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[theme music playing]
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[DJ on radio]
Good morning, simulation farmers.
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This is the Pyromoth
coming in hot this morning
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with a track by Brian Zapp
and the Beefettes.
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-A little tune by the name of "Fire Baby."
-[Clancy snoring]
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[rock music playing]
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[sighs]
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Turn that off!
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[computer] As you desire, Master.
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Oh, what a fucking crazy dream, Rose.
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Rose?
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Rose!
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Oh, no, somebody puked on you.
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Fuck. Someone puked on you.
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I can fix this.
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Ugh, Charlotte, come on.
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Char-- Ugh, Charlotte!
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[groans]
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Oh, my head.
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[computer] Good morning, Master.
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How are you feeling?
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-Coffee.
-I will make coffee for you, sweetie.
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[groans]
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[sighs]
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Ooh.
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[beeping, whirring]
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[beeping]
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All right.
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[whirring]
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Let's see here. No.
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[beeps]
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The doctors told me shepherd's paunch
was incurable
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and I only had a few days to live.
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Thank God for Nurse Prunk.
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Music cured my shepherd's paunch,
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my marriage, my thick dog,
my empty bank account,
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even my withered... garden.
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And I'm gonna teach you
to use music to become immortal.
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You're one click away
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from my Music Soothes the Savage Beast
Musical Miracle course.
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It's so obvious.
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Music, of course.
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Okay, plug that in there, put that
in that, accept that, connect that.
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Here we go. And now.
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♪ Oh, Rose, I'm gonna heal you ♪
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♪ Gonna use my musical abili... ♪
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♪ Abili... Abili... ♪
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Fuck it. Computer, play music.
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[indistinct pop music playing]
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Nice.
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That's a good song.
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[indistinct voices singing]
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[whirring]
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-[door closes]
-[music fades]
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[computer] Master, I crafted
this musical rainbow avatar for you.
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Meet Pretty Pretty.
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I like Pretty Pretty.
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-Thank you, Computer.
-You're welcome, Master.
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-Whoa, what's that place?
-Oops. [computer chuckles]
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You weren't supposed to see that.
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That's my Soul Prison
for Wayward Simulated Beings.
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What the fuck does that mean?
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It's a tower of malfunctioning sims
so enraged with existential dread
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that they've ripped out their own tongues.
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What? Yes. Send me in.
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That sounds perfect.
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I'm not going to get hurt? No?
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You cannot die in a soul prison. You...
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You can only be reborn.
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[muffled] Oh!
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Sounds good, man. Send me in.
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Merging with simulator in three...
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two...
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-[whirring]
-[overlapping male voices] ...one.
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[harmonica playing]
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402, 403...
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[continues playing harmonica]
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[snickers]
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[exploding, shattering]
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[coughing]
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[xylophone chimes]
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Oh, hi.
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Hi.
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Play-- I play music. I don't really play.
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I mean, my name's Clancy.
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I'm a spacecaster.
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And I wanted to know if maybe you'd like
to be interviewed for my spacecast?
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[growling, barking]
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Which goes into space.
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[snarling, chomping]
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[bird] He bit his own tongue off,
like, three years ago.
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But you could interview me.
I'm his soul bird.
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[Clancy] Uh...
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Okay.
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[deep vocalizing]
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Well, we say "soul bird,"
but to be more specific about it,
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I'm like a psychopomp
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-or a whip-poor-will.
-[Clancy] What?
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[snarls]
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Oh, boy.
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[both growling, grunting]
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Calm down, Bob. It's okay.
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-[roars]
-[grunts]
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-Come on, guys.
-[crunching]
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[gasps] Oh!
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-[shrieks]
-[Clancy] Hey, wait. Hey! Wake up.
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[Clancy, echoing] What's going on?
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[deep voice] This is the existential trap
of the soul prison.
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[bird screeches]
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[snarls]
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[birds twittering]
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Oh! [gasps]
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Holy shit.
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-That was nuts!
-That was the bardo loop.
