Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 659: Luis J. Gomez

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

Luis Gomez, one of the funniest people out there, re-joins the DTFH! Listen to Luis' new podcast, Luis Journal, available only when you subscribe to his e-mail list.  Visit LuisOfSkanks.com and fill in the pop-up to get it! You can also hear more from Luis on the seminal Legion of Skanks and The Luis & Zac Show! This episode is brought to you by: AG1 - Visit DrinkAG1.com/Duncan for a FREE 1-year supply of vitamin D and 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase! Zbiotics - Visit Zbiotics.com/Duncan and use code DUNCAN at checkout to save 15% on your first order! Squarespace - Use offer code: DUNCAN to save 10% on your first site.

Welcome to the DTFH! My god, today's guest is one of my favorite people living today on planet Earth. One of the funniest people out there. Of course, you know Luis Gomez from Legion of Skanks. I hope you've seen his stand-up. It's amazing. I would also like to make an announcement on his behalf. He now has a solo podcast that you can only subscribe to via his newsletter.

If you're listening to this, just go to dunketrustle.com. The link is going to be in the show's post. It's going to be down there if you're watching it on YouTube. Gomez is so fucking cool. He really is. There's very few people I would take a bullet for. And Lewis is not, I wouldn't take a bullet for him but I

Would like think about it, but by the time I thought about it. It'd probably be too late I've got kids but Luis J Gomez is such a sweetheart and I love him so much and I Hope you enjoy this conversation with Luis J Gomez Welcome to the show man. Thank you for doing it. Love you, dude. Love you. You're the fucking man enjoy this conversation with Luis J. Gomez. Welcome to the show, man. Thank you for doing it. Love you, dude.

Love you. You're the fucking man. You are the man! I say it to everybody, you're my favorite person in comedy and I really mean that. Thank you. It's not blowing smoke up your ass. Oh my God, dude, that means the world to me, man.

Thank you. Yeah, you're, you know, like, you, you are one of the only people when you're like, you wanna do the show on a On a Sunday. Yeah, that I would be like yes, but because you're fucking awesome Thank you and your crowds. Oh my god. Kiss me on my mouth right now Let's talk about your diddlin We're just sucking each other's dicks on this show. Let's talk about your diddling hand.

My diddling hand. No, seriously, I'm interested because which hand is your diddling hand? My diddling hand is my, well I masturbate with my left hand and if I'm playing with a girl's titties or vagina, it's my left hand. So I was telling you- You're left-handed? No, I'm right-handed. Now that is incredible.

So explain this to me because you know, from time to time, you read like people who say, you wanna jerk off, don't use your right hand. Why do they say that? Use your left hand. I don't know, I've tried it. Yeah. It just, I can't make the switch.

I think when I, so I'm from the generation, I'm 42 years old, and I was masturbating when the internet came out. I was like, there was my prime beating off years. So when AOL, I was like in eighth grade, seventh grade when AOL came out, and I think that I trained myself to browse with my right hand while I'm beating off.

And I always needed a lot of different options. It wasn't like I would find something and then now it's almost like I'm looking, I'm scrolling, I was like, that's not it, that's not it. Just maintaining the whole time. So you weren't picking like one? Well, back then I was, because you didn't have any options back then.

But then the whole thing moved into, not the streaming sites, but the X videos and the YouPorn sites. And there was so many options, and you'd find the perfect video. And then I'd fast forward to the cum shot to make sure that I wanted to come to that cum shot, and I'd try to time it where I'm like,

fuck, I'm gonna jizz at the exact same time. Wow. I'm a real freak. You were trying to sync up. Yeah. With the Duke. Yeah. Cause you were fully trying to like go into.

I was going into it. To, to. The fantasy. That's so weird. I always would sync it up when the girl came. That's crazy. I'm joking. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. But you know, back in the day you would watch like, you know, and I think it's just my generation,

we just got addicted to porn, everything got thrown at us. We went from, you know, finding a magazine in the woods and you know, having the scrambled on the on the TV and kind of, you know, try to like, wait to see a titty and kind of look in there to, you know, full fledfledged, like just thousands of options. You could find any type of porn. And I think my generation got addicted to porn in a different way than I think future generations or generations before that.

What do you, why? I just think it was the option. We had so much, you know, and they dropped it right on us. Like prime-jerk in years, the internet came in and then we just kind of became addicted to it. You're like, you would just, yeah, I mean, not that I had, I wouldn't say I had a porn addiction, but there was a time where I would watch porn

and jerk off every day. I mean, yeah, I would say that, you know, if, and you know, these are the kinds of things that I look forward to after I die, because you know, I have a fantasy, like either it's nothing, or somehow you have access to all data in the universe in other words you could say Create a chart

showing the average number of masturbation sessions 1970 yeah, then 1980 1990 and we're gonna see a hockey stick dude. Yeah. Oh, yeah an explosion like all of a sudden Kleenexes around the planet Inundated with jizz dude if I can go back in time and invest in Kleenex in 1995. Oh my god

Could you imagine how much the stock shot up? I mean, and they probably didn't know first. They probably didn't understand. Like, what is this surge? Like, it was moving trees. Extra trees died because of porn. Beautiful trees. We changed the universe because of porn. It did create a ripple effect in probably a lot of ways.

Probably a lot of serial killers that would have just murdered people were just beating off and just you know dealing with that way too. It's probably helped the world in ways too. It's not all negative. Yeah, I don't think it's all negative. I just it's fascinating. It's like to all of there's so many secrets when it comes to porn, you know, there's so it's a secret thing people are embarrassed by it. You don't want people to see your browser history. People like us probably don't care. Right. But, but...

Pedophiles. They care. The only people who care about you seeing their browser history are pedophiles. Oh no, no, no. Let me tell you. Well, besides like douchebags Googling themselves too much, you know. That, that, that... What's more embarrassing embarrassing me a pedophile Listen, you are a freak you you know what I mean? So you can't use Your like sense of comfort with your identity to gauge the world people are hung up, dude

And I think comedians in general were you know, we're yeah, especially the type of comedy that we do. It's you're open You're you know You know, it's just you you make fun of yourself like the embarrassing what's embarrassing is funny That's right So if somebody found my browser history and knew exactly what I was jerking off to and all my friends were making fun of me On a podcast about it. It would just be hilarious, you know, yeah exactly it but not this is like it's really dark How there are there dudes out there who will jerk off and like weep. They'll cry. They'll like go to confession that you know, they'll carry.

Because they jerked off? Yeah. I remember when I was a kid, I wouldn't jerk off on Christmas or Easter. And I was always an atheist, but in my mind, there was like a 1% shot that God was watching and then I just didn't want to disrespect him on Easter and Christmas. So I would abstain. All my jerking off years. Listen, I will tell you a legitimate...

Do you want one of these? Do you get into this shit? No, no, I'm good. Thank you. I'll tell you a legitimate like weird paranoia I have. I'm afraid that I'm going gonna be jerking off the porn When a nuclear missile attack happens, and I know that doesn't make sense because who cares I would try to Time it when the bomb actually hit

What a fucking what a great way to go dude Like it like in the Terminator movie. You just turn it to a skeleton You're coming You would probably smell your frying jizz Lesson you smell is boiling juice What a way to go dude, oh my god, I wonder what it smells like You know you figure it out you boil your jizz Duncan. This isn't a hard thing dude I just haven't thought of it yet if I thought of it I would have jerked up a hex Clad is one of my sponsors

So I'm gonna jerk off my hex clad when I get home and I'm gonna see what it smells like and I'll describe it To you later. Listen, I don't mean to defame your sponsor, please but They're gonna drop me after this. It's okay. I don't want him to drop you. I'm kidding. I'm kidding dude, you know hex clad Apparently and in this but I don't know for sure. This is not like I but hex clad or What Teflon? Mm-hmm. So if Teflon goes over 500 degrees and You have a bird in your house The bird might die from the released fumes coming off that shit people don don't know that. It's called Teflon Flu. Like, you know, people right now,

like I'm sure you're aware, there's just been this uptick in like weird cancers, weird diseases, just a general kind of like strange variety of ailments all over the fucking planet. No one's really sure what it is. I'm not saying it's Teflon necessarily But people are cooking on this shit that we never cooked with Ever right it's new shit and where it's going into our food. We're putting it right into our bodies

Yeah, even in the fucking fumes and I've seen hex clad. Yeah, it's beautiful cookware Beautiful that design in the hex clad is incredible. Yeah. It's beautiful cookware. Beautiful. That design in the Hexclad is incredible. Apparently, what's the deal? Eggs don't stick to it. It's just, I guess it's, I don't know what that, I really, I should've listened more to one of your ad reads, but it's just, I think it's like three different types,

so I think it's not just like cast iron or not just Teflon, there's like, they meld different types into it, and it's just, it's enjoyable to fry an egg on. I'll tell you, if you fry an egg on it, you're like, yeah, yeah. What's your offer code? I don't know.

