Joe Rogan Experience #1525 - Tim Dillon

1. 0:01 – 0:55

   COVID screening absurdity and the restaurant shutdown reality

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      Tim Dillon, fresh off a COVID test. How you feeling, buddy? How's the nose?

   2. TDTim Dillon0:04

      Feeling good. You know, when I go out with friends, uh, to restaurants in LA, they, you know, everybody gets the gun.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Yeah.

   4. TDTim Dillon0:12

      The temperature gun to your head. But you know what's fucked up? A lot of my friends, they don't do it, they do it to me. And I'm like, "I guess I'm the only one that looks sick." 'Cause they look at me and they go, "Get him, get him." And then I ask other people, I'm like, "Were you hit on the way in?" They're like, "No."

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:26

      What?

   6. TDTim Dillon0:26

      So I'm like... Yeah, it's weird. It's, like, arbitrary the way they do it.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:29

      They're supposed to get everybody.

   8. TDTim Dillon0:30

      I know.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:30

      Maybe they think, like, you're a little bit overweight-

   10. TDTim Dillon0:32

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       ... and you could die.

   12. TDTim Dillon0:33

       They're like, "We don't want him dying at BOA Steakhouse-"

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:36

       Mmm.

   14. TDTim Dillon0:36

       "... in West Hollywood."

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Oh, you could eat outside of BOA.

   16. TDTim Dillon0:38

       They don't want me falling on a TikToker.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:40

       BOA's an outside place, you could-

   18. TDTim Dillon0:41

       BOA's all outside, yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       You could eat there.

   20. TDTim Dillon0:42

       All outside.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       Oh.

   22. TDTim Dillon0:44

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       Those- those outside places are, they're- they're doing good.

   24. TDTim Dillon0:47

       They're jammed.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       But the fucking inside places are doomed.

   26. TDTim Dillon0:50

       They are doomed and they will not reopen, many of them.

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       A lot of them.

   28. TDTim Dillon0:53

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       Yeah.

   30. TDTim Dillon0:54

       It's a big problem.

2. 0:55 – 2:51

   When will LA reopen, and why the election could break the country

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:55

      Let me ask you this-

   2. TDTim Dillon0:56

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:56

      ... when do you think Los Angeles is gonna open up, back up again?

   4. TDTim Dillon1:00

      Next spring.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:01

      Wow. Like April?

   6. TDTim Dillon1:04

      Well, I mean-

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:04

      May?

   8. TDTim Dillon1:04

      ... it depends what this second wave does, right? If there is a second wave.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:08

      Right.

   10. TDTim Dillon1:09

       Does the... Do we get clobbered in the fall?

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:12

       Man.

   12. TDTim Dillon1:12

       Or do we... I mean, by the time LA reopens, it's gonna be Terminator here.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:17

       Don't you think that it's gonna be Terminator after November, no matter what we do?

   14. TDTim Dillon1:20

       Probably.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:21

       I feel like-

   16. TDTim Dillon1:22

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       ... with all of the fucking tension, like there was a story in Chicago, right? They thought it was a 15-year-old girl who was shot by the police. It turned out to be a 20-year-old man and he was shot, but he was still alive.

   18. TDTim Dillon1:35

       How did they get that wrong?

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:37

       The fucking telephone game.

   20. TDTim Dillon1:38

       Right.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:39

       You know that game.

   22. TDTim Dillon1:39

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:40

       Doesn't work.

   24. TDTim Dillon1:40

       It's crazy.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:41

       So then everybody goes crazy and goes looting.

   26. TDTim Dillon1:43

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:43

       So, like, people are looking for an excuse to go crazy.

   28. TDTim Dillon1:46

       If Trump wins again-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:47

       Yeah, it's gonna burn.

   30. TDTim Dillon1:48

       Not only that, it's like-
3. 2:51 – 6:40

   Celebrity activism, performative politics, and ‘relevance’ as a career move

   1. TDTim Dillon2:51

      Like, w- everybody can't be a political pundit. Like, my aunt cannot be writing, uh, about trade-

   2. JRJoe Rogan2:57

      Yeah.

