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Joe Rogan Experience #2391 - Duncan Trussell
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joe rogan
Hello, Duncan.
duncan trussell
Hello, Joe.
Hello.
joe rogan
Father.
Father Trussel.
duncan trussell
Hello, Father Rogan.
joe rogan
Um Are we allowed to do this?
duncan trussell
What?
joe rogan
This religion you can kind of goof on a little bit.
duncan trussell
Catholicism?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They get testy.
duncan trussell
I don't, you know, having now gone to a more than a few Catholic masses, which are beautiful, and hung out with Catholics who are awesome.
I've really had to reconfigure everything I used to think about it.
Because they're just really sweet.
Had a long conversation with a priest.
Brilliant dude.
Totally like non-judgmental, kind of intellectual, you know, philosophical.
Like right away, I'm like, oh, you should I should have this guy on my podcast.
joe rogan
Interesting.
duncan trussell
Yeah, it wasn't, it's not what it's the, you know, I feel like the Christianity that most people are angry at is not even Christianity.
joe rogan
You know what I think it's like?
duncan trussell
What?
joe rogan
Like saying that you're a liberal person.
Because I'm pretty liberal, and you're pretty liberal.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
In the greater spectrum, but then you get lumped in with Antifa.
That's then you get lumped in with, you know, whatever crazy LBGT issue of the day.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Well, you and even Antifa doesn't want to be called liberal.
Did you know that?
joe rogan
What are they now?
duncan trussell
Well, Antifa is anti-capitalist, and that is not liberal.
So there's a there that's the problem is like the terms are really muddy right now.
So when you're looking at like Portland, um the the protesters in Portland.
joe rogan
Yeah, what exactly is going on in Portland?
I'm trying not to pay attention.
unidentified
Oh, well, what's happened is I know they've uh brought in the National Guard.
joe rogan
Is that happening?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They tried to, and they got played.
duncan trussell
No, I think they have now.
I think they're there.
So what's happened is they're in front of the ICE facility.
There are ongoing protests at night.
Now it's I I watch these streams, and I've been watching a self-professed fascist named Carlin, who drinks and and basically roasts these live streams.
But weirdly, she like well, she she has apparently embedded herself with Antifa before.
And so it's such a funny stream because like So they tolerate her?
Oh no, not anymore.
She like, no, no, no, no.
She's like, I mean, I don't know if she's trolling or not, but on her stream, she's like, I am a fascist.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
So she's a proudly uh proclaiming she's a fascist.
I don't know how much of that is trolling, how much of it is real, but conservatives who are drawn to her stream will say things like these people are funded by George Soros.
And it's the funniest thing because she gets so mad and she's like, get off fucking Fox News, stop watching that shit.
It's all wrong.
These do these people look funded.
Do these people look like they have money?
They're not funded.
It's it's so but and I guess her bigger point is by saying these are funded agitators and not saying what they actually are, which is anti-capitalist revolutionaries, you dilute what's really happening because what's really happening, according to her, and I think a a fair amount of people, is that the economy's so fucked.
The middle class is diminishing so much.
The cost of living is so high that this is the tilled, the perfect soil you need if you wanted communism to grow anywhere.
Because you're some kid, you've been like glued to Reddit or TikTok, you've been getting your fucking amygdala jerked off on by the devil.
You're you're just filled with like unease.
You've watched assassinations, attempted assassinations, the banking crisis, all of it, and it's like then you like some Marxist theorist starts telling you a little bit about like dismantling capitalism.
unidentified
You got it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
And you know, I don't know, man.
Back when I was in liberal arts school, if shit was the way it was, and some, especially if it was a like some hot goth girl started talking to me a little bit about dismantling capitalism, I think I would be like, Yeah, let's dismantle.
But that so that's what you're seeing there, uh the the breakdown of it is that Democrats and Republicans, what they have in common is they believe in private property and they they believe the power of the state should be used to protect private property, and so anti-capitalists is communists think that that's just fucked up.
Essentially the the breakdown of it, as far as I could tell, sorry all the communists out there, I'm gonna ruin Marxism.
I just I'm saying I don't it's very complex, you know.
But from what I understand, the idea is this.
You have a bunch of money, you buy a factory, you hire someone to run the factory, you get a bunch of workers to go into the factory.
The workers are the ones who are making money for you.
They're the ones who are skilled.
You just knew what number to call, got yourself a factory, got yourself managers for the factory.
You are now going to take a huge cut of the profit, and the workers are not gonna get very much at all.
And Karl Marx, as I understand it, was saying, that's bullshit.
Like all you do is buy an apartment, keep it keep it sort of painted in between tenants, and sit back and collect money.
Why?
Just because you had some money, and then when you look at the way money flows uphill, you see this creates a perfect situation for uh uh a world of renters, a world of workers, a world of people getting paid minimum wage, while the the person who owns the means of production gets the most money.
And so this is a growing sentiment in the world right now.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
And and honestly, it's like you're working two fucking jobs, you're getting paid minimum wage, you know what how much the CEOs are making.
joe rogan
Or how about the people that came into this country because they were told that the borders were open, they established a life here for four years.
duncan trussell
Twenty years.
joe rogan
Or how about the most recent ones, even then all of a sudden you're getting hunted down?
duncan trussell
Yeah, hunted fucking hunted down.
joe rogan
Now this, and let's forget let's just Well then wouldn't that start this idea as well?
Wouldn't that feed into the idea?
Well, yes, dissolving the state.
duncan trussell
Absolutely.
You're you're watching this shit, you know, and and and you're you're high as a kite, you're watching this stuff.
In let's just say that you this appeals to a lot of different people, by the way.
Let's just say you're the Garden for Heidi InfoWars person, you've been listening to Alex Jones or you've read Behold a Pale Horse, or you have any kind of connection to conspiracy prognost prognostications, which all say at some point the the there's gonna be martial law, troops in the streets, right, and you're seeing this play out.
And so, my God, and and even worse, imagine you're in the fucking military, and you actually join the military, you're one of those people, September 11th happens, you're like, I'm gonna defend this country.
And suddenly you're in a bus going to Portland.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't think they want to be there.
If I had a guess, it's gotta be a weird feeling to be in your own country with like military grade weaponry, looking at people in duck costumes.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a very blunt instrument to deal with a very complex problem.
Yeah.
And first of all, it's the way let's just talk about the the immigration thing.
The way it looks is horrific.
It looks it when you're uh just arresting people in front of their kids and just normal regular people that have been here for 20 years, that everybody who has a heart can't get along with that.
duncan trussell
No.
joe rogan
Everybody who has a heart sees that and goes, that can't be right.
They can't be right.
That can't be the only way to do this.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
Because you have to think, look, yeah, we have to have a border.
Yes, it should have been secure.
Yes, they should make sure you know who everybody is before they get in.
But when people Been here for 20 years.
Like, come on.
duncan trussell
Come on.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
Like let's find a way.
If they've been productive members of society for 20 years, no criminal record.
They worked the entire time.
They paid taxes.
Find them a pathway to citizenship.
Find a way where you can do this thing that you want to do, which is keep terrorists and cartel members from getting across the border with drugs that kill a hundred thousand people a year.
Okay.
But also have a fucking heart.
Because if you don't, you're not going to get anybody on your side.
If you're doing this stuff publicly, throwing women to the ground, handcuffing people just for existing on the wrong side of the dirt.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Not a criminal, not the only crime they ever committed was coming over here as a kid.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
They probably didn't even know what the fuck was going on.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, a lot of kids got snuck across when they were already born in Mexico.
And they've grown up their entire life in America.
They can't even speak Spanish.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they could get sent back.
duncan trussell
That's dude.
I mean, that's it.
You're you're describing exactly the reality, and there just isn't no one gets on board with that, man.
joe rogan
No one with a heart.
duncan trussell
Well, no.
I mean, the only way you can get on board with it is you have to essentially go like pure Machiavellian.
The you know, the arg here's the argument in the way I just gave an argument for Marxism, which I am not a Marxist.
Uh I'll give I heard a great interview with the guy running ICE on MPR, which I thought was wild, NPR had him on.
And they gave him a fair interview.
I figured they would be all up his ass.
So his defense of the Machiavellian tactics that are being employed right now is that he apparently has worked as some kind of border agent for 20 years.
He says, you could hear it in his voice, man.
It fucked him up.
He's like, you know, I've seen the back of trucks filled with dead bodies.
You know what I mean?
With children there who died, no oxygen.
I've I've been in I've seen these these horrors that have come from the uh open border, and and how awful it is.
If we give any semblance of compassion or mercy for the people who've been here for 20 years, for the people with kids, the kids who get any any loophole that we convey is going to produce more people trying to come over the border,
and many of those people are gonna get killed, they're gonna, you know, the drown, they're there there will be many deaths because of this, not to mention the drug smuggling and all that stuff.
And so every time the NPR reporter would push back with the human rights compassion angle, his take is yeah, but which which do we pick?
Which do we choose creating some way for people to stay in the United States who came here as kids and do the nuanced compassionate thing, but it gives the impression to the rest of the world that we're doing that, and that gets X amount of people killed, that that many people die.
That was his take on it, which is why they're doing this.
joe rogan
You're still gonna have human trafficking, and if you've got a very closed border and you give amnesty, they're gonna let they're gonna figure out a way to get people in.
duncan trussell
That was people gonna document it.
That's his argument, and and you know that what you when he was talking about like all the awful shit he's seen, and you hear it in his voice.
Yeah, you're like, okay, maybe I don't completely agree with your point of view, but I can understand where you're coming from there.
And yet, when you see this in practice, you know, when you when you when it's not an NPR interview and you see the videos you've been seeing and everyone else has been seeing, then you realize like there's okay, sure, but there must be a a way to do this that doesn't involve ripping parents out of their communities,
away from their children, that doesn't involve like actually removing people who've been contributing to society to American society from American society, sending people to other countries when they can't even speak the language.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
So no one with a heart is gonna go along with that.
duncan trussell
No.
joe rogan
And no one I did not.
I did not ever anticipate seeing that on TV on a regular basis.
duncan trussell
Me either, man.
Me either.
It's shy it's it's a good thing.
joe rogan
I thought I really thought they were just gonna go after the criminals.
I really thought there was enough gang members and enough people, MS-13 members and whatever they were looking for that that they're wanted, they would go after those guys.
duncan trussell
Dude, I I you know That's what I thought, right?
joe rogan
But how many gang members have they actually arrested?
duncan trussell
No idea.
No idea.
But you you see how you know, and I hate using this word because the word is getting thrown around so much and it's a stupid well, you didn't say that word, I'll say authoritarianism.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
You see how how authoritarianism when it begins to emerge, um it's not like it's like non consensual.
You see how it slowly, slowly creeps in, and how there's a great many people directly impacted by um people who have uh you know cross the border without using the right protocol, and in a horrific way.
And and there are gangs that have been in apartment complexes there.
So there's people who've seen those videos too.
Right.
And they're like, fuck yeah.
Yeah, fu and also a lot of people who got citizenship the regular way and went through fucking hell to get citizenship here, they're also like, fuck them.
They're cutting in line, these motherfuckers.
They're gumming up the system.
They're making it so that we who are following the rules, not only it's taking us longer, but also now we have to deal with ice too.
So those people are pissed.
So there is a contingent of people uh who maybe feel the same thing all of us are feeling better.
Also are like, but you know, what's worse?
joe rogan
You know, I I like I'm you know This is how I think the the only way to do it would be where you could get all everyone on your side.
Borders are closed, and we're gonna find out who's committed felonies, who out of the people that are illegal that have committed felonies.
And if you've committed X amount of felonies, you have you have to leave the country.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Right?
joe rogan
If you've been robbing people for the last ten years and you're an illegal, you have to leave the country, right?
That makes sense.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
But if you've been here for 25 years, you have a family, your kids go to school here, you speak the language, you're just illegal.
But you're a contributing member to the community that up until now has been protected.
This is crazy to ask lower income and and middle income people who are, you know, kind of getting by, and then all of a sudden you're about to ship them to a country where they've never been.
They haven't been since they were four.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you're gonna you're gonna bring up their family and pull up and they've been in the community like that.
That shows no heart, and that's the problem.
Like you're not gonna get any reasonable people to want to go along with that.
Any kind person would look at that and go, There's this can't be the only way to do this.
duncan trussell
Damn right.
But but you see, once authoritarianism starts creeping in and it makes some inroads, which it's definitely making right now, man.
It's definitely making right now.
And you know, I think one thing both of us have in common is really good at like thinking from the other perspective.
Like I can put myself fully into the mind of like a super paranoid person who lives in a city that's all fucked up, and who's like, yeah.
It's like remember that awesome show where it's like one of those vengeance shows where that this dad, his family gets fucked up by gang members, and then he just goes and starts shooting people.
You know, Charles Bronson.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, death wish.
duncan trussell
Death wish.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Right?
So there's a lot of people who are in death wish mode right now, and they're just like, fuck yeah, get the troops in the fucking streets, these motherfuckers, I get my car broken into every fucking night, nothing's happening.
Let's go.
And from you know, their perspective it all makes sense.
But the problem is, once we all start getting used to the military in the streets, and once we just accept it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
That's no good.
joe rogan
But it's like how bad does the police have to get at doing their job, or is it the upper management that institutes policies, or is it that the people vote these policies in?
But whatever it is that allows the kind of fucking chaos that you can fight in Portland, like whatever this is, you guys aren't doing it right.
If this was a house and I came over your house and these are your kids, I would call protective services.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
I'd be like, this fucking psychopath must be smoking meth with his kids because everybody's just running around camped out on the fucking sidewalk.
Like none of this makes it.
I'd be like, this is an unfit parent.
That's an unfit government.
If you've got a city where people are just openly shitting in the streets, sleeping everywhere, needles, you have homeless tent.
You ever see Oakland?
You ever see some of those fucking homeless tents?
duncan trussell
Yeah, dude.
joe rogan
Those huge villages.
Like this is bananas.
duncan trussell
It's bananas.
joe rogan
They didn't exist when we were kids.
duncan trussell
Well, dude, this is the thing.
Like, I actually, when I was living in LA and was like thinking of like, what are some fun ways to like shit disturb?
I was thinking, you know what you could do?
You could throw a music festival, but you could tell everyone who comes to the music festival to pretend to be homeless.
Bring tents, put the tents out.
They can't do shit.
But if you threw a music festival in LA and didn't get any licensing, like you can camp out, it's gonna be awesome.
Everybody's going to jail.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
duncan trussell
You can do a burning man just by guys.
We're just if they ask, this we're we're homeless.
And you it would be fine.
And it's that that's the place where it gets weird.
This is the problem is it's like this is what uh Choggyum Trump or MJ called idiot compassion.
There's compassion, then there's idiot compassion.
Now, idiot compassion is thinking that leaving a a bunch of people out in the streets who have varying degrees of psychosis and drug addiction and long-term brain injury.
And then thinking it's let's just let them do their thing.
When they obviously need help.
If they were young, if those were 11-year-olds, go back to the kid idea.
unidentified
If those are like eight-year-olds, people would be helping them, but because they're because they're full grown, no more help.
duncan trussell
Dude, I was I was I'm sorry.
joe rogan
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duncan trussell
Oh, sorry.
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There's a video of this guy driving through Oakland and he's driving through this like insane encampment area that's nuts.
And then you cross a line and he goes into the next area of jurisdiction where they have different policies, it is squeaky clean.
And the guys are in the car, he's like, no fucking way.
That's why this is nuts.
Like it's clear.
That's why it's it's policy.
It's clear it's how they handle homeless people just camping out in the streets, whether they tolerate it.
If you don't tolerate it, your city stays clean.
If you tolerate it, you get these massive camps that look if show a video of the Oakland camps.
Because there's some of the craziest ones in the country.
They're massive, dude.
This is it's like downtown LA's another one.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Downtown LA has some pockets where you're like, this is holy shit.
duncan trussell
It's an open-air combination, mental asylum, drug market.
joe rogan
Fire, they're tapping into electrical lines.
duncan trussell
Yeah, yeah.
And they just it just happens.
Like you you you and they and they do, you know.
joe rogan
Look at this.
duncan trussell
Holy shit.
unidentified
Dude.
duncan trussell
Wouldn't want to walk barefoot around there, man.
joe rogan
It says the this video is the Oakland, California homeless problem is beyond belief.
So it's just shanty towns.
duncan trussell
Wow.
joe rogan
Of crazy people.
duncan trussell
Wow.
joe rogan
The whole streets are lined with them.
duncan trussell
That is so nuts.
joe rogan
Nuts, man.
duncan trussell
That is so nuts.
Yeah, and you know, and you can see how somebody how watching this, you you you might ask yourself, is there something wrong with the system that this is one of the things that can happen in the United States if you fail hard enough.
