Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and actor. He grew up in North Carolina and got a bachelor's degree in psychology from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. He inherited ten thousand dollars when his grandmother died and moved to LA imagining that the money would last for at least a year. Within a few months, he’d spent much of his inheritance on LSD and synthesizers and was forced to get a job, so he gave the Comedy Store a CD of prank calls he made in college and was awarded a job answering the phones.
Duncan hopped on the podcasting bandwagon early and in 2010 started The Lavender Hour with his then-girlfriend Natasha Leggero, where they discussed deepish issues with comedians. When Duncan and Natasha split in 2012, he started his own podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, which now has nearly 400 episodes and averages 1,000,000 downloads per month. The show features Duncan and comedians, outsiders, spiritual healers, and seekers discussing such topics as spirituality, consciousness, psychedelics, fringe theories, existentialism, and comedy.