Duncan Trussell recorded this conversation with his mother while she was facing terminal cancer.
What you’re hearing isn’t scripted. It isn’t performed. It’s a son sitting with his dying mother trying to hold onto every word before the words run out.
And she, the one facing the end, is the one doing the comforting.
That is what makes these conversations so extraordinary. Not the wisdom itself, as profound as it is. But who it’s coming from. A woman who had every reason to be consumed by her own fear choosing instead to spend what little time remained helping her son understand how to live without her.
These recordings became the heart of The Midnight Gospel. And I always go back to watch it again.
They remain some of the most honest conversations about death, love and what it means to be human ever put on screen…
Marcello Hernandez is literally one of the best thing that has ever happened to this show.
Harry was fighting for his life to control his laugh but at the end he really nailed it.
SNL at its Peak.
To me, Blizzard is the undisputed king when it comes to the best game intros. The amount of effort and sheer awesomness that went into StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm still blows me way and gives me nerd chills, even 13 years after its release.
The camera angles, the pacing, the landed Viking being swatted away by the Ultra, the Nydus popping up behind the line of marines and tanks... and then seeing that massive Battlecruiser crashing into the city in the background. Simply everything about it is glorious perfection.
If they ever decide to make a movie in that exact style with all the StarCraft lore, boy would I pay good money to see that. One can dream...