The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1251 - Tim Dillon
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150 min read · 30,028 words- 0:00 – 2:46
Ancient aliens vs. lost civilizations: where the evidence gets stretchy
- JRJoe Rogan
And three, two, one. No? Yes? Okay. It's live.
- TDTim Dillon
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
W- it's been fucking up a little bit lately.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah. I believe.
- JRJoe Rogan
How are you, man? What's going on?
- TDTim Dillon
Good. How are you?
- JRJoe Rogan
Good to see you. Thanks for doing this.
- TDTim Dillon
Thanks for having me.
- JRJoe Rogan
My pleasure, my pleasure.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You brought me a, a nice conspiracy book.
- TDTim Dillon
I want you back.
- JRJoe Rogan
Nice. (laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
I want you back. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) I got bored with it.
- TDTim Dillon
I'm... Yeah, I get ya. I know.
- JRJoe Rogan
I just had a, uh, a-
- TDTim Dillon
(coughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... a lunch with-
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... Erich von Däniken.
- TDTim Dillon
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And, uh, uh, he's the author of Chariots of the Gods. The last two hours we've been talking ancient aliens.
- TDTim Dillon
I was deep... When I was, like, in- in my late teens, I was deep in Zecharia Sitchin-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
... Anunnaki-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
... Nephilium. I'm pronouncing it wrong.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Nephilium, I think.
- TDTim Dillon
Nephilium.
- 2:46 – 6:20
Ice Age cataclysms, the Sphinx dating debate, and Gobekli Tepe’s implications
- JRJoe Rogan
... th- this, um, this theory that Dr. Robert Schoch has been putting forth. He- he was one of the weirder ones that I've had on the podcast. First of all, because he's a rock solid geologist.
- TDTim Dillon
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Professor at Boston University, like, really well-established. Uh, his credentials are, you know... They're- they're as good as it gets. And he was saying that he thinks that there was a mass coronal ejection somewhere around 12,000 years ago and it was literally raining lightning all over the world and just-
- TDTim Dillon
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... decimated the population of land mammals and- and people.
- TDTim Dillon
Is this what got the dinosaurs?
- JRJoe Rogan
No. No, no, no, no.
- TDTim Dillon
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
This is way later. This-
- TDTim Dillon
I apologize. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) This is, like-
- TDTim Dillon
My bad.
- JRJoe Rogan
This is, uh, they think in the neighborhood of 12,000 years ago. They think this is... They-
- TDTim Dillon
Oh, so this is recent?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. This is what Graham Hancock's work indicates as well. See, Graham Hancock and him worked together on the Sphinx because Robert Schoch was the geologist they brought in to examine the erosion marks on the, uh, temple of the Sphinx.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And his conclusion was that this is the result of thousands of years of rainfall.
- TDTim Dillon
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
The problem with that was the last time there was significant rainfall in the Nile Valley was 9000 BC, so you'd have to have thousands of years before that to create these deep water-based fissures, or water-created fissures.
- TDTim Dillon
So they're saying the Sphinx was there a lot longer-
- JRJoe Rogan
A lot longer.
- TDTim Dillon
... than we imagine.
- JRJoe Rogan
A lot longer. Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So that coincides with a lot of these... The- the- the people that want to push back the dates of civilization, what they think is... The- it all points to something big happening at the end of the Ice Age.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So something big happening between 12,000 and 10,000 years ago.
- TDTim Dillon
Why don't mainstream scientists just go... Now, I'm sure there's a reason for this and I think there's a reason that mainstream thought leaders in any area don't allow the fringe in.
- 6:20 – 7:23
Why conspiracies are addictive (and why they’re increasingly stigmatized)
- TDTim Dillon
It teaches you how to think.
- JRJoe Rogan
A little bit, yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
Like when I was a, a teenager, I was smoking weed with my buddies. Like, we would r-... You'd have to research these things. You'd have to cross-reference information.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
You couldn't just swallow the narrative. You had to literally go, "Well..." And then you'd have to use critical thinking to go, "Does this make sense?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
"Would this have happened?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
"Could... Maybe could Lee Harvey Oswald ha- would ha-" You know, "Would he have acted alone?" H- You know, you have to think about all these things.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
But, I mean, I, I do think since Trump got elected, conspiracy theorists have been demonized. And nobody talks-
- JRJoe Rogan
Because-
- TDTim Dillon
... about that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. There's a little b-... Well, it was always going on.
- TDTim Dillon
It was, uh, y-
- JRJoe Rogan
Even before that they were being demonized. But yeah, for sure, because-
- TDTim Dillon
Everybody's worried about the other groups, which is fair.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
I get that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
There's the people in the cage is no good. I'm not for any of that.
