1. Good morning!Copy !req
2. We got a dedication right here
going out to Mindy,Copy !req
3. down harvesting carnage carts
in the lower 16th district.Copy !req
4. Keep it up, keep it trim,
and bring em' on in, honey.Copy !req
5. Whoa!Copy !req
6. Cool.Copy !req
7. Incoming transmission.Copy !req
8. Clancy?
- What?Copy !req
9. Are you there? Can you hear me?
- Daniel Hoops?Copy !req
10. Can't watch your spacecast anymore.Copy !req
11. - What?
My dad's being a tart baker.Copy !req
12. No!Copy !req
13. My dad's dweebing his shorts,
my dad wants to kill you,Copy !req
14. my dad liquefied Chad.Copy !req
15. - Wait, what?
Thanks for the ice cream,Copy !req
16. but my dad's a powerful man,
so you might wanna leave town, okay?Copy !req
17. - Clancy, I gotta go, but...
- Yes, Daniel?Copy !req
18. I love these shirts. Daniel Hoops out!Copy !req
19. No!Copy !req
20. I'm watching you, Clancy Gilroy!Copy !req
21. Greetings, Master.Copy !req
22. I did a deep interior scan last night
and discovered a planetCopy !req
23. I think you might be interested in.Copy !req
24. - Huh, what is that? Doesn't look like—
- Mercurytaville.Copy !req
25. A paradise planet unlike any other.Copy !req
26. Every being on this world
has achieved maximum harmony...Copy !req
27. Namastex!Copy !req
28. and maximum hedonism.Copy !req
29. No way, this seems too good to be true.
There's gotta be something wrong with it.Copy !req
30. - ... then I don't want to be right.
- Oh!Copy !req
31. I hope you don't mind, Master,Copy !req
32. but I created an erotic avatar for you,Copy !req
33. designed so that you can truly enjoy
the many orgies this world has to offer.Copy !req
34. Whoa! Cool dude.Copy !req
35. Bon voyage, Master!Copy !req
36. Merging with simulator in three, two,Copy !req
37. one...Copy !req
38. Aloha, my long-necked island friend.Copy !req
39. Where are the orgies?Copy !req
40. Just get a drink. Where am I?Copy !req
41. I don't think this is Mercurytaville.Copy !req
42. Don't see an orgy yet,
but the night is young.Copy !req
43. Excuse me. Hey, where are the orgies?Copy !req
44. Or pool... Swimming pools, even?Copy !req
45. Ahem. Okay, sorry!Copy !req
46. What's up?
Where are the orgies tonight, gang?Copy !req
47. Shh! Stop it.Copy !req
48. Let's start over.Copy !req
49. My name's Clancy, and you two
fine gentlem—Copy !req
50. Friends. Gentle friends.Copy !req
51. - It's Fred.
Uh, Steve.Copy !req
52. Can I interview you?Copy !req
53. - Rather not.
- It's for space.Copy !req
54. A spacecast? Uh, no, thank you.Copy !req
55. Now, that is a man
who knows where the orgy tent is.Copy !req
56. Hey, worm neck!Copy !req
57. Let me get a couple of drinks
for old mustache guyCopy !req
58. with one eye over there, the bad eye.Copy !req
59. - Looks like you had a hard day.
- I'm sober!Copy !req
60. - I'm sober!Copy !req
61. - My bugs!Copy !req
62. You know, picking people up by their shirt
is against the rules, Cornelius.Copy !req
63. Why can't you be more like
Fred and Steve here?Copy !req
64. - Oh, thanks, Trudy!Copy !req
65. But I forgive you.Copy !req
66. - Ah! Love!Copy !req
67. The only thing my armor can't withstand!Copy !req
68. - Voice of an angel, that man.Copy !req
69. Wow!Copy !req
70. - Thanks, Trudy!
- Cheers, there!Copy !req
71. Hey.Copy !req
72. I'm Clancy.Copy !req
73. Ma'am, my name is Clancy... Gilroy.Copy !req
74. Free boots!Copy !req
75. I'm gonna grab these boots, milady.Copy !req
76. One moment, my lady.Copy !req
77. - See you, guys.
