715: Douglas Rushkoff

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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

4.8 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Douglas Rushkoff, author, humanist, and documentarian re-joins the DTFH!

Listen to Doug's podcast, Team Human! Available wherever you like to listen. Also, one of Doug's books just got a 15 year re-release! Now more relevant than ever, check out Program or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands for the AI Future. And you can always learn more about Douglas Rushkoff on his website, Rushkoff.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. It's me, Duncan Truzzle, reporting into you from Austin, Texas, the land of freedom and comedy.
0:11.3	The last episode with David Nictor, and a lot of y'all really enjoyed that.
0:20.1	And this month, I'm trying
0:23.5	to have as many guests on as I can that I feel like have a cooling effect or something
0:30.6	nuanced to say about the current tense state that lots of us are experiencing, especially if you've been gazing into your
0:40.6	demonic hypno-rectangle, which I have been. You ever see the dark crystal? Is that, can you
0:46.8	pull something up for the intro, Josh? Yeah. I want to show you guys something. When I was a kid,
0:52.6	I remember when the dark crystal came out. Man, I was so excited.
0:58.4	I love Jim Hinson. And my theory on the dark crystal is the dark crystal was when Jim Henson was
1:05.5	going through his LSD phase. And I recommend watching it. Maybe not so much for your kids if you have kids,
1:13.8	but I want to show you something that just burnt itself into my memory forever. What you're
1:24.4	seeing right now is something that traumatized me when I was a kid.
1:30.1	You know, it's Jim Henson.
1:31.5	You think you're going to be getting, like, it's kind of like hardcore Muppets.
1:35.3	Some Kermit the Frog, some Miss Piggy stuff.
1:37.5	Suddenly you got these reptilian fucking bird things,
1:40.6	strapping these cute little potato people into fucking chairs.
1:44.4	And then they stare into the dark crystal.
1:49.1	And watch what happens.
1:50.5	This is the most fucked up shit ever.
1:52.6	You know, back then they didn't care about kids the way they do now.
1:57.1	This is, I don't know what it was ready, PG.
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