Duncan Trussell Family Hour - JACK CAROLL
Episode Date: September 4, 2014Comedian Jack Carol (Britain's got talent, ministry of curious stuff) Â joins the DTFH! ...
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Hello, dear friends.
It is I, Duncan Tressel, and you are listening
to the Duncan Tressel Family Hour podcast,
and I have just returned from the Southern Glory Tour.
What does that mean?
It means that my mind looks like a phosphorescent jellyfish
that you might find on the beach of some alien world.
98% of my blood right now is a combination
of hashish, Adderall, and booze.
My neurons are not firing correctly,
and for the last two days, I've been trying
to record this opening with no success at all.
Everything comes out blabbery or weird
or sentimental or strange, so I am giving up.
This is it.
Whatever comes out at this very moment
is the thing that I'm going to upload,
Stammers, and Us, and Oz, and all,
because I just have got to get out of Los Angeles
and go up to the desert to a steam room
where I can remove all of the toxins
that are now soaking in my body.
I wish there was some kind of flesh vat-style water filter
where I could melt myself down and be reprocessed
for removing all the toxins, the Fukushima-level waste
that must have accumulated in my body
from this glorious, celebratory,
Dionysian, amazing tour.
We're gonna get going with this podcast,
but first, I do want to thank all of you
who came out to the shows.
Thank you so much for coming and saying hello to me,
and thank you so much for helping me
sell out an entire tour.
That's wild, and even though my body
is a kind of thick, dark, hell sludge right now,
I still feel as though I must be existing
in some kind of paradise universe,
and that's 100% because of you.
So thank you guys so much.
I'm going on tour again at the end of the month
if you're interested in checking out a live
Duncan Tressel Family Hour podcast.
Not stand up, I'm gonna be in San Francisco, Portland,
Seattle, and Vancouver from the 30th to the fourth,
and then on the fifth, I will be doing stand up in Calgary.
So come out to those shows and get tickets in advance
because this last tour, all the shows sold out,
which was amazing, but somehow in one of the shows,
in the very front row, there were six fundamentalist
conservative Christian ladies wearing golden sparkly
spangles and crucifixes on their necks,
and they were looking at me as I performed
as though I were making love to the carcass of a goat.
That's how offended they were.
I would much rather have had in that front row
fans of the podcast than angry, wasp-like,
pseudo-Christian women who stayed through the entire show
for no reason at all.
Maybe they were paralyzed by hate and fear.
I don't know.
I thought to myself, though, if only people
had gotten tickets in advance, these monstrous witches
would have been squirming around whatever placental,
judgmental pools of doom they emerged from
instead of sitting in the front row of a comedy show.
Today's guest is Jack Carroll.
You've probably seen him on Britain's Got Talent.
He is a 15-year-old comedic prodigy whose very existence
flies in the face of the antiquated and stupid idea
that I've always had that you have to spend
at least 13 years sludging through hell
if you wanna become a hilarious comedian.
I don't know what he is.
Maybe he's an indigo kid, a lavender child.
Maybe he's one of those hyper-dimensional beings
that has incarnated in a human body
to enjoy the singularity.
I don't know.
Maybe he's the architect of creation itself,
disguising himself as a 15-year-old comedian.
Here's what I do know.
He came over to my house wearing a Bob Dylan T-shirt,
and when he was wearing headphones
and had an Oculus Rift on, his mother told me
that he wore that shirt because he knew
that I hated Bob Dylan.
And at that moment, I realized that I would be friends
with Jack Carroll for the rest of my life.
Or at least I hope so.
I'm glad he's here.
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Now, welcome to the Dunkin' Trussell Family Hour podcast,
Jack Carroll.
Welcome to the Dunkin' Trussell Family Hour podcast.
It's the Dunkin' Trussell Family Hour podcast.
Howdy, Krishna, Jack Carroll.
Welcome to the Dunkin' Trussell Family Hour podcast.
How wonderful that you have trekked all the way across the ocean to come to Los Angeles just to do my podcast.
Yeah, that is one of the sort of few reasons why I'm sort of very glad to be here.
It's a good feeling, man.
Because I'm terrified of the flying, so it's actually nice to have landed and to have my feet back on the ground.
Is this your first time in Los Angeles?
No, I was here last year for the, there was like a YouTube comedy thing that I went to, so yeah.
But I am, it's good, it's really, the thing is with LA, it's sort of, when I come here as a comedian from the UK,
the sort of circuit seems a lot bigger, like you can travel in a 22 mile radius and do 40 clubs or whatever.
Right. In the UK?
No, in LA.
What's it like in the UK? What's the stand-up situation there?
Well, I don't know, maybe I'm not the best to assess it because I have to balance the amount of gigs that I do with school and other stuff like that.
Right, yeah.
It's just, there's a comedy store in Manchester, which is in the north, and then a comedy store in London.
And then there's a lot of, I think bar shows, would you call them out here?
Yeah, bar shows.
But yeah, and then there's a few clubs around, but yeah, it's fun.
Yeah, well, yeah, that's one of the fascinating things about stand-up comedy is that it produces a community around it,
an inevitable community in its own interesting politics, and there's always this pressing need to get stage time and figuring out ways to get on stage.
Yeah, it's a strange thing because the sort of, the thing is with it that, as you said, there is a community and it's sort of off from everybody else,
and you sort of, there's an idea that the sort of personalities that people are projecting on the stage, and then when they get backstage,
you know, it's a strange dynamic between what a comic is on stage and then what is off stage, and whether you're happy with what your persona is on the stage,
can then bleed into your actual life, so that, you know, maybe you're not being the most authentic.
But you're talking about the persona versus the person and that strange tension that can exist between those two entities and the odd sort of schizophrenia that can happen to a comedian
where you have this thing on stage, which is whatever it is, either a completely dark, depressed, miserable, existentially horrified sort of Bill Hicks, Mark Marin kind of like grumpy,
yet cutting the very like, cutting against the fabric of society, George Carlin is in that camp, and then you've got on the other side of that the kind of upbeat, happy, just silly party comics.
Like Dane Cook, maybe, or I don't know in the UK, or maybe like, there's a bunch of comics that have a more kind of buoyant persona, or Robin Williams, for that matter.
