Episode Transcript: JRQE #5 - Duncan Trussell
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Hey, everybody! What the fuck is going on?
This is one of the very last versions of the Joe Rogan Questions Everything podcast that we're releasing as an actual podcast.
We did somewhere around ten of them, and I think we have two left, so it would probably be this one and one other one.
It might not have been ten, but don't get all specific, ladies and gentlemen.
This show was really a pleasure to do.
The big pleasure of it was working with my buddy Duncan, of course, and exposing him to millions of people worldwide who didn't know about my brilliant friend.
One of the things I really love about doing podcasts with Duncan is he really gets me inspired to go on these wild rants, and I think I inspire him in the same way.
We have this really cool give-and-take energy when it comes to certain things.
And he was just absolutely brilliant on the show in introducing subjects and talking to people and injecting new ideas into these silly subjects like psychics, which is this episode.
And a huge thank you to Banachek, who was the guy who we interviewed during the show and had him put on a little bit of a demonstration that really opened up my mind to what is possible in the world of trickery and manipulation and sleight of hand, the art thereof of it.
I mean, I'd always known that there was a real art to magic, but boy, did that guy blow my mind.
And one of the things I really appreciated about Banachek was that he blew my mind, and then he told me it was all bullshit.
He didn't try to pretend that he had some magic power or some device that only the government knows about.
He didn't horse shit you.
He told you after he was doing it, and even during the time he was doing it, that it was all bullshit, but he was so good at it, it was still unbelievably fascinating.
I hope this also opens up a lot of people's eyes as to what is possible in terms of trickery, in terms of what someone can trick you into believing, and what kind of manipulation people can pull off when they pretend to have psychic abilities.
There's a lot of that going on, folks.
I mean, there very well may be some sort of a psychic energy that people possess, whether it's a sense that people are not aware of or smells that people can detect that they can't quite describe, that aren't quite olfactory, but just some sense of something being wrong.
But there's also a lot of liars out there, man.
There's a lot of fakers, and there's a lot of bullshit.