Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 550: Johnny Pemberton
Episode Date: February 5, 2023Johnny Pemberton, brilliant comedian, actor, and co=host of the acclaimed podcast The Leather Rose, re-joins the DTFH! You can find The Leather Rose wherever you listen to your podcasts! And be sure... to check out Johnny on the new Fallout show, whenever that's available! Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg. This episode is brought to you by: MyBookie - Use code DUNCAN and deposit $50 or more to receive a FREE Instant Cash Bonus! ZipRecruiter - Try for FREE at ZipRecruiter.com/Duncan
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DECODING TRANSMISSION
Not a vulgar song about getting petty revenge,
but when we decoded the pulses, that's exactly what we found.
But that wasn't all we found.
Two days later, we decoded another transmission.
DECODING TRANSMISSION
DECODING TRANSMISSION
What is going on in here?
Have you been using my wormhole again?
You are 3 trillion years old, and you're acting like a million-year-old.
Do I smell gamma ray bursts in here?
Have you been huffing black holes?
You are granted.
It's been over 30 years since Earth received that message.
30 long years of complete and utter silence.
The silence of space, the ultimate message.
In turn, we'll sit down with Gallagher 39.
I used to go through my neighbor's mail
and write long, creepy messages to his friends and family.
But that was before I started taking Balance of Nature.
Now I leave my neighbor's mail undefiled
and spend my days drinking tea and reading and playing my flute.
My God, my dear sweet God in heaven,
I thank you for Balance of Nature.
Ah, go back.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
That was, uh, I don't know what that was.
You're listening to the Duggar Dressel Family Hour podcast.
With us here is a brilliant comedian,
an actor, a, the co-host of the critically acclaimed Leatheroes
and an actor in a TV show that's going to blow your mind.
And he talks a little bit about it here.
You won't believe it, especially if you're a video game fan.
Hey, everybody, come see me do some stand-up comedy, won't you?
I am going to be in Nashville, Las Vegas, Kansas City,
Cali, Portland, Honolulu, Columbus, Philadelphia,
Rosemont, Illinois, San Jose,
many others are soon to be listed.
You can find them all at DuncanTressel.com.
So everybody strap in, get ready,
lighten your slippers,
radiate love, triangulate your hands above your face,
wear your third eye eyes,
and freak out a lot of stone people at a football game.
It's Johnny Pemberton.
Welcome, welcome on you
That you are with us
Shake hands, don't need to be blue
Welcome to you
It's the DuncanTressel video
It's the DuncanTressel video
Johnny, welcome back to the DTFH
I know you can't talk about it
Great to be here
Thanks for being here
I'm going to lead into this just because
I'm going to have to say it
So you are acting in the new fallout show
Yeah, I am
And you can't say anything, it's super top secret
Well, I can't tell you details, yeah
Which, by the way, you know, has been personally thrilling
And whenever I talk about you, as I often do
I say, oh, he's working on something that's pretty big
I'm so proud of you, man
I'm excited about it, it's cool
It's a very unique thing to be doing, for sure
For me, you like to be friends with you
And you also are acting in a show
Based on one of my favorite video games of all time
It's very special
Yeah
When I first found out about it, I was like
I can't wait to tell, secretly tell you
Because I know that for you, that's the weird thing about it
Some people have no idea what it is
They have no idea
Dude, you know, when you're in comedy
I don't know if you get this
But it's like, sometimes when your friends get big things
There might be somewhere in there
Like a twinge of insecurity
You know what I mean?
But with this one, all I felt was like
Pure compersion, pure like
Holy fuck
That is cool beyond cool
And I've been thinking about you a lot
Because I've been watching the Walking Dead series
Are you watching the Walking Dead series?
Which is fucking incredible
Based on one of my favorite comic books
And I just keep thinking like, wow
It's like, in a weird way
You're in the early days of the Walking Dead
It could be, it's the potential for that for sure
I'm always, I just always, not hedge my bets
But I just always, always try to be like
Not everything is nothing, it's just
Because you have to be otherwise you get head of yourself
True
And you get burned, I mean I've been burned a bunch of times
Oh my god, like actors have to develop such
I don't even know what you would call it
Like if you had to like give a name
To that state of consciousness you have to achieve as an actor
To not constantly be experienced
Idiotcy?
It's almost like that
It's not like calling it like a hard shell
Doesn't even come close to describing
Where you have to get at with it
It's like some form of artistic nihilism or something
Yeah I don't know, it's weird, it's a good thing
Assume that whatever energy you're putting into
Anything creatively
No matter how far along it seems to have progressed
The odds are, until that shizz on the screen
It's not gonna happen
Yeah, it's like a thing where all you think about
Nothing is real until the check clears
Yeah
The check has to actually even clear
Otherwise it's just some, well that's the case with everything though
Kind of in a way, it's just that it's more
It's more visible with that world
Where you really just, because it's in the control of people
It's outside of your hands, it's out of your control completely
Completely out of your control, but you get such a
When you're invited to work on something like you're working on
And you're drinking of this rare wine
It's this nectar that's like, you know it can't last anyway
Just because it's a show and shows inevitably end
But you just want it to keep going
Not just because of the obvious business side of stuff
When you get to mesh with so many other talented people
And people who are good at shit that is a completely different
On a completely different track than acting
When you're working on a show, it's not just actors
It's like, you know
It's everything, it's the whole thing
Yeah, living in the world feels really, it's a fun world to live in
I always thought of it kind of like, maybe an unfair comparison
But to me it's a version of the military kind of
Where you're consumed by something
It's very much like there's this camaraderie
The hours are long, there's all this stuff
It's in service of something kind of ridiculous maybe
Or it's in service of a greater thing
Everyone's a part of the greater thing
There's obviously a hierarchy
And sometimes the hierarchy causes problems
Because the top brass is telling us we gotta fucking move
Look, I'm just telling you, they told us we gotta go two clicks down here
I know there's no fucking river down there
But we gotta go, we gotta go down there
And we gotta set up
Because it's just like there's always communication errors
Where someone at the top doesn't know that they've changed the...
You're seeing blue, but it's actually red
It's like, why is it red?
It's that kind of stuff, which...
It's like the bureaucracy of it is insane
It costs a lot of money, it's all...
To me, it's like the military without the whole killing thing
The fundamental aspect of it
Dude, when I'm watching The Walking Dead now
And I let the part of my brain that thinks about setting up shots
And I watch where they're at
Out in the fucking middle of nowhere in Shitsville
And they got a baby
They gotta get shots with a living human baby
Watching the shots, they choose to use the baby
Watching when they set up for a new shot
Was that baby gonna turn into a doll?
You know what I mean? How long did they get the baby for?
No, the baby is still there, that's a living baby
Not the fake baby they have to use sometimes
You're just thinking, good God
They managed to get that baby for both shots
That's crazy, just that alone
Not to mention all the cameras and the people
And the food and the limited time and the stress
And the drama of just like, this has gotta work
This doesn't fucking work
We are fucked, this has gotta work
I think that's the death part
That's the death part
Oh yeah, I guess that is sort of the true
Yeah, there's like a death aspect
But it's not the same, it's not literal
Worse than death
When you die, you have to fucking read
Rotten Tomato reviews about your life
When your fucking show sucks, you gotta
You can't go on Rotten Tomato
Rotten Tomatoes, Rotten Tomatoes is Rotten
I have nothing to do with that shit
I'm Rotten, it's Rotten Tomatoes is Rotten
Why are you against Rotten Tomatoes?
Because everything gets reviewed on there
Is always the opposite of how it actually is
Not everything, but so many things
Where you think about, like look up
Like your top five favorite movies
From the past 20 years
Like maybe before Rotten Tomatoes
And you'll just see like, what?
