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Episode #1464

Duncan Trussell

· 5 books mentioned

Books mentioned

  1. The Walking Dead

    Robert Kirkman

    Mentioned by Duncan Trussell · at 00:38:46 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)

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  2. The Bible

    Traditional

    Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:08:41 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)

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  3. Chaos

    Tom O'Neill

    Mentioned by Duncan Trussell · at 01:40:39 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)

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  4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Ken Kesey

    Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:58:00 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)

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  5. The Red Badge of Courage

    Stephen Crane

    Mentioned by Duncan Trussell · at 02:54:26 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)

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Duncan Trussell discusses the creative process and imagined world of his animated series The Midnight Gospel, including animation, collaboration, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. The conversation ranges across psychedelics, quantum physics, the spirit world, pandemic-era distrust and community responsibility, historical mind-control claims, and humorous tangents about animals, parenting, education, and alien signals.

What they talked about

  • Pandemic beard and gardening
  • Moving for a child: Asheville and Georgia
  • AI as part of the universe
  • Medieval drawings and long-term memory
  • Projection and repeating relationship patterns
  • MKUltra and CIA LSD experiments
  • Etymology of 'janky' and secret racist words
  • Lysol injection comments and pandemic response

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