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Joe Rogan Experience #2391 - Duncan Trussell
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Hello, Duncan.
duncan trussell
Hello, Joe.
joe rogan
Hello, Father.
Father Trussell.
duncan trussell
Hello, Father Rogan.
joe rogan
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?
Yeah.
joe rogan
They get testy.
duncan trussell
I don't, you know, having now gone to 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, 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?
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Like saying that you're a liberal person because I'm pretty liberal and you're pretty liberal.
unidentified
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.
Yeah.
Well, and even Antifa doesn't want to be called liberal.
Did you know that?
joe rogan
What do they know?
duncan trussell
Well, Antifa is anti-capitalist and that is not liberal.
So there's a, that's the problem.
It's like the terms are really muddy right now.
So when you're looking at like Portland, the protesters in Portland.
joe rogan
Yeah, what exactly is going on in Portland?
I try not to pay attention.
duncan trussell
Oh, well, what's happened is...
joe rogan
I know they've brought in the National Guard.
Is that happening?
They tried to and they got to.
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, I watch these streams and I've been watching a self-professed fascist named Carlin who drinks and basically roasts these live streams.
But weirdly, she has apparently embedded herself with Antifa before.
And so it's such a funny stream.
joe rogan
So they tolerate her?
duncan trussell
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.
unidentified
Right.
duncan trussell
So she's proudly 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.
Do these people look funded?
Do these people look like they have money?
They're not funded.
It's, it's, so, 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 fair amount of people, is that the economy is 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 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.
You got it.
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 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.
The breakdown of it is that the Democrats and Republicans, what they have in common is they believe in private property and they believe the power of the state should be used to protect private property.
And so anti-capitalists, communists, they think that that's just fucked up.
Essentially, the breakdown of it, as far as I could tell, sorry, all the communists out there.
I'm going to ruin Marxism.
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 going to 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 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 a world of renters, a world of workers, a world of people getting paid minimum wage, while the person who owns the means of production gets the most money.
And so this is a growing sentiment in the world right now.
And honestly, it's like you're working two fucking jobs.
You're getting paid minimum wage.
You know 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
20 years.
joe rogan
Or how about the most recent ones even?
And then all of a sudden you're getting hunted down.
duncan trussell
Yeah, hunted fucking, hunted down.
Now, this, and let's forget, let's just.
joe rogan
Wouldn't that start this idea as well?
Wouldn't that feed into the idea?
duncan trussell
Well, yeah.
joe rogan
Dissolving the state.
duncan trussell
Absolutely.
You're watching this shit, you know, and you're high as a kite.
You're watching this stuff.
And 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 Variety Infowars person.
You've been listening to Alex Jones.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
You've read Behold a Pale Horse, or you have any kind of connection to conspiracy prognostications, which all say at some point there's going to be martial law, troops in the streets, and you're seeing this play out.
And so, my God.
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 going to 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 to guess, it's got to 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.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And first of all, it's the way, let's just talk about the immigration thing.
The way it looks is horrific.
It looks when you're 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.
That can't be right.
That can't be the only way to do this.
unidentified
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 have been here for 20 years, like, come on.
duncan trussell
Come on.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
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 100,000 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.
Yeah.
Not a criminal.
The only crime they ever committed was coming over here as a kid.
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.
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 describing exactly the reality.
And there just isn't.
joe rogan
No one gets on board with that, man.
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.
You know, here's the argument.
And the way I just gave an argument for Marxism, which I am not a Marxist.
I'll give, I heard a great interview with the guy running ICE on NPR, which I thought was wild.
The 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 been in, I've seen these horrors that have come from the open border 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 loophole that we convey is going to produce more people trying to come over the border.
And many of those people are going to get killed.
They're going to, you know, they're drowned.
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 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 many people die.
That was his take on it, which is why they're doing this.
joe rogan
You're still going to have human trafficking.
And if you've got a very closed border and you give amnesty, they're going to let, they're going to figure out a way to get people in.
duncan trussell
That was his argument.
That's his argument.
And, you know, when he was talking about like all the awful shit he's seen and you hear it in his voice, 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 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 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.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
No one with a heart is going to go along with that.
unidentified
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 shock.
joe rogan
I really thought they were just going to 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 they're wanted.
They would go after those guys.
duncan trussell
Dude, you know.
joe rogan
That's what I thought, right?
But how many gang members have they actually arrested?
duncan trussell
No idea.
No idea.
But 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 authoritarianism, when it begins to emerge, 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 people who have crossed the border without using the right protocol and in a horrific way.
And there are gangs that have been in apartment complexes.
There's people who've seen those videos too.
And they're like, fuck yeah.
Yeah.
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 who maybe feel the same thing all of us are feeling, but also are like, but, you know, what's worse?
You know, I'm, you know.
joe rogan
This is how I think the only way to do it would be where you could get everyone on your side.
Borders are closed, and we're going to 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 to leave the country.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right.
If you've been robbing people for the last 10 years and you're an illegal, you have to leave the country, right?
That makes sense.
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 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 going to pull 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 going to get any reasonable people to want to go along with that.
Any kind person would look at that and go, this can't be the only way to do this.
duncan trussell
Damn right.
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.
Charles Bronson.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, Deathwish.
duncan trussell
Deathwish.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Right?
So there's a lot of people who are in Deathwish 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.
joe rogan
And once we just accept it.
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 could find 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.
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 tents.
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.
This 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 going to be awesome.
Everybody's going to jail.
You know what I mean?
You could do a burning man just by, guys, just if they ask, we're homeless.
And it would be fine.
And it's that's the place where it gets where this is the problem is it's like this is what Shochium Trump Rabbit called idiot compassion.
There's compassion, then there's idiot compassion.
Now, idiot compassion is thinking that leaving a bunch of people out in the streets who have earned 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, if those are like eight-year-olds, people would be helping them because they're because they're full-grown, no more help.
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's 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.
duncan trussell
That's why.
joe rogan
It's policy.
duncan trussell
It's clear.
joe rogan
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, show a video of the Oakland camps because they're some of the craziest ones in the country.
They're massive, dude.
It's like downtown LA is another one.
Downtown LA has some pockets where you're like, this is nuts.
duncan trussell
Holy shit.
It's an open-air combination, mental asylum, drug market.
unidentified
Fire.
joe rogan
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, ma'am.
joe rogan
It says this video is the Oakland, California homeless problem is beyond belief.
So it's just shanty town of crazy people.
duncan trussell
Wow.
joe rogan
The whole streets are lined with them.
duncan trussell
That is so, so nuts.
joe rogan
That's nuts, man.
duncan trussell
That is so nuts.
unidentified
Yeah.
duncan trussell
And, you know, and you could see how somebody would 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 because like talk about like the heart, the idea of a heart.
It's like, dude, look at this.
It's like this, if you...
joe rogan
It's just like a festival.
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
This is a community.
Like, look at this.
This is a garbage people.
duncan trussell
This is a little fence.
This is 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, so, um, okay, I'm going to virtue signal, but I don't mean to, but it plays into what we're talking about.
Uh, and so now before I virtue signal, I just want to say I never do this shit, unfortunately.
I should.
But my kid and I, we 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 my kid was 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?
That's really funny.
joe rogan
Oh my God, that's hilarious.
duncan trussell
I'm like, guy, coffee's good.
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 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.
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 ruins any altruism my boy's gonna have for the rest of his life I'm like what's what's your name 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 I was thirsty thank you so much and
Like just the sweetest guy ever.