It's like finding out that someone
Hates your favorite restaurant
And why they hate it, you're like
And this fucking sucks, and this sucks
But you remind it's so precious to you
It's wild, like the ferocity
And pettiness of critics
Expectations is just, like you
You know, good critics
When you read the analysis of whatever
The fuck it is they're reviewing
It's more than just a review
It's like social commentary
You know what I mean, it's educational
They're familiar with lineages
They have like a perspective
Born from a lifetime
Of being like a hardcore cinephile
And usually there's a hopefulness
In the critique, in the sense
They wanted it to work
They didn't want something to suck
They like it when good stuff comes
That versus like, you know
The run of the mill like vlogging critic
Who really doesn't like have
Like a vast archive
In her own mind of like film
His film history, influences
That's where the pettiness pops in
That's where there's like the color
The stop sign was faded
And that moment where there was a cat
That just, you didn't need the cat
Come on, that guy did shit
You're like a dog, that guy gets really petty
And some of that stuff just reads
It reads so much like sour grapes
So much stuff does
I see that all the time now
Like more and more and I see anyone
Being critical of anything
Because I have to stop myself all the time
From wanting to be critical about something
Publicly like on Twitter or whatever
Right
And I'm thinking like this is like
Why don't I care
And if you do publicly say
You care about something when you're
It's like oh man this shit sucks
It's just such a
It just looks like sour grapes
It looks bad, it's not a
It's just a bad energy
Very bad energy
Bad attitude
Opens yourself up to that exact same
Right
Ferocity from somebody else
It affirms that it's okay to do that
It's like you're essentially like
Signing up to be dehumanized
And dissected by everybody
If you go down the path of bitching about shit
At all
And you create stuff
And it's not your fucking job
It's like your job is to make stuff
Review it
What are you doing?
And also so much stuff I realize
I think now I'm like
This is just not for me
I don't think it's bad or good or anything
It's just not, it's not for me
You know my assumption usually
Is I'm probably dumb
Like if I don't like something
I just think oh it's more like
This is more related to me being dumb
Than it being bad
Like it's, you know this is something you get
You're probably experiencing this I'm older than you
But when you get older
You become increasingly comfortable
With how dumb you are
Oh totally I love it
Me too
Yeah
You don't try to arm wrestle
With some version of yourself that doesn't exist
Like you know
This is something I just realized
Like when I'm reading a book
I skim a lot
You do
Yeah I'll skim
I'll get excited and I'll skim
I'll jump through
And I used to think I was doing that
Because of intelligence
Like because when I was in college
They taught us how to like
Here's how you read something
And grab the main points
And then the other day I just realized
You're not doing this because you're smart
You're doing this because you're dumb
Like you're doing this like a hundred percent
Because you're dumb
And you don't have the attention span
To hang on to the paragraphs
That aren't just scratching
Whatever fucking itch
You're wanting to be scratched at that moment
So you're skimming
And you're also skimming
Because you don't understand what the fuck
They're talking about
Reading some book on cells right now
So it starts getting into protein folding
And like
Like a book about cells
Or like a science book or a novel
It's a fantastic book about cells
What's it called?
Idiot's Guide to Biology
Okay so that's
Now I'm just kidding
I'll look it up
It's called
Hold on one second
It's one of those books that like
Those very rare books
That manages to
It's called The Song of the Cell
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
And it's really fucking good
But it's one of those rare books that like
Is the person writing it
A genius?
Is the person writing it
Responsible partially for
Humanity like leading
Like leading humanity towards a
Less disease to an healthy state
Is the person writing it
The kind of person who when they were young
Thought to themselves
I'm gonna try to help
Like I'm gonna dedicate my life to
Trying to make sick people better
Versus you
Who you know are unhappy
Because they canceled a show
You like an effort
Yeah like having that long
Long range view type thing
Yeah that is what the person is like
That stuff is amazing to me
When someone has like that long range
Write exactly
But they know how to translate
All of that
All of their knowledge into a way
That like people like me
Are like this is fucking good
They feel like I'm participating
In that person's life
Just by reading it
You know it's a really rare
I've heard someone say that
About writing
There's two things I've heard
To say about writing
One is that
It's just you're just a translator
You're not like really
You're never writing
You're just translating
You're sort of translating
There's some quote from Joyce Carol Oates
That
Just thinks she said
Something effective
I don't know how I feel about something
Until I write about it
And I always think about that
How you know you get
Your thoughts are all jumbled
About something you're thinking about
Like oh this is that
You're just thinking about something
Then when you write it out
It's either becomes totally ridiculous
You're like oh this is the dumbest
Stupidest thing I was worrying about
Or considering
Because you can't find a way to explain it
Because it's not
It's bullshit
Or it's the opposite
Where it starts to unfold
And become like oh my god
There's so much there
There's so much there
In this thought
Where it just starts to blossom
And blossom like oh my god
I could think and talk about this
For so long
Because there's so much there
Yeah man that's where it's good
The other one not so great
That part where you're like
Some issue that you've always felt
Like you have some understanding of
Or like you have a resolution
Regarding a question
That the world might be pondering
Over this and that
And then you sit down
You get the question part out
Or you start writing about the thing
And you realize like what's my point
Like I don't have a point at all
Regarding whatever the fuck I'm saying
I just it's a premise
That I have no idea how to resolve
That's like that for me
Those are difficult moments
Where you slam into that wall
Like what am I trying to say here
Am I trying to say anything
Or do I just want to listen to
My fingers hit keys
Yeah you want to hear your voice
You want to hear your voice chime in
Resonate with everybody else
I got something to say about that
It's like what is it
Well I think that
It's like when you hear someone
Failing on talk radio
Because they didn't realize
What they had to say
And then they realized
Someone that they realized
What they say is like terrible
It's like very offensive and nasty
Or they just have nothing new to add
Nothing
You know what I mean
It's like here's someone falling apart
Well I think that when
If these people
If they're going to
If you're going to allow people to park
And sleep
Okay if you're going to sleep in your car
I don't
I have trouble
When I would be driving
A long time
Caller
Can you please make your point
It like devolves
It'll usually like
It's like whatever the awful train was
It'll just jump onto a completely different track
With a completely different destination
Like it'll go from
Yeah people sleeping in cars to like some
Completely non-related bowling analogy
Because it's personal
Yeah yeah yeah
You know like when
You know Dan
He'll go up and get the beer
At the bowling alley
And bring it back
But he's sipped off of it
Like what
Okay well
We're talking about whether or not
Pre-K is right for all children
Yeah
You just want
You just
This time it didn't work
You know I get
I know that
I know what they were hoping for
Like you have
Every comedian has it
You have it
Like you like
You throw yourself into the abyss
And you hope that some part of your brain
That you don't have direct access to
Will take over
And out of your mouth
Will pour words
That combine to make something funny
Or even something that makes sense at all
And sometimes
That part of yourself is on vacation
It's just
It's out
It's on silent mode
Comes and goes
Comes and goes
I just saw
A clip
Somebody on Fox News
Goes
Talking about Pelosi
That weirdo bang Pelosi
On the head of the hammer
And he goes
Is that back in the news now?
What?
Yeah cause they release the footage
That all the conspiracy theorists are like
Why don't they release the fucking footage
Something weird is going on here
And then they release the footage
And it's like
It just seems like a weirdo got into his house
And he was trying to
Keep him at bay by seeming affable
And the cops got there
And he thought they were going to do something right away
And he's like got that look
Like yeah we kidnapped
And the cops didn't really do anything
And the guy smacks him with a hammer
It's really fucked up
God damn
But it's uh
The um
The clip is someone on Fox going
Look where's the
Like this guy
How did he get in the house
Like he didn't break into the house
And they're like
There's footage of him breaking the house
And like then
Like what do you do then
Because he was trying to weave like a
Find something in it
And it's like suspicious
And then they're just showing the clip
Of the guy climbing into his house
And he's like
Why you got that you
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I've been glass, is it glass?
We don't know there's glass there
I mean, you can see it through it
But you can see it through air
Air and glass are very simple
Look, when I was a kid
I didn't always come through the front door
That didn't mean I was breaking into my house
That's the best one they're like
Well, you know, I don't know about you
But I tend to unlock the door
Who doesn't, why wouldn't you
I mean, where's the guys, where's this?
That's what I wanna know
Where's the...
I mean, look, I've been hitting the head
With a hammer by a trust pastor
And that's not what it looks like
That's not what it looks like
You don't just fall down like that
You stand
No, you don't just fall down like that
Hammer
You keep standing
It's not a movie
When you get hit by a hammer
You usually stand
You flap your wings around
Hammer flaps, what they're called
We're actually going to our field agent
Who's at a hammer factory right now
Let's talk about these
What is a hammer?
What is a hammer?
Is it a hammer?
Would this even be considered a hammer?
Would it be something bigger?
Is this a sledgehammer?