Well, that is just, that sort of has, that just goes to show that, and I know it's a sort of cliche to say, oh, you know, look at how eccentric and crazy he was on the stage,
and then obviously he was feeling a deep sense of pain inside, but at the end of the day, it's just sad for, not even for him as a comic,
but it's just sad that, you know, that all that creativity, like I've got the sense now, maybe it'll go away after, you know, the news has managed to settle in for a few days,
but that sort of creativity has gone a little bit with him, you know, that idea of, oh well, we'll never get anything new from Robin again.
Well, you know, Ben, that is, I love to think that a comedian, an artist, an inspired person, or anybody who's putting something creative into the world is tuning in to a frequency that is accessible to everyone,
and that the thing that we call talent is more a person's ability to tune in, how closely you can tune into that frequency, and less a kind of genetic aberration that happens in a person's mind,
or a sort of, because if you start buying into the idea of talent as a genetic thing, or talent as the end result of a series of good or bad events that happened in your life,
then a lot of people give up trying to tune into that frequency, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, well, that's the thing, because I'm reading that, well, I just read the first few pages of it recently, you know, the War of Art.
Yes, Pressfield.
Well, that sort of fills me with a sense of, oh, you know, at least I know I've got something that I'm decent at, that I can do well.
Yes.
But then also, I also like painting and drawing and all that sort of thing, which I'm not very good at.
And the notion that's presented in that book is, well, you either good at it, or you've either got that spark, or you haven't.
Which, as I've said on the one hand, fills me with the great, oh, you know, I'm going to go right now, I've got to do this, this is why I'm here.
But then also, oh, I may as well just give up the pen and all the other stuff that I'm not very proficient at.
And that's such an easy thing to do, because, you know, so much of what, you know, you read, like, so much of what's wonderful about a developed artist is that what they do seems simple.
So you read Stephen King, for example, and his effortless writing style, and his incredible, like, dialogue, it just seems so simple.
You read it and you think, come on, anyone could do this, I could sit down and do that.
And then you sit down and try to do it, and suddenly you find that you're, it's like going uphill with a backpack filled with weights.
And that's the learning curve, you're experiencing the learning curve.
So I love to believe that it's more a matter of, it's more a matter of focus and discipline than it is a matter of genetics, because I don't want you to give up on writing.
You're somebody who should continue to work on writing until your fingers bleed.
Because once you get up that hill, suddenly you realize that you had to get up the hill to get to the place where you have effortless creative flow.
Well, I think this is the thing as well, because I think it is a mix of both life events and then having been able to create the skills necessary to tap into whatever that creative field is.
So, like, I grew up watching a lot of comedy, and that's what got me into it, and I thought, oh, I would like to do that.
Whereas, I think-
How old were you when you realized you wanted to do comedy?
I think about seven.
And how old are you now?
Fifty.
How old have you been working on stand-up?
Eleven, I started doing stand-up.
So at seven you realized, I think I want to try my hand at comedy?
Yeah.
I didn't know in what form that was, but I knew that that's something.
Because I had a sort of major operation on my spine to sort of help me walk.
When I was seven, I was laid up in the hospital for a while.
And that was- the spine condition is part of-
It draws in the umbrella of having-
Yeah, it's not to do-
I haven't got a condition with my spine, but what my cerebral palsy was was my brain sending the wrong signals to my sort of legs.
So they needed to go in through the spine and cut those nerves away for me to then, you know, retrain the pathways or whatever.
I don't know.
How old were you when you had that surgery?
Seven.
Seven.
Yeah.
So I was laid up for a while, and have you ever seen Alan Partridge?
Yes, I have.
I got a DVD of that off my cousin, and I watched that a lot.
And like, then a few other things, and I thought, oh yeah, that's sort of good.
I'd like to do that.
And so then you- how did you- what was your first stage experience?
How did you get on stage for the first time?
So what happened is, my parents had this sort of silver wedding anniversary, which I don't know how many years that is married,
but they had this big sort of thing, big sort of party for it.
Yes.
And I thought, oh, you know, I'd like to maybe perform at it.
So I just started writing, like, some jokes with my cousin who's older than me,
but he went to university to do script writing and create writing and that.
So I thought, he'd be good to get along.
You know, I've always had a bath with him.
So I wrote this little set, and my uncle filmed it and put it on YouTube.
So this is a thing- the internet seems to have been a big part of what has happened to me to be able to shape what I'm doing now.
Right.
Like, because of the internet, I'm able to, you know, be speaking to you and lots of other people.
Yeah, the internet's done the same thing for me, because the internet I'm able to be speaking to you.
I got followed by, do you know Riddick Boe, the champion heavyweight boxer today?
I got followed by him, and he sent me a direct message saying, who are you?
And then full stop, and then his last name, which was Boe.
So he just said, who are you, Boe?
Which really freaked me out about half-eight this morning, but yeah.
So it's strange how everything sort of seems to be, if you apply significance to it, then everything sort of seems to become, oh, this is, you know, this is what the path has been, and this is what magic is.
Well, yeah, I mean, yes, I think that magic is a wonderful way to describe that experience of suddenly being caught up in an updraft that you never possibly imagine could happen to you in your life where certain events coincide in just the right way,
and you are able to surf the wave of circumstance that you find yourself in in such an instinctual way that suddenly you look around at your life and you realize that you are experiencing a really beautiful and incredible thing.
But let's talk a little bit about your path. You performed at your folks' silver anniversary, and then this video goes up on YouTube, and then what happens?
So then I do the local news, you know, around where I live in England, and then, so I do that, and then I can't really remember what happened after that.
I did some sort of regional, so I don't know what the best example would be to make it applicable to you, but sort of regional award where they give out stuff for courageous people.
Right. So I don't know how that happened, because I'm actually quite cowardly and mean and vindictive.
Trust me, every human being is, and no hero ever says, like, whenever heroes ever get awards or courageous people ever get awards, their reaction is always just what you're saying right now, which is like, I really don't understand this.
My heart is a nest of snakes, but when you never hear heroes being like, I deserve this, you're right, I'm a hero.
Yeah. Well, I think that they can't say that, that's why. They can't be like, oh yeah, I'm so noble, and every, you know, if they did that, then people would go, oh, we're going to take the award back.
We're taking it back, you've got to deny that you're a hero to be a hero.
You've got an ego on you, we can't have that.
You know, it's sort of, you know, also it's an important to note that when you are being self-deprecating, that is another form of egoism. It's a curious thing, isn't it?
Yeah.
You're really just falling on one side or the other side of egoism, either you decide to fall on the side, we're like, yeah, I deserve this, I am doing stand-up comedy, I have cerebral palsy, I'm funny, I'm incredibly funny, and I'm a brilliant kid.