   3. TDTim Dillon2:57

      ... on Facebook.

   4. JRJoe Rogan2:59

      I think we should just leave it all to Alyssa Milano.

   5. TDTim Dillon3:01

      Yeah, well she's-

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:02

      (laughs) I'm looking forward to her tweets in November.

   7. TDTim Dillon3:05

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:05

      I'm just gonna follow all that.

   9. TDTim Dillon3:06

      Yeah. Yeah. Well, she was like...

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:08

       (laughs)

   11. TDTim Dillon3:09

       (laughs) She's got a podcast. We know that.

   12. JRJoe Rogan3:11

       She's fine.

   13. TDTim Dillon3:12

       Yeah. I mean, it's relevance, right? They're all trying to be relevant.

   14. JRJoe Rogan3:15

       Everybody's relevant.

   15. TDTim Dillon3:15

       Every, b- like, they have to be-

   16. JRJoe Rogan3:17

       Just, you have to get your opinion out there, it's super important.

   17. TDTim Dillon3:19

       Yeah. And that's the way to be relevant now is to just be, you know, like, be political all day, every day.

   18. JRJoe Rogan3:26

       With that shift, we go from actor to activist.

   19. TDTim Dillon3:29

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan3:29

       All in.

   21. TDTim Dillon3:29

       Very interesting.

   22. JRJoe Rogan3:30

       As soon as the fucking calls stop coming in, you're like, "All right, I'm an activist."

   23. TDTim Dillon3:34

       What's so funny is we know, because we're, like, in the, in- in this thing that getting good at this, whether it's comedy or being an actor, it's very tough. You're not spending your life thinking about other people. Let's just be real.

   24. JRJoe Rogan3:47

       (laughs)

   25. TDTim Dillon3:47

       For the most part. You're just not.

   26. JRJoe Rogan3:49

       Yeah, you-

   27. TDTim Dillon3:49

       I didn't.

   28. JRJoe Rogan3:50

       You're thinking about your career.

   29. TDTim Dillon3:51

       Yeah, you're thinking about your career.

   30. JRJoe Rogan3:52

       Yeah.
4. 6:40 – 8:52

   Cancel culture vs. right-wing conspiracies: entering the QAnon rabbit hole

   1. JRJoe Rogan6:40

      I don't like to say this in generalizations 'cause I don't think... I don't believe in generalizations, but-

   2. TDTim Dillon6:44

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan6:45

      ... I think-

   4. TDTim Dillon6:45

      I love them.

   5. JRJoe Rogan6:46

      I do too. They're fun.

   6. TDTim Dillon6:47

      I need them.

   7. JRJoe Rogan6:48

      They're, they're the best for comedy.

   8. TDTim Dillon6:48

      Yeah. I mean, we need them. Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan6:50

      With- without co-... Without generalizations, comedy kind of sucks.

   10. TDTim Dillon6:52

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan6:52

       But more people on the left are doing this than people on the right.

   12. TDTim Dillon6:57

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan6:57

       I don't see that many people on the right. I see a few, but I don't see-

   14. TDTim Dillon7:01

       Right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan7:01

       ... as many people on the right calling for people to get canceled forever. But the people on the left-

   16. TDTim Dillon7:05

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan7:05

       ... are like, "Burn their house, burn them to the ground."

   18. TDTim Dillon7:08

       Well, the right will do it. The right... I mean, the QAnon thing is kind of a way they're doing it, where they're like, "David Spade's got an ankle bracelet on, and-

   19. JRJoe Rogan7:16

       (laughs)

   20. TDTim Dillon7:16

       ... he's in jail, and Trump's put everyone under house arrest." Like, they're in this other thing, where it's like, "Oh, you guys have left the planet-

   21. JRJoe Rogan7:23

       (laughs)

   22. TDTim Dillon7:24

       ... and you..." Like, so ex-

   23. JRJoe Rogan7:25

       Explain p-... to people who don't know-

   24. TDTim Dillon7:27

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan7:27

       ... what- what this QAnon shit is.