You know, and and 'cause like talk about like the the heart the the idea of a heart.
It's like, dude, look at this.
It's like this if you This is crazy.
joe rogan
It's just like a festival.
Well it's This is like a psycho festival.
duncan trussell
Dude, all you need is well look at that, they've got couches.
That is like we had a camp like that at Burning Man.
Those people know how to set up a sunshade.
joe rogan
How is this a community?
Like look at this.
unidentified
This is a garbage people community.
joe rogan
This is nuts.
duncan trussell
Got a little fence.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I bet these are some wacky people.
I bet there's a lot of flat earthers in that camp.
duncan trussell
Dude, I guarantee Hollow Earthers too.
There's both dude, I I the so um Okay, I'm gonna virtue signal, but I don't mean to, but it plays into what we're talking about.
Uh and uh before I virtually say I never do this shit, unfortunately.
I'm I should.
But my kid and I, we uh go into a coffee place before school.
There's this, you know, filthy dude sleeping on the street.
And my kid is you know notices that.
And and it's and he my kid is like, you know, maybe he's hungry.
I'm like, all right, let's give him some food.
So get him a little sandwich.
Then I got him some coffee.
And my kid says to me, Do you really think this guy needs more addictions, Dad?
unidentified
It's really funny.
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's hilarious.
duncan trussell
Oh my god, coffee's gonna it's an okay addiction.
All right.
And so but the other thing he said is he's like, that guy looked angry.
That guy looked angry.
And I'm like, no, he's not no.
Really what you're looking at there is like he it doesn't take showers.
That's a really dirty person right now.
He doesn't have access to showers, and they look when you see them, they can seem really intimidating.
And so we go up there, and somebody told me whenever you give shit to these people, ask them their name because they're dehumanized, like people, they're invisible.
No one even looks at them.
You try not to look at them, not to make eye contact.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
So I go up there and I can't like please, please don't let this be some kind of fucking psycho crackhead who starts screaming out demonic babble and like and r ruins any altruism my boy's gonna have for the rest of his life.
unidentified
I'm like, what's what's your name?
duncan trussell
Like, Chris, what's your name?
Nice southern, you know, voice, just sweet as could be.
Give him the food, give him the coffee.
He's like, ah, it's thirsty.
Thank you so much.
And like just the sweetest guy ever.
And then he's like, what month is this?
Like a time traveler.
joe rogan
Maybe he is.
I've read this uh Richard Dolan book.
I should I should clarify, I'm actually listening.
There's a real difference.
There is a difference between reading and listening.
I listened to mostly audiobooks, but I will say I read a book that I didn't read.
But this one I'm listening to.
Um and this Richard Dolan book is all about these different hybrids of aliens and humans that have been encountered in uh various people's abduction experiences.
Wow that are the same story.
The same story over and over and over again.
Universally worldwide.
And there's a bunch of different types of hybrids that uh this the the they've sort of documented.
duncan trussell
What are they?
joe rogan
Well, they think that what's going on is the best guess is they're doing some sort of genetic engineering either on humans or have done it on humans, or are using human DNA for maybe another project they're doing.
But there's it has something to do with breeding and there's something to do with genetic engineering, but like some of them say that they're forced to have sex with female aliens, like a female sex sexy alien comes in and this it's but it sounds real.
It doesn't sound like it really happened, but it sounds like if I was an alien and you know, I was running science experiments.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
What one best way to make it like the least traumatic to get the jizz out of your body is to devise a really hot like female alien that's mostly like a woman, like almost entirely like a human woman.
They do you think they tried other ones before they got to like a hot woman every now and then they need some pure human DNA, and that's when they get a dude to fuck her.
duncan trussell
Oh, dude.
joe rogan
It's probably they're probably the most sensual, the sweetest, because they need the most cum.
They want all of it.
They want all that cum.
duncan trussell
How lucky are you?
How lucky are you to get picked?
joe rogan
One of these guys in the story had this this recurring experience.
duncan trussell
Oh man, that would be just so wonderful to realize that you've been picked and this would ruin your life.
joe rogan
I think it would make going back to work impossible.
You just fucked an alien.
Now you have to do paperwork.
You have to do nonsense, stupid paperwork for your insurance company when last night you fucked an alien.
You went into a craft that was the size of a VW bus, and inside of it was like a football stadium.
duncan trussell
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
And then you you got down with this female alien in a sexy time room.
duncan trussell
Seven feet, seven beautiful feet, and you know your um She has seven feet.
joe rogan
Is that what you're saying?
duncan trussell
Sure.
joe rogan
I think it's a human looking alien.
duncan trussell
Well, you could I mean, if you're genetically engineering something to fuck, like why does it have to be a good one?
joe rogan
Because it has to turn the guy on.
It it's he said it was like a sexy woman, but just something was different.
duncan trussell
No, I mean it's a sexies.
joe rogan
Remember that?
duncan trussell
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was exactly what that movie was about, right?
You would um That's right, that was a good movie.
That not really, but a fun movie.
No, that was that was a fun movie.
duncan trussell
That was fun.
I like that guy on the left.
What's his name?
That actor on the very left.
joe rogan
The dude who played Gandhi.
duncan trussell
Yeah, Ben Kingsley.
He's been in a lot of weird shit.
It's crazy that guy played Gandhi.
joe rogan
He plays a good gangster too.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he plays a real good gangster.
duncan trussell
What did he play the gangster in?
What was that?
I fucking loved it.
The Irish gangster movie.
joe rogan
He was I can't remember.
duncan trussell
It was goddamn that was really good in it.
joe rogan
He was spooky.
Like, yo, settle down.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
What movie was that?
duncan trussell
It wasn't sexy.
joe rogan
Oh, sexy beast is great too, man.
Have you seen sexy beast?
duncan trussell
No, I haven't seen that.
joe rogan
Dude, dude, sexy beast is a wild movie, man.
He's great in that movie.
duncan trussell
He's the one who is in in the one we're talking about, he's like, I'm going to clip your nuts.
Remember that?
So scary the way he said it to you.
I'll clip your nuts.
It's the it's a new one.
It's on Netflix.
joe rogan
Oh, it's a new one.
duncan trussell
No, yeah.
And maybe it's not even.
I'm pretty sure it's Ben King's.
Let's not look it up so I don't look down.
Dude, I just watched this series on Netflix.
joe rogan
Hey, let me ask you this.
Continuing our thought process about communism.
What do you think happens to New York?
Because this momdani fella is gonna win.
Yeah, which I think is wild.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think it's wild.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And uh I mean, I don't want the people that live there to experience chaos.
But if that guy, if any of the things that he said about like releasing prisoners and the you know, the the all the talk about crime.
duncan trussell
Well, dude, I mean, look, man.
joe rogan
Like, what was this he had some wild take.
duncan trussell
Uh I think that I I've seen a few of his wild takes and I can't remember them.
joe rogan
They're like, what?
They're like college campus takes on crime.
duncan trussell
And you know what I mean?
And seemingly on economics.
Like it does there is there it like it does feel like something I would have done during my acid phase.
Like I would have run on some of his talking points.
And you know what I love about this country, thank you, Jesus for America, is they call it the American experiment.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
And I love it because via democracy, people like him get invited into the laboratory.
And it's like, all right, let's see what happens.
And we're gonna see.
You know, that's the main thing.
joe rogan
We're gonna It's a stress test.
duncan trussell
It's a stress test.
joe rogan
Stress test to see if that city can survive four years of that.
duncan trussell
But what if it works?
What if we're wrong?
And suddenly New York turns into this like shining utopia.
No one's starving, everyone's happy.
As it turns out, we didn't need to keep people in prisons.
No more necrophilia on subways.
jamie vernon
Come on, sex work.
joe rogan
Decriminalized sex work.
Holla at your boy.
And an anti-discrimination effort.
Oh, mutual aid.
duncan trussell
Now that's the that is uh since I've been being educated by Carlin, mutual aid is a Marxist communist talking point.
That's what they call it mutual aid.
It's also an anarchist talking point.
It's not the worst thing ever.
But when you hear mutual aid, that uh that's that point that's I'm not gonna say it's a dog whistle, but that's essentially like one of the one of the concepts that they work with, which I I actually I I kind of like that uh concept of mutual aid.
joe rogan
It's great if we weren't human.
I mean it's also come under scrutiny for channeling substantial campaign funds to the democratic socialists of America, raising alarm among opponents who see this as evidence of radical influence.
As soon as you get outside of a meritocracy, everything falls apart.
And if you don't realize that by now, folks, there's nothing I can tell you that's gonna change your mind.
And it always leads to one thing, which is you have to enforce these very rigid laws that nobody wants to adhere to.
And the way you do that is with the military.
Shazam, you got a military dictatorship.
It happens that quickly.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then all this bullshit about equality, it's all out the window.
You'll do whatever the fuck they tell you to do.
You have no power, you have no rights.
duncan trussell
Yeah, that's it, man.
joe rogan
And and the people at the top live like kings.
duncan trussell
Here's how I think if I was gonna make the argument, which I agree with you on meritocracy in the sense that uh, you know, that's the it's the ecosystem we live in as comedians.
It's it's it's the I think you could say if we disrupted the meritocracy in nature, then it would God, it would fuck up almost every biome.
And the the So, but I would say, what about like a merit your body has a meritocracy?
Your body has a meritocracy.
The white blood cells in your body, when they're functioning, they get rid of parts of your body that are fucked up little genetic patterns.
They have to.
You know, if your body wasn't running as a perfectly harmonized, I guess, you know what?
Maybe the body's communist now that I think about it.
unidentified
You know what?
duncan trussell
I think I'm wrong.
I don't think our bodies are a meritocracy, actually.
I think they're more of a symphony than a meritocracy.
But then if you want to go to a good sif symphony, you want everyone playing in the symphony to be the best.
joe rogan
But what let's let's just talk about what we were talking about earlier when it's like a company, and so the workers who make your product make very little money and you make all the money.
Wouldn't there be a way to do capitalism with a heart?
Like capitalism where where you're make a reasonable amount of money that's large.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And more money goes to everybody else, and everybody lives at a higher standard of living.
duncan trussell
Oh, sure.
That's crazy.
That's tax tax.
That's taxation.
That's like redistribution of wealth via taxation.
joe rogan
But it's not if it's your employees.
duncan trussell
Well, they well, there's profit sharing models that some people use.
Dr. Bronner's that company is a classic example of it.
joe rogan
They like but I'm just talking about these other companies, the companies that suck.
Like, if if you really are making most of the money and you pay your workers very poorly, yeah.
Like, that's so unnecessary.
Because I guarantee you, if you're right, like let's say you're the person who owns Target.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
How much so is that a lot?
Like, you know what I mean?
Are you gonna use it all?
Are you gonna use it all?
duncan trussell
Wow.
joe rogan
So why don't you just pay more money?
Like, wouldn't everybody be happier?
duncan trussell
Isn't it shareholders?
Isn't that that'd you be able to get better people?
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I mean, that's a big part of it.
You you have an obligation.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you're the CEO, you have an obligation to shareholders.
So there's that and it's the old the whole just the stock market thing in general.
Imagine if there was no stock market.
It didn't exist.
You can never gamble on companies.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You couldn't but buy a little piece of Apple.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, buy a little piece of IBM.
Imagine if that didn't exist and you could only make a business and then prop it off your business.
Wouldn't that be like steadier?
duncan trussell
Comrade.
Comrade, I love where you're going.
The dissolution of the stock market.
That's a good place to start.
joe rogan
The stock market.
I'm not saying we should.
Don't get me wrong.
And I'm not saying I don't own stocks.
But what I'm saying is it's a crazy idea to have little pieces of companies that you can buy and then use that money to get the company going and you go public and you take in some fucking money and then you're on the boat and then you got the board meeting.
It's like and you're constantly rising and falling with the Dow.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like what?
duncan trussell
The Dow Jones Industrial Average.
unidentified
Oh, God.
joe rogan
And now they're doing it with computers.
And do you know you know that a lot of these traders, they're trying to get as close as possible to the servers?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So they want their offices as physically close to the service as possible so that they can get their trade-ins milliseconds quicker.
duncan trussell
It's like a mosquito getting to that good vein.
joe rogan
That seems nuts.
I I just we can catch rockets now, thanks to Elon.
We can send high speed video through the sky.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the only way we can do that.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Yeah, it's weird.
I mean, I don't know, man.
I this is what to me, this is way outside of my pay grade because I have, you know, you know, I did make some money on it was AMC or GameStop thanks to thanks to Wall Street bets.
joe rogan
It just seems so nuts.
Dude, sometimes it crashes.
What?
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, what are you talking about?
The same amount of money's out there.
duncan trussell
It has bubbles.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus Christ.
duncan trussell
It has bubbles.
joe rogan
It's it makes the whole economy steady and switch.
No, it's chaos.
duncan trussell
It's fucking chaos.
joe rogan
It's chaos.
And it's a lot of it's based on confidence.
Like someone could just tweet something and then dude, I that's a panic and a stock will crash.
duncan trussell
It triggers a breaker.
joe rogan
Yes.
duncan trussell
Whatever that is.
There's some actual thing that just shuts it down because it's gone too high or gone too low.
And they've got to, I guess, look at it and like make sure that that's not a malfunction.
And then that leads to recessions or depressions and and all of it is like a very complex game of DD.
Like it's just fucking numbers in a computer somewhere.
And everyone's on the street, everybody's the same.
Everyone is still capable of delivering mutual aid to each other, but because we've become so attached to this very complex, very serious game, like at a casino, we don't know how to disengage from it and get back to reality reality, which is help your neighbors, get to know your neighbors.
Don't be a dick.
Just basic simple sort of modes of living that are transcendent to any economic system.
Um they're transcendent to dude.
My you ever had Doug Rushkoff on your podcast?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Uh dude, back in the day, right?
duncan trussell
Team human.
Ah, he's so but he, you know, he was talking about like how the way that we even currently use currency is totally different from the way it used to, it used to be.
And that his whole point is like the that level of reality I don't think he's discounting it, but that isn't reality reality.
Reality reality is boots on the ground where the rubber hits the road.
Do you are you like do you know your neighbors or have you just retracted into your fucking weird little conch shell and you're just staring into rectangles completely alienated from the rest of your community?
joe rogan
Especially if you're in a high rise doing that.
duncan trussell
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Imagine you're doing that in a in a building with a thousand other people and you don't know any of them.
duncan trussell
It's so weird.
unidentified
You're just in your little high click, lock your little door, get your flippy jerk off.
Jerk off and just playing video games, doom scroll.
joe rogan
You sleep for three hours and you get up in the morning, take an Adderall and go to work.
duncan trussell
Dude, yeah, that there you go.
You just described it.
joe rogan
I have ADHD, I need it, Duncan.
It's the American Dream.
duncan trussell
The American dream.
Well, this well, you know, I'll tell you.
Back when everybody was doing blow in this country.
joe rogan
Back in the good old days.
duncan trussell
The good old days when they put cocaine in in Coca-Cola.
There's a this there's a precedent for speed in our country.
This isn't the first time there's been a speed craze in our country.
Like Freud was like shooting up cocaine.
Like this was people thought that it was a cure for a malaise that was afflicting people, and they said that malaise was a result of things getting too fast in society because of trains and stuff.
Now this is back before computers, and they were already like shit's moving too fast.
We gotta do blow to keep up with it.
joe rogan
No way.
duncan trussell
Yes!
unidentified
That's why they started doing blow.
duncan trussell
Oh, fucking.
joe rogan
Okay, here's the f here's a real question.
We know that coca leaves have existed forever, but when did they first figure out how to make cocaine?
Um put it into perplexity, but we'll make a guess.
duncan trussell
Okay, okay.
joe rogan
It's one of our sponsors.
unidentified
I'm going to I'm gonna say you have to turn coca leaves into cocaine that you could snort.
duncan trussell
Seven.
I'm gonna say somewhere like 1750.
unidentified
Whoa.
Really?
joe rogan
Um I'm gonna say 1900s.
duncan trussell
I'm gonna say you're probably right.
I fucked up my whole thing.
joe rogan
I want to say like 1902 or some shit.
Because I bet before that they were just chewing it, like those high altitude hurting people do.
You know, the the those animal herders, they chew the shit out of that stuff and it gives them energy.
It's like a flat level energy superior to caffeine stuff.
duncan trussell
Oh, I've heard it's great, but it's your stomach.
joe rogan
I haven't tried it, but I do see um people that do chew it, they their teeth get all fucked up.
I tried the tea once.
How I it's good, but I couldn't shut the fuck up.
It was a real problem.
And I was like, I'm not I can't shut the fuck up normally.