And then he's like, what month is this?
unidentified
Like a time traveler.
joe rogan
Maybe he is.
unidentified
I'm reading this Richard Dolan book.
joe rogan
I should clarify.
I'm actually listening.
There's a difference.
There is a difference between reading and listening.
I listen to mostly audio books, but I will say I read a book that I didn't read.
But this one I'm listening to.
And this Richard Dolan book is all about these different hybrids of aliens and humans that have been encountered in 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 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 it has something to do with genetic engineering.
But some of them say that they're forced to have sex with female aliens, like a female sexy alien comes in.
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
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.
duncan trussell
Do you think they tried other ones before they got to like a hot woman?
joe rogan
I think 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.
It 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.
Inside of it was like a football stadium.
Fuck yeah.
And then you got down with this female alien in a sexy time room.
duncan trussell
Seven feet.
Seven beautiful feet.
And you know, you're.
joe rogan
She has seven feet.
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, the fuck, like, why does it happen?
joe rogan
Because it has to turn the guy on.
He said it was like a sexy woman, but just something was different.
duncan trussell
No, I mean, it's a sexy woman.
unidentified
Like species.
joe rogan
Remember that?
duncan trussell
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was exactly what that movie was about, right?
duncan trussell
You would.
joe rogan
That's right.
That was a good movie.
Not really, but a fun movie.
duncan trussell
No, that was fun.
joe rogan
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
I can't remember.
duncan trussell
It was, God damn, that was funny.
joe rogan
He was really good in it.
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 was 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.
unidentified
I'll clip your nuts.
duncan trussell
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 Kingsley.
not look it up so I don't look down.
Dude, I just watched this series on Netflix.
joe rogan
Hey, Hey, let me ask you this.
We're continuing our thought process about communism.
What do you think happens to New York?
Because this Mom Donnie fella is going to win.
Which I think is wild.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think it's wild.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And 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 that, you know, 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
I think that 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 seemingly on economics.
Like, it does, there is, there is, 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 going to see.
You know, that's the main thing.
We're going to see that.
joe rogan
It's a stress test.
duncan trussell
It's a stress test.
joe rogan
It's a 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.
joe rogan
Decriminalized sex work.
Holla at your boy.
The rate of freight is both mutual aid and an anti-discrimination effort.
Oh, mutual aid.
duncan trussell
Now, that's the, that is, 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's that point.
I'm not going to say it's a dog whistle, but that's essentially like one of the concepts that they work with, which I actually, I kind of, I kind of like that 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 going to 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.
And then all this bullshit about equality, it's all out the window.
duncan trussell
Out the window.
joe rogan
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 the people at the top live like kings.
duncan trussell
Here's how I think.
If I was going to make the argument, which I agree with you on meritocracy in the sense that, You know, that's the, it's the ecosystem we live in as comedians.
It's, it's, it's, 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 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 symphony, you want everyone playing in the symphony to be the best.
joe rogan
But let's talk about what we were talking about earlier when it's like a company.
And so the workers who make your products 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 you 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 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, there's profit sharing models that some people use.
Dr. Bronner's, that company is a classic example of it.
They like.
joe rogan
But I'm just talking about these other companies, the companies that suck.
Like if you really are making most of the money and you pay your workers very poorly, like that's so unnecessary.
Because I guarantee you, if you're like, let's say you're the person who owns Target.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
How much does that guy go?
duncan trussell
A lot.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
unidentified
Are you going to use it all?
joe rogan
Are you going to use it all?
unidentified
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?
joe rogan
Wouldn't you be able to get better people?
Yeah, that's a problem.
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duncan trussell
Problem.
joe rogan
It's 100% shareholders.
I mean, it's a big part of it.
You have an obligation.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you're the CEO, you have an obligation to shareholders.
And it's 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.
You couldn't buy a little piece of Apple.
You know, buy a little piece of IBM.
Imagine if that didn't exist and you could only make a business and then profit 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 DAO.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, what?
duncan trussell
The Dow Jones Industrial Average.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
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?
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
See, 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 just, we can catch rockets now thanks to Elon.
We could send high-speed video through the sky.
unidentified
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.
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 Wall Street bets.
joe rogan
It just seems so nuts.
duncan trussell
Dude, it's.
joe rogan
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 makes the whole economy steady and spin.
No, it's chaos.
duncan trussell
It's fucking chaos.
joe rogan
It's chaos.
And a lot of it's based on confidence.
Like, someone could just tweet something.
duncan trussell
Dude, 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 make sure that that's not a malfunction.
And then that leads to recessions or depressions.
And all of it is like a very complex game of D ⁇ D. 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.
They're transcendent to, dude, my, you ever had Doug Rushkoff on your podcast?
Yeah.
Dude, I used to.
joe rogan
Back in the day, right?
duncan trussell
Team Human.
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 that level of reality.
I don't think he's discounting it, but that isn't reality reality.
Reality realities.
Boots on the ground where the rubber hits the road.
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 building with a thousand other people and you don't know any of them.
duncan trussell
It's so weird.
joe rogan
You're just in your little high click.
Lock your little door.
Get your fucking jerk off.
duncan trussell
Jerk off.
Fucking just.
joe rogan
Playing video games.
duncan trussell
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.
duncan trussell
It's the American Dream.
joe rogan
I have ADHD.
I need it, Duncan.
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 Coca-Cola, 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 shooting up cocaine.
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 got to do blow to keep up with it.
unidentified
No way.
Yes.
joe rogan
That's why they started doing blow.
Oh, fuck.
Here's a real question.
We know that coca leaves have existed forever, but when did they first figure out how to make cocaine?
Let's guess.
We'll put it into perplexity, but we'll make a guess.
duncan trussell
Okay, okay.
joe rogan
It's one of our sponsors.
duncan trussell
I'm going to say, okay.
joe rogan
You have to turn coca leaves into cocaine that you could snort.
duncan trussell
I'm going to say somewhere like 1750.
unidentified
Whoa.
Really?
joe rogan
I'm going to say 1900s.
duncan trussell
I'm going to say you're probably right.
I fucked up my whole thing.
joe rogan
Let's go.
I want to say like 1902 or some shit.
Because I bet before that, they were just chewing it like those high-altitude herding people do.
You know, 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.
duncan trussell
I've heard it's great, but it sets your stomach.
joe rogan
I haven't tried it, but I do see people that do chew it.
Their teeth get all fucked up.
I tried the tea once.
duncan trussell
How was I?
joe rogan
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.
I was hanging out with Stanhope, and I was telling her, I was like, dude, I can't shut the fuck up.
This is hilarious.
duncan trussell
Okay.
joe rogan
Dried cocaine, first known use of dried cocaine.
1859.
unidentified
Close.
duncan trussell
You got it.
You got it.
That's close.
Can you ask Perplexity how to make cocaine?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's funny.
How do you make cocaine?
Do you ever see 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
Whoa, cool.
joe rogan
She hiked out with them.
duncan trussell
Wow.
joe rogan
Dude.
duncan trussell
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 on this and you're like, what?
duncan trussell
Gasoline.
joe rogan
Like, Coke is so bad.
duncan trussell
Yeah, it's not good.
joe rogan
It's fucking jet fuel.
It's snorting jet fuel.
duncan trussell
I never had a taste for it, man.
I never liked it.
jamie vernon
Perplexity actually gave her video to us.
unidentified
For how to make cocaine perfections.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
duncan trussell
Perplexity stocks just went up 50%.
joe rogan
I think she's coming on again soon.