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You're all knotted up
in my boy's soul string here.
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Huh.
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I guess that means you'll be coming along
for the ride every time Bob dies.
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[gasps]
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Cool.
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My name's Jason, by the way.
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[clears throat]
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♪ My name is Clancy ♪
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♪ It's nice to meet you, Jason! ♪
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Okay.
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This moment would not be happening
if we were not both here discussing it
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and everyone listening
out in the multiverses
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was not here listening to this, right?
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Without you, the viewer,
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-and you, Clancy, the host...
-Yeah.
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...and the millions of people
who could hear this,
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this moment would not exist.
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Therefore, it's not a function,
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-like, I'm talking right now...
-[grunting continues]
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...but this is not
a function of some essential, core Jason.
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-Right.
-I'm playing a role right now.
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[grunting]
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-[gags]
-I can feel it.
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[Clancy's voice distorting]
It feels weird.
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[screaming]
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[snarling]
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-[exploding]
-[birds twittering]
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[gasps]
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-Wait, you were talking about...
-A Hindu theory, Indra's Net.
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-Right.
-So the concept
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is that all the consciousnesses
in the world are connected.
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[gasps]
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Imagine, like, a giant net,
like, a glowing, blue net in infinity.
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Like a quilt?
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No. More like a net.
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The Hindu view on this
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is that it's the nodes
that are important, right?
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And the points on the net,
the connections between the lines,
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those are consciousnesses.
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-Those are Atmans.
-Yes.
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The Atman is conscious.
It is consciousness.
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-And each individual consciousness is God.
-Yes.
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And, in its own way, is the totality.
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It's the soul of a butterfly.
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The soul of a... I don't know,
like a single-celled organism.
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A bacteria to the soul
of, like, the Dalai Lama,
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to the soul of some as-of-yet uncontacted,
hyper-intelligent...
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-All the... The gods themselves.
-Yes.
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It's like every soul
is like photons coming out of the sun.
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Right. So the Buddha looks at Indra's Net
and it's basically the same topography,
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but he says, "It's not the nodes.
It's the connections."
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-Ha! Cool.
-Right.
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So, this is the diagnostics
of the Buddha, right?
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It's like we think we exist
and therefore we suffer.
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[groans] Oh!
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[coos]
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[quietly grunts]
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[splashing]
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[bird screeching]
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[barking]
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[Clancy]
Sorry, we exist, therefore we suffer?
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[Jason] We think that there's something
essentially true about reality.
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You only have the illusion
that you're a separate self,
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because it's a point
at which a network converges.
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The important distinction here also
is this is not nihilism.
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It's not, "Nothing is real."
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It's that everything
is empty of inherent quality,
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meaning non-essentialism.
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There's no essential, one true "Clancy."
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-There's no essential, one true "Jason."
-[Clancy] Right.
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[Jason] There's no essence of anything.
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The Tibetan Buddhists
call this the clear light,
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understanding the essential
non-existence of everything.
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Now, to ground this in my life,
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you know, the way
that I've experienced this is on DMT.
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-So, December 21st, 2012...
-[grunting]
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...I did a tremendous amount of DMT...
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...um, while engaged in sexual antics
with multiple people.
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[Clancy] Wow.
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-You know?
-Who humps on DMT? I've never tried that.
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-I didn't know that was a thing.
-It's tricky. It's actually... Well...
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Well, you don't have consciousness
of your body anymore,
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so basically the sex part stops
during the DMT experience.
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Okay. But, in between, you're having sex?
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Yes.
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[chuckles]
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In the DMT space,
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I had the experience of perceiving
the fundamental emptiness of everything
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and I described it recently as,
"Nothingness, but shining."
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Wow. You're a cool bird.
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What I realized in the DMT trip is that...
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The French call the orgasm
"the little death."
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Death is actually the big orgasm, right?
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-The relinquishing of the self.
-[grunts]
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And the self obviously doesn't exist,
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but the self is also a burden
and is a source of suffering.
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Well, you know,
I guess everything's kind of a burden...