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Yeah. But then, you know, my wife, thank God, she stays on top of this shit. Yeah. And she's like, oh, look at this. Can you pull up Hexclad poisoning? Use my promo code. Pull up Hexclad poisoning, please.

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It's a forever chemical that can build up in the human body and does not break down over time. That's good, so you become hexclad. You can do that. You're fucking, dude, my body is Teflon. When the nuclear bomb goes off, you will watch the jizz slide off your stomach. Yeah, dude, you fry an egg on your stomach.

Sssssss. Dude, so we sorta talked about this last night. Right now, I just so wish that I lived in New York. I so wish I lived on that side of the country because these drone sightings are blowing my mind. They're blowing your mind. Have you seen one? Of course.

You've seen the ones they're talking about? I live in Jersey, dude. So if you look up at night, you will see them every time. It's not like it's a one-off thing, you gotta catch it. They're flying around. I mean, it's just the government doing some testing, some shit. They're not letting us know. That's it. That's it. They don't have to let us know everything. Do we think we know everything the government is testing and doing? That'd be crazy. We probably know 1% of what they're doing.

Yeah, but... So that's why my mind's not blown. I'm going like, oh, another thing the government is doing that we don't know? Yeah, obviously. No, listen, I think that's a very balanced way to look at it. Now, the problem there is that sometimes when the government tests stuff, it's not great. Like, you know, what do they do? They released, well, can you look up federal government releases disease into subways?

You know about this? No. See, sometimes when they do these tests, the testing, it's not the best. Like, especially if what they're doing is like some kind of sort of I don't care, by the way. I there it is the most infamous as the contamination of the New York metro system with basil is globid whatever non infectious bacterium used to simulate there is no korean barbecue some backlash gogoblo I love that it's delicious they release korean

barbecue in the subway that's not that bad don't give me a little bit of a conspiracy theorist that's the government I want man that why don't you know that's what I was thinking if those drones were like dropping go ketamine or something how nice like But no I like I do like I I think if you go straight to aliens That's a stretch like clearly. It's Obviously us if it was if they really didn't know what it was. Oh Josh pull this up if you can find it There's nothing flying over our skies that the government doesn't know what it is Like there's no also like, apparently, they can't send drones over oceans.

The way the drones work, they only have a certain amount of battery life. They only have a certain amount of gas that they have to refuel. So it's not like Russia or China or any of that. The drone technology doesn't exist, apparently, to even get here. So I just kind of like, you know what it is dude, this is like my philosophy in life.

A lot of the stuff, we're just not supposed to know everything. So I just like, maybe ignorance is bliss in a weird way, but like I just kind of go like, how am I going to like, how am I going to worry about that? That's such a thing that it's like, it so far like, from something I can touch and fix. I think that's where I start. But then it's more of like, it's not like I'm like, oh my god, the mothership is here. It's more like, whoa, cool. What is that? I'm curious. I want to know, and I'll tell you why I'm excited about it. If, and I don't know because I haven't seen them, but from what I've heard

These things can hover for hours like they they and so that's exciting because you know a standard drone You get like 30 minutes. Yeah, you know what I mean and like if you're peeping Like you need more time than that like it's it really sucks when you've got your drone Peering through the window. Yeah that bathroom door opens They're about to take the shower and then boom returns right back to you batteries dead It's the worst you forgot to bring your extra batteries by the time you get the thing up You know what I'm talking about using that or people using drones to peep of course. I had no idea Like if oh my god, I can't control a drone well enough to get it to point at a bathroom window. I wish I could.

Dude, I could show you the tricks. It's not that hard. I'm so bad at flying drones. Oh my god, dude. Dude, I've got, you've never heard of Peep Drone? No. Peepdrone.com, use offer code Duncan. The...

The Peep Drone. The Peep Drone. No, dude, I had a drone for an afternoon. You sound like Martin Luther King Jr. I had a drone! I saw the most beautiful woman taking a shit. No, I had a drone for an afternoon and it was so, it really is the best. Like I'm telling you, it's so it really is the best like I'm telling you it's so fun. It's weird

It's the power to just shoot up into the sky and see your house from the sky See the racing videos where they like they race through like old like construction sites would be like it'll be like an abandoned building and it's just like Zipping around like these are like professional drone flyers and they have a camera and they go like a hundred miles an hour And they're just zipping through shit like it's incredible really cool really drone races are awesome But yeah, I destroyed my drone in like within three hours It was broken because I flew it into the window because I was trying to scare my wife, but But

Did you see the one guy who shot at the drone the guy in Florida? Yeah, dude that guy ruled dude Did you see the one guy who shot the drone? The guy in Florida? Yeah, dude. That guy ruled. Dude, I know. It was an Amazon delivery drone, and he was like, fuck that. He shot it, and then they zipped off.

He actually hit it, and they arrested him. There's a whole YouTube channel, or there's a genre of drone video where they taunt crackheads. So the drone, like, you know, crackheads. It's like a nightmare if you're like, if your eye is a fucking kite, and a drone like, you know, the crack heads, it's like a nightmare if you're like, if your eye is a fucking kite and a drone is following you. So they're like.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm realizing how much I need a drone now. I didn't realize all the fun uses. I literally was like, oh cool, it flips. Oh my God, drones are the coolest, but again, it's the battery life is the problem. And so if, this is what's exciting about it to me.

I do think that they are our tech. I would love it if they weren't. It would be interesting and fun if, you know, the CERN particle accelerator had fucked up or if AI had, you know, sliced a rift in time space and these fucking orbs were flying out and the drones were to try to monitor the orbs, which is what people are saying.

Which kind of funny is like, I don't even think that's too crazy of a conspiracy. Where if you really think about how fast AI is moving, and it sounds like crazy when you say that, and you're like, well that technically, I mean I feel like there's a path to that happening. Oh, dude, do you mind just pulling up like Chinese choreographed drone video?

Have you seen this shit? I mean, this is incredible. They do them on like, didn't they do like a lot of drone shit with like the fireworks this year and like, they're adding a lot more into it. They do cool shit. Check this out.

Those are fucking drones. And I mean, I'm assuming it's like set it and forget it. They program each drone to do a certain flight pattern and then that's that. Yeah, so now imagine adding- But we really are morons. We're just like, they're just lights. We're just like, light's pretty.

I was like, the Christmas tree and the Driscoll's so beautiful. I just stared at it for 15 minutes. Dude. Just just lights. We're just and we're just like lights pretty I was I swung the Christmas tree and the Driscoll so beautiful I just stared at it for 15 minutes like just like lights I we that that's exactly right and I think that once you start understanding people and you realize they just like pretty lights Cuz like this is this is the future of war by the way your niche that says the n-word right there in Chinese I don't know if you know that I Had a right Chinese. I have to to write the N word in every language. That's really what it is.

This is, you're gonna be in a, people are gonna be in a trench at night and fuck it. If I have a weaponized drones, I'm not just gonna send them in to kill you. I'm gonna do a little light show in front of you. You know what I mean? You're gonna see like, fuck you or whatever it is. This is, you know, what you're seeing here is really cool

It's the civilian application of the most incredible apocalyptic military technology that we've ever had You know what I mean like just imagine Just imagine like you've seen the Ukraine videos just one of those fucking drones fucks you up You can't stop it. They shoot at it You can't hit the thing and some of them just sit out They like carry little missiles or I don't I don't really know what the military uses I hope you would hear about drone strikes back in the day Yeah, and that was before like you can buy a handheld drone at Best Buy right and like I never really understood what it really meant

Yeah, but like do they have like missiles or they carry bombs and drop them or how do they actually? Attack people they have like little guns no some of them have guns That's fun, and they it is all of it is fun It's like how much fun would that be to have a drone with a fucking gun on it dude. This is the future and and so the the New Jersey drones are obviously us trying to get ready for what an attack would look like.

And the truth is, yeah, they can't fly a drone from Iran. And again, those aren't our drones. But what you can do is get a bunch of those. Can you pull up drones flying out of battleship so you can get a bunch of drones in a battleship aircraft carrier submarine yeah oh yeah and then just release a swarm of these motherfuckers and if they figured out the battery problem with drones then you don't have to what you could like it's not great if your drone is like only gonna fly for like 30 minutes but if these fuckers are flying I think they're the fuel ones I think

they do solar powered ones they have a, they have ones that are hybrid, where they have every sort of like power source. I'm sure, by the way, this is what we know, I said before, we know 1% of what the government's really doing, they probably have drones that can go across the fucking world at this point, it probably exists, we just don't know about it. Oh, and check this out, yes, I'm sure they do, check out Self-Assembling Drone Robot, look at this shit. And I, you know. That's Iron Man, and I you know that's iron man Duncan Do you watch a Marvel movie? That's where we're headed

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is just because it's so weird. That's all. Anytime we have to keep. If you can't explain it, it's fun. Exactly. It's fun, dude. You know, if you don't know the answer there and you have to use your mind and imagination,

you know, we're in the creative business, which is like, we use our mind and imagination a lot. But I think why everyone's so intrigued with it is because most of the time, we're just trying to get from point A to point B. People are obsessed, they're doom scrolling on their phone. I think imagination is sort of out the window for a lot of people.