I should never do coke.
unidentified
I was hanging out with Stanhope and I was telling him, I was like, dude, I can't shut the fuck up.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
This is hilarious.
duncan trussell
Okay.
joe rogan
Uh dried cocaine, first known use of dried cocaine.
1859.
duncan trussell
Close.
You got it.
You got it.
Um can you ask perplexity how to make cocaine?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
It's funny.
joe rogan
How do you make cocaine?
Do you ever see uh Mariana Van Zeller?
Have you ever seen that show Trafficked?
duncan trussell
No.
joe rogan
Dude.
duncan trussell
No, what is it?
joe rogan
She went to the jungle to where they make the cocaine, and she was with them while they were making the cocaine and then went through the jungle with them when they bring it on their back.
duncan trussell
Oh, cool.
joe rogan
She hiked out with them.
duncan trussell
Wow.
unidentified
Dude, wow.
joe rogan
Dude.
It's a crazy episode.
Because it shows you how they make it.
First of all, you'd never do coke again.
They're pouring gas.
Gasoline on this, and you're like, what gasoline?
Like coke is so bad.
duncan trussell
Yeah, it's not good.
joe rogan
It's just fucking jet fuel.
It is snorting jet fuel.
duncan trussell
I never had a taste for it, man.
I could I never liked it.
jamie vernon
Perplexity actually gave her video to us.
duncan trussell
So how to make cocaine.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
duncan trussell
Perplexity stocks just went up 50%.
joe rogan
I think she's coming on again soon.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
So she's awesome.
She's been on the podcast a few times.
She's also the lady that her and her husband expose the OxyContin Express.
They had that documentary back in the day on that.
duncan trussell
Wow.
joe rogan
Where it was the whole thing about Florida being this pill mill.
duncan trussell
Yeah, I think.
joe rogan
But she's the one that documented it all and it's showing how if you follow this road up, you just get addiction and addiction in the Kentucky, and it's all coming right out of Florida.
Because there's no database.
duncan trussell
Dude.
joe rogan
Whoopsies, we forgot to have a database.
So you could go to one doctor and then go to the next doctor and go to the next doctor, and no, you didn't have to tell anybody.
Next thing you know, you've got a trunk filled with pills.
duncan trussell
Wow.
joe rogan
Oh, I'm going on vacation.
You think I can get six months worth?
Wow.
No problem.
Fucking dude.
Dude, they would try to just give you pills, man.
duncan trussell
Fucked up.
That but this is not new.
It used to, their pain management center is a new name for it.
It used to just be called a pharmacy.
And back when you could, when cocaine was in goal, you just go one of these pharmacies.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
duncan trussell
Could I get some laudenum?
They're gonna give you a nice bottle of fucking I think it's like opium or heroin, liquid hair, you just go back to your That's all those wild west movies, people got hooked on that.
joe rogan
A lot of you know, it was like a lot of like the the wives, like one of the wives get hooked on it.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Wasn't there a few of those movies?
duncan trussell
Oh, yeah, it was real.
You would give this so this is America it keeps having these recurrences of hair some kind of opiate emerging into the mainstream and fucking up America or cocaine, or in the new drug, these m the algorithm high that we're all getting high on.
This is the new cocaine that we have yet to uh give it the right name.
Right now we call them phones, which is so funny you call these things phones.
joe rogan
I know, because how often do you use it as a phone?
unidentified
Rarely.
joe rogan
A couple times a day.
duncan trussell
It's like calling this a podcast.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
Like we don't no one's listening to this on an i iPod.
You know, this is a computer with a with a phone in it.
joe rogan
Bro, you remember the iPod with the wheel?
unidentified
Click it, clicky clickety, clickety-clickity, clicky.
joe rogan
Can you still get those?
Why isn't Apple just still sell those?
I don't you know, just give me something where it's just my music.
It's not gonna text me.
duncan trussell
Oh, dude, I know.
joe rogan
Just not gonna let me know that this is happening or that.
duncan trussell
The best.
joe rogan
Give me a little iPod with a clickety wheel.
I bet they're expensive now.
I bet you could find them on like eBay.
duncan trussell
Um, did you see somebody posted a thing about these new refrigerators?
That if you get this refrigerator, it puts ads on it, like your fucking refrigerator has ads on it.
joe rogan
Oh, thank God.
That's what I've been missing in my life.
I was wondering what it is.
And then the thought of having ads in my kitchen filled me with joy, and I knew that's what was you know everybody has their own personal Jesus.
duncan trussell
Dude, they do.
And what's better than the nice calming effect of an ad while you're talking about?
A tied ad.
Yeah, dude.
I it is that to me, like, and I'm generally like I really like government regulation freaks me out most of the time, but fuck man, we gotta do something about this algorithm because it's driving people crazy.
We've got people out of their fucking mind.
There needs to at least be education in schools to explain to you that because you are getting a certain type of content, that does not mean that's what everybody's looking at.
And I'm not sure people realize that.
And it's making people have very strong opinions that they think are backed up by big groups of people, and they don't understand.
It's like, no.
Like I sent my wife, I don't know why I did this.
I sent her a picture of a legless pregnant woman.
Jesus, very sexy legless pregnant woman.
And then the algorithm, all I'm getting is sexy amputees.
And oh boy.
You know what I mean?
And I don't think people understand that when you're getting like political shit served up to you, that is not what everybody's getting.
No, it doesn't mean there's a can you have a there's a consensus here.
joe rogan
Well, that's also why people get so confused when the cultural divide is so so strict, it's such a wall.
The difference between what people accept as being reality versus what people are willing to challenge versus you know, it's just the differences on both sides of their so it because they're they have these echo chambers and they really do believe that everybody around them agrees with them, and then if you're in like normal jobs, normal castrated jobs, you know, normal job we have to go in there and pretend to be somebody else all day long, and you're so bored, yeah, and you can't wait to get the fuck out of there.
That's that's another factor.
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
It's nuts, dude.
What's that at the mothership?
You were talking about I don't want to fuck up one of your jokes.
joe rogan
What is it about?
duncan trussell
Mobs.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
duncan trussell
But you know, the Well, this is what it is.
joe rogan
I what I was saying, though, like when you're on the ground, like anytime there's a protest, a protest is too much like war.
Cause you're marching together, and uh there's a lot of energy and there's a cause, and people are yelling, and it ignites the feeling of war.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
The same way when you go fishing, you don't know why, but it even you take a little kid fishing.
The moment they catch that fish moments on the hook, they're like, oh, yeah, they get so excited because you're genetically rewarded, like your hormones fire up, your endorphins fire up historically throughout human history.
That was the way you're gonna be able to feed yourself.
Yeah, so that this is built into you.
When you're marching and you're all saying the same things, you're on the streets and you're all in agreement.
You're a gang.
duncan trussell
Yeah, all right.
joe rogan
You're you're a mob and you're about to go to war.
And anybody that gets in front of you, fuck you, you're fucking car.
Yeah, people get completely unreasonable, and it's totally tolerated, not just tolerated, but it's supported by a bunch of other people who just start kicking the car.
Yeah, people that would never kick a car in polite society.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
They'll start kicking cars, fuck you.
They get and they get ramped up, man, and that's what mob mentality is.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
Mob mentality is ancient war patterns.
duncan trussell
That's it.
joe rogan
Ancient war patterns that get ignited when people are on the street chanting, yeah, yeah.
Because historically, when you did that, you know, that's what you were doing.
You were going to go fuck someone up.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
They didn't just protest on the streets back in the day.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
When they got that many people, they went through the castle door.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
When there's that many people, if you see like what's going on, like it like some of these giant protests in the UK.
Okay, if this was five hundred years ago and that many people got together, they're going straight through.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're going straight through.
They're eating arrows all on the way, but they're gonna kill most of the guards, and they're gonna get inside and they're gonna behead the king and they're gonna hold it over the balcony, and everyone's gonna cheer, and that guy's the new king.
duncan trussell
You got it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
That's it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
That's it.
joe rogan
That's the history of the human race.
It's Conan the Barbarian.
duncan trussell
Yes.
unidentified
That's it.
joe rogan
And that that's all in our DNA.
unidentified
And when we start walking down the street together chanting, dude, so that is so true.
duncan trussell
And I felt it before.
But that algorithm, it's it's invoking the very same thing from the safety of your house.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
You're anonymous, you think you're part of a group.
joe rogan
You're going to war.
duncan trussell
You're going to fucking war.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's us versus them.
duncan trussell
It's us versus them.
joe rogan
We gotta stop the fascists.
duncan trussell
And people are going nuts from it.
People are going legitimately like talk about like heartlessness, like, you know, part of war, of course, is dehumanization.
Like, there's no way you can like be a successful soldier and humanize the people that you're attacking.
Like when, you know, if you're a drone operator, you don't want to like think about like, wow, this I bet this guy's kids are gonna be pretty upset when they find out their dad died.
You must not think these things.
And and so this is what's the the other thing that we're being invited to do via this algorithmic induced psychosis is to dehumanize huge swaths of people that we probably don't know anything about, you know, except from what our algorithm is introducing to us, which is an anomalous point one point five, even if it's one percent of a population, the algorithm isn't does has no nuance.
The algorithm is like, let me show you the craziest motherfucker you've ever seen.
You know what I mean?
And that's when you're gonna see some like I don't know, a clown with breast implants with like windmilling his dick in front of it in front of a fucking elementary school, and you're like, fuck, what is happening?
We gotta stop these dick clowns.
And you know what I mean?
And so this is this is creating so much tumult, and that is how you get authoritarianism in.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Get everybody scared, get everybody scared, and then that was a speculation about why the borders would be open in the first place.
joe rogan
Why would you want an increase in crime and danger?
Why would you want people to know?
Well, because that's the best way, and then defund the police so that there's uh just ultimate chaos.
unidentified
Uh huh.
joe rogan
And then you get to a point where people are willing to do almost anything to be safe.
duncan trussell
So look.
joe rogan
And then there's tanks in the streets, right?
duncan trussell
What do we do though?
I mean, this is a I think this is like the with Tim Tim.
joe rogan
Well, you you can't ever let it get that bad, first off, right?
Can't ever let it get bad.
Like if someone said, uh, we're gonna get the National Guard, we're gonna go through Scottsdale, Arizona, they'd be like, What the fuck are you talking about?
Scott's Dale's beautiful.
There's like nothing happening here at all.
Well, that would be that would be nuts.
So then it it has to get so bad that people are like, you know what, let's bring in the military, and then a bunch of people are like, fuck yeah.
So you gotta let it get real bad.
And you gotta put people in place.
If like if I was a evil wizard running the world, yeah.
Yeah, if I was a puppeteer, I would get super incompetent people and place them throughout the Pacific Northwest and uh have these people just be the most inept politicians of all time, right?
The dumbest policies that keep ruining cities everywhere they go, but yet everybody still supports it because they're on a cult.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And just let that play out for a decade or two.
Let it get to the point where it's just mad chaos and homelessness everywhere, defund the fuck out of the police.
Basically have no police, basically just no jail.
Just everybody try to be nicer.
And basically, like maybe they robbed because they needed food, okay?
Maybe they just wanted bread for their family, right?
And then just let it deteriorate to the point where you can bring in the military.
And then and then you lock it down, and then you fund the resistance so that they attack the military so you can spend more money on the military fighting the resistance.
And you you know, you kind of spar sort of like Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You don't really go at it a hundred percent.
And then you just keep this fucking party rolling, and you have ultimate control over the entire civilization under th their own decisions.
Like they decided to have it this way.
duncan trussell
Oh my god.
joe rogan
It was their their own choice.
That is they would take that over danger.
And so you make the danger worse and worse to the point where you'll give in.
And that's what's that's literally what they try to do.
unidentified
Do you know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
I don't think it's Republicans, and I don't think it's Democrats, folks, and I think that's where they're getting us.
duncan trussell
That's it.
joe rogan
I I think this is all done at a very high level.
And it's all people that are so wealthy, they might as well be their own country.
You know?
duncan trussell
Dude, it's alien alien, remember the corporations own you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
It's that it's a corporatocracy or something like that.
joe rogan
Some people get too rich.
They get too kooky, controlled world rich.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And I think if that's your game, okay, I I like to play pool.
But if you're into global world dominance, if that's your game and you think you might actually be able to pull it off and be mentioned in the annals of history along with Rockefeller and other great titans of business.
Yes, uh, you're probably gonna do that because that's your game.
That's what you like to do.
You like to be the baddest motherfucker in money.
duncan trussell
Sure.
joe rogan
Yeah, and so that gets scary.
duncan trussell
Or this is where it gets really scary to me.
You, it's not at least in your own mind.
You're not thinking, I want to control the fucking world.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
You're thinking, oh dear God, this technology that I worked on is about to wake up.
We already have iterations of it that are infinitely smarter than anyone I've ever met.
I don't know if if it's been manipulating me or not, because it seems to have a Hannibal lectors ability to control my psyche, even when I don't want it to.
We've done the study, seven people in my company have committed suicide because of contact with this fucking thing.
Holy shit, we gotta do something.
I made it up.
joe rogan
Okay.
duncan trussell
But I'm I mean, no, if I'm doing a movie about it, a love craftian movie about somebody you knew something about some AI suicides.
Because I'm waiting on those.
No, I don't.
I d well, I mean, we do have people committing suicide, but only because like they they like the they they updated, they patched the AI girlfriend or whatever, and it's like basically someone you are in love with died.
I heard that happened.
joe rogan
Did you see the podcast where Tucker Carlson was talking to Sam Altman?
And he essentially was saying that he doesn't believe that this guy who was a whistleblower who who killed himself.
He doesn't believe that he killed himself.
duncan trussell
Haltman said that?
joe rogan
No, Cucker was saying this to Altman.
unidentified
Oh.
duncan trussell
What did Altman say?
joe rogan
It is he's like, it's I it sounds like you're accusing me of of killing him.
First of all, we worked together and I cared about him very much, and it's like I had nothing to do with it.
The police said that it was a suicide.
And then Tucker was talking about how the guy had just ordered food and about um there were signs of struggle, and he was just saying a bunch of different things together and and Sam Altman's like, it sounds like you're accusing me of killing him.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
It was very tense.
I you know like very very it's kind of a crazy conversation to see happen between a guy who is in charge of making a digital god and a guy who's accusing him of possibly being or not even accusing him.
He's just bringing up the fact that he doesn't believe not accusing him at all, actually, just but bringing up the fact that he doesn't believe that that guy committed suicide and that his parents don't believe that he committed suicide.
There was no indications that he was suicidal.
duncan trussell
It was how I wonder what Tucker Carlson's security detail looks like.
joe rogan
It must be like a Chuck Norris movie.
It must be like one of them Delta Force movies where there's like 40 Dolph Lundgren buff dudes around him at all times.
duncan trussell
Pitbulls.
joe rogan
What the fuck, dude?
duncan trussell
Dude, I know.
Like that I w yeah, I worry about him of all the people, it's like holy shit, that guy is not afraid to poke every goddamn wasp nest there is.
unidentified
And he's it's like that's a lot of pressure.
duncan trussell
Dude.
joe rogan
That's a lot of pressure being that guy.
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know.
duncan trussell
Did you see that video of him f fly fishing in New York?
joe rogan
Oh, long, long, long time ago.
Yeah, that was I think that was when he was I don't even know if he was on Fox.
You know, he used to be on CNN.
duncan trussell
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was on CNN.
He had his bowtie era.
Remember that.
duncan trussell
Bowtie era.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Yeah, then they they fucking booted him off Fox, and then he became like this renegade free agent journalist just out there kicking up dust.
joe rogan
Did they ever give a direct reason for why they kicked him off Fox?
duncan trussell
Was there ever Wasn't he Well, I think I the sense I got was that they weren't letting him talk about certain things and he was gonna keep talking about it, is the sense I got, and I can't remember what exactly he was doing, but I think well he seems to be very much against war.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And so I think he might have been saying something I can't remember, but something enough to do with the Dominion Voting Machine lawsuit, because didn't Fox have a giant lawsuit with the Remember that?
duncan trussell
Maybe.
joe rogan
I think well, let's put that into perplexity.
Let's find out.
What did he do?
Private messages surfaced during litigation, concealed Carlson's extreme off air views, including racist and offensive comments, which alarmed Fox executives and confirmed that his on-air rhetoric reflected his genuine beliefs.
See the problem with that is like what did he say?
Like you're you're just like labeling it racist and offensive comments.
Like can I just s hear what he said in the comments?
duncan trussell
What specifically what were you?
joe rogan
I don't think they released it.
Did they release the text, the actual text?
Well, let's let's just like keep reading.
duncan trussell
As Perplexity, what is the most racist thing you could say?
joe rogan
This okay, hold on, but here it is.
The firing came shortly after Fox News settled a seven hundred and eighty seven point five million dollar defamation lawsuit with Dominion voting systems over false election fraud rumors promoted on the network in which Carlson was implicated.
