Hello, friends. It's me Duncan, and you're listening to the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast.

Got to start off by thanking all of you who reached out to me after the last depression rant.

I really appreciate the love that you've been sending me.

I can't imagine that I deserve such a thing.

And it's weird, right, talking about this stuff.

It's very weird.

You know, because there's like a version of yourself that you want to be.

And then there's the version of yourself that you are.

And the version of yourself that you want to be is ridiculous.

For me, it's like a cross between, I don't know, Wolverine, Johnny Cash, Bill Hicks,

George Carlin, sort of like this muscular, like, I don't know, outlaw, lunatic being. Like, also, let's throw in, i don't know buddha or something i mean it's ridiculous

what your ego wants you to be and that's the cross that your ego crucifies you on and you're

just hanging up there hanging on this cross made of all the ridiculous ideas that some childish

party wants you to be when the reality is I'm a 42 year old dude with a receding airline.

I'm not Wolverine. I'm not going to have ad manium claws that shoot out of my skin,

but because my ego wants me to be this incredibly tough, ridiculous comic

book character. It's insane, literally. I feel weird saying anything that makes me feel vulnerable.

And that's the kind of dystopian reality that we're currently existing in my sweet

brothers and sisters. It's not George Orwell's 1984. At least in that 1984, you know you can't

talk about the state. You know you can't rebel in any way, shape, or form, or they'll drag you to a

reconditioning facility and maybe

kill you. But in this particular reality that we exist in, we've created our own Orwellian police

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