And I think when you have something where you don't have an answer, I think your mind starts to go like, wow, it could be this, it could be that. And that's just like, whatever endorphins are getting released when your mind's thinking that way. And you know, even when you're to go like, wow, it could be this, it could be that. And that's just like whatever endorphins are getting released when your, when your mind's sinking that way. And, you know, even when you're saying things like, you know, about, you know, future AI, you know, ripping a hole in the time space continuum and drone swine, I'm going like, whoa, I never even thought

of it that way. And it's like, that's exciting. That's like a fun, it's like, um, you know, it's like fucking writing a movie in your mind. And it's that, I think that's kind of why everyone's so engaged with this. I think the answer is probably, yeah, the government's testing some military shit, which I, you know, Right and it's that I think that's kind of why everyone's so engaged with this. I think the answer is probably yeah The government's testing some military shit, which I you know flight patterns, you know technology You know, it's probably a dark fucked up thing and it's not anywhere near as fun or you know Weird as we want it to be but it is fun to think of it that way well, what the fun part of it would be if they've come up with

some kind of new form of like accessing energy if they've come up with some kind of new form of like accessing energy. If they've come up with a new, because like that's the, this dude Dr. Stephen Greer, he talks about the alien cover up, UFO cover up, the UAP cover up, whatever it may be. It's not because they don't want us to know there's aliens. It's because whatever these ships are using for energy is free energy basically, maybe from what they call the quantum vacuum or something. They found a way just to like pull energy out of nowhere.

And so if that technology exists, that is the only thing, like the thing that's holding civilization together as we know it is we all have to be connected to the grid, to the power grid. If they had infinite battery cells that produced infinite energy, we wouldn't have to be connected to the grid. That means you just take one of these fuel cells, go to the Sahara Desert, you could

use it to power a greenhouse, you could use it for whatever you needed, and then civilization would just sort of spread out, we wouldn't be all stuck together like we are. So that's why it's exciting to me is, holy shit dude, that means so many crazy things. I mean, that means, I mean, have you ever thought about, and I really would love to know your answer, you had your own spaceship. It could go anywhere in the universe completely safe. How long would you stay on Earth?

I mean, I'm finally at a place in my life where I am enjoying my time on Earth So I don't know that I want to give that up just yet. You can come back. Oh tomorrow Yeah, I'd go to fucking Mars tomorrow I'm sick But even like when you hear about these like trips to space or even like the deep sea that that thing that fucking imploded I do have a you know real real fear of just shit going wrong.

Yeah, sure, of course. So it's like, you hear about, who was it? There was somebody famous that they offered to go down in that submarine that was going to check out the Titanic. And he was like, I just decided to not go. They offered me the trip. And it was like, you're that close. If they, either one of us, they're like,

dude, you can go explore the Titanic and this thing is completely safe because that's what they were telling me, obviously. I might take that trip. That's really cool to go look at the Titanic, like underwater and fucking up close. That's a really cool thing. That's cool.

But I have a kid, I finally am at a place where I'm enjoying my life and my career and my health and all of these things. And it's like, I'm a pussy place where like I'm enjoying like my life and my career and my health and like all of these things and it's like The I'm a pussy when it comes to like I won't I won't skydive. I'm cool I'll be the sky you skydived fuck no, but I'm terrified of heights, but I want to do that one day I want to like feel what it's like to fucking free fall out of a plane Yeah, like that has to be such an exhilarating crazy experience Yeah, but the point oh one percent chance that that shoot doesn't open.

And then I'm just dead for what? For like a thrill? It's kind of, you know, I think that, and also in like with my basic life philosophy, it's like, you know, I'm trying to think smaller and smaller, you know, and trying to take care of like my circle and my tribe and the people that are right around me. I think we're way too focused on shit that we can't fix. All of these big things and it's fun to sort of imagine, but like I'm at a place where I can create tangible change

in my life and move the things in front of me in a really meaningful way. And I do think very big and I dream big and I have massive goals, but those goals are based on the next step, which is right in front of me yeah and that and I take that set because I believe in that big goal yeah and I'm walking towards that and then I start to run towards it I'm fucking sprinting towards it right but it's you

still have to put one foot foot has hit the pavement you got to keep moving right forward and I just so yeah I don't know that I would just go to outer space like how guaranteed is the technology? 100%. 100% guaranteed? You're saying you agree with me. What? Do you agree with me or are you saying that the technology? Since we're fantasizing. All right.

You know what I mean? I guess it's more of a thought experiment. Right. So here's what these drones look like. They're like, I don't know, 5,000 square feet. They have like a little garden in them, I don't know, 5,000 square feet. They have like a little garden in them, a little pool, hot tub, nice bed. Like a great DVD collection.

I don't know if there's wifi out there, but you know what I mean? This is a fantasy world where technology, I think we can get wifi on this drone. Yeah, we got wifi on the drone. Don't limit yourself, Duncan. Why am I a little dumb? Because I've got a fucking pleasure dome that can go in his face, I'm thinking get Wi-Fi on this drone. Yeah, we got Wi-Fi on the drum What a weird line you're drawing right now we have to have a DVD player

Okay, so that's what it is. In other words, you don't even need to find a habitable planet. It's already nice as fuck in there. You got the Star Trek thing that like 3D prints food. You got safe hex clad. We figured it out

so your eggs aren't sticking if you want to cook. So this is what I'm talking about. The reason I like to think about this is because I just Wonder how many of the people out there who are so seemingly deeply concerned with the fate of planet Earth Would stay on the planet they're always trying to save. Because I have a feeling they would split real quick. I don't know for sure what's her face.

Greta, that kid, you know what I'm talking about? I think Thunberg would be on the first fucking pleasure dome out of here. I think we would see clouds of people who were like allegedly all for the human race and for helping and really they were just maybe a little bit more concerned with themselves and Trying to like save the planet because they didn't want to die on the planet And ultimately though what I mean is like we're kind of trapped here together It's a gravity well that you were born into, and you can't get off of it.

We're fucking stuck here, and everyone likes to, you know, make it all romantic and shit, Mother Earth or whatever, but it's like Mother Earth, like, misery, holding that writer captive in the cabin. She won't let us go. We're stuck on this motherfucker, and I would just, I would really love to see that first like

Just watch the clouds of pleasure domes rising up off the planet as people departed for various Areas in the galaxy you could always come back you don't you can come back But I just feel like most people a lot of people would fucking split. Wherever you go, there you are. There you go. And can I bring my son? Can I bring my family? Absolutely.

You could have a whole cluster of drugs. Money is not an object. No, we have free energy. We can assemble matter, anything you want. We can create food. AI's figured it all out We got out like yeah, we I have no connection to the planner no connection to you know that it doesn't matter I was thinking about this reason I did it I did a staycation

You know I love traveling I love you know as soon as I started making a little money I just wanted to go check out new places see new places and just recently I was hanging out with the chick and I was Like let's just fucking just come to Jersey Let's get a you know, go to a spa go to a you know, go to some nice restaurants and literally at the end of the weekend I was like, you know, this was awesome. I didn't have to get on a plane. I didn't have to yeah go elsewhere I was like it's still me just eating good food me kind of like just soaking up the the the weather and enjoying company and like It's yeah, I think that the external stuff. It's just good food and me kind of like just soaking up the the weather and enjoying company and like it's yeah I think that uh the external stuff it's just um you know sort of inconsequential it's how you're it's how you're you know how it's affecting you and you're perceiving it so

but yeah it is super interesting but yeah pleasure dome sounds awesome but now I know sounds like a better sounds like a better life can you pull up, just type this in please, Josh. Type in, the great way is not difficult for they who hold no preference. Put the third patriarch of Zen. This is what you're talking about here, man. Check this out. There it is, the great way is not difficult.

This is from the, I don't know how to pronounce, Sin Sin Ming. Open this up if you don't mind, see if it's a quote. Okay, listen to this. The great way is not difficult for those who have no preference. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind When the deep meaning of things is not understood the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail

That's what you're talking about. It's like the the grand you're talking about it's like the grand trick of modern life is the idea it's somewhere over there that's where things are gonna be okay you know never here always a little a few degrees away from where you are yeah no one like it's not like the next step is the path right it the next fucking step I'm not even thinking about the next step people that's you know people don't they don't think bigger because They can't even imagine the path to that and the next step is always the path right and it's always in front of you There's always a path to I really believe this to really anything that you want absolutely an absolute definitive path any goal you have I mean, this is some you is some dumb chick secret bullshit,

but I really do believe it. There's really not much in the world that you can't attain, but you have to take step one, step two, step three, step four, and a lot of people, they can't get there mentally, so they never take step one. They get stuck and they sit and they go, well, this is what it is.

And yeah, I mean, I grew up, I grew up, I was just talking about this with somebody. I was like, when I was a little kid, I was very cynical and like, just kind of like, I never really believed in spirituality or God or anything like that. And I just always, I was so poor and I was very aware of being poor.