   26. TDTim Dillon7:28

       Well, the QAnon stuff is like, the- there is this idea that there's an intelligence dissemination operation happening, meaning behind the scenes, high-level intelligence guys or military people are leaking information about a shadow war that we don't really see happening, and this shadow war involves Trump and the people on the side of lightness battling the, you know, these deep state, pedofil- cani- uh, pedophile cannibals. Like, I don't know why-

   27. JRJoe Rogan7:54

       Yeah.

   28. TDTim Dillon7:54

       ... uh, like, I don't... never understood why they have to be cannibals, but apparent-

   29. JRJoe Rogan7:57

       I didn't know they were cannibals.

   30. TDTim Dillon7:58

       They're... No, they're cannibals. They're eating children, and then they get the adrenochrome, and it keeps them young.
5. 8:52 – 18:07

   QAnon as a meaning-making game, and Trump as an instinctive performer

   1. JRJoe Rogan8:52

      Wh- Where do you get these drops?

   2. TDTim Dillon8:53

      Where do you get them, 4Chan or something?

   3. JRJoe Rogan8:54

      4Chan.

   4. TDTim Dillon8:54

      You get them, like, on 4Chan.

   5. JRJoe Rogan8:55

      Okay, but 4Chan is the best place in the world for trolls.

   6. TDTim Dillon8:59

      It's... You... It's a lot of f-... Well, that's what maybe this is. This could be like a-

   7. JRJoe Rogan9:01

      That's what I'm saying.

   8. TDTim Dillon9:02

      Yeah, it could be a high-level troll. Nobody knows 'cause it's bait. It has nuggets of truth-

   9. JRJoe Rogan9:06

      Right, right, right.

   10. TDTim Dillon9:07

       ... just like anything else. Right?

   11. JRJoe Rogan9:08

       Yeah.

   12. TDTim Dillon9:08

       It has nuggets of very real things. The government is shady as fuck. A lot of the elites are doing things, engaging in pedophilia and probably worse.

   13. JRJoe Rogan9:16

       Yeah.

   14. TDTim Dillon9:16

       Like, I... Some of those kids on Epstein's Island probably did disappear. But the idea that like, that, that Trump is fighting this underground war and it's all about human traffick-... I just don't think that's borne out by the facts. Like, there's no facts to point. I mean, Trump was like friends with the Clintons for his whole life.

   15. JRJoe Rogan9:34

       Well, not only that. If Trump was doing it and not talking about it, it would be so out of character.

   16. TDTim Dillon9:41

       Right. (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan9:41

       Like, imagine this one thing that he's doing is the most noble thing that he's ever done, ever.

   18. TDTim Dillon9:46

       Right, he's not mentioning it.

   19. JRJoe Rogan9:47

       The most selfless-

   20. TDTim Dillon9:48

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan9:48

       ... the most important, the most-

   22. TDTim Dillon9:49

       Right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan9:49

       ... for humanity, and he's not even-

   24. TDTim Dillon9:51

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan9:51

       ... bringing it up. He's just secretly winking-

   26. TDTim Dillon9:53

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan9:53

       ... at all the Q people.

   28. TDTim Dillon9:54

       Well, you know, and- and so everything he does, there's like a reason he does it, they say. Like when he wished Ghislaine Maxwell, he goes, "I wish her well."

   29. JRJoe Rogan10:00

       Yeah.

   30. TDTim Dillon10:01

       Now the thing is, that's-
6. 18:07 – 22:04

   COVID information chaos, immune systems, and the homeless-as-workforce bit

   1. JRJoe Rogan18:07

      New York Times was saying today they think it's under-reported. They think that the COVID deaths are somewhere around 200,000.

   2. TDTim Dillon18:13

      Yeah, I mean, listen. I mean, it was-

   3. JRJoe Rogan18:14

      I think it was New York Times. Might not.