I deserve this award. Of course you should give me a award, because I'm sure I'm going to inspire a ton of people by what I've done, or you fall on the other side of it, which is like, I'm a vindictive, angry person.
Yeah, I've always had that train of thought rather than me doing it.
That's why you're a comic.
Yep. Just sort of sailing the waves of manuroses for other sort of, but then again, I want to say I'm a very self-absorbed comic, I'm a very self-absorbed person, but not...
Well, I don't know, because like, that's what the flight of, you know, because I've got a fear of flying and that, and I thought, what is it about the flight that makes me scared, apart from the flying 30,000 feet up in the air or whatever, and I know it's very safe, but if anything does go wrong, then you haven't got a very good chance.
No.
I thought, what is it that's bringing about this?
And then I thought, oh, what's happening is, I'm listening out for the noises, thinking that I could fly the plane, if I got the chance.
Whereas what I should be doing is submitting to the, well, you know, I've got no control over this, if everyone else, that's their job, they're good at it, so just enjoy the time that you are on here and submit to the fear or whatever you're feeling.
Yes.
Just let go of it.
So while you were on the plane, you were enlightened. It sounds like you figured out the secret of all life.
As Timothy Leary says, lift up your legs and float downstream.
Yeah.
That's all you can do.
Yeah.
All you can do really.
Yeah.
And this is the verse in the Bhagavad Gita that I have quoted so many times, which is, you have a right to your action. You do not have the right to the fruits of your action, which means that it's inviting you to exist solely in the present moment as this being that's either a neurotic, fear-consumed person, whatever.
Psychic weather happens to be afflicting you as a being recognizing their innate talent and incredible qualities or is somewhere in between.
That's all you've, that's really all you can do.
You're not going to fly the plane.
Yeah, you know, and that, you see, that's the weird thing.
So I thought, well, it's attachment and not being able to submit to it. You cannot control the situation.
So how is that applicable to other areas of what I'm experiencing?
So it's just, I finally understood the meaning of, not attachment is bad, but just let go of attachment.
You know, that had always been a sort of abstract concept of someone like Maharaj, you've got any computer screen living on the road in, you know, in a big blanket and sort of just waiting for people to come by.
But what that actually means to me now is let go of the attachment of what you believe is going to happen and know that you cannot know.
Yeah. And wow, the moment, those little moments when you do that, those little moments when you achieve that state of consciousness, it's as though you're in a completely different world.
You're in this beautiful, incredible, it's, I mean, for lack of a better word, it's paradise.
And in those moments when you're not resisting, and then of course the resistance comes in and you find yourself raging against the machine and listening for every creak and strange sound in your own life,
whether it's the way people, a strange look a person gave you who you thought was your friend or whether it's a medical condition or whether it's a worry over future medical conditions.
And then suddenly you're not here anymore and you're just completely focused on the mind, on the self.
I've come up with a very good metaphor now, where you guys come into overdrive going all sort of, oh, well done for the playing thing, you did really good.
That's impressed Duncan, well done. Yeah, no, it's strange, man, so do you want to get back to what happened on the road to the thing?
Oh yes, yes, let's keep, yeah.
Is that not very organic?
Well, no, you know, with this podcast, and with most podcasts, what's so beautiful about it is you can take any kind of tributary you want in any direction you want,
and you'll always end up getting to the right place, I've found, so however it comes out, it comes out.
But yeah, please, I would love to hear more about how it all went down.
Yeah, so I did this regional thing, and I don't usually like talking about it, so why I came back to it, I don't really know,
but I did this regional thing, this regional courage, and then there's a thing on in Britain every year called the Pride of Britain Awards,
where we get all these sort of courageous people to go and accept these awards.
And from that thing, from the regional one, they asked me to go and get one, which was weird because I was surrounded by the greatest human beings ever.
And then there was me, and it was people dying and completing their wishes and giving inspiration to people, and then I come up and go,
you know, I'm sort of funny in that a bit, you know, we just sort of, it's a very strange thing that I don't know how other people perceive me,
but I would never perceive myself in that way, and I don't think most of the people around me would either.
Really?
Yeah, I just, I think maybe it's from...
Let me explain something to you, friend.
At this very moment, all over this beautiful planet that we happen to have incarnated on, this gravity well that we're stuck inside of it,
this very moment, all over the planet, are countless human beings who are petrified by fear.
They are in the entire spectrum of psychological and physical conditions from people who have been obliterated by a bomb, an IED in Afghanistan,
who can no longer walk or move, to people who are trust fund children, who have an infinite amount of money in their bank account,
a fleet of yachts, a perfect body because they can afford a trainer, and yet inside they are petrified by fear,
and they are desperately, desperately resisting actualizing themselves as a human being and putting themselves out there and doing anything of any import
because they've allowed themselves to be completely consumed and trapped in the horrible prison of fear.
And you are a person who has in the midst of a medical condition that they call cerebral palsy.
I can barely even pronounce the damn thing.
You're somebody who has not allowed that to hold you back and you are pursuing a profession that is one of the most difficult professions out there.
You're not getting on stage and talking, but the problem with so many lawyers, doctors, attorneys, all of these things,
at least you know there's kind of a career path you can follow.
With the stand-up comic, there's no certainty in anything.
There's no, like, here's how you do it.
It's just a random roll of the dice and on top of that, one of the great fears all human beings possess is getting on stage and talking to people.
So when you say you're not a hero or you don't perceive yourself as a hero, I think,
or you don't perceive yourself as someone who deserves, who is inspiring other people, I beg to differ.
Sir, I beg to differ because anytime a person overcomes anything, whatever it is, whether it's addiction,
whether it's socioeconomic conditions, whether it's familial conditions,
whatever it is, anytime anyone manages to pull themselves out of whatever the mire is that they've happened to be trapped in
and succeed and do that publicly, what they do for the world is such a beautiful thing
because people see that and they think, oh, I could do that too.
Ah, thank you, man. That's wonderful.
But the fit, and I really mean that, cheers for that.
Cheers.
It's given a nice, it's fed my ego nicely.
So basically what that says to me is the thing is with me, I've not known anything different than this.
Right.
So I don't know how it would be for someone who had had the legs blown off at war to then have to, you know,
from being leading that sort of lifestyle of being able to do all that stuff to then come back
and not have the ability to move around properly or whatever.
The only thing is, I've not known anything different.
Right.
So what this is to me is life, really.
Oh, listen, man, I'm not going to keep arm wrestling here about how awesome you are.
