Greetings to you, my friends. It's me, Duncan. This is the Duncan Trusel Family Hour. Hello. I want to say a big thank you. A lot of you have been sending me really sweet messages telling me you enjoy these solo episodes. And that makes me feel great because I feel a little insecure about doing them. I mean, who the fuck do I think I am? And it occurred to me in the middle of the night

when I woke up after a really bad dream that I should maybe, and I don't think I should do

this for every single one, but maybe point out how a lot of the things I'm talking about on these

solo episodes are clearly not fully developed ideas, but more of a way that I'm trying to, in my own mind,

work out ideas that I have because every once in a while I just get some idea that I want to

explore. I've got methods of doing that that are evolving. This is one of them. Also, I like

sharing the ideas with you guys because your responses help develop

the ideas, point me in new directions. And then I interact with chat GPT a lot when I come up with

an idea. And I'm trying to make them a little bit more organized because I recognize that I

inevitably go off on a tangent, and sometimes that tangent never returns

to the original idea. So I'm working on that. I don't want to be hyper-organized, but also

it would be, I think it probably feel better if the things were slightly more structured.

Bottom line, thank you for being part of my rambling attempt, my

stumbling towards some truth or realizing whatever my dumb idea was was actually just a dumb

idea and there's nothing there at all, which to me is a delight that I feel like people have sort of unfortunately failed to recognize.

It's double failure.

Failure in trying to like propose some new idea or failure in putting your ass on the line.

And then it turns out you're wrong is not really failure your

your failure is helping all of us succeed by realizing you are you are totally fucking off and

um that i think the most classic example of that that i'm seeing right now uh in the on the

internet is um and i doubt we could show this because it's definitely like

ip violation but please check out uh there's an incredible clip floating around of that guy sink

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