#1953 - Duncan Trussell

Duncan Trussell (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Hello Joe, here we go.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

How you feeling?

Duncan Trussell (0:23)

Good, dude.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Safe and effective?

Duncan Trussell (0:25)

Yeah, for sure. I feel safe-ish right now.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

I feel safer.

Duncan Trussell (0:29)

I do love that you have the boosters in the, when you come in, you get all your guys' boosters. I appreciate that, man.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

You imagine that they used to use these things to protect themselves from disease. They'd fill the tube, the beak up with herbs.

Duncan Trussell (0:43)

I can't imagine it. I could totally imagine, in the time of the Black Plague, doing anything you could possibly do to not get the Black Plague.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

So do you think that people just walked around like this all day?

Duncan Trussell (0:57)

I think it was doctors. I don't think it was... All your doctors. Yeah, I don't think it was...

I don't think most people could probably afford these masks. Really? But I think if you were a plague doctor, you'd throw one of these things in and just walk into a fucking house where someone's got bubonic plague. Can you imagine dying a bubonic plague and this is like the last thing you see, is this?

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Oh my God.

Duncan Trussell (1:19)

I will pop your boil now. Let me extract pus from your boil.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

Imagine being a person who has to go visit people that has bubonic plague. You're a doctor, you don't have it, and you're gonna go treat a person who has it with what?

Like what are you treating them with back then?

Duncan Trussell (1:38)

That's a great question. I mean, I met probably like crazy medieval shit.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Yeah, chicken blood.

Duncan Trussell (1:43)

Chicken blood leeches. Yeah. Yeah, probably mercury or something, pouring mercury into their mouth.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

What kind of fucking medicine did they even have back then?

Duncan Trussell (1:53)

Well, I think they had like, it's like different theories of disease.

You know, you can look at like the different theories of disease. Some of them appear again. Like one of them is like diseases are, like viruses are a lie.

Disease isn't caused by VRI. Disease is caused by like dysfunction in the system, basically. So viruses have nothing to do with it at all. And so they look and that's where you get like all of like folk medicine and stuff like that. I think it was, what's it called? Humors? It was called humors.

You've got three different humors in you. And if one's out of balance, then that you treat that humor, like blood or like red and then a black humor. And then I can't remember the other one. So you would like try to identify what's destabilizing the system and treat that using like what a mouse teeth.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

Dude, they're going to look back at us someday, going these fucking idiots.

Like, oh my God, they have to have inert viruses and then inject them into their body to protect themselves from viruses. They didn't even have genetic revisitation technology where they like look at all the possible allergies and issues you could ever have and just eliminate it from your body.

Duncan Trussell (3:16)

Well, they're going to be like, they gave x-rays?

Joe Rogan (3:18)

Yeah.

Duncan Trussell (3:18)

They just blasted people with radiation back then. Why would they fucking do that?

Joe Rogan (3:22)

Yeah.

Duncan Trussell (3:23)

They're going to do that. I imagine they're going to like look at like, you know, you look at infection pre-penicillin and it was so serious to get an infection. You are fucked.

And then penicillin comes around and suddenly it's like, whatever. Oh shit, my cut got infected. You go to the doctor, get your penicillin.

Joe Rogan (3:43)

Yeah.

Duncan Trussell (3:44)

And you're better.

That thing would have killed you, you know, a hundred years ago. So it's probably going to be the same for things that we think like cancer or, you know, those kinds of diseases. You'll just like, oh shit, cancer.

Joe Rogan (3:56)

Yeah, like think about how many people over the course of history must have died from like staph infections.

Duncan Trussell (4:01)

So many.

Joe Rogan (4:01)

Oh my God.

Duncan Trussell (4:03)

Cats killed so many people just scratching them.

You'd just be dead. You just-

Joe Rogan (4:07)

Cat scratch fever.

Duncan Trussell (4:09)

Cat scratch fever, no way to treat it. Imagine that, like no way to treat infections. We just take it for granted.

SPEAKER_3 (4:14)

Yeah.