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Joe Rogan Experience #1251 - Tim Dillon

Tim Dillon is a comedian, tour guide, and host. His podcast "Tim Dillon Is Going To Hell" is available on the GaS Digital Network.

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Feb 22, 20192h 9mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:002:46

    Ancient aliens vs. lost civilizations: where the evidence gets stretchy

    1. JR

      And three, two, one. No? Yes? Okay. It's live.

    2. TD

      Okay.

    3. JR

      W- it's been fucking up a little bit lately.

    4. TD

      Yeah. I believe.

    5. JR

      How are you, man? What's going on?

    6. TD

      Good. How are you?

    7. JR

      Good to see you. Thanks for doing this.

    8. TD

      Thanks for having me.

    9. JR

      My pleasure, my pleasure.

    10. TD

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      You brought me a, a nice conspiracy book.

    12. TD

      I want you back.

    13. JR

      Nice. (laughs)

    14. TD

      I want you back. (laughs)

    15. JR

      (laughs) I got bored with it.

    16. TD

      I'm... Yeah, I get ya. I know.

    17. JR

      I just had a, uh, a-

    18. TD

      (coughs)

    19. JR

      ... a lunch with-

    20. TD

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... Erich von Däniken.

    22. TD

      Oh, yeah.

    23. JR

      And, uh, uh, he's the author of Chariots of the Gods. The last two hours we've been talking ancient aliens.

    24. TD

      I was deep... When I was, like, in- in my late teens, I was deep in Zecharia Sitchin-

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. TD

      ... Anunnaki-

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. TD

      ... Nephilium. I'm pronouncing it wrong.

    29. JR

      Yeah. Nephilium, I think.

    30. TD

      Nephilium.

  2. 2:466:20

    Ice Age cataclysms, the Sphinx dating debate, and Gobekli Tepe’s implications

    1. JR

      ... 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.

    2. TD

      Right.

    3. JR

      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-

    4. TD

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      ... decimated the population of land mammals and- and people.

    6. TD

      Is this what got the dinosaurs?

    7. JR

      No. No, no, no, no.

    8. TD

      Okay.

    9. JR

      This is way later. This-

    10. TD

      I apologize. (laughs)

    11. JR

      (laughs) This is, like-

    12. TD

      My bad.

    13. JR

      This is, uh, they think in the neighborhood of 12,000 years ago. They think this is... They-

    14. TD

      Oh, so this is recent?

    15. JR

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    16. TD

      Okay.

    17. JR

      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.

    18. TD

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      And his conclusion was that this is the result of thousands of years of rainfall.

    20. TD

      Right.

    21. JR

      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.

    22. TD

      So they're saying the Sphinx was there a lot longer-

    23. JR

      A lot longer.

    24. TD

      ... than we imagine.

    25. JR

      A lot longer. Yeah.

    26. TD

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      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.

    28. TD

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      So something big happening between 12,000 and 10,000 years ago.

    30. TD

      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.

  3. 6:207:23

    Why conspiracies are addictive (and why they’re increasingly stigmatized)

    1. TD

      It teaches you how to think.

    2. JR

      A little bit, yeah.

    3. TD

      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.

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. TD

      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?"

    6. JR

      Right.

    7. TD

      "Would this have happened?"

    8. JR

      Right.

    9. TD

      "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.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. TD

      But, I mean, I, I do think since Trump got elected, conspiracy theorists have been demonized. And nobody talks-

    12. JR

      Because-

    13. TD

      ... about that.

    14. JR

      Right. There's a little b-... Well, it was always going on.

    15. TD

      It was, uh, y-

    16. JR

      Even before that they were being demonized. But yeah, for sure, because-

    17. TD

      Everybody's worried about the other groups, which is fair.

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. TD

      I get that.

    20. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    21. TD

      There's the people in the cage is no good. I'm not for any of that.

    22. JR

      People in the cage?

    23. TD

      The, well, the kids in the cages is not good. You know what I mean?

    24. JR

      What do you mean?

    25. TD

      The family separation.

    26. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    27. TD

      At the border. All the... There's real stuff.

    28. JR

      Of course, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    29. TD

      But I think that people think that conspiracy theories got Trump elected, so now it's, like, cool to hate conspiracy theorists or people-

    30. JR

      B-

  4. 7:2310:08

    Trump as a ‘riffing comic’: entertainment, backlash to PC culture, and the perfect storm election

    1. JR

      There's so many factors that got Trump elected.

    2. TD

      Yeah, right.

    3. JR

      I mean, it's a perfect storm of people get- getting fed up with political correctness-

    4. TD

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      ... someone coming along that's not a politician.

