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Duncan Trussell

40 appearances: #2481 (Apr 9, 2026), #2391 (Oct 9, 2025), #2157 (May 29, 2024), #2078 (Dec 26, 2023), #2009 (Jul 18, 2023), #2000 (Jun 20, 2023), #1953 (Mar 10, 2023), #1891 (Nov 1, 2022), #1839 (Jul 5, 2022), #1806 (Apr 16, 2022), #1666 (Jun 11, 2021), #1530 (Aug 31, 2020), #1464 (Apr 25, 2020), #1444 (Mar 19, 2020), #1137 (Jun 27, 2018), #1075 (Feb 8, 2018), #863 (Oct 20, 2016), #828 (Aug 1, 2016), #764 (Feb 23, 2016), #666 (Jun 29, 2015), #630 (Mar 24, 2015), #391 (Sep 10, 2013), #377 (Jul 24, 2013), #291 (Nov 28, 2012), #279 (Oct 31, 2012), #255 (Aug 16, 2012), #214 (May 8, 2012), #200 (Mar 28, 2012), #179 (Jan 25, 2012), #166 (Dec 14, 2011), #156 (Nov 10, 2011), #147 (Oct 17, 2011), #141 (Sep 25, 2011), #139 (Sep 14, 2011), #130 (Aug 16, 2011), #120 (Jul 6, 2011), #103 (May 2, 2011), #84 (Feb 28, 2011), #62 (Dec 15, 2010), #49 (Oct 19, 2010)

Books from their episodes 75 books · 55 brought up by Duncan Trussell

  1. The Coming Wave

    Mustafa Suleyman

    #2481 · Duncan Trussell · 00:09:17

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  2. The Bible

    Traditional

    #2481 · Duncan Trussell · 00:11:04; #2391 · Duncan Trussell · 01:42:35; #2157 · Duncan Trussell · 02:35:37; #2009 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:03:22; #1839 · Joe Rogan (host) · 03:12:27; #1530 · Duncan Trussell · 00:44:33; #1464 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:08:41; #1444 · Duncan Trussell · 00:04:02; #1075 · Duncan Trussell · 00:27:35; #828 · Duncan Trussell · 00:14:21; #764 · Duncan Trussell · 00:15:24; #666 · Duncan Trussell · 01:41:48; #630 · Duncan Trussell · 00:23:30; #391 · Duncan Trussell · 02:00:27; #255 · Duncan Trussell · 00:46:51; #214 · Duncan Trussell · 00:45:42; #200 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:10:57; #179 · Duncan Trussell · 00:33:22; #147 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:20:54; #139 · Duncan Trussell · 01:27:27; #130 · Duncan Trussell · 00:27:37; #120 · Duncan Trussell · 01:42:30; #49 · Duncan Trussell · 01:50:13

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  3. Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    #2481 · Duncan Trussell · 02:55:36; #156 · Duncan Trussell · 01:34:59

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  4. The Book of Mormon

    Joseph Smith

    #2481 · Duncan Trussell · 02:55:36

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  5. Behold a Pale Horse

    William Cooper

    #2391 · Duncan Trussell · 00:07:22

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  6. Bullshit Jobs

    David Graeber

    #2157 · Duncan Trussell · 01:05:39; #1137 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:15:09

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  7. Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    #2157 · Duncan Trussell · 01:26:52

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  8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

    #2157 · Duncan Trussell · 01:26:52; #828 · Duncan Trussell · 00:51:26

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  9. Fifty Shades of Grey

    E. L. James

    #2157 · Duncan Trussell · 02:23:41

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  10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Ken Kesey

    #2157 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:31:50; #1891 · Duncan Trussell · 02:10:08; #1464 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:58:00

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  11. Bhagavad Gita

    Vyasa

    #2157 · Duncan Trussell · 02:35:37; #2078 · Duncan Trussell · 00:22:43; #1806 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:49:59; #666 · Duncan Trussell · 00:28:34; #279 · Duncan Trussell · 02:14:46; #214 · Duncan Trussell · 00:03:22; #179 · Duncan Trussell · 01:19:27; #120 · Duncan Trussell · 00:58:36; #84 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:07:13; #62 · Duncan Trussell · 00:33:11

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  12. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

    John Marco Allegro

    #2157 · Duncan Trussell · 02:39:21; #2009 · Duncan Trussell · 01:19:11; #828 · Duncan Trussell · 02:45:30

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  13. Dianetics

    L. Ron Hubbard

    #2157 · Duncan Trussell · 02:57:04

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  14. A Wizard of Earthsea

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    #2078 · Duncan Trussell · 01:40:29

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  15. The War of Art

    Steven Pressfield

    #2009 · Duncan Trussell · 00:30:37

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  16. Chaos

    Tom O'Neill

    #2009 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:26:06; #1464 · Duncan Trussell · 01:40:39

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  17. Tell Your Children

    Alex Berenson

    #1953 · Duncan Trussell · 01:17:52

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  18. A Clockwork Orange

    Anthony Burgess

    #1953 · Duncan Trussell · 01:23:34

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  19. The Singularity Is Near

    Ray Kurzweil

    #1953 · Duncan Trussell · 02:44:01; #1666 · Duncan Trussell · 00:42:52

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  20. The Stand

    Stephen King

    #1839 · Duncan Trussell · 03:56:50; #1444 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:21:38; #377 · Duncan Trussell · 00:38:58

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  21. Superintelligence

    Nick Bostrom

    #1806 · Duncan Trussell · 00:38:04

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  22. The Wisdom of No Escape