Ah, get off me!Copy !req
78. Ah, bugs!Copy !req
79. Would you be in my spacecast? Uh...Copy !req
80. Whoa!Copy !req
81. Here you go.Copy !req
82. Come with me.Copy !req
83. Trudy, that was so badass back there.Copy !req
84. You were like, "I forgive you!"Copy !req
85. Bam! You melted that guy.Copy !req
86. - Yeah, I did...Copy !req
87. but that doesn't mean
I don't have a heart.Copy !req
88. Often, the best we can do is...Copy !req
89. Think of forgivenessCopy !req
90. - as freeing your own heart...
- Right.Copy !req
91. from these states of grudge
and resentment and anger and ill-will.Copy !req
92. - Yeah.
- Sometimes, that's the best we can do.Copy !req
93. We're not gonna love our enemy,Copy !req
94. but we don't have to be obsessed
for our lifetimeCopy !req
95. - with the harm that was done to us.
- Right. Yeah.Copy !req
96. Forgiveness is tricky.Copy !req
97. I think of it as this
ultimate spiritual pull-up bar.Copy !req
98. And I remember getting a...Copy !req
99. getting a trainer,
and he brought me to the pull-up bar,Copy !req
100. he's like,
"We're gonna get you doing pull-ups!"Copy !req
101. I'm like, "Can't do it!"Copy !req
102. He's like, "No, Clancy,
I'm gonna teach you how to do pull-ups."Copy !req
103. I'm like, "I can't! It'll never happen."Copy !req
104. And sure enough,
I couldn't do a pull-up the first time,Copy !req
105. but then he's like,
"Let me show you something."Copy !req
106. He starts putting these embarrassing...Copy !req
107. I don't know what they are,
these straps on me or something,Copy !req
108. so it's a little lighter.Copy !req
109. - Oh, he gave you some support.
- Some support.Copy !req
110. - And then...
- That's key.Copy !req
111. within a few weeks, pull-ups!
I'm doing pull-ups!Copy !req
112. - I've liberated myself from—
- Can you still do a pull-up?Copy !req
113. I don't know,
I haven't been going to the gym,Copy !req
114. - but I know that I can now.
- That's fantastic, Clancy.Copy !req
115. Forgiveness is the pull-up bar.Copy !req
116. We look at it...Copy !req
117. and we think, "No... fucking... way.Copy !req
118. That son of a bitch?
Are you kidding? I can't.Copy !req
119. - He didn't. He—"
- Okay, but you didn't do it alone, Clancy.Copy !req
120. - Right.
- We can't do it alone.Copy !req
121. - Right.
- You got support!Copy !req
122. This is Rumi.
"There's a community of the spirit.Copy !req
123. Join it and feel the delight of walking
in the noisy street and being the noise.Copy !req
124. Drink all your passion and be a disgrace.Copy !req
125. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.Copy !req
126. Open your hands if you want to be held."Copy !req
127. You know, you got support.Copy !req
128. We need each other. We need community.Copy !req
129. And that's actually why
I started InsightLA.Copy !req
130. I came here,
I was, like, already middle-aged.Copy !req
131. - Oh, no!
- What's wrong, milady?Copy !req
132. Trudy, I'm soft like these petals,Copy !req
133. and you're sharp like a thorn.Copy !req
134. Together, we make a rose.Copy !req
135. Trudy...Copy !req
136. can I marry you?Copy !req
137. - Trudy bitch!
- Trudy!Copy !req
138. I'm too tough for you, dude!Copy !req
139. Yeah, so I was all alone.Copy !req
140. And I thought,
"Other people must feel this way too.Copy !req
141. Why don't we get together? Why don't
we create some community together?Copy !req
142. Yeah.
- And we need that.Copy !req
143. It's the same with forgiveness,
it's the same with mindfulness,Copy !req
144. it's the same with love.Copy !req
145. We can't do it ourselves.Copy !req
146. I hear you say that,
and I, you know, I think...Copy !req
147. I was just on the phone with my friend,
who... He, um...Copy !req
148. Just... His mother just passed away,
his father died years ago...Copy !req
149. His brother...
He's estranged from his brother...Copy !req
150. and you realize, like...Copy !req
151. I'm the one who should be
calling you for help.Copy !req
152. Shh, Cassiopeia, it's okay.Copy !req
153. Your strength is giving me inspiration.Copy !req
154. - Contact with reality is helping me.
