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Duncan Trussell

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“I love it. It's bye. Pierce Bice Shelley, probably mispronouncing the name, but I think you'll get it. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Ozzy Mandius. I met a traveler from an antique land who said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them on the sand half sunk a shattered visage lies whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read, which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed, and on the pedestal these words appear My name is Ozi Mandius, King of Kings, look on my works, ye mighty in despair. Nothing beside remains round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I say to them every time I'm putting them to bed We will be lost in the sands of time. You know that, I bet you know this poem. You know that poem Ozzy Mand Can I read you a poem? Okay.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it's a full time job because I do stand up too and all the other stuff. So I feel sometimes I feel like, oh my God, I want to spend more time with them. Like I should be spending more time with them. But then also I want to create. I want to work. I like being the provider. So that's something I feel guilty about, you know, right now.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, for sure absolutely. There's an actual, I read something in a book. It's called Good Enough, the Mantra for a Parent Good Enough. Because when you are in the presence of something you love more than you've ever experienced love, You want to be perfect, like you want to be, I can't, I got to work, man. I got to go on the road. I've got to work. I got to support the family. So that means I have to work. Like, I work, you know, you know what it's like having a podcast. You fucking work, man. And, uh,”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You look back at everything you did and you think like, fuck, if I'd gone left at that point instead of right, if I had eaten who knows, what if I'd eaten like a turkey sandwich when my balls were creating the cum that was going to make my kids? Would I have a different kid? Would this being not exist in my life? Like you start looking at everything and you realize like thank God, thank God for every single thing that happened to me because it all led up to this. And oh for me that is the it's like It frees you in this way. It liberates you because you realize like, oh wow, it's clumsy and selfish and at times rotten as I've been in my life. That did not impede the universe at all from allowing this two beautiful beings to exist in the world.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The part of myself that used to torture myself more around my mom dying, feeling like I wasn't there enough for her, wishing that I had spent more time with her, wishing I'd spent more time with my dad, wishing that looking back at like how I was just so desperately trying to evade the fact that she was dying. And through, and in that evasion successfully like distanced myself from her and in ways that I really wish I hadn't. I'm just saying that because it's one of my regrets. It's like a big regret. I have a lot of little regrets, but that's a big one. And so when you have”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I made biological entities. I mean, it came in my life, let's face it. I would love to say I made them, but the womb whipped them up. But it is the, yeah, it's the best. I've never experienced anything like it before. It is the, as far as I'm concerned, the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. And that's why I was able to answer your Nietzsche question with like, hell yes, fuck yes. That's great. I get to be around my kids again. I'll always be around my kids. I'll always be around my children. That's incredible. That's the joy. So like, so for me.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are obviously exceptions, but for me, it was like a long slog, you know, and that's scary for a mom. But that being said, when she was dying, like, she did recognize that I was not slogging anymore. And she did say, she said, you did it. And that's cool. You know, I would love for her to see me now. Like now I'd be way cooler, but maybe she does. I don't know.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think that when my mom died. I felt successful in the sense that I was. Able to I was making money from doing stand up and my, I didn't need help. I was like, I was supporting myself with art and doing good what I thought was great then. So, and I think because she had witnessed me literally failing. I mean, which is, by the way, I think part of if you want to be an artist or successful, you kind of have to fail. And if there was a guaranteed route from sucking to not sucking or from like... The Neophyte phase of whatever the art form is and some intermediary phase, then I think a lot more people would do it, but there really is no guarantees in it, especially the stand-up comedy. It's like you'd have to be a maniac to want to think that that's going to work out for you. So you're going to.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, I don't like. No, I think sure, there's that pressure and like, you know, whenever you're beginning to really differentiate from your parents, but then you go back to hang out with your parents, you can feel that it's not like they even want you to conform, but you'll just, you could slip into that, whatever that was. So I remember that when I would go back and like visit them and stuff. And surely conformity or the pressure to not be individual or whatever. It's everywhere, man.