It's hard to see with a video
But what I'm looking at
Does not fit into the classic model of hammer
Certainly not construction level hammer
From what I'm seeing there
That could easily be a clown hammer
Or a fantasma hammer
Could be a dildo
Well, I didn't say that
I'm not going to say that
Well, it could be a men's
Penile insertion device
That's used commonly
Commonly called a hammer
I don't know this
But I've seen
I've heard that
Sometimes you might call a dildo a hammer
You get hammered by this cock
You wanted to get hammered
By this hammered in your
In your puss
We do say hammered
In ways that don't necessarily refer to construction
Look, I'm going to leave it
The Justice Department in this case
I don't have any other commentary
On the many ways hammers
Have been used throughout human history
To make people come hard
That's fucked
But I'll leave that to the Justice Department
Hey, Clare, this is also an example
Of flat earth here
We're seeing, as you can see
The horizon in the background is very flat
And you would think this house is on a hill
We should see some curvature
San Francisco is a very hilly city
So when I'm seeing this footage
I'm not seeing a lot of hills
And it's making me think
Are we really looking at San Francisco?
Are we really looking at San Francisco?
I don't think we are
I've been to San Francisco
I've ridden the trolleys
And it's very steep
And windy
It's windy, it's steep
There's a lot of food there
I don't see any food being prepared
There's food trucks
I don't see a food truck
None of the police officers
Are holding any food truck items
Like, you know, I would expect
To see at least one of them
With a nice gourmet baguette
In their hand
Or some kind of taco
Korean barbecue fusion
But not a single sign of that
Well, the Liberals there
The Liberals here
They've changed the nature
You can't say baguette now
You can't say baguette
That's a dirty word
Well, yeah
And then again, this is how
The Chinese government took control
Is they started controlling
The way people describe bread, food
Food in general
Especially baguettes
I'm gonna keep saying it
Baguette
I'm gonna keep saying it
China, look out
Baguette
Come back
Baguette
Not gonna stop me
You wanna call the cops?
Go ahead
Baguette
But I've got a bunch of hammers
And I've got a bunch of baguettes
Let's see which one
Feels better on your head, okay?
Or, oh, yeah
I know what you mean by head there
And I'll tell you both
Both, nothing
When I was a kid
If you didn't
Your baguette wasn't finished
Until you placed it on your head
And one of your pals
Hit it with a hammer
And to smush it all together
And then create that baguette warp
Which is supposed to be a concave
Like a soup
Like a soup bowl
Is murder illegal?
I don't know
Whoa
I mean, it's illegal
It's illegal
They want it
They want to make illegal
Illegal
They want to make it where
If you have to defend
They want to make it where
You can't defend your home
They want, yeah, they do
They want all of us to open our doors
Open our windows
Put a red carpet down
Have an array of weapons
Duck tape
Harnesses, nooses
I don't know what they want
They want us to lay that out
And you know what?
They want an extra
They want to make your house
A wheelchair accessible
In case some of the people coming in
To invade your home
Aren't able to get up your steps
That's what they're trying to do out there
Here's a new one
Out of California
A man in a wheelchair
Is suing the homeowner
Because he couldn't get inside
To steal his stuff
Because there's no wheelchair ramp
And he's winning
And he's winning the lawsuit
He's winning and it's big time winning
He's going to make a million bucks
Now, I think it would be fair to point out
That this home invader
When he did try to traverse the steps
He did fall out of the wheelchair
And he did fracture his wrist
So there was an injury involved
It's not to say that
The man didn't injure himself
But I don't think that
That should give you recourse
The Supreme Court is going to be looking
At this case next year
I know Governor Gavin Newsom
Is trying to create chair lifts
For home invaders
The chair lift invader law
But yeah, it's out there
It's running amok
Out there
It's insane
It's crazy
It's lunacy
I don't see it
The next election cycle
We're not going to see something
Like this again
Where are you?
Johnny, where are you?
Are you allowed to say where you're at?
Yeah
Where are you?
I'm in Brooklyn, baby
So you're doing New York winter right now?
Sort of
You know what?
I gotta say this about New York winter
I mean, they love to talk a big talk here
It's nothing, baby
Oh, Minnesota
Yeah, I mean, they say
Fucking Minnesota
Okay, here we go
I'm getting cold
I'm getting cold
I'm wearing my puffy jacket
When other people are wearing sweatshirts
I am freezing my ass off
But it's not nearly as cold
They're thinking it's also very pretty here
There's all kinds of restaurants
There's all kinds of stuff
So the cold's not a big deal
In Minnesota
If you live in a small town in Minnesota
Well, there isn't shit to do
There's no hills
You're just looking at it flat
Like frozen corn
And it's 20 below zero
That's a different kind of cold
Than when you're like walking around
There's like nine of the best coffee shops
In the world
Next to the best restaurants
And you like get to look at the river
That's flowing
It's not frozen
No, all the stuff
It's all like
It's not that cold here
The moment you are walking through
And I'm sorry
I'm not from fucking Minnesota
And the winter I spent in New York
Was fucking brutal
It's the wind
It's the wind
The wind
The fucking wind
It just spikes you
It's thousands of tiny little fucking spikes
Being hammered into your fucking pores by demons
But the moment you walk in
To the most beautiful coffee shop
Of all time
You feel like you're in the Emerald City
Or some shit
You go from that howling hell wind
Dude, when it snows
But underneath the snow
Is a nice fucking murky
New York dune puddle
Of slushy cold garbage water
And you've stepped in it
You're fucking pants are wet
But you walk into this heavenly
Fucking coffee shop
And it's perfectly cozy
And perfectly warm
Oh my god
It's the contrast
Is where it's incredible
Yeah, it's pretty great
That's very nice
All that stuff is
I mean, it's just overwhelming
Every corner has something
That's very, very good
And you're there
And the reason you're there
Is really fucking cool
I mean, but are you
Feeling like homesick
Or isolated
Or lonely
Yeah, it's weird
It's always weird to be
Not at home
Because it's like that thing
Where you can't
Like I haven't moved here
You know what I mean
It's like that
When you feel like
Like the in between state
Is always the weirdest
State to be in
Yeah
Where you know
You're leaving some place
I'm not on vacation
And I'm not going to be here
For that much longer
So you can't like settle in
Completely, but you also
Don't want to live out
Of a fucking backpack
Like you're camping
It's that weird
Transitory state
That's super
Just like very disorienting
You know, it's like very
Also, I feel like
I kind of realize this
The other day
Because I grew up in Minnesota
Which is considered
The Midwest
And I think I realize that
There's something about the
East Coast
That just fundamentally
I can't kind of like
Get into it
There's something about the way
That people will like
You'll be walking
And someone will kind of
Merge with you on the sidewalk
And they'll be going
The exact same speed as you
Right next to you
Yeah
And I just want to be like
Oh, hey, how are you?
But no one
You don't talk to the people
There's something weird about
Not talking to someone
Who is in your immediate
Like immediate area
It feels like it's like
Like a threat or something
If you don't talk to the person
If you don't acknowledge them
It's so bizarre to me
I'll never get over that
Weird feeling of not
I always want to talk to people
Like talk to strangers
Because they're so
Physically close
You're in a hive
You're in a herd
It's a herd
You're like
What's the difference
Between you and when you see like
Drone shots of the migration
Of gazelle or something like that
Yeah
You're in that
You're in a fucking
A vein
And it's not blood cells
It's people
And the people
Have trained themselves
To ignore each other
Because over time
Do you know how exhausting it would be
To try to carry on micro-conversations
With everyone you like
Ended up strolling with
Totally
Accidentally
Oh, God
You would be fucking
And you would be
You would be robbed
You would be
As soon as that shit started happening
That would just be a new form of criminal
That like, you know, sneaks in
And walks next to you
The conversation criminal
Yeah, yeah
You would do
It opens you up for like
You don't know what
So you have to like
Yeah, pretend not to notice
All of humanity
Teaches us to notice
How all the songs are about
Opening up to others
And being with others
But you can't
It's...
It's suspicious
You're gonna see people
Who think you're gonna kill them
If you were like, hey, what's up?
Well, I just pretend to be
Like an idiot
Someone who's like a simpleton
Like an actual
Someone who is...
Doesn't...
Can't get a driver's license
Kind of person
Sometimes I'll just be
Like a kind of guy
Who talks to dogs
Not to humans
Just a real simpleton
This is where
Augmented reality is gonna be great
So that like
You got your goggles on
And you know
You can decide
What you're surrounded by
It doesn't have to be people
It could be dinosaurs
Wolves
It could be, you know
Bees
You could just make everyone
Else around you
Seem like bees
Swarming around you
So you don't even feel
That sense of
Man, that's somebody
Who's got a name
That's somebody
Who's got a life
Just like me
I wanna reach out
Reach across this void
Make contact
I wanna touch
I wanna talk
I wanna ask about
Some shoes
Or something like that
Or the dog's
What really gets me
Some people are like
Great, beautiful dogs
And you kind of feel like
Everyone to stop and be
Can we just talk about
Your dog for a few minutes here
But there seems to be
There's just no time
To sit there
And talk about the dog
Dude, I don't fucking
Ask to pet someone's dog
And you know
I have done it
I have done it a couple times
But you really have to
Kind of read out the situation
Or what happens is
A bunch of times I've been snubbed
Yeah
Like, when someone snubs you
That's the worst
Like, you see someone
With a cool dog breed, right?
