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Duncan Trussell Family Hour

597: Neal Allen and Anne Lamott

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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

4.811K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Neal Allen (author of the wonderful Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, available now) and Anne Lamott (novelist, non-fiction writer, and swiftie survivor) re-join the DTFH!

You can find Neal's new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, everywhere you buy your books! You can also learn more about Neal and find his other books on his site, ShapesOfTruth.com.

Anne Lamott's new book, Somehow - Thoughts on Love, is coming out this April! You can pre-order it now right here. You can also follow Anne on Facebook.

Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg.

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0:00.0

Greetings to you, my sweet darling children of the earth. It's 2024 and you are living in the year of the wood dragon.

0:11.1

Wow, I've never even heard of wood dragons. I used to play D and D when I was a kid and there's all kinds of cool

0:17.3

dragons, green dragons, red dragons, blue dragons, chromatic dragons, but I don't remember a wood dragon. That is the best and worst kind of

0:29.0

dragon to be, because theoretically you can breathe fire, but you're made of wood.

0:35.0

What a better descriptor for the times we're in.

0:39.0

Here we are, completely interconnected, completely are completely merged with one another,

0:45.0

soon to be neurologically, and obviously all the other

0:52.0

the inhalation and exhalation of all the

0:56.8

farts of the world or microf you know what I mean the flat, you're

1:01.0

breathing flatulence wherever you go.

1:05.0

No one wants to think about it.

1:06.8

Probably shouldn't be spoken out loud, but that's just one of the ways that were.

1:11.2

And then you obviously you're breathing in other stuff too.

1:14.7

You're breathing in pollution.

1:18.1

You're breathing in those Kim trails that they're spraying on our cities.

1:22.3

You're breathing in your own B.O. I'm certainly doing that at

1:25.1

this very moment. And you're exhaling and the plants are breathing and

1:32.0

other people are breathing you're excellent.

1:33.6

You know what I'm getting out here?

1:34.6

I don't need to go on and on with my really bad understanding of ecology and

1:41.8

respiration.

1:43.0

But that's always freaked me out, you know, like,

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