#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
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Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 206 minutes
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Duncan Trussell is a comedian, host of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast, and co-creator of The Midnight Gospel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Duncan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/duncantrussell
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The Duncan Trussell Family Hour: https://duncantrussell.com
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:13) – Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence
(27:03) – Artificial intelligence
(55:33) – Joe Rogan
(1:04:06) – Facing death
(1:20:54) – Bhakti yoga
(1:27:46) – Afterlife
(1:38:10) – Suffering
(2:03:25) – War
(2:21:19) – Depression
(2:43:08) – Evil
(2:53:24) – Burning Man
(3:08:56) – The Midnight Gospel
(3:13:48) – Advice for young people
(3:23:19) – Duncan reads a poem
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Duncan Trussell, a stand up comedian, host of the |
| 0:05.1 | Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast and one of my favorite human beings. |
| 0:09.5 | I've been a fan of his for many years, so it was a huge honor and pleasure to meet him |
| 0:15.3 | for the first time and to sit down for this chat. |
| 0:20.4 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
| 0:23.2 | Check them out in the description, it's the best way to support this podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | You got skiff for email, calm for meditation, simply say for security, and that's sweet for |
| 0:33.0 | efficiency and indeed for hiring. |
| 0:36.2 | Choose wisely my friends. |
| 0:37.8 | And now onto the full ad reads. |
| 0:39.6 | As always, no ads in the middle. |
| 0:41.1 | I try to make this interesting, though I often fail. |
| 0:44.4 | However, that cliche statement goes about trying nine times and failing, but getting up |
| 0:50.2 | again to try again. |
| 0:52.2 | That's the worst paraphrasing of that cliche statement. |
| 0:55.8 | You know what is pretty cool is those demotivational posters that have like the opposite of inspirational |
| 1:01.5 | statements. |
| 1:02.5 | Those are hilarious. |
| 1:03.8 | Anyway, if you skip these spots or please check them out by going to the links in the |
| 1:08.6 | description. |
| 1:09.6 | I enjoy their stuff, maybe you will too. |
| 1:13.7 | This show is brought to you by skiff, a private end to end encrypted email. |
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