Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2026-07-16
Books mentioned on #2527 - MrBeast
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is a YouTuber, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Beast Industries and Beast Philanthropy, and the creator and host of the Prime Video competition series “Beast Games.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dune
Dune by Frank Herbert is a monumental science fiction masterpiece set on the desert planet Arrakis, centering on young Paul Atreides as his family becomes embroiled in a bitter struggle for control of the galaxy's most valuable resource, the spice melange.
Discussed“I play this board game a lot called Dune. Whatever. Like a big nerd. But there's like this one it's called Dune. Yeah, yeah, it's a recreation. What's funny, I had even seen the movies when I started playing the game. I didn't realize there was movies. I didn't even know there was books.”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing To Kill a Mockingbird
“Those are using field tips. This is basically like a pencil going through you. It's not like a broadhead. Like if you shot an animal with a with a crossbow, you would use a broadhead, which is a big sharp blade that cuts a giant channel through an animal. What those things are using is target points. Like that dude”