That's beautiful.Copy !req
155. And I think I'm so lucky this person
had the guts to not be afraidCopy !req
156. to reach out to me.Copy !req
157. Yeah, but it's not luck.Copy !req
158. - It's because you listened.
- Right.Copy !req
159. We have sonar for when people
are deeply listening to us.Copy !req
160. - Right.
- So, that's why he came to you.Copy !req
161. Right. But I think to myself
of people listening right now,Copy !req
162. who are thinking...Copy !req
163. "I don't really have a Clancy to call.
And I'm really alone."Copy !req
164. Yes.
- "Or maybe I have people I could call,Copy !req
165. but they're not listening."
What do they do?Copy !req
166. What about that?Copy !req
167. What about those people
who are still in the forestCopy !req
168. from whatever house burnt down?Copy !req
169. Whether it's a metaphorical house
or actual.Copy !req
170. And they're completely... They feel
completely disconnected and alone.Copy !req
171. I just... What do they do?
Who do you talk to when you've got nobody?Copy !req
172. Yeah. That's a hard one.Copy !req
173. Honey, money.
Honey, money. Honey, money...Copy !req
174. We want our money, honey.Copy !req
175. Should I give them some money?
- Don't give 'em any.Copy !req
176. We want our money, honey.Copy !req
177. Honey, money!Copy !req
178. There's someone I know
that teaches mindful writing,Copy !req
179. and she has a writing group
at a place where peopleCopy !req
180. who are experiencing homelessness
and also mental illness can come.Copy !req
181. So everybody comes,Copy !req
182. and they do a little bit
of mindfulness meditation together,Copy !req
183. and then they write,Copy !req
184. and then they read their writing
to each other, and they listen.Copy !req
185. - And the people love it.
Whoa!Copy !req
186. And then things happen,
there's magic that happens.Copy !req
187. One lady, she had been...Copy !req
188. I guess all her stuff was stolen
from the place while she was sleeping.Copy !req
189. And, you know, she's all alone,
God knows where she's sleeping.Copy !req
190. She woke up— But she wrote
about this experience, and then...Copy !req
191. these two guys in the group,
who were friends, said,Copy !req
192. "Come sleep under our bridge."Copy !req
193. "We'll watch over you,
and we'll keep your stuff safe."Copy !req
194. It's a shame that peopleCopy !req
195. - would have to be sleeping under bridges.
Yeah.Copy !req
196. Good job, Cassiopeia.Copy !req
197. Creating chances for people
to hear each other,Copy !req
198. I keep coming back to that.Copy !req
199. If we don't have a place,
maybe starting a place.Copy !req
200. Because if you're lonely,
you know other people are lonely.Copy !req
201. It's just—
Find another lonely person.Copy !req
202. Trudy, you're a very...Copy !req
203. amazing, special person.Copy !req
204. I'm thinking, like, in times of my life
where I've been lonely,Copy !req
205. I'm gonna sleep on a mattress
and try to forget life.Copy !req
206. Clancy, when I came here,
I didn't know anybody, and...Copy !req
207. I started my first sitting group with...Copy !req
208. two people.Copy !req
209. Fred and Steve came.Copy !req
210. - Hi, Trudy!
- Oh, hi, Trudy!Copy !req
211. Two people.Copy !req
212. I didn't start a center.Copy !req
213. It grew organically.
It was like cooking from scratch.Copy !req
214. Cool.Copy !req
215. I didn't even have the idea
of starting a center.Copy !req
216. - I wanted company.
- Right.Copy !req
217. And I found—
I don't know how I found Fred and Steve!Copy !req
218. I think it was through a friend
of my cousin's or something,Copy !req
219. - you know?