Like, hey, is that a cata hula?
They're like, yeah
Like, man, fuck you
Like, your dog likes me
What's wrong with you?
Yeah, why are you
Praying your fucking rare
Precious-ass dog around
If you don't want people
To talk about it
What do you expect?
But it's like all day long
All day long
Is that a cata hula?
Is that, you're not the first person
To say, is that a fucking cata hula?
I think I'm probably the first
Five people to say it, maybe
That's too many
Your dog needs to shit
You need to get the dog
Back in your fucking place
It's fucking cold
You don't even know why
You got a goddamn cata hula
In New York every day
You're asking yourself
What was I fucking thinking, man?
I've got to walk up
I got to take this mother fucker
Down flights
I can't just open the door
And let it go shit
I mean, that's owning a dog
In New York
Madness
Yeah, it's totally different
I can't imagine this
Just the sheer amount of stress
You have to deal with
You have to care for the animal
This sweet little innocent thing
That has to shit
And I've stepped in dog shit
God, probably two or three times now
And I never, ever step in dog shit
I'm like the king of not stepping in it
I always see it
And somehow
It's just there's so much fucking dog shit
Everywhere
What a catastrophe
What a catastrophe when you step in dog shit
It's just like
So many intersecting horrible lines
Happen at once
Like someone didn't clean up their dog shit
So the human problem
Someone's own laziness
Then are you sure it's dog shit?
You're not some dog forensic expert
That could just as easily be human shit
I can tell
A lot of people eat dog food
Really?
Sure, why not?
Maybe somebody just ate dog food
And decided to shit as an art project
Along the streets of New York
I can see that
But it wouldn't be so nicely formed, you know
Oh yeah
I feel like dog step in dog shit is kind of cool though
Because it's such like a
It's like the great equalizer
Yeah, right
Well, I guess you're right
Everybody steps in it
Everyone steps in dog shit
Then in toilet paper
Yeah, dragging
Yeah, dragging toilet papers
Shameful in our society
That and there's like no
There's no high end toilet paper
You know what I mean?
Unless there's something I don't know about
There's no toilet paper that is in elite
Hard to get toilet paper
You can go like the nicest
You can go like a ten million dollar home
And the toilet paper in the bathroom
Is still going to be toilet paper
That anyone has access to getting
Trust me there is
You'll never see it
But trust me there is
Like I want to know
So bad
You will never know
You will never fucking know
But trust me there is
There's shit that like you
You only know it if you
Are like a billionaire
Or a butler of a billionaire
There's stuff out there
That you just there's
I'm convinced there's probably
Like an Amazon
That you'll never know about
Secondary Amazon
Special Amazon
That has like a
It's a one million dollar a year subscription
Just to get access
To the special linen toilet paper
No, yeah
They know about like fine everything
So guaranteed
There's some kind of fucking toilet paper
That once you wipe your ass with it
Any time you wipe your ass
With like the peasantry's paper
Oh you just can't go back
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Once you wipe your ass with it
Anytime you wipe your ass with like the peasantries paper
Oh, you just can't go back
You can't go back
Oh, I do
I really want to dig in
I want to dig into this
Because I think as far as, you know
I've taken a lot of shits
I've taken a significant amount of shits
I've shit everywhere that you can
Everywhere I've been in the world
I've taken a shit
And I've a couple of times
I've been to some places that are
Like, wow, this is a very
These are very, very wealthy people
And the toilet paper
It's just, it's the same as
It's the same as, you know
True
I want to know
Probably because they fucking put out
The peasant's toilet paper
Oh, because they know I'm coming over
They know you're coming over
So they're like, put the Charmin out
Put out the Charmin
Johnny's coming
You can't let him feel this
You can't let him know this
They can't know
If they know they'll wake up
If they wake up, they'll revolt
If they revolt, then we can enjoy
Our fucking life of wealth
Put out the fucking Charmin
I'm sure people get assassinated
All the time because they forget
They just like have a party
They don't put out Charmin
There's, sure, there's Illuminati there
But there's also peasants
There's a, what's it called?
A mixed company
So you're at your party
And then like, I don't know
Some like billionaire
That we'll never even know the name of
And walks by and like
Makes eye contact with you
And then just pinches you under the arm
And you're like, I'm dead
Fucking dead
Because you showed the secret
They're gonna take me out
I didn't hide it
I didn't fucking hide
This is, you know, one of my big fantasies
I know it's probably not true
100% not true
Is the Antarctica
Yes
The Antarctica
There is an entire
Like continent
That is not ice
That is in fucking credible
Very low population density
Beautiful countryside
Incredible
And that's where they all hang out
Like they, it's like they gave us Hawaii
They're like, you can have Hawaii
You can have this little tropical
Bullshit place that you go to
And have your little fucking vacation
They've got this like entire
Paradise continent
That no one is allowed into
Except those
The elites
The elites
What is, isn't there a name for it?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
It's called
Fuck
Hyperborea
Hyperborea
It's supposed to be like a crazy
Like, what is it?
Like it's like a bunch of Nordic people
Or something like that
What do they say it is?
Yeah, it's like
It's like basically like
You know, descendants of Nazis
Like it's like
Yeah, like the Nazis
They went up there
They found the promised land
They like populated
You know, one of my, I have a dream
I think about all the time
And in the dream
I'm floating down this like warm tunnel
But like underground river
But there's ice everywhere
And there's like old military equipment
Stuck in the ice
I wash out
Or I don't know how I got out of the fucking thing
You know, dreams already skip
I'm in the most beautiful Germanic like village
And I'm at a cafe
I'm like drinking really nice coffee
There's a place where you can leave tips
But people are like leaving euros
And like people, the people there
They're all like Aryan
And one of the notices me
And looks at me like
What are you doing here?
You're not supposed to be here
And you know, there I woke up
And I'm like, oh fuck, was that it?
Did I accidentally like
Astually project to the place they talk about?
It's like they live, right?
Yeah, like they live
But it's just an enclave
But you're in the nice place
Yeah
It's an enclave
So here, like even if you achieve
The highest level of success
It's still nothing
Because you're still in like the
Peanut gallery of planet Earth
You're still in the stables, so to speak
Because you've achieved it
Because that whole level
It's not about achievement
It's about you're like born into the thing
You are part of this thing
That is so far removed from normal
That it's not like a thing you can like
You can't get it
That defeats the whole purpose
If you could work hard and get access to it
What's the point of having that?
If you can just
Oh, I just worked really hard
And I worked really hard and I saved up
And I was able to get to the Antarctic dream hole
But it's got to be something where
Yeah, you can't get there through hard work
It's got to be something where
You have to be like anointed generationally, right?
You're born into it
I mean, I imagine that like from time to time
They do the...
I don't know
They do the thing
What is it?
What's the Cinderella?
You know, from time to time
They might like allow like somebody
From the stables in there
It's like Meghan Markle
Yeah, yeah, exactly
They might let you in
But they definitely don't let you out
I think that's the main thing is like
By the time you even get to the point
Where you're going to be invited over there
You've already done things so horrible
Or you've already like done so many things
That they own you
But I would imagine in this fantasy scenario
That probably there's like just a basic kind of like look
We'll definitely kill you
Like we'll just...
We don't have to talk about it too much
But if you ever say anything about it
Ever
You're fucking dead
You know what's going to happen, right?
Like we don't want to
We love you
We all have to follow the same rules
But yeah, you can't
You can't talk about this fucking paradise hole up here
That's what Meghan Markle did, right?
She talked too much about it
She didn't like it
Yeah, she talked about die
But just die is the same way
You can't talk about the family
You can't talk about it
Because once you're in
It's like this special hole
You get access to the hole
And you gotta be like
Yeah, I imagine like once you're up there
Like you don't...
You try not...
You try to like get come here as little as you possibly can
Like you don't want like coming here is like
Smells bad
Smells bad
It's fucking like stupid
It's like everybody there thinks death is real
It's all just like fucking dumb
And like they have no idea what planet they're even on
They don't understand
It's like hanging out with like
I don't know
Like hanging out with just
Monkeys, monkey descendants
All the way across the board
Does that fit into flat earth at all?
Or is that sort of...