So she's awesome.
She's been on the podcast a few times.
She's also the lady that her and her husband exposed the OxyContin Express.
They had that documentary back in the day on that.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Where it was the whole thing about Florida being this pill mill.
duncan trussell
Yeah, I see.
joe rogan
You would go in these pain management centers, but she's the one that documented it all and was showing how if you follow this road up, you just get addiction and addiction into Kentucky, and it's all coming right out of Florida because there's no database.
duncan trussell
Dude.
joe rogan
Whipsies, 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 damn.
unidentified
Dude.
joe rogan
They're trying to just give you pills, man.
duncan trussell
Fucked up.
But this is, 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 Coca-Cola, you just go one of these pharmacies.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
duncan trussell
Could I get some laudanum?
They're going to give you a nice bottle of fucking, I think it's like opium or heroin, liquid hair.
You just go back to your.
joe rogan
That's all those Wild West movies.
People got hooked on that.
duncan trussell
A lot of them.
joe rogan
You know, it was like a lot of, like the wives, like one of the wives would get hooked on it.
unidentified
Yeah.
Oh.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wasn't there a few of those movies?
duncan trussell
Oh, yeah.
It was real.
You would be this.
So this is America.
It echoes.
It keeps having these recurrences of some kind of opiate emerging into the mainstream and fucking up America or cocaine or the new drug, the algorithm high that we're all getting high on.
This is the new cocaine that we have yet to 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?
duncan trussell
Rarely.
joe rogan
A couple times a day.
duncan trussell
It's like calling this a podcast.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
Like, no one's listening to this on an iPod.
You know?
This is a computer with a phone in it.
joe rogan
Bro, you remember the iPod with the wheel?
unidentified
Clickety, clickity, clickety, clickety, clickety, clickety.
joe rogan
Can you still get those?
Why doesn't Apple just still sell those?
duncan trussell
I don't.
joe rogan
You know, just give me something where it's just my music.
It's not going to text me.
duncan trussell
Oh, dude, I know.
joe rogan
Just not going to 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
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.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everybody has their own personal Jesus.
duncan trussell
Dude, they do.
And what's better than the nice, calming effect of an ad like?
joe rogan
A tied ad.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Dude, 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 got to 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.
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.
unidentified
Jesus.
duncan trussell
Very sexy legless pregnant woman.
And then the algorithm, all I'm getting is sexy amputees.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
duncan trussell
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 indicating.
No, it doesn't mean there's a, you have a, there's 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.
Because 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 cast traded jobs, you know, normal job where you have to go in there and pretend to be somebody else all day long and you're so bored 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...
joe rogan
Well, this is what it is.
What I was saying, like, when you're on the ground, like, anytime there's a protest, a protest is too much like war.
Because you're marching together and 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 even you take a little kid fishing.
The moment they catch that fish, the moment's on the hook, they're, oh, 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 going to be able to feed yourself.
So 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.
joe rogan
All right.
You're a mob and you're about to go to war.
unidentified
And anybody that gets in front of you, fuck you, move your fucking car.
joe rogan
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.
People that would never kick a car in polite society.
They'll start kicking cars.
Fuck you.
And they get ramped up, man.
And that's what mob mentality is.
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.
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.
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 some of these giant protests in the UK, okay, if this was 500 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 along the way.
But they're going to kill most of the guards.
And then they're going to get inside and they're going to behead the king and they're going to hold it over the balcony and everyone's going to 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.
joe rogan
And that's all in our DNA.
And when we start walking down the street together chanting.
duncan trussell
Dude, so that is so true.
And I felt it before.
But that algorithm, 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
And we got to 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, I bet this guy's kids are going to be pretty upset when they find out their dad died.
You must not think these things.
And so this is what 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 0.1.5, even if it's 1% of a population, the algorithm 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 going to see some like, I don't know, a clown with breast implants, like windmilling his dick in front of a, in front of a fucking elementary school.
And you're like, fuck, what is happening?
unidentified
We got to stop these dick clowns.
duncan trussell
And you know what I mean?
And so this is this is creating so much tumult.
And that is how you get authoritarianism in.
unidentified
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Get everybody scared.
Get everybody scared.
And then.
joe rogan
That was a speculation about why the borders would be open in the first place.
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 just ultimate chaos.
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.
joe rogan
Well, you can't ever let it get that bad, first off, right?
Can't ever let it get bad.
Like if someone said, we're going to get the National Guard, we're going to go through Scottsdale, Arizona.
They'd be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Scottsdale is beautiful.
There's like nothing happening here at all.
That would be nuts.
So then 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 you.
So you got to let it get real bad.
And you got to put people in place.
If like if I was an evil wizard running the world, if I was a puppeteer, I would get super incompetent people and place them throughout the Pacific Northwest and have these people just be the most inept politicians of all time, the dumbest policies that keep ruining cities everywhere they go, but yet everybody still supports it because they're all in a cult.
And just let that play out for a decade or two.
Let it get to the point where it's just mad chaos, 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 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 know, you kind of spar sort of like Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
You don't really go at it 100%.
unidentified
And then you just keep this fucking party rolling.
joe rogan
And you have ultimate control over the entire civilization under their own decisions.
Like, they decided to have it this way.
duncan trussell
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
It was their own choice.
duncan trussell
That is.
joe rogan
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 literally what they try to do.
duncan trussell
Do you know how to do it?
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 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.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's that.
duncan trussell
It's a corporatocracy or something like that.
joe rogan
Some people get too rich.
They get too kooky control the world rich.
And I think if that's your game, okay, 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, you're probably going to 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.
Right.
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 it's been manipulating me or not because it seems to have a Hannibal Lecter's ability to control my psyche, even when I don't want it to.
We've done this study.
Seven people in my company have committed suicide because of contact with this fucking thing.
Holy shit, we got to do something.
joe rogan
Seven people.
Did you just make that up?
duncan trussell
I made it up.
joe rogan
Okay.
duncan trussell
But I mean, no, if I'm doing a movie about it, I love Crafty and movie about somebody.
joe rogan
I thought maybe you knew something about some AI suicides.
duncan trussell
No, I don't.
Well, I mean, we do have people committing suicide, but only because they updated, they patched the AI girlfriend or whatever.
And it's like basically someone you were in love with died.
I heard that happen.
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 killed himself, he doesn't believe that he killed himself.
duncan trussell
Altman said that?
joe rogan
No.
Tucker was saying this to Altman.
unidentified
Oh.
duncan trussell
What did Altman say?
joe rogan
It is.
He's like, it sounds like you're accusing me 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 there were signs of struggle.
And he was just saying a bunch of different things.
And Sam Alton's like, it sounds like you're accusing me of killing him.
It was very tense.
duncan trussell
You know.
joe rogan
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, 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's no indications that he was suicidal.
duncan trussell
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.
unidentified
Pitbulls.
joe rogan
What the fuck, dude?
duncan trussell
Dude, I know.
Like that.
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.
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 fly fishing in New York?
joe rogan
Oh, long, long, long time ago.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
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.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was on CNN.
He had his bow tie era.
duncan trussell
Remember he had a bow tie era.
Yeah.
Yeah, then 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?
Was there ever?
duncan trussell
Wasn't he?
Well, I think the sense I got was that they weren't letting him talk about certain things and he was going to keep talking about it, is the sense I got.