   4. TDTim Dillon18:15

      At a certain point, you just, you have to stop reading.

   5. JRJoe Rogan18:18

      Mm-hmm.

   6. TDTim Dillon18:18

      Because everything you read every hour contradicts the last thing you've read.

   7. JRJoe Rogan18:23

      Yeah.

   8. TDTim Dillon18:24

      And they're like, "It's airborne." "No, it's not." "Yes, it is." "No, it's not." I'm like...

   9. JRJoe Rogan18:27

      (laughs)

   10. TDTim Dillon18:29

       What do I do?

   11. JRJoe Rogan18:29

       You can get it off surfaces. No, you can't.

   12. TDTim Dillon18:31

       Just kill me. Like, I don't know what's happening. I, I-

   13. JRJoe Rogan18:34

       Well, they don't know, that's the problem.

   14. TDTim Dillon18:35

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan18:36

       Is they're, they're making it up on the go because they're getting new data all the time. They're constantly getting new information, new studies, new things show up. But they don't react to all the studies. Like, one of the big ones is the fact that it dies in sunlight.So-

   16. TDTim Dillon18:47

       Right.

   17. JRJoe Rogan18:48

       ... if that's the case, well, you should let people do all sorts of outdoor activities.

   18. TDTim Dillon18:51

       These studies, when you read about the studies, they're like, "We sampled a certain amount of people and this is what we found."

   19. JRJoe Rogan18:57

       Mm-hmm.

   20. TDTim Dillon18:57

       And it's like, that's not n- necessarily indicative-

   21. JRJoe Rogan19:00

       Right.

   22. TDTim Dillon19:00

       ... of anything.

   23. JRJoe Rogan19:02

       Well, it's, it's information.

   24. TDTim Dillon19:04

       It's better than nothing.

   25. JRJoe Rogan19:04

       Yeah, and it depends on who's reading the study and what their bias is and what they're trying to say. Um, but, uh, they're, there's, it's clear that they're trying to figure this out. I mean, obviously-

   26. TDTim Dillon19:13

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan19:13

       ... it's only been around for six, seven months and we're-

   28. TDTim Dillon19:16

       They say that the people-

   29. JRJoe Rogan19:17

       ... real confused.

   30. TDTim Dillon19:17

       ... that are really reacting to it, uh, in many cases, a lot, like, for whatever reason, their immune system has not had as many prior experiences with coronaviruses. So if your-
7. 22:04 – 24:59

   Cities unraveling: NY crime, policing vacuums, and de Blasio as a symbol

   1. TDTim Dillon22:04

      New York is a nightmare.

   2. JRJoe Rogan22:06

      I've heard.

   3. TDTim Dillon22:07

      Like, New York, the crime is skyrocketing.

   4. JRJoe Rogan22:09

      Mm-hmm.

   5. TDTim Dillon22:10

      And, you know, there's just, m- you know, the, the, the, the, the relationship between the police and the people is very fraught and it's very ha- I mean, it's like, so the police are like, "Fuck it, we don't wanna do anything," and you, like, y- you understand. A lot of... They're just like, "Listen, we're gonna sit back." And then now a lot of areas are just being policed by cr- criminal elements, by gangs and stuff like that. 'Cause that's what happens in a power vacuum.

   6. JRJoe Rogan22:32

      Yeah.

   7. TDTim Dillon22:32

      You know, if you get rid of the cops... I'm not saying they shouldn't be reformed or they shouldn't have all these new regulations, but, like, if you defund them or get rid of them, somebody steps into that vacuum.

   8. JRJoe Rogan22:43

      Yeah.

   9. TDTim Dillon22:43

      And it's gonna be usually a gang, the mafia, a crime syndicate, whatever.

   10. JRJoe Rogan22:48

       Dude, de Blasio.

   11. TDTim Dillon22:49

       Not good.

   12. JRJoe Rogan22:49

       If you think your mayor is bad... (laughs)

   13. TDTim Dillon22:52

       De Blasio is a nightmare.

