#1444 - Duncan Trussell

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Demons be gone.

Duncan Trussell (0:10)

Be gone, demons.

SPEAKER_3 (0:12)

Be gone.

SPEAKER_4 (0:12)

Leave this studio.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Leave this planet.

Duncan Trussell (0:17)

Leave our universe.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Leave. This is legit sage from a Native American woman.

So we're purifying this room.

Duncan Trussell (0:39)

Please, God, bless this room.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

And Odin too, just in case they were wrong.

Duncan Trussell (0:44)

That's what I was referring to.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

They abandoned Odin. He was around first. You know, you got to think of all the gods that everybody believed in. And they're like, I'm not so sure about Thor.

Duncan Trussell (0:52)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Then they let him go. What if Thor was legit?

Duncan Trussell (0:56)

And he's still out there, just like somebody who just fell out of fame as a god.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

He's like, don't you fucker see the lightning?

Duncan Trussell (1:04)

Yeah. That's me throwing bolts.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

He's like one of those guys and you go to Vegas and you see one of those billboards for a strange casino and you're like, oh, that guy. Yeah.

Tony Orlando and Dawn. I remember them.

Duncan Trussell (1:20)

Thor's at the Mirage.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

Thor's doing a residency. You motherfuckers, check out the thunder.

That's actually caused by atmospheric conditions. No, you fucks.

Duncan Trussell (1:32)

Thor's on cameo.

Jamie (1:33)

I make that.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Someone had a really good point about that. Some atheist was arguing against religions.

It might have been Sam Harris. Probably was Sam Harris. It might have been Richard Dawkins. But he basically said, there's 99 different gods, the people who believe in the Christian God don't believe in. And then he goes, atheists just take it one step further.

We just one God away. That's what he was saying.

Duncan Trussell (2:07)

That's cool.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

I get confused with being an atheist all the time. I do not believe I'm an atheist. I believe I'm open to everything.

I don't believe stories about people coming back from the dead, because they're written by people. Right?

Duncan Trussell (2:25)

Yeah, man. I mean, that's right. And also they're supposed to function on more than the surface level. They're supposed to be a kind of fractal that has inside of it a lot of symbols related to just human existence. Yes. They're not meant to be so much taken literally.

That's when you embarrass yourself on either side.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

Exactly. On either side. That's a really good point. And the translations apparently are so difficult to do.

Duncan Trussell (2:49)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

Apparently, especially Old Testament, when they translated the Old Testament, they had to translate it. Think of all the different languages it had to go through. It was Latin and Greek and German and English and all these different languages that are so different. Like, have you ever used the translate button? Like, I follow a lot of Russian fighters.

And their Instagram feed, they write in Russian. And I'm always like, oh, translate. It's a really cool feature.

But you can tell it's not exactly what they meant because it's all fucked up because their language is different. Like, the way they structure sentences is different. So English doesn't just plug and play. You know, it's like sticking a USB 3 into a USB A. Like, hey, this doesn't really fit.

Duncan Trussell (3:32)

Right. Now add time.

Add thousands of years and scrolls.

Joe Rogan (3:36)

And kings who wanted things changed. The King James version.

Duncan Trussell (3:40)

What?

Who? It's the best. That's my favorite one to read on acid. That's the one King James Book of John, baby. Hit that on acid. It's so wonderful. It's so trippy because it's like, that's when I really like Christianity clicked for me, regardless of whether it's real or not. But that's when I was like, oh, OK, I get this. Because the Book of John, when you read it, you're like, well, someone wrote it.

I don't know who wrote it. And whoever fucking wrote this, their mind was blown, man. Like this wasn't written by someone who was just like a normal person. This is a person who was freaking out in the most intense way. And so to me, that's what I love about it is it's like something about how old it is and the distortions, the historical distortions, the warping of it produce this kind of awesome glitched out mosaic of if nothing else, human consciousness 5,000 years ago where our minds were. That's trippy by itself, regardless of whether or not a person who could like graze the dead and walk on water was walking about.