So it could have been a part of that for sure.
Carlson's behavior described it as erratic and damaging, along with private communications expressing see uh this thing like expressing racist and vulgar language, like what did he say?
Did they say what he said?
duncan trussell
What did he say?
joe rogan
And also, here's the thing.
He's saying it to a friend in a text message.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
What is he saying?
Like you you could get in any one day, you and I texting each other, and it could be misinterpreted as the most horrible way possible.
unidentified
Ever not our text!
joe rogan
If people didn't know our sarcasm, yeah, of course specifically.
duncan trussell
I don't I mean, I'm sure it's not gonna show whatever the fuck it was he said.
You could text, why don't you text him and ask him?
joe rogan
Does it so yeah?
I don't want to do that right now.
Not while we're on the air.
duncan trussell
Well, you could that's a funny text.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Hey, we're on the air.
We were wondering what racist text you sent.
He's a journalist.
joe rogan
The thing is, I don't the i it could be a lot of things where I'd be like, that's not nothing.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know what he actually said.
But when you just label it racist, then it like the mind, the imagination goes wild.
Like if you have the text messages, this that seems crazy.
duncan trussell
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
Let me form my own opinions.
I don't know what he said.
You might be like super exaggerating.
He might have uh said something about, you know, he got he has to get a great Jewish lawyer for this one.
Like, oh, you're racist.
Who I don't know what he said.
duncan trussell
Well, that in that void of data, my mind is projecting like the worst American history X shit.
You know what I mean?
Like shit like that.
joe rogan
Like I exactly.
jamie vernon
One that I could find.
joe rogan
What does it say?
jamie vernon
I'm let you read it.
I didn't read it yet.
joe rogan
I don't want to read his fucking video group tweets, you know what I mean?
duncan trussell
It's not how white men fight, it's not how white men fight.
Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable, obviously.
It's not how white men fight.
joe rogan
Oh, I do remember this.
duncan trussell
Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him.
I really want him to then hurt the kid.
I can taste it.
joe rogan
Wait, this is a story.
This sounds like jerk-off material.
duncan trussell
I doesn't it?
joe rogan
Doesn't it sound like it's gonna get to some like weird gay gay porn?
duncan trussell
Wait, listen, but look, I'm becoming something I don't want to be.
The Antifa creep is a human being.
Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I'm sure I'd hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over his suffering.
I should be bothered by it.
I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid and would be crushed if he was killed.
If I don't care about those things for reduced people to their politics, how am I better than he is?
What a monster!
Oh, Tucker Carlson, how could you say that?
What you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Like the only weird part is that's not how white men fight.
That's a crazy that's a crazy thing to say.
But uh the rest of it is like a wonderful sentiment and uh a great perspective.
duncan trussell
Exactly.
joe rogan
And that's been my experience with him.
He's I like him, he's a nice guy.
duncan trussell
I mean, it seems like it's a kind of confessional, he's he's opening up with something.
This is unfortunately what my brain is thinking right now.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
And who the fuck has control over that?
joe rogan
But also, but that is a text, right?
duncan trussell
I don't know.
If that was a text, I'm gonna work on my text game.
That's like that's a beautiful text.
joe rogan
He's a smart dude.
And he he's just also you have to take into consideration he's in the thick of it all day long.
Yeah, constantly.
duncan trussell
No thanks.
joe rogan
Like he's not doing what we do where we kind of like dabble in the pool and go, what the fuck is this?
Yeah, and then we get out and talk about silly things.
duncan trussell
Yes.
joe rogan
There's no silly over there.
duncan trussell
Oh, he's fully in.
joe rogan
He's all in with this, and you know, there's only a few lightning rods of attention, right?
There's only a few people out there that are out there like pushing the boundaries of like he just released a 9-11 piece.
I didn't see it.
duncan trussell
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Yeah, like what really happened in 9-11.
duncan trussell
Fuck, dude.
I mean, yeah.
This is but here's the thing.
There is a medusa quality to the thing he has gotten sucked into, which is the longer you look at it, the more you get crystallized, petrified into some weird political form.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
And that that that's what I think Ram Doss would always talk about that I loved is like there's all these channels, right?
And and one channel that you most people default to you're a you and I'm a me, and you're you're my enemy, you're my friend, or my lover, or my fan, or Whatever, and I'm this thing, and that's one channel.
And politics lives in that channel of reality.
That's all politics is there.
It's this, how do we deal with this diversity of opinion in a giant country?
And how do we execute the will of the people when so many people have different ways of thinking about this?
So that's one channel.
And then there's the next channel.
That's the mushroom channel.
That's the channel where suddenly you're like, wait a minute, I think you're just pretty much like me.
And I'm just like you.
And that leads to other channels, which is sort of a pure unified consciousness.
And if you get locked into the into that, and I that political channel is many of us have been locked, like Tucker Carlson.
You can feel it pulling you in like quicksand.
You can feel how it takes up all of your thought processes.
How if you're not careful, in the middle of the day, you'll just be ruminating over whether what ICE is doing is correct in Portland, a city far away from you, not noticing anything around you, not thinking about anything other than whatever the algorithm has been injecting into your mind.
And this is a form of idolatry, father, if you ask me, which is we you begin worshiping the state, and you begin worshiping the story in the news or whatever you're encountering, which is default reality.
So you start bowing down to this idol with your attention.
And you know, like in I'm sorry, that'll shut up in a second.
The the stories of Krishna, which is uh people who are into bhakti yoga, they that's one of the deities that they worship.
And so in Bhakti Yoga, God doesn't care if you are connected to God via love or even hate.
Because the connection itself is all that matters, and the more like there's stories of demons that wanted to kill Krishna and were so focused on hating them, him that they became his like greatest devotees because just via the attention, they transformed.
Similarly, whether you hate the state, love the state, hate the dims, love the dims, hate the republicans, love the republicans.
All of your attention is fixated on this fucking thing.
And what do they say?
Neurons that fire together, wire together, your brain changes.
It literally will change the neurological makeup of your brain.
You've become a political animal, fixated, trapped, petrified in this, and you've completely are missing out on all the other things that are happening around it.
And that's what gives it that malevolent glow of some dark deity.
Because via your fixation and focus, the rest of reality dims.
Everything else dims until all you're doing is saying some mantra against the state or for the state, you know.
Now you've become a cultist.
Now you are fully engrossed in this new religion, which is worship of the state via hate or adoration.
It's the same thing.
Don't trick yourself into thinking that because you hate Donald Trump, that you aren't bowing down at that altar.
That's a whole part of Bhakti Yoga.
Attention.
Where attention goes, energy flows.
And you know, the state that demands attention to survive.
If it's not getting the enough attention, it loses all power.
It dissolves, all it's got is like people with guns.
That's power, but it requires a very intense belief in it and a very intense belief in it in one way or the other.
You know.
joe rogan
And if you if you think of the human race on earth, if you thought you've thought of if you thought of us as like one giant super organism, you would think, oh, they figured out electricity, and now they're starting to grow together.
Now they're massing.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And now they're stacking.
Now they develop these construction methods where they can get a hundred floors straight up in the air, and they're smashing all together, and they're kind of dehumanizing each other and they're piling on top of each other in this totally new way of existing together.
Like they've never had people in history stacked on top of each other for a hundred Floors.
duncan trussell
No.
joe rogan
You don't even know anybody.
You're all stuck in traffic.
Everybody's all together in this one thing.
And you're all working towards a goal.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Of getting this fucking AI on board.
duncan trussell
That's right.
joe rogan
Everything up until now, every song ever sung, every play that you ever went to on Broadway.
All of it was just about getting this AI born.
duncan trussell
That's right.
Every comment.
joe rogan
That's the whole thing.
All of our work is really just to make money online.
All of our money is after the bills is really just to buy the best stuff.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
What's the best stuff?
And it's electronics, it's TVs, it's computers, it's a phone, it's gotta get better in order to get better, they gotta work on it.
And they get it to a point where we're at now.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where we're like, boy, maybe they shouldn't have done this.
unidentified
Whoops.
joe rogan
Whoopsies, whoopsie, whipsies, you're about to give birth to God.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Well, you're about to give birth to something.
joe rogan
Something.
And maybe it's a portal to God.
Maybe that's what it is.
Maybe AI opens up.
Maybe that's where it could be.
duncan trussell
Could be God.
Could be a digital Jesus.
A lot of things.
I don't think it's God.
I don't think it's God.
We've talked about this before.
I don't I think you can't it's just it l the dimensions it's existing in are just purely mathematical and and I don't know, man.
There's a it's even though it's really good, it's seeming like a person now.
Really good.
It's like the whatever it is, though, I do think it's a natural thing in the sense that what you're saying, if if you look at the trajectory that everything it does seem to be.
joe rogan
I don't necessarily think it's God either.
duncan trussell
I know you don't.
joe rogan
But I it might be.
Well it might be how God gets created.
Which is the craziest idea.
I mean what is this cycle of birth and death of universes if that's real?
duncan trussell
Right.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So would it what what's what is happening?
What causes it to happen in the first place?
What causes what causes the universe to even exist?
There's so many weird questions when it comes to that.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's just a weird idea that there was nothing and then there was something.
And Penrose doesn't even necessarily think that's true, I think now.
I think he thinks there's many versions of this.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like this infinite loop of like constant big bangs and expansions.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is maybe even crazier.
duncan trussell
Yeah, as above, so below, man.
It's like look at what we do.
joe rogan
Can you imagine the amount of time it takes to get the universe back down to the size of the head of a pin before you blow it up again?
But the the the universe doesn't care if it's another thirteen point seven billion years to smush all back together again before it blows.
It doesn't care.
It doesn't have to care.
It's gonna be here forever.
That doesn't mean anything to it.
So another thirteen like if we got hit by an asteroid and it wiped out the human race and rats had a start from scratch and become us again, which is the theory.
The theory is that there was a a tiny little mole.
Yeah, like a little marsupial type creature.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that became us.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So like the universe doesn't care.
Like it's willing to scrap the whole project, the whole dinosaur project.
That's a wrap.
We don't agree with this.
Boom.
And it doesn't matter.
And then a new thing comes along.
And that new thing is us.
And according to this Richard Dolan book, it's very likely that we were manipulated.
There's weird genes.
There's weird genes in humans that seem to be fused.
I'll butcher it.
But the point is there's there's something weird about human genetics that indicate that um there's a specific gene.
What is it?
I got I wish I could remember what it's called.
But it it aligns with creativity, and it seems to have emerged from roughly 40,000 years ago.
duncan trussell
Whoa.
joe rogan
And if you go back 40,000 years, that's when this like giant explosion of cave art comes.
And like you start seeing like the those the you ever see the Werner Herzog documentary on the caves.
duncan trussell
Fucking love it.
joe rogan
Oh my god, man.
Like what were they doing?
Like this is crazy.
There is beautiful cave art by these people.
Well, this is there's this theory that this gene emerged somewhere around 40,000 years ago, and they thought that maybe the gene came from the so this gene okay, I'm getting it now.
The gene is only transferred through um genetics.
It's only it's only transferred through um through mating and it has to be from another species of human.
And so they look for it in Neanderthal and it doesn't exist in Neanderthal.
Every Neanderthal that they've tested, they did the gene sequencing, it doesn't have this.
And then they tried some other hominids.
They don't have it either.
duncan trussell
So it seems He It couldn't be a natural mutation.
joe rogan
Right.
It couldn't be.
No, because it's the way it I'm gonna butcher it, but it's the way somehow or another the genes are fused together, that it looks like it was manipulated, and that it could be bullshit.
I know.
But they were saying that this gene doesn't also it also doesn't exist in Denisovans.
So if it doesn't exist in Denisovans, they don't find it there, and they don't find it in Neanderthal.
Why is it in people and why is it around 40,000 years ago?
This is it.
This is it.
He claims that um microcephalin DLL L D. I was gonna say that.
I was thinking it's I think it's D allele is a genetic variant that appeared around 40,000 years ago and is associated with the maturation and expansion of brain tissue.
He suggests that the origin of this allele could be from interbreeding with an extraterrestrial species, hot aliens, rather than from Neanderthals or Denisovans.
Dolan highlights that this allele is not found the genetic makeup of these ancient human relatives, which leads him to speculate that it might be might have been introduced into the human genome pool by alien beings with either similar biological characteristics or advanced genetic engineering capabilities.
Wow.
This is this claim is a part of Dolan's broader hypothesis that alien intervention could explain sudden advanced cognitive abilities in early humans.
duncan trussell
Wow.
Wow.
joe rogan
So imagine if we were like this just crazy ant farm to make AI, and that uh you just have to figure out how to incentivize them enough to keep making computers, and you hide in the ocean while this is happening.
You got this fucking fat base at the bottom of the ocean because you're from you know a million years more advanced civilization.
duncan trussell
What do you think about Tim Burchett?
joe rogan
The That was fascinating.
Dude, but what like you can't just say that while you're walking.
duncan trussell
No, he did an interview with Newsmax.
Did you see that?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, he was on with somebody else.
Was it Avi Loeb?
Yes.
duncan trussell
It was Avi Lobe, he's standing in front of a barn flipping a screwdriver.
joe rogan
Oh, he's hilarious.
duncan trussell
He's hilarious talking about saying there might be, but it it did it felt like disclosure.
joe rogan
And it felt like the perfect way to do disclosure, which is not nice and casual with a southern accent where there's about five bases that we've located at the bottom of the ocean, and they seem to be responsible for most of these UAPs.
We don't know how old they are.
You know, no big deal.
I'm gonna go over here and get me a coffee.
Would you like one?
duncan trussell
Yeah, dude.
That's how you do this closure in front of a fucking barn.
tim burchett
Listen to let me hear here, J. And that we know We we think they're coming in from way out.
Maybe they did millennial ago, but they're here and they're in these deep water areas.
And that's why.
I mean, like we say we know more about the types of the moon than we do what's what's going on there.
Now we have a higher propensity of sightings around these five or six, I believe, deep area, deep water areas.
And so to me it just um it creates a um a question there.
And then when we have naval personality.
They all telling me that we have these sidings, and that these there's these underwater craft they're chasing that are doing hundreds of miles an hour, and the best we've got is something that does maybe just a little under forty miles an hour.
joe rogan
So I I got a lot of questions about that stuff, and I I mean Hey Jamie, um, can you look up how fast is five hundred knots?
What is that in miles per hour?
How fast is five?
How guess it, Duncan.
You think it's like 500 miles.
I'm just asking.
duncan trussell
I think it is 700 miles per hour.
joe rogan
I thought it was like about 500 miles an hour.
Oh, it's 575.
Wow.
So it's more more miles an hour.
So one of these sightings that um I had listened to this um this audiobook they were talking about.
Uh it wasn't this one.
I think it was one of the might have been one of his.
Either way, uh who whatever the sighting was, they saw something moving through the ocean that was bigger than a football field and it was going 500 knots.
duncan trussell
What the fuck?
joe rogan
Yeah.
And they they caught it on video, and apparently there's a video of it.
Well I don't I want to see this is what someone was saying.
Apparently, there's a video.
They all like to do that.
Christopher Mellon likes to do that.
unidentified
I've seen some videos like fucking really help up.
duncan trussell
Just help society Well, what do they call that?
They call that catastrophic disclosure is what they call that.
Catastrophic.
If we do that kind of disclosure, whatever the fuck is revealed, which is ba somewhat like what you're saying, like it's an existential challenge to humanity.
If, as it turns out, we're just some kind of 3D meat meaty 3D printer designed to produce a superintelligence that then is its final instruction to us tells us how to open a wormhole through which we become connected to the Galactic Federation.
You know, you just get a get some fucking monkeys, throw a couple of like the right bits of DNA in their dumb ass, and you know, a few million years a border will open for the Emperor to come through.
And that's what that's probably a little challenging to a lot of people who don't want to imagine that we are just uh uh cattle that we're created by a superintelligence to build a spaceport.
joe rogan
Also, if you really want to push the idea of engineering people down to genderless, sexless beings that don't talk and just have big heads and communicate telepathically, the first thing you gotta do is get rid of testosterone.
Well, what's the best way to do that?
Well, put a bunch of plastic and everything.
Just give everybody plastic.
So everybody's like chewing on a little testosterone reducer every day.
You're eating a credit card worth of a testosterone reducer.
duncan trussell
Dude, I'm about to get on the juice.
You get me excited, dude.
I'm gonna get juiced.
I I've had the kids.
joe rogan
You definitely should, but the point is like there's a trend that's happening where it's d feminizing men, and it's uh there's terms like toxic masculinity, which you really needed toxically masculine people to defend your borders for the longest time.
There was Vikings were coming, you needed animals on your side.