   14. JRJoe Rogan22:53

       He's like holding my beer.

   15. TDTim Dillon22:56

       He's bad.

   16. JRJoe Rogan22:57

       He's the worst.

   17. TDTim Dillon22:57

       He's bad.

   18. JRJoe Rogan22:58

       He eats pizza with a fork.

   19. TDTim Dillon22:59

       And what's great is that- (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan23:01

       (laughs) He does.

   21. TDTim Dillon23:02

       Well, he does, yeah. What's great is that everyone hates him. Like, the left hates him-

   22. JRJoe Rogan23:06

       Yeah.

   23. TDTim Dillon23:06

       ... and that, for different reasons, and then the right hates him.

   24. JRJoe Rogan23:08

       But even the Black Lives Matter people hate him-

   25. TDTim Dillon23:10

       They all hate him.

   26. JRJoe Rogan23:11

       ... 'cause he's so pandering.

   27. TDTim Dillon23:12

       What are they doing?

   28. JRJoe Rogan23:12

       He, look at them.

   29. TDTim Dillon23:13

       Oh, God.

   30. JRJoe Rogan23:13

       Eating pizza with a fork.
8. 24:59 – 43:59

   Portland, ANTIFA, CHAZ/CHOP, and why chaos becomes addictive

   1. JRJoe Rogan24:59

      "No, peo-" Like, they had no idea. And then you... They were sitting down, you just saw them, like, sitting down, eating ice. I am 100% for police reform.

   2. TDTim Dillon25:06

      100%.

   3. JRJoe Rogan25:07

      I'm, I'm 100%. I 100% believe there's too much police brutality.

   4. TDTim Dillon25:10

      Too much.

   5. JRJoe Rogan25:10

      I am also 100% in, in the belief that there is a lot of people that are doing this and following this movement because, like we were talking about before with actors, it is the trendy thing to do.

   6. TDTim Dillon25:22

      Social.

   7. JRJoe Rogan25:22

      And then, also, what you're seeing in, like, Portland and Seattle, you're seeing crazy white people trying to light government buildings on fire.

   8. TDTim Dillon25:29

      Yeah. They, well, they think if they, if they bash the windows of Amazon, this is the beginning of the revolution.

   9. JRJoe Rogan25:34

      How-

   10. TDTim Dillon25:34

       Right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan25:34

       ... is it in, at all connected to police brutality?

   12. TDTim Dillon25:36

       It's crazy. It is not connected at all to police. It's just anarchy.

   13. JRJoe Rogan25:39

       Yeah.

   14. TDTim Dillon25:39

       It's just chaos.

   15. JRJoe Rogan25:40

       Exactly.

   16. TDTim Dillon25:40

       And when you unleash that... Like, it... In the beginning of this, like, listen, you burn down a Target, it was fine. I even laughed. I said, "Who gives a shit?"

   17. JRJoe Rogan25:47

       (laughs)

   18. TDTim Dillon25:47

       It's in Minneapolis. Like, th- this happened in Minneapolis. So what? A Target gets hit in Minneapolis, the guy gets charged the next day, it's fine.

   19. JRJoe Rogan25:53

       Right.

   20. TDTim Dillon25:53

       But when you unleash total chaos... You know more about violence than anybody. You can't control it.

   21. JRJoe Rogan25:58

       No.

   22. TDTim Dillon25:59

       You can't direct it to the, to the targets that you think are right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan26:02

       It's also intoxicating and fun.

   24. TDTim Dillon26:04

       Yeah. Right.

   25. JRJoe Rogan26:04

       Like, all those people that are involved in it, wearing masks, showing up every day.

   26. TDTim Dillon26:07

       They're having a good time.

   27. JRJoe Rogan26:07

       They're giving their... It gives their life meaning.

   28. TDTim Dillon26:09

       Right, it does.

   29. JRJoe Rogan26:10

       They're trying to beat the man.

