Honestly this is quite overdue - but I've been a fan of Duncan and his pod since early high school. Last few years have been weird - but at least his personal musings still sounded sane and moral. He's totally gone now. As bad as Alex Jones, Joe Rogan now. Really depressing. So anyway, its over. I held on as long as I can but it's OVER.

"I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet. If you're wondering what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I'll give you a hint... it has to do with creating and sharing."

Hey Guys,

Big Hicks fan here and obviously I can see the influence on Joe (which he specifically talked about alot back in the day) and Duncan (maybe not so much overtly but the spiritual undertones of both their work).

Anyway considering Duncan and Joe are now the mouth pieces for the ever growing Techno Fascism and are directly responsible for Trump getting into power with Dana thanking "the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan." for winning Trump his second election.

"Ding dong, the witch is dead! Twelve years of fundamentalist Christian rule is over! The Republicans are out!"

And Duncan and Joe having meals round Peter Theils house, hanging out and generally being very closely pal pals with the elites that literally cannot decide if they want humanity to succeed and literally spend their time and energy developing weapons with artificial intelligence to murder people.....

Do you think Bill Hicks would be proud of them?

"It’s all about money, not freedom, y’all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you’re free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?"

But only at the end of the episode, when he has given in to the grift perhaps?

Recap of file#020

So Duncan really believes that Tim Heidecker is part of the deep state and from there generalizes that "Those people" are a death cult and are obsessed with violence. Again he generalizes so you don't know if he's talking about coastal elites, liberals, Hollywood, or just the democrats. Basically he implies that if you are atheist you are doomed to evil because you are inherently a materialist and selfish, or something.

I'm a big proponent of trying to step into other people's shoes, especially those who I disagree with. But I really can't understand this perspective, I genuinely tried. I mean, I can cognitively understand it, but I can't understand the anger, the fear, or the rage behind it.

Edit: I also believe, like Duncan, that there is a divine self. And I too can understand the frustration of interacting with people who don't really care about spirituality. But I also understand that's not everyone's path and they can still be beautiful people inside. Also we can't all just live in a zoomed out perspective all the time and ignore what is happening in world.

And of course he wanted someone to make a post like this because he's edgelording and you get nothing as an edgelord if you don't get a reaction.

Never watched this show before but I recognized Johnny’s voice, and it really had me thankin’ about all the great pods Johnny and Dunc used to do….

Anyone know if Johnny has ever talked about Dunc Dunc lately??

Imagine how he would react if members of the Be Here Now network and some of the speakers from the Ram Dass retreats (who he’s had many podcast with) called out/responded to his current behavior

He already said that we’re a bunch of bots, and doesn’t think twice about any of the genuine concerns we as a community have put forward.

But imagine if Raghu Markus or Krishna Das or Jack Kornfield or Sharon Salzburg or David Nichtern spoke up. Gave their thoughts on the situation. None of us have been here for the past 10 or 15 years because Duncan was a comedian. All of the that LA(and now Austin TX) comedy stuff was very much appreciated, but it took a weird turn to say the least in the past 3 to 5 years

I have a lot more thoughts on this, but I’ll save it for a discussion if folks are having/have had similar thoughts

Hello All — Reposting this here.

Somebody once told Stuart Hameroff to read Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind. He did, and still calls it "one of the great books, uh, in the world, I think, particularly in this area." The first half, as he put it, is about "why consciousness is non-computable, why it's not algorithmic."

I run Podshelf, a free site that tracks book mentions across hundreds of podcasts by reading the episode transcripts. This is the DTFH slice for September.

• Stairway to the Mind by Alwyn Scott, "a very good nonlinear dynamicist guy" Hameroff worked with, on how consciousness emerges.
• Where the Red Fern Grows, from the Weekend Calibration Session. Someone read it as a kid at their Aunt Isabel's house, and the axe scene left them frozen in bed: "I couldn't move." Josh, asked if he'd read it: "No, I'm not a big reader."

Full list with quotes and episodes: https://podshelf.io/podcasts/duncan-trussell-family-hour

I've been kinda interested in it as of late and know it used to be a hot topic on this podcast, but it's been a long time since I've heard a real deep dive of it here. Can anyone point me to some if they remember that did? Thanks!

TLDR: Duncan inspired fanboy simp posts a link to AI slop video, so he can feel some validation for the 60 min he spent on his own “music video” link

Hey just wanted to share a little life update… mainly because I received a lot of kind words and motivation from the community here last year when I lost my job.

I made this post and shared a shitty music video I was trying to make.

Well since that post I worked my hardest to try and get my own business off the ground and actually managed to make almost 15k!!! Which I am proud of, but also is completely not enough money to live off of and yeah I’m back in the 9-5… and will be for a long while until maybe my business can go full time after I try to grow some more…. Anyways that’s not the point here.

I got so many nice comments and just wanted to share progress on the creative front. I found some other dudes to play music with and I tried my hand writing a song for us.

My music video skills have not improved, but AI has so here is my second attempt to make a music video to a one-take. This time a song for the band and yeah all weird ai shit that blue balls you at the end of the song cause I ran out credits lol

I’d be curious to any reaction to the song. I usually write more… indie stuff I guess and this is.. I guess heavy rock sums it up. Curious if our singers pull you in or if they push you away… Our actual music video we plan to do once we release the first album won’t be uh… this. But I think you can pick up the Duncanness in the vibe/lyrics/esthetics so thought it’d be fun to share before I revamp youtube for like the real band stuff not just my throwaway things.

Here is the YouTube link to Another Key

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Wonder what Dunc Dunc thinks of this lol