#630 - Duncan Trussell

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Ladies and gentlemen, it's Duncan motherfucking Trussell.

Hello.

Aka super hippie.

Hello.

What's up, brother?

What's going on?

What's going on, my friend?

What happened to the commercials?

Fuck those things, dude. Add those bitches in. Later, I realized somewhere along the line that it's all about the flow of the conversation. That's what makes a podcast interesting to me. If I'm listening to a cool podcast, I want the flow of the conversation to be as natural as possible.

Yes.

I think even starting with the music probably should stop doing that. We'll add that shit and post right. The flow of the conversation is what's up. And the best way to get the flow of the conversation right is just kind of get into it, right?

Yeah, I think that's right. I do my commercials later. I just sit down with the people and start talking.

If you do a commercial first, you've killed the vibe for, like, five minutes more, even. Yeah, I've been guests on people's shows where they do it, too, and I don't want to do it. You don't want to sit there where someone's reading off their commercials, even if.

They'Re really good at it also. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the problem, is that it forces you to do, like, a read read when someone's there because you want to get it done with, and then that makes you sound like a robot. And it's much more interesting to talk about if you're using it or not. Like, what is it? Because a lot of the people advertising on podcasts, it's some weird stuff, man. It's like, brand new, strange technologies that are new. It's all Internet based businesses. There's a lot of that, and a.

Lot of those are cool squarespace, that kind of stuff.

Yeah, it's disruptive in this very mild way. Like, you find that the stuff is, like, disrupting the most annoying technologies, like taxis got disrupted by Uber. And if you consider the experience of a taxi versus an Uber, no offense to taxi drivers out there, I'm sorry you guys are. I don't want anybody to be out of work or anything, but, man, the difference is so profound that there's no competition. Like, taxis are. Know they've got that fucking tv in the back where it's. Commercials are, like, blaring into your face the whole time, and you're just sort of like you feel like you're in a traveling prison because they've got the plexiglass in between you and the driver. Because we live in such a crazy dimension where people who drive other people around have to treat them like pythons or something and put them behind glass just because that one guy with the ice pick.

Well, do you know how many people. It's not that one guy with the ice pack. Do you know what happened in New York City one year?

No.

They killed some insane number of gypsy cab drivers, I think. What, a gypsy cab driver, what they call gypsy cab driver is someone who's working kind of without. It was like pre uber. It was like they were working without a license or they're working with some shenanigans were involved and they would take these guys to bad neighborhoods and shoot them in the back of the head. And they shot a bunch of them. They shot a bunch of them. Criminals. It was like something they did to rob people. They take these gypsy cab drivers deep into New York City somewhere like Brownsville or somewhere like that, shoot them in the back of the head and then dump their cab. Dude, it was crazy. It happened A-A-I forget what year it was, but they had no idea how many people were involved. They didn't know who was getting. This is pre Internet.

Did they ever catch the guy?

I don't know. I wish I knew that answer.

Some kind of serial killer. Some kind of.

Was either a serial killer or a practice of robbing people and shooting them in the head.

How hungry are you? You have to be so hungry to decide that you're going to get in a cab and go through the trouble of blasting someone in the back of the head to get. How much money are they going to have maximum in a cab?

How much would they have? I mean, a few hundred bucks, who knows?

1000 maximum, who knows, man?

It's just hard to believe that it could be a million and someone would just shoot someone in the fucking head. It's weird when you get to a certain number and people go, oh, I got it. If someone kills someone for a million bucks, like, well, it was a million dollars.

It's probably really tempting for some people. Probably.

I know, but it's ridiculous. You shouldn't be able to kill somebody for 100. You shouldn't be able to kill someone for a million. But for whatever reason, if you say it was only for $100, they killed like somehow another. It makes it more pointless. They killed them for a million bucks.

