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Duncan Trussell Family Hour

581: David Nichtern

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Comedy Interviews, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy

4.811K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

David Nichtern, David from The Midnight Gospel, Duncan's meditation teacher, and friend, re-joins the DTFH!

You can learn more about David, including where to find his fantastic music and books, on his website: DavidNichtern.com. The book discussed in this episode is Awakening from the Daydream, available everywhere you like to get your books!

Duncan and David are holding a FREE online discussion on September 26, from 6pm - 7pm ET. You can register for Eternity & Nowness over at the Dharma Moon website.

You can also always sign up for the popular Dharma Moon Meditation Teacher Training!

Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings, friends. It is I, Professor D. Truselm, a professor at Harvard, one of the great universities in Ivy League University.

0:07.8

I am tenured. I study chemistry, which I consider to be the ultimate field of research.

0:15.3

In my many years in chemistry, led me to a magnificent metal known as mercury.

0:23.1

And it was mercury that inspired me to start a podcast even though many of my colleagues said

0:30.4

that was a mistake because I wouldn't be taken seriously by the medical journals if I started a podcast, an interview to whoever I wanted.

0:39.4

But I am tenured. And I wanted to do a podcast. And I wanted to sing songs. And I wanted to write an album.

0:46.4

And I wanted to work on a quantum entanglement style, time travel device that is a wearable wristwatch.

0:54.4

But most importantly, I wanted to sing. I wanted to sing about one of the great metals.

1:00.4

Here's one of my songs from an upcoming album.

1:24.4

The answer, drinking mercury again.

1:33.4

They call it a poison because they don't want you to know that if you are lost, the direction it will show.

1:43.9

You'll see beautiful colors as a future on your past.

1:49.9

So holding it to my office, when it put mercury in your glass, in your glass.

2:02.9

That's actually a track from an album I'm releasing. It's called Mysterious Mercury.

2:09.4

And it is obviously dedicated to a misunderstood metal known as mercury.

2:16.9

Here's another song from the album.

2:19.9

And here's just one last song. There's actually 700 songs on the album.

2:39.4

So it is a digital download. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to fit it all on a CD though.

2:44.9

I do have an idea for a CD made of mercury. I think it could be used to store not just data, but feelings.

2:54.9

Here's another song from the album.

3:14.9

We have an excellent episode for you today.

3:43.9

What is here today is someone you probably know from the Midnight Gospel show I created with the Genius Pendleton Award.

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