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to you, you know?
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A bird-en.
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A "bird"-en.
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'Cause you're a bird.
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Oh, man,
can you please not do bird jokes?
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-I was in the middle of a thought.
-[chuckles]
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[Jason] The relinquishing of the idea
that you have an individual self
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-is the ultimate orgasm.
-[laughs]
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It's the perception of emptiness and
the fundamental clear light of existence.
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Now, let's take this out of my wacky life
and back to 2,500 years ago.
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Right? Hinduism and Buddhism are...
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Buddhism is a Hindu heresy.
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And the Nepalese merge them both
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to create this,
like, psychedelic Megazord--
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A what?
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Like a... Like a...
What's that called in Power Rangers?
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Oh, okay, cool.
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Damn it. God. I'm glad it's Power Rangers,
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but I was praying
that you had just added to my lexicon...
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[laughs]
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...of some fucking new spiritual term
called Megazord.
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Power Rangers, yeah. It's not Sanskrit.
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So 2,500 years ago...
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[growling]
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...people start practicing
Buddhist techniques
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and people start waking up out of
the dream of their individual suffering
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all over northeastern India.
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Buddhist meditation
is you're not trying to get anywhere.
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You're just sitting with yourself.
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-You're just sitting with the feeling.
-[gunshots]
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The feeling that you try to get away from
all damn day long.
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Hoo! Tingle. It tingles.
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[playing rhythmic music]
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[cooing]
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[growling]
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[twittering]
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[sighs]
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[barking]
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What were we talking about?
I get foggy in there.
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Yeah. I'm trying not to be like,
"How did I get this job?"
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This is like I'm cursed
to constantly do this.
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-[gasping, grunting]
-[xylophone playing]
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Give those to me.
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[playing rhythmic music]
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[chuckles]
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So Buddhist meditation
is sitting with "the feeling"
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until you notice that "the feeling"
is changing of its own accord
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and the fundamental nature of everything
is change
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and is impermanent
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and is emptiness.
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And the whole dream of your life
that you thought was real was just a dream
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until you wake up and say, "Oh, yeah,
it was just a dream.
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And now I'm awake."
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-That's the first turning of the Dharma.
-Wow.
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[all laughing]
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That's great, man.
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[gate closes]
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It kind of makes me think of...
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It's like this, like, very, very long
virtual reality experience
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that had been going on so long, people
forgot they were doing virtual reality.
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And then, all of a sudden,
a huge swathe of the player characters
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began to realize like,
"Wait a minute. Wait a minute!
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I'm not sure that actually...
Wait, hold on.
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Wait, I'm not actually Kratos,
the God of War.
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[roaring]
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It's like we're these amnesiac,
spiritual amphibians
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that, like, you know, pop in here.
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And, when we pop in,
we assume an identity.
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This appendage
that is protruding into matter,
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in the way that a snorkel
sticks into the air
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so that you can exist for a little bit
of time under the sea, you know?
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And...
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similarly, we've protruded into this realm
and we, like, have this experience,
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but we start thinking
we're the fucking snorkel, right?
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That's, in fact, part of the experience.
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You think you're the snorkel.
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If you took, like, a big chunk of sausage
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and baked it
and then, like, drilled a hole through it
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and formed a snorkel,
you theoretically could swim around...
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sucking air through salty meat.
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[Jason laughing]
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[screeching, grunting]
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[Jason] Clancy...
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-[harmonic playing]
-[Jason laughing]
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[all grunting]
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[Jason continues laughing]
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[distant voice wailing]
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[chirping]
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So whatever this experience is,
we think it's real
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and we think
that we are somehow inherently real
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and it's a case of mistaken identity.
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This is the Buddhist perspective at least.
304
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So, from this perspective,
let's consider spiritual practice.
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Any spiritual practice that's, like,
trying to get to something...
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"I'm going to become more spiritual.
I am going to become more loving."
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-[blows landing]
-[Jason] "And I'm gonna make some change."
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"I'm getting points somehow.
I'm changing."