You're going to, you know, you're going to, here's the thing.
This is one thing that I like to do when I'm being really hard on myself or if I have a friend who's being particularly hard on themselves.
One thing I like to do is I say to them, imagine if I took the part of yourself that's demeaning you right now
and put it in another body.
And so that person was saying the very same things you're saying about yourself to you.
You would be like, what an asshole.
You'd be like, that guy is a jerk.
Or if I weren't, if I wasn't talking to you right now, I was talking to one of my friends and he knew about you
and he knew about this podcast.
He's like, well, you know, Duncan, I saw that award ceremony and I saw him stand,
I saw him standing there among those heroes and I thought to myself, he doesn't belong there.
I would be like, you're a dick.
He's awesome.
He totally belongs there.
But isn't that a funny thing that somehow, if that person is inside of us, it's totally permissible.
Yet if that person is exteriorized in another form, you would never let someone say those things.
Yeah, but that's the thing you said about, it's just a different type of egoism.
That is, you know, you can never exist in a harmonized, or very rarely exist in a harmonized state.
I think there's a harmonized state that you can exist in, and it is a rare state.
And the harmonized state is the state of loving yourself.
Or if you can't love yourself, making the attempt to love yourself, including loving the part of yourself
that is this neurotic thing that feels like it needs to constantly remind you that you don't deserve any of the success
that you might be experiencing and that where you're at is a kind of random fluke
and that the whole thing's, you know, whatever, just a basic lottery win that you don't deserve at all.
That part of your ego and all other parts of your ego, including the other side of it,
which most comedians sadly don't exhibit, which is the one that you would constantly be patting yourself on the back
and thinking, you really are the greatest thing in the world.
These things can be harmonized by loving both of them as they emerge into the mind.
So when you find yourself indulging, as if you're, I rarely do, but from time to time,
if I find myself indulging in really thinking, man, you're doing great.
Or if I find myself indulging in, God, you are a total despicable fraud.
If I find any of those parts of my ego emerging to the surface, I either let myself get hypnotized
by whatever the specific feeling tone is they're trying to lure me into
and I spend the next few hours either in a narcissistic haze or a depressed haze
or I watch it emerge and as Jack Cornfield says, we bow to it, invite it in for tea, and then bid it on its way.
It's very nice to meet you, oh angry part of myself that despises myself.
There you are again, hi, hi, give it a nice hug and send it on its way
and it'll come and go, because that's not really who you are.
No, and I think the sort of narcissistic tendencies of the ego display themselves in other things with me.
So I'll sort of go, oh, you know, I did a good painting, I wrote a good joke, whatever,
and then I'll go down stairs and sort of show it to people or whatever and they'll get,
and I'll go, oh, in that good, and then they will appreciate it as much as I think they should.
And then I'll go, oh, right, fair enough, I'm going back up now and I won't speak to you for another two hours.
That's hilarious.
First of all, I would recommend never, ever, anytime I write a joke and share it with people that aren't in an audience,
I think that's a really dangerous thing to do because what can happen is when you do that,
you're coming across a person who, who knows, maybe they were just looking at pictures of beheaded children on the internet,
you know, maybe they just found out, who knows what moods mind state they're in,
but they're definitely not in a state where they want to see a comedy show
and having somebody run a joke by you is very similar to somebody running a dream by you.
You're just sort of like, all right, there we go, great.
So, because they're not in that position, so you might have a great joke
and you're using them as the gauge for whether it's got legs or not
and then the joke dies by the wayside when it could have been something really fantastic.
Yeah, so I wouldn't do that anymore.
Yeah, well, that's a straight, I've got a story about.
So, I did a joke on, I don't know whether it was the final semi of the talent show thing,
but I did this joke which was equating Simon Cowell to Kim Jong-un or whatever.
Right, yes.
So, I did the joke in the living room of a relative and it went dead
and I thought, but I've written a really good joke.
So, I did it and then, you know, it worked really well.
So, the thing is you can, there seems to already be an advantage
when there's an audience that have come out specifically to see comedy
because they're already willing to submit, if you know what I mean, to the experience again
of, you know, they're ready to go, okay, Mecca's laugh and we will laugh.
Right, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
The condition is there for you to make people laugh.
Yeah.
Whereas like God, like, you know, running jokes by, like so many,
I can remember running in the early days, I'd like make the treacherous mistake
of trying to run jokes by my mom.
It would be better to like try to make an anaconda laugh or something
because she didn't necessarily want me to be a comedian.
So, it's like, even if she thought it was funny, which by the way,
when I first started comedy, I was nowhere near as funny as you are.
And, but, so I'm sure my jokes were real rotten eggs anyway,
but any kind of like running a joke by my mom was like just an affirmation
that her son was on the most wrong path the person could possibly be on.
So, yeah, from that I learned that it's better to just run the jokes by a crowd.
Now, speaking of parents, it seems like your parents are incredibly supportive
and are behind you in this pursuit.
They're great, they're really good.
I'm very lucky to have the people that, you know, I do have around me
and, you know, some people aren't that lucky and they suppress the creativity
or whatever, you know, the person feels drawn to.
But, yeah, I just, they're great, man.
You know, I love them a lot and they're brilliant.
What do you think is the greatest impediment for you right now
when it comes to growing as a comedian?
I don't know.
I would say maybe just you've got to keep getting up, haven't you?
And, you know, I've got, you know, I've got other people to think about.
So, you know, my dad's working and that sort of thing.
So, it's not, and my mum as well.
So, it's not the easiest to be able to drive to gigs.
But, you know, my aim is to a week.
So, if I carry on, you know, getting up, then, you know,
and then you get a better sense of what works and, you know, what's good.
But I've just finished filming a thing.
And that, you know, I did, and then after that,
I sort of did two gigs last week in the same night.
So, that was really good, you know, to be able to double up
and sort of get that amount of stage time in during the night.
That was great.
Yeah, well, yeah, that's one of the, man, that is one of the like,
it's so like, you're a really inspiring person, man.
You're very inspiring for me as a comic.
And I think you're very inspiring for probably a lot of you lazy comedians out there,
like me, because like, I'll use as an excuse for not going on stage.
I'll use like, a mild hangover.
You know, like just the mildest of hangovers.
And I'll be like, oh, I'm so sorry, I've got to cancel.
You know, it's a really cool thing to, it's really cool to see you
addressing these challenges and definitely overcoming them, man.