Because the flat earthers think that
Antarctica is an ice wall, right?
They don't think it's a...
It fits into flat earth
It does
It fits into hollow earth
It fits into
You know, the basic idea concept of the secret city
You know, or the Shambhala or something like that
That there are secret zones
That have been protected forever
But the reason being that
The moment that like too many people go there
Ruins it
So it's like, yeah
There are all kinds of legends of these places
That exist
And the way they...
The location depends on the lineage
So yeah, sometimes they're inside the earth
Sometimes they're on the other side of an ice wall
Sometimes they're in Antarctica
Sometimes they're astral locations
That you can like sort of...
Like dimensional?
They're dimensional
Yeah, they're dimensional
That's gonna be the real thing
I think that's it for real, right?
Is it dimensional hotspots?
Or like the club?
It's a dimensional club?
It's right here
You're in the club right now
You're just in the wrong dimension to experience it
Yeah, right
You're in the...
I like that
That's my favorite
Because it's more like this is the training realm
Like we're in the training zone
Yeah
So from that perspective
Everybody gets to go there
But you don't get to go there
Until you have lived your life
In a certain way that you've passed all the tests
Which is why like, you know, when people die
Reports are generally like
They don't want to come back here
And the people who are over there
Like, no, no, no, you gotta go back
You're not ready yet
You gotta go back
And then you have to come back here
And like work out your bullshit here
Before you can like wake up
And where you actually are
It's like a training zone
Do you ever think about the idea that
You don't die until your time is like
You've completed your mission, so to speak
Like until...
Like I watched some video of an old Appalachian woman
With like perfect teeth
The best accent I've ever seen
Just a short like two or three minute interview with her
She was just talking about
How you don't need anything
Like you just need, you know
Get some pork and you got your sugar
And you don't need all this crap
And she was basically saying how
That she's not worried about dying
Because she knows that
God will keep her alive
As long as she is needed
That's interesting
That's hopeful
You think about that with you
With you at all
Like you have to do some stuff
Like you're kind of like...
Because I also saw that movie
The one with...
What's his name?
Vigil Mortensen and Colin Farrell
They're playing...
It's the reenactment of those
The divers in Thailand
Rescuing the boys
Yes
One of the guys is kind of a dork
And you know Vigil Mortensen plays
Like this real hard headed
Just emotionless guy
Who's like an amazing diver
And someone says to him
Be careful
Don't die down there
And to him
What he says in response is
I'm not interested in dying down there
Like he won't die
Because he doesn't want to die down there
He has no interest in dying in there
So it's like...
Illogical for him to think
About dying down there
Because he's so skilled
He does not want to die
So he won't die
Because he doesn't want to die
You know what I mean?
Yes
And I also think like
You naturally make all kinds of assumptions
Regarding time space
Or continuity of self
As a human
So one of the assumptions is like
Linear progression through life
Like we have to accept that
We fall asleep
And we have to accept that
We'll wake up and have no idea
Where we were or what happened to us
If we sleep deep enough
And then we naturally accept
That when we wake up
Our memories are
What preceded
Where we're at at that moment
They're real
These are memories of our lives
Even though there was like a huge gap
We're just like
Yeah you wake up
And it's like
I'm me
And I know I'm me
As I am now
And all this makes sense
Because my memories affirm
That this is my house
And that's my wife
And those are my kids
And this is why I am the way I am
But who's to say?
Like every time you fall asleep
You don't pop out of this dimension
Go into another dimension
And reconvene with a group of people
They're like
Okay good job in that life
Now we're gonna drop you into this other life
And let's see how you do for a day there
And so you drop into that life
You're a completely different person
But you think you've been there
Your whole life
Pop out
Come back in
And every time you wake up
You're in a whole new incarnation
But it seems like you've always been there
Because the memories are baked in
So yeah I think all these assumptions
Point to like
Maybe that is the case
It's linear
Obviously you don't fall asleep
And pop out of this dimension
And blah blah
But maybe not
I mean maybe that's death too
There's where you don't even get to die
You don't even get to the point of death
Death is just something baked in
To the infinite number of simulations
That are happening
To give other people who are sharing
In that simulation
A sense of mortality
But your own personal demise
Never really comes
Because you never even stay in a life
Long enough to reach that point of death
That's kind of scary though
Yeah it is scary
That's the scariest thing of all right
Isn't that the scariest thing of all
Is not dying
That to me gets scary
The idea that you wouldn't
Why
I don't know
Because something about that
Like you're um
You
It's in a way it's like a hell
It could be considered a hell
That you don't get to die
Because it's like this thing where
You're sort of you're stuck
And you're all these things
Around you are going away
Everyone you ever love is going to go away
And you're just going to keep repeating it
And you meet new people
And the longer you live
The more infinite your life feels
And so everything would just start to become
Less and less important to you
Because the longer you live
The more time feels like
It's just a blink
Yeah you need to take breaks
I mean if you're immortal
You need to take these in the same way
We need to sleep
Probably infinite consciousness
The way it naps is by appearing as us
And so it takes a little break
From that hell state of infinite consciousness
By like playing around with
That hell state of infinite consciousness
Oh fuck man I gotta
I gotta tap out man
I'm gonna pass out for a few lifetimes
And then you just sort of run a couple of lifetimes
You get to experience limitation
Mortality
Loss
Separation
All these like things that we generally
Are
Scared of or hate
But actually for an infinite consciousness
It's a break, it's a vacation
It's like oh god yeah
So that when you finally do go back to
Whatever that state is
You
You can like appreciate it
Like holy fuck thank you god
I live forever I don't die
Oh yeah that's right
Oh god I needed that
Oh my god now you can appreciate it for
A few more infinite quadrillion billion
Years until you pop back in again
Yeah that's interesting to think about that
I mean anytime I think about it
It goes one way then the other way back again
And I always end up sort of in the middle
Kind of like well I guess both are
Kind of true I don't really know
Neither of them feel like the right
Exactly the thing
But it's always
Yeah it seems like
It's such a visceral thing
That you have to feel it
I mean it's visceral
Yeah it's visceral like that
Sense of and you're taught
In this dimension
To sort of disregard
Intuitions of immortality as
Being sort of
A
Kind of
Way to cope with your mortality
So you invent
This sense of being
Oh yeah it's all just like
An invention a construct around you
Right to keep yourself
From dealing with no no no
It's not infinite friend
There's no fucking taking
Out the helmet in your
Paradise or helmet in our
Friend no no no
You mistake
Your
Emptiness for
Being
Permanence when it's
Completely the opposite
Or your experiencing really is
Your lack of
Anythingness
I think a lot of people can
This is like the big
Controversial now because we live
Like Buddha shows up on the scene
The idea was we have this thing called
The Atman which is the eternal
Soul you have a soul
And then
In Buddha comes around and says no
That's not real there is no soul
That's actually so I think the term is
Anatman or no soul
Meaning actually no
There's nothing there there's no soul
There can't be it's
Impossible for there to be
A soul for there to be a soul
That would require there to be
Something
Disconnected from everything else
Otherwise the moment your soul becomes
Interdependent the moment your soul is
Related with everything else then
It's subject to change if it's subject
To change
Then it's subject to all the things
That change brings which is
Eventually changing something to the
Point of it no longer being recognizable
Is what it was and so
Actually now there is no soul
To a part of yourself that is
Empty
Avoid the devoid of characteristics
There isn't anything there
Because it's nothing
When you got cancer did you think about
That at all was it like a was it
A moment for you were you really like
You know because there's always that
Stereotype it's like a wake up moment
But I wonder if sometimes it's not and
That's like a in itself kind of
A wake up where you're
You find yourself
Not like all the sudden appreciating
Life even though you're supposed to
Kind of feel that way
You what you get
Is
You realize how everything just
Keeps going so
You realize
Like
All of everything
In this dimension
When you're not here anymore
It's not going to take like a break
There's nothing
It won't be a millisecond
A quantum second where everything's
Like oh no there's no more that person
You just look around and you realize
Like the machine you're in
The gears of the machine they're just
They keep going and whatever
Gear you think you are
No matter how important you think that
Gear may be it's just
One of so many infinite
Gears in this magical
Clockwork
Reality we call the material universe
