#1464 - Duncan Trussell

Joe Rogan (0:01)

It's hilarious that your biggest concern was getting stuff in your beard and me not telling you about it. You've got a strange one going on, man, because you kind of like trimming the sides a little bit, and then you're puffing out here in sort of a bow tie fashion.

Duncan Trussell (0:13)

You're looking at this struggle between who I was and who I am.

Why am I doing this? It's the pandemic. I got like, let the pandemic beard go all the way, and yet there's still this sense of like, we've got to keep civilization.

I can't, if I get, what's next if it goes all the way up? You know, what's gonna start happening? I'm already gardening now. What's next? You know, where does it go? How crazy can you go in a compound?

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Now that you're a father and this craziness went down and your protection instincts, protective instincts kick in, have you been thinking about moving elsewhere?

Duncan Trussell (0:50)

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I was thinking about that.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Like Asheville?

Duncan Trussell (0:53)

Before, yep, we've thought Asheville.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Asheville's nice.

Duncan Trussell (0:57)

We've thought Georgia, we've thought, it's a constant consideration, especially when you have a kid. And aside from like apocalyptic prepper bullshit, there's just a general feeling of like, I think if I were a little boy, I would wanna be in a place where there's creeks and it's a place I could run and like woods and forests and like stuff like that. So there's that consideration too.

God, I hope my wife isn't listening to this because she's always like, maybe we should move somewhere in the country. And I'm like, we gotta stay in LA. We gotta stay here now, especially it's like, well, do we?

Joe Rogan (1:36)

Well Duncan, you now have a successful Netflix show, number two in the country on IMDB.

Duncan Trussell (1:42)

On Rotten Tomatoes.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

Whatever it is.

Duncan Trussell (1:44)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Same thing.

Duncan Trussell (1:45)

And I don't know what that means necessarily, but yeah, yeah, it's true. I can't believe it, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

Is IMDB even TV shows? It's internet movie database?

Duncan Trussell (1:56)

Is it? I'm not sure what it is.

It's like IMDB is odd, but yeah, the show is-

Joe Rogan (2:00)

More successful show.

Duncan Trussell (2:01)

I guess right now it seems like people like it.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

It is so weird, dude. Your show is so weird.

Duncan Trussell (2:06)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

It's so Duncan. It's the most Duncan thing you've ever done.

Duncan Trussell (2:09)

Yes, it is.

Joe Rogan (2:10)

It really is great.

Duncan Trussell (2:11)

I got lucky that they let me do that, too. That's cause Netflix-

Joe Rogan (2:15)

Tell people the name of it real quick.

Duncan Trussell (2:17)

It's called The Midnight Gospel.

And I've watched some of your episodes where you're talking about the way things are changing cause a podcast or streaming or whatever. And I think the fact that the show exists is a testament to that shit, that change. Because a subscription-based service versus any old TV, they've got a lot more creative freedom and they could take bigger risks than coming into a- Look at that.

Joe Rogan (2:46)

That's so crazy.

We got a keyboard with the fucking witch hat. Oh my God, that's so crazy. That's so Duncan.

Duncan Trussell (2:54)

Yeah, and it's Pendleton Ward, who made Adventure Time. He listens to my podcast and he just, I don't know, we had a really great collaboration and that's a lot of Pendleton and it's a lot of 150 other people at Tipmouse Studios.

Jesse Moynihan, just these brilliant people, like Mayfield, who are like, who just, also by the way, a non sequitur, when we were making it at Tipmouse, one of the really weird things was walking by an animator and they're watching your podcast while they animate The Midnight Gospel. You know, it's one of those weird, it's not like a deja vu, but it's like, that's my friends. That's, you know, that's just so many odd moments like that. But yeah, that's not just, that's, whenever you see any animated thing, you're looking at a squadron of brilliant, eccentric artists here.

Joe Rogan (3:50)

Or Asian slaves.

Duncan Trussell (3:51)

Yeah, a lot of people don't know that they send it overseas, and we, they didn't send ours, they let us do it in house.

Joe Rogan (3:57)

That's so nice to know you're not supporting Asian slavery.

Duncan Trussell (4:00)

Is it really slaves?

Joe Rogan (4:01)