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…
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed responds to a visibly upset Iranian-American student at the University of Michigan, telling him that U.S. military interventions, sanctions, and regime-change wars often advance corporate interests and harm civilians, rather than promote democracy and freedom.
The lesbian bar story is a sad microcosm of much of modern leftist culture. All the most annoying and punitive people are given infinite social capital and anyone who holds them accountable is relentlessly harassed by their orbiters.
@LexiBabyDrag “People keep asking where they can donate $50k, but I’d encourage asking why the first response to harm is restoring the financial security of the person who caused it”
- Soe Noire, somewhere
The lesbian bar story is a writing masterclass in how to include details that don’t necessarily advance the plot but enhance the work. Case in point: clown school
“So your bar required masks until 2026?”
“Yes, Dave.”
“And you marketed only to lesbians?”
“That’s right.”
“So now you’re $50,000 in debt and you don’t even work at the bar anymore?”
“Correct.”
“So what is it you do now?”
“I’m in clown college.”
*dates women exclusively for sex*
*dates women entirely for their appearance*
*dates women half their age with none of the same interests or shared traits*
*actively avoids educated women*
*never talks to a woman outside of a sexual interest*
Manosphere losers: why are women so boring and stupid