   30. TDTim Dillon26:11

       Right.
9. 43:59 – 46:41

   Billionaires, tech power, and Bill Gates ‘dimming the sun’ confusion

   1. JRJoe Rogan43:59

      Yeah, and, you know, now he's the devil. Now everybody's like, "Bill Gates wants to give me a microchip."

   2. TDTim Dillon44:03

      Well, I don't think he's the devil, I just think people get weirdly uncomfortable when it's like billionaires want to do... Like Bill Gates was considering once shooting a missile of dust at the sun to help climate change. This is a r- a fact.

   3. JRJoe Rogan44:13

      What?

   4. TDTim Dillon44:14

      Yes. So he was considering this-

   5. JRJoe Rogan44:17

      Wait a minute.

   6. TDTim Dillon44:17

      ... and then people-

   7. JRJoe Rogan44:17

      Wait a minute.

   8. TDTim Dillon44:17

      Yeah. Bill Gates-

   9. JRJoe Rogan44:18

      Where'd you read this?

   10. TDTim Dillon44:19

       This is-

   11. JRJoe Rogan44:19

       What kind of dust?

   12. TDTim Dillon44:20

       The um-

   13. JRJoe Rogan44:21

       Do you know how big the sun is?

   14. TDTim Dillon44:22

       Yeah, but Bill Gates was considering shooting a missile full of dust at the sun. (clears throat) So it's like, now obviously people said to him, "Hey, not a good idea," and he relented, but when you have these Batman villain billionaires, not that they're evil but that they have a lot of money, they can do whatever they want, people get uncomfortable with just one guy saying, "This is the way it is and this is what you need." People just feel uncomfortable with that.

   15. JRJoe Rogan44:45

       You find that? Is that real?

   16. TDTim Dillon44:46

       (clears throat) That's real, Joe.

   17. NANarrator44:47

       That's on the page this time.

   18. JRJoe Rogan44:47

       Could dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tons of dust into the stratosphere... Okay, that's different... To stop global warming, but critics fear it could trigger calamity.

   19. TDTim Dillon44:55

       Yeah, this is-

   20. JRJoe Rogan44:55

       Yeah, that's not at the sun.

   21. TDTim Dillon44:57

       But it's-

   22. JRJoe Rogan44:57

       What that is, is suspending particles in the atmosphere that are gonna act as like clouds-

   23. TDTim Dillon45:00

       Understood-

   24. JRJoe Rogan45:01

       Yeah.

   25. TDTim Dillon45:01

       ... but the reality is people get a little un-

   26. NANarrator45:04

       (laughs)

   27. TDTim Dillon45:04

       They get a little uncomfortable when a billionaire from a lair is decided to start shooting dust into the atmosphere and, you know, where is... Where is d- Is there any democratic process here where anybody will ever have any say in anything ever again?

   28. JRJoe Rogan45:21

       I saw a meme-

   29. TDTim Dillon45:21

       Or are we just gonna listen to Bezos and him do... And uh, they could do whatever they want?

   30. JRJoe Rogan45:24

       Well, it's hard to say because when you're that rich we listen anyway, because we figure-
10. 46:41 – 52:30

    Zuckerberg, China, and Facebook as the boomer QAnon + recipes machine

    1. TDTim Dillon46:41

       Yeah, these guys are the new Rockefellers.

    2. JRJoe Rogan46:42

       Zuckerberg, Carnegie.

    3. TDTim Dillon46:43

       And he's fucking really young. He's really young. By the way, speaks perfect Mandarin.

    4. JRJoe Rogan46:48

       Well he's got a girl who's Chinese, right?

    5. TDTim Dillon46:50

       His wife. Yeah, is married. Jesus Christ. I don't know what he's doing. I'm not invited to his home.

    6. JRJoe Rogan46:54

       You're not? I'll get you in.

    7. TDTim Dillon46:57

       I'd love to go.

    8. JRJoe Rogan46:57

       All you have to do is get your Facebook page over 700,000 followers.

    9. TDTim Dillon47:00

       I'd love to go. I'd get banned from Facebook within an hour of being there.

