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

I'm back in beautiful New York. When I left, it was kind of gray. The trees were just starting to bud with green.

But now, wow, man, everything's green. It's the most beautiful day of all time. No more of that vicious skin-destroying New York satanic cold that just freezes you to your soul.

Your soul gets permafrost.

Your soul gets mammoth carcasses frozen in it in the New York winters.

But it's gone now, and now it's just green and beautiful and glorious victory has been

achieved over the frosty winter colds.

But I'm back.

Back from the Ram Dass retreat, back from the psychedelic science conference, and from some

magnificent shows

in Los Angeles and San Francisco. And I feel amazing, optimistic, hopeful, mind-blown by the

Ram Dass Retreat. I will never, ever, ever stop being fascinated by the states of consciousness that can be

achieved when you exit default reality and enter into a shared intention with a group of people.

Default reality. There's actually a term related to the experience of leaving a temporary

autonomous zone and entering back into default reality. They call it reentry. And people,

it can be very rough for people. Because for a second, you know what I guess it must be

like, it must be similar to, let's say SeaWorld, one day a year, let their orca swim out in the ocean.

And suddenly there's no more wall, there's no more crowds of weird monkey descendants cheering at your imprisonment.

There's just the wide open ocean.

And you experience what it is to truly be an orca.

This is what life is, to swim with your pod, to hunt, to be in the sea, free.

A powerful super predator swimming through the ocean and experiencing your birthright,

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