Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1530 - Duncan Trussell
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1530 - Duncan Trussell' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-09-01. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1530 - Duncan Trussell

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Joe.
How are you, my friend?
I'm great, man.
I'm psyched to be here.
Cheers, sir.
Cheers, brother.
So good to see you.
Hare Krishna.
Great to see you.
Always.
That's good.
My friend.
It's a strange time, and we're both departing this land.
I know.
For greener fractures.
I keep thinking back to when we first became friends, and the strange path
since from there
to here, and all our predictions, and all the things that we never would have
imagined this,
you know, specifically like that there would be this fucking global pandemic,
that we would
suddenly be like, some kind of like, refugee is way too dramatic a word for it,
but suddenly
just part of this diaspora of comedians pouring out of L.A.
Like, and not just comedians, but just people leaving, man.
Well, I talked to Joey today from New Jersey.
Called, you know, I called him.
He's in New Jersey, and it was just such, it was so strange.
I'm like, you're in Jersey.
He's like, that's right, motherfucker.
Yeah.
You know, he's all happy in Jersey.
You know, he was the last.
Like, you leaving was intense, but I was still like, you know, maybe we'll
stick around and
see what happens.
And then, like, I'd been getting all these, you know, the problem with me is,
like, I get
weird vibes all the time.
And, like, the last I was on here, I legitimately thought a meteor was going to
hit the earth.
I really thought that, so I worked very hard on not listening to that part of
me most of
the time, but I was getting this real weird vibe from L.A., and I'm like, come
on, man.
You're just, like, superstitious.
It's probably nothing.
And then my wife would say, like, I'm getting a really weird vibe.
Like, maybe, I don't know if we should stay here renting, if we should stay in
the place.
And I didn't want to tell her, oh, I've been getting a weird vibe, too, because
I didn't
want to amplify whatever that was.
And then I got on the phone with Diaz, and he's like, yeah, I'm leaving.
Getting the fuck out of here.
And that was it.
Diaz was telling me Burbank was sketchy, where he lives in Burbank, because my
neighborhood
turned to shit, like, instantly.
Dude, it's like, yeah, it's not just any one thing, you know?
It's, like, not just, like, some of the stuff I get, stuff had to get shut down,
and because
stuff was shut down, it got a little more weathered than usual.
And it's like, you know, the homeless encampments.
I was in Echo Park, man.
And, like, I really feel like, you know, like the red state people, one of the
things they
love to tweet is, like, don't bring your liberal bullshit here, right?
They're right.
Well, that's where I'm eating shit a little bit, because, you know, I am, I do
still believe
that we need to decriminalize drugs, that the drug policy's bullshit, the way
we're handling
it's all wrong.
But there used to be a way that they could get people who are, like, camping
out on the
streets.
And a lot of the times that was possession of, like, illegal drugs.
And because that stuff got removed, suddenly you were witnessing, like, holy
shit, man, there's
people who are making, like, real, like, rational decision from the perspective
of a heroin addict,
which is, they love heroin so much.
You know that Doug Stanhope joke, some things are better than life?
Like, they love heroin so much.
They're addicted to it.
They love it.
And the shelters that are apparently available won't let them do drugs in the
shelters.
They want you to kick it.
Yeah.
And so that's ridiculous.
But now I could be wrong about that.
But that is what I've heard is one of the reasons these people are staying out
in the
street is not because they don't want to be in a shelter.
It's because they don't want to be prevented from getting high.
Yeah.
And so this has produced this, like, situation in a lot of the big cities,
which is we're
seeing, like, massive tent cities.
And by the way, the tent city thing, aesthetically, it's not the best look.
But the stuff that I began to experience in Echo Park, man, I took my kid to
the playground,
right?
And there's, like, a dude that looks like he emerged from a time portal, from
an apocalypse.
You know what I mean?
I'm not talking about, like, you know, run-of-the-mill, like, somebody who's a
junkie, who's, like,
I'm talking, like, covered in, like, soot, like, pure dilated eyes, not wearing,
like, you
know, the disheveled clothes you might expect from someone who's been addicted
to heroin for
a long time.
But, like, wearing, like, like, he broke into wherever the costumes from Mad
Max were, like,
some kind of weird leather vest thing and, like, like, creepy fucking cut-off
shorts.
And he had a machete.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
And he's throwing it into the ground of the playground and pulling it out like
he's practicing
throwing a machete.
I'm with my fucking toddler, man.
And, you know, it's like, and so, obviously, we didn't go to the playground,
but that was,
you know, my, you know, it was not uncommon in that area to see completely
naked people.
Just, not that that's bad, but not naked, like, the way I-
Covered in dirt, wandering aimlessly.
Even worse than wandering aimlessly, wandering with what seems to be a purpose
in their eyes.
Some of them seeming like they're late.
Where the fuck are you going naked that you're late for?
Like, are you being summoned?
Like, that was, that was, but that wasn't just it, man.
You know, it's a lot of other things, too, and it all just started piling on
top of it.
Dude, I don't think this is sustainable.
Living in giant groups of people.
I think it's, when it works great, it was wonderful.
When LA was working well, it was fantastic.
