Joe Rogan Experience #2247 - Duncan Trussell

Recorded around Christmas 2024 with both men in elf costumes, this rambling JRE conversation moves through telepathy research, the placebo effect, and theories of consciousness into wide-ranging conspiracy and cultural commentary. Duncan frames modern society as a 'factory' and 'default reality' kept in line by media, advertising, and astroturfing, while Joe pushes back and adds his own takes on drones over New Jersey, the alleged coup that replaced Biden with Kamala Harris, and the health-insurance system. They speculate at length about quantum computing, AI/AGI, simulating realities, Mars colonization, and humanity merging with technology. The episode closes with an extended comedic bit about people historically storing farts in jars to ward off plague.

• Joe describes The Telepathy Tapes podcast claiming nonverbal autistic kids guessed numbers and colors with their parents at 95% accuracy.
  00:05:49
• Duncan explains the Penrose quantum-microtubule theory of consciousness and anesthesia shutting it down.
  00:17:45
• They marvel that Elon Musk is reportedly the number-one Diablo player in the world while running multiple companies.
  00:44:23
• Both argue the U.S. president has been effectively incapacitated for years, calling it a 'buried headline.'
  01:12:59
• They characterize the replacement of Biden with Kamala Harris as a coup against a sitting president.
  01:15:35
• Joe and Duncan debate presidential pardon power, kids-for-cash, and pardoning Snowden, Assange, and Joe Exotic.
  02:01:29
• Joe cites Shanna Swan's book Countdown on microplastics/phthalates lowering testosterone and shrinking 'taints' in male babies.
  02:14:35
• They discover that during the Great Plague of London people stored their own farts in jars believing it warded off disease.
  02:27:41

• Duncan says his mother hypnotized away a wart that then dried up and fell off his hand.
  00:09:28
• Joe says a recent colonoscopy cost him $100 but his insurer was billed $9,000.
  00:40:11
• They discuss a doctor sentenced to 45 years for falsely telling patients they had cancer and giving them chemotherapy.
  00:42:20
• They reference fertility-clinic doctors who secretly used their own sperm, exposed by 23andMe.
  00:42:51
• Duncan notes SpaceX rockets being caught by robotic chopstick arms on landing.
  00:46:27
• Both bond over the Atari 2600 being mind-blowing as a way to control the TV at home.
  00:48:01
• They recount Isaac Newton having mercury found in his hair and building scale replicas of the Temple of Solomon.
  01:48:53
• They mention Nikola Tesla falling in love with a pigeon and considering self-castration to focus on research.
  01:49:56
• Shanna Swan's research links phthalates to shorter anogenital distance in male mammals and falling birth rates.
  02:14:35
• A real essay on storing farts compares glass versus metal containers for preservation.
  02:30:20

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