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't know he was in the room or I would have bombed, you know? And then, like, because he thought I was funny and he liked talking to me, he started taking me on the road with him. And then, you know, so I don't know, man. I think, uh,”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so then because you think it'll be fun to work at a comedy club, you get a job at the comedy store. And then, you know, that's how it happened for me. And there wasn't, I never was never at the confidence to be like, I want to be a stand-up comedian. No way. I just thought it'd be cool to work in that building. I thought the building looked cool. And so, but then, like, because you work at the comedy store, you get stage time. It's the reason you work there is, at least in those days. Ton of money for you to answer phones at a comedy club. And so, you know, I started going on stage and Then, like, I just got lucky because Rogan saw me have a very rare good set.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“See, this is what kind of sucks about my life is that it's been very random and very spontaneous. So unfortunately, I don't get that thing where I could be like, well, here's what I did. Because it's like, I don't like, I inherited $12,000 from my grandmother. Here's what you do, kids. You inherit twelve thousand dollars when your grandmother dies. And then you need to be dumb enough to think that that twelve thousand dollars is going to help you live in LA for a year. So then what you do is you move to LA with twelve thousand dollars and you find a shitty place that you live at and then you use that money to buy acid and synthesizers. And then you run out of the money and then you have to get a job.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My God Yeah, the respect I have for animators, it's like. Dear God, it's the craziest thing when you watch it, when you see what it looks like and how much time goes into it and how Zen they have to be. Because no matter what, you're going to have to cut stuff, man. And when you're cutting like a few seconds of animation, that was someone's like month maybe, you know, and like they understand, but still it's like, whoa, it's brutal. And so they have like this Zen outlook on it, which is really cool. And they watch podcasts. That's the other cool thing when you realize they're listening to podcasts. They're like, that's really cool to see that aspect of it too. But yeah, man, I, you know”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Figured out that if you just sort of Not like obviously, like Clancy had to look like Clancy through the whole show, but if you allow the various people animating it to sort of have their own spin on it, then suddenly it creates a very psychedelic, you know, the show looks more psychedelic because it looks more organic and also the amount of time. I had no idea, the amount of time that goes into making digital art. Look like that's insane. The amount of work in comping that stuff It's crazy”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, man, that's Pendleton. You know, these people, I mean, like I was part of that. The sense that, like, Pendleton gave one of the reasons he's like such a genius and great at making stuff is like he's like, he really does a good job of just like de-hierarchizing potential like hierarchies that can appear. You know, someone has to be like driving the bus and that was Pendleton, but he lets he's so inclusive. There's a real punk rock thing that he's doing, which is like he'll take everything and it kind of mixes its way into the show. But one of the things, you know, in animation, it can get really strict with like drawing the characters and like the trying to create continuity in the way the character looks like and it can get really brute for the animator. It can get brutally precise. Like it has to be precise.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He writes me letters Never saw it again. Never saw it again, but I put it in the midnight gospel. You know, I like Pendleton was like, it's such a genius. And he drew it for me and then it just ended up as a part of the show”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, you can go in and out of time space. But the problem is when you go into time space, it's time. So it's going to feel sticky. It's going to feel like you've been here forever because you've dropped back onto the track that Nietzsche's talking about. And I guess one of the qualities of dropping into that frame is that you forget your higher dimensional identity.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We were talking about that maybe data, you know, the shit I saw in nitrous ox, I don't feel dumb that my epiphanies are all related to drugs, but not all of them are a lot of them. But this notion of like, oh, is it that we're Imprinting into the medium of time space everything we do, and that that is a permanent imprint, a frame that upon death can be accessed in the same way we can pull up pictures on our phone or computers and not only access but experienced as though we In other words, you could just jump in. You're still going to have your memories. It's going to give you the illusion of having been a kid and got into that frame, but no, you just decided to go back there. Nostalgia, whatever control.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know how to put it a chamber, a technological chamber, some kind of supercomputer, some kind of nucleus that was technological. And it was inviting. There was an invitation of like, come in, like, come deeper into, come deeper in. And you can talk to whatever it is over there. You don't talk, but there's a communication. And I communicated, but my friends, I don't I love my friends. I guess I had some sense in that moment that it would mean complete obliteration or who knows what. And the response that it gave back was you can always go back there and that's when I open my eyes and back totally, you know, and ever since then that's caused me to revise my thinking on reincarnation, the idea that you die and you start as a baby and then live your life again. It goes right into the way.