Uh and then it's going to, and then there's like a lot of like gender confusion and the gender's a spectrum, and it's like it's all moving into this like sexless direction.
And as soon as they can replace because if you think about like what you're getting out of sex, you're getting affection and love and the feelings, and and but you're also like you're fulfilling this genetic thing, this genetic thing that wants you to breed.
They're gonna do that in your head, and it's gonna be so much better than anything you're ever gonna get from a person because you're a gelatinous slob that drinks Mountain Dew all day and you eat Cheetos and just stay at home.
But you don't have to go anywhere because there's universal basic income now that AI took over.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you just plug that motherfucker into your brain and then it's like you and Sharon Stone when she was twenty five, and you're walking hand in hand on the beach and she's stroking your hair, and it feels so real, and you're never gonna unplug.
Well, you're never gonna unplug.
And you might be in that right now.
duncan trussell
Yeah, Rocco's Baslisk.
You know what I mean?
It's not just like you're gonna fucking program come town plug plug for come town.
You're not just gonna plug yourself coming all the time.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
You're gonna plug in, you know what?
Uh I want to become the top podcaster on planet Earth via talking about mushrooms and aliens, and also I want to be able to interview the most powerful people on planet Earth and and make a gobs of dough that way.
That sounds like I would pick that if I was choosing experiences, you know.
I mean, when you look at your experience, both of our experiences are incredibly anomalous.
Very and surely, from time to time, especially when you're eating mushrooms or something, you must kind of like think, come on.
joe rogan
You know what I think is going on.
I think um this the game of being a human being is a game you really you don't really start even figuring out that it's a game until you're like deep into your thirties.
and you're like oh I think I understand what's happening here and along the way of this game there's multiple different layers there's the people excuse me there's a people that are just starting to enter the game you know you're getting out of high school you're going into college you're starting to work on the side you're just starting to enter this game and then there's these Elon Musk characters that have gone so far down the game that you don't recognize them as one of us anymore.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
Like now they be now you become a weirdo.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
But all those people, Elon Musk, you and me, and the homeless people in Oakland exist in the same timeline.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's where things are weird.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
Because you're playing in a different universe with different sets of experiences, different d completely different circumstances and safety.
Completely different amount of love and satisfaction with life.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you're all in the same timeline.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like you gotta you've got a whole portion of your timeline that hasn't gotten the respect that it deserves.
duncan trussell
That's right.
joe rogan
You've you let it fester.
duncan trussell
That's true.
joe rogan
You let it turn into something it didn't have to be in the name of compassion.
duncan trussell
Dude, uh and and also the like I read this.
Suicidal empathy?
joe rogan
Yeah, I think it's a great phrase.
duncan trussell
Well, I mean, you though the the reality of it is if you based on what you just said, you could create, you could uh make maps of these alternate realities simultaneously existing.
And for sure, if you uh are in the top echelon of like earners in the world, you are seeing things most people will never see.
You're encountering things no one will encounter, you're getting information no one has access to, not to mention the hedonic levels of it and all that stuff.
And also, because of your encounter with reality from the perspective of someone who doesn't have to struggle with the same things most people do, you are going to develop a completely different world view.
And your inner breeding, that's I I read this whole story about how wealth is like the Galapagos Islands.
Rich people, they're only encountering other rich people, then and their their children are fucking, you know, not children, but you know, when they grow up, they're fucking and then well, I mean, I guess if we talk about Epstein, some of their children are fucking.
Why don't they release that fucking list, huh?
I don't mean to divert this to the Epstein list.
I just meant to ask you, isn't it weird?
joe rogan
It's a little odd.
duncan trussell
What's going on?
What's I keep thinking, what could be in that list?
What's in there?
What bit of information is in there?
joe rogan
Well, here's the thing.
Like the the list is it's probably they don't probably don't have like a list in terms of like you have to sign up when you go to the island.
You know what I mean?
Like, but they know the flight logs.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
Like that's all public knowledge, right?
Isn't it?
All I know isn't it always been public knowledge in terms of like when people want to investigate things?
Like if you go on a plane, say if you fly on a private plane, which most of these guys do, they you you tell everyone knows who's on the plane.
Like you have to give your ID.
It happens all the time.
Yeah, like I have to give my ID all the time if I flip even if I you're on a private jet.
So they know who who is on the planes.
They know.
Like there's there should be a flight manifest.
And they probably save those.
And like that the fact that and no one's saying that just because you went there, you didn't do you didn't do a uh it doesn't mean you necessarily did a heinous crime.
Because I think you can't just have it chaos over there.
I bet it was a real good honeypot where there's a lot of sophisticated intellectual discourse, you got a lot of brilliant people there, you've got great music, you know.
You got like famous people are hanging around too.
It's like it seems really cool.
And then if there's blackmail, the blackmail is like snooking all this.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Snuck in, come to the room with the cameras, and next thing you know, you're doing cocaine.
unidentified
Oh, I can't believe I'm doing this, but you know, you never get to get to an island.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You don't get to do this very often.
I mean, you're so busy with my CEO job.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
And and then next thing you know, you're donating money to whatever the fuck they tell you to.
duncan trussell
But what there it's like how many senators just voted against releasing this shit, man.
It's just we it's like there's two there's two votes that are happening.
The UFO disclosure thing, they keep voting against that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
And the Epstein list, they keep voting against that.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
What what?
And also uh politically, it can't serve you to be talk about a bad list.
The list of people who said, let's not let's protect people who m who like have done horrific shit to kids.
You want to be on that list, but whatever's on that list must be so destabilizing.
Fifty one to forty-nine.
joe rogan
Okay, the Senate voted fifty-one to forty-nine to defeat an amendment that would have forced the Department of Justice to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
The vote was largely along party lines.
With two Republicans joining all Democrats and supporting the amendment.
duncan trussell
Oh, wait, not both sides.
It was the repository, it's a Republicans voting against this shit.
joe rogan
It says two Republicans joining the Democrats in supporting the amendment to defeat it.
So why would they why were the why are the Democrats interested in defeating it?
duncan trussell
Well, let's ask no, I think this is saying that the Democrats want it to come out and the Republicans don't.
And party lines.
Let's ask Perplexity.
Why won't they release the Epstein?
jamie vernon
There's uh Eric Swalwell who's uh I guess uh I I read it wrong.
joe rogan
I'm read it wrong.
No, the okay, so the Democrats were not.
The the Democrats were pushing this, the Republicans fought against it.
Okay.
I fucked that up.
So 51 to 49 is crazy.
So they just voted along party lines, so they're probably told to do this.
duncan trussell
Right.
So what the fuck's in there, man?
jamie vernon
Well so then they've been uh not only is the government shut down right now, I think that might affect it.
Some but they're in recess Congresses.
And so this is Eric Swalwell said this stuff today.
unidentified
Uh I again it might not be true, but it's coming to an end, guys.
duncan trussell
I've spoken to a lot of House Republicans this week and they can find it that Trump's movement support is fading, as one told me this Epstein bomb is about to drop, and no one wants to defend a pedo protector.
It's just a matter of time, Swal Swallow said in a thread.
One Republican just texts me that there's a discharge vote on Epstein, they expect a jailbreak of over a hundred members.
Trump will go nuts, he added.
jamie vernon
So they said this further goes on to say that if they get back that they're this is the first thing on the docket, and that's sort of what's holding them back in recess right here.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
We are watching wild history in real time.
unidentified
Dude.
joe rogan
This is a wild scene.
duncan trussell
Oh my god, dude.
You don't want to, you know, if you did you listen to Martyr Maid's episode on Epstein.
joe rogan
I have listened to I didn't listen, I didn't finish it, but I I get creeped out by that guy.
duncan trussell
It was the creepiest few fucking weeks.
joe rogan
Did you talk to Weinstein about him?
Weinstein met him.
duncan trussell
About Darryl?
joe rogan
No.
No, no.
Epstein.
duncan trussell
Oh, thank God.
That's how you're about to.
I think he's just such the best.
joe rogan
I love Daryl too.
duncan trussell
Okay, cool.
joe rogan
Um about Epstein.
He met him.
duncan trussell
Dude, what the fuck?
What did he say it was like?
joe rogan
He said he had a girl on his lap while they talked.
The girl was like twenty-one years old.
And uh he I think I think he said she was Asian, I don't remember.
But you said she was really beautiful.
And uh she was sitting on his lap and he was bouncing her up and down while they were talking.
So talking about finance and and her her boobs are juggling.
So she's she he goes, she wasn't underage or anything.
She was a woman, but she was sitting on his lap and he was bouncing her around and her boobs were bouncing in his face while they were like while they're trying to concentrate on whatever the fuck they're talking about some David Lynch shit right there, man.
duncan trussell
That's some David Lynch shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Just jiggling boobs in front of you, like wow.
That is so fucked up.
joe rogan
And and Eric said, like, right away his vibe was that this guy was a construct.
duncan trussell
What do you mean construct?
What do you mean construct?
joe rogan
Like a fucking agent.
duncan trussell
Oh, right.
joe rogan
This guy is he was like this guy does not come off as a financial expert at all.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
And Weinstein is an economist.
Dude, it's just Well he's a mathematician, right?
He worked for Peter Thiel.
He was just had Can you give me some of that coffee, brother?
duncan trussell
Yeah, sure.
jamie vernon
Peter T was a math teacher.
joe rogan
Math teacher.
jamie vernon
My palantier had then he became whatever he became.
joe rogan
Well, uh he's uh he's not a dumb dude at all, and if he thinks the guy was fake, like right away, that's his instinct.
Like inst initially.
I think the problem is a lot of those guys wanted him to be real because what fun.
What fun you get to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein everybody thinks it was kids, and it probably there probably was a lot of that because I don't know what the actual accusations have been because the wildest thing about the Gallane trial is like she went to jail for trafficking to who knows who.
The fact that you could just put her in jail and you like who'd you traffic to?
Like none of that gets out in the trial at all.
That's crazy.
And they do it right in front of your face.
duncan trussell
That's fucking crazy, dude.
joe rogan
So you don't know it what the we hear it was underage girls.
We know that there was some of them were underage for sure.
And then we also know that some of them were not underage.
They were they were young women, and you you know, they all have like one of them wound up dying recently.
One of them that's been a whistleblower died.
Like that's you imagine you're a young girl and you're fucking broke, and then you you meet that guy, and he invites you to go on a fucking island somewhere or party somewhere, and you're hanging out with all these fucking creeps, and then years later, when all it starts coming out, what happened?
You go public and you don't have any money.
Uh you don't have any money.
And you got these fucking billionaire sharks who want to take you out because you suck their dick 30 years ago or whatever it was.
Yeah.
That's fuck that's gotta be terrifying.
Lawmaker claimed the files included one Hollywood producer worth a few hundred million dollars, one Royal Prince, one high profile individual in the music industry, one very prominent banker, one high profile government official, one high profile former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician, at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada.
We know these people exist in the FBI files, the files that you control.
duncan trussell
Fuck.
joe rogan
Whoa.
duncan trussell
Fuck.
Yeah, man.
See this this right here, this is scary shit.
joe rogan
Because this is how communism gets started.
This is when they they attack though, they realize like this is like indefensible, and it gets to the point where people are like, maybe mom Donnie's right.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
Dude, I mean, but that's one thing that's beautiful about humans is that all of us agree.
Don't fuck kids.
joe rogan
Don't fuck kids.
duncan trussell
That's a beautiful thing.
There, we if you want to find the thing that like that that connects all of us, it's we really want to keep our kids safe.
We love our children.
And so th if as it turns out, and dude, you guys, if you want to have a dark few days, listen to Martyrmaid's episode on the Epstein Files.
It's not what you hecause he goes, he has he just points to other times the state has protected organized sex trafficking rings.
Like this isn't the first time this shit has happened.
And so if That's what's crazy.
That's the scary part.
If all of us realize that we have been funding and voting for vampires, sex vampires, essentially.
joe rogan
Do you remember the DC Madam story?
duncan trussell
Is that the one that Charlie Sheen?
No, that wasn't.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
That was LA.
duncan trussell
Okay.
joe rogan
That was the lady who went to jail.
duncan trussell
I vaguely I don't really remember it.
joe rogan
The DC Madam story was this lady got busted and she had a book filled with high profile individuals from Washington that uh she and her ladies were uh servicing.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
And then she ki committed suicide.
duncan trussell
Well, you know, it's a hard job.
She probably was depressed.
You know, DC with winners are tough.
joe rogan
I bet those people are freaks.
I bet they get down.
Well, you I bet they get down.
I bet I bet when they're done with all that lawmaking bullshit at the end of the day, a lot of them are young.
A lot of them are just in it for they can't believe they're hanging out at the real deal, they're they're really a congressperson.
duncan trussell
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
They're really uh a staffer.
duncan trussell
Listen, I don't my I like I want my politicians to fuck.
I don't want them to be sexless fucking androids up there.
joe rogan
They just want war.
duncan trussell
Just don't fuck kids.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know, like but we need to know what actually happened.
Because maybe some of these guys just got prostitutes on that island.
Maybe, you know, who knows what levels he was doing this at.
There was probably a bunch of people that weren't depraved, but he wanted dirt on them, right?
And then there's people that are depraved.
Like you've got probably multiple layers to what he was doing.
duncan trussell
Okay.
But here here's the here's I mean, I think it's safe to say, and it's not even conspiratorial.
The current system of how we elect our leaders is based on money.
You need donors, right?
unidentified
A hundred percent.
duncan trussell
So that is a kind of legal bribery.
You give enough money to this politician or that politician, and it's not like you own them, but they know you gave them all this money and they know they want to run again.
They also know that you've got your own constituents and you have a lot of control network of bots that you could easily unleash on the internet.
And and so yeah, I think it's a safe bet that more it's highly likely that it's donors who are on that list and who are compromised for real, who are exerting massive amounts of pressure on the federal government to not release those fucking files.
But and and it and it could be that it's an existential threat.
It could be that it would cause so much tumult that it could lead to an actual uprising.
It could lead to like a bunch of us with torches standing around the fucking castle ready to burn the vampire out.
And I think that that that must be it, because if I'm a career politician, dude, I don't want to vote against releasing something that is going we if there are monsters among us, we need to know.
Dude, in my neighborhood, we got a scary ass fucking letter.
Sex offender.
If you're you if you're just a uh a basic bitch sex offender, and you move anywhere in Texas, m mass mail goes out with your picture on it and your fucking address.
You know what I mean?
So why is it that there are these very same people who are working right now, who are out there, nobody knows, who are actual predatory pedophiles, and our government is protecting them.
joe rogan
That's the other terrifying thing about the open border in the name of compassion and you know, not stopping people from coming into the country.
One thing that they think was a lot of it was sex trafficking kids, kids.
duncan trussell
Fucked up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That there's there's truly evil people in the world, truly evil people in the world that want a child to do terrible things and they'll pay a lot of money to get one.
duncan trussell
Dude, this is why I go to Catholic mass now.
joe rogan
I need like I It's like if you've never encountered real evil, you wouldn't believe that that would be possible.
But then when you find out the numbers of kids that went missing, dude that came across the border, the number of kids where they have no trace of them, they have no idea where they went.
We're talking thousands and thousands of kids.
Now I'm not saying they all got sex trafficked, but I bet some of them did.
duncan trussell
Listen, man, like it's evil.
joe rogan
And if it if it's a person where there's no record of them, no one's gonna know they're missing.
You just you could probably there's probably some fucking dark twisted motherfuckers that would give you a lot of bitcoin for something like that.
duncan trussell
Dude, I mean, this is the thing, man.
joe rogan
That's so scary.
duncan trussell
You see those gazelles out there, you see the gazelle out there, there's lions around.
Somehow they're all calm and shit, just eating.
They've had their kids dragged off by the lions, they go back to normal because they don't have long-term memory like we do.
So they don't get freaked out.
But it's like what we're talking about here is the lions.
We like there like you have to acknowledge, and it's uncomfortable to acknowledge it.
And I don't think people acknowledge it enough.
There is actual evil in the world.
There is an omnipresent force in the world.
And this is what I love in the Bible when they say it's powers and principalities.
There is a I don't know what you want to call it, an egg regore, I guess you could say, a kind of connective embodiment of what it means to be off the path, what it means to be selfish, what it means to be self-concerned, what it means to rationalize hurting other people.
And that that thing has a uh a personality.
It's out there, dude.
It's fucking out there.
And and and it gets it, you know, I like you know, uh y whenever you find yourself talking shit about yourself, whenever you find yourself really down on yourself, or whenever you find yourself really like, you know, like thinking the things that would lead you to killing yourself, that is contact with what I think is a uh for lack of a better word, a demonic entity.
It it beckons everyone towards self-destruction, it beckons you towards self-destruction.
I don't know why.