And I can't remember what exactly he was doing, but I think he seems to be very much against war.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
And so I think he might have been saying something.
joe rogan
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
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 just labeling it racist and offensive comments.
Like, can I just hear what he said?
duncan trussell
Perplexity.
What specifically, what were you doing?
joe rogan
I don't think they released it.
Did they release the text, the actual text?
Well, let's just keep releasing.
duncan trussell
As perplexity, what is the most racist thing you could say?
joe rogan
Okay, hold on, but here it is.
The firing came shortly after Fox News settled a $787.5 million 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, this thing, like expressing racist and vulgar language.
Like, what did he say?
unidentified
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 could get any one day, you and I, texting each other, and it could be misinterpreted in the most horrible way possible.
Not our text.
duncan trussell
No.
joe rogan
If people didn't know our sarcasm specifically.
duncan trussell
I mean, I'm sure it's not going to show whatever the fuck it was he said.
You could text.
Why don't you text him and ask him?
joe rogan
Does it say.
Yeah, I don't want to do that right now.
Not while we're on the air.
duncan trussell
Well, that's a funny text.
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...
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 the mind, the imagination goes wild.
Like, if you have the text messages, 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 said something about, you know, he has to get a great Jewish lawyer for this one.
You're like, oh, you're racist.
I don't know what he said.
duncan trussell
Well, in that void of data, my mind is projecting like American History X shit.
You know what I mean?
Like shit like that.
joe rogan
Exactly.
jamie vernon
This is one that I could find.
joe rogan
What does it say?
jamie vernon
I'll let you read it.
I didn't read it yet.
joe rogan
I don't want to read his fucking 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 hard or kill him.
I really want him to hurt the kid.
I could taste it.
joe rogan
Wait, this is a story?
This sounds like jerk-off material.
Doesn't it?
Doesn't it sound like it's going to 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, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?
What a monster!
Oh, Tucker Carlson, how could you say that?
unidentified
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
The only weird part is that's not how white men fight.
That's a crazy, that's a crazy thing to say.
But the rest of it is like a wonderful sentiment and a great perspective.
duncan trussell
Exactly.
joe rogan
And that's been my experience with him.
I like him.
He's a nice guy.
duncan trussell
I mean, it seems like it's a kind of confessional.
He's opening up with something.
This is unfortunately what my brain is thinking right now.
unidentified
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 could work on my text game.
That's like, that's a beautiful text.
joe rogan
He's a smart dude.
And he's just also, you have to take into consideration, he's in the thick of it all day long.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
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?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then we get out and talk about silly things.
duncan trussell
Yes.
joe rogan
There's no silly over there.
He's all in with these.
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, 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, 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, This is what I, the thing Ram Das would always talk about that I loved, is like there's all these channels, right?
And one channel that you, most people default to is 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 that, 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 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 stories of Krishna, which is people who are into bhaktioga, 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 demands attention to survive.
If it's not getting 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 think of the human race on earth, if you thought you 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.
And now they're stacking.
Now they develop these construction methods where they can get 100 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 100 floors.
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 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.
All of our money is after the bills is really just to buy the best stuff.
What's the best stuff?
And it's electronics, it's TVs, it's computers, it's a phone.
It's got to get better.
In order to get better, they got to 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.
You're about to give birth to God.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
Well, you're about to give birth to something.
joe rogan
Something.
Maybe it's a portal to God.
Maybe that's what it is.
The way AI opens up.
Maybe that's where.
duncan trussell
Could be.
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 the dimensions it's existing in are just purely mathematical.
And I don't know, man.
Even though it's really good, it's seeming like a person now.
Really good.
It's like whatever it is, though, I do think it's a natural thing in the sense that what you're saying, if you look at the trajectory that everything does seem to be, I don't necessarily think it's God either.
I know you don't.
joe rogan
But it might be.
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.
joe rogan
Right.
So 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.
It's like this infinite loop of 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 universe doesn't care if it's another 13.7 billion years to smush all back together again before it blows.
It doesn't care.
It doesn't have to care.
It's going to be here forever.
That doesn't mean anything to it.
So another 13, like if we got hit by an asteroid and it wiped out the human race and rats had to start from scratch and become us again, which is the theory.
The theory is that there was a tiny little mole, 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 rap.
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 by aliens?
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 something weird about human genetics that indicate that there's a specific gene.
What is it?
God, I wish I could remember what it's called.
But 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 giant explosion of cave art comes.
And you start seeing those.
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.
It's beautiful cave art by these people.
Well, this is there's this theory that this this gene emerged somewhere around 40,000 years ago.
And they thought that maybe the gene came from.
So this gene.
OK, I'm getting it now.
The gene is only transferred through genetics.
It's only transferred 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.
don't have it either.
So it seems...
duncan trussell
It couldn't be a natural mutation?
joe rogan
Right.
It couldn't be.
No, because it's the way that, I'm going to 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 the microcephalin D allel allele.
duncan trussell
I was going to say that.
I was thinking it's D-allele.
joe rogan
I think it's D-allele.
It's 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 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 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 a million years more advanced civilization.
duncan trussell
What do you think about Tim Burchett?
joe rogan
That was fascinating.
duncan trussell
Dude, but what...
joe rogan
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 Loeb.
He's standing in front of a barn flipping a screwdriver.
joe rogan
Oh, he's hilarious.
duncan trussell
He's hilarious talking about not saying there might be, but it felt like disclosure.
And it felt like the perfect way to do disclosure, which is fast and casual with a southern accent.
unidentified
Well, 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 going to go over here and get me a coffee.
joe rogan
Would you like one?
duncan trussell
Yeah, dude.
That's how you do disclosure in front of a fucking barn.
joe rogan
Let me hear him, Jay.
tim burchett
And that we, you know, 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 face of the moon than we do 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 creates a question there.
And then when we have naval personnel telling me that we have these sightings and that 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 40 miles an hour.
So I got a lot of questions about that stuff.
joe rogan
Hey, Jamie, can you look up how fast is 500 knots?
What is that in miles per hour?
How fast is 5?
Guess it, Duncan?
You think it's like 50 miles?
duncan trussell
You're humiliating me with perplexity.
joe rogan
I'm just asking.
duncan trussell
How fast?
joe rogan
How fast do you think it is?
duncan trussell
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 the sightings that I listened to this audiobook they were talking about.
It wasn't this one.
I think it was one of his...
It might have been one of his...
Either way, 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 caught it on video, and apparently there's a video of it.
duncan trussell
Why don't I want to see?
joe rogan
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 a help society.
duncan trussell
Well, what do they call that?
They call that catastrophic disclosure is what they call it.
Catastrophic.
That if we do that kind of disclosure, whatever the fuck is revealed, which is 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 super intelligence that then, as 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 dumbass.
And, you know, a few million years, a portal 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 cattle that were created by a super intelligence 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 got to 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 going to get juiced.
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 feminizing men.
And 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.
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 feeling.
But you're also like you're fulfilling this genetic thing, this genetic thing that wants you to breed.
They're going to do that in your head.
And it's going to be so much better than anything you're ever going to 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.
And you just plug that motherfucker into your brain.
And then it's like you and Sharon Stone when she was 25 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 going to unplug.
duncan trussell
Yeah, dude.
joe rogan
Well, you're never going to unplug.
And you might be in that right now.
duncan trussell
Yeah, Rocco's basilisk.
You know what I mean?
It's not just like you're going to fucking program Come Town, plug for Come Town.