    10. JRJoe Rogan47:04

        (laughs)

    11. TDTim Dillon47:04

        I'd be taken away. I just, I'd just go up to him and go, "Can you get rid of my Aunt Kathleen please?"

    12. JRJoe Rogan47:08

        There's a crazy video of him-

    13. TDTim Dillon47:09

        Yeah.

    14. JRJoe Rogan47:09

        ... in China and, uh, he's on a television show and he starts speaking in Mandarin and they go crazy. They can't believe he can do it and they're clapping and cheering.

    15. TDTim Dillon47:17

        Interesting. Well, it takes very little to impress them, huh?

    16. JRJoe Rogan47:19

        Well they're just, they're stunned-

    17. TDTim Dillon47:20

        He's just a white guy who's doing... Yeah.

    18. JRJoe Rogan47:21

        ... that here's the guy from Facebook speaking perfect Mandarin.

    19. TDTim Dillon47:24

        Wow.

    20. JRJoe Rogan47:24

        But he's ready.

    21. TDTim Dillon47:25

        That's comf- that's comforting by the way.

    22. JRJoe Rogan47:27

        Oh, he's gonna bring them all in.

    23. TDTim Dillon47:27

        The head of, the head of Facebook is yucking it up with, you know, maybe our biggest enemy.

    24. JRJoe Rogan47:32

        Yeah.

    25. TDTim Dillon47:33

        That's nice.

    26. JRJoe Rogan47:33

        He's gonna be super excited about New World Order. Give me some volume on this.

    27. NANarrator47:36

        (chinese) (laughs)

    28. TDTim Dillon47:41

        Yeah what he's saying is, "We will destroy America." The translation is, "America will be a prison."

    29. JRJoe Rogan47:49

        We will send your government-

    30. TDTim Dillon47:51

        Yeah.
11. 52:30 – 55:28

    Censorship, ‘witch doctor’ COVID clips, and the Wild West information era

    1. JRJoe Rogan52:30

       Oh. That's the thing that bothers me too about, like, whenever people talk about, uh, whether it's conspiracy theorists or whatever. Uh, the- the one thing that drives me nuts is that people say, "We have to stop these conspir-" Like when all these COVID conspiracies were going around. (clears throat) That, well, that's a different one, right? Because I guess some of 'em could be actually responsible for people making poor choices that you expect every-

    2. TDTim Dillon52:52

       None of those people-

    3. JRJoe Rogan52:53

       ... day of, um...

    4. TDTim Dillon52:53

       ... were gonna make good choices before that thing.

    5. JRJoe Rogan52:55

       But that's my point.

    6. TDTim Dillon52:56

       Yeah, yeah.

    7. JRJoe Rogan52:56

       It's like if there's people out there that are p- pushing ridiculous conspiracy theories, like wh- who are you worried about? Are you worried about it getting to you?

    8. TDTim Dillon53:04

       Right.

    9. JRJoe Rogan53:04

       No, you're not, right?

    10. TDTim Dillon53:06

        Yeah.

    11. JRJoe Rogan53:06

        You're not worried about you believing it.

    12. TDTim Dillon53:07

        Right.

    13. JRJoe Rogan53:07

        So you think you're smarter than everybody else?

    14. TDTim Dillon53:10

        Yeah. Well, I think it's just people get deeply uncomfortable with the idea that they're losing control of the public sphere, the public space, right? For so long you had these, these mainstream media outlets. They had d- real direct control. I mean, everything you saw, everything you watched, everything you read, it was under the control of relatively small amount of people. And this was how it was forever.

    15. JRJoe Rogan53:33

        Right.

    16. TDTim Dillon53:33

        Right? I mean, this was not like an aberration. This was literally how it was forever. Every single thing you read or saw was curated by a small group of people, and now it's the Wild West.

    17. JRJoe Rogan53:46

        Yeah.