Well, I mean, it really. It's like a brinks truck, for example, like a brinks truck you can kind. Because you're thinking like, okay, desperate criminal needs some cash. If I'm going to kill somebody, and I think it's obviously a terrible thing to do, I want to have enough money to live on it for at least a couple of months. Not enough to go bowling that night, and that's it. You got to get another cab.

If you're one of those Uber drivers, though, how much protection do they have?

The Uber drivers?

Yeah, from getting robbed. Things along those lines. Harder because of phones, right?

Yeah. Well, I guess the people are being tracked. But obviously, the ultimate frightening scenario is someone steals someone's phone, uses their Uber app, and summons the Uber, and then they're completely untraceable. So I think that's probably a danger that the Uber drivers think about. I'm sure they teach them what to do. I'm sure they've been tutored, or there's got to be safety courses they're taking for the inevitable situation where somebody gets in there and thinks they're the reincarnation of Christ and wants to taste blood on a full moon.

I think the harder situation would be for the young women who are by themselves. Not even young women. Women who are by themselves, who get in a car with a guy they don't know, and they don't know whether or not he's been screened properly.

Yeah, that's right. Or faking being an Uber driver. I mean, how hard would that be? Pull up in front of any club and look out and be like, uber, uber?

Yeah.

Easy, dude.

Shit.

Easy.

So true.

I'm sure they've thought of that, too.

Yeah, well, I've had people try to get into my car accidentally because they thought it was an Uber. We rented an Escalade, we opened the door, we're like, hello. And they're like, we're here for Uber. I'm like, no, man, I'm not the uber.

Hilarious. Yeah, man, you can get in a lot of trouble. You can get a lot of trouble out there in the world, man. It's so strange to think that in this beautiful time that we're living in, and it really is a beautiful time, man. It's an incredible time.

Amazing.

It was so strange to think of how there are still predators existing in our ecosystem, even though I think it's much less than it used to be. It's just a fascinating thing to think that there's people out there whose heads are just filled with psychic bees, and for whatever reason, they're being driven out into the streets, and they do awful fucking shit. Still, it just becomes more shocking. The more technology accelerates those acts of violence. They stand out more. They seem more barbaric.

They seem more horrific. And that's really what's fueling the furthest, most fringe, left wing ideas. That's, like, one of my number one problems that I have with super progressive people is that I agree with them on almost everything, but sometimes the way they go about expressing themselves is so ridiculously over the top that they become annoying. They become bad for the cause or bad for whatever idea they have. But ultimately, what are they trying to do? They're just trying to write it all out. It's just they're going so far and they're so ridiculous with some of the ideas that it just, like what? Oh, God, where would I begin? The use of language, it's a really important one. Like the people that get super upset at rape scenes in a movie or rape scenes on a television show. People that think that men and women don't have to adhere to gender specific roles, which I agree you don't have to. But to think that that's not the norm, to think that in some way gender specific roles for people aren't sort of carved out in some ways by biology.

Man, I got to tell you, though, that is a thing that that idea will be an antiquated idea within 200 years. I think that will be the idea that your genetic gender assignment is. The gender you got to stick with will be like thinking the avatar that you pick in GTA is the avatar that you've got to run around with permanently because it's going to get easier and easier to modify the body. We have no idea what's coming down the tubes when it comes to the new stuff that they're learning about how to alter dna. We have no idea what's coming down the tubes when it comes to futuristic plastic surgery and the ease of it. We just don't know.

Oh, no doubt, man. No doubt.

So when that happens, because it's kind of like, the reason this stuff seems really weird to us is because mostly we've grown up in a time where you and I, especially, have grown up in a time where the words they're using right now is not the words that they used to use. The word tranny was not an offensive word. People would just use it. They didn't know. You didn't know. So the general idea was, if you're growing up back in the early 80s, it's not like everybody was a complete, horrible bigot. But at least I grew up in North Carolina. So the public opinion on transsexual people is not what you would consider to be rosy. It's not like people are like, they deserve rights. They should get married.

They weren't a topic of discussion.

Weren't even a topic of discussion.