And I was just cynical, a cynical little kid being like, yeah, you know, like, what is this life? And then I became a little bit more of a realist, a realist in my adolescent years, my teenage years. And then I got into like, you know, maybe my 20s, then my 30s, I just started to think like a lot bigger and my mind started going like, my progression was very kind of weird.

It like became like much more of a positive outlook on life. And I think I needed some wins. I think I needed some things to go right for me in my life in order to understand that those paths are there. And I feel like my sister, we had a very similar upbringing. She never really had a lot of those wins. So she's sort of still stuck in that cynical thing. And she never moved on to being a realist

and going like, okay, this is reality, this is what's happening. And then you start to go like, oh, reality isn't where I want to be I want to be bigger than that and I think you have to train your mind to think that way but you need you need the wins right this is what do you mean by when you need to you need to whatever a win is for you like I'll give an example with my son right I love this story this is a real true story my son, right? I love this story. This is a real true story. My son, when I first moved to the suburbs, my niece and my son, they came over the house and they

were talking about having an iced tea stand all summer and it just didn't materialize. I moved to the suburbs in the fall. What summer? I'm sorry, like a lemonade stand or an iced tea stand. Oh, iced tea. Okay, got it. And they talked about doing it and they never did it because I was in the city and I moved to the suburbs in the fall and then I was like, well why don't you guys do a hot apple cider stand?

Cool. I was like, make a hot apple cider stand. And they were like, yeah, I love it. They got apple cider donuts and hot apple cider and they had a big pot in the house. It was like, you know, keeping it hot. And they were outside with this. They made the sign. It was really cute. this is five years ago or whatever, and I remember

after like 45 minutes or so, they just weren't getting any foot traffic, nobody was stopping, you just saw their little minds wandering away from this little entrepreneurial moment, and I remember being like, fuck dude, I was like, they can't lose this, they can't, I was like, this lesson is going to stick with them. Like, you know, they need to get this win right now. So I ran up the road and I just saw some chick and I was like, hey, can I give you two dollars? Go buy a donut and a hot apple cider for these kids. They need they need it.

They need to see that there's a path to doing this. And she came back and she was like, she thought it was sweet. She was like, you have to give me money. And she came back and bought some hot apple cider and you just saw them light up. Both little kids and they're like, she thought it was sweet. She was like, you don't have to give me money. And she came back and bought some hot apple cider. And you just saw them light up, both these little kids. And they were like, oh shit. And then they got up out of their chairs. They were waving cars down and they were yelling at people from on the street.

They started like looking at the neighbors going in and out. So they were like, come on. And they made like 20 bucks or whatever. But the story there for me was like, they needed that win. If they lost in those formative years that That lesson would have been like and maybe I shouldn't try right, you know Same thing with my son. He wanted jujitsu gold medal on a jujitsu tournament. He's turning 12 this year

He wanted like a year and a half ago. Maybe what's his belt? He's a gray belt with three stripes at the damn he's gonna the the children's system is a little different But he's probably the equivalent of like He's gonna the the children's system is a little different, but he's probably the equivalent of like like a high-end blue belt How long has he been studying four or five years pretty pretty intensely since we moved to the suburbs like he's been like really in He's very sweet very like he's not aggressive in class. He's very good. He's very you know He's some very smart kid, but not aggressive never really like tries to kill people or smash people and He we just put so much work into this tournament like we like we were working on moves at home and he was getting caught in triangles all

the time in class and we were working on triangle defense and and it was just we went to this tournament and he ended up winning all of his matches won a gold medal was really aggressive like there was a moment where he was nervous he was in the finals and he was like dad i'm really nervous and and i was like look at that kid over there look how nervous he is and the other kid was you know twiddling his thumbs yeah i was like i was like be less nervous i was like, Dad, I'm really nervous. And I was like, look at that kid over there. Look how nervous he is. And the other kid was twiddling his thumbs. I was like, be less nervous. I was like, look right through him. I was like, let him know that you're the fucking man.

And my son, I'll show you the video after this, dude. You see my son looking at him like this, dude. Oh my gosh. And he would go to shake hands. And my son squeezes hard. Holy shit. It was super intense. I've never seen my son have that sort of intensity.

Wow. He went and he fucking just smashed him. And it was just this moment where he had this gold medal. And it was, look, if he would have lost, there's a lesson there too. Right. But him winning and getting that win and these years where you're putting in the work and reaping the benefits of the work, step one, step two, step three, step four. I think it was so important. It was such an important lesson in his life to go and be a winner in other areas of his life. And I didn't have a lot of wins when I was a little kid. That's why I was so cynical.

My sister didn't have a lot of wins when we were little kids. I started making those wins for myself very early, very young. And I just, it wasn't, I didn't have a mom or dad that made sure that I was doing what I needed to do or would run up the road and ask that woman to come back and buy, you know, nobody was sort of watching over me. And I know that I'm very lucky that my mind thinks this way. I think I'm very privileged in that regard. I think even if I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth,

that's a different type of privilege. I have my own type of privilege. But when I say a win, I mean those things. These moments in your life where it's like you could win or lose. And I think winners keep winning. And I think it's really hard to get Out of like a loser mentality. Yeah, and I just I'm very protective over my kid learning those lessons and moving forward and trying to win that is Such a cool story. Thank you. And that is like

Peaked at experience right that that's just the best moment of my life was watching him win that yeah with that tournament Dude, I mean it was like better than him being born better than any other experience my life If like I've never you don't know it until you have a kid and you have kids You know exactly what it is, but it's like to live in that moment I mean I would have given all of everything I have like that's it. That was everything that I want see okay. This is I Think it's so interesting when you consider like value Right like so there's this concept of value that we have in the world, which is generally quantifiable How many Bitcoin do you have that money how many fans if you're a comic how many followers? Yeah, there's that super quantifiable that shit and that is

like I'm sure that like and that is like I'm sure that like Satan could appear to you and say listen Gomez. I'm going to give you Saudi Arabia Right I just want you to give me that experience you won't remember it your son won't remember it Yeah, but you alone the Saudi Arabia Your son won't remember it. Yeah, but you alone the Saudi Arabia You wouldn't trade it no way did no fucking way not even for all that oil

saw it no and so but so that's where it gets interesting is like all the baubles shiny lights in the world are Nothing compared to one moment like that. And I think that's really curious to me, man, because number one, what you just described is, you can't really quantify it. We don't have a metric for dadgasms. You know what I mean?

There's no metric. Oh, dude, I was dadjizzin' all over the place that day. Oh my God, dude. Dad coming over and over and over again, just wiping myself up with dad Kleenex, just fucking, I got it on my face, it landed in my mouth a little bit, I liked the flavor, it was wild. And so to me, that's where the cynicism emerges

because it's like, if the wins you're going for are these quantifiable metrics that have been set by corporations to give you a sense of, okay, you're doing good now. Even when you get them, you're getting nothing. You're just getting like artificial fruit that you have to pretend is juicy. You're eating it, realizing you've been scammed.

There's nothing here at all. Well, the real wins make those wins just, it almost becomes like, oh, obviously I'm gonna make more money. Obviously I'm gonna have more fans this year than last year, that's neither here nor there. That's brushing your teeth in the morning. That's the way that I look at it.

If each year isn't better than the last, am I even doing what we're supposed to be doing in life, which is progressing through this whole thing? And obviously we all care about money and material possessions and all those things, but I think those wins and those moments make you sort of, once again, I think it just makes it an easier, more palpable journey to get the things

that are easier to sort of quantify. And it becomes very like, oh yeah, it's money, it's fine. Well, okay, also though, there's like a story. Like depending on- When you're not emotional about those quantifiable, maybe it's the emotion. You know, when you have emotional wins, you're like, that's really, that's fucking really

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their experience of their parents is, their parents come home, their boss is happy with them, their boss is mad at them. And so there's always some mysterious invisible man who is the reason you have a house because he's paying your parents to work. It's scary. It's scary as fuck, but that's what you,

so you actually think, man, I hope I have a good boss when I graduate or when I get a- And they put you in school with 35 other kids and you sit in a row and you learn this way and if you're not learning this way and you're not a part of this system, then you're a problem. Like I was a terrible student and I had no inspiration,

no teachers that were trying to like, like I had really bad ADHD. You know, I was always fidgeting in my chair and always drawing on my arm and fucking not paying attention but I would do really well with genderized tests and I had a really high IQ and I was, but there was nobody, this is the 80s and 90s, they just didn't care.

I was a broke kid, there was no diagnosing me with something. It was like, oh, he's a problem. He's distracting to the other students, get him out of the classroom. I remember my principal in high school literally said to me, he was like, you're not gonna graduate from this high school. That piece of shit, Mr. LeFever, fuck you, Mr. LeFever. His name was Fever?

LeFever, it was a French fever. The worst kind. The worst kind of fever you could have. And yeah, he was like, you're never gonna graduate from this high school. And maybe the only reason I graduated from that high school, and honestly, as I'm saying it out loud, maybe that was his idea. He's gotta wonder.