You are truly like, you've had massive success as a comic
for the relatively short time that you've been doing stand up.
How long? Four years?
Yeah.
That's nothing.
Yeah, it's insane, man.
But I think the thing is with that, it was very strange
because there's a lot of things that you have to learn,
like I have to learn maths, I have to learn science.
Right.
But it seemed almost intuitive that I knew what was funny.
And that's the only applicable skill that I've got in the world.
Like, I don't know which comic said it, but sort of if you threw
any comedian in Japan, they could cobble together a street show
and get some stilts and start walking about and juggling.
And you know, they'd find a way to get by.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, it is an amazing, it is a beautiful, it is a, don't worry,
that's Foxy, he helps at anything.
Yeah, it is an amazing thing.
But here's an observation I want to make.
And listen, I'm sorry, I don't mean to keep puffing up your ego here,
but it's just that when I was your age, I was essentially just a gelatinous
mass of like no ambition, a sort of like blob thing that had no sense
of any kind of, no discipline, no sense of any kind of like
goal other than just finding like a good place to play video games.
Not much has changed.
But so it's really interesting talking to you because I don't feel
like I'm talking to a 15 year old.
Yeah, I'm weird, I think that way.
And I think that definitely has its positives and it definitely has its
detriments, but I think if you can find an outlet for that strangeness
and that weirdness, which I think again, is another product of the internet
that I've been able to sort of, because like, I was thinking 30 years ago
what would have happened?
I would have been sat in the corner of a classroom occasionally beating with sticks.
Work, you know, but because of the internet, I'm able to actually do stuff
and you know, that I enjoy instead of being attacked with a metal cord
by some council sanctioned bully in a suit, which hasn't really changed.
Council sanctioned bully.
Yeah, awesome.
It's just that that hasn't really changed.
They're just not allowed to use weapons anymore.
Right.
So are you?
Wait, where do you go to school?
So should I give out my school?
No, you go to a public school.
What would that be?
So not paid for?
Right.
Yeah, I, you know, I, yeah.
So is that not?
Are you treated like a god at your school?
Well, when I, when I, when I go in.
Yes, you are.
The answer is yes.
No, no.
Because the pause you're doing, you've got it.
No, because I managed to sort of tear it up before I got famous
that I sort of pissed enough people off to sort of just, that's, that's, that's unchangeable.
But I've got, you know, I've got a decent group of friends or whatever.
But yeah.
And I also have a weird timetable.
So I'll go it, you know, because, you know, it is pretty painful sitting on a, you know,
science stool for, for however many hours at a time.
Like I can't do that.
So I've got a sort of reduced timetable, which I'm, which I'm able to do.
That's beautiful.
It's good.
It's good.
And they, they've been, they've been really helpful.
It's just, I think there's something deeply, deeply wrong with the education system as
a whole at the minute.
And I don't know how it is here, but there's just edgy.
I always say it like education is brilliant, but it's schooling.
That's the problem.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think that's a yes.
For sure.
Yeah.
I mean, because you, if you consider like, think of the species, think of the way that
we learned for so many, so, so long.
The way you would learn is not by sitting down with someone explaining how to hunt.
You wouldn't like imagine somebody sitting down with a white board and drawing like,
here's how you hunt.
Yeah.
You would, you would go out with the tribe and you would hunt.
You would go out and you would like watch the people who are good at it and you would
learn how to, you would learn from action, not from just this sort of weird absorbing
of information.
Yeah.
And I think that's come about in part, if not the whole to, to the industrial revolution.
Right.
And the need for, you need, and I know it's, it's conducive to the way society is at the
minute that you need people to be able to do stuff rather than, you know, it's the,
we're not in a society, we need a society where, at the, at the moment where people
have got a very specific set of skills, not like from Taken, they're not going to come
and find you and kill you like in the movie Taken, but.
Right.
Right.
I just, I just, I just found myself caught in Liam Neeson when trying to make a.
A very specific set of skills.
I haven't even seen the film, I just know that.
But yeah, I think that is in part due to the way that society is running at the minute
that they need, the need for that very formal idea of what education should be is, is conducive
to the way.
It's rancid.
Yeah.
In hellish, it's rancid.
They take brilliant, brilliant, brilliant minds, they treat them like they're complete
idiots.
They put them in a kind of concentration camp for teenagers where you're forced to get,
you're smashed into a room with some of the most violent, aggressive, horrifying humans
that you'll ever encounter in your life and in that situation where you're dealing with
so many social issues, which is you want to be accepted, you want to be loved, you feel
lonely, you feel scared, you might get bullied, you might get beaten up, somewhere in the
midst of this, this people are trying to make you memorize weird facts.
Yeah.
You know, like in the midst of that, they're like hammering you with all these weird facts
and the people, at least in the United States, who are hammering you with these weird facts,
these people usually, many of them want to teach, but because the state is running the
education system, they're not allowed to use their instincts to teach, but they're having
to deliver a curriculum that is regimented and tested and if the test don't, if the kids
don't test well, then that indicates that they're doing something wrong.
So basically what ends up happening is instead of learning, and what I think learning is
is a connection with novelty or learning is that you know you're learning, not when you've
memorized a series of facts that you'll never think again, think about again, you know you're
learning when you experience that particular sense of awe when you realize, when your universe
gets a little bigger, the world you're in expands a little bit more because of some
bit of information that you've gotten that redefines everything you know.
That's learning.
Yeah.
Not being able to recite the presidents or talk about dates of certain battles, that's
not learning.
That doesn't happen very often at school, though I don't think, you don't get that
reverence for, oh I learnt something new today, I haven't learnt anything new in about eight
years, but it's sort of, I'm withdrawn from the whole game of you know people have you
know accept me or whatever, you know I'm withdrawn from that whole social game so I can look
at it with-
How did you do that?
I just, I think I saw it for what it was and then found another avenue to be able, well
do I want to get into these meaningless sort of exchanges with people that I don't know
or do I want to find a group that you know I like and would want to you know talk with
and then also what is the best way to not have to deal with people that I don't like,
well just don't bother going and find somebody else to do, but I don't think it's the kids
that I dislike because I can deal with them and you know I know that they'll sort of you
know grow to be different to what they are now.
I think it is the teachers and maybe that's unfair but that's just sort of my experience
of it, that it's these, just the idea that even that they have to put on a certain uniform
or dress in a certain way to be able to impart knowledge that like I put this in my report
because the science teacher said Jack looks distracted and whatever and he's trying to
you know get other people to talk to talk with him instead of making them listen to me
or whatever.
