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    He chose to honor his mom's life with a psychedelic cartoon

    Duncan Trussell turned real-life conversations about the biggest existential questions into a wacky yet genius animated show.
    by Rachel Martin Oct 29, 2023 6 minutes
    Duncan Trussell and his mom, as imagined in the show <em>The Midnight Gospel</em>.

    I didn't know who Duncan Trussell was before watching his Netflix show The Midnight Gospel (no offense). But after a couple episodes I had to know more about the guy behind this bizarre show where real-life conversations about the biggest existential questions from Trussell's podcast are laid overtop these totally wacky, yet genius animated videos created by his friend Pendleton Ward (creator of Adventure Time).

    At first it seems like some drug-induced fever dream — like, why am I listening to writer Anne Lamott talk with this dude about alcoholism, grief and God as her voice is coming out of blue dog with deer antlers while they are riding on a conveyor belt that is ready to chop them to bits? Or the one where Trussell's moving conversation with his mom as she is suffering from cancer is laid over the top of an animation where we see her and Trussell die and get reborn over and over again while she tells him what she needs

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