    6. TD

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      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?"

    8. TD

      There's... I say this to comics. I'm like, "Everybody's done a show where everybody goes out and bombs-

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. TD

      ... with their material, and then one guy gets up and just goes, 'Fuck this,' and screams and yells-

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. TD

      ... and destroys."

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. TD

      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.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. TD

      Trump was the guy that came out and just riffed.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. TD

      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..."

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. TD

      I said, "He's gonna win." I said, "I'll tell you why he's gonna win. I cannot stop watching this."

    21. JR

      Right.

    22. TD

      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-

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. TD

      ... 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."

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. TD

      So to me, I'm like, "Sometimes the entertaining person wins because you can't take your eyes off them."

    27. JR

      Well, in this case, for sure. I mean, and th- that... It was a perfect, y- you know, polar opposite between him and her.

    28. TD

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      You know?

    30. TD

      Oh, yeah.

  5. 10:0814:50

    The ‘Deep State’ as bureaucracy: intelligence sprawl, budgets, and geospatial confusion

    1. TD

      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-

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. TD

      ... a nexus of powerful institutions where you have career politicians, career diplomats-

    4. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    5. TD

      ... 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."

    6. JR

      Right.

    7. TD

      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?

    8. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    9. TD

      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.

    10. JR

      Right.

    11. TD

      We have no oversight. Um, we have tw-... I think it's 22 intelligence agencies now. It's-

    12. JR

      Really, that many?

    13. TD

      I, I mean, it's something absurd.

    14. JR

      How many could you name?

    15. TD

      Uh, FBI, CIA, NSA, uh, probably DEA, um-

    16. JR

      Is DEA an intelligence agency? I guess.

    17. TD

      I wouldn't say it's an intelligence agency. They probably have-

    18. JR

      More law enforcement, right?

    19. TD

      ... intelligence capabilities-

    20. JR

      Right.

    21. TD

      ... I would imagine.

    22. JR

      FBI, CIA, NSA-

    23. TD

      Uh, there's one in-

    24. JR

      ... DEA.

    25. TD

      Yeah. The, uh, DIA-

    26. JR

      What's that?

    27. TD

      ... Director of Intelligence.

    28. JR

      Oh.

    29. TD

      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.

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  6. 14:5016:33

    DC’s contractor wealth and Tim’s private gig with the ‘defense industry crowd’

    1. TD

      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.

    2. JR

      Gotta do what you gotta do.

    3. TD

      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?

    4. JR

      Right.

    5. TD

      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.

    6. YJ

      (laughs)

    7. TD

      They're all clapping. They're into it. You know, they liked it. They, some people get, and I was like-

    8. JR

      Right.

    9. TD

      ... 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.

    10. YJ

      (laughs)

    11. TD

      And they're clapping. They're cla- they love it.

    12. JR

      Oh, that's funny.

    13. TD

      They're leaning in to being-

    14. JR

      Well, that's good.

    15. TD

      They're fake.

    16. JR

      Leaning in to being... (laughs)

    17. YJ

      (laughs)

    18. TD

      (laughs) They're m- they're, you know.

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. TD

      They're morally compromised.

    21. JR

      Well, they're also hired a comedian to fuck with them.

    22. TD

      Yes. That's a good point.

    23. JR

      Yeah. Yeah, I mean, they, they expected it. It's not like it came outta nowhere.

    24. TD

      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.

    25. JR

      Right.

    26. TD

      I don't have to th- I don't wanna throw my hat in with geospatial intelligence.

    27. JR

      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.

    28. TD

      Right. Yeah, it's not great.

    29. JR

      It's, it's fucking terrible.

    30. TD

      It's not great.

  7. 16:3322:02

    Twitter noise, real journalism, and Trump’s superpower: not giving a fuck

    1. TD

      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."

    2. JR

      Hmm.

    3. TD

      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."

    4. YJ

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. TD

      And you go, are we, are we living in fa- uh, if we're living in fascism, do I-

    7. JR

      You can't have a web series.

    8. TD

      You can't have a web series, and do I have the time to luxuriate-

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. TD

      ... in your web series-

    11. YJ

      (laughs)

    12. TD

      ... or should I start arming myself-

    13. JR

      (laughs)

    14. TD

      ... to overthrow the government? What should I, what should, I look at my phone, I'm like, "Which way should I go?"

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. TD

      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."

    17. JR

      Well, the signal-to-noise ratio in terms of, like, people tweeting-

    18. YJ

      (laughs) That's great.

    19. JR

      ... it's almost mostly noise. Like-

    20. TD

      Oh, it's noise.