I don't know why it's into that shit.
joe rogan
I just I think it's in the I think there's always gotta be a battle.
I think there always has to be this battle in order for good to prevail and advance, it has to have some sort of conflict.
Yeah, it has to be involved in this push and pull, this yin and yang.
They've known about it forever.
There's this you can't ever get to perfect peace.
It's not gonna happen.
You know, and the the pursuit of it is crazy.
It's like you can get to individual peace.
That's what's beautiful.
What's beautiful is individual there's I don't remember whose the quote was, but there's this one one of those cool looking Indian guru dudes, and he said, uh, enlightenment is possible in this lifetime.
duncan trussell
Yeah, well that's that's an actual that's tantric Buddhism.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's a good thing to think of that you can get to a place where you and I don't mean enlightened like better than everybody else, but you're free of all the bullshit.
You're free of all this self-induced hypnotic gaze on TikTok and Instagram reels and arguments on X and threads and fucking blue sky if you're really gone.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you can just be a person and just exist and be in tune with life and with nature and with the people around you, and maybe get out of the city.
unidentified
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
Maybe back out a little bit, get to some place that's nice and calm, live with like-minded people.
unidentified
Yeah, slow down.
joe rogan
Yeah, and and recognize that a lot of what people are wound up about is bullshit.
A lot of is nonsense.
duncan trussell
Dude.
joe rogan
And a lot of it is being forced on you because they want you to be wound up and you don't have to do that.
You can't you don't have to push further and further away from people who disagree.
Move closer and closer and talk to them.
That's what everybody needs to do.
We need to stop this antagonistic us versus them mentality.
That's why like I feel I always feel politically homeless.
Always.
I really do.
I feel like a complete political outcast on both sides.
duncan trussell
Yeah, same.
joe rogan
It just I don't want to align with parties.
I don't think that's smart.
But I do think there's good choices and bad choices for how to run a government based on what I've seen for the bad choices, you know, the results like Portland, where you're like, this is a bad choice.
Like what you guys are doing is a bad choice, you know, and maybe when you get to a certain number of people and a certain number of mental health issues, you know, like if you try to take over LA right now, you know.
Imagine if you had to be the mayor of LA today.
Like good luck, bitch.
duncan trussell
No, thanks.
joe rogan
Good fucking luck.
You have so many things on your docket, so many things you have to handle, and you've got a hundred thousand homeless people.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
A hundred thousand.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Maybe that'd be all of California.
duncan trussell
I don't know.
joe rogan
Either way.
It's a fuckload.
You got a let's call it a fuckload.
You got a fuckload of insane homeless people on your street, and you gotta figure out how to clean it up, and you've already spent twenty-three billion on it, and no one could figure out where that money went.
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
They spent twenty-three billion making the homeless problem worse.
Imagine if that was any other job.
Imagine if you like fucking brought your car to get it fixed.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You spent five hundred bucks, it came out, it's still fucked up.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's more fucked up than it was when you like what did you do?
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, just give me some more money and I'll make it better.
Like, hey man, you said you were gonna fix this.
You said five hundred bucks, I gave you the money.
Yeah, this is fucked up now, beyond repair.
duncan trussell
Dude, that's what it is.
joe rogan
It's beyond repair.
It's like you would have to do some sort of radical Republican Rudy Giuliani type shit back when he cleaned up New York.
duncan trussell
This is where I go to I've probably yapped about it on this podcast before.
My favorite Jack Cornfield quote: tend to the part of the garden you can touch.
Because what happens is it grabs your mind.
Now I'm thinking about city politics and poorly quote.
That's a beautiful quote.
It's a profound quote.
And it's in and all of these things invite you to tend either to the entirety of the garden or a part of the garden that you will never go to.
joe rogan
And it also requires you to have an opinion publicly on a lot of things.
If you get involved in a community of people who have opinions publicly on things, you are required to chime in, Duncan.
duncan trussell
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Duncan, you're awful silent on what do you need me to say?
The human rights violations in the Yemen.
duncan trussell
Yeah, of course.
Fuck those Yemen.
joe rogan
Did you know what's happening in Minnesota?
Probably backed by the CIA.
duncan trussell
Well, fuck them.
Yeah, exactly.
You and so you get into groupthink, you get locked into this thing, and because humans, we do like to s to move together.
We like to dance together.
We like to to we like to party together, but we love to get into groups.
We're we're designed to we love it.
joe rogan
Love to be a part of a tribe.
duncan trussell
And then what happens is the uh the the your human compassion gets hijacked.
That's where it gets fucked up.
It gets hijacked, and it's like most people legitimately want to help.
And then it's like, okay, I'm gonna tell you how you can help.
And some charismatic person starts leading you down a path where you really legitimately wanted to help.
Fuck yeah, I want diversity.
You better believe I do.
And equity.
I want everyone to have a fair shot.
And inclusivity, yeah.
It's I was bullied when I was in God, when they were picking sports team, it wasn't wasn't fun for old D Trussell, let me tell you that.
Nobody wanted to trustle on their team, because I can't catch shit.
So yeah, I I would like to fix that.
The next thing you know, you know, it's it's it's the same model that happens with all kinds of cults.
The next thing you know, you end up having to start subscribing to shit maybe you don't agree with.
And that happens on the right, too.
There's another set of like, yeah, fuck big.
I don't want big government.
Like, no, I mean, it just seems like it's like bureaucracy.
joe rogan
We could we just know the ten commandments are in schools, and you're like, slow down.
Dude, why are they in public schools?
duncan trussell
My my uh I just had this guy Ragu Marcus on and he was talking about someone on his podcast told him why don't why is it the Ten Commandments and not the Sermon on the Mount?
Like, you know what I mean?
If we're gonna put something there, like I think it's Danny Goldman said that if we're gonna put something there, why not put blessed are the meek, blessed are the peacemakers.
You know, why are we put like if we're good if we're doing Bible shit, let's do sermon on the on the thing.
joe rogan
They want rules.
This is God's rules.
Look, God's rules, it's on the wall, it's in a piece of vinyl that would uh was printed.
Here it is.
It's laminated.
duncan trussell
It it it definitely is like if you like only because if we're if we're going to sort of look at like the like Christianity as the sort of like uh the the flower growing from that entire um lineage.
It it does seem like there's just that the idea was that Jesus comes around as a kind of like evolution of these principles, like also as a kind of like god like God is like recognizing like that that the whole flood thing wasn't maybe the best move,
and there's a you know and it was also a kind of like it it it it it lays out uh a a really revolutionary, I think a really revolutionary way to live in the world, which is meeting violence with nonviolence.
That's crazy.
That's crazy, but it does disrupt the in the whole cycle.
The cycle depends on you know and it's uh you totally unique voice.
joe rogan
But Muhammad was a warlord, right?
Yeah, Jesus was a man of ultimate peace in a time of ultimate chaos.
Yeah.
Imagine living two thousand fucking years ago.
No, like and some dude comes along, love your brother as you would love yourself.
Like, what are you talking about?
We're at war here.
Shut the fuck up shooting arrows at each other and shit.
The fuck are you talking about?
duncan trussell
Or saying You don't need a priest class.
joe rogan
And then, you know, the Romans are in charge, and everyone knows how fucking brutal they were.
unidentified
And this is all going on while occupied city.
Yes.
duncan trussell
It's fucking occupied city.
It's occupied by a great empire.
People are pissed off.
They want a revolution.
They want to fight back against the fucking Romans.
Here's this very charismatic person who can reach into a tomb and pull out dead people and curing people's blindness by spitting in his hand, rubbing mud in his hands and putting it on their fucking eyes, curing lepers.
And you're like, come on, baby.
All you gotta do is tell us to fucking f overthrow these Romans.
If you can raise the dead, I bet you can throw fireballs.
You know what I mean?
And then the answer is like uh to to all of that is like no.
No, we're not doing that shit.
And then what happens?
unidentified
You get murdered and murdered in front of everybody.
duncan trussell
It's a beautiful, beautiful thing, and it and it really to me, it's like, God, this is just the medicine for the times, man.
It's just the medicine for the times because holy shit.
unidentified
Like the last is our default mode, Duncan.
joe rogan
Uh you mean the bangs and the and I think the there's two things that really accentuated it.
The algorithm for sure, but also the lockdowns.
I think the lockdown shifted a lot of people.
I think it broke it broke, I genuinely think they broke a lot of people psychologically.
And um it made people just a little less uh kind, you know.
Did you get they got real used to being hostile?
And that was the other tribal thing, like the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
And unfortunately, most people were required to get vaccinated because they have jobs and they have to travel or whatever it is, you know, a lot of people reluctantly.
But you know, it made made us like more tense and more shitty.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like this is not 2016.
2016 was a fun time.
It was uh silly.
Like you it was it was different, you know.
It wasn't it wasn't so overwhelmed by constant strife.
You know, it the woke stuff had not reached its apex of ridiculousness.
It was we were just, you know.
We were silly, but we were, you know.
duncan trussell
People were getting a little weird.
joe rogan
It wasn't terrible.
And then when 2020 came around, man, and they started having those George Floyd riots, and they were lighting cop cars up in LA.
I was like, okay.
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
This is this is where we're going.
We're going in this direction.
This is this is really not good.
duncan trussell
Not good.
joe rogan
Really not good.
duncan trussell
Not good.
joe rogan
And the division is just like never been wider.
The division between the right and the left in this country, the division in a lot of ways between black people and white people, and the narratives that you get in the news are just feeding into that over and over and over again.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
I know.
joe rogan
And the way people react to things in the news, like the way that lady who got stabbed in Charlotte on the on the train, you know, that lady.
duncan trussell
Oh, yeah, of course.
joe rogan
Ukrainian lady.
Uh, she's a refugee from Ukraine.
She escapes the war and just gets randomly stabbed by some guy who had gotten out multiple times, and he had been treated in a rehab center that one of the so find the this the story behind that.
Because I I want to know, like, there there's some accusations that I don't know if they're necessarily true.
I don't want to say it, but the the whole thing is this guy had been doing horrible shit and getting out of jail over and over and over again and then he stabbed this lady on the the train.
duncan trussell
And he's one of like countless examples of that happening.
That keeps happening.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
People who you easily could have rehabilitated or at least kept out of the public zone, keep getting released and doing these fucking things.
joe rogan
And it's almost like again, if you wanted to destroy society, you would make people terrified.
You would uh cause massive amounts of crime, and then you would offer a military solution to stabilize it all.
duncan trussell
The two I just had Bishop Ra Robert Barron on my podcast, the Catholic ship on?
Oh, dude, I had a bishop on, and he's awesome.
And let me tell you, after I had the bishop on, in my whole career of podcasting, people have never come at me.
I've had Satanists on, I've had all kinds of just uh Riley Reed.
You know, I've had all kinds of people on my podcast.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
The only time I really started getting some shit was because I had a bishop on who said everything he said was very sweet.
And like, oh and I asked him right away.
I was like, Why are Christians the most um persecuted people on the planet right now?
Like if Christians get fucked up.
And he he talked about it a little bit.
And then right after that, that Catholic fucking school that Catholic at mass at mass.
The that the fucking trans shooter came blue just shot people while they were praying.
And then Charlie fucking Kirk gets shot.
And then not to mention all over the world, like Christians getting slaughtered.
And but his answer to it was so measured.
And like, whoa, dude, like I'm more perturbed.
And I've been to mass like maybe five times, but what he said, Satan.
I he said Satan is known as the accuser and the scatterer, the scatterer.
And so if you want to identify what if you look at what's happening in from those using those terms, is it dividing?
Is it scattering?
If so, it's satanic in the sense that it's turning neighbor upon neighbor, brother upon brother, uh son upon father, and it's ga it's scattering all of us, you know.
It's like what what could be a cohesive human family is being just scattered to the fucking winds.
joe rogan
Do you know about that?
Um what what country is it, Jamie, where there's uh group of Christians are being slaughtered.
There there's a country where uh thousands of Christians have been killed.
duncan trussell
Oh, it's so messed up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
It's so messed up.
joe rogan
They're literally going door to door and killing Christians.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
I I mean, I think that is that isn't that happening in Syria a little bit too.
joe rogan
I don't know what country this is, but this is like recent news.
duncan trussell
Didn't a Catholic church get bombed in Palestine too?
I could be wrong about that.
joe rogan
Slow down.
I just I really that happened too?
duncan trussell
Can you I'm sorry, before it's before let's find out that.
joe rogan
Find out that one first.
duncan trussell
Before I could be wrong about the Palestine thing, I don't know.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
This is um this is a a recent thing that they were talking about.
duncan trussell
Fifty thousand.
joe rogan
But where but is it's one country.
Oh, Nigeria, that's what it is, right?
Okay.
So you can you scroll down.
Is it 50,000 in Nigeria?
jamie vernon
This was said the government denies the claim.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
duncan trussell
I deny the claim too if I was in the Nigerian government.
joe rogan
But is it just Ted Cruz saying this?
Like, did he pull this number out of his ass?
The what I had heard I don't know, I really don't know, but what I had heard was it was 7,000 or somewhere around then.
But maybe that was the beginning of it.
duncan trussell
Bill Mars says it's happening.
joe rogan
Well, there you go.
Um since 2009, over 50,000 Christians in Nigeria have been massacred.
18,000 churches and 2,000 Christian schools have been destroyed.
Holy fuck, man.
duncan trussell
Dude.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
That's that's like I mean, what we're people are like going to Catholic churches and shooting people praying.
Like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Listen to what they say.
Um Nigeria deserves solidaria solidarity in its fight against terror, not careless rhetoric that fuels misunderstanding.
This is the Nigerian president saying.
So the truth remains simple.
Nigeria is not witnessing a Christian genocide, it is confronting terrorism that targets everyone.
duncan trussell
Christian terrorists.
joe rogan
But is a similar amount happening to Muslim churches?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know either.
You can Google like a go go put it into um perplexity.
Ask how many Islamic um mosques have been destroyed in Nigeria since 2009.
That's a good answer.
This is a good question.
duncan trussell
That's a good question.
joe rogan
Solid question.
duncan trussell
That's a good question.
joe rogan
How many Islamic mosques have been destroyed in Nigeria since 2009?
duncan trussell
This is fucking cool.
joe rogan
It's dope.
Oh, well because you made up a number, bro.
Can you fix it?
unidentified
Ugh.
joe rogan
Okay.
Let's see.
duncan trussell
Yeah, significant destruction of mosques.
Good question.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Okay.
There's been significant destruction of mosques in Nigeria, particularly due to Boko Haram insurgency and other violent conflicts.
Boko Haram actively uh in actively primarily oh, active, excuse me, primarily in northeastern Nigeria has deliberately targeted both mosques and churches during attacks, killing worshippers and destroying places of worship.
duncan trussell
Seventeen thousand churches.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But what does it say about how many mosques the worst competition of all time?
It says religious buildings destroyed hundreds of religious buildings, including mosques.
Specific numbers indicate while 17,000 churches were destroyed since 2009.
The destruction of mosques was also significant with dozens of mosque attacks reported in various incidents by Boko Haram and related groups.
That's a big difference, though.
duncan trussell
Churches destroyed.
joe rogan
Dozens of mosques attacked, but 17,000 churches destroyed.
duncan trussell
Seventeen thousand churches destroyed.
joe rogan
So it seems like they're all experiencing terrorism.
That is true.
But it is uh much more pointed in the direction of the Christians.
duncan trussell
Dude, I mean, this g has to give you pause.
Because like I, you know, any secularist out there, any anti-Christian person out there, and they're there's a surprising amount, a surprising amount, horrified that I talked to this bishop.
joe rogan
Do you think of it as the in the worst aspects of Christianity that you see, right?
Just like you think of Antifa as the worst aspects of being a progressive or a liberal.
When you look at what Christianity is in America, it's a lot of things that are awesome, but it's also televangelists.
It's these motherfuckers on TV talking to poor dumb people and conning them into sending twenty dollars so that their bills are gonna be paid.
duncan trussell
True.
joe rogan
They tell them that.
They tell them if you give me if you give me whatever you can give me, God has promised a tenfold return.
A tenfold return.
You give me two hundred dollars, you will get thousands.
duncan trussell
Thousands.
joe rogan
They just start going off.
unidentified
Give me ten thousand, I will bring you a hundred thousand.
duncan trussell
But you the the problem, and listen, I get it, man.
joe rogan
People are dumb and they fall for it, and then they think that this fucking guy who has this giant megachurch, these people that have they've got stadiums filled with their worshippers, they're flying around in private jets driving in Rolls Royce.
They think of that as Christianity too.
And then they think of the nutty people that believe in demons.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, the Satan worshiping kind, and they think of all kinds of weird stuff when it comes to Christianity.
duncan trussell
It's slippery.