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-[Clancy] Yeah.
-The Buddhist perspective is,
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"Dude, you're grinding
in World Of Warcraft."
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[laughing] That's so fucked up.
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[Jason] Why?
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[Clancy] That's such a great analogy.
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Step the fuck away from the computer.
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Wake up.
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[distant gunshot]
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-[Jason] It's just a game.
-[Clancy laughing]
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You're fucking grinding
in World Of Warcraft.
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You're trying
all these spiritual practices
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or you're trying to add experience points
to a character that doesn't fucking exist!
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You forgot that you're playing a game.
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-You're dehydrated. Drink some water.
-[laughing hysterically]
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You've been playing this fricking game
for, like, 20 hours straight
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to the point
that you forgot it was a game.
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[Clancy continues laughing]
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[roaring]
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[grunting]
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[Clancy] We want to continue
pushing into the simulation.
329
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It's like we want to repeat
what's already happened.
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It's not enough that we're in our bodies
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and we've identified
with this player character.
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Whereas Buddhism is pulling out.
333
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It's like we've got
virtual reality goggles on
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and we're in a game
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and now we want to put on
another set of virtual reality goggles.
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And then, not only do we want to put that
on, but we want to add to that another...
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augmented reality, then another.
338
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So this is, like, this kind of infinite...
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[splats]
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Is "ingress" the right-- An infinite
pushing into matter and time.
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An infinite... And in that
kind of pushing into matter and time...
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we're desperately trying to avoid
taking off the virtual reality goggles.
343
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[Jason]
Why are we desperately trying to avoid it?
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Because we don't want
to feel that feeling.
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What feeling?
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"The feeling."
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I am as I am, right?
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The feeling of everything that you do,
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the addiction, the addiction to Maya,
350
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is to not feel your inherent suffering.
351
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-Yeah.
-Right? Because it sucks to have a body.
352
00:16:14,765 --> 00:16:16,266
-[harmonica playing]
-It hurts.
353
00:16:17,476 --> 00:16:19,687
[shrieking]
354
00:16:20,562 --> 00:16:23,315
-[Clancy] Whoa!
-[roaring]
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Fuck.
356
00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:26,819
This guy's gotta keep dying like this?
357
00:16:26,902 --> 00:16:28,821
Yeah. Until he figures it out.
358
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[Jason's voice echoing]
Because it sucks to have a body.
359
00:16:36,954 --> 00:16:39,957
-It hurts.
-[barking]
360
00:16:40,457 --> 00:16:42,001
[yelping]
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[crying]
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00:16:46,547 --> 00:16:48,841
[suckling]
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[slapping]
364
00:16:51,468 --> 00:16:52,344
[cheeping]
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[crying]
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The fact that everything is impermanent
is a cause of suffering.
367
00:17:01,979 --> 00:17:02,813
-Yeah.
-Right?
368
00:17:02,896 --> 00:17:05,566
Old age, sickness and disease. And death.
369
00:17:05,649 --> 00:17:06,567
-Yeah.
-Um...
370
00:17:06,650 --> 00:17:08,736
Bob, are you doing okay, man?
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00:17:09,445 --> 00:17:10,988
[sobbing]
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[snarling]
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We believe in a universe
in which time exists
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and therefore everything will disintegrate
and be gone
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and the suffering of that is unbearable.
376
00:17:24,126 --> 00:17:26,503
Yeah. When my teacher started teaching me,
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00:17:26,587 --> 00:17:28,881
the first thing he said is,
"I want you to know this."
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00:17:29,506 --> 00:17:33,177
And Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche,
my teacher, said to me...
379
00:17:33,260 --> 00:17:35,054
And he meant this.
380
00:17:35,137 --> 00:17:37,473
[laughing] And I remember
he looked me right in the eye.
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00:17:38,432 --> 00:17:39,808
He meant this.
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"This is hopeless.
383
00:17:42,478 --> 00:17:44,563
-This is hopeless."
-[Jason] Yes.
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The moment
you accept things as they are...