Right.Copy !req
220. That is so cool.Copy !req
221. When we set an intention,Copy !req
222. somehow, the world seems
to magically come to meet us.Copy !req
223. - Have you felt that?
- Yes!Copy !req
224. And it is stunning to see...Copy !req
225. It's almost as though the world
is waiting for you to decideCopy !req
226. - what side you're on, and—
- And what matters most to you.Copy !req
227. Yeah.Copy !req
228. - Yeah.
- Right.Copy !req
229. How to gather your energies around
what really mattersCopy !req
230. and what's most important to you.Copy !req
231. And that means,
in the moment when you're lonely,Copy !req
232. - company is what's most important to you.
Yeah.Copy !req
233. When you're hungry,
food is what's most important.Copy !req
234. Uh, you were talking
about listening a lot.Copy !req
235. The other night, I was...Copy !req
236. at a party and ear beating somebody.Copy !req
237. Like, giving someone the most brutal
ear beating of all time.Copy !req
238. I was talking to them about
my modular synthesizers.Copy !req
239. - His eyes had glazed over.Copy !req
240. This, I'm sure, doesn't happen to you
'cause you have a regular practice,Copy !req
241. but, like, it was like I was sitting
in a giant yappy meat robotCopy !req
242. and I'd lost control
of the mouth function.Copy !req
243. Like, I couldn't stop myself from talk-...Copy !req
244. I'm yapping about modular synthesizers,
I'm looking at this guy—Copy !req
245. All he's thinking is,
"How do I get away from this dude?"Copy !req
246. And I am thinking,
"How do I get away from this dude?"Copy !req
247. Like, I'm wanting to
get away from myself.Copy !req
248. If I could've, like,
ejected from the robot to not...Copy !req
249. I was boring myself,Copy !req
250. so God knows how this sweet man felt,
'cause he was really listening to me.Copy !req
251. Anyway, and this is kind of
a sinister way to end the story...Copy !req
252. but it actually happened,
and I didn't know the guy at all.Copy !req
253. I just met him at that party.Copy !req
254. I come to find out the next week
he died in a car accident.Copy !req
255. And so, you know, like,
in his last moments on Earth,Copy !req
256. fifteen minutes was filled up with what
must have been the most rotten ear beatingCopy !req
257. about modular synthesizers on Earth,
and I didn't listen to him.Copy !req
258. If I had known that he only had
a few days left to live,Copy !req
259. I don't think that I would've done that.Copy !req
260. So, my question for you is...Copy !req
261. Sometimes, to me, I really feel like
I lose the ability to listen.Copy !req
262. I get so caught up in my own bullshit
that I can't listen to people anymore,Copy !req
263. - and I'm faking listening.Copy !req
264. You know, I'm nodding and looking
and being intent and everything,Copy !req
265. but I'm not hearing
a damn thing they said.Copy !req
266. Can you tell us a little bit aboutCopy !req
267. how we can cultivate
the skill of listening in our own lives?Copy !req
268. Yes.Copy !req
269. And the story you told, it also
links again back to the beginning,Copy !req
270. when you were talking about
how we don't get it.Copy !req
271. We don't really let it in,
about our mortality.Copy !req
272. Because if we really did understand
that this body will be a corpse...Copy !req
273. Right.Copy !req
274. The time of death is uncertain,Copy !req
275. - but death is certain.Copy !req
276. If we really got that,Copy !req
277. we would have fewer of the kind of momentsCopy !req
278. where we regret having wasted our time
or somebody else's.Copy !req
279. And we would be more acutely...Copy !req
280. I mean,
people who have a terminal diagnosis,Copy !req
281. sometimes they say this weird thingCopy !req
282. about how they're grateful
because they never felt more alive.Copy !req
283. Right.
- And you think, "Uh, really?"Copy !req
284. - But that's what they're pointing to...Copy !req
285. that they're acutely sensitive
to the fleeting nature of being alive.Copy !req
286. And it's so precious,Copy !req
287. and just as horrible and brutal
as the world can be,Copy !req
288. it's gorgeous and exquisite, too.Copy !req
289. Yeah.
- So, I think to listen to each otherCopy !req
290. requires a little bit of mindfulness.Copy !req
291. We have to learn to recognize
what's going on in our own mindsCopy !req
292. while we're listening.Copy !req
293. How do you be aware that
you're thinking about something elseCopy !req
294. - while somebody's talking to you?
