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Joe Rogan Questions Everything #4 - Duncan Trussell (Audio Only)

This episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast was one of the episodes that
we made while we were filming the sci-fi show Joe Rogan Questions Everything.
So what we did when we did that show, if you've never seen or heard of it, we
had a podcast on the show and a lot of people thought it was a fake podcast,
but it was actually a real podcast.
And thanks to the generosity of the sci-fi channel, we are now able to release
it as a podcast.
So, thank you to Tim and Wayne from sci-fi and to Michael and Frank from Arthur
Smith that produced the show.
Thanks also to Todd, who was the director of the show.
We had a great time doing it and appreciate it very much and appreciate you
guys letting me do this like that, like the way we did it.
I think it was really fun to do it this way.
We did it exactly like a regular podcast, just me and Duncan.
And in this episode, we went over what's called biohacking or what I call dorks
with knives sticking things under their skin.
Fascinating subject and I think you'll enjoy the shit out of it.
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And now, without any further ado, the podcast that we did on biohacking with
Duncan Trussell and me.
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You know what's really crazy?
That your mom, after that, one of your stepdads was gay.
Isn't that like an interesting sort of a snapback from that?
You know, like she was probably around this crazy guy with guns.
She's like, get the fucker.
Give me a gay guy.
Yes.
I'll take it.
Yeah.
That's what my mom did.
My dad was like this really violent cop.
And she married a hippie.
Like when she broke up with him, my stepfather had long hair until I was like
15 years old.
He had like a ponytail.
He was a total, complete hippie.
Crazy.
He was like a stoner, architect, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, he went back.
You don't want to date Hunter S. Thompson.
You don't want to be around that.
Was that your dad?
Hunter S. Thompson shooting shit?
Yeah, still is.
He is.
Is he still traveling around in like an RV just seeing the world?
Yeah, well now he's just, no.
Now he's like local in Alabama, but he like goes hunting deer still.
And he like, I told you the fist fight thing, right?
No.
This is the weirdest thing.
I was getting a ride.
This is a quick story.
I was getting a ride back from college with my friend, Sean.
You recording all this?
Yeah.
My friend, Sean, is driving back to, was driving to Mobile where his dad lived.
And on the way back, I'm riding with this guy.
And he's like, oh, dude, I forgot to ask.
I want to ask you this.
Is your dad's name Julian?
And I'm like, yeah, Julian Trussle.
He's like, your dad assaulted my dad in a bar.
My dad, my dad beat up my friend's dad from, in college.
When did this happen?
This was, I don't, the assault happened, I think, before me and this guy were
in college together.
But if you look at the probability of getting a ride back from college with a
guy who was a Mobile,
the probability of your dad having beaten his dad up.
It's so slim.
It's so slim that, like, my, what are the odds that my, that we both go to this
liberal arts college of 500 students
and the one other guy from Mobile, Alabama, his father had been assaulted by my
father in a bar.
Those are pretty small odds.
Minuscule odds.
It's pretty funny, too, that it would be your dad, too.
Because you're, like, the opposite.
Like, I could never imagine you just assaulting someone.
Even if somebody got really mad at you, you'd be like, all right, well, fuck
you, man.
And you just, like, get out of there.
Like, the idea of you assaulting someone is beyond comprehension.
So the idea of your dad being this fucking hollow-toothed bullet-carrying
savage beating the fuck out of your friend's dad.
Yeah.
Getting arrested.
Jesus Christ.
He got arrested in the parking lot.
Two cops took him down.
And he got arrested.
My dad came home from high school once with a black eye.
Him and his co-worker, they were doing a business together, and the business
started going bad, and they got in a fucking fist fight.
And he came home, and I remember looking at him.
I was, like, 16 or 17 or something like that, and a black eye.
I was, like, what the fuck, man?
Are you done with this?
Like, you're still duking it out at, you know, 40, whatever the hell old he was
back then?
Well, it's a classic.
It's a classic.
It's a classic man.
It's weird.
A classic man fought.
Like, it was, like, think of Hemingway.
That's what's just part of being a man, is, like, you would get in some
inevitable fist fight.
And in those days, it seems like you don't get in a fist fight, and there's
lawsuits and legal stuff.
It's just, like, the other guy accepts getting his ass kicked.
You're the victor, and that's it.
Or you get your ass kicked, and you forget about it.
That seems like the old way it is.
Now, if you get in a fist fight, you end up in, you know, serious legal trouble.
You get an instant lawsuit.