- JRJoe Rogan
People in the cage?
- TDTim Dillon
The, well, the kids in the cages is not good. You know what I mean?
- JRJoe Rogan
What do you mean?
- TDTim Dillon
The family separation.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
At the border. All the... There's real stuff.
- JRJoe Rogan
Of course, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
But I think that people think that conspiracy theories got Trump elected, so now it's, like, cool to hate conspiracy theorists or people-
- JRJoe Rogan
B-
- 7:23 – 10:08
Trump as a ‘riffing comic’: entertainment, backlash to PC culture, and the perfect storm election
- JRJoe Rogan
There's so many factors that got Trump elected.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah, right.
- JRJoe Rogan
I mean, it's a perfect storm of people get- getting fed up with political correctness-
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... someone coming along that's not a politician.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know, the system is so rigged that after a while you're just like, "Jesus Christ, how many more of these fake puppets are we gonna put in office?"
- TDTim Dillon
There's... I say this to comics. I'm like, "Everybody's done a show where everybody goes out and bombs-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
... with their material, and then one guy gets up and just goes, 'Fuck this,' and screams and yells-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
... and destroys."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
Because that's what the room wanted the whole night. They wanted somebody to come up and just realize how fucked everything was and how nobody was having a good time. And that's kind of what Trump was.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
Trump was the guy that came out and just riffed.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
He went out there with no material. He just went out there and riffed and he went a-... And, and I... When I heard, and I'm sure you've seen the speech, where he talks about Ben Carson going after his mother with a hammer and trying to stab his friend. This was one of the funniest things. He was speaking and he was giving a stump speech, I don't know where it was. I think it was... He wasn't in Iowa, but he was referencing Iowa. And he's talking about Ben Carson's book and that Ben Carson had admitted to going after his mother with a hammer and trying to stab his friend with a kni-... I mean, these are, these are in... Be-... And Trump is talking about it. Me and my friend were driving, uh, out of New York City. We were laughing so hard. I said, "This guy's..."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
I said, "He's gonna win." I said, "I'll tell you why he's gonna win. I cannot stop watching this."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
I can't. I am so fixated by the idea that there's a guy like this on the national stage and he's saying whatever he w-... There was something intoxicating about that. And a lot of the things he was saying were horrible-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
... but he was saying them. And then on the other side you had Hillary Clinton who was just a scripted, c- uh, careful person. And I'm like, "Y- It's just boring."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
So to me, I'm like, "Sometimes the entertaining person wins because you can't take your eyes off them."
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, in this case, for sure. I mean, and th- that... It was a perfect, y- you know, polar opposite between him and her.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know?
- TDTim Dillon
Oh, yeah.
- 10:08 – 14:50
The ‘Deep State’ as bureaucracy: intelligence sprawl, budgets, and geospatial confusion
- TDTim Dillon
Right. But I think we really don't... Like, we have one person that seems... Like, we have one figurehead, but we have kind of this permanent political class of people-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
... a nexus of powerful institutions where you have career politicians, career diplomats-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- TDTim Dillon
... career military service people that kind of don't leave. So, I think that's one of the reasons that we haven't changed the system, is because one person can't ever do that much. Even though Trump is wild and crazy and he's done a lot of bad things, I don't think he would be allowed to deviate from many of the policies, like, that his predecessors had kind of established. I think that, like, the American government... And that's why this... The term, like, the Deep State, which a lot of people ridicule, it's an undeniably true thing. I mean, our policies are not just one guy gets into office and he goes, "Here's how it is."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
I mean, it's the result of a lot of, you know, private corporations lobbying, forming all kinds of... Forming an agenda in a non-democratic way. You know?
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- TDTim Dillon
They're not accountable. And a lot of these, you know, people that work at the CIA or the FBI or the NSA, a lot of them are appointed, they're not elected.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
We have no oversight. Um, we have tw-... I think it's 22 intelligence agencies now. It's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Really, that many?
- TDTim Dillon
I, I mean, it's something absurd.
- JRJoe Rogan
How many could you name?
- TDTim Dillon
Uh, FBI, CIA, NSA, uh, probably DEA, um-
- JRJoe Rogan
Is DEA an intelligence agency? I guess.
- TDTim Dillon
I wouldn't say it's an intelligence agency. They probably have-
- JRJoe Rogan
More law enforcement, right?
- TDTim Dillon
... intelligence capabilities-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
... I would imagine.
- JRJoe Rogan
FBI, CIA, NSA-
- TDTim Dillon
Uh, there's one in-
- JRJoe Rogan
... DEA.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah. The, uh, DIA-
- JRJoe Rogan
What's that?