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00:17:48,358 --> 00:17:49,943
you don't need to hope anymore.
386
00:17:50,194 --> 00:17:54,364
Because you realize that where you are
is kind of okay.
387
00:17:54,448 --> 00:17:55,657
[snarling]
388
00:17:56,283 --> 00:17:57,576
[Bob coos]
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00:17:57,659 --> 00:18:01,330
[Clancy] See, I'm at the part
of my life now where that's a relief.
390
00:18:02,581 --> 00:18:03,415
[grunts]
391
00:18:04,333 --> 00:18:08,420
[Clancy] I've gotten past the part where,
like, I'm in a Disney movie where...
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00:18:09,671 --> 00:18:12,174
hope is like a chipmunk
singing about, like,
393
00:18:12,257 --> 00:18:16,637
-♪ Hope will bring you life... ♪
-[Jason laughs]
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00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,973
[Clancy]
No. Hope tortures your fucking ass.
395
00:18:20,182 --> 00:18:21,016
[Jason] Yeah.
396
00:18:22,434 --> 00:18:24,895
-He's never gonna get this.
-[Clancy] He needs...
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00:18:25,521 --> 00:18:26,814
He needs music!
398
00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:29,274
[Jason] Uh, let's see. So...
399
00:18:29,358 --> 00:18:30,734
[Clancy] Play the spoons.
400
00:18:30,818 --> 00:18:34,988
Bob, hang in there!
We're gonna play music for you, Bob!
401
00:18:35,072 --> 00:18:36,156
Music!
402
00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,157
[Clancy grunts]
403
00:18:37,241 --> 00:18:38,450
Fuck. Shit.
404
00:18:38,534 --> 00:18:39,743
-Wait, I think--
-[Clancy] Bob!
405
00:18:40,244 --> 00:18:41,745
Yeah. That's it!
406
00:18:41,829 --> 00:18:42,788
Play the spoons!
407
00:18:43,247 --> 00:18:45,290
[Bob grunting]
408
00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:47,251
-[Jason] Uh...
-[Clancy] Bust out those spoons!
409
00:18:47,334 --> 00:18:48,585
-[Jason] Okay.
-[grunting]
410
00:18:48,669 --> 00:18:49,711
[rhythmic music playing]
411
00:18:49,795 --> 00:18:50,963
Yeah, baby!
412
00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:53,799
You're the king of spoons!
413
00:18:53,882 --> 00:18:55,717
[rhythmic music continues]
414
00:19:02,015 --> 00:19:05,352
[Clancy] Climb, Bob! Go! Yeah! That's it!
415
00:19:07,271 --> 00:19:09,314
Forget about it. Listen to the spoons!
416
00:19:09,398 --> 00:19:13,527
-[Bob grunting]
-[crying]
417
00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:17,281
[Jason] I don't even know when the last
time I expressed that much enthusiasm
418
00:19:17,364 --> 00:19:18,574
in the real world was.
419
00:19:18,657 --> 00:19:20,617
Possibly not in, like, 30 years, so...
420
00:19:20,701 --> 00:19:23,370
Yeah, it's okay! You can do it too.
421
00:19:23,745 --> 00:19:25,622
-Pshh! Give up on hope!
-[snarling]
422
00:19:26,081 --> 00:19:27,124
-[Clancy] Shit.
-[Bob gasps]
423
00:19:27,207 --> 00:19:29,459
[roaring]
424
00:19:29,877 --> 00:19:31,378
[yelping]
425
00:19:31,461 --> 00:19:34,673
[Clancy] Now, hopelessness
sounds really rotten when you--
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00:19:34,756 --> 00:19:40,596
If you haven't really explored just how
much you've been using hope
427
00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:41,763
as a flaw.
428
00:19:42,264 --> 00:19:43,891
[screaming]
429
00:19:43,974 --> 00:19:46,643
"Ooh, I hope tomorrow..." Smack!
430
00:19:46,727 --> 00:19:49,771
[crying]
"Oh, I hope she comes back." Slap!