Right.Copy !req
295. Lots of times,
we don't even realize it, we just realize,Copy !req
296. "Oh, God,
I didn't even hear the last paragraph."Copy !req
297. That's right.Copy !req
298. But we spend a lot of time that way,Copy !req
299. - in these sort of fugue states...
- Yes.Copy !req
300. where we...Copy !req
301. What did you say? The robot?Copy !req
302. Yeah. You're not even sitting
in the robot control chamber.Copy !req
303. You're down in the bathroom!Copy !req
304. Yes? Who is it?Copy !req
305. Hi, Sarah. Can I get a potion?Copy !req
306. Oh, yes!Copy !req
307. You mean this potion, baby?Copy !req
308. Yes. That potion.Copy !req
309. Hey, you gotta pay me first, lady!Copy !req
310. You know how long potions take to concoct?Copy !req
311. I've been milking a crow in here for days!Copy !req
312. This dry old crow!Copy !req
313. I know my baby's
gotta make more potions, though.Copy !req
314. Kuh-kah!Copy !req
315. Mama's gotta milk the crow.
Mama's gotta milk it.Copy !req
316. Ooh, mama's gonna milk it!Copy !req
317. I'll trade you a potion for one baby.Copy !req
318. Yep, here you go.Copy !req
319. Baby!Copy !req
320. - There's no catch, right?
- You're being paranoid, Sarah.Copy !req
321. I'm gonna take your baby
and give you a potion?Copy !req
322. That is the idea.Copy !req
323. Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!Copy !req
324. Come here, baby!Copy !req
325. Ah! I'm so excited.Copy !req
326. This is what I live for!Copy !req
327. Come to Grandma's candy forest!Copy !req
328. Ah!Copy !req
329. Here you go.Copy !req
330. - One potion!
Bombs away...Copy !req
331. What does that mean?Copy !req
332. It means thank you, and goodbye.Copy !req
333. Look at that there.Copy !req
334. Oh, it's beautiful, Steve.Copy !req
335. Is that kid... dead?Copy !req
336. No, I tucked him away in my pouch.Copy !req
337. Wow!Copy !req
338. You know, they say meditation
as a practice is practicing for death.Copy !req
339. Practicing for life!Copy !req
340. Practicing to listen!
- Yeah.Copy !req
341. Monkey see, monkey do, Trudy!Copy !req
342. Monkey lie, monkey die, Jam Roll!Copy !req
343. I love that.Copy !req
344. - Continue. I'm sorry to cut you off there.
- No, I think that's all I... would say.Copy !req
345. Except I was intriguedCopy !req
346. - by what you said...Copy !req
347. about practicing to listen,Copy !req
348. because, in a way,
listening is how we...Copy !req
349. Like, listening to our own bodies,
listening...Copy !req
350. - ... to the sounds of life around us...Copy !req
351. that grounds us,
you know, in the present moment.Copy !req
352. - Listening...Copy !req
353. to our own inner voice
and intuition.Copy !req
354. Every time I override that intuition,Copy !req
355. - it's a disaster.
- Every time.Copy !req
356. - Every time, Clancy.
- Yeah.Copy !req
357. I love you, Cassiopeia.Copy !req
358. The more sensitive I get
and the more I know, instant karma.Copy !req
359. But it comes hard and fast
when I overlook what I know to be true,Copy !req
360. - and just forge ahead.
Right.Copy !req
361. So, I think that deep listening
protects our aliveness too.Copy !req
362. Wow!Copy !req
363. Listening is the connection
to the universe.Copy !req
364. It's the thing that... Wow!Copy !req
365. It's weird, like, you know,
they say when we breathe,Copy !req
366. we're connecting by
breathing in everything...Copy !req
367. - Yeah!
- ... and breathing...Copy !req
368. But when we listen, it's almost
a form of respiration, where...Copy !req
369. - Yeah. Receiving aliveness, yeah.