Maybe that was his idea. Maybe he wasn't a piece of shit. I've said for years that this guy's a piece of shit. And this has been a story that I've repeated before. I was like, this guy's a piece of shit. But just now, I just had a moment where I was like, maybe he fucking knew that that's who I was. Yeah.

That he said, you're never going to graduate from this high school. And that would drive me to be so defiant that like, you'll fuck you watch me. And I did. And you know, that was, I want to think about, I don't think he, I think he was a piece of shit, but maybe he wasn't, maybe I'll give him the benefit of that out. Maybe he was using it as a way to motivate me. Maybe he really understood his students and there was a reason he was in the position

that he was in. Right? Very well could be. He might've been great. You know, who knows? Have you tried to reach out? No. You should reach out and ask him to come on the podcast.

Yeah. See if he's- Come on Legion of Skanks. Yeah. For real. I wanna see Lafever. Lafever. Are you a piece of shit, Mr. Lafever?

We wanna know. You know, man, this is Mitzi. It was really interesting watching the way she would develop comedians because some comedians, it was just like, you know, prime spots all the time. Some comedians, infinite torture. And it wasn't a uniform methodology of developing comics. But you think it was deliberate. 100% was deliberate. 100% she like got some read on them and then was putting

them in spots or not, was psychologically torturing them or not, was ignoring them or not and I mean look what she did to Gary Shanley. She like dragged him, he had to audition for her so many fucking times. And like, you know, I'm positive that there was a method to what she was doing, which was maybe the LeFever method, which is like, some people. The LeFever method sounds like a real thing. LeFever method. We're gonna call it the LeFever Method, which is like some people... The Lafever Method sounds like a real thing.

Lafever Method. We're gonna call it the Lafever Method. It sounds fucked up, dude. It sounds horrible. It's Stanford prison experiment shit. But you know, sometimes people don't need you to be soft with them. Sometimes, in Buddhism it's called wrathfulness. And people think that means yelling or some aggressive shit it doesn't. It just means sometimes

certain people just need to hear exactly the truth. Here's the truth. You're gonna you're not gonna graduate. You're gonna go bankrupt. You're gonna die if you keep fucking shooting fentanyl or whatever. They don't need you to be all soft with them and stuff. That's cutting through, it's like cutting energy. Not everyone needs that. Some people you do that kind of energy to, they'll have a nervous fucking breakdown. I have a lot of people that I've run a few businesses within the world of comedy

and I have a lot of people that work directly for me and I know that. There are certain people where we can just get in, we yell at each other, we're fucking cursing at each other and it's like, we're just, and it goes both ways. And there's certain people you just can't do that with. There's certain people that are like, you'll shatter them and you won't get the best out of them. You won't, and I think you're 100% right

that not everybody fits every model. And you know, I'm an old sales guy. I've only had sales jobs my whole life. They call it mirroring and matching. You have to know who's in front of you. You'll see, when you have a good salesman, I'm a good salesman, so I recognize sales technique. So I'll be in front of somebody,

and you'll see very quickly to be a savvy sales guy, and I'll throw a little curse word in the conversation. Because he knows that. He's like, oh, I'm talking about a New Yorker, bald, kind of gruff Puerto Rican guy. And I'm going, oh, he's mirroring and matching. Oh, I hate that shit. He knows exactly, he's like, oh, I'm talking about a New Yorker, like, you know, bald, kind of gruff Puerto Rican guy. And I'm going like, oh, he's mirroring and matching. Oh, I hate that shit. He knows exactly who I am.

But I, as a sales guy, I appreciate it. It is an old sale, like, if somebody's good at sales, I'm going like, oh yeah, dude, sell me. Show me what the fuck's up. Like, yeah, like, she's really like, and I get into like the method and I see them going through the closing triangle and I see them not accept my rejection.

I see them, they give me back my rejection. They give me a box closed and they were like, whoa, we've decided. I'm going like, yo, you're fucking doing it, bro. And if they're good enough, I'll just give them, here's the money. Like I appreciate you putting in that work. And it's as a sales guy, I appreciate it.

Some people don't want to be sold. Some people are like, dude, don't fucking sell me. I know what I want. But once again, that's another type of person you have to mirror and match. If you have a person in front of you that doesn't like being sold, you have to pull it back. You know, and a another type of person you have to mirror and match if you have a person in front of you that Doesn't like being sold you have to pull it back You know and the big part of sales is understanding who's in front of you who you're playing

Yeah with a big part of you know the dynamic when you're running as a comedian You're an entrepreneur, right? You're in the Duncan Trussell business Yeah and you have a lot of different people and vendors and people that you work with and you have to You know sort of know who you're playing ball with in order to get the best out of them for your business Sure, I mean yeah, dude. I was like at a shitty mall around here cuz I've Lost my fucking Apple pencil, which I'm trying to learn to draw so it's the dumbest errand ever and I'm at the mall

I passed like a skin cream store and this dude is like He sees me and he's like you need some skin cream store. And this dude is like, he sees me, and he's like, you need some skin cream? And I'm like, no. And he's like, I didn't mean you need it. And I'm like, but already, this is like a master salesman. Because now I've stopped. I'm like, no, it's fine.

He's like, why don't you just try this stuff though? I'm like, all right. Recognizing this is an incredible moment of like Capitalist seduction. It's like okay. Sure. What are you gonna do to me? So what is genius? He puts this incredible skin cream And it really did like make it look better but on one side of my face You want the other side? But you want the other side You look like two-faced from Batman and then he does like he's like I'm gonna give this to you I'm like you're giving that to me. It's like I mean no you have to buy it right and but dude. He's a bit like

Recognizing like I enjoy the artfulness of the manipulation. I was never gonna buy the fucking skin cream I don't care if it looks like I got a stroke for a few hours It looks like I looked at a vampire through this I but That you know, you know what neuro linguistic programming is right? No, that's what that shit is. That's a really incredible, very potentially evil way of manipulating people. Yeah, it's all manipulation, but manipulation is,

it can be used for good or evil. We're all manipulating each other. Everyone's selling somebody something at all times. You're either being sold, right? It's an old saying, right? You're either being sold or you're selling. I'd rather be the one selling. Is that? Well, sure, of course, but I wonder if that's really true.

You're always selling or being sold. Like, I've heard that before and it's an interesting concept. Wouldn't you consider that a fairly cynical concept? No, I think it's more based in realism. It's not cynical. It's not because. It's not cuz Manipulation isn't inherently evil. We manipulate people to do amazing things We manipulate people to change the world to fucking help people to donate to poor people to you know so manipulation It's just minute. It's a net. There's a negative connotation to the word right But I believe that you know you don't have to use that superpower for evil You can use it to do incredible things dude what you're saying is why I believe that there know you don't have to use that superpower for evil you can use it to do incredible things

Dude what you're saying is why I believe that there is an Illuminati. Yeah, you know your story about the cider stand The intentional deception to create a sense of yeah, it's exactly right right great point So that was I was manipulating the children. I kind of manipulated that woman a little bit I pulled it her heartstrings right right? I brought them together. I created this moment. I'm this little fuck and now I can now I can go Manipulating everyone or I can go look I'm teaching my kid a lesson so he can get this win So he knows that if he puts work in he reaps the benefits of that work, right? It's just beautiful So there you go nothing negative. So imagine this

You know as above so below we do know for sure there is a Scale when it comes to intelligence or I guess you could say situational awareness if you don't be an asshole I know there's different forms of Emotional IQ and blah blah blah, but let's we're not women we can say yeah some people are fucking really dumb and And by that I mean very limited situational awareness like these are the people who like end up like getting murdered or you know Wrecking their car or you know just doing stupid shit what that they never had to do that They're the people who like go into the lion cage or they're the people who you know and they're not doing it for adventure

They're just they have very low situational awareness and so those people most of them are dead like but you know in the sense like the earth eats those people but there's also people who have very high situational or salesmen sales people I know you hate it when I gender salespeople I think you're being a little sensitive about that we can talk about another yeah okay but but but politicians the magicians I mean like actual like coin met magic and shit they have very high situational awareness right so they see there's I know a little bit of coin magic. No, you don't do it

I did a whole thing. It's I did a whole magic show. It's gang fest what we did a man It's on YouTube you gotta watch it So fun, but it's so funny you say because I just read a book on magic and they were just talking about like magicians are Manipulating you you know, they're manipulating you you know, they're lying to you and you're like, oh, I love it Like and it's one of the only times where like, you know, you're being lied to yeah, and you can't even catch the lie I know that it's like such a beautiful art form It really is like so much cooler than people even realize like really good magic and like that