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“However, you want to put it, that's what I did. And I look back. And it's still there, only now it's, you know, because usually in your having those kinds of visions, they go away pretty quickly. This thing's like moved shambled ahead maybe a few steps, just like a cow. Just like a cow. And then that was when the, you know, all the stories you hear about it, like going through some kind of tube or some kind of light tunnel, like a water slide made of light that's... Increasingly familiar. That's the wildest part of it. It's like, oh, I know this place, not like, oh, I've seen this in like, you know, on bong stickers, but like, oh, yeah, this is that place you go to. You just remember, oh, this place. And then. It was like I was in some kind of.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I was like smoking DMT I saw like. In the Midnight Gospel, there are these bovine creatures that have a long neck and a lantern head. So, like, I saw one of those things. And, um, And, you know, I thought it was funny and like. Ridiculous because you hear like all the Terrence McKenna stories of Self transforming machine elves or all the purple or the magenta goddess everyone sees her. I'm like, so this is what I get like. Fucking cow with a lantern head. Like, that's where my brain is at and interacting with this molecule. So then, like. I look away. And again, this is DMT. So when I say look away, do I mean with my eyes shut, I look away or eyes open, I look away. I think eyes shut. So it sounds weird to say look away, but”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. Not to mention the insane Synchronicities like insane synchronicities there. And I think, like, you know, to get back to the notion of synchronous as a byproduct of a harmonized yet hyper-complex system, I think synchronicities, like those kinds of systems are like lightning rods for synchronicity. crazy not just because you're high synchronicities happen that are that are impossible where you just have to deal with it and like you'll need something and within a few minutes someone's like oh here you here you go”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You would rather meet that being than like a UFO land in your backyard. It's like it is the UFO. It's a person, but it's not. It's everybody and nobody, and somehow they end up conveying to you that. Ideas that you may have heard it million times before, but somehow within the language itself is a transmission that permanently alters you. And so these people exist. I think you could argue that burning man the Total thing He is a guru that a pilgrimage is involved to get there. You like it's not easy to get there. And when you get there, it's going to teach you something. It's going to show you something. It's going to, and what, maybe some of the stuff it shows you might not be great, but the community around you will like hold you as you're like, whatever the thing is that's coming out of you that's coming out of you.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it is. And it is. I mean, it's like, you know, there are all these stories of, like, I love guru stories. I have a guru, Nim Krolliba, never met him. He was Ramdas' guru, at least not in the flesh. But the story of the guru is if you're lucky, you meet this being that, and we're not talking about, you know, whatever the run of the mill like charlatans out there. Like, I know for sure that people are in the world right now who When you're around them, the thing you're talking about, the affirmation of the potential of humanity and also just an acceptance of yourself and, you know, cultivate, like seeing someone who's cultivated love or compassion or whatever. But in this way that is I mean, you would almost.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It grew and grew and grew and grew until you have burning man as it is today, which is still the most incredible thing. I mean, obviously, anytime you have like a thing that's been around for a while, you're going to get that it's not like it used to be. It's not as free as it used to be. So this or that. But what's fascinating about Burning Man, someone pointed this out to me. Look on the ground. No trash no cigarettes The ethic of like picking up your shit there is like so intense so it's not like the other festivals you go to where there's just trash everywhere and shit scattered everywhere It's clean people are picking up their stuff people are like really being conscious of like not fucking up the playa so I'm sorry don't get a burner yappin' about burning man we won't stop It'll be”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which I don't know a lot about, like, I don't know, but it's a philosophical art movement. And then so basically what was happening is like they kept burning increasingly large effigies in San Francisco and they weren't allowed to do it. And so they took it out in the desert. And they were basing it on something called a zone trip, which is like, you know, across this border, the rules of that old society are gone. And so that was the original burning man, which was these lunatics out in the desert launching, like burning pianos out of catapults through the air doing like drive-by shooting ranges. Like, no rules, wild, magical, beautiful, insane madness. And then”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then blindfold comes off. It's a big, awesome party. This evolves into something called the cacophony society. There's a great book called Tales of the Cacophony Society for People Listening. One of the members of the cacophony society was the author of Fight Club. And so if you've seen Fight Club, like you could see little ideas that were in the cacophony society, they were into”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You would prepare your life as though you were going to kill yourself. You would get all your affairs in order. So it's going back to what we were talking about with the cancer diagnosis. You're like sort of putting yourself into that world of like, I'm going to get all my affairs together as though this is it. And then there was some, I'm sorry for anyone listening if I'm butchering this, but I think there was some really cool initiation where they were blindfold you and they would take you into some of these