What do you mean?
So that's what you put in my end of term report.
Oh you seem distracted.
Yeah I seem distracted and then you're allowed to do pupil comments back to the teacher and
I put, right well I seem distracted because you're a science teacher and you've managed
to make the very fabric of the universe boring and dull.
Yeah so just sort that out and then.
Did you come to class the next day and he committed suicide?
No it's funny because what I like to do as well is with the science teachers because
they're all hardcore materialist people I'll just go, because like one of them was in a
200 year old house or whatever.
Yeah.
So I just go, do you believe in ghosts?
And he goes, look I've told you ghosts don't exist but he might do and then he gets really
angry and then I start going oh yeah the Necronomicon's a real book because he's a big fan of HP
Lovecraft but he gets really annoyed when I go oh yeah it's real no he can summon things
out of it he gets really angry.
Do you think the Necronomicon is a real book?
No.
But you are a person who is, you seem to be drawn to magic, you seem to be drawn to studying
grimoires we've talked about it a little bit.
But it's not a real book in the same way that Elron Hubbard's Church of Scientology which
is basically an amalgamation of all his science fiction work is not a real book.
I think if you believe in it enough you can tap into the energy and whether that's just
from the words or whatever you can get in like when you're reading a normal book which
is good like I started reading The Hobbit on the plane.
That's a great book.
And I got into that energy I thought oh yeah I'm going on an adventure now.
Yes.
And that's just the materialist view of that which probably is right if you're not.
It's just that yeah that is that literature is having an effect on you which is you know
engrossing you as a reader.
Well right yeah that is the materialist view and then you get into the chaos magic view
of the thing and the idea is that what you're just using symbols to try to tune into these
archetypes and the tuning in to once you've tuned in it can actually create really powerful
changes in your life which is you know like if you ever run into people and they're like
I don't read fiction.
You know like it's kind of irrelevant or something like I only read biographies and
fact.
You know it's really funny when you run into these kind of fact snobs because they sort
of discount.
I don't know how many people I've run into are like I would never read a fantasy book.
I would never watch Game of Thrones.
Yeah it's sort of how much B. Pollan does it take to fill a swimming pool or whatever
like that.
They're sort of in there and useless thing.
But that's the thing like the yeah my brother's watching Game of Thrones at the minute but
he's also reading the God Delusion which is a weird.
Dawkins.
Yeah.
And he's gone insane and he Dawkins.
Do you think Dawkins has gone mad?
He might have.
Well the problem is with Dawkins or with you know anyone who decided.
Well here's what we're doing.
This is what I've been thinking lately.
I've been thinking that this entire thing that we're in right now is a version of Comic-Con.
You know what Comic-Con.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Cosplay.
Yeah.
Right?
Where like a Comic-Con people put on costume.
So like in the same way we're dealing with this kind of cosplay on this planet where
certain people are cosplaying like they're Muslims.
Yeah.
Certain people are cosplaying like they're Christians.
Yeah.
And certain people are cosplaying like they're scientists.
And they get into it man.
And when you get too much into the costume too much and you start insisting that people
play because the funny thing about it is it's the idea is that if you're at Comic-Con
and you're walking around dressed like Superman and you see somebody dress like Batman
you don't go to them and say hey you know Batman doesn't exist right.
You should dress like Superman.
This is why any missionary who's trying to change the cosplay that other people are engaged in
if they start getting too insistent that they can stop playing whatever game it is they're
playing they will start going crazy.
Yeah.
Because Dawkins can't admit that he's playing a game.
That's the thing as well.
I think anyone who knows for definite, for definite that there is no soul or no higher
intelligence or whatever.
For definite.
Then tire with everything.
You've got to stake everything on that.
You know for definite that that's not the case.
Well and it's the same with the fundamentalists who go yes we know for definite that this
is what we need.
Are the same.
Yeah it's the same.
It's just a less dangerous type of fundamentalism than the people you know murdering kids or
whatever.
It's almost like the religion is more of certainty than of anything else.
It's like they're following a religion where they pretend to be certain.
And that certainty is insane.
You know with any kind of you know the people who are the hardcore missionary angry skeptical
atheists.
It's they're running into these incredible problems which is you know you take the Kepler
satellite telescope the thing that's discovering that there appears to be potentially inhabitable
worlds already discovering like hundreds of these all the time prior to it starting
its work there were none.
We actually were floating out here thinking you know this might be it there just might
not be any planet in the Goldilocks region which is that region you know the Goldilocks
region that term.
No.
So the Goldilocks region is the term given for it means not too hot not too cold.
It's a planet third planet from the sun a planet that is the right distance from its
sun so that water wouldn't evaporate.
So there could be water and there could be the potential for life there.
So that's called the Goldilocks region and satellites have been able to somehow tracking
gravitational wobble.
They can determine if there's planets circling in the Goldilocks region of distant stars
and they've already found countless planets that fit into that which means that in this
brief time this thing has been scanning the sky which by the way the sky we can see is
an infinitesimal portion of the size of the universe that we're in.
It's already discovered countless inhabitable worlds then the implication is that we are
existing in a universe teaming with life and if the universe is teaming with life then
that means there's a spectrum of intelligence and if there's a spectrum of intelligence
wherever we're at there's intelligence lower than us clearly on this planet and also just
turning on Fox News and any of those anchors and there's a potential in the universe for
an intelligence that is exponentially greater than ours right now and as that thing grows
eventually it would become God right?
But Duncan that's just science.
That's just material science.
No I think that's definite.
I watched a little bit of Fox News last night.
Hilarious.
It is the most insane.
It's like what Rupert Murdoch does in the UK but just if that thing encounters steroids
and protein shakes just rah, rah!
Sort of WWE wrestler type Murdoch thing like that.
It's weird and don't quote me on this but I think the headline going across the bottom
like can I be sued if I get this headline wrong?
No.
No.
I don't know maybe.
So basically the headline I think and don't quote me on this because I might have read
it wrong or misheard it but the headline was when will black America acknowledge their
problem with looting?
It's hilarious.
When will they though?
That's an important question.
Looting.
Yeah looting.
That's a funny thing man.
Racists love it whenever riots break out.
The real question is when will police officers recognize their problem with shooting black teenagers?
Isn't that a more important question?
You know what?
We'll deal with our looting problem when you stop killing our children randomly.
Yeah.
Well that was the thing.
Did you see the thing Bill Ma put on Twitter about Hamas being like a crazy wife?