    Pema Chödrön

    #1666 · Duncan Trussell · 01:33:59; #1075 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:43:49

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  23. Sex at Dawn

    Christopher Ryan

    #1530 · Duncan Trussell · 02:27:57; #291 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:11:41; #255 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:16:15

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  24. Dune

    Frank Herbert

    #1530 · Duncan Trussell · 04:38:46

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  25. Vedas

    Traditional

    #1530 · Duncan Trussell · 04:48:01; #141 · Duncan Trussell · 00:09:51

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  26. The Walking Dead

    Robert Kirkman

    #1464 · Duncan Trussell · 00:38:46

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  27. The Red Badge of Courage

    Stephen Crane

    #1464 · Duncan Trussell · 02:54:26

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  28. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

    Jaron Lanier

    #1444 · Duncan Trussell · 01:11:41

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  29. The Dawn of the New Everything

    Jaron Lanier

    #1444 · Duncan Trussell · 01:12:04

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  30. Can't Hurt Me

    David Goggins

    #1444 · Duncan Trussell · 01:53:33

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  31. The Lord of the Rings

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    #1137 · Duncan Trussell · 00:53:46; #147 · Duncan Trussell · 00:24:05

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  32. Harry Potter

    J. K. Rowling

    #1075 · Duncan Trussell · 00:05:55

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  33. My Life

    Bill Clinton

    #1075 · Duncan Trussell · 02:10:07

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  34. The Art of the Deal

    Donald Trump

    #1075 · Duncan Trussell · 02:17:49

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  35. Naked Lunch

    William S. Burroughs

    #863 · Duncan Trussell · 00:01:34

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  36. Food of the Gods

    Terence McKenna

    #863 · Duncan Trussell · 00:02:05; #49 · Duncan Trussell · 00:14:18

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  37. The Emerald Tablet

    Hermes Trismegistus

    #863 · Duncan Trussell · 00:59:21

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  38. Fight Club

    Chuck Palahniuk

    #863 · Duncan Trussell · 02:02:23

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  39. The Quran

    Traditional

    #828 · Duncan Trussell · 00:15:20; #666 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:34:43; #255 · Duncan Trussell · 00:46:51; #214 · Duncan Trussell · 02:06:48; #103 · Duncan Trussell · 00:01:32

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  40. Moby-Dick

    Herman Melville

    #828 · Duncan Trussell · 00:46:08

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  41. The Dark Tower

    Stephen King

    #828 · Duncan Trussell · 00:46:08

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  42. A Short History of Nearly Everything

    Bill Bryson

    #828 · Duncan Trussell · 01:10:52

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  43. Principia Mathematica

    Sir Isaac Newton

    #764 · Duncan Trussell · 00:24:09

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  44. The Book of Five Rings

    Miyamoto Musashi

    #764 · Duncan Trussell · 00:39:00

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  45. Acid Dreams

    Martin A. Lee

    #279 · Duncan Trussell · 00:12:58

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  46. Twilight

    Stephenie Meyer

    #255 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:57:53; #103 · Duncan Trussell · 01:55:14

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  47. The Games People Play

    Eric Berne

    #200 · Duncan Trussell · 02:22:47

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  48. Raja Yoga

    Yogi Ramacharaka

    #179 · Duncan Trussell · 01:03:53

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  49. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    Tom Wolfe

    #179 · Duncan Trussell · 01:06:01

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  50. War

    Sebastian Junger

    #166 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:26:42; #130 · Duncan Trussell · 02:31:29

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  51. The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    #156 · Duncan Trussell · 01:38:46

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  52. Srimad Bhagavatam

    Vyasa

    #141 · Duncan Trussell · 00:13:04

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  53. Watership Down

    Richard Adams

    #139 · Duncan Trussell · 01:10:21

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  54. I Ching

    Traditional

    #49 · Duncan Trussell · 00:15:38

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  55. Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Emil Frankl

    #49 · Duncan Trussell · 02:42:10

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  56. Interview with the Vampire

    Anne Rice

    #2157 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:02:03

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  57. The Real Anthony Fauci

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    #2000 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:13:13

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  58. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

    Chögyam Trungpa

    #1839 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:52:20

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  59. The Histories

    Herodotus

    #1806 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:05:38

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  60. The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

    #1806 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:57:37

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  61. The Raven

    Edgar Allan Poe

    #863 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:15:58

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  62. Principles of Chemistry

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    #764 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:44:18

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  63. The 12th Planet

    Zecharia Sitchin

    #764 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:55:05

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  64. Extreme Ownership

    Jocko Willink

    #764 · Joe Rogan (host) · 03:11:23

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  65. Under the Banner of Heaven

    Jon Krakauer

    #377 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:14:38

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  66. Dracula

    Bram Stoker

    #255 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:54:10

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  67. The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    #214 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:42:59

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  68. The Science of Mind

    Ernest Holmes

    #214 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:38:24

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  69. Book Four

    Aleister Crowley

    #214 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:32:06

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  70. Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley

    #200 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:07:20

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  71. Malleus Maleficarum

    Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger

    #166 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:56:05

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  72. The 4-Hour Body

    Timothy Ferriss

    #139 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:00:00

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  73. Conan

    Robert E. Howard

    #139 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:29:42

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  74. Fingerprints of the Gods

    Graham Hancock

    #139 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:57:07

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  75. Rogue Warrior

    Richard Marcinko

    #103 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:42:27

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