#2009 - Duncan Trussell

Duncan Trussell (0:14)

Let's go.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

What's happening?

Duncan Trussell (0:15)

Hello, doctor.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Hello, doctor.

Duncan Trussell (0:19)

Hello.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

I feel good to be in a lab coat. It feels like my opinion means more.

Duncan Trussell (0:24)

Dude, it does. I mean, this is freaking incredible. Like, you don't realize the power in costumes until you got a lab coat on. Like, if we were walking around a CVS, people would ask us for advice. They would probably be like, is this the right spray for me?

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Isn't it amazing?

Duncan Trussell (0:41)

It's amazing.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Like, what is the purpose of a lab coat? Like, why this particular coat? What is this?

Does this provide any protection? Is it good for the act?

Duncan Trussell (0:52)

You want monkey blood on your good shirt? Like, you gotta wear the lab coat because, like, you get blood.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

In the late 19th and 20th, early 20th centuries, when many scientific breakthroughs happened, the white lab coat started to symbolize cleanliness and scientific rigor.

Not only it made doctors and scientists easily distinguishable, but it also made spotting any contamination easier. That makes sense.

Duncan Trussell (1:16)

Was that a problem back then, mixing up your doctor with your scientist? Is that a real problem?

Joe Rogan (1:21)

Is that what they're saying?

Duncan Trussell (1:23)

It says it makes doctors and scientists more easily, oh, together, because they're both wearing, oh, it's not like costumes, like doctor costumes, scientists.

Joe Rogan (1:31)

Right, you go to a doctor, doctor, help me, I'm not that kind of doctor. I study nuclear atoms.

Duncan Trussell (1:39)

I like that that acknowledges that this is a kind of ceremonial outfit. It's a priest's robe, because it's symbolic more than practical for some people.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

Well, there's a bunch of those, right? Like the judge's robe.

Duncan Trussell (1:55)

Oh my God, that's so weird.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

How weird is that? Because if you had a guy who's dressed like in a golf shirt with like shorts on and a pair of Nikes, and he's like ruling judgment on things, you'd be like, fuck that guy. Who's that guy? He's a regular guy.

A dude who's dressed like Joe Dirt.

Duncan Trussell (2:21)

Also the hammer. They bang the hammer to like signify that justice has been served.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

What a weird trick.

Duncan Trussell (2:29)

That is a weird, I mean, this is, when you realize how all of society has got occult aspects to it, like those are people in ceremonial clothes, banging a ceremonial hammer.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

If not occult, definitely cult.

Duncan Trussell (2:47)

Well, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

Yeah.

Yeah, what's the root of cult and occult? Like, what is the connection to those two words?

Duncan Trussell (2:58)

The devil.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Satan.

SPEAKER_4 (3:00)

Satan. There's gotta be some kind of connection, right?

Joe Rogan (3:08)

The fascinating thing about cults is that when they get to a certain size, we stop calling them cults.

Duncan Trussell (3:13)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

Like, they're really successful. The idea is that there's no such thing as a successful cult, and that's really just not true. Okay, the words cult and occult are popular terms that should not be confused with one another. So what are the differences between them? The term cult typically is used by the secular media to describe religious or semi-religious groups whose members are controlled in almost every single respect by a single individual.

Some good examples are the Hare Christians and Scientologists. But that's not like a single individual. I don't think that's a good definition.

By a single individual, that's not...

Duncan Trussell (3:53)

Well, I think that is...

Joe Rogan (3:54)

It's a group.

Duncan Trussell (3:54)

That's the classic...

Joe Rogan (3:55)

Right, but they're saying Scientology. Scientology clearly has an organization.

I mean, there's one guy that's the head of Scientology, but they have like a whole... It's a very complex organization.

Duncan Trussell (4:09)

Well, I mean, I think the idea is that the main cult leader generally has like...

Joe Rogan (4:14)

The doctrine.

Duncan Trussell (4:15)

Deputies around them. You know, he has his own sort of close inner circle.

SPEAKER_5 (4:20)

Right.

Joe Rogan (4:21)

In that case, it's true, right?

Duncan Trussell (4:22)

The bigger it gets, and the deputies have deputies or whatever you want to call it, and that's how you get a big functional cult.

SPEAKER_5 (4:29)

Right, right.

Duncan Trussell (4:30)

You know, and I think probably... I mean, it would be safe to say that a successful cult passes that barrier between, what the fuck? You guys believe that shit? To, what the fuck? You don't believe that shit? Like, your cult doctrine becomes the language of truth.