#1313 - Duncan Trussell

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Episode 1313, ladies and gentlemen, that's a number. It's a very important number.

Duncan Trussell (0:23)

Very important.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Tell me why.

Duncan Trussell (0:24)

Why 1313 is important?

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Yes.

Duncan Trussell (0:27)

Well, we got two 13s back to back, so it doubles the normal potency of 13, which is already a mystical number, which terrifies people in the West. They think it's unlucky, but in Tibetan Buddhism, it's considered a very lucky and auspicious number. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

I was staying in a hotel in Vegas. They have no 13th floor, and I don't think they had a fourth floor either.

Duncan Trussell (0:54)

The fourth?

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Yeah. There's something about some cultures. The number four is unlucky.

Duncan Trussell (1:00)

How many cultures do we get to influence our buildings these days? That's what's crazy. And what's crazier is at some point, someone convinced a person, listen, can we just not do a 13th floor?

And they listen to him, and they're like, all right, I guess we'll just go from 12 to 14

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Shooter Jennings has it in a song. When I check in to 1410, I know what room I'm really in.

Duncan Trussell (1:23)

Oh, that's cool.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

Yeah.

Duncan Trussell (1:25)

Yeah. Well, you know what? That's what's so funny about it, is because that's the whole problem, isn't it? Is people want to pretend they're not in the 13th floor when they fucking know they are.

Instead of just acknowledging, this is where I'm at. No, no, no.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

We're in the 14 We're 14

Duncan Trussell (1:42)

It's 14 Call the 14th floor. Just call it, and they'll be that.

Dude, when I was in college, we had to do service to get the degree. You had to go do service overseas. So we went to India, to Dharamsala, and we taught the monks English. And I was sitting, listening, overhearing a monk in a conversation with someone teaching him English, and the person's trying to explain to him how there isn't a 13th floor in buildings, in the west. And the monk was like, does it levitate? Like is it missing?

How do they do it? It was genuinely perplexed. It was like a magical thing.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

Well, in a culture that forces its citizens, if they want to run the country, you have to believe in something that, whether you're a Christian, or whether you're a Baptist, or Mormon, whatever you are, there's certain parts of your religion that if you just don't want to analyze them, just want to put them out on paper, and say, okay, did this really happen? Did this guy really die and come back to life?

Is everybody agreeing on this? Everyone's agreeing that a zombie, a guy became a zombie, and he came back three days later, and we're cool with that. This is a part of the doctrine. So, this is like a part of running the country.

I don't think you can be an atheist in this country. I don't think we would let you run it.

Duncan Trussell (3:13)

I think you do have to have some affiliation with some religion or another problem. Yeah, and right now, it seems to be like it needs to be Christianity, like there needs to be like every president that has aligned themselves with…

Joe Rogan (3:26)

It's like we're trapped in this thing that you are when you're young. You know this thing you are when you're young, where you're looking at the people that are older than you? You're looking at society and you're like 16, and you're just starting to think, God damn, I'm going to be graduating from high school soon. What am I going to do with my life? You know, you're filled with so much angst.

But you always think, yeah, this shit doesn't make any sense, but one day it will. And one day it will be the grownups.

And will be the ones that get to make the rules and will go, hey, we're doing things all wrong, folks. We're doing things out of momentum, rather than out of logic. But that time never comes. And then all of a sudden you're like you or I, we're middle-aged. We're middle-aged men. I'm a 51-year-old man. I'm almost 52 We're middle-aged.

If we're lucky, if we're super lucky, reality, we're closer to death.

Duncan Trussell (4:19)

Yeah, for sure.

Joe Rogan (4:20)

For sure. So, and we're still trapped by this thing where you have to pretend you absolutely know. Look, live your life like Jesus is real. Live your life like you want to follow those tenets, and you'll probably live a better life.