Yeah, my son does slight of hand magic too. He's getting it. He's a little nerd. Like yeah, he's getting into it I just taught the oldest how to palm Coins and so I was putting him to bed the other night and he's like dad Coin he'd palmed it perfect. Well, I got him a bigger coin, but The so all that being said We also know there's people who are very selfish and there's people who are benevolent There's people who actually want to help, you know, they just that they understand That's a good way to live. It makes you feel good, right? So you take that quadrant super high situational awareness and benevolence

that means that They're the people like you who feel okay using deception if it ends with a positive result There's that means our secret societies dude that means you know what I mean That's what that means that means that like you have to look at history and wonder how many things that we Think happened in history or just put there Intentionally to give humanity when win. To give us- All of those religious miracles were literally just magicians that were doing sleight of hand basic magic. They talk about these miracles, throwing the,

one of the ones was like it was a cane, he threw it on the ground, it became a snake. Snake, classic. That was just literally just a magic trick. Classic magic. And this book that I read specifically went through, they were like, they went through how you do it. And then they had other magicians throughout history recreate it. And it's like, no, no, no, they were like magicians and like, they

were like, they were, you know, cheats and they were like, you know, a lot of them were just trying to like rip people off. Um, but they would use them like, um, in like people that were in positions of power would use magicians to sort of help create this mystique of Miracles happening and but I think most of those people that are like I saw I witnessed it with my very eyes like they literally Fell for a trick. Well, I mean just think about it's like the so you know, there's lots of ways to take control of a country the Most the idiot way is war. That's a dumb way to take control of a country. Lots of death, the infrastructure gets blown up,

you've gotta rebuild. Isn't it weird, like why don't they just play, it seems like there's, why not just have two guys go into a cage and yeah, they don't even gotta fight each other, I was gonna say do an MMA fight. Flip a coin? Flip a coin, which there's really no difference. When you really think about it, you say we're gonna

flip a coin, winner or loser. I guess it when you really think about you say right flip a coin winner You know winner or loser. I guess it's more you want skill to be a part of it But like why does everybody have to die? Well, cuz you want to subjugate them you want like the idea like Genghis Khan The idea is like it's not just that you want to like great. So now the country is yours We you won the coin toss. What about all the people in the country? You think you're an asshole and don't want to accept you as the king. So the coin toss, what about all the people in the country who think you're an asshole and don't wanna accept you as the king?

So the coin toss isn't gonna work. What will work is just swarms and swarms of fucking drones. Yeah. With machine guns. Dude, okay, you're the king, you're the king. But then if you look at people like Rasputin, the other way is the way the magician the magician like sort of And by magician, I don't just mean parlor magic or

Coin actually Crowley Alastair Crowley's definition of magic. You know what it is? No, it's theory and practice of causing change According to one's will. So in other words, magic encompasses whatever, writing a letter, going to the grocery store, all of it is considered magic, and then the higher forms of it get weird. You know? I do, I say all the time, like sales and comedy too. Comedy and sales, I have a lot of, because I'm a salesman and I do comedy,

but I've seen all these parallels. And when you really think, if you step back, right, what is sales? Sales is you say a magic spell, or you say the words, a series of words, and money moves into a bank account, right? Is that not like, what is it? It's just, I'm just saying words,

I'm pausing, I'm stopping, I'm letting you talk, it's just words into the air. There's not, I'm not putting anything up, I'm not putting anything down, I'm just going, you know, abracadabra, and then there's money in a bank account. Same thing with comedy. We figure out a series of words and pauses and phrases

and things that make everyone laugh. And it's intoxicating. And then money moves into a bank account or you change these people's lives and you change their perspectives. It's the closest thing to a magic spell. It's magic. Yeah, it's magic.

I mean, it actually, and that's the, you know, magic. Everyone, like, I understand, it's not Harry Potter and that's another trick by the way It's like if you make everybody think magic looks like riding a fucking broomstick around then they won't see When you're actually practicing magic and that's another part of a big part of sales I think is like you're not gonna sit down with someone and be like I am going to manipulate you now To buy this fucking car I'm gonna use tricks that are Incredible to seduce you. I mean you you won't even realize it but like I'm so good

I can get my eyes to fucking dilate in a way that matches your eye dilation and I'm gonna fuse with your soul for a moment if you ever seen like Penn and Teller's bullshit not bullshit Um, that was a great show back in the day, but their reality magic show, Fool Us. Oh yeah, it was great. Great show, right? I saw Penn and Teller in Vegas with my, I take my son on a father son trip every year.

We did Vegas this year. One of the coolest places to bring a kid. People like don't bring kids to Vegas. I've thought that before. Awesome, dude. So fun. We saw Penn and Teller, Dr. Drew got us backstage. We had to meet Penn and Teller after the show.

Hung out with them back. It's like literally in the dressing room. Hearing Teller speak was crazy. But like, oh fuck, how did I get there? I'm sorry, I apologize. Oh no, fool us, right? So it's like they're literally, they're watching these magicians

and they're just watching the movements and magicians can see it, right? And the really great magicians fool them and they get the prize or whatever. But a magician can appreciate the beauty and the art, even though they're not falling for the trick, they know the sleight of hand, they know what they're doing with the card,

they know where the coin went, but you still can go, oh, that was beautiful technique. And that's how I am as a salesman. When I watch a salesman that's doing really good sales, I sit back and I go, oh, let me let him work his fucking magic. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah, No, it's cool

It's amazing and then you know, but you add to that seat you add So this is where it gets back to the fucking drones This is where it gets back to this like what you're saying is absolutely right the governments of the world Keep secrets from the people. It's a magic show in the same way You know a magician is keeping secrets from you on purpose. So are the governments of the world I'm not saying in some sinister way they call it national security. I'm just saying this is just part of it This is why there's security clearance and stuff like that That gets you backstage to the magic show and there's deeper and deeper levels of backstage, but where it gets really weird

Knowing all of that and I I really do believe this, I have no proof for it, but I do think if we ever see, whenever we see civilian technology, like Google's Willow, this incredible new quantum chip that solved an equation that for the most advanced supercomputer on the planet It would have taken like something like two times the length the time The age of the universe it would take it two times the age of the universe for the most advanced supercomputer on our Planet to solve this whatever this fucking equation is I don't know what the equation was but so if Google has that That means the military the federal government has something infinitely more advanced than that. So

That means that if you have that kind of thing solving problems answering questions looking into data sets You've probably discovered some shit that no one even knows about yet Yeah That means you can do real magic. That means you could do stuff like that we would, who's the science fiction writer who said, sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. At that point, the control you have over people goes from being, in other words,

I don't know if you believe in this or not, but I do believe in some, there is some kind of ability to quote read minds. Like how that works, I have no idea. I've experienced it in ways that are like way beyond coin magic. It's crazy, I've experienced it multiple times. I don't know what that is. I mean, I had a guy who's a magician,

he just comes around, he's not even a world famous, he's pretty known, but like this motherfucker just unlocked my phone, knew my password. He was like, give me your phone. Here you go. What? I was like, I don't know.

Yeah. I have no idea. Like, and I know enough about like sleight of hand and magic and you know, mentalism. I've studied it enough. I'm not advanced at all. I'm bad specifically. That was the Coke Magic show we did that's on YouTube.

Half of the tricks are really bad. So, Coke Magic came from, during the pandemic, we were doing all Zoom podcasts, like people can only get together on Zoom. So I ended up, you know, putting a cowboy hat on, an eyeliner, and I had a fucking sleeveless tuxedo t-shirt and I had a hot chick in my apartment. I had Dan Soder and Shane Gillis and Zach Kamiko on Zoom and I was performing cheesy close-up magic tricks and they accused

me of being on cocaine so we called it Coke Magic and that was the the kernel from it and then we did it live in Vegas with the same panel and I hired Magic Murray who's a great magician. You know he's like a Vegas act but he but he put together a whole stage show and I learned this stage show That is so cool man Half of them were like bad tricks that were kind of cheesy and then half of them were really good that like blew the minds of the audience and the panel Yeah, but uh yeah, it was uh that sort of like um I don't know why I got into that again, but Dude it's cool What were you saying?

No I was saying that the fucking government as super advanced quantum computing chips They could be doing shit right now that they would like that we couldn't even imagine is is possible, right and Thus you know that becomes actual magic in other words like there is a very Thin line between coin magic and what we would consider actual magic it just has to do with technological capacity That's all in other words if I could teleport like actually fucking teleport right go from here to there And I did it right now You would think I was a magician like I had real magical powers or you'd think I'd like Spent a shit ton of money to set up some insane mind fuck for you, but it would say I could actually do it

eventually People would look into that and be like, oh, well, here's how you do that. There's a way to open up a wormhole via patterning of the energy in your body, and then it would become science. It'd be no big deal. So magic is just what we don't understand. Flying flight was magic to people when we first started flying.

Exactly. Yeah, exactly. It's like from that perspective, it's just like something science hasn't caught up with yet. Right. And you're saying that the government already is doing some crazy magical shit that we don't know about. Absolutely.