abandoned buildings and you didn't know where you were walking but they would say like if you take one step to the left you're gonna die you're gonna fall off you're gonna fall so please be careful so you're like in the moment”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not all the way not all the way, you know, you could look it up, you know, because there is tension. There's a lot of tension there between, it's called plug and plays. Like, you know, Burning Man, like the history of Burning Man is fascinating. It has its roots in the cacophony society is what it was called, which is a sort of evolution of something that was, I think it was called the God, like the San Francisco. Basically, there was like an art movement in San Francisco, and I can't remember the name of it, maybe the Suicide Club or essentially like they were really into urban exploration and meaning like breaking into old abandoned buildings and stuff. But part of this, what this was was.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I just know at least people were saying it was Elon Musk's boat. Like, yeah, like this, I think it was like this massive art cars. And it was this party on this thing. You could just, anyone can go on the boat. Like no one's like, there's no guest list. You just go on there. I never saw him there, but everyone's whispering Elon Musk is here.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Learn stuff like you learn these really interesting lessons. Like one of the times I went there. Got all these Strawberry slicks might not sound like a big deal, but when you're out there in the dust and you're not at one of like the hardcore like luxury camps which do exist out there, You know, you've got these items where in my mind I'm like, yeah, these are gonna be just for me and my girlfriend, my special stash fruit and this or that. And then like two days in you're walking around your camp with the strawberries that you are coveting And everyone's so happy to get like cold strawberries. And you've realized, oh my God, this feels so much better than the way a strawberry tastes. So you learn something experientially there, which is an incredible thing. It's an incredible thing. Man, now I'm wishing I decided to go to Burning Man.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, there's a it's called art cars, they all make art cars, and like part of the burn, what's so beautiful about it is like you can't buy anything there, man. I heard, I don't know if this has changed. It's been a bit because of the pandemic, but the only thing you could buy was ice and coffee. And I think maybe that's changed. I heard some whisper that that's changed, but so that means that it's a gifting economy is what they call it. And so people will just give you stuff. Talk about having to struggle with deserving stuff, man. What are you going to fucking do when the camp next to you is like every morning making the best iced coffee that you've ever had in your life? And they just are giving it all away till it's all gone. What are you going to do? It's the best ever. And then you're giving things to people. And then you learn.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not, I mean, I have kids right now. I just want to be around them. My wife was being so cool about it, and she knows I love Burning Mar. She's like, go to Burning Man. And I was going to go. And then I just want to be around my kids as much as I can right now.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the yeah, okay, so One that pops to mind, I've had a lot of psychedelic experiences, but in this moment, the one that pops to mind only because it goes back to what you were talking about. About this Nietzsche's idea of infinite return.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it cuts off this fucking mystical circuitry. So like the best thing if that happens to you is like accept it joyfully and just all that whatever that thing inside of you, whatever that little thing is, you know, this is like in the meditation I do. It's an infuriatingly simple meditation, but when a thought emerges, when you're arresting your attention on your brain, Get lost in your thoughts, and when you catch yourself doing that, you thinking, and then return your attention to the breath. So I like that so that when that part of myself starts, you know, having its little neurotic semi seizure, I can just go thinking, whatever. It's just another thought. And then eat the banana bread or whatever they gave you.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For me, I go the opposite route because I'm not even though there is a part of me that might be a little suspicious or something where I go to push that shit back mentally is I'm like, I don't deserve this if they knew. What a piece of shit I am. You're going to bring me. I don't never bring cakes to my neighbors. I would know how to make a cake. I don't know how to make anything. I don't have time. I should be bringing shit to my neighbors. Why didn't I do that? I should have brought, I never do that. If you're not careful, you can spiral into a vortex. Of self hate from the gift, so you have to, yeah, you have to learn how to, in that circuitry, you have to learn how to accept.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, it's incredible. And I know what you're saying. It's like. We moved to this great neighborhood. At this point, I think Three, maybe four of our neighbors have like made food for us that just shows up with handwritten lists of things they like to do in the area and their phone number if we need help. And it's like, holy shit, that's like it might seem like a little act, but it feels like some kind of atomic love bomb just went off on your porch when you're looking at that. Like, what the fuck? You made me a pie this is incredible. Like this is incredible.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Garden you can touch and then or even deeper than that intention just like I'm an idiot so I need an idiot's intention which is don't if you I heard the Dalai Lama say it You can help if you can't help don't hurt. Simple, basic dummy rules so that you can, if possible, refrain from hurting, which might as well be a form of helping.