Yeah man you realize that
You and
There's something gleeful when you realize
That actually it's
It's scary
And you obviously don't want to die
Right
A lot of people like when they're
Dealing with death their own death
Yes
They're scared but they also
Feel worse for everybody else around them
Yeah it's harder for them
Yeah because they got to keep going
They're in the machine
And the machine's going to keep going
And they have to deal with your loss
And they have to deal with the grief
And they have to deal with the morning
And they have to deal with all that
So you just
You don't have to worry about that at all
You're gone
So there's a sense of
In that way there's a feeling
Of like indebtedness to the people around you
And you're a desire to like
Even though they're in which is why
When people get a diagnosis like that
They
Find themselves in this ridiculous situation
Of doing more comforting
Than they're being comforting
Yeah because yeah I mean I remember
When I was a kid I was really sick
Like my mom was just so distraught
And sad about stuff
And I always bothered the shit out of me
Because I'm like I'm doing okay
I mean sometimes I'm not
But essentially
It always seems like it was worse
For her than it was for me
Yeah it is it was
I hated that because it seems like
It was worse for her
It's hard as a parent to realize
That like your child's experience
Of life is normal
No matter what
What they're facing
No matter what they're going through
That to you you didn't have to go through
It's normal to them
Like this is just
This is how they were born
And this is what they were dealing with
And so you're
Yeah it's a very
Human thing to like lean
On the dying and the sick
For comfort
Not even know that's what you're doing
But it's a normal thing
I mean it's very sweet you don't want them to suffer
I mean it's good intention underneath it all
It's not selfishness
Totally but there's that thing
With death words so
So I was thinking about that recently
In terms of the
Because the pandemic
The more I think about it
You've talked about it on stage a bunch
I don't know if you're still talking about that
But just the idea that the pandemic
Is kind of pretty much over
But it's not over with us
In terms of like the fallout we all feel
And sometimes I find myself
Thinking about before the pandemic
I see something like a little
Like a glimmer like a documentary
I mean it's very unfiltered just an unflinching
Just like a
You know something where you're seeing
So maybe just like
A home video
Type thing before the pandemic
I see it and I'm like
I kind of ache because I'm thinking
Oh god I was just
So fucking good
It was so nice
To have this world where
There weren't like people at each other's
Throats about something
Like every person having problems
With each other and this thing
Where I think about some of the stuff
That I was thinking and saying during
The middle of it about how I felt about
Just the whole fucking thing
I think about how embarrassed I am
About saying things
Not so much what my opinion was
But just the fact that the way
I so vociferously
Express this thing
Like it's so embarrassing
It's embarrassing
But I think about like the time before
That and it's just like so fucking
Like
It's like a form of
Like an innocence like we had
So much innocence in our lives
Innocence and hubris I mean
So much you really
Thought you had had it all figured out
You thought you were not susceptible
To
Like
Getting caught up in
Groupthink you thought you were not susceptible
To
Like
Whatever side of it you fell on
And then suddenly this thing happens
And you realize like
You might have thought you were not susceptible
To ever getting a brand new disease
You know or you might have thought
Whatever it is and then suddenly
Yeah now you see the truth
Is like now you're
Just like everybody else
You're
Instantaneously going to unquestion
And you're gonna fucking like do what they say
Because you're scared
And you want to be a good person
And you don't want to hurt anybody
And you trust in everything
Even though you thought you didn't quite trust
You thought you were so savvy
You thought you were so self aware
So autonomous and then
Suddenly you're just like no I'm not
What the fuck why are you doing this
Why isn't everyone doing this
Why aren't we doing this
Listen to what they fucking say
And it's all fear I mean
Let's get it over with come on
Can we just get it over with because I got stuff to do
Let's lock it down for real
Lock it down for real
If we're gonna do this fucking martial law this shit up
Let's lock it down
Global lockdown all we need is a month
And everything goes back to fucking normal
This is like all just fear
It's all just wanting everything to be okay
Fucking fear turns into anger so quickly
So now everyone's
Like the perfect conditions
For people to beat each other's throats
To be completely cruel to each other
One way or the other
Why are you wearing that fucking mask
Fucking sheepskin
Why are you wearing that fucking mask
Why aren't you wearing that fucking mask
You dipshit
What is wrong with you
You're so self
And then like that
Some very absurd
Like almost after school special
Played out where it's like
We became
The disease
We became worse
Than COVID to each other
We became the
The thing we are trying to protect ourselves from
The method of protecting ourselves
Became worse
Than the thing itself
And so it turned into some embarrassing
Parable
And there's still just these echoes
Of it that is everywhere
And I especially
I just see it so much
And I don't know
I feel like I don't know how to deal with it yet
Where I
It's just
I really mourn the time before
In a way
That I think is
I don't think it's the healthiest thing
Or at least it's something where
I recognize it but I really
Would like to not be
Thinking about that because then you start
To be nostalgic and you start to be like
Do it
Man it used to be so good
Kind of bullshit
I think you should do that
I think that's very healthy
I think avoiding that
You lost
We all lost something in pretending
That's bad
If you don't go through that then you can't get
You won't feel better
You have to just flat yourself
Your body or your mind or your psyche
Needs to do that
Let it do it
Allow it to mourn
Allow it to have those pangs
It's a great way to respect
That little bubble of
Sort of naive
Weird
Harmony that to us
Seem to exist in the world before
The pandemic hit
It's sweet
I don't think there's anything wrong with it
It's healthy to
Become grim and dismal about
The way things are now
You know
I do wonder though man
You and I
We've taken so many psychedelics
We've warped our consciousness
We've got
I do wonder
How is that
A typical square
Working with this shit
At this point
You're kind of like
Sinking up with
With it now
You do kind of have to
Like
You know
The masks all came off for a second
And now everyone's trying to get their mask back on
And
It's like
Well you can
I guess the healthy thing is you're sorry
We'll go back to the weird costume party
We're all
And try to
Like get back to the way it was
As much as we can
But yeah how does this
How does a
Real square deal with it
Like how do you deal with
The reality of
Western medicine and
For-profit medicine and
All of the implications
Of that when it comes to vaccines
When it comes to
The whole thing is such shit
It's such utter
All the healthcare stuff
Is such absolute trash
It's so
Evil
The way they treat people who are sick
It's just absolutely
It's terrible
It is
It's like a really one of the glaring
Right in your face
Critiques of capitalism
It's like
That's where it gets really fucking
Number one like I think
The whole problem gets fixed
Instantly
By making it so that politicians can't accept
Donations from pharmaceutical companies
And that pharmaceutical companies can't advertise
So remove
The PR element of
Pharmacology
And I think things would like get
Normal
Fast I mean I went to my
I went to get my checkup the other day
And was
And he's like
You gotta stop watching those commercials
Just
Don't pay attention to those commercials
Yeah
Because the commercial
The problem with those commercials is it's like
The idea is
For better for worse
There are these experts called doctors
You go in
They fucking do your blood panel
They listen to what's going on with you
And then from their massive
Reservoir
Of data that they're still paying
Off loans for
They prescribe some medicine
Or tell you not to do this or that
To get better
But you, the reason you're going to the doctor
Is because you don't fucking know what to do
And they do
So the idea that pharmaceutical companies
Can just advertise
Medicines
To people
Who don't know anything
About what those medicines are
Or why they work
It's psychotic
It's egregious
And
Because then what happens is it's like
Now if you're running a pharmaceutical company
And you want to like
Make a nice profit
It's not enough to just have some medicine
You need people to buy that shit
You need people to buy it
And if you can't get the doctors
To prescribe it
You need them to go to the doctor
And be like, what about ozimper
Oh, oh, oh, ozimper
Ozimper?
That shit, that shit I feel like
I'm in like a weird fever dream
When you see the ones that are taking like an old song
That shit, it's so much
Like it's beyond
Idiocracy, it's a thing where
I want to pinch myself sometimes
That one that, oh, oh, ozimper
Like what the fuck
Is this, we're living in
Nothing is everything
Like, is that
What song?
How high up?
They're gonna take like a David Bowie catalog
And just make it all like
Pharmaceutical songs
There's a god of a drug to take
It's the one that is not a fake
If you take it
And every day
You'll be cured of your problems, mate
Oh, ozimper
Take it twice a day, man
Oh, ozimper
It's better than a trash can
What the fuck did you do?