When the comedy store was packed, and restaurants were doing well, and the
economy was doing well,
and the crime wasn't high, it's great.
But when things go bad, there's no sense of community.
So then there's a sense of, like, people capitalizing on other people who
either own stores,
or who aren't home, or whatever.
People who are desperate.
There's too many people.
If you're in a community that's a small town, and something goes wrong,
you can kind of bunch up together and help each other.
Because you feel like you need each other, and you feel like you're a part of
something.
People don't feel like they're a part of something here.
They're all transient.
Everybody's moved here from someone else, from somewhere else.
Everybody thinks they can go somewhere else, and they can, and they probably
will.
I mean, you know, we all came from, you were in North Carolina.
I came from New York at the time.
We all, everybody who comes to L.A. in show business.
God, what are the percentages of, like, how many do we know that are just
straight L.A.?
Like, Christina Pazitsky.
She's straight L.A.
Yeah.
Who else?
Sebastian came from Chicago.
Theo came from Nashville.
Nashville's already came from?
No.
No.
Louisiana.
That's right.
I mean, Joey, obviously, Jersey.
Yeah.
Well, it's a gypsy town.
It's a gypsy town.
Gypsy town.
Which is something I've always loved about it.
I've loved that element of, like, just this wild vortex of artists and narcissists
and people
who have just gone insane.
And, like, it's a lot of the sparks fly in that kind of insane cauldron of
identity.
All that stuff is super cool.
It's beautiful.
That's one of the things I loved about it is, like, the place we all know this
is the place
is the place where you make illusion.
Yeah.
That was the idea.
You make things that aren't real, seem real, and people like to watch that.
That's the whole TV movie industry.
The whole place is based on it, creating an identity that you, like, somehow
monetize
or a studio monetizes your identity or something.
It was something magical and beautiful in all of that.
But it seems like there's a real emperor-wears-no-clothes thing happening right
now.
Not just in L.A.
And I feel bad talking shit about L.A.
Because, man, she's been so good to both of us.
I mean, this city is, like, I will always love this place.
It's not.
The problem is not the city.
This is the...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
And here's an issue.
I am progressive on just about every issue across the board.
Yeah.
Gay rights, civil rights, women's rights, whatever.
Women's right to choose.
Fill in the blank.
Pro-Medicaid, pro-universal basic income, pro so many things.
But there's a thing that happens in large cities where large cities are always
blue.
And I'm trying to figure this out.
Because, like, New York...
And I used to think it's always because they're educated, you know, and
educated people are more
likely to be compassionate, and compassionate people are more likely to be
Democrats.
But there's a balance that has to be achieved.
And when the shit hits the fan, you need law and order.
And I think that some people who are Democrats, who are progressive people,
they don't understand
that aspect of human nature.
Or they want to deny that aspect of human nature.
Like when the mayor of Seattle was dealing with that whole six-area lockdown,
little, small,
little country that they had put up barriers and shit, and they're like
literally had armed
guards there that, uh...
What was it called again?
Chop.
Chop.
Chop or Chaz, right?
The mayor said, maybe this is our summer of love.
Like, no, it's not the summer of love.
Some people took over other people's businesses with force.
Like, just because they think the way you think, or they subscribe to liberal
ideas like you,
like you're a liberal too, so this is like your gang of thugs that you have to
support when
they take over other people's businesses.
No, we have to be able to call out everybody.
And just because somebody is on your side, you can't let them take over city
blocks and
just institute their own government and then say it's the summer of love.
This is crazy talk.
And this is how, this gets cities destroyed.
And this is what gets the police defunded.
And this is what gets people saying crazy things.
Like, we need to disband, release everyone from prison, and no more prisons,
and no more
laws, and no more police.
I'm like, no, the way things go well is you have to be safe.
The only way you're safe is if you have a strong military and a strong police
force.
And there's something about liberals that don't want to believe that.
They see the bad cops, they see these videos, and we all agree, we got to get
rid of bad
cops.
They got to reform the police.
They have to.
But those are not all the cops.
That's crazy.
You just only see the bad.
No one's filming excellent interactions with friendly cops and compliant people.
That's not what you're filming.
Not going to get a lot of YouTube downloads.
But that's the majority of these interactions.
But we have this distorted perception based on what we're exposed to, which is
viral videos
of cops being cunts.
Because there are cops that are cunts.
Because there's people that are cunts.
And there's, who knows how many fucking hundreds of thousands, if not millions
of cops there
are.
The odds that they're not hundreds and thousands of cunts is outrageous.
Well, you know what I've been doing with this whole fucking thing, man?
Because if I get, because you know me, the way my mind goes is not going to be
like red
state consciousness when it comes to that shit.
Because when I saw that autonomous zone pop up, I'm like, let's do it, baby!
Spread it out!
Come on!
But what did you think would be good?
What could good could have come of that?
Well, I mean, the history of America is this beautiful, yet somewhat, like,
there's a mania,
a utopian mania in the heart of, I think, the American spirit.
Which is like, Americans identify with this.
It's, you know, George Carlin did a great job of desiccating it by saying, it's
called
the American dream because you've got to be asleep to believe it.
I love that joke, but I love the American dream.
And what's so beautiful about it is it's this idea of, like, I 