- TDTim Dillon
... Director of Intelligence.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- TDTim Dillon
The Pentagon. I mean, I don't know if that's an entire agency, but I think it... I mean, I think, you know, it has the capabilities.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- 14:50 – 16:33
DC’s contractor wealth and Tim’s private gig with the ‘defense industry crowd’
- TDTim Dillon
The amount of people that are doing things we have no idea what they're do- I mean, 10, uh, I just did a private gig at the Bethesda Country Club in Maryland, okay? It's, you know, I'm still doing, uh, private gigs, sad, but you gotta, you know. It is what it is.
- JRJoe Rogan
Gotta do what you gotta do.
- TDTim Dillon
Gotta do what you gotta do. I go to the Bethesda Country Club, Maryland, um, it's, the entire 10 counties around Washington, DC are the wealthiest counties in the world. I mean, in, in our country. They, and it's not because they're selling crab cakes, you know what I mean?
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
It's all defense industry, Raytheon, uh, you know, DynCorp, things you've never heard of and they were all, uh, and they were, it was a good gig, they were funny. I, I got up and I was like, "What are we, are we, uh, carving up Venezuela?" They all laugh.
- YJYoung Jamie
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
They're all clapping. They're into it. You know, they liked it. They, some people get, and I was like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
... I was like, I, I said last week I did a fundraiser for human trafficking victims, this week I'm with the traffickers, you guys are a lot more fun.
- YJYoung Jamie
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
And they're clapping. They're cla- they love it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that's funny.
- TDTim Dillon
They're leaning in to being-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that's good.
- TDTim Dillon
They're fake.
- JRJoe Rogan
Leaning in to being... (laughs)
- YJYoung Jamie
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
(laughs) They're m- they're, you know.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
They're morally compromised.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, they're also hired a comedian to fuck with them.
- TDTim Dillon
Yes. That's a good point.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, they, they expected it. It's not like it came outta nowhere.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, it's like, so that's the thing, it's like Trump bad, but I don't know what the geospatial people are up to.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
I don't have to th- I don't wanna throw my hat in with geospatial intelligence.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. I don't know what that means. I mean, maybe we need it. What, you know, but listen, again, two standup comedians talking about what the world needs.
- TDTim Dillon
Right. Yeah, it's not great.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's, it's fucking terrible.
- TDTim Dillon
It's not great.
- 16:33 – 22:02
Twitter noise, real journalism, and Trump’s superpower: not giving a fuck
- TDTim Dillon
The best thing is if you go on Twitter and a comedian will tweet something really, you know, it's like, "We're living in fascism."
- JRJoe Rogan
Hmm.
- TDTim Dillon
And they get, like, 400,000 likes. And then the next tweet, have you ever seen this? They go, "And while you guys are here, check out my web series."
- YJYoung Jamie
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
And you go, are we, are we living in fa- uh, if we're living in fascism, do I-
- JRJoe Rogan
You can't have a web series.
- TDTim Dillon
You can't have a web series, and do I have the time to luxuriate-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
... in your web series-
- YJYoung Jamie
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
... or should I start arming myself-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
... to overthrow the government? What should I, what should, I look at my phone, I'm like, "Which way should I go?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
But that's all they do. They go, "By, by the way, while you're here, I have a Patreon. We're doing, uh, a project, I'd like you to throw a few bucks there. But we're living in fascism and, you know."
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, the signal-to-noise ratio in terms of, like, people tweeting-
- YJYoung Jamie
(laughs) That's great.
- JRJoe Rogan
... it's almost mostly noise. Like-
- TDTim Dillon
Oh, it's noise.
- JRJoe Rogan
... there's a few people that are great. You can follow a few people-
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... that are really posting about real news and, you know-
- TDTim Dillon
There's four.
- JRJoe Rogan
The, there's some journalists.
- TDTim Dillon
There's 17 of 'em.
- YJYoung Jamie
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I think journalists are maybe the best people to follow on Twitter right now, it seems like.
- TDTim Dillon
But the problem is, who's a journalist? There's very few.
- YJYoung Jamie
(sighs)
- 22:02 – 35:00
Gaudy wealth, Trump branding, and NYC real estate as a money-laundering magnet
- TDTim Dillon
Y- he, he's not a bit... Like, this idea that he's like a b-... The things he's built are disgusting.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
If you go to Atlantic City, walk into any building he has built, it is d-... Chris Hedges g- wrote a book, he's a, a, a interesting guy, he wrote a book called, America: The Farewell Tour. And he goes, he went (laughs) , he went to Trump Tower in Atlantic City, and he goes, "There's junkies in the bathrooms, there's like rats running around, it's falling apart," and he's like, "That's kinda what, you know, America will be." But no, anything he's built is not nice. Did you watch it? There was a documentary about an architect called Costis Carayannis, and he ha- and a lot of the documentary is about him convincing Trump to not make his building gold-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
... in New York City. And I, I, I, I... A- a- and it's like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Is it gold in New York City or no?