    18. TDTim Dillon53:46

        And a lot of people don't... And you're gonna get bad information and you're gonna get good information and you're gonna have to figure out which is which. And the country is not good at doing that. People are not good at doing that. And so people get worried and they're like, "Wait a minute," but you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

    19. JRJoe Rogan54:01

        Well, the problem is they can.

    20. TDTim Dillon54:03

        Right, and they will.

    21. JRJoe Rogan54:03

        And with like-

    22. TDTim Dillon54:04

        Yeah.

    23. JRJoe Rogan54:04

        ... Plandemic and all these different video-

    24. TDTim Dillon54:06

        Right, they ban them.

    25. JRJoe Rogan54:06

        Yeah, and the video of the bunch of doctors talking about hydroxychloroquine and Z-Paks and when they gave to that-

    26. TDTim Dillon54:11

        And that woman who's a witch doctor.

    27. JRJoe Rogan54:13

        Yeah.

    28. TDTim Dillon54:13

        I liked her.

    29. JRJoe Rogan54:13

        (laughs)

    30. TDTim Dillon54:13

        I like that witch doctor and I want to hear more about... I find her opinions on, on, on demons fucking you more interesting than COVID.
12. 55:28 – 1:23:37

    Leaving LA: homelessness, boarded storefronts, taxes, and Texas as an escape valve

    1. TDTim Dillon55:28

       Are you, are you... Is there any part of you that's gonna miss Los Angeles?

    2. JRJoe Rogan55:32

       Oh, yeah. Yeah.

    3. TDTim Dillon55:33

       I mean-

    4. JRJoe Rogan55:33

       I'm gonna miss it, sure.

    5. TDTim Dillon55:34

       Yeah, yeah.

    6. JRJoe Rogan55:34

       I'm definitely gonna miss the store. I'm, but I'm missing the Los Angeles that I don't think exists right now.

    7. TDTim Dillon55:39

       Right.

    8. JRJoe Rogan55:39

       When you go down Melrose and you see everything boarded up and you see fucking homeless encampments everywhere. Like, I took the wife to Venice.

    9. TDTim Dillon55:45

       Yeah.

    10. JRJoe Rogan55:46

        And, uh, I've talked about this before, unfortunately. Sorry if you heard it before. But dr- driving by, I parked at a red light, you know, stopped at a red light rather, and there's this fucking house to my left. It's probably worth $5 million. And right across the street, there's 10 tents.

    11. TDTim Dillon55:58

        Right.

    12. JRJoe Rogan55:58

        So imagine, you- your fucking kid is in your front lawn. You- you- you made it. You got a beautiful house in Venice.

    13. TDTim Dillon56:04

        Yeah.

    14. JRJoe Rogan56:04

        We're five minutes from the beach. I love it. You've got 10 junkies camped out in front of your fucking house.

    15. TDTim Dillon56:10

        Right.

    16. JRJoe Rogan56:10

        And needles in the street. Like, this is crazy.

    17. TDTim Dillon56:13

        It's-

    18. JRJoe Rogan56:13

        I mean, there's fucking tents everywhere.

    19. TDTim Dillon56:15

        Yeah, yeah.

    20. JRJoe Rogan56:15

        I was in Brentwood this morning. It's chaos.

    21. TDTim Dillon56:18

        Yeah.

    22. JRJoe Rogan56:18

        Dude, you get off the 405, it's just garbage stacked up seven feet high in tents, fucking hibachi grills out there.

    23. TDTim Dillon56:26

        Yeah, that's why-

    24. JRJoe Rogan56:26

        It's nuts.

    25. TDTim Dillon56:26

        Yeah. I mean, that's why I got this house in the desert, 'cause I'm like, "I just want to get out." And you know, as soon as you get out there, something happens-

    26. JRJoe Rogan56:32

        Yeah.

    27. TDTim Dillon56:32

        ... where it gets really calm-

    28. JRJoe Rogan56:33

        Really hot.

    29. TDTim Dillon56:34

        ... really hot, and there's none of that. It's like-

    30. JRJoe Rogan56:36

        That's why I'm moving to Texas.

Episode duration: 2:16:49