- Wow!Copy !req
370. Aliveness in the form of your voice,Copy !req
371. or in the form of the stillness
in this room.Copy !req
372. - Yeah, receiving it.Copy !req
373. Whoa!Copy !req
374. What a joy to get to chat with you.
Thank you so much for this conversation.Copy !req
375. My delight, Clancy!Copy !req
376. Well, hello again, Trudy!Copy !req
377. Trudy, Trudy, Trudy!Copy !req
378. This day will be your undoing, Jam Roll.Copy !req
379. Oh-ho-ho! Trudy, Trudy, Trudy!
It's Prince Jam Roll!Copy !req
380. Die, Prince Jam Roll.Copy !req
381. Your lover is mine, Trudy!Copy !req
382. - Can I say "fuck"?
- Yeah, for sure.Copy !req
383. You fucking killed Gerald, my boyfriend!Copy !req
384. He was a delicious snack for the demon
that live inside of my... booty!Copy !req
385. Trudy, Trudy, Trudy,
it's so nice to see you.Copy !req
386. But... you smell like shit, okay?Copy !req
387. So I'm gonna rip off my nose!Copy !req
388. Yowza!Copy !req
389. - Ow! Ouch, ouch! Ow!
- Yah!Copy !req
390. Ouch! Trudy, I have been
practicing my spinning, Trudy.Copy !req
391. Oh, shush! Come here, Clancy.Copy !req
392. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Are you sure?Copy !req
393. Oh, Trudy, look over here!
Whoa!Copy !req
394. Take that! And that!Copy !req
395. Trudy, my booty is...Copy !req
396. juicy.Copy !req
397. - We doing this!
- Oh, yeah! Mmm!Copy !req
398. You about to get it!Copy !req
399. Trudy, you're full of surprises...Copy !req
400. just like my ass.Copy !req
401. I'm ready for a snack, Prince Jam Roll.Copy !req
402. All right, give me a second.Copy !req
403. Gotcha!Copy !req
404. Are you okay?Copy !req
405. Your blood is mine!Copy !req
406. Forgiveness...Copy !req
407. is... tricky!Copy !req
408. Oh, bullocks!Copy !req
409. Scratchy!Copy !req
410. The magic is happening.Copy !req
411. Boom! You're better!Copy !req
412. - Thanks, bud.
- No problem.Copy !req
413. Two feet, four shoes...Copy !req
414. Four shoes. Yeah.Copy !req
415. - Trudy!
- My boyfriend!Copy !req
416. Hey, lovebirds.Copy !req
417. - Guess what?Copy !req
418. Jam Roll's got a margarita machine.Copy !req
419. I'm drunk.Copy !req
420. What the fuck's going on?Copy !req
421. Holy shit!Copy !req
422. Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!Copy !req
423. That was a fun one, Simulator.Copy !req
424. I didn't make it to Mercury
'cause a cat got me...Copy !req
425. turned around to the fancy woods.Copy !req
426. Master! I'm so glad to see you alive.Copy !req
427. Wait a minute.
You can get hurt in there?Copy !req
428. I told you.Copy !req
429. I made an avatar that could
experience everything, including...Copy !req
430. the ecstasy of death.Copy !req
431. I could've fucking died!Copy !req
432. - That's fucked up. Never do that again.
Okay, Master.Copy !req
433. - Use your fucking brain!
Okay, Master.Copy !req
434. Look what I got.Copy !req
435. Whoa! It even works out here!Copy !req
436. I'm gonna go plant it outside.Copy !req
437. Four shoes!Copy !req
438. Computer, activate defense... protocol.Copy !req
439. Okay, Master!Copy !req
440. Shoot a laser.Copy !req
441. Anyone who comes within 80 feet
of this thing... the rose.Copy !req
442. I don't have lasers, Master,
but I could turn on the sprinklers.Copy !req
443. This is your new home, Rose.Copy !req
444. No one's gonna bother you here.
This is where you're gonna be safe.Copy !req
445. For the rest of your life.Copy !req
446. That's it.Copy !req