Episode #200
Duncan Trussell
Books mentioned
The Bible
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:10:57 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Brave New World
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:07:20 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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The Games People Play
Mentioned by Duncan Trussell · at 02:22:47 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Duncan Trussell joins Joe for a wide-ranging conversation about premodern survival, materialism, religion, Buddhism, existential reality, modern comfort, relationships, meditation, and personal growth. They also discuss psychedelics and drug policy, pharmaceutical incentives, surveillance and renewable energy, institutional Christianity, sexual dynamics, physical vulnerability, belief, and changing social attitudes.
What they talked about
- Comparing modern comfort to historical hardship
- Wealth disparity and extravagant purchases
- Cult leadership and transactional sex
- Vasectomies and jiu-jitsu
- Germophobia and hygiene
- Deadmau5 vs. Madonna on MDMA
- Psychedelic drug prohibition and benefits
- Quadrocopter swarms and weather control
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