    21. JR

      ... there's a few people that are great. You can follow a few people-

    22. TD

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      ... that are really posting about real news and, you know-

    24. TD

      There's four.

    25. JR

      The, there's some journalists.

    26. TD

      There's 17 of 'em.

    27. YJ

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      I think journalists are maybe the best people to follow on Twitter right now, it seems like.

    29. TD

      But the problem is, who's a journalist? There's very few.

    30. YJ

      (sighs)

  8. 22:0235:00

    Gaudy wealth, Trump branding, and NYC real estate as a money-laundering magnet

    1. TD

      Y- he, he's not a bit... Like, this idea that he's like a b-... The things he's built are disgusting.

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. TD

      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-

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. TD

      ... in New York City. And I, I, I, I... A- a- and it's like-

    6. JR

      Is it gold in New York City or no?

    7. TD

      No.

    8. JR

      But it's gold in Vegas.

    9. TD

      It's gold a lotta places.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. TD

      But like, he was gonna ruin the, the, the downtown of Manhattan with a gold building.

    12. JR

      Wh- uh, why is that ruining it though?

    13. TD

      A gold building?

    14. JR

      Why not?

    15. TD

      You've spent too much time on the West Coast.

    16. JR

      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?

    17. TD

      New York has a look, it has a feel. You can't come in with a gold building, it's not Vegas-

    18. JR

      Right.

    19. TD

      ... it's not Atlantic City, this is not Reno.

    20. JR

      Like Mandalay Bay?

    21. TD

      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-

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. TD

      ... go- and decent. Gold buildings should be for doing coke and losing money.

    24. JR

      Right.

    25. TD

      That's what it's about. You don't walk into-

    26. JR

      That's a good point.

    27. TD

      ... a gold building and get a checkup.

    28. JR

      That's a good point.

    29. TD

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      Yeah, that's a very good point. That's what I think.

  9. 35:0042:36

    LA vs. New York comedy: networking culture, careerism, and the Louie CK backlash dynamic

    1. TD

      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.

    2. JR

      The New York scene?

    3. TD

      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.

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. TD

      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-

    6. JR

      (laughs)

    7. TD

      ... "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."

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. TD

      You're just friends with someone else. You-

    10. JR

      Yeah, you're talking about stuff.

    11. TD

      That's nothing.

    12. JR

      That's not a meeting.

    13. TD

      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.

    14. JR

      Yeah, there's a little of that, but those people are super transparent.

    15. TD

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      And if you don't have any talent, that's never gonna, it's never gonna catch.

    17. TD

      No, it'll never work.

    18. JR

      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.

    19. TD

      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.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. TD

      You had all this-

    22. JR

      I loved that piece, by the way.

    23. TD

      Yeah, thank you.

    24. JR

      It was so accurate-

    25. TD

      It was f- Yeah.

    26. JR

      ... and honest.

    27. TD

      Yeah, it was on Facebook, which is where I did a lot of my best work.

    28. JR

      Explain what you were saying-

    29. TD

      Well-

    30. JR

      ... to people that didn't read it.

  10. 42:361:09:30

    Edgy comedy, bombing on purpose, and the Dangerfield’s/Dice/Holtzman lineage

    1. JR

      ... but it would make howl laugh. Have you seen Holtzman?

    2. TD

      No.

    3. JR

      You never... Seen Brian Holtzman?

    4. TD

      No.

    5. JR

      Oh my God.

    6. TD

      At Ligh- Store?

    7. JR

      Yeah, yeah. He, he-

    8. TD

      Yeah, you should check him out.

    9. JR

      He cl-... How long are you in town for?

    10. TD

      I'm in town for a little while, I leave e- early March for a wedding.

    11. JR

      Oh, great.

    12. TD

      I'm coming back like a week, a month now.

    13. JR

      Well, he'll be here... I'm sure he's here either Friday or Saturday-

    14. TD

      Okay.

    15. JR

      ... 'cause he doesn't really do the road.

    16. TD

      Okay.

    17. JR

      He mostly just does the Store.

    18. TD

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      I don't even think he does other clubs. I think he just-

    20. TD

      I love it.

    21. JR

      ... does the Store.

    22. TD

      He's just there.

    23. JR

      When I started in '94, he was coming up. He was there at the Store in '94.

    24. TD

      Wow.

    25. JR

      And, uh, he was already there when I got there.

    26. TD

      Right.

    27. JR

      And I was like, "Whoa, this guy is gonna be huge." And for whatever reason-

    28. TD

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      ... he never left.

    30. TD

      Right.

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