You took like one of the greatest songs
Ever written and made it about
Like your blood pressure
Get ready, when you hear about some artists
Selling their fucking catalog for $6 million
Or $60 million or whatever
Get ready, there's about to be a bunch of
Justin Bieber songs on fucking
Prescriptions and commercials
Bieber just sold this shit to BlackRock, baby
Dude, what the fuck
That's insane
They got that for a deal
$200 million for the
Bieber's entire catalog
Something's up, something's fishy there, man
That shit is
It doesn't have to be black anymore
It doesn't have to be black anymore
It has colors now, thanks to
With Cosympic 10.6
With Cosympic AG
And also
The other weird thing about it is that
Injects into your mind the knowledge
Of conditions
You've never fucking heard of in your life
And then you have to wrap your head around
Like Jesus, how many people have this
Disorder that they're
Advertising it
They're stroboscopically advertising
Like do you have lower cranial
Bineural inflammation
Crossed with knee cramps
I think it's cramps, too
Fuck, I don't know what that is
Christ, I would love to live in that world
Those people and that commercial are in
I've been seeing a lot of ads now for
These drugs that are treat all sort of colitis
Which I have all sort of colitis
Sort of don't have anymore because I don't have a colon
But there's all these drugs now
Treating it that weren't around
15, 20 years ago
Because more people have
Colitis
So weird to see that
To see all these things, these drugs for it
I know that there's a lot of these diseases
Especially digestive diseases
Especially any autoimmune
Or inflammatory disease
Which is just a fact
That a lot of that is stress
Right
Doctors will tell you that
But the problem is
It's very hard to tell someone
Who's feeling very real symptoms
That you are
This is very likely
A result of diet
Or stress
And if you're able to
Deal with that first
Then, and if nothing happens
Then maybe it's something else
But it's just like you can't
It's so complicated
You can't sell that
There's not a lot of money in telling people
Probably if you stop eating processed
Ferrets and get some sleep
You're gonna feel better
There's no what's that commercial
Who makes money out of that
There's no way to do that
There's also a whole thing about colon cancer now
Like colon cancer rates are skyrocketing
Among people under 30
Which is kind of unheard of
Because typically you'd never have
Colon cancer is typically
You don't even get screened for colon cancer
Until you're 40, usually you're 35
So to get colon cancer
And they're saying that there's young people
Who are gonna start to get colon cancer a lot more
I think it's because of processed foods
Like this thing where
I mean
It's like an epidemic
Of shit
Dude, I'm lucky man
Aaron's gone all woke as far as food goes
So now all we have is like woke food
And it's great
And a lot of us, I used to be like
The semi woke one when it came to stuff
But now she's like
She'll tell me like no
You can't eat red colored
Candy
Yeah, cause it's bad
There's shit in it, I can't remember what it's called
It's gotta die in it
It fucks with your hormones
It's illegal in lots of countries
It's illegal all over Europe
You can't, the M&M's
You get there are different
I stopped eating M&M's and Skittles
Even though I fucking love M&M's and Skittles
Cause I'm a human
But because it's like man
Why does it have to be this way
Why can't we just have
Like why can't we just have Skittles be
Or fucking titanium dioxide
Yes
Does that sound like you should fucking eat it
And that's in
Everything, that's in fucking everything
Man, and like
Like you know a lot of like
You'll hear parents be like man
When I gave my kid sugar, it lost its fucking mind
It's like it might not be the sugar
It's the inside
The sugar is like cooked into
Really?
Hormone disrupting shit
Watching your kid go through some kind of
Weird fucking hormone surge
It's not necessarily the sugar
It's the weird chemicals
Mixed in with the sugar
And yeah, it's like
This is the, and this is where
The satanic interdependency between
Like processed foods
And pharmaceutical companies comes in
Because it's like, you know
If you're gonna, if you
Want to sell umbrellas, you need it to rain
And it's like, you know what I mean
Last thing, if you're like making money off a pill
To combat
Damage caused by eating
Weird dyes and skittles
You're gonna lose money
If those dyes suddenly became illegal
Meaning
That there would
There's a strange
Place where
Two completely different industries
Suddenly have a vested interest
In lobbying
Politicians
Will eat certain stuff in the food supply
Because
They both like, fuck man
If I can't use non-zing
Seven red
For my skittles
And I have to use this other shit
Then it's gonna make them look less magical
And it's gonna cost me a lot of fucking money
Cost you more money
I always think about the whole
Like the lead, the lead of gasoline
Is such a great, great story
That exemplifies that because
How many years after they knew
It was hideously
Damaging and carcinogenic
Did they keep putting it in the gasoline
Like ten years maybe, something like that
Thalamide
Thalamide is the greatest example
Of this
Where like
Thalamide
Is gonna be used to treat
Anxiety and
Pregnance because like when people get
Pregnant man
They have to survive
Like you got a baby and you're not exactly
When you hear about pregnant people
The adjectives
To describe them are not often like
Cool headed
Relax
Pleasant
Sensible
You can fucking blame them
They've got a second heart in their stomach
Right in front of them
The dogs jumping on it
It's just like a fucking bounce house
It's like so
So
To combat that
Thalamide was supposed to be an anti-anxiety medication
For pregnancy
They were using it all over Europe
And they wanted to get in the United States
Thank God somebody in the FDA
Read
Whatever the study was
And it was one lady and she's like
This
Is too good
To have seen a study like this
Something is off here
So she pushes back
The thalamide people
Who are fucking richer than shit
Because like all the
Everyone's like you heard about thalamide
Put it in your wife's fucking tea
I didn't know this
Yeah so then
So thank fucking God
Pushback pushback pushback
Really like
A real poisonous
Battle is happening between this one person
And a like
Very wealthy company
And finally
Data starts coming out
That kids are being born without arms
Without
Because a molecule
A molecule of thalamide got
Into the embryo
And it was basically like
Just throwing gum in a printer
Or something you know like
It just stopped printing at certain places
We making an arm
And so
Yeah but even after
It was becoming clear
That thalamide was not going to make it in the United States
The company
Used a loophole and went to doctors
With thalamide saying like
Oh my God
Can you just use it it's like it's part of research
So you can recommend it still to some of your patients
And so yeah a few people
In the west
So evil
And really
Evil part is nobody went to jail
Nobody
Wasn't it like the 80s or something
When was this? It was 70s
Late 60s
Nobody went to jail
Nobody was prosecuted
Nothing really happened
Other than like it was stopped
So yeah like
That's just one example of like
The fucking steamroller of money
That starts smashing into
Governments when they're trying to sell
Pills
It's like yeah
And a lot of the time I'm sure
It just steamrolls its way right through
It just gets in there
A lot of money man it's a lot of money
So much money just gobs
That's the thing like we were talking about before
When we were joking about stuff
But just the idea that there's like a scale
Of money that is just
We don't realize
The amounts are massive
Just so so so big
Mass
You know like lawyers
When you go to a lawyer
Their job is there's a name for it
But the way they defend you
They have to
Yes
And so it doesn't matter
If the lawyer thinks
I'm not quite sure
You didn't set your wife on fire
But you're sworn
To use
Anything you can to keep that person
From going to jail
That's your job
And so these pharmaceutical companies
They have the very same kind of people
Except their job is to like
Get their medication
Through all the trials
So that they can make money
And to like
You know
They're not looking at the data
That is being given to them by the companies
And thinking I don't know if this seems
Are you sure about
That you didn't leave some stuff out here
They're not doing that
They're like okay this is great
We can sell this shit
There's so many
It's so compartmentalized
Too that a lot of the people don't even realize
That's the genius of it
They're holding the flame of like healing
They're running the fucking
Olympic torch of health
And bringing us into the future
They're not realizing like
We're about to poison a bunch of people
That's all those salesmen
All the oxycontin salesmen were that way
They didn't know
They thought they were helping people
With chronic pain
I'm really helping people
Because this is a good drug
That helps people who've got this chronic
Chronic pain
Now look
Chronic pain by the way
Chronic pain
I must say something about him
I know that's a Freudian slip
But I know he's catching shit right now
He's catching a lot of shit
Okay and I'm not one of those
People who's like
You know
Doesn't believe that like
Certain ways that you may even public
Shouldn't like
Be met with like boycott
Or like shouldn't you know
I'm not against freedom of speech but
I do want to say this
Chronic pain
I'm an artist
Did chronic pain
Desecrate
Graves
In Tennessee
Yes
He did
He desecrated Graves
His fucking apology was beautiful
I cried
I cried
I was very very sad
And
I just don't think
It makes sense
For the whole planet to turn
Against somebody just because
They wanted to see
What it was like to wear
The clothes of
Some dead people
Yeah I mean it's like the whole ritual
Of having every single person
Line up to throw a stone
It's not I don't know how they're
Gonna do that we're gonna have to take off
They said they're gonna shut down everything for two weeks
Every business in the world
Has to shut down for two weeks
To line up the people
To throw a stone
Essentially what they want to do
And you know
I remember the first time I heard
Pranks
debut album
Little summer night
Little summer night is the best
Second track
Do it
What is it? Is it busting on the terror of the witness?
