Greetings to you friends. It's me Duncan. This is the Duncan Trussell Family Hour Podcast.

I just found out about my friend's Chinese spy balloon really sad. He spent so long

building that thing. If you knew how long, if you think it takes a long time to fill up a

raft at the pool or to put air in your air mattress, do you know how long it took him to blow up

his spy balloon? Did you see the thing? Hours and hours of just blowing air into the stupid

tiny plastic nozzle on the side of it. The mission itself was definitely something that probably

upper echelons of our government wouldn't be happy about, gathering intel, taking all kinds

of measurements, spraying a mist of sodium pentathal nanobots down on North America. I don't want

to get into politics because I don't understand politics. I'm just a podcaster, but I will tell

you this. Lee Wong is brokenhearted and I don't know if he's coming back from this. I went

to school with him for a little bit. He stayed in the United States during the fourth grade

and we became friends. He's a really cool guy. Then he had to go back to his home country

and we would correspond. He would send me letters. I can't read Chinese, but I definitely

know what a spy balloon looks like. And even then he was drawing pictures of it. Only

to for it to be shot down. Shot down with missiles paid for by taxpayers like you and me.

And it's a kind of a sad thing to think. When I saw that thing to flate and spiral down

into the sea, I just started sobbing, knowing the pain that Lee was going through. I guess

what my grandmother used to say about life being a Chinese spy balloon turns out to be the

case. Even if you spend your whole life inflating a massive balloon to check out what's going

on in another country, there's no guarantee it's not going to get shot down. This is why

you've got to live for the moment. If you're one of the many weapons manufacturers or just

in it for that explosion, if you're one of those spy drone creators that's just in it

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