Duncan Trussell

**Theo Von** (0:00)
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Today's guest is a standup comedian, podcaster, and just a downright cosmic adventurer, adventurer. He's got his own show, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, and his new podcast, Mystery Boys, with Kurt Metzger. Always a blast, the one and only Mr. Duncan Trussell.

**Duncan Trussell** (2:09)
Look at that, what kind of cameras are you guys? Jesus Christ, he's so inspirational.

**Theo Von** (2:15)
These are flock cameras we're using.

**Duncan Trussell** (2:16)
Ha ha ha, yeah, Palantir, baby, Palantir.

**Theo Von** (2:20)
We now work for Palantir. These are, we're using flock cameras.

**Duncan Trussell** (2:24)
It's incredible.

**Theo Von** (2:24)
This can see, this can see right all the way through my eyes, through my past, my history, all the way into my mother's body.

**Duncan Trussell** (2:31)
Past lives.

**Theo Von** (2:32)
Yes.

**Duncan Trussell** (2:32)
Gets into your past incarnations too, it's pretty cool. Tech is amazing these days.

**Theo Von** (2:37)
We good, Zach?

**Duncan Trussell** (2:38)
Look at the lighting, you guys are good. Look at this shit.

**Theo Von** (2:41)
What do you mean, you have a podcast?

**Duncan Trussell** (2:42)
No, no, fuck dude, this is next level. I love Josh in my studio, it's great, but I don't have this, like look at me, I look good in this light.

**Theo Von** (2:50)
Dude, you definitely, bro, you look, I will say this.

**Duncan Trussell** (2:53)
It's the lighting.

**Theo Von** (2:54)
It's Conestoga wagon times, right? Like it's the old days and it's like, you know.

**Duncan Trussell** (2:58)
Yes.

**Theo Von** (2:59)
There's a Conestoga wagon.

**Duncan Trussell** (3:00)
Yes.

**Theo Von** (3:01)
And it's stalled out on the side of the road, right?

**Duncan Trussell** (3:04)
Yes.

**Theo Von** (3:04)
Because anything could have happened when you had a Conestoga wagon because you had wooden wheels, remember?

**Duncan Trussell** (3:08)
Yeah, I do.

**Theo Von** (3:09)
And dude, you could have gotten termites overnight.

**Duncan Trussell** (3:12)
Well, many things. Termites. I mean, just think of wooden wheels on some old fucked up, nobody's paving roads back then. You're going through forest creeks.

**Theo Von** (3:22)
Your wife is guessing where a road could be.

**Duncan Trussell** (3:24)
If she's still alive, she doesn't have an arrow through her throat and she's not choking on her own blood spray. Your wagon stained with blood.

**Theo Von** (3:33)
Yeah, you had 11 kids. Your wife has had kids this week.

**Duncan Trussell** (3:35)
This week.

**Theo Von** (3:36)
Like that's, it was like that. People don't realize what it was like.

**Duncan Trussell** (3:39)
Oh no, no, people don't.

**Theo Von** (3:41)
We know, cause we've had past lives.

**Duncan Trussell** (3:42)
Yeah, I remember.

**Theo Von** (3:44)
Oh dude, I remember sitting on like a, like a hillside or whatever, cause everything back then was a hillside.

**Duncan Trussell** (3:51)
Yeah, all hills.

**Theo Von** (3:52)
Remember that?

**Duncan Trussell** (3:52)
All hills.

**Theo Von** (3:53)
Remember everything was a hillside. It's like now there's like a lot of pavement, there's flattened areas.

**Duncan Trussell** (3:57)
Thank you, CERN. The fucking particle accelerator fucked everything up. Now there's flat places. It used to just be a series of hills.

**Theo Von** (4:06)
Everything was a hillside. Everything, dude, even people's bodies, you'd have one, like you'd have the strong side of your father and the weaker side because of how he walked to work.

**Duncan Trussell** (4:14)
That's right.

**Theo Von** (4:15)
Cause you'd have to walk at an angle. Everybody was-