You're not just going to plug yourself coming all the time.
joe rogan
Right.
duncan trussell
You're going to plug in, you know what?
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 make 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.
unidentified
Very.
duncan trussell
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 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 30s.
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 the 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.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like 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, 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 got a, 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 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.
Dude, and also the like dad Sod calls it suicidal empathy.
I think that's a great thing.
duncan trussell
Suicidal empathy?
joe rogan
Yeah, I think it's a great phrase.
duncan trussell
Well, I mean, The reality of it is if you, based on what you just said, you could create, you could make maps of these alternate realities simultaneously existing.
And for sure, if you 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 worldview.
And you're inner breeding.
I read this whole story about how wealth is like the Galapagos Islands.
Rich people, they're only encountering other rich people and their children are fucking, you know, not children, but 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.
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?
But they know the flight logs.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
Like, that's all public knowledge, right?
Isn't it?
duncan trussell
All I know is.
joe rogan
But hasn'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 in a private plane, which most of these guys do, you tell everyone knows who's on the plane.
Like you have to give your ID.
It happens all the time.
Like I have to give my ID all the time.
Even if you're on a private jet.
So they know who's on the planes.
They know.
Like 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, 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 seems really cool.
And then if there's blackmail, the blackmail is like snooking all this.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Snook in.
Come to the room with the cameras.
And next thing you know, you're doing cocaine.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
unidentified
But, you know, you're never good to get to an island.
joe rogan
You don't get to do this very often.
I mean, I'm so busy with my CEO job.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
And then next thing you know, you're donating money to whatever the fuck they tell you to.
duncan trussell
But it's like, how many senators just voted against releasing this shit, man?
It's just, it's like there's two votes that are happening.
The UFO disclosure thing, they keep voting against that.
And the Epstein list, they keep voting against that.
Right.
What, what, and also 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 like have done horrific shit to kids.
You want to be on that list, but whatever's on that list must be so destabilizing.
51 to 49.
joe rogan
Okay, the Senate voted 51 to 49 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's the 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 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.
jamie vernon
Okay.
duncan trussell
Party lines.
Let's ask perplexity.
unidentified
Why won't they release the Epstein?
jamie vernon
Eric Swalwell was, I guess.
joe rogan
I read it wrong.
I'm reading it wrong.
No, okay.
So the Democrats were not.
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.
Not only is the government shut down right now, I think that might affect it some, but they're in recess.
Congress is.
And so this, Eric Swalwell said this stuff today.
Again, it might not be true, but.
duncan trussell
It's coming to an end, guys.
I've spoken to a lot of House Republicans this week and they confided that Trump's movement support is fading.
As one told me, this Epstein bomb is about to drop.
No one wants to defend a pedo protector.
It's just a matter of time, Swalwell said in a thread.
One Republican just texted me that there's a discharge vote on Epstein.
They expect a jail break of over 100 members.
Trump will go nuts, he added.
jamie vernon
So they said this further goes on to say that if they get back, that 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 get creeped out by that.
duncan trussell
It was the creepiest few fucking weeks.
joe rogan
Did you talk to Weinstein about him?
Weinstein met him.
duncan trussell
About Daryl?
joe rogan
No.
No.
I love Epstein.
Weinstein.
duncan trussell
Oh, thank God.
That's how you're about that.
I think he's just such the best.
joe rogan
I love Daryl too.
Okay, cool.
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 21 years old.
And he, I think, I think he said she was Asian.
I don't remember.
But he said she was really beautiful.
And she was sitting on his lap and he was bouncing her up and down while they were talking.
So talking about finance and her boobs are juggling.
So 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.
duncan trussell
That's some David Lynch shit right there, man.
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 Eric said, like, right away, his vibe was that this guy was a construct.
Because Eric is all like clips.
duncan trussell
What do you mean, construct?
What do you mean, construct?
joe rogan
Like a fucking agent.
Oh, right.
He was like, this guy does not come off as a financial expert.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
At all.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
And Weinstein is an economist.
duncan trussell
Dude, it's just.
joe rogan
He's a mathematician.
He worked for Peter Thiel.
Can you give me some of that coffee, brother?
unidentified
Yeah, sure.
duncan trussell
Peter Thiel.
jamie vernon
He was a math teacher.
joe rogan
Math teacher.
duncan trussell
My palantir had.
jamie vernon
And he became whatever he became.
joe rogan
Well, he's not a dumb dude at all.
And if he thinks the guy was fake, like right away, that's his instinct.
Like 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 Ghelan trial is like she went to jail for trafficking to who knows who.
The fact that you could just put her in jail and 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 what the we hear it was underage girls.
We know that some of them were underage for sure.
And then we also know that some of them were not underage.
They were young women.
And they all have like one of them wound up dying recently.
One of them that's been a whistleblower died.
Imagine you're a young girl and you're fucking broke.
And then 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.
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 got to 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.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
Whoa, fuck.
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
See, this, this right here, this, this is scary shit.
joe rogan
Because this is how communism gets started.
This is when they attacked, they realized this is like indefensible.
And it gets to the point where people are like, maybe Mom Donnie's right.
duncan trussell
Right.
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.
If you want to find the thing that like that connects all of us, it's we really want to keep our kids safe.
We love our children.
And so 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, he, because 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 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 was.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
That was L.A. Okay.
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 she and her ladies were servicing.
Right.
And then she committed suicide.
duncan trussell
Well, you know, it's a hard job.
She probably was depressed.
You know, D.C. winners are tough.
joe rogan
I bet those people are freaks.
I bet they get down.
I bet they get down.
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 really a congressperson.
duncan trussell
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
They're really a staffer.
duncan trussell
Listen, I don't mind.
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.
duncan trussell
You know, like...
joe rogan
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'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.
joe rogan
100%.
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 so 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.
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 must be it.
Because if I'm a career politician, dude, I don't want to vote against releasing something that is going.
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 just a basic bitch sex offender and you move anywhere in Texas, 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 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 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
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 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.
It's evil.
joe rogan
And if it's a person where there's no record of them, no one's going to know they're missing.
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 gazelle out there?
You see the gazelle out there?
There's lions around.
Somehow they're all common shit, just eaten.
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.
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 agregore, 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 thing has a personality.
It's out there, dude.
It's fucking out there.
And it gets it, you know, I like, you know, 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, for lack of a better word, a demonic entity.
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.
I just.
joe rogan
I think it's into.
I think there's always got to 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.
It has to be involved in this push and pull, this yin and yang.
They've known about it forever.
You can't ever get to perfect peace.
It's not going to happen.
And 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.
I don't remember who the quote was, but there's this one of those cool-looking Indian guru dudes.
And he said, 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.
Yeah.
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.
Fuck yeah.
Maybe back out a little bit, get to someplace that's nice and calm, live with like-minded people.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Slow down.
unidentified
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
And recognize that a lot of what people are wound up about is bullshit.
A lot of it 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 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.
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, 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.
Good fucking luck.
Have so many things on your docket, so many things you have to handle, and you've got a hundred thousand homeless people.
Yeah, a hundred thousand.
Yeah, 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 got to figure out how to clean it up.
And you've already spent 23 billion on it, and no one could figure out where that money went.
duncan trussell
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
They spent 23 billion making the homeless problem worse.
Imagine if that was any other job.
Imagine if you fucking brought your car to get it fixed.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
You spent 500 bucks, it came out.
It's still fucked up.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's more fucked up than it was in one end.
duncan trussell
What did you do?
joe rogan
Well, just give me some more money and I'll make it better.
