726: DTFH Live from Skankfest

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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

4.8 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Live from Skankfest New Orleans with Tom O'Neill (author of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties), Kurt Metzger, and Greg Fitzsimmons!

CHAOS is now a documentary on Netflix! Click to watch Chaos: The Manson Murders, or get the book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.

Go see Greg Fitzsimmons live! You can find all of his upcoming dates on his site, GregFitzsimmons.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody. It's great to see you. And this is an incredible episode that happened because of
0:06.9	my friend, the brilliant comedian Greg Fitzsimmons, who happened to be at Skank Fest, which is by far my
0:15.0	favorite comedy festival ever. Go next year if you can. It's such a blast. Like, I don't know. I honestly, I've never really
0:24.5	enjoyed comedy festivals, but it is the most insane wild party. It happened in New Orleans. And as it
0:32.7	turns out, Greg was there with Tom O'Neill, who happens to be his friend and neighbor.
0:39.7	If you don't know who Tom O'Neill is, you probably know his book, Chaos, Charles Manson,
0:44.4	the CIA, and the secret history of the 60s.
0:48.5	Tom O'Neill is so fucking cool.
0:52.6	And in this episode, we talk about his incredible book, about Manson and the CIA.
0:59.0	Also joining us on this live episode of the DTFH is the brilliant comedian Kurt Metzger.
1:04.4	Check out his podcast, Derp with Kurp. This is a mega episode of the DTFH and a huge thank you to Skankfest for
1:14.6	filming and recording the whole thing for me. Also, just because it's the nature of a live podcast,
1:20.5	I guess the audio is kind of fucked up in the beginning of this. So my apologies for that,
1:25.4	but it gets better in like a minute and a half. So I'm sorry about that.
1:30.1	But now everybody, please welcome to the DTFH, Tom O'Neill, Kurt Metzker, and Greg Fitzsimmons, live from Skankfest, New Orleans.
1:40.8	Thank you.
1:51.5	Thank you, everybody.
1:52.9	Thank you so much.
1:56.3	Thank you guys so much for being here.
2:07.4	This is going to be the first live taping of my podcast, the Dunkin Trussle family hour that I've done in like five or maybe eight years.
2:10.3	So can I just, I'm going to just start the podcast.
2:16.6	And if you guys could give me a giant roar when I say where we're coming from, that would be awesome.
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