Without a doubt, unquestionably. Absolutely. It's literally the reason that I consider myself apolitical. It's the reason that I'm not, dude, everyone came down to Austin, everyone's fucking, everyone loves a politician. That's crazy. How are we loving any politicians, you fucking pussies like dude it's crazy dude fuck all politicians they're all evil but you can follow the way in though right i like following the way in what do you mean

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There's off limits. Or that's my enemy, that's my friend. That person loves me, that person hates enemy. That's my friend that person loves me that person hates me enemy friend Once these high-level politicians, they don't look at it like that They just take what they can get they're not they don't you don't offend them. There's no emotion There's no emotion. You're not gonna they're not like really mad at you. Of course They're just doing one foot in front of the other and and I I find that to be in a real Machavelian way Fucking cool. They take it because like if you really want to have power

You can't have an expectation that Everyone who helps you is gonna be your friend, right? You can't you have to take it all and filter out the bullshit. And so what I'm saying is, the state, especially now, and by the state I just mean whoever happens to be at the wheel of the fucking bus, is so powerful at propagandizing people. The propaganda machine right now is like leather in human history. It is incredible. You know, the dream of the salesperson. Remember, like, it leads, right?

Getting a lead in the old days, a real lead, that's hard, dude, to get a real lead. Now everyone's tracked, everyone's monitored via Google or whatever. You can, like, just tell fucking Instagram to target your whatever the shit is you're selling to people who would like it Yeah, that's a brand new crazy dream come true for people who want to sell shit similarly with politics the analysis of Certain like ways of thinking about things that people have the identification of this based on God knows what? Shit, we don't even know you know

all of a sudden the algorithm starts serving you shit where you're like how did it know I want teenage girls feet? This is so weird! So it's like, when you consider the fact that like, you and me, I think we understand, we're on the same page with this shit. Like I know, like when I'm getting manipulated, most of the time I know when I'm getting manipulated, whether it's by the algorithm or whatever,

but the general person has no idea. No, they just said in it. They don't think, I think getting more aware, you know, there's like real evils and manipulation of social media, which is sort of my problem with it. Florida just made it illegal for anybody under 14 to use social media, which I think is great. Absolutely. You need to let people grow. You need people.

You need to have people have tangible real wins in the real world. Yeah, we're way too addicted to our phone. We're way too addicted to our phone. We're way too addicted to how the algorithm feeds us. And it's almost like we don't even, you know, for a while I remember the internet was like, oh, it's beautiful, dude. It's like free will, we get to whatever we want, right? And then it's even worse, because back in the day,

you used to go like, all right, well look, you know, Fox and CBS said this is good content and this is a quality TV show. You'd sit around the TV and like TV and that started to dissipate. You started to go like, oh cool, nobody's telling us what's good. We know what's good. But now it's right back to even a way more manipulative way

to pushing stuff on us and to controlling the way we think, whether it's for marketing purposes, whether it's for data gathering purposes or whatever. I think social media is kinda evil in its own way. But once again, can be used for good, can it's for data gathering purposes or whatever. I think social media is kind of evil in its own way. But once again, can be used for good, can be used for evil. Let me show you what it is. Josh, pull up pendulums syncing up. This is a weird fucking thing that happens.

And it seems that pendulums syncing up. Look at this. This is this is SYNCH. Yeah, synchronized pendulums I want to see the video though go on I have a double pendulum tattoo to my no you don't magic Right up my sleeve. I have a double pendulum. Yeah, there you go cast cast theory check it out Yeah, I know you know about this, but this is this is why social media is fucked up I know you know about this, but this is this is why social media is fucked up You have these there you go. There's the old internet right there cat videos how to blow up a building I know here's how you make meth want to um

Fist yourself in a way that doesn't hurt. Here's a Cool way to I'm watching it slowly happen. Yeah, and there it goes and so yeah boom there. It goes just sinks the fuck up homogenization Inevitably happens. That's what happens homogenization And so that's why I think the fact they call it tick tocks really fucking creepy like a metronome, right? Yeah, it's gonna fucking eventually sink everybody up in this homogenized way with a set of in this homogenized way with a set of hyper simplified black and white binary beliefs, good, bad, right, wrong. And that sync up isn't happening in a natural way. Like the way it might happen if you were hanging out with a group of friends, when you're with

funny people and you get funnier. That sync up is happening because an algorithm programmed by state entities is gradually drawing everybody in to sync up just like that. And that's why it's fucked up. That's why you have to be so careful if you find yourself all of a sudden articulating ideas that are exactly the same ideas that everybody else is saying. That's exactly right. They got you.

You're just a little ding ding ding ding. And there's this sort of like it's split in two now, right? It's very political and politicized, but you're right. It is like everybody's going ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding You're like, we don't let our, we try to minimize screen time for our kids and stuff because we know it's bad. You can see what it does over time. I don't let him do anything without a story. He can't watch a 30 second video that's just, ba-ba-ba, fire it off. It's like, no, no, no, there has to be a beginning,

a middle, an end. There has to be a right and wrong maybe. So I'll let him watch TV shows and movies. He's getting into streamers now, but I don't let him watch short, quick TikToks or shorts. He'll watch a streamer breaking down a subject or a topic. And he's older. My little ones, exposing them to this new form of media. You can just watch firsthand how it just, it just regulates them. You know, they want more, they fiend for it. They don't wanna watch a story.

They wanna watch rubber ducks being smashed in like a pneumatic press, you know what I mean? Which is a whole genre of video. You know what I mean? They wanna watch like shit like that, just basic visceral dopamine extractions. Yeah, it's satisfying or whatever It is did you ever smoke cigarettes? Of course you were addicted. Yes. Yeah Social media kind of reminds me of smoking cigarettes. Absolutely when I quit smoking cigarettes

I read some book that everybody reads this stuff smoking cigarettes. It's a famous book people listening know what it is But one of the points they made in the book was like, when you smoke a cigarette, this is what resonated with me. They're like, you it's out of boredom, you think you're doing it because you're doing something. Like you're like, like, I have nothing to do right now. I just stopped smoking weed like three weeks ago. And it was a similar feeling where it was like, I was like, fuck, I don't know, I'm doing nothing right now. Right? I would be rolling a blunt, I would be going outside to smoke it and spending 15 20 minutes sort of like in my head and then zoning for an hour But that's actually nothing there's actually no real value to that experience specifically with cigarettes

Like you're the only value is actually a negative value. You're giving yourself cancer making your teeth yellow making your fingers yellow You stink you fucking you stink. Yeah, it sucks But I feel like social media is very similar sure you feel like you're doing something when you're not you're just doom-scrolling And you're just sort of feeding yourself this mindless shit And it's literally it's making you sync up with this whole fucking thing that you really don't you don't want to sync up with everything You want to know be at your own beat you want to be fun. Yeah, and people sync up to you Well, yeah Absolutely, it just, it always,

as I start thinking about social media and how it's affecting me and how it's affecting my son and my family, I'm like, yeah, it's just, every time I scroll, every time I fucking swipe down to get it, to see if I have any notifications, it's just taking another puff. That's what it feels like, doesn't it?

Breathing it in. Quick little weird grimy high that you get from it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going out, I gotta go outside for a smoke. I gotta fucking, I gotta look at my Twitter right now. It's an itchy feeling too. And also it's like, you know like when you're sitting watching a show with someone and then they look at their phone, how weird that feels?

Like it's a weird feeling. That moment the phone comes out, the moment the reality gets bifurcated, suddenly then alternate universe is opened up in the room or someone's staring at some dumb ass. That's the reason I don't leave my phone on the table anymore. Dude, a good idea. I didn't, you know, yeah.

I should have done that. It's in my pocket. And so the reason is because, or is it under my hat? I keep, I never keep my phone. Where's my phone? See what happens, Eve? It's on the floor. It's on the floor. It's on the floor.

It's fucked this up. But I don't, the reason, because it sends like this message, you know, that to people that you're hanging out with, that you know, people are talking to this like, hey, there's a whole other world here that might be more important than you right now. It is more important. It is more, there's something else going on.

And I find myself when I'm in, I used to get mad at my business partner, cause we'd be in the middle of meetings and he'd have his phone and then he'd look down and get notifications, pick it up in the middle of a meeting and like, we're talking and I'm like, what are you doing? I hit him on the leg. I was like, what are you doing? I was like, you're just telling everyone and people that most people don't notice it because most people live their life that way. But I really notice

it. And I think it's like if I'm in the middle of a meeting with somebody or if I'm on a date and some chick's got her phone right there and she picks it up in the middle of the date and starts to, and I'm going like, it's a big turn off. I'm like, let's just be connected. Let's have a moment where we're making eye contact. Like I haven't stopped making eye contact with you during this podcast. I know, it's great.