Like, hey, man, you said you were going to fix this.
You said 500 bucks.
I gave you the money.
This is fucked up now, beyond repair.
duncan trussell
Dude.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
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 Kornfield 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 in Portland.
joe rogan
That's a beautiful quote.
duncan trussell
It's a profound quote.
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 human rights violations in Yemen.
duncan trussell
Yeah, of course.
Fuck those.
joe rogan
Do you know what's happening in Myanmar?
There's been a coup, probably backed by the CIA.
duncan trussell
Well, fuck them.
Yeah, exactly.
And so you get into groupthink, you get locked into this thing.
And because humans, we do like to move together.
We like to dance together.
We like to party together, but we love to get into groups.
We're designed to be a part of a tribe.
And then what happens is 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 going to 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.
I was bullied when I was in God, when they were picking sports team.
It wasn't, it wasn't fun for old D. Trussell.
Let me tell you that.
Nobody wanted the Trussell on their team because I can't catch shit.
So, yeah, I would like to fix that.
The next thing you know, you know, 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.
I don't want big government.
Like, no.
I mean, it just seems like it's like bureaucracy.
joe rogan
The next thing you know, the Ten Commandments are in schools and you're like, slow down.
Dude, why are they in public schools?
duncan trussell
I just had this guy, Ragu Marcus on, and he was talking about, someone in 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 going to put something there, like, I think it's Danny Coleman said that, if we're going to put something there, why not put blessed are the meek?
Blessed are the peacemakers.
You know, why are we putting, like, if we're going, if we're doing Bible shit, let's do sermon on the.
joe rogan
I think 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 was printed.
Here it is.
It's laminated.
duncan trussell
It definitely is like if you like, only because if we're going to sort of look at like the like Christianity as the sort of like the flower growing from that entire lineage,
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 the whole flood thing wasn't maybe the best move.
And there's, you know, and it was also a kind of like, It lays out 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 whole cycle.
The cycle depends on, you know.
joe rogan
And it's a new total unique voice.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Muhammad was a warlord, right?
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jesus was a man of ultimate peace in a time of ultimate chaos.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Can you imagine living 2,000 fucking years ago?
duncan trussell
No.
joe rogan
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.
duncan trussell
Shut the fuck up.
joe rogan
Shooting arrows at each other and shit.
The fuck are you talking about?
duncan trussell
You're 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.
And this is all going on.
duncan trussell
Occupied city.
unidentified
Yes.
duncan trussell
It's fucking occupied.
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 got to do is tell us to fucking 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, to all of that is like, no, no.
We're not doing that shit.
And then what happens?
You get murdered.
joe rogan
Yeah, you get murdered in front of everybody.
duncan trussell
It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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.
Like, the last.
joe rogan
This is our default mode, Duncan.
duncan trussell
You mean the bangs and the music?
joe rogan
And I think 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.
I genuinely think they broke a lot of people psychologically.
And it made people just a little less kind.
You know, they got real used to being hostile.
And that was the other tribal thing, right?
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 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 silly.
Like it was different.
You know, it wasn't so overwhelmed by constant strife.
You know, 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 where we're going.
We're going in this direction.
This is really not good.
duncan trussell
Not good.
joe rogan
Really not good.
duncan trussell
Not good.
joe rogan
And the division has 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 train.
You know that lady?
duncan trussell
Oh, yeah, of course.
joe rogan
Ukrainian lady.
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 story behind that Because I want to know, like, there's some accusations that I don't know if they're necessarily true.
I don't want to say it, but the whole thing is this guy had been doing horrible shit and getting out of jail over and over and over.
And they stabbed this lady on the train.
duncan trussell
And he's one of like countless examples of that happening.
That keeps happening.
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 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 Robert Barron on my podcast.
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 Riley Reid.
You know, I've had all kinds of people on my podcast.
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 persecuted people on the planet right now?
Like, Christians get fucked up.
And he talked about it a little bit.
And then right after that, that Catholic fucking school, that Catholic at mass, at mass, the fucking trans shooter came and 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.
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, 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 and 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, son upon father, and it's scattering all of us.
You know, it's like what could be a cohesive human family is being just scattered to the fucking winds.
joe rogan
Do you know about that?
What country is it, Jamie, where there's a group of Christians are being slaughtered?
There's a country where 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 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.
duncan trussell
I just.
joe rogan
Really?
That happened too?
duncan trussell
Can you?
I'm sorry.
Before it says...
joe rogan
But before, let's find out that.
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 a recent thing that they were talking about.
duncan trussell
50,000.
joe rogan
But it's one country.
Oh, Nigeria.
That's what it is.
Right.
Okay.
Can you scroll down?
Is it 50,000 in Nigeria?
jamie vernon
So the government denies the claim.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
duncan trussell
I'd deny the claim, too, if I was the Nigerian government.
jamie vernon
There was a popping up when I was.
joe rogan
But is it just Ted Cruz saying this?
Like, did he pull this number out of his ass?
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 Maher says it's happening.
joe rogan
Well, there you go.
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 like, I mean, people are like going to Catholic churches and shooting people praying.
Like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Listen to what they say.
Nigeria deserves 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.
Nigeria.
joe rogan
But is a similar amount happening to Muslim churches?
duncan trussell
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know either.
duncan trussell
You can Google like.
joe rogan
Put it into perplexity.
Ask how many Islamic mosques have been destroyed in Nigeria since 2009.
That's a good answer.
That's 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, look at you.
You made up a number, bro.
Can you fix it?
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, actively, primarily, active, excuse me, primarily in northeastern Nigeria, has deliberately targeted both mosques and churches during attacks, killing worshipers and destroying places of worship.
duncan trussell
17,000 churches.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But what does it say about how many mosques?
duncan trussell
And it's the worst competition of all time.
joe rogan
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
17,000 churches destroyed.
joe rogan
So it seems like they're all experiencing terrorism.
That is true.
But it is much more pointed in the direction of the Christians.
duncan trussell
Dude, I mean, this has to give you pause because, like, you know, any secularist out there, any anti-Christian person out there, and there's a surprising amount, a surprising amount.
Horrified that I talked to this bishop.
joe rogan
Do you think of it as 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 $20 so that their bills are going to be paid.
duncan trussell
True.
joe rogan
They tell them that.
They tell them, if you give me whatever you can give me, God has promised a tenfold return.
A tenfold return.
unidentified
You give me $200, you will get thousands.
joe rogan
Thousands.
And they just start going off.
duncan trussell
Planetary people.
joe rogan
They just start going off.
Give me $10,000.
duncan trussell
I will bring you $100,000.
But the problem, 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 stadiums filled with their worshipers, they're flying around in private jets, driving in Rolls Royces.
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.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
They think of all kinds of weird stuff when it comes to Christianity.
duncan trussell
Dude, I get it.
It's slippery.
But that, this is, there's a scientific approach here that you could take, which is go to, I can't believe I'm about to say this.
Go to a Catholic mass.
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?
unidentified
What were they saying?
duncan trussell
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 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 could 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.
duncan trussell
Dude, I told you.
joe rogan
It's not all of them, but it'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 hard.
joe rogan
It's so dark.
duncan trussell
It's horrible.
joe rogan
It's so dark.
And it was, you know, like, that was one of the criticisms, the 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 country.
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 Catholics all agree on like this or that.
Of course, 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 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 really entertaining.
Got a wife and a family.
Tell stories about his family.
