Name: Duncan Trussell | This Past Weekend #112
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Duncan Trussell | This Past Weekend #112' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-07-12. Transcript available.

Duncan Trussell | This Past Weekend #112

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Today's guest is a
positive light in the world, and he's also absolutely hilarious. He's a Sherpa
of our souls. It is Mr.
Duncan Trussell. Yeah, dude, what if, like, your virtual reality, so say, like,
yeah, your audio,
like, your, yeah, like, what if, like, what if you could adjust the neighbor's
house volume?
Like, hack their house. Yeah. I mean, that, yeah, that's, like, one of the
really insane
looming problems with automation is that theoretically everything will be hackable,
especially if they get to the point that they talk about some kind of nanobot
technology that
you can inject into your body that becomes a kind of, like, accelerated white
blood cell.
Oh, my God. So you could sort of look at your phone and it's like, oh, shit,
you know,
you've got a little bit of a cold virus in there. Looming. Looming. So.
It's in your, it's hanging out in your elbow, dude. Yeah, exactly. Right.
Exactly. And then
theoretically somebody could hack that shit, tell your white, the nanobots to
start attacking your
liver. You know, who knows? I know. Yeah. Like, what if somebody, so basically
then it becomes like
risk, like that game risk, but you're able to influence the, like, antibodies
and the negative,
and, like, the diseases and things that are looming inside of someone else's
body.
That's right. Yeah.
Dude, let's fucking hack Uncle Larry.
Dude, it's scary. It's really, no one's talking about this shit at all. Like,
we're worried about
stuff that's happening at the second, which of course is important. Immigration.
Everyone's pissed off about Trump.
Yeah.
Or not pissed off about Trump. But everyone's ignoring the fact that within the
next 20 years,
we're probably looking at 45% unemployment because of full automation.
Oh, dude, I think about that kind of stuff all the time. Like, how many, like,
what happens
when there are no jobs? Like, the only thing is Uber, and it's, everybody's an
Uber driver,
and they're basically holding each other at gunpoint.
Yeah, but those are automated now, so there's really no Uber drivers because
the cars have
been automated.
Okay, so you, but I, now I think that, we're talking with, who was the guy who
made the
song, Cheeseburger in Paradise?
Jimmy Buffett.
Yeah. We're basically talking to who I consider the Jimmy Buffett of the future.
Oh, wow.
Kind of, of like, of like, in some ways.
Wow.
Because you're like this kind of peaceful character that takes people on a
beautiful adventure.
It's like, thinking about the future and stuff, and hearing you think about it,
it's like,
it's in a comfortable way that people have fun while they do it.
Yeah.
And so for some reason, when I think about you, I think about Jimmy Buffett and
like,
who was, and George Orwell.
Whoa, thanks, man. I'll take that. I'll be that hybrid. Thank you so much.
Oh, yeah.
That's a beautiful hybrid.
Yeah, I mean.
Terrifying hybrid. I like it.
Is it? I don't know if it is, dude.
Yeah, like, yeah, for sure.
Or Bradbury. Maybe Bradbury is a little more.
Orwellian Buffett. Like an Orwellian Jimmy Buffett song. That's fucking great.
Not Cheeseburger
in Paradise. Cheeseburger in some dystopian, smog-filled city where everyone's
pretending
to be happy. Or they get shot.
Yeah, we're sitting here with Duncan Trestle, man. And this is our first
conversation. We
were just talking about that. This is our first conversation. And yeah, what
does it look
like when everything's automated? And how are we, like, at least some people
are going to
be educated enough to understand that that's kind of what's going on.
Yeah.
Some people are going to feel threatened by machinery and by automation. Like,
different
people are going to react differently.
Well, it seems to, like, somebody's going to shoot up a fucking washer dryer in
their
house. You know what I'm saying? Out of fear.
Yeah. I mean, there's going to be that. But we're looking already at the
problem, like a
big problem, which is that, like, humans in general, many humans, they have
jobs where they're supposed
to work eight hours a day. But the amount of work that they actually have, they
could get
done in two hours. So they have to pretend to work for the other six hours. So
I'm reading
this book called Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Fuck, it's great, man. But he
just is, you
know, addressing the fact that we've gotten to the point now where we really
don't need
to work as much as we are.
Yeah.
But because the model of things is that when we go to work, we're selling our
time. So
that is, I go to work, I'm selling you eight hours of time.
Correct.
Which means I'm your slave for eight hours, essentially.
And so within that eight hours, if there's downtime, the employer feels like he's
getting
ripped off.
Right.
So she's like, no, you can't just sit and look at the internet, even though
there's nothing
to do.
Yeah.
And so you get punished for efficiency. If you can finish your job in two hours,
you're
going to either lose six hours of pay because you go home.