But it was, it used to just be like when you see elk smashing into each other
in the wilderness.
That's what it used to be, being a man.
You'd just run into a guy and just start punching each other.
And then that was it.
Those were the days.
Back in the good old days before writing shit down.
Hey.
Once people had a few mistakes and started writing shit down, they were like,
oh, yeah, okay.
Yeah, blame it on Hammurabi.
It's all Hammurabi's fault.
And that gentleman, his name is Sherid?
Sherid.
Sherid.
Sherid.
Sherid and Lucas, and they're from Grindhouse Wetware.
And Grindhouse Wetware, first of all, greatest name for a company ever.
What does that mean?
So it comes from the name Grinders.
Get real close to that.
That's what we are.
We're Grinders.
Grinders are kind of like what happens when you mix open source hackers and
body modification with a dash of transhumanism.
So we're literally grinding our biology.
There's all these interesting little names that you guys have for yourselves.
First of all, Grinders.
We're Grinders.
We're transhumanists.
There's a lot of self-defining going on there.
Well, it's not exactly that we're self-defining.
We're just guys who, we really like technology.
And we all grew up with, like you talk about growing up with Hemingway and
classic men and we were all about fighting.
We grew up, we were, we were protected and sheltered and grew up with Star Wars
and grew up with these stories about robots that could think and people that
couldn't live any longer and had to augment themselves and cyborgs.
And, well, cyborgs were really cool.
We thought they were really cool.
And, you know, I was in my 20s when we hit the year 2000.
First thing that happened, New Year's Eve, 2000.
And after I got over the shock of nothing hitting the wall, nothing falling out
of the sky, I turned to my brother and went, where is my fucking jetpack?
And that kind of summed it up.
I felt that way.
My buddies felt that way.
I didn't realize it, but there were a lot of people who felt that way.
And we were all broke and we didn't know much about science.
And somewhere along the line, like I guess in 2006, there was a kid in Arizona
who realized that he could start stimulating his nerves with magnets, with
magnetic implants.
He went to a body mod guy and got an implant done in his fingers.
It started going from him to a guy in Europe and then, like 2008, there was a
lady, Quinn Norton, who wrote for Wired and wrote for some other places.
And she did it.
She went out and said it was a bad idea.
Don't do it.
Other people started doing it.
Okay, so let's back up.
First of all, explain what you're talking about.
You're talking about biohacking.
You're talking about doing something to your body that enhances it, integrating
and incorporating technology into your body.
And the first guy was the guy in Phoenix that did the Arizona, rather.
Was it Arizona?
Was it Phoenix, Arizona?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That did the magnets in his fingers?
Yeah.
As far as we know, that's the first person.
He's the pioneer?
First document.
And what benefit is there of having magnets in your fingers?
Like what did that accomplish for him?
Besides making it easier to put your hand on a refrigerator?
Easier?
I think it's annoying.
It would be an annoying moment.
You're always getting stuck to things.
It doesn't exactly work like that.
These are really tiny magnets.
You have magnets in your fingers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got like one around there.
One around there.
Wow.
So you implanted magnets in your fingers?
Yeah.
Why did you do that?
I was drunk.
No kidding.
Kidding.
I found out about this.
I was really interested in everything we've been talking about.
I ran into a childhood friend of mine who got it done last year.
And when he showed me what he was doing with it, I had to do it.
What was he doing with it?
It gives you the ability when you implant a magnet in a nerve-dense area of
your hand, when you're around an electromagnetic field, that magnet vibrates.
And so you can feel that.
Now, there's a property of our brains called neuroplasticity.
When you provide a stimulus over a course of time, like about six months, your
brain starts adapting to it.
It starts building something new.
And I was always fascinated, even as a child, of the idea of having an extra
sense.
Not necessarily like ESP, but just an extra sense.
Or be able to hear a sound that no one's ever heard before.
See a color no one's ever seen before.
All those stories from Don't Do Drug pamphlets that are like, I can see the
music.
I can taste sound.
That sounded amazing to me.
So when I heard about this extra sense, I jumped at this chance to incorporate
that in my body.
But what extra sense?
The extra sense of using these magnets to detect an electrical field or to vibrate
during an electrical field?
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
And how would you define an electrical field?
Power station?
It's an electromagnetic field.
So any time that an electron travels in a straight line, you have a magnetic
field that's coming out kind of in a circle around it.
Okay.
It radiates around it.
Right.
If you have a coil, a coil of wire and electrons going through a coil, there'll
be kind of like a donut-shaped mag