How what?
Hamas, you know the terrorist organization.
I didn't see it.
Hamas is like a crazy wife.
You can only hold its wrists so long before you have to slap it.
He put that on Twitter.
First of all Bill Ma has no right to talk about what it's like to be married.
That guy is never getting married.
He's like I think he has an active harem.
But the comic Frankie Boyle from the UK put back I know what you mean.
Women do get upset when you blow up their kids.
Oh genius.
And he got a lot of retweets.
That is so funny.
I hope Ma saw it but I don't think he did.
Yeah man, it's really funny to watch mainstream news
and watch it recognizing that really all you're seeing is the paradigm
that a group of lobbyists and weapons manufacturers want to keep.
That's why David Iker sort of got a point when he uses the term the movie.
This is the thing that's projected while something else is going on.
And that's not easy.
That is a very easy rather observation to make.
Everyone knows that pretty much.
I don't think so.
But then the funny thing is with that it'll come up with good phrases like that.
But then the thing that makes me think he might be a disinformation agent
is that then the papers can discredit all that by going
ah but he believes in lizards from outer space.
Yeah right.
Well you know again the question is it's like what he's talking about is
the name that in Hinduism of course you know the name for the universe is Maya.
You've heard that term before.
So they don't just say.
They've been saying from prior to the existence of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch
and anybody they've been saying that this entire thing that we're in right now
is an illusion.
That we are living in Maya is a personal term.
So the universe is imbued with a personality which means that
it's not just that we're living in an illusion like you just walked into a mirage
but it's as though we were born into a mirage which is alive.
And as one of its characteristics it keeps trying to hypnotize you
and keep you in a trance believing that this is all there is.
And so I think what Ike is talking about he hasn't taken it to the deepest level yet.
He likes to believe that there's a group of Illuminati or people
who are actively trying to trick us which may or may not be true
when the reality of the situation is if we removed the Rothschilds
and the Murdochs and all the people that have been accused of being the Illuminati
the universe itself would continue to confuse and to trick us
by giving us the impression that this is all there is
and that somehow the material universe will feed the great gnawing hunger
that exists inside all of us that we confuse with something
that we can satiate with money or success
or anything that the material world manifests as.
And that's the thing that's projected.
The comic Frankie Boyle I've just mentioned
described Ike to me as he's a man who's had a religious experience
but he can't articulate it properly because he used to be a soccer player.
Yes.
And that's the thing.
Like in the Bag of Agata it's all about people
looking for Lord Krishna's qualities in other things.
Talk about that a little bit more because people might not have heard that.
Yeah, so Krishna means
the all attractive one doesn't it?
That thing is at the inception of the universe
this is how I understand it
at the inception of the universe everything's split off
so you've got these little sprinter groups from
the divine intelligence of money, of wealth, of beauty
but they all lead back to this one road
which is a blue...
blue-skinned coward boy.
And that in every single thing
so like Krishna has described as Bhagavan
you've heard that term before and Bhagavan means
all famous, all powerful, all intelligent, all beautiful.
So it's the idea is that like every single beautiful
wonderful thing in the universe is compared to
water spraying out of a fountain and the God head
which is what Krishna is, is the thing that all of the water is coming from.
So when you see, when somebody looks at Kanye West
and is like, that's genius
he's a genius, he's a beautiful, incredible, genius
auteur, whatever they think he is. Only Kanye West thinks that
about Kanye West.
That was great man!
When Kanye West looks in the mirror
what he's really seeing is Krishna
and when you look in the mirror what you're really seeing is Krishna
and when I look in the mirror what I'm really seeing is Krishna
and what everything is is Krishna and the nature of Maya
is to distract us from going to the God head
and recognizing the source that these things spring from
and to get us caught up in all the individual droplets
that are springing from the source itself.
Yeah and I think that
whether you believe that as an abstract idea or not
and just a sort of thing to illustrate that point
I think materialist science
and philosophy and spirituality
they will all eventually meet
and that can be explained
in scientific terms as
in scientific terms as
well
or in anthropological terms rather
that people have moved on to other things
and that they're obsessed by
the thing that a culture has created
which is money worshipping
that can get the newest shoes or whatever
which to me
having or can get the newest shoes
sounds like a really silly thing
and I think that that meets with philosophy
which is
the Gita can be read on one level as a philosophical text
rather than a spiritual one.
Have you seen
Grant Morrison's 18 days on YouTube?
Nope. What is it?
Exciting. I can't wait to tell you.
I'm going to write that down so I don't forget.
He's done a motion comic
Have you seen Archer? It looks a bit like Archer
where the sort of characters are moving
but not really like a proper animation
but he's done one called 18 days
all about the Mahabharata
but he's sort of brought it up to date
with all sci-fi and all being all war elephants
So Hanuman's in there?
Hanuman, I don't think he's in there
I think it is just the story of
the Bhagavad Gita
but I think he's trying to expand it
but I got the book first
at home which is the reference
book of all the material and the scripts and the drawings
and I looked at it and they had sort of Brahman in there
and I thought that's amazing
and then I looked at the motion comic
and they sort of decreased the image quality a little bit
and they weren't able to put all the intricate detail in
but it's still good
because you can sort of feel Grant Morrison's
power imbued in that series
I can't wait, I didn't even know
this thing existed man, I cannot wait to see it
It's good man
You are a mind blower friend
What's going on with you?
Do you think that you're some kind of reincarnate
What are you doing?
Here you are
You've incarnated in this very unique life
Do you ever think about that?