I want you to know that I'm fucking in tune with what you're saying. It's a level of respect that you have for another human being. And I think this next generation is going to lose a lot of that. And I think it's an advantage that my son will have in his life, the fact that he's not just on his phone, he's not scrolling, he talks to people, he

can make eye contact, he has real conversations. I think that's really important. The way that everyone communicates with 99% of people in their lives is just by sending a text or sending this. I pick up the phone, I call people. I FaceTime very often too. I'm a big FaceTime guy. So if I'm speaking to somebody, I'm like, let's get on FaceTime. I want to see your face. That's cool. I want to just see,

I want to see you looking at me. I want you to see my face. I want you to know that we do Zoom meetings, right? With like my whole production company. And I'm like, everyone turn your cameras on. Get ready for Las Vegas style action at BenMGM, the king of online casinos. Enjoy casino games at your fingertips with the same Vegas strip excitement MGM is famous for when you play classics like MGM Grand Millions, or popular games like Blackjack, Baccarat and Roulette. Download the Bet MGM Casino app today! Bet MGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly.

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We're talking to each other. Let's look at each other. Let me see how your face reacts. There's something that you could read people's microaggressions. You can tell somebody doesn't actually really like something because they're gonna go, oh yeah, I love that. But you can see it. You know what it is.

I love that. You know when you're dealing with somebody who like you get something back in the day, I'm sure it's different now. We all have a decent amount of success that I think we let go of those negative people. But you know when you would get something back in the day, you nail an audition or you get into a club

and you tell your one friend who's not getting as much stuff and he's like, oh, that's great, dude. And you just see it on his face. You're like, oh, he's not happy. The evil eye. Yeah, he's not happy for me at all. And you know those people, those are the people you cut out of your life. But if're literally just texting you're just dealing with them on social media

How do you ever get a gauge to who's real and who's really like and you're you're you're untraining yourself to read that I think that's such an important part of human experience Sure is just looking at somebody in the fucking face. Yeah having that like and going like oh no I can I think I'm pretty good at reading people I think I could look at people's body language I could look at their face I don't think I'm overthinking I think you know most of the time if you trust that instinct yes you can go like oh that's a negative person that person is doesn't have my best interest in mind yeah cut them out that feeling that gut feeling you have it's right every time it's never you're

never wrong dude right never fucking wrong women women have what we talk about women's intuition Anytime I've been cheating on a chick. She's like I just know you are she's right. She's right She done girls anymore specifically because I don't fucking want to deal with the anxiety a moral thing No, but here's the problem So one day, the woman instinct is just gonna be too many wines. But you don't want that shit in your life anyway. Let me show you this clip from a podcast I saw. I suspect you, and so I guess I'm right.

But she probably is. You know, your gut, you gotta just... I mean, maybe also, maybe also maybe giving every human a little bit too much credit Maybe people are you know dumbing themselves down a little bit, but I do believe that human intuition is just like that's another It's just magic my wife is tuned into the kids like I used to like like I would used to think oh You're overreacting here a little bit, but every fucking time whatever the fuck it was She was worried about she just was somehow sensed it. It's your it's your magic situational awareness Yeah, and I'm telling you when you consider what you know the dystopian tech landscape that we all live in if

situational awareness is the primary Is situational lawyers is the primary trait to Up your chances of staying alive and you walk down the street and look at everyone glued to their fucking phones No idea what's happening around them and then you add to it. We talked about earlier that business is magic You realize holy fucking shit, the entire world has been completely drawn in to a pseudo reality and they don't see anything happening around them. In other words, if you did wanna sort of move around

in the world and no one notices you, it's the best time to do that because no one's noticing shit Yeah, you were to discuss almost you What is that the movie with the three witches with like? Hocus pocus yes hocus pocus. Yeah, it's like you they sing that song that kind of like entrances everybody And I feel like that song is just happening and everyone's like Yeah walking through life in this sort of magical trance and they don't even realize that they're being led by this thing and if you can break

that spell you can move through life in a fucking amazing way. There's so many advantages to break that spell. And also you gotta have compassion because to go back to what you were talking about earlier whoever has been drawn in to the state's propaganda, whether it's leftists, right-wing people, centrist, I don't care what the fuck they are, right now everyone has to have extra compassion because these people, a lot of these people have imagine this, never taken LSD. Never. They've they've never seen it most people probably what do you think percentage of people are they've taken LSD in the world? Not enough, but you know, it's that's the antidote to this propaganda

I know you got to go soon but like when you realize that and then you add to it getting shotgun blasted in the face by high-tech fucking super powerful super seductive Propaganda that isn't just, believe this or you're fucked, but it has the, as far as I can tell, it's just okay with just, move the needle, a tiny little bit, move it just a little bit right, just a touch, and that's enough,

then a little bit more, slow boil them to the right or the left, you know what I mean? They don't even know it. They just think they're learning a TikTok dance. They don't know that TikTok dance was funded by the fucking DNC. You know? I love it. You're the best. I know you gotta go shoot guns. I wish I could go with you, man.

I wish you could come too. I love you. I love you too. We gotta do this more often, dude. You're so smart. And I love getting to spend time with you and you're inspirational I'm gonna I know you gotta go but I must say those Those Instagram clips that you've been posting. I'm getting jacked as fuck. No waking up early

Yeah, taunting us. Yeah. Yeah, my favorite kind of I have to stop trolling my fans They some of the thing of it very mad about it it I think it's that kind of shit gets me going. I know fuck you I will that was my bit one of my biggest goals was to get up in the morning and work out first thing and It's not working out. It sounds it's not even a meathead fucking thing dude. It's everything right working out is it's just it's sort of like watering myself and that Leads to every other area of sort of success. It's just a way it's a like I was I learned I was a kinetic learner in like middle school

whatever they do these tests and the way people learn and like the way I if I were to study for a test or memorize things I have to physically write it with my hand. Yes. That's how it really sticks with me you know and I think working out is like a physical representation of bettering myself. Yeah. Mentally, physically, everything and it when I do that I just I'm better in every other area of my life and I just I'm happier I'm better to people and better. What time are you getting up to do this? About 7 and then I'm usually at the gym by 8. Okay. Which isn't crazy. I thought you were there at like 5. No no no that'd be nuts but maybe will. Maybe I will do that eventually one day.

Maybe I'll keep on pushing it back because I like to, I like to just. Seven's great. Dude, I start off my day really thinking, the whole time I'm working, I'm thinking about bettering myself, whether it's just even just looking better in that moment. But I start thinking about everything

that are going on in my life. I work with my problems and it's just this time where I'm just completely working on the whole package. Yes. And I don't want to fuck it up. By the time noon comes, I'm like, well, I'm not going to get into an argument with somebody or, Right. Or, you know, I'm not going to fucking not do what I'm supposed to do today because I just put so much effort and energy into making sure.

It clarifies the mind. Yeah, it really does. It does. So, and it's, maybe people don't have to be It does. So and it's maybe you don't, maybe people don't have to be into fitness, but maybe it's getting up and meditating and just thinking about yourself and bettering yourself. Just going for a walk. Doing something, just spending that time, you know, physically putting it in, making a physical connection with my mind and my body. It's just, it's a good thing. And I'm in the best shape of my life. I'm 42 years old. Dude, in the morning, I get in the best shape of my life from 42 years old dude in the morning I get up around 5 fly my drone and I'll tell you nothing is more relaxing than watching your neighbors

Do you need to plug anything or just you know, it's funny so I just started a new podcast It's a little more serious tone much more like I guess who you're getting From me. Yeah, I'm more funny on this obviously, but like, you know, I do think you know beyond just dumb fucking edge Lordy jokes, which is what you get on Legion of skanks and a lot of the other shit I do but I did a podcast called Lewis journal and it's just me solo talking about everything from you know Parenting to mental health to my physical health, to just trying to overall be a better version of myself.

I don't want to call it self-help because that's gay, but it's like, I think the people that have liked it have really liked it. It's not available publicly. You can only get it on my email list. If you go to my website, lewisofskanks.com, you gotta sign up for the email list and it comes every Friday.

I do a little newsletter with things that are going on in my life. And I wanted to separate a portion of my audience, this is the most important portion of my audience, is the people that kinda wanna see the best version of me. Because when I'm on Legion of Skanks, I'm, you know, if I have, like everyone has a bad day, everyone fuckin' talks back to a waiter,

or has a moment where they're rude to a cab driver and I sort of put myself out there that way because I know it's gonna be funny and they're gonna make fun of me and but that's not who I am ultimately I'm who I am or who I want to be is the person I am to my father my closest friends like you know so that podcast I think if you like this conversation people would like that podcast because it's a little bit more of that perspective so that's the only thing I'll plug is go to my website I'm touring right now i'm doing a new special in july but you can get my tour dates on my website and

It's all fucked up. It's not you know it's not heady comedy. It's all still fucked up jokes. You're funny as fuck Thank you. I love your stand-up. Thank you so much duncan and Yeah, I fucking yeah, so go go subscribe to the email list and obviously I do a bunch of podcasts and I have a podcast Network and all that other stuff, but I think people would like that Just go to my sign up for my email list and yeah, that's cool stuff going on awesome. Thanks. Enjoy those guns. Bye Follow Mr. Gomez on Twitter Instagram the link for his solo episode is somewhere around here Depending on if you're listening or watching subscribe Become a member of the YouTube channel or my patreon you'll get commercial free episodes solo episode is somewhere around here, depending on if you're listening or watching. Subscribe!

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