That's a lot more normal and engaging and it makes more sense.
Totally.
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 because they were fucking rock stars.
jamie vernon
They don't look at it as a rule.
They call it a discipline.
That's how they officially have to be disciplined.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, and that discipline's 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 also secret babies that nuns have.
duncan trussell
One of the popes.
One of the popes.
Dude, you know how I know it's one of the popes that had secret babies?
Because I talked to a priest about it and he was telling me.
joe rogan
How many did he have?
duncan trussell
I don't know.
I was like, I've had a few drinks.
I can't remember.
joe rogan
It's nuts.
It's nuts to require.
And it's going to attract sexual deviance.
duncan trussell
100%.
You got to be careful out there, man.
And it's like anytime there's hierarchy, anytime there's bureaucracy, anytime there's organization, especially anytime there's mysticism, it's going to be infiltrated.
That's an inevitability.
And my hope.
joe rogan
Imagine if they just opened it up where they said, listen, we're going to drop that.
You guys can have wives now.
And those poor dorks are going to 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 a priest is like, I always wanted to find a wife and have a family before it's too late.
duncan trussell
Oh, my God.
No idea.
I do agree with you, though.
joe rogan
Never even seen a tit.
Do you need that?
My buddy's a real priest.
Like, really, really, really got into it when he was young.
Decided when he was a boy, I'm going to keep my thoughts pure.
duncan trussell
It's wild.
joe rogan
All for Jesus.
duncan trussell
Never seen a boob.
joe rogan
Never touched an erect nipple.
unidentified
Oh.
duncan trussell
Never felt it.
Oh.
Never.
joe rogan
Never kissed a lady.
She wants to kiss you back.
duncan trussell
Lapped up squirt.
joe rogan
Poor boy.
Dude, it's praying to Jesus.
And then all of a sudden at 40, someone comes along.
Like Steve Curl in that movie.
40-year-old virgin.
duncan trussell
Oh, dude.
unidentified
I don't know, man.
duncan trussell
Like, I don't...
That part of it, to me, is always seem 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.
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 it's intense.
And I do think, like, as a spiritual guide to people, 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.
joe rogan
It's primal, right?
duncan trussell
You don't want to be around that.
That's Kali, 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.
I do feel like you're by not letting them have families, you are kind of keeping them out of this part of the human experience that is really good for people.
Like you need that.
You need to know what that's like.
It's important.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
It helps you grow as a human.
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 a terrible idea.
I'm like, people had people before they figured out doors.
That's why we're here.
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?
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.
unidentified
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.
Make cool people that other people want to hang out with.
unidentified
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 living in a fucking terrible state, terrible state of life, right?
You could be in the worst, most abusive environments.
And that's the real problem in this world 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.
And your life, you got lucky.
You live with nice people.
unidentified
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
But they got fucked.
And if we allow that to continue to happen, you're always going to 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 can figure out a way to transform crime-ridden, gang-ridden neighborhoods into places where people are thriving and happy.
duncan trussell
There's got to be a way.
joe rogan
People like that place that I was telling you about in Oakland, that video, where they're driving through the shantytowns, and then immediately they get to this totally clean environment that's run by different politicians.
There's got to be a way to do that.
There's got to be a way to engineer our society in a more positive direction.
There's got to be.
duncan trussell
Dude, the first step is you've got to turn your back on the state.
You cannot believe the state is going to do this because I think people are waiting for a top-down solution.
They're waiting for a man, what's his name?
The New York dude.
They're waiting for someone to like sign the right series of documents and everything's fine.
And meanwhile, they're like in their fucking high rise with crusted jizz on their belly posting shit on Reddit.
It's like, really, this is going to be all hands on deck.
It's like maybe the federal government is going to figure out the perfect way to educate and house and clothe 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 government shut down the national parks, there's trash.
I saw a picture trash around a dumpster.
And it's like, 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 is 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.
unidentified
Not going to happen.
duncan trussell
You can count on it.
So in the meantime, what do we do?
And, you know, that's, as I was like watching Doom Scroll and looking at all 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.
He's telling the stupid story at the time he gave up sandwiches to someone with his kid like I did in the beginning.
This is just people out there.
They interview this guy.
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.
joe rogan
That exists.
duncan trussell
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 your algorithm.
joe rogan
If you got more of that in 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, instead of flapping our fucking like 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 suck at all most things, dudes.
But it's like, it's not that hard to like give water to people out there.
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 you know what?
joe rogan
It's not that I don't.
duncan trussell
Do you believe in demons?
joe rogan
I'm agnostic on the possibility of demons.
I definitely believe in good and evil, though.
I believe there's 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.
unidentified
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 you're in a foreign country and you're killing a bunch of people and then you take over a town and then 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.
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.
Yeah.
That is evil.
Like, I had Jack Carr, the author, on the podcast yesterday.
duncan trussell
What did he write?
joe rogan
He wrote The Terminalist, that Amazon series.
He's a great.
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.
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.
He says, you can feel the evil.
He said, you feel it.
He said, especially the kids, the sons, Uday and Kusay, they were monsters, serial killer monsters.
duncan trussell
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
They 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.
duncan trussell
Fuck that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
duncan trussell
Fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think that scene in Game of Thrones, like, do 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 throat and feed people to his dogs.
That's a real thing, man.
He really did that.
Yeah.
That is 100% evil.
Now, is that demons inside of him?
I don't know.
I tend to think, I tend to think evil is in all of us.
It's just, does it get cultivated?
And what cultivates 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.
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.
I mean, if that's not evil, like, what is?
Like, what is it?
I mean, 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.
joe rogan
Wow.
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'd 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, 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 people that are trying to stop the siege.
And those are the people that are getting killed.
And so they're like human shields.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
And then they're trampling over their dead bodies to destroy the entire city.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
If that's not evil.
If that's not evil, like what's evil?
Like, to them, that was their destiny.
duncan trussell
And that happens.
joe rogan
Genghis Khan said, 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 takedown.
joe rogan
See if you can find that.
But it's from like the, do you know that what they know about the Mongols came from like one diary that they found in like the 1800s?
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 killed the people that took him there so that they couldn't tell.
And then more people came and killed the people that killed the people so that they couldn't tell.
duncan trussell
Right.
Didn't they kill themselves after killing the people too?
joe rogan
Like it was just like something nutty like that.
It's like fucking wild.
duncan trussell
Fucking wild.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
I saw it.
joe rogan
What is that quote that he had about God sending me?
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 Hitler as evil, right?
But Genghis Khan's just this conqueror guy.
duncan trussell
Right.
joe rogan
But meanwhile, he killed 75.
unidentified
He changed the carbon footprint of Earth.
joe rogan
When they do, like, when they look at the carbon footprint of Earth, during his time, cities regreened.
There's a noticeable amount because cities were destroyed and 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 an envoy to go and talk to whoever was running Jin China.
And along the way, they thought they saw 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.
duncan trussell
We're doing pretty good.
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 what's interesting is people, I think, like around the world, regardless of the culture that you're raising, 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 going to.
Do that.
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 don't.
We're going to 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.
Yeah.
It would have been fun to be Genghis Khan, though, right?
joe rogan
Could you imagine being in that posse and knowing what you're going to do?
And also just the fucking, the fact that some insane percentage of people worldwide have his DNA because he had that many kids.
unidentified
Which is fucking, when he's not killing, he's just fucking.
joe rogan
That's all he lived for.
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 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 them.
And then just fucking come down off the hills and engulf them.