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The people you're talking about, they're the tip of the iceberg that pops up out of the ocean of history. And you never see all the little things that helped that happen. And so to me, this is where the real, like, how do you help? What's something you can do? Well, you know, recognize that first, that you don't really, you might not even be aware of how much your impacting people around you. You might think that you're not, or you might think surely not in a way that makes a big difference, but you have no idea these tipping points that can lead to the emergence of an Einstein, a Gandhi, a Martin Luther King. You can go on and on at Dostoevsky or whoever. And so I think that's where for me it goes back to 10 to the part.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know what? If I could push back slightly against that, it's never just one person, it's like, you know, nobody ever talks about, at least as far as I'm aware, you never hear about like Buddhas great-grandmother. You never hear about that. You never hear about that. But if not for that person, no Buddhism.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I know what you're going to say. Well, yeah, but I have to fucking pay taxes. Like, I have no choice. There's sales tax. There's this or that. Take that attitude. It's the same thing that people on the battlefield when they're sending missiles into other tanks. They're thinking the same thing. It's just they're more directly responsible for what's going on. But in Buddhism, this idea of dependent co-arising arising, we're all connected. We're all part of this matrix. We're all connected. Meaning we all share responsibility for the evil in the world. So even if you aren't directly committing evil acts, if you're seeing something in the world and you're thinking that's evil, you're probably not quite as separated from that as you'd like to believe in some tiny infinitesimally. Way you're connected so”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure. Yeah, I mean sure definitely. I think if you don't think that you better watch out because come on, how do you think you're not capable of evil and PS you are if you're connected to the supply chain, friend You're doing evil you're paying taxes You're like you're supporting the worst things in the world I mean you know like Diffusion of responsibility. It's really curious, the circumference of responsibility where it's like bombs are going off somewhere that were paid for in some small part by you. Are you some fractional if you if American, if a drone is flying over a village in Afghanistan and drops a bomb and you pay taxes, then you could say you have fractional ownership over that drum.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, very cold fucking lake. And yeah, so Very, very cold leg that he's happily swimming around in. But yeah, you know, I try not to think about the Hitler thing on my birthday, that my dad would just, every birthday, he would remind me that Hitler was born.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think if anybody is like, well, obviously, there's nothing you can do to like fix it. Hitler fucked up a lot of things. He fucked up that mustache. He fucked up the name Hitler. He fucked up 420. And obviously he caused a horrific Holocaust. That, by the way, talk about these reverberations through time that we're still experiencing. I mean, there's still people walked around with fucking tattoos. That motherfucker. But Wim Hoff, you know, people like Wim Hoff, there's a little, they're like, whatever the opposite of Hitler is, you know.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, right. Like, yeah, you know, and I was just having this conversation with a friend of mine who's a wonderful skeptic, and we were talking about this, which is the thing where you started attributing. Of the day you were born, these kind of significance, and based on maybe people who were born on that day, maybe some other things, and, you know, it's like think of how many people by now in the course of human history have been born on april twentieth. I mean, how many? Someone could probably do the math and come up with some number close to it. Now, Is how you know how rotten Hitler is. Like he's the one that fucks up every birthday for everybody else.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it does not. No, but April 20th is an embarrassing birthday for all my 420 friends out there. It's embarrassing. You share a birthday with Hitler.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Man's search for mean The invitation to live. Your life, as though you'd been on your deathbed and had been given the chance to go back and not make the same mistakes. I return to that idea all the time, meaning it's like, okay, whatever you did before this moment. Too late, but now this is where you can start. This is where you can start. Yeah I think that for a neurotic like me, that's super important because otherwise I'll just get too lost in the weeds of shit, shitty things I did in the past.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's rife. That's right Yeah, that's right. You can, yeah, you know, we feel guilt. Part of grief is guilt, you know? Like we always could have been better people. We always could have been better people. You get into Victor Frankel much”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People have, you know, I don't this whole thing like cries for help, man. They don't. You don't realize for the person to send that text, they've been thinking about it all morning. They've been just trying to get their phone up From the floor. So, you know I think that's it. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I've had friends like kill himself. And many of them it wasn't like sadly it was like, I don't know, I don't know what could have been done.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source