Yeah, it's strange one man
It's weird how stuff comes about
because like
I'm just
and I like the esoteric
and sort of
that's a fun thing for me to research
and that
while I'm playing video games
that's a fun thing
but then this is why the podcast mediums are great
and hopefully I'll get mine off the ground in a bit
It's very hard to articulate
and in part that information
in stand up because you're not allowed to paint
your character with as many shades of grey
as maybe you'd like
so that's why the podcast medium is a great thing
I think
you're able to
express a few more complex ideas
and then these
and the whole thing that's kicked off
and all the podcast stuff
it's all these ideas
because of the speed of the internet
and the accessibility
and the instant gratification that we've come to
sort of desire in recent years
all these ideas are spreading
and they're spreading fast
and I'm sure some of the kids in England
can sort of find out about them
or I'm sure you've got listeners all over the world
that's spreading
so you're sort of probably a representation
of what 15 year olds are just going to be like
it's like some kind of Isaac Asimov
future
where the typical 15 year old
being disrupted by this massive stream of information
that they have access to when I was a kid
when I was your age, God I love saying that
so condescending, when I was your age
but when I was your age
you know I can remember like
there was no bug
one second
that actually
I'm sorry I had to cut because of my ridiculous dogs
who will be euthanized this evening
when I was your age I had no access
there was no internet so that meant that
the information that I would come in contact with
that would be considered psychedelic or mind expanding
or different or fringe
was limited to what I could find at the library
and I would go to the occult section
and I would find these books and I would have this weird sense
and also at the library I went to in Hendersonville, North Carolina
you actually had to sign a certain thing
to look at the occult books, you did
because they thought the information was too much
and so information was controlled
and I remember coming in contact with
the first I ever heard of like Ram Dass
or Richard Alpert probably wasn't until
I was in college you know
so it's a very exciting thing to me
to think that really there might be
many other 15 year olds
who are exhibiting the same kind of wisdom
and the same kind of
what's the word for it
the same kind of fringe
open mindedness that you have
and you know that word it's like
I use that word too
and I use the word creepy
and I mean that in a good way, I don't mean it in a bad way
but people mistake that I think we need a better word for it
than weird because I'll tell you what weird is
weird is being a 15 year old
who is completely
obsessed with a football team
that's your whole life, I'm not saying it's terrible
but I'm saying that seems a little more weird to me
that's another facet of me though
I like going to watch the soccer
well you're a weirdo
I like that as well but the thing is
you know how I like to annoy racists on the internet
you've sort of joined in with that somewhat
it's the tweet that you put out
so if someone put
in other countries you wouldn't have this freedom of speech
Jack, you'd be arrested
and then you came back with I'm all for arresting Jack Carroll
he's a menace
I was looking through their twitter accounts the other day
and one of them said
16 year old aspiring
investment banker
there you go
so funny you already have a nemesis
you have your opposites
but I'm not saying that's a bad thing if that's what you really want to do
just try and
also try and just
find whatever avenue you need to be a decent person
to other people
and I'm not there yet by any means
there's a lot of work ahead of me
to be able to interact properly
with
mainly my close family is the people that
I get unduly annoyed at for no reason
when I go into mad fits
and maybe that's just another
the same way with Robin Williams
you can't have everything
in a sort of
karmic is a horrible
and I don't mean that in a horrible way
you've got to be able to balance it out
but one thing I have noticed is
your news coverage over here
and I hate to say New York because that has
wrapped up in all nationalist ideas
but the news coverage out here is
may not be the most impartial or the best
but I tell you what is
the kids TV shows are amazing
like what?
I always like SpongeBob
but Adventure Time is now on Netflix
oh yeah, Adventure Time is incredible
that's magic with the K
not magic with the C
and what else was there
just all the animated stuff
I don't know what it's called
but there's a squirrel
and he works in a park and he's got a friend
and there's a man on it who was like
and he came down
and it was just a chin on legs
and he was the god of the sort of world
and he was just a chin on legs with a beard
but yeah and then
that seems really strange
that the news coverage could be so
right of center and well
you know
well the artists are
when you have a cartoon you have artists
who are all these various artists who are sort of
blending together to get their ideas out there
it's the same thing like if you look at
cathedrals you will see in the cathedrals
weird symbols that don't quite make sense with Christianity
and that's because these artists were building the cathedrals
and they were weaving in little thumb prints
little like initials that didn't have anything to do
with the Christian ethic and I think that like
the same is true for cartoons
you know I think that you represent
the thing that God forgive me for saying this
but you represent the thing that the hippies
and the weirdos sort of
have been prognosticating for a long time
but I think they were wrong about the way it was going to happen
and when it was going to happen
but it's what they call this great shift that's happening
and the consciousness of the planet
which is a movement out of that kind of
movie that Rupert Murdoch is trying to make
I keep saying docked, Rupert Murdoch is trying to make us believe
is docked
in the dock of
spiritual and social
death
he is docked
but he's kind of like a dark necromancer
who sits on top of his tower trying to confuse and hypnotize
the masses into believing that we exist in a world
of suffering and horror and paranoia
and on the other side of that you have people like
you who are suddenly getting microphones in front of their
mouths and suddenly expressing these ideas
that are inspirational
and mind expanding and I think that
the more of you, if there's one of you
in the same way if there's one planet Earth
then it probably means there's many many many other planet Earths
with life forms on them. I bet there's many many
other views out there and my hope is that
they're in my basement
I'm cloning myself, I'm raising an army
I thought you were going to say you killed them
because they're going to be your competitors
It's Murdoch man, I've got to kill the competition
I'm buried in my basement Duncan
Listen man, we got to wrap this up but
I want to thank you for taking some time to be on this podcast
and I hope that you'll come back, we can do it through Skype
It's been enlightening again man
Likewise, it's a smaller audience
to be enlightened by you
so that's good to sort of...
It's real man, really you are
I'm not going to listen, let me just be a condescending old man
for a second, you're an amazing person
and you shouldn't be so hard on yourself
you got to be, you got to really love yourself
and recognize that you deserve
everything that's happening to you
You're really remarkable man
because of this podcast, I get to sit down and talk to a lot of fascinating people
and
like Ramdas
or like Ragu Marcus
so many really brilliant fascinating people
you deserve the award
there's a reason that you're up there with those other people who are heroes
and the sooner you can digest
that indeed you are
a remarkable human being, the better it's going to be for everybody
let me just close on one weird little story if I could
I'm sorry to be an old man and lecturing you my friend
there's nothing worse than being a 15 year old and hearing some ass
I'm sorry
Anyway, Jay Wunden
comedian, I think he won last comic standing
and he was experiencing
all this amazing stuff from it
and I remember talking to him outside the comedy store
about it and all these crazy things that were happening
and like, I don't remember some cool thing that happened to me
that I thought was an anomaly and he looks at me and he goes
Duncan, eat the cake
just eat the cake
and I thought it was the best advice I ever got
eat the cake
eat the cake man, when it's in front of you, eat it
just eat the cake, enjoy it, it's wonderful and you deserve it
Yeah, thank you man
I've got something on the plane ride home to digest now
Hare Krishna my friend
How can people find you?
Twitter, at Fat Jacko
should have a website but that's getting done
I will make you do the podcast
You should be doing podcasts
I insist
The Twitter is at Fat Jacko
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Thank you again, I'll talk to you soon
Thanks for listening everybody, that was Jack Carroll
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