Episode #1953
Duncan Trussell
Books mentioned
Tell Your Children
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Singularity Is Near
Mentioned by Duncan Trussell · at 02:44:01 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Duncan Trussell, a stand-up comic, writer, actor, and creator of The Midnight Gospel, joins Joe for a wide-ranging conversation. They discuss pandemic preparedness, addiction and social policy, corporate power and inequality, online manipulation, misinformation, AI, simulated reality, speculative cosmology, and the future of entertainment, along with Trussell’s new Las Vegas club.
What they talked about
- Plague doctors and medieval medicine
- Edward Bernays and propaganda
- COVID-19 pandemic and societal response
- Cobalt mining and smartphone slavery
- ChatGPT and AI sentience
- Weed paranoia and flow state
- Drug policy and incarceration
- Hollow Earth and Dyson sphere theories
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