They did brilliant shit, man.
They waited people out.
duncan trussell
Is there a...
joe rogan
They drank the blood of their horses to stay alive.
They ate their horses.
They ate each other.
Apparently, 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.
unidentified
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 things they did was they had some rule where with kings and emperors, they weren't allowed to chop them up.
So they would kill them in different ways instead of attacking them with swords or whatever they were doing.
They would do that.
Or sometimes they would just stack their bodies and then build 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 crush 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 going to complain about it.
Like, not even shit.
joe rogan
You probably get off on it by now.
He'd probably been doing it for a decade.
He'd 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 Temujin.
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.
Wasn't his family really poor?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The whole story, it's crazy.
His mother had to run because his father was killed and his mother had to run.
They barely survived.
They were left out there to die.
duncan trussell
But don't people...
He's sort of beloved...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
That's what's crazy.
There's statues of him in Mongolia.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But listen, 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.
duncan trussell
Charisma?
I thought I mishearded.
joe rogan
Charisma was a country.
duncan trussell
Okay.
joe rogan
It was the Khurismian 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 was Chwarisma with a Q?
Chorism?
Chorism?
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
But anyway, this dude was seeing whether or not they could sack jinn.
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 into 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, like if they went into 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...
joe rogan
I think it's something like that.
Present day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from 1077 to 1231.
Interesting.
So that was the Khwarizmian Empire.
duncan trussell
Whoa.
joe rogan
So from 1077 to 1231, first as vassals of the Seljuk Empire and the Khwara, Kitai, Western Lao dynasty, from circa 1190 as independent rulers up until the Mongolian conquest in 1219 to 1221.
Holy fuck.
The Mongolians took him over.
Dude, they fucking took over everything, dude.
They took over everything.
duncan trussell
This is why I think people really get weirdly disturbed by Graham Hancock because 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.
They were talking, having conversations.
joe rogan
Sipping tea.
duncan trussell
Sipping tea.
joe rogan
Having fun with their boys.
duncan trussell
Never thinking, like, you know, at some point, people are going to be staring at the ruins of our temples, scratching their chins, wondering what this means.
Dude, that, to me, is another unifying thought or planetary unification.
It's like, man, you guys, nobody to this day knows who built those fucking pyramids.
unidentified
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, Mr. Beast is going to be filming episode of his YouTube show.
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.
That's, oh, that sucks.
You should.
joe rogan
But also, I didn't want to do it that way.
If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it for quite a few days, and I'm going to do it with like an expert, like a Ben 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.
I would do that.
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
Can we, I just, no, I just read it.
joe rogan
I had him on the podcast.
There's labyrinths that they've discovered that are underneath, that are historic.
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 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.
Damn it.
So 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?
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, it's all water.
You have to actually go through the water and then below that to where the labyrinths are.
duncan trussell
Dig through the mud.
joe rogan
They might actually be able to channel underneath it, they think, and go below the water table and then go to it because it appears like the water is not in the labyrinth itself.
duncan trussell
Labyrinth.
joe rogan
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.
This is real.
joe rogan
40 meters, dude.
This guy is so legit.
Ben is 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 weird things.
duncan trussell
I thought that was debunked.
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 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 accurate.
duncan trussell
Give me a missing break, man.
How is that?
Because I was so excited when that came out.
I'm like, I knew it.
I've seen it on ketamine.
And then...
joe rogan
What did you see?
duncan trussell
It's hard to explain.
It's like structures.
joe rogan
Underneath the pyramids.
duncan trussell
Let me reiterate.
This was in the K-hole.
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
Maybe you remote viewed.
duncan trussell
Maybe I remote viewed.
It was very exciting to see.
joe rogan
And 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 going to do with the homeless problem.
unidentified
Oh, and Joe Rogan solves the homeless problem.
joe rogan
Maybe that's what the alien agenda is.
Well, I mean, they power the city.
We'll take care of your problems.
duncan trussell
Dude, this is real.
I am not comfortable with this comet Atlas.
I know.
unidentified
And like, you know, I've got Avi Loeb coming on to talk about it.
duncan trussell
He's amazing.
I had him on my podcast a long time ago.
He put up with my.
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, 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 so insane.
They should open that up.
duncan trussell
I mean, it seems like they just that's really weird.
There are, did you see the images that just came in though?
The Europeans got an image of it.
joe rogan
It's weird looking.
duncan trussell
It's weird looking, but I don't know what a comet looks like.
joe rogan
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 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 70 seconds long, some very strange coded signal that was 70 seconds long.
duncan trussell
You know what else is weird?
Is Jeremy Corbel said a bunch of people are going to start saying there's a mothership coming to Earth and don't believe him?
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 got to tell people why you know something like that.
You can't just say that.
duncan trussell
Well, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Like, how do you know?
How do you know that it's not really a mothership?
How do you know they're going to say it's a mothership?
duncan trussell
Well, Corbel, he's got to do this tightrope walk because somehow he does have inside contacts, but if he says too much, 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.
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
It's so weird.
joe rogan
I think it's a slow trickle of disclosure.
It's a slow recognition that we're not alone.
That they've calculated that the only way to do this and not disrupt society entirely.
You know how put off?
Do you know?
duncan trussell
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you know that story about how when he was 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.
He brought in a bunch of scientists and a bunch of scholars.
And 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 it's going to do to the financial world, what it's going to do to the religious world, what it'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.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
duncan trussell
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 this is 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.
I mean, but that's the portal that opens up.
That's the Christ.
Or the Antichrist.
joe rogan
The Christ consciousness.
Oh, well, come on, Duncan.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
The Antichrist?
duncan trussell
People are going to buy more tickets.
They're going to buy more tickets in my movie.
Nobody wants to see that.
unidentified
It's true.
joe rogan
Nobody wants to see that.
It all works out in the end movie.
unidentified
Fuck that.
joe rogan
The battle for Satan.
unidentified
Dun dun dun.
duncan trussell
Listen, man.
Well, I think that 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 funny.
joe rogan
I love you to death.
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 talking on the phone when you were the guy taking the phone calls for availabilities at the comedy store.
duncan trussell
We did this on the phone.
joe rogan
Yeah, we basically did.
We started talking.
You would tell me, man, have you heard about this?
I'm like, no, what is it?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We'd have these long-ass conversations on the phone.
Yeah, while you were working.
duncan trussell
Hours.
unidentified
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.
If you're around tonight, come do the show.
Can you?
Are you out?
duncan trussell
I can't because I got to wake up at four, like 3 a.m. to fly.
joe rogan
Oh, where are you going?
duncan trussell
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, Lord.
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.
What?
joe rogan
Yeah.
duncan trussell
Tacoma.
joe rogan
Tacoma.
Coming in.
duncan trussell
I'm going to be in Tacoma.
I'm going to be in Portland.
joe rogan
There it is.
duncan trussell
Oh, thank you.
joe rogan
Tacoma Comedy Club.
duncan trussell
Keep going.
joe rogan
That's an awesome spot.
duncan trussell
The Omaha.
Funnybone.
unidentified
I heard that.
duncan trussell
Helium in Portland.
unidentified
Campbell.
joe rogan
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.
unidentified
Yeah.
duncan trussell
He's each one of us.
joe rogan
Oh, they got a Richmond one, too.
Nice.
And then all of it is available at duncantrussell.com.
Thank you, Tour.
duncan trussell
My man.
unidentified
Thank you, Joe.
Love you.
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