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The Odyssey
by Homer

“And yeah, I think we'll get to that. I think people will realize that's the reality of this. I hope so. Do you know what always gives me hope is that when every time I taught Greek mythology to the kids and we did the Odyssey, everybody got locked in.”

The Joe Rogan Experience · #2574 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin · 31/10/2026 · at 2:36:36

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    Epic of Gilgamesh
    by Anonymous, Andrew George · 4 episodes · 2 shows

    “It's the Epic of Gilgamesh. Yeah. Damn flood. The oldest story there is. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, I just, you know, people like now want to have an answer to something.”

    The Joe Rogan Experience · #2566 - Cody Tucker · 15/10/2026 · at 43:22

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    Moby-Dick, or The Whale
    by Herman Melville · 3 episodes · 3 shows

    “Well, maybe it should just be a book. Yeah. You know, there's that thought, too, that some books are so good that they have to exist only in literary form. Moby Dick. Yeah. Yeah. They have to exist only in where your imagination fills in the blanks.”

    The Joe Rogan Experience · #2575 - Sam Tallent · 03/11/2026 · at 1:31:22

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    The Iliad
    by Homer · 3 episodes · 2 shows

    “just Homer, the Greeks, if you look at the older Homer, which is the Iliad, in which Achilles doesn't do it, but the gods get Achilles to do it.”

    Modern Wisdom · Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman - #1167 · 24/10/2026 · at 32:24

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    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce · 2 episodes · 2 shows

    “Okay, so I can link this back. All right, so there's a book called Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. It's like arguably the greatest work of literature in the Western canon. It's a wonderful book. And a guy called Joseph Campbell studied it for his PhD.”

    The Joe Rogan Experience · #2571 - Jimmy Carr · 28/10/2026 · at 1:35:16

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    Mahabharata
    by Sudarshan Ray · 2 episodes

    “Is that in the Mahabharata or the Bhagavad Gita? There's like talk about sky wars in ancient Hindu texts. Oh, yeah, in the Vedic text, the blue people and I know what's why you asked blue.”

    The Joe Rogan Experience · #2560 - David Grusch · 30/09/2026 · at 1:15:20

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain · 1 episode

    “And one of the texts I was going to have that I assigned in the class was Huckleberry Finn. And a lot of the students said they wouldn't read Huckleberry Finn because they knew it had language in it and they didn't want to see those words.”

    Lex Fridman Podcast · #499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee · 28/07/2026 · at 3:40:49

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel · 1 episode

    “Wow. Wow, that's crazy. But Lewis Carroll, who wrote Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland was also about LSD. I don't know. I think there was a lot of influence.”

    The Joe Rogan Experience · #2550 - Rick Springfield · 08/09/2026 · at 2:09:31

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    Green Eggs and Ham
    by Dr. Seuss · 1 episode

    “That is a, describes a finding in psychology that people become more creative when the easiest solution is taken away from them. So it is named after the Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham, which he wrote on a bet that he couldn't write a children's book using only 50 words.”

    Modern Wisdom · Why You Feel Overwhelmed All The Time (and how to fix it) - David Epstein - #1121 · 09/07/2026 · at 0:02

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    Letters from the Earth
    by Mark Twain · 1 episode

    “Nobody talks of the wrote a book called Letters from the Earth and from the voice of the devil. He wrote another one he called The Mysterious Stranger, which is about Jesus coming back in a very dark way.”

    The Joe Rogan Experience · #2508 - Joe Eszterhas · 03/06/2026 · at 1:33:05

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