Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2026-10-23
Books mentioned on #2570 - Mystery Boys
Kurt Metzger and Duncan Trussell are comedians and co-hosts of the "Mystery Boys" podcast. They also host their respective podcasts, "The Derp with Kurp" and "The Duncan Trussell Family Hour.
Joe Rogan discussed The Death of Vince Foster by John Van Reginald Tomlinson, Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S. Thompson, and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson. Kurt Metzger discussed The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen. Also mentioned: Dune by Frank Herbert, The Book of Enoch, The Book of Jude by Internatara Enterprises and others, The book of Genesis by Victor P. Hamilton, and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Death of Vince Foster
Discussed“That's a death of Vince Foster is a great book. What's that? I read that book in like I think that guy was on Jimmy show just recently”
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S.
Discussed“Did you ever see the thing that he did about the election when he did Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail? So, he made Ed Musky go crazy. He made him go crazy cuz he was saying that he was using a Brazilian witch doctor”
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is a gonzo journalism classic by Hunter S.
Discussed“Did you ever see the thing that he did about the election when he did Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail? So, he made Ed Musky go crazy. He made him go crazy cuz he was saying that he was using a Brazilian witch doctor”
Where to get it
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The Pentagon's Brain
The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen is a comprehensive, deeply researched history of DARPA, the secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency responsible for developing many of America's most revolutionary military and technological innovations.
Discussed“So, do you remember Diana Pulka or not? Uh, not not Dian Pilka. Um, the one that wrote the DARPA book. I'm blanking on Annie Jacob. Annie Jacobson.”
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Dune
Dune by Frank Herbert is a landmark science fiction epic following young Paul Atreides on a desert planet rich in a vital resource called spice, serving as an allegory for empire and resource extraction.
Discussed“It's called Adivism. That's the thing that's in the Dune series. The big part of making these uh creatures is and also the mind control [ __ ] they did was addivism. The stuff from altered states where you go in the isolation t chamber and regress”
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The Book of Enoch
The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic religious text attributed to the patriarch Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, which details the fall of the watchers, celestial beings, and primordial giants known as the Nephilim.
Discussed“I think there was probably some of that and that's probably what they were talking about in the Bible when they were talking about in like the book of Enoch and stuff like that when the the when they were talking about people coming down and mating with the daughters of men.”
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The Book of Jude
Discussed“You know why it's not in the Bible? Because of because of rabbis. Because rabbis said it didn't jive with the Torah. So they removed it from the Bible. It's in the Ethiopian Bible. But in the Book of Jude they're quoting they quote Mormon in the Old Testament.”
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The book of Genesis
The book of Genesis by Victor P.
Discussed“It's called wiping the hard drive. Yeah. God got some kind of malicious AI, decided to wipe the [ __ ] hard drive. That's it's so funny to me that more people aren't talking about how the book of Genesis is clearly something to do with AI.”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a complex philosophical novel that delves deeply into faith, doubt, free will, and morality through the turbulent relationships of the Karamazov family.
Discussed“like dusty was into this like in the brothers Kamazov he breaks down the road to Damascus experience and he talks about what happened in that moment so like what you the angle you're taking he takes it like in this hardcore way”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“that feeling of I want eugenics for me and I want disgenics for you. I'm going to be a living god by pushing you down to the category of mineral thereby making me uh you know a special uh transhuman [ __ ] nightmare from the Dune series.”
“You know that Nick Bryant, the guy who wrote about the Franklin scandal, which I, if you haven't had him, that's a guy to get on. Nick Bryant, he wrote about the Franklin scandal, which is the last time this thing happened, everybody covered it up”