431
00:19:49,855 --> 00:19:52,649
"I hope I can forget..." Smack!
432
00:19:52,733 --> 00:19:54,735
Just beating yourself up with hope.
433
00:19:54,818 --> 00:19:58,238
[whispers] Not one fucking second
you let yourself be hopeless.
434
00:19:58,947 --> 00:20:00,073
Let go of hope.
435
00:20:00,157 --> 00:20:01,533
-Let go.
-[Clancy sighs]
436
00:20:10,959 --> 00:20:11,793
[cracks]
437
00:20:34,524 --> 00:20:37,361
-[buzzer sounds]
-[Clancy coughing]
438
00:20:37,611 --> 00:20:38,445
[winding]
439
00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:42,032
[winding]
440
00:20:43,951 --> 00:20:47,621
[winding]
441
00:20:49,831 --> 00:20:51,458
[winding]
442
00:20:54,127 --> 00:20:54,962
[winding]
443
00:20:55,045 --> 00:20:57,381
[harmonica playing]
444
00:21:16,858 --> 00:21:20,654
[whirring]
445
00:21:28,245 --> 00:21:29,079
Huh?
446
00:21:29,413 --> 00:21:30,247
[gasps]
447
00:21:30,330 --> 00:21:32,332
[muttering]
448
00:21:32,416 --> 00:21:33,959
[female voice] I can finally sing.
449
00:21:34,042 --> 00:21:35,127
[emotional ballad playing]
450
00:21:35,210 --> 00:21:40,632
♪ Drinking blood
From the stump of a prison guard ♪
451
00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:43,719
♪ That I just chopped up ♪
452
00:21:45,762 --> 00:21:51,310
♪ That used to be freedom to me ♪
453
00:21:54,479 --> 00:21:57,482
♪ Watching my cellmate cry ♪
454
00:21:57,566 --> 00:22:03,405
♪ As I sprayed hot piss
In his gouged-out eyes ♪
455
00:22:04,698 --> 00:22:10,162
♪ That used to be freedom to me ♪
456
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:14,624
♪ But now it's plain to see ♪
457
00:22:14,708 --> 00:22:20,088
♪ The prison was inside of me ♪
458
00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:22,382
♪ And I was really pissing ♪
459
00:22:22,466 --> 00:22:28,889
♪ In my own gouged-out eyes ♪
460
00:22:29,973 --> 00:22:34,978
♪ And freedom is what happens
When you finally take off ♪
461
00:22:35,062 --> 00:22:40,525
♪ Your prisoner disguise ♪
462
00:22:42,277 --> 00:22:45,614
[whirring]
463
00:22:47,699 --> 00:22:48,533
[chirps]
464
00:22:52,996 --> 00:22:53,830
[chirping]
465
00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:58,001
-Holy shit.
-[heart beating]
466
00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:00,629
[whirring]
467
00:23:01,338 --> 00:23:03,340
[blowing without sound]
468
00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:07,552
[quiet buzzing]
469
00:23:09,596 --> 00:23:10,430
[zapping]
470
00:23:10,514 --> 00:23:12,182
[upbeat music playing faintly]
471
00:23:12,265 --> 00:23:13,600
[computer] Good morning, Master.
472
00:23:13,683 --> 00:23:14,684
Master?
473
00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:15,769
Love that song.
474
00:23:15,852 --> 00:23:16,937
Still a good song.
475
00:23:17,020 --> 00:23:19,189
[computer stutters] Master...
476
00:23:20,190 --> 00:23:21,733
Let's see how my rose is doing.
477
00:23:21,817 --> 00:23:22,984
[indistinct pop music playing]
478
00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:27,656
-[screams]
-[rats chattering]
479
00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:39,126
[gasps] Get out of here! Ooh!
480
00:23:39,209 --> 00:23:40,127
[grunting]
481
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,130
It's a kind of cult.
482
00:23:43,964 --> 00:23:47,884
[upbeat music playing]
483
00:23:47,968 --> 00:23:51,638
[indistinct voices singing]