 01:23:30 To uncover all this And I go to cross a road And I think I'm walking At a pretty reasonable pace I had checked to make sure cars Weren't coming, but obviously my Perception of time was Off, I didn't get hit
Starting point is 01:23:46 But I found myself, I don't know How long had passed But I found myself crying In the middle of the road While cars waited on both sides With their headlights on me And it was such a Raw moment where I was
Starting point is 01:24:02 Essentially With all these lights and people staring at me On stage in a very dangerous way Of course, crying Feeling dark and shitty for Myself, and I immediately started laughing You know what I mean? Because I was like What a dumb ass move
Starting point is 01:24:18 First of all, what a dumb ass move And second of all How ridiculous, like I did not, who leaves Their house and just thinks I'm going to cry in the middle Of the road today, so I started Laughing and then crying, and then laughing And then crying, and it was just like
Starting point is 01:24:34 Back and forth, and I'm walking It's night time now, and I'm walking Down the road, and there's this little Window open to a basement And from the basement there's some sort of Church choir practicing Singing
Starting point is 01:24:50 And from their perspective, regardless Of whether it's Christianity or whatever They were singing from a place of this love That they have for this thing, God or whatever My favorite description of God is that It's just love, God is love It's that whole salvation mountain thing So, they're singing
Starting point is 01:25:06 And I hear this music, and I hear that Love in their voice for something else For the world, for God, whatever And I Stopped walking, and I stood there And I listened, and It was beautiful, as you can imagine I mean, everything's heightened as well
Starting point is 01:25:22 But it just was So phenomenal, and then the song ended And I just saw hand reach To the window, and close it Wow And it was like, just a one Song glimpse into this world, or whatever To have that moment
Starting point is 01:25:38 And I continued to walking And immediately, I Knew the moral lesson of this story And what had been eating me up was that I would rather love someone else Than hate myself You know what I'm saying? Spending that energy, I had been in that
Starting point is 01:25:54 For two months, I had been Beating myself up, trying to just I don't know, fix it And I was creating all that energy Thinking about how painful and shitty my situation is And how fucked up the world is And yet, I could have been Spending that time
Starting point is 01:26:10 Expressing love To other things You went from input to output Shifted the energy And the moment you shift the energy Whatever this stuff is There appears to be two universes Existing simultaneously
Starting point is 01:26:26 And it's not even two It's a lot But it seems like if there is a lot With all the variances that can happen It seems like you could almost divide One group of potential Universes in another group With this very simple line between
Starting point is 01:26:42 And one group, one universe is populated By people who are all input And the other universe has people in it Who are output And the input people are in hell Because they're trying to They're trying to They're trying to
Starting point is 01:26:58 Scratch an itch In the exact wrong way It's like they're scratching the wrong part of their body They think that they have an itch on their foot When the itch is on their neck Only in this case The feeling of Hunger that they're having
Starting point is 01:27:16 Or suffering Can only be quenched By giving love to other people And the moment you start giving love Out to other people All this other shit that was going inside of you Really evaporates But I think it's not easy though
Starting point is 01:27:32 And it's easy to sit here and talk I think it's easy About these kind of lovey hippy ideas Or humanistic ideas about the world I think it's easier than you think I think you gotta do a thing where you give more Than you feel It might not work every time
Starting point is 01:27:48 But I think that if you Identify somebody in your life Who needs help And give them more Than you think you should And do it Right after you finish listening to this podcast My guess would be
Starting point is 01:28:04 That you will experience At least in that moment You will experience the opening Of that church window for a second And hear the singing of angels And it happens real quick Maybe you'll go away Maybe the window slams shut again
Starting point is 01:28:22 But all you need is for that fucking window To open a few times And once you know it exists It always will This has been Just a wonderful conversation Thank you so much for being on the show How can people find you
Starting point is 01:28:38 Well The main sort of creative thing I'm doing Is this two-way cruise show We make videos Supposed to be comedy It is hilarious And we have a live show At the satellite in Los Angeles
Starting point is 01:28:54 So we do that Also my own person So I exist out there on the internet As well as here Mikey Kampman I'll have all the links online Thank you so much for being on the show man Thanks Duncan
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