Right.
Or you're going to get chastised because you're sitting around for the other
six hours.
So you have to start faking work.
And according to Graeber, this is like one of the most psychologically brutal
things that
can happen to a human.
To fake what you could do efficiently.
Yeah.
Because it's BDSM.
Because it's a form of BDSM where you have to sit and pretend.
And BDSM means, for people that don't know, it's like brutal.
No.
BDSM.
It's bondage, domination, I guess.
BDSM and sadomasochism.
BDSM.
It's like a...
That's great.
I'm glad you asked me that because it's so funny.
I love it and I don't even know what the fucking acronym, what it stands for.
Oh, I know.
Like if I see a picture of a lady with like a whip and like some sharp stuff
and some cat
suit and like you see like some guy who's married but is just stopping at her
house for
an hour.
Yeah.
I know that that's BDSM.
That is BDSM.
Yeah, but I don't know what it means.
Bondage, domination, sadomasochism.
It's bondage and discipline.
Discipline.
Oh, so you're saying then, so then having to fake what you could be able to do
just to
be able to keep your job and your pay, that is brutal.
It's brutal as a person.
It's sick.
And if you don't do it, you're going to get fired.
Right.
So he's writing about how the culture, the way it works is the employer knows
that there's
not enough work.
So the sickness of it is you have to, you both kind of have to lie to each
other.
So not only are you having to do this play act of pretending to work, but you're
also like
having to be dishonest throughout the day.
You're having to, because he says like what defines a bullshit job is that it
really doesn't
have any impact at all in the world.
There's really no need for it to exist.
But not just that, the employee knows that the job is not doing anything, is
useless.
So you're, you're many, many people are just stuck in this hell realm of just
essentially
like pouring water out of one cup into the other and then pouring it back and
then pouring
it back.
Right.
And they're getting paid.
And a lot of them get paid a lot of money.
Yeah.
That's the other thing he points out, which is really fucking nuts, which is
that the most
essential jobs, those people get paid the least.
And the least essential jobs, those people get paid the most.
Yeah.
And then when you factor in all the other, when you factor in the fact that
somebody got
the easiest one, because his fucking dad was somebody, like it just, it just
probably
just creates so much angst.
Yeah, exactly.
Right.
Yeah.
But then we don't, so, and the next step is automation because it's, the next
step is
automation.
I mean, is that the next step?
Is that where we're at?
Yeah.
So the next step is going to look like, I mean, theoretically, it's going to
look like AI
is going to get to the point where it can start doing like accounting and like
law.
So not like trial lawyers, but most law involves like, you know, creating a
will or just real,
it's, it's law is code, law is code.
Right.
So AI is going to get to the point where it can create a will for you, create a
prenup
for you, create a, you know, do all the shit that you would have to go to a
human for.
And it's not just that, it's like going to do the same thing for accounting.
It's going to do the same thing for pretty much anything that's based on code.
Right.
Anything that's based on some of those books where there's not a lot of, you
know, where
it doesn't have to be argued.
Exactly.
Where it's kind of set in stone.
And you already see that with like legal zoom.
I mean, you already see the, the little elements of that that are reaching out
to the people
that are connecting us and yeah, we don't know what goes on.
Next thing you know, you have a patent.
That's right.
Next thing you know, you have a, you know, you have an LLC set up.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So it's like that.
So then, so people think that automation means, uh, oh yeah.
Okay.
So we're going to lose all the, all the, the, the taxi industry is going to be
completely
automated and fast food chains.
Well, that'll be completely automated.
And that's really sad because fast food workers, they don't get paid enough
money for the work
they do.
They have these shitty jobs.
Yeah.
I'll tip them a lot of times.
I'll throw the lady 10 bucks.
And we should like, we should, I mean, this is, this is a hell job.
And that's the other really crazy thing about our society is we look down on
those people.
So there's a judgment.
If you work at McDonald's, you're, you're looked, you're shamed for that job.
And, but your job is fucking hard and it sucks.
And, um, you know, somebody in there is always not doing shit, right?
Fucking Lawrence by the fries is never fucking doing shit.
He's trying to fuck.
Right.
Or he's not doing anything.
Why would he say he's barely getting paid?
He's burning his skin, you know?
But Roberta is doing, she cares.
She's picking up his extra cause she wants to get promoted.
Yeah.
So it's this sick vortex of like, no, the same drama of game of game of Thrones.
Oh yeah.
It's taking place in McDonald's where people are in this microcosm.
Game of fries.
Game of fries.
But you see it when you're at the front desk, dude, you know, you see like,
there's usually
like a Latino woman or like kind of like a middle-aged black woman that's like,
um, or
like a redheaded kind of white lady that hasn't been outside in a long time.
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