- TDTim Dillon
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
But it's gold in Vegas.
- TDTim Dillon
It's gold a lotta places.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
But like, he was gonna ruin the, the, the downtown of Manhattan with a gold building.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wh- uh, why is that ruining it though?
- TDTim Dillon
A gold building?
- JRJoe Rogan
Why not?
- TDTim Dillon
You've spent too much time on the West Coast.
- JRJoe Rogan
But why is that bad? Why is it bad to, d- for it to be one color? Is it better if it's all black or it's all white or silver?
- TDTim Dillon
New York has a look, it has a feel. You can't come in with a gold building, it's not Vegas-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
... it's not Atlantic City, this is not Reno.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like Mandalay Bay?
- TDTim Dillon
What goes on in a gold building? I've never looked at a gold building and said, "I bet what goes on there is honest," like-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
... go- and decent. Gold buildings should be for doing coke and losing money.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TDTim Dillon
That's what it's about. You don't walk into-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a good point.
- TDTim Dillon
... a gold building and get a checkup.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a good point.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that's a very good point. That's what I think.
- 35:00 – 42:36
LA vs. New York comedy: networking culture, careerism, and the Louie CK backlash dynamic
- TDTim Dillon
Guest-spotted flappers. Uh, lot of things happening. And, uh, 'cause they're always trying to mo- ... That's the thing about LA. New Yorkers just pound yourself into the ground until you get funny. That's kinda what New York is.
- JRJoe Rogan
The New York scene?
- TDTim Dillon
The New York scene is like, do 57 shows a day. Give up on your life. Don't speak to your family. They're losers. They're holding you back.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
Go hard. LA is like, make a friend, have lunch, see what happens. I talked to some of the people out here and I'm like, "What's the plan?" I get nervous for them. I'm like-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
... "What's the plan?" They're getting high. It's midday. I'm like, "W- okay, it's Wednesday at 2:00." They're like, "We just had a meeting." I'm like, "What'd you do?" They go, "We're talking about starting a podcast." I'm like, "That's not a meeting."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TDTim Dillon
You're just friends with someone else. You-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, you're talking about stuff.
- TDTim Dillon
That's nothing.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's not a meeting.
- TDTim Dillon
But here's the thing. It does work here and there are people that I know who have made the right friend and then their life changes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, there's a little of that, but those people are super transparent.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And if you don't have any talent, that's never gonna, it's never gonna catch.
- TDTim Dillon
No, it'll never work.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then everybody resents you. There's a few of those people that really don't have any talent, but they made the right friends and they cling onto folks and everybody gets real uncomfortable when they're around.
- TDTim Dillon
Well, that was the thing. I think the first time we spoke is I had written that thing about Louie and after Louie's, the whole news about Louie happened.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TDTim Dillon
You had all this-
- JRJoe Rogan
I loved that piece, by the way.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah, thank you.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was so accurate-
- TDTim Dillon
It was f- Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and honest.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah, it was on Facebook, which is where I did a lot of my best work.
- JRJoe Rogan
Explain what you were saying-
- TDTim Dillon
Well-
- JRJoe Rogan
... to people that didn't read it.
- 42:36 – 1:09:30
Edgy comedy, bombing on purpose, and the Dangerfield’s/Dice/Holtzman lineage
- JRJoe Rogan
... but it would make howl laugh. Have you seen Holtzman?
- TDTim Dillon
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
You never... Seen Brian Holtzman?
- TDTim Dillon
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God.
- TDTim Dillon
At Ligh- Store?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, yeah. He, he-
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah, you should check him out.
- JRJoe Rogan
He cl-... How long are you in town for?
- TDTim Dillon
I'm in town for a little while, I leave e- early March for a wedding.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, great.
- TDTim Dillon
I'm coming back like a week, a month now.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, he'll be here... I'm sure he's here either Friday or Saturday-
- TDTim Dillon
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
... 'cause he doesn't really do the road.
- TDTim Dillon
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
He mostly just does the Store.
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't even think he does other clubs. I think he just-
- TDTim Dillon
I love it.
- JRJoe Rogan
... does the Store.
- TDTim Dillon
He's just there.
- JRJoe Rogan
When I started in '94, he was coming up. He was there at the Store in '94.
- TDTim Dillon
Wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
And, uh, he was already there when I got there.
- TDTim Dillon
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I was like, "Whoa, this guy is gonna be huge." And for whatever reason-
- TDTim Dillon
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... he never left.
- TDTim Dillon
Right.
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