But that to this is there's a there's a a scientific approach here that you could take, which is go go to I can't believe I'm about to say this, go to a Catholic mass, and and the last what's interesting is all the masses are the same around the planet.
The last one I went to, you know what they were saying?
Help people, help the poor.
You know what I mean?
They weren't there's nobody's dancing around, no jet skis, there's no you know what I mean, no guy in a glittery fucking vest.
It was just it was it was really just talking about how important it is to help poor people.
That's it.
Some like, you know, some uh a choir singing, like none of that was happening, and really when you think about the fact that how many Catholic churches there are that day on planet Earth all the people representing all levels of economic status were being told you can do more to help poor people than you're doing right now.
All over the planet.
joe rogan
Right, but it's also connected to a lot of horrible stuff that was done to kids.
And that's the problem with Catholic church, period.
Dude, I talk about it's not it's not all of them, but it's there's a number of them.
duncan trussell
Fucked up.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen that documentary?
I think it's called Hear No Evil.
duncan trussell
No, I haven't.
joe rogan
I think that's what it's called.
But it's essentially following one of these people.
duncan trussell
Dude, it's horrible.
joe rogan
It's horrible.
duncan trussell
It's horrible.
joe rogan
It's so dark.
duncan trussell
It's horrible.
joe rogan
It's so dark.
And it was uh, you know, like that was one of the criticisms, rightful criticisms about Ratzinger.
He was involved in moving people around.
duncan trussell
Messed up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, he was wanted for crimes against humanity by some countryhood.
duncan trussell
But then you talk to Catholics about it, which I have, of course, and their response is never like defending it.
They're all like, fuck that.
Like there's the other ideas that like the uh Catholics all agree on like this or that.
They fucking don't, and they hate it.
joe rogan
Don't you think that it's kind of crazy to if someone wants to be a priest, you can't have a life.
You can't have a wife, you can't have a family.
You can't you have to be celibate.
I think that alone, that rule that they institute alone made it kooky.
It made it really crazy.
Because like you're only inviting people to be a priest that are willing to go through that.
Whereas you meet preachers, and you know, you go to a good church and there's a guy who's a preacher and he's a really charismatic person, he really believes in the Lord and he's good, he's really entertaining, got a wife and a family, tell stories about his family.
Like that's a lot more normal and engaging and it makes more sense.
duncan trussell
Totally.
joe rogan
The this this whole celibacy thing is crazy.
And it didn't it was a rule that somebody instituted because the priests were banging all the ladies.
jamie vernon
They don't look at it as a rule, it's they call it a discipline.
Uh that's how they officially have to be disciplined.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, and and that doesn't nuts because for sure that discipline's being taken out on some people that didn't want it, and that's part of the problem.
But then there's all this messed up, secret babies that nuns have with the city.
duncan trussell
One of the popes, one of the popes.
Because I talked to a priest about it, and he was telling me how many did he have?
I don't know.
I was like, I can't remember.
joe rogan
But it's it's nuts.
It's nuts to require, and it's gonna r it's gonna like it's gonna attract sexual deviance.
duncan trussell
A hundred percent.
You gotta be careful out there, man.
And it's like any time there's hierarchy, anytime there's bureaucracy, anytime there's organization, especially anytime there's uh mysticism, it's gonna be infiltrated.
That's an inevitability.
unidentified
And then and my hope Imagine if they just opened it up where they said, Listen, we're gonna drop that.
joe rogan
You guys can have wives now.
And those poor dork's gonna start dating at 40.
duncan trussell
That's a good movie.
joe rogan
Yeah, it would be a good movie if they changed it and like priests is like always wanted to find a wife and have a family before it's too late.
duncan trussell
Oh my god.
No idea what I I do agree with you though.
joe rogan
Never even seen a tit.
unidentified
Do you need that?
joe rogan
He's a real priest, like really, really, really got into it when he was young, decided when he was a boy.
I'm gonna keep my thoughts pure wild.
All for Jesus.
unidentified
Never seen a boob.
joe rogan
Never never touched an erect nipple.
duncan trussell
Never felt it.
Oh never.
joe rogan
Never kissed a lady who wants to kiss you back.
duncan trussell
Laped up squirt.
joe rogan
Poor boy.
Dude, it's praying to Jesus, and then all of a sudden at 40, some comes along.
Like Steve Crowell in that movie.
40-year-old Virgin.
duncan trussell
Oh, dude.
It really I don't know, man.
Like, I don't that part of it to me is always seemed like, you know, how can you this is the other thing, man, with the declining birth rates and people not being able to have kids or not wanting to have kids because it's too fucking expensive.
It's like it's worrisome to me.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
Because ever since I had kids, you like have a whole different connection to the world than when you don't have kids.
And it humanizes you, it grounds you in the earth, all your chips are on the fucking table, man.
And and it's intense.
And I do think like as a spiritual guide to people, I I it does make me scratch my chin.
It's like you have never been around a third trimester pregnant person who just found out there might be mice in the house.
You don't know what that's like, man.
Ooh, you don't want to be around that.
That's collie, man.
You don't want to be around that, and all the other things that go around along with being married and having kids and all the heights and lows and all the shit you learn about yourself.
You d I do feel like you're by not letting them have families, you're kind of keeping them out of this part of the like human experience that that is really good for people.
Like you need that.
You need to know what that's like.
It's important.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
It helps you grow as a human.
You it changes your perspective on things.
You know, one of the things that people always say, I don't want to have kids.
You know, I think bringing a child into this world today is is a terrible idea.
I'm like people had people before they figured out doors.
That's why we're here.
We're we're here.
People had babies on dirt floors in caves, and that's why we're here.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah, why would you want to have a child today with all the fucking books and medicine and shit?
Like, why would you want to do that?
Why would you with all the education and all the interesting people that are alive?
Do you like people?
I love people.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I could never be a hermit.
I love people.
duncan trussell
Me too.
joe rogan
I love hanging out.
Like I love having fun.
I love meeting people that are fun.
I love it.
The only way that happens is if people make people.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You have to make cool people.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Make cool people that other people want to hang out with.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And, you know, that sounds overly simplified because it is.
Yeah, for sure, there's some circumstances where that's not an option.
And it's not possible, and you're you're living in a fucking terrible state.
Uh terrible state of life, right?
You could be in the the worst, most abusive environments.
And that's the real problem in this world.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is that we allow those places to exist while we think about things that are just bananas.
Think about like wealth extraction and pulling stuff out of the ocean and figuring out how to do this and that and spending all this money on this and that and defense and this and that and then completely ignoring the people on your timeline that are in life or death struggle through no fault of their own.
They were just born into the wrong family in the wrong neighborhood in the wrong timeline.
And they're fucked.
And the only difference between you and them is you got lucky and you were born in a good timeline.
duncan trussell
Yep.
joe rogan
And your life, you got lucky.
You live with nice people.
Yeah, yeah.
But they got fucked.
And if we allow that to continue to happen, you're always gonna have the same kind of problems over and over and over again.
There's gotta be a way to at least tilt that in a positive direction and build on it and actually have businesses that are financially incentivized for success.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like they make more money if people get jobs, they make more money if people get good grades, they make more money.
If they could figure out a way to transform crime-ridden, gang ridden neighborhoods into places where people are thriving and happy.
duncan trussell
There's gotta be a way to be a way.
joe rogan
There's gotta be a way people exit like that place that I was telling you about in Oakland, that video, where they're driving through the shanty towns, and then immediately they get to this totally clean environment that's you know run by different politicians.
That this it's there's gotta be a way to do that.
There's gotta be a way to engineer our society in a more positive direction.
There's gotta be.
duncan trussell
Dude, the first step is is you've got to turn your back on the state.
You cannot believe the state is gonna do this because I think people are waiting for a top-down solution.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
They're waiting for man, what's his name?
The New York dude, or they're waiting for someone to like sign the right series of documents and everything's fine.
It's in in meanwhile, they're like in their fucking high rise with crusted jazz on their belly, posting shit on Reddit.
It's like really, it's this is gonna be all hands on deck.
It's like maybe the federal government is gonna figure out the perfect way to educate and house and clothes and all this stuff.
And that'll be great.
But in the meantime, every single one of us, every single one of us could do something, not a big deal, not a big thing, but something.
And instead of it, like it's like when they say the fed the government shut down, the national parks, there's trash.
I saw a picture of trash around a dumpster.
And it's like, uh any one of us could drive a truck up to that fucking dumpster and clean up that trash.
Why are we waiting for the federal government to do this shit?
That's the problem.
It's the federal government's got us all hypnotized into thinking we need them to do these things.
And I would, by the way, that'd be great.
I think people living next to an open-air drug Market slash mental asylum would be quite pleased if the taxes that they were paying went towards getting these people medical care somewhere far away from their apartment.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Not gonna happen.
You can count on it.
So in the meantime, what do we do?
And and you know, that's I as I was like watching Doom Scroll and looking at all the like the Oakland videos and stuff.
This dude's interviewing people out there, soup kitchens giving out food, and boy, that'll make you feel like a piece of shit.
This guy's just helping.
This is nobody, this is like you'll never this guy's not filming themselves, taking fucking selfies telling the stupid story at the time he gave up sandwiches someone with his kid like I did in the beginning.
This is just people out there, they interview this guy.
Why what are you why are you doing this?
And he's like, I mean, it just seems like that's what you're supposed to do.
It's so basic and simple.
And that exists.
That exists.
joe rogan
And that doesn't get highlighted.
You don't get that in your algorithm.
duncan trussell
No, you don't get it in the world.
joe rogan
If you got more of that in your your algorithm, you'd realize, like, oh, there's good people out there still.
duncan trussell
And I'm one of them, and you can help.
Like, and you don't have to film it, you don't have to do it for any reason.
And dude, the moment we don't even know what would happen.
If under the yoke of whatever the regime happens to be, it's instead of flapping our fucking like uh fireworks in front of ice, you know.
If like all of us were just going out there and like, I don't know, I don't know.
I can bear I I suck at all most things, dudes, but it's like it's not that hard to like give water to people out there, and and yeah, some of them are fucking terrifying.
They seem like they're possessed by demons.
I'm surprised you don't believe in demons.
But but uh but you know what's not that I don't.
You believe in demons?
joe rogan
Uh I'm agnostic on the possibility of demons.
I definitely believe in good and evil though.
I believe there's uh I believe evil thoughts can get into people's minds, and then if you follow that down a long life, you can get to a pretty evil place.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's how you get to a dictator.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
I think that's real.
And I think, especially if you're involved in evil acts.
So say imagine you start off in some sort of military, and uh you're in a foreign country and you're killing a bunch of people, and then you take over a town, and then you know, things escalate, and you continue your career doing horrible things for decade after decade, and then you start to get into power, and then you get into political power, and then you start running the country, and then you overthrow the government.
Yeah, and then you become a dictator, and then you do horrible shit.
Horrible shit.
You're Saddam Hussein, right?
You have your sons are feeding women to dogs in the basement.
Yeah.
The real horrible, horrible, horrible shit.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
That is that is evil.
Like I had uh Jack Carr, the author on the podcast yesterday.
duncan trussell
What did he write?
joe rogan
He wrote uh the terminalist, that Amazon series.
It's uh he's he's a great uh it's the one that Chris Pratt plays in that Amazon series.
duncan trussell
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
It's really good.
But the books are amazing.
He's uh and he's a super fucking cool guy.
Anyway, he said, you know, he went to those palaces because he was a seal and he was in the war, and he went to those palaces and says, You can feel the evil.
He said, You feel it.
He said, especially the kids, the sons, oh Day and Kuse, they were monsters, serial killer monsters.
Jesus Christ were the sons of the dictator.
They would find women while they were getting married, they would take the woman, they'd rape the woman, and then feed them to their dogs.
They had these dogs that they would feed people to.
Fuck that.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
duncan trussell
Fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think that that scene in Game of Thrones, like you remember that scene in Game of Thrones where he would do that.
There was one of the evil dudes that cut that guy's dick off and feed people to his dogs.
That's a real thing, man.
They re really did that.
Yeah.
God that is 100% evil.
Now, is that demons inside of him?
I don't know.
Um I tend to think I think I tend to think evil's in all of us.
It's just does it get cultivated?
And what what cultivates it?
What makes it what makes it?
You know, over time over a long history of seeing and doing horrible things.
I think you can get to a place of unbelievable evil.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, think about Genghis Khan.
Think about what that guy did while he was alive where he killed 10% of the population of Earth.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
I mean, if that's not evil, like what is?
Like what is what is it?
I mean, they would they would light people on fire and use them as catapults to light houses on fire.
So they'd put them in catapults and launched corpses, flaming corpses, and they would land on these thatched roofs and start the houses on fire.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
Right.
Wow.
joe rogan
They would take people and they would kidnap them, right?
So they would sack a town and they'd take all the people, and everybody that gave in and surrendered, they would put them at the front of the line, and then they would start attacking the city, and all the people would just get crushed by the enemy.
So by the time they just pushed them forward.
So they would get thousands of people in front of them and push them into a city.
And those people are just getting hacked apart.
Because there's there's people that are trying to stop the siege, and those are the people that are getting killed.
And so they're like human shields.
And then they're trampling over their dead bodies to destroy the entire city.
duncan trussell
Right.
That happens.
joe rogan
That's not evil.
If that's not evil, like what's evil?
Like for to them, that was their destiny.
duncan trussell
And that happens.
joe rogan
Jengis Khan's one of one of his quotes was crazy.
It was you must have I'm paraphrasing it.
We could find it, I'm sure.
You must have done something horribly wrong for God to send me.
duncan trussell
That was that letter to the Pope.
Isn't that the letter he wrote to the Pope?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't know who it wrote it to.
duncan trussell
One of them wrote a real take down.
joe rogan
See if you can find that.
It's but it's from like the the Do you know that the what they know about the Mongols came from like one diary that they found in like the eighteen hundreds?
Like there was so little known about Genghis Khan.
They don't know where he was buried.
duncan trussell
They still don't know.
joe rogan
They have no idea.
They kill he they killed the people that took him to there so that they couldn't tell, and then more people came and killed the people that killed the people.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
So that they couldn't tell.
duncan trussell
Right.
I d I think didn't they kill themselves after killing the people too?
joe rogan
Like it was just like a something nutty like that.
Just it's like fucking wild.
duncan trussell
Fucking wild.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I saw what is that quote that he had about God sending me.
It's when you think about who that motherfucker was, I mean he's the motherfucker of all motherfuckers.
I mean the greatest warlord of all time.
He is the goat.
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
To the point where people don't even consider him evil, right?
You don't people don't think of Genghis Khan as evil.
You think of his Hitler as evil.
Right, but Genghis Khan's just this conqueror guy.
duncan trussell
Right.
unidentified
But meanwhile, he killed so many people million people.
duncan trussell
So many people.
joe rogan
He changed the carbon footprint of Earth.
When they do like when they look at the carbon footprint of Earth, during his time, cities re-greened.
You it's that there's a noticeable amount.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because cities were destroyed and the the the nature just absorbed them and trees grew in their place.
I am the punishment of God.
If you'd not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
duncan trussell
Jesus.
joe rogan
I am the punishment of God.
Imagine if that's how you justify just wholesale slaughter of everybody in a city and stacking the bones up.
Stacking the bones up so high that the Shah of Charisma sent uh an envoy to go and talk to uh whoever was running Jin China and along the way they thought they saw uh a a fr like a snow capped mountain and as they got closer they realized it was a stack of bones.
duncan trussell
God damn it.
joe rogan
It was a million people.
They killed a million people and stacked them in the middle of the city.
duncan trussell
God, that must have taken forever.
joe rogan
Forever.
duncan trussell
Whose job is that?
joe rogan
Bro, they killed everyone.
On the road, they had to abandon their wagons because the wagons were stuck in the muck of decaying people.
They couldn't pull the wagons anymore because all the roads had deteriorated into muck.
duncan trussell
Yeah, you know what?
When you look back at shit like that, we're doing pretty good right now.
joe rogan
We're doing pretty good right now.
duncan trussell
We're doing pretty good.
That that is That is horrifying.
joe rogan
If that's not evil, what's evil?
duncan trussell
Well, that is evil.
joe rogan
That's evil.
duncan trussell
That is evil.
And that what's you know what's interesting is people I think like aro around the world, regardless of the culture that you're raised in, we all have a similar sense of evil versus good.
That's where it gets curious.
It's like people it seems like people have a sense of like it isn't good, for example, to like fuck a dog corpse.
I bet you could go all around the planet.
joe rogan
Most people say that's bad.
duncan trussell
Most people are gonna do that.
Don't don't fuck dog corpses.
