Anish Vij
Joe Rogan might be into universe origin theories, but he has insisted his wife is not.
On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcast host welcomed on comedian and regular guest Andrew Shultz.
During the show, however, the Flagrant presenter was ever-so-slightly bemused by Rogan's simulation theory that his wife Jessica Ditzel and two daughters apparently wouldn't understand.
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The MMA enthusiast, 57, got married to former cocktail waitress and model Ditzel, 49, back in 2009.
Opening up about his theory, Rogan asked Schultz: "How do you feel about this world that we're living in, this world that seems more and more like it's not real? More and more like it's a f**king simulation?
"There's something more to reality than what meets the eye, there's more to it than what you can put on a scale or what you can put a ruler to. There's more to this thing.
"This thing's made out of like, some very bizarre energy that's attached to consciousness, that's what I think."
The stand-up then asked Rogan to further explain what he's going on about.
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"It's inevitable that one day they will achieve a simulation that is indiscernible from reality. No doubt about it," Rogan went on. "They've gotten real close.
"Is that the ultimate progression of technology? Is the ultimate progression of technology transcending physical reality and becoming completely digital life?
"So if that is possible, how do we know that it hasn't already happened? How can we know if it hasn't already happened?"
Schultz then suggested that we wouldn't know either way when Rogan continued to hypothesise that if the world 'is scripted, it would be filled with a lot of s**t that's exactly like what happened'.
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"Trump would get shot in the ear and say 'Fight, fight, fight,' you would have Elon Musk at the inauguration looking like he's on another planet," he added.
"I think that the actual way that things happen and work is dependent entirely on the level of consciousness the people have that are experiencing it."
Rogan's colleague eventually asked what his wife and kids would think about the whole thing.
"No, that's too weird to talk to kids about," he laughed.
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"You know my wife, she'd be like, 'What the f**k are you talking about?
"If she wants to talk about something like that, she'll bring it up.
"Like if she wants to talk about something heavy, it's not like I wouldn't talk about something heavy with her, but generally like I come home from work, she's been with the kids she's doing this and that, we eat dinner, we have fun, 'How was school?,' have a good time, maybe we'll watch a little Severance together."