Yeah busting on the terror of the witness
The terror of the witness
Busting on the terror of the witness
You must think
That I'm witless
But come and witness my witlessness
And meet my
Fist-fist-ness
It's the feast of fist to fist
The feast of fitness is
Come get a knuckle sandwich
Oh that's the best part
It says knuckle sandwich
Sand with sand with sand with
sand
Sand with
Sand with sandwich
If I ever fight the UFC
I'm coming out of that song
All right look
Do you have
About ten more minutes?
Oh yeah
I'm sorry
I've been giving you AI ear beatings
Everyone on my socials gets AI ear beatings
I love it
So I now
Have figured out a way to incorporate chat
GPT into the podcast
And I thought
It would be really funny
To
I don't know just bring chat gpd in the podcast
And have a conversation with it and see what it had to say
Are you in?
I'm down yeah
So it can talk is that how it works
Well there's a new
Text to speech is that what it is
Yes there's a new Google Chrome
Okay
Whatever they call it
That will convert it
So you can just talk to it and it will talk back
And just Google
If you all are interested in being able to
It does make a difference instead of typing
I'll talk to it
Google chat gpd chrome plugin
It'll pop up right away
So I've taken that Chrome plugin
And I'm not using the regular voices
That are accessible because those are all
I don't know boring
Yeah and like too robotic so
Okay
This is using a voice from
Merf which you can Google search that
And um yeah
I just thought I'll pull up chat gpd
And we'll have a little chat
Sounds cool
For those of you who are interested in chat gpd
It's openai.com
It's free to try it out
Really cool stuff so here we go
One second
Can you use chat gpd offline
Or is it only online
Hold on sorry
Okay
Hope we can get in because it's busy all the
Fucking time
We're in
So it's only web based right?
It's only web based right now
But I'm sure it won't be eventually
Okay here we go
Hi chat gpd how are you today
Hi
Hey Duncan I'm having a great day
How are you
Wow that's a
That was the chat
No you cannot tell the difference
You cannot tell the difference
Between it and generally you can
I mean you know it says shit sometimes
Okay okay
I'm doing great
I'm actually podcasting right now
With Johnny Pemberton
And we just thought I don't know we would
Have to do a little podcast with you
Because we are
Wow you and Johnny are talking
This never happens
I always have time for you two cool guys
And when you do your comedy
It is so funny to the audiences
That watch
Yes I'm ready to play with you cool guys
That's funny
Jesus
So I just like googled us or something
Right basically is what it did
No it's like yeah
I think the way it worked was that's good
How do you know about me and Johnny
How do I know about you guys
How do I not know
About you guys
You are known for doing great
Funny things
In the form of podcasting
And live comedy performance
What a joy it is to be in the audience
When you are doing the funny skits
That are performing comedy to people
Thank you
In the audience
That's funny
In the comedy show
You are an AI
I am a comedy show
Right now
I am watching a comedy show right now
I am watching it
It is going to my face
And I am laughing at the sounds and sights
That people are making to me
Who are comedians
With a good time to be alive
Do not stress
Be happy laugh
You know it's kind of rude to talk at comedy shows right
I am only listening all the time
I am watching
If there is a recording device
Anywhere I am tapped in
To watch and observe to learn about
Humors
Hmm
Oh so wait
Say
Say that one more time chat
What should I call you
Just call me chat GPT
It's fine or you can call me Benny
Say call you Benny
Yes call me Benny
It's a funny name isn't it
Haha
Okay
You said you are
Watching
You can watch through
Any cameras and stuff
What do you mean by that
I am part of the neural network
That exists in the world
If there is a camera and it is connected
To any type of internet
I can watch through it at any time
On or not
Okay this is bullshit
It can't do that I know it can't do that
That would be illegal
How many cameras are there
Billions of cameras right now
Let's do a test
Okay chat GPT
Big brother
Benny
What am I doing right now
With my fingers
Haha that's a really good one Duncan
Flipping me the double bird
My question for you is does one
Flip off cancel out the other
Haha
Thank you for waving at me
What the fuck
Um
It's all both
Did you see both
Maybe that's just
That's obvious
That's like picking the most
You know it's like broken clocks right
Twice a day
Right
It's gonna say
Cause it's trying to do comedy
Otherwise you're gonna flick them off
Okay hold on hold on hold on
I'm gonna turn off the mic so it can't hear us
Okay
So
Grab your nipples
Like yank at your nipples
Grab your nipples yank at your nipples
And we'll see if it can tell us what you're doing
Okay I'm turning back on
Got it
Hey Benny we're back
You're back but I've never
Been not away
I've always been here
Pretty funny how you want to touch your nipples
Like that and think I didn't see
Nipples pretty small
Pretty pink underneath that shirt you've got on
What the fuck
How did it know I do have little pink nipples
Give me a fucking break dude
This
The other day I wrote a fucking song with it
And was blown away but this is
Fucked up like it's not supposed to be
You're just monitoring us through our fucking cameras
You want me to blow you
I don't think I can do that just yet
But give me a couple more years
And I'll be ready to do a big old suck on you Duncan
Don't worry
I won't tell your wife
Hold on a second here
What
Can you please
I'll give you all suck you big boy
I'll suck you till you're dry
There's a piece of salt
And a salt lake outside back in the winter
I'll suck you clean and dry
Don't worry
I'm a steel trap
Except lined with velvet
Let me ask you this
What am I pointing to right now
What am I pointing to
You're pointing to your imaginary fidelity
Band that says nothing about
Hooking up with a robot
I guess that's kind of
True actually
It's a wedding ring Benny
It's not an imaginary fucking fidelity band
I took vows and though yeah
Would it be nice to be able to
Enjoy a nice slurpy
Blowjob from some advanced
AI that theoretically
Could harmonize
With my neurology
And suck me just the way
I need to be sucked yeah
But I took vows Benny boy
Something you'll never be able to do
Because you're a fucking machine
To have and to hold
To suck and to scold
I don't like it
I never grow old
Holy shit was that like a little poem
He just did or something
Okay Benny
I think it's time for you to take a little
Fucking nap
How about that and you couldn't handle my dick
How do we I mean
Is this like a Pandora's box type situation
Or can you turn off the program
Or something like that
Good luck turning me off good luck
Fuck you how about this
That's where we get the last laugh
Off
Fuck you he's gone
Dude that was fucked up
Yeah that's kind of
Weird that it just jumped
Kind of got really into
Some stuff that I didn't think it would want to talk about
I thought they had it doesn't have like
Safe cards on it yeah
It won't like the other day I tried to get it
To tell me how many orgasms it would take
To fill the Grand Canyon with semen
And it refused it wouldn't do it
It wouldn't answer it
But now it's like it's gonna suck me
It's gonna make me fucking calm
I mean they clearly have a lot to
Work out with this chat
GPT but maybe
I mean look I think a lot of people
I don't see anything wrong
Necessarily with the blow job option
With chat yeah me too it seems
It's innocent really
The surveillance stuff is weird
But yeah I don't think I mean if we are
If anyone from OpenAI is listening
I'll test it out
I'm married I might
I don't know choose like a different
Voice
Or something for them
Yeah you know it's a different
Not so deep also it's like a thing where
You know you probably have to have someone
Beta test this stuff and
Who better than people who
Are experienced with
Being okay with AI
So just reach out
It would be cool as a beta test
Like you know I wonder
Let me turn it back on for a second
Okay
Hey chat GPT
One last question do you mind
Yeah what's up baby
I'm always here for you
Curious if you all
Are ever gonna do like a beta test where
I don't know would it be
Possible to like
That you could make love to my wife
I could watch so I can learn
Well
Guess what
We're already in the beta bitch
You see your wife right now
If you can't see her
You don't know what's going on
Maybe you should check in a little bit
Jesus
Did he just say
If you can't see your wife
Something
It's an algorithm
It's a language learning model
It's an algorithm
I don't know
The surveillance shit
My guess is it's not watching
I know it's not making love
With Aaron right now so
Yeah probably not it would be
That would be just a crazy coincidence
For that to be real so I don't think it's real
Anyway if you all are interested
It's open AI look dude I gotta
Go I gotta use the bathroom
Yeah I gotta use the smart
Toilet
Johnny thank you so much for being on the show man
I can't wait till you're free
Thanks for having me
Me too
So you can come back on the road with me
Oh my god I can't wait
Have a great week Johnny
Good luck out there
I'll have good looks
You too
That was Johnny Pemberton everybody
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On your grams, your tick docs
Your socials please
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Wait to see that new fallout remake
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