The guest
Duncan Trussell: Comedian, podcaster (Duncan Trussell Family Hour) and longtime Joe Rogan friend, here for the 2,000th-episode celebration.
What this episode covers
Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell open the show wearing full furry costumes as a gag for episode #2000, then ramble across an enormous range of topics with no real structure. They cover CIA drug-trafficking, karma and reincarnation, ancient mega-structures like Borobudur and the Longyou Caves, psychedelics and pharmaceutical-industry greed, media censorship including Canada's Bill C-11, the Ukraine war and Lindsey Graham's rhetoric, and UFO whistleblower claims. The mood is comedic, conspiratorial and spiritual, leaning heavily on psychedelics-as-medicine and 'delete the folder' personal-transformation themes. The conversation closes with a twist reveal that the entire episode was AI-generated.
Recommended on this episode
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
“it's so good it's so subversive dude it's such a brilliant”
“it's so good it's so subversive dude it's such a brilliant like it's so funny how different the movie is from it”— Duncan Trussell
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The Real Anthony Fauci
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“everyone should read that book”
“if it's all accurate we should all read that book everyone should read that book right because if it's true it's terrifying”— Joe Rogan
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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
John Marco Allegro
“so fascinating”
“that John Marco Allegro book is so fascinating oh dude sacred Mushroom in the cross yes that book is fascinating”— Joe Rogan
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How We Live Is How We Die
Pema Chodron
“it's very good book”
“Pima children's book newest book about dying something like how we live is how we die it's very good book”— Duncan Trussell
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Succession
Jesse Armstrong
“the best ending of any series I've ever watched”
“I just want to say this is the best ending of any series I've ever watched”— Joe Rogan
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The Sopranos
David Chase
“the show is just genius; the show was amazing”
“the [__] show is just genius they can't have a bad word to say about one episode that I didn't enjoy the show was amazing”— Joe Rogan
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Alone
“that's the best”
“alone would be better alone is about that show so much that's the best they throw you to the Wolves”— Joe Rogan
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A Moment of Contact
James Fox
“amazing; it's [__] incredible”
“a moment of contact which is amazing James Fox movie I don't know if you've seen it it's [__] incredible”— Joe Rogan
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
“underrated movie”
“things to do in Denver when you're dead underrated movie Garcia and I never saw that it was like their version”— Joe Rogan
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Aliens
James Cameron
“I like aliens aliens is cool”
“I like aliens aliens is cool here's the problem with aliens why are they so hard to kill an alien but so easy to kill in Aliens”— Joe Rogan
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Liposomal glutathione
“I think is the best; IV is the best”
“liposomal glutathione I think is the best that's some stuff you squirt under your tongue... but IV is the best”— Joe Rogan
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Alien
Ridley Scott
“what was the name of the ship in Alien mother yeah and so like there's all these recurring archetypical things”— Duncan Trussell
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Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
“it was like when Pulp Fiction had just come out and everybody wanted everything to be [__] cool”— Joe Rogan
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
“once upon a time in Hollywood was [__] crazy and he's grandfathered in in a way”— Joe Rogan
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Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino
“have you seen Kill Bill have you seen Inglorious Bastards have you seen these movies yeah then shut the [__] up”— Joe Rogan
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Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
“have you seen Kill Bill have you seen Inglorious Bastards have you seen these movies yeah then shut the [__] up”— Joe Rogan
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Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
“obviously like I'm not letting my kid watch Blade Runner or some [__] like that”— Duncan Trussell
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Chimp Empire
“you can watch it and you watch it in that chimp Empire show you watch the way chimpanzees do it”— Joe Rogan
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Naked and Afraid
“Naked and Afraid Don Lemon that's how he comes back yeah I got my money on Tucker”— Duncan Trussell
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Tesla
Tesla
“like what a Tesla does like you get updates online on your Tesla they just send you an update”— Joe Rogan
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Ozempic
Novo Nordisk
“oh zempic now has psilocybin in it which is that's better that's better you realize why you're fat”— Duncan Trussell
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Elf on the Shelf
“Elf on the Shelf now you have like a little [__] plastic security camera that's watching your kids all the time”— Duncan Trussell
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GoPro
GoPro
“before commencing with your survival activity you're like setting up a GoPro on a tripod yeah”— Joe Rogan
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Fox Nation
Fox News
“I'll admit man I came close to [subscribing] only because like I like to watch Lifetime movies”— Duncan Trussell
Big reveals from this episode
- The episode opens with Joe and Duncan in full furry costumes, joking it's their first podcast 'coming out as our true selves.'
- They recount a CIA plane that reportedly crashed because it was overweight with 3.3 tons of cocaine.
- Joe calls Succession's finale the best ending of any series he has ever watched.
- Canada's Bill C-11 passes Parliament, bringing user-generated content like podcasts under broadcast regulation.
- They discuss James Fox's film A Moment of Contact and a 1996 crashed-UFO case in Varginha, Brazil.
- John Mack's footage of Zimbabwe schoolchildren independently describing the same 'evil' alien encounter.
- A meta twist reveals the entire conversation was AI-generated, after a slip between Austin and Dania Beach.
Worth remembering
- A CIA plane reportedly crashed because it was overweight carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine.
- Japan has very high violent video-game consumption yet far less violence, undercutting the games-cause-violence claim.
- Borobudur, the world's biggest Buddhist temple, has no written record of who built it or why.
- China's Longyou Caves comprise 24 hand-carved caverns over ~30,000 square meters with no historical record of construction.
- A psilocybin study reportedly found it affects receptors roughly 1,000 times more potently than antidepressants.
- Anderson Cooper's CNN contract is cited at around $12 million a year amid claims tied to Pfizer.
- West Virginia ranks #1 for animal-vehicle collisions, with roughly 202 US deaths a year from deer.
- Canadian broadcasters are required to spend at least 30 percent of revenue on Canadian content.
- 'Terror Birds' stood up to about ten feet tall and lived alongside early humans.
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