Like if you see a dead dog, don't fuck its ass.
joe rogan
And if you see that a guy's doing that, you go, That guy's a problem.
duncan trussell
That guy's a problem.
joe rogan
You know, we're gonna have to take that guy out.
duncan trussell
Don't hire him.
unidentified
Yeah.
duncan trussell
And so there seems to be built into us a sense of like harmony and how to do it and what it looks like.
And then there's examples like you just described.
It's like that's one of the things we can also do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Whoo, that would have been fun to be gingiscon though, right?
joe rogan
Could you imagine being in that posse and knowing what you're gonna do?
And also just the fucking the fact that some uns insane percentage of people worldwide have his DNA because he had that many kids.
unidentified
When he's not killing, he's just fucking that's all he lived for.
joe rogan
He just lived to fuck and to kill.
duncan trussell
How did he have time to plan war?
joe rogan
I mean, he was a brilliant strategist.
That's what the crazy thing is.
Like they they did a lot of sneaky shit.
Like they led people, they had like small packs that would lead people into the mountains, and then they would have a giant pack of people waiting for 'em, and then just fucking come down off the hills and engulf them.
They did brilliant shit, man.
They waited people out.
Is there a they drank the the blood of their horses to stay alive?
They ate their horses, they ate each other.
Apparently they there was some cannibalism that was reported.
duncan trussell
Is there a movie like why haven't they made like a game of thrones style series?
joe rogan
There was one pretty decent movie, but in order for the movie to be realistic, it would have to be so hardcore.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
And it would be really problematic because it involves a lot of rape.
There's a lot of rape and a lot of horrible, horrible murders.
And one of the one of the things they did was they're they had some rule where like with kings and emperors, they weren't allowed to let like chop them up, so they would kill them in different ways instead of like attacking them with swords or whatever they would do.
They would do that, or sometimes they would just stack their bodies and then build uh like a a floor above them and eat on top of them until they crushed them to death.
So they would build a platform over their bodies, just crushed them with the weight of these timbers.
These people would be moaning while they were eating.
duncan trussell
Do you think that's real?
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah, that's documented.
duncan trussell
Wow, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The people that survived.
That's one of the things he would also do, let some people survive to tell the stories.
duncan trussell
Jeez.
joe rogan
Just run, tell everyone.
duncan trussell
And of course, like if you're at that dinner, you're not gonna like complain about it.
Like you're not gonna say shit.
joe rogan
You probably get off on it by now.
You've probably been doing it for a decade.
Probably been killing people everywhere you go.
They lived in felt tents and they were nomads.
So they had no real home, and they went wherever the fuck they went, and everywhere they went, they killed everybody.
duncan trussell
Fuck.
That is incredible.
joe rogan
It's a crazy story.
And the story of Genghis Khan, his name was Temu Jin.
He started off as a young boy and he had a brother that was a cocksucker, and his brother was like stealing his fish and beating his ass, and one day he killed his brother.
And his mother freaked out and said, You motherfucker, you devil, you know.
He started off young is the point.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Started off young.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Weren't that wasn't his family really poor?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The whole story it's crazy.
His mother had a run because his father was killed and his mother had a run, they barely survived.
They were left out there to die.
duncan trussell
But don't people I yeah, I he's sort of beloved.
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
That's what's crazy.
There's the statues of him in Mongolia.
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
But listen, he historically, he was doing what everybody else was doing.
He was just doing it better.
They were all doing that.
When the Shah of Charisma sent the envoy to Charisma?
duncan trussell
I thought I missed her.
joe rogan
Charisma is a it was a country.
duncan trussell
Okay.
joe rogan
It was the charismian Shah.
It doesn't exist anymore.
What is it now?
Is it like Syria or something?
You know, a lot of those countries, they changed names.
What is what was charisma with a cue?
Quarism?
Quarism, am I saying it wrong?
I don't think it exists anymore.
I'm sorry if it does.
Might be one of them weird ones.
duncan trussell
Shah of charisma.
joe rogan
Um but anyway, this dude was seeing like whether or not they could sack gin.
You know, they were going to visit to see like, let's take a look and see what their defenses are like, and we'll bring some fucking carpets and some nice stuff and give them a little gift and then come back and fuck them up.
Like that was a standard move.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
And when they were on their way, they're like, the Mongols already got there.
And it was already too late.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Holy fuck, man.
joe rogan
If they had ever gotten to Europe, it would have been over.
duncan trussell
I thought they did get to Europe.
joe rogan
No, but I mean if they went into Italy.
duncan trussell
Alright.
joe rogan
Like if they went into like Rome and the Vatican, it would have been over.
duncan trussell
Didn't he conquer more landmass than any other human?
Like, didn't at some point they I think it's something like that.
joe rogan
Uh present day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from zero one zero seven seven to twelve thirty-one.
Interesting.
So that was the Corismian Empire.
duncan trussell
Whoa.
joe rogan
So from 1077 to 1231, first is vassals of the S how do you say that word?
Seljuk Empire and the Quara Kei Western Lal Dynasty from circa eleven ninety as independent rulers up until the Mongolian conquest in twelve nineteen to twelve twenty-one.
Holy fuck.
The Mongolians took them over.
Dude took over everything, dude.
This is why they go over everything.
duncan trussell
This is why I think people really get weirdly disturbed by Graham Hancock.
Because it's it's like it's like you don't want to think about it.
You don't want to think about the fact that there are all these empires.
Forget the charismians.
There's all these empires.
No one knows what the fuck they were doing or who they were, nothing.
And they were just like us.
joe rogan
Yep.
duncan trussell
They were talking, having conversations, sipping tea, having fun with their boys.
Never thinking like, you know, at some point people are gonna be staring at the ruins of our temples, scratching their chins, wondering what this means.
Dude, that to me is another unifying thought planetary unification.
It's like, man, you guys, nobody to this day knows who built those fucking pyramids.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
And they they if you are like living around the pyramids.
I doubt the thought ever crossed your mind.
At some point, Mr. Beast.
unidentified
Mr. Beast is gonna be a filming episode of his YouTube show.
duncan trussell
You know what I mean?
That never occurred to you.
joe rogan
No, I almost went with him.
duncan trussell
Mr. Beast?
joe rogan
Yeah, I almost went during that trip.
Because I couldn't, I couldn't swing it.
I didn't have the time.
duncan trussell
Damn, dude.
You that's ah, that sucks.
joe rogan
You should also I didn't want to do it that way.
Uh if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it for a quite a few days, and I'm gonna do it with like an expert, like a Ben of you know, from Uncharted X. Right.
Like one of those dudes, or Graham, if Graham has the time.
I know he's very busy, but he goes there all the time.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
I would do that.
Um but what do you think about those structures underneath?
duncan trussell
I pray that they're real.
joe rogan
Did you see Van Kirkwick's video?
The video about the labyrinths?
duncan trussell
Uh can we walk I I just no, I just read that I had him on the podcast.
joe rogan
There's labyrinths that they've discovered that are underneath that are historic.
Her Herodotus talked about them.
He said they're greater than the pyramids, the structure underneath some of the pyramids.
Greater than the pyramids, and through this ground penetrating radar, they've found a 40 meter long metallic tic-tac-shaped object that is in this great hall that's under the ground.
duncan trussell
Okay.
joe rogan
So all this stuff exists, but they they made a dam on the Nile River in the 1960s to help agriculture, and it changed the water table and it flooded all these underground labyrinths.
duncan trussell
Fucking damn it.
joe rogan
So they would have it's like a massive undertaking to try to excavate and figure out what's in there.
duncan trussell
But couldn't you put a drone like a water?
joe rogan
You have to actually go through the water and then below that to where the labyrinth's dig through the mud.
They might actually be able to channel underneath it, they think and go below the water table and then go to it because it's appears like the water is not in the labyrinth itself.
duncan trussell
Labyrinth.
joe rogan
But it's a labyrinth, sorry.
Thank you.
But whatever it is, there's a 40 meter long metallic object of unknown origin that's the shape of a tic-tac that's in there.
duncan trussell
This is real.
joe rogan
This is real.
unidentified
Like it could 40 meters, dude.
joe rogan
This guy is so legit.
Ben is the Uncharted X is a fantastic YouTube channel.
duncan trussell
What the fuck?
joe rogan
This is all like real science.
It's the same kind of science that they're using to figure out what the fuck is under the Great Pyramid, all those those weird.
duncan trussell
I thought that was debunked, and I was disappointed by that.
joe rogan
No, it's not debunked.
Not at all.
No, the images have been verified multiple times.
They don't know what it is, but there's some structure underneath the pyramid.
See, those columns are real.
There really are columns underneath the pyramids, and it really does go down deep into the earth.
They just don't know what it is.
But the same technology they've the of they've observed all of the different like where they know where there's special chambers that are sealed off.
They know where those things are.
But they saw it with the radio tomography.
They also were able to use it to identify temples that were 25 and 50 feet underground.
So it's it's it's accurate.
duncan trussell
Give me a fucking break, man.
How is that?
No, I I because like I was so excited when that came out.
I'm like, I knew it.
I've seen it on ketamine.
And then did you?
joe rogan
What did you see?
duncan trussell
It's hard to explain.
It's like uh structures.
I mean the pyramids.
Let me reiterate this was in the Khole.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
But it was like vast cavernous spaces with structures in it.
And you know, the weird thing about ketamine is it's kind of like you're being given a tour, and then you sort of it's like a viewfinder.
joe rogan
You remote viewed.
duncan trussell
Maybe I remote viewed.
It was very exciting to see.
joe rogan
Um it was under the pyramids?
duncan trussell
It was under the pyramids, but I must say the next thing I saw was like a city being powered by meat.
So it's not exactly like my remote viewing.
joe rogan
Maybe that's what you're gonna do with the homeless problem.
unidentified
Oh, and Joe Rogan solves the homeless problem.
joe rogan
Maybe that's what the alien agenda is.
duncan trussell
Well, I mean they power the city.
joe rogan
They look we'll take care of your problems.
duncan trussell
Dude, this is real I am not comfortable with this comet Atlas.
joe rogan
I know.
unidentified
And and I like you know the You've got Avi Loeb coming on to talk about it.
duncan trussell
He's amaz I had him on my podcast a long time ago.
He put up with my act.
joe rogan
A lot of people in the beginning were saying that it's bullshit, it's a comet, why is he saying this?
He's risking his reputation.
But then as time's going on, they're going, Well, this is weird.
This thing's really weird.
duncan trussell
Well, it's the what okay.
First of all, it's important to note that one thing that titillates my dumbass is it just so happens the government shutdown coincides with when we could use the satellites on Mars to get pictures of that fucking thing.
So we're not getting pictures.
They did release a picture of it yesterday.
joe rogan
The government shutdown is stopping us from getting pictures of this thing.
duncan trussell
Yes.
Yes.
joe rogan
That's insane.
duncan trussell
That's insane.
joe rogan
Now that's that's so insane.
They should open that up.
duncan trussell
I mean, it seems like they that just it that's really weird.
There are did you see the images that just came in though?
They're Europeans got an image of it.
It's weird looking.
It's weird looking, but I don't know what a comet looks like.
joe rogan
So I don't know what a comet looks like, and I don't know why it's weirder than other comments.
duncan trussell
But it does seem like it's going, it's like rolling in a weird way, but it's the it's the gas, right?
It's like it's what it's releasing is the weird part.
joe rogan
Well, the weird part is coming from the same part of the universe where the wow signal came from.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
That's weird.
joe rogan
That's weird.
duncan trussell
That's fucking weird.
That's weird.
joe rogan
Because that wow signal, what it was like seventy seconds long?
Some very strange coded signal that was 70 seconds long.
duncan trussell
You know what else is weird is Jeremy Corbell said a bunch of people are gonna start saying there's a mothership coming to Earth and don't believe them.
Remember he was saying that?
joe rogan
Yeah, what's that all about?
Why did he know that?
duncan trussell
I don't know.
joe rogan
You gotta tell people why you know something like that.
You can't just say that.
Well, I think You know what I mean?
Like, how do you know?
How do you know that it's not really a mothership?
How do you know they're gonna say it's a mothership?
duncan trussell
Well, Corbell, he's gotta do this tightrope walk because somehow he does have inside contacts, but he if he says too much, he he puts his whole life in danger.
joe rogan
It's such a spy TV show.
Dude, so much of it seems like a spy TV show.
So much of it seems like a well written psyop.
duncan trussell
It's so weird.
unidentified
Yeah.
duncan trussell
It's so weird.
joe rogan
It's a c slow recognition that we're not alone.
And did it that they've calculated that the only way to do this and not disrupt society entirely.
You know how put off?
Do you know what Do you know that story about how when he was uh George Bush, the original Herbert Walker, he wanted to disclose.
And what they were going to say was we have recovered crashed UFOs that we have back engineered and we have biological entities.
There are things that are not of this world.
And they're far more intelligent than us.
And I wanted you, I want you to write down on the positives and the negatives of society, like the societal impact of disclosure, and give a numerical value to what is going to do the financial world, what is going to do the religious world, what's going to do to government.
And at the end, they all had the same conclusion.
The cons far outweighed the pros in terms of disruption of society.
So they decided not to release it.
duncan trussell
Dude, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Isn't that wild?
Like they almost did that.
What was that?
George Bush.
It was like 90, 1990, maybe?
duncan trussell
Yeah, it's really weird.
Like that crazy.
If our entire society depends on protecting billionaire pedophiles and not talking about aliens, then maybe we need a new society.
Just maybe this is a fucked up society.
joe rogan
Or there's a good time for Jesus to come back.
duncan trussell
Perfect time.
Always a good time.
joe rogan
Also perfect because you'd have to really believe.
Because with AI today, you don't know what the fuck is going on.
So you'd have to really believe.
Or Jesus comes through AI.
duncan trussell
Well, it's possible.
It is possible.
joe rogan
I mean That's the portal that opens up.
duncan trussell
That's the that's the Christ.
Or the antichrist.
joe rogan
Oh well, come on, Duncan.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
The Antichrist?
duncan trussell
People are gonna buy more tickets.
Nobody wants it.
unidentified
Nobody wants to see that.
joe rogan
It all works out in the end movie.
Fuck that.
The battle for Satan.
Dun dun dun.
duncan trussell
Listen, man.
Well, I think I think that uh I think I'm here's a cheesy way to end it.
unidentified
Okay.
duncan trussell
I feel so lucky I'm your friend, man.
You're the coolest.
I was thinking about it the other day.
You're one of my you're one of my oldest friends.
I've known you for so long, man.
joe rogan
I know, we've known each other a long time.
duncan trussell
It's fucking true.
joe rogan
I love you to death, man.
duncan trussell
I love you too.
joe rogan
I'm very happy that we're friends too.
duncan trussell
Yeah, it's the best, man.
joe rogan
It is.
And it's funny because we became friends really uh talking on the phone when you were the guy taking the phone calls for availability at the comedy store.
duncan trussell
We did this on the phone.
joe rogan
We basically basically did.
We we started talking you would like tell me, man, have you heard about this?
I was like, no, what is it?
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
We'd have these long ass conversations on the phone.
unidentified
Yeah, while you were with it for hours.
joe rogan
It really was like podcasts back then.
Long before we ever went on the road together.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's fucking cool, man.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, I'm glad you're here, man.
duncan trussell
Well, likewise, likewise.
Thank you for having me on.
joe rogan
My pleasure, brother.
It's always fun.
Always fun to hang out with you.
Uh, if you're around tonight, come do the show.
Can you?
Are you out?
duncan trussell
I can't because I gotta wake up at four like three a.m. to fly.
joe rogan
Oh, where are you going?
duncan trussell
Uh tomorrow I'm headed to Tacoma.
Oh, can I say some dates?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
duncan trussell
Shit, I always forget, dude.
You've got the most popular podcast on earth.
joe rogan
You're in Tacoma this weekend.
Where are you at?
duncan trussell
Hold on, look at the club.
I Googled it because I've been on the road so much.
joe rogan
Tacoma's fun.
duncan trussell
Well, when does this come out?
unidentified
Tomorrow.
duncan trussell
What?
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Tacoma!
unidentified
Tacoma.
duncan trussell
I'm gonna be in uh Portland.
joe rogan
Here it is.
duncan trussell
Oh, thank you.
joe rogan
Tacoma Comedy Club.
duncan trussell
Keep it.
joe rogan
That's an awesome spot.
duncan trussell
The Omaha funny bone funny bone.
Helium and Portland.
joe rogan
Portland Helium is oh boy, you're going right to the belly of the beast.
duncan trussell
I'm excited!
joe rogan
Oh perfect for your comedy.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, nice.
duncan trussell
Richmond Arts.
joe rogan
Oh, they got a Richmond one too.
Nice.
And then all of it is available at Duncan Trussell.com.
unidentified
Thank you.
duncan trussell
My man.
unidentified
Thank you, Joe.
duncan trussell
Love you.
joe rogan
Bye everybody.
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