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Joe Rogan Experience #2307 - Tim Dillon

Tim Dillon is a stand-up comic, actor, and host of "The Tim Dillon Show" podcast. Look for his new comedy special, "Tim Dillon: I'm Your Mother," now streaming on Netflix. https://www.netflix.com/title/81992010 https://www.timdilloncomedy.com

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  1. 0:003:52

    Cold open: Celebrity space tourism and “don’t minimize” jokes

    1. JR

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. JR

      (drums) Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Hello?

    4. TD

      Hey, Tim Dillon.

    5. JR

      How are you?

    6. TD

      I'm much better now that the ladies are back from space. I was worried sick.

    7. JR

      Thank you for having me. What were they up there, 10 minutes?

    8. TD

      Well, it was very profound. I don't know-

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. TD

      ... if you've seen Katy Perry talk about it, but she's basically a guru now.

    11. JR

      Yeah. What were her findings? That's my question.

    12. TD

      Well, she brought a daisy-

    13. JR

      What did she learn? Right. (laughs)

    14. TD

      ... which is super important. Shows you how quick the flight was.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. TD

      The dead daisy that's, like, snipped from its life source was still, still alive-

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. TD

      ... or still vibrant.

    19. JR

      Yeah. And it's so, it's so-

    20. TD

      Look at her.

    21. JR

      ... this.

    22. TD

      Yeah. << Shut it, Daisy. >>

    23. JR

      Wow.

    24. TD

      Look at her nails, so pretty.

    25. JR

      Now, so they go up there, and they float for, like, 10 minutes?

    26. TD

      Mm, at least.

    27. JR

      And then they come down.

    28. TD

      Let's not minimize this.

    29. JR

      No, I, I know.

    30. TD

      Let's, uh-

  2. 3:527:43

    How risky is a suborbital launch? Kármán line, reentry, and failure modes

    1. TD

      I think this is the confusion. I think the confusion is that (clears throat) they essentially got to the threshold of space. They did not get, like, way out there, where-

    2. JR

      But not outer space.

    3. TD

      ... reentry is very traumatic. And it, it has, like-

    4. JR

      Right.

    5. TD

      ... if you see, like, those heat shields that they put all over those things, and if they break off on the reentry, everybody dies.

    6. JR

      Right.

    7. TD

      That's 'cause you're way out there, and the amount of heat that gets generated as you're reentering the atmosphere, I think they're essentially, like, on the border of the atmosphere. Let's see, how high did they go up there?

    8. 62 miles. They go above that line. It's called the Kármán line or something.

    9. That's what I'm saying. So the space shuttle goes 300 miles-

    10. JR

      They went a little higher than that rocket, that Rocket Man documentary, that guy who shot himself up-

    11. TD

      Right.

    12. JR

      ... in a rocket.

    13. TD

      (laughs)

    14. JR

      They went, like, a few feet higher than that guy.

    15. TD

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      RIP to that guy. I drove by his grave on the way to Vegas when LA burned down.

    17. TD

      Are they even, like, technically actually in space?

    18. I think that's where the, like, it floats... That's the line, is-

    19. I might go there. I might do that.

    20. JR

      Do it.

    21. TD

      I wouldn't go to space space, but I might do the 80, 80 miles.

    22. JR

      Do that.

    23. TD

      So 350 miles is the highest anyone has ever gone other than the Apollo astronauts.

    24. It's like 62, 100 kilometers.

    25. 62 miles. Okay, 62 miles ain't shit, dude. I, I drive that in an hour, you know what I'm saying?

    26. JR

      Yeah, and it's-

    27. TD

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      By the way, I agree with you, like... (laughs)

    29. TD

      It's not that far. That's not even here to San Antonio. 62 miles ain't shit, but it is kinda technically space.

    30. JR

      So they get up there and they look at the Earth?

  3. 7:439:45

    From space talk to UFOs: Roswell blueprints, Bob Lazar, and deep-state compartmentalization

    1. TD

      Right? So, the pressure would keep them shut. So, generally, like, there's like a seal. And it's really kinda crazy. Like, I have a friend of mine, a very wealthy businessman who brings me over to his house the other day. He goes, "I wanna show you something." And he shows me this diagram. He said this is from the 1950s and this is the blueprint for the recreation UFO that they made when they, when they tried to back engineer the one that they found at Roswell.

    2. JR

      And they had a... this was a diagram?

    3. TD

      Yeah. Yeah.

    4. JR

      Crazy.

    5. TD

      And it had a crank handle like a submarine door, you know? So-

    6. JR

      And they were trying to replicate a craft that had landed?

    7. TD

      Yes.

    8. JR

      Crashed.

    9. TD

      Yeah. They... well, he thinks they did.

    10. JR

      Wow.

    11. TD

      He doesn't think it's a try. He said this is the blueprint, because it had the actual... by the way, the exact generator in the center of it that Bob Lazar described-

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. TD

      ... in 1989 when he worked at Area S4.

    14. JR

      What layer of the government do you think is working on projects like that? Like, is it all the DARPA people?

    15. TD

      I think it's people that are completely disconnected from congressmen, senators, presidents.

    16. JR

      Right. Right.

    17. TD

      It's all deep state 'cause it's all people that have-

    18. JR

      Right. They, they have to be like... they probably belong to an agency without a name.

    19. TD

      Well, there's probably a bunch of those.

    20. JR

      Right.

    21. TD

      And, and when it comes to this kind of stuff, like, we already know now because of Doge that there was money that was going with no receipts. Tr- billions and billions of dollars that was just flying out with no receipts. They have no idea where it went. And Elon openly said if this was... he goes, "If this was a public company, the sh- it would be delisted and-"

    22. JR

      Yeah.

    23. TD

      "... the people who ran it would go to prison." But because it's the government, you're like, "Oh, I don't know what we did. We just, eh." They have no receipts.

    24. JR

      Do you think-

    25. TD

      That could be going to it.

    26. JR

      Do you think they'll bring charges against anyone for fraud?

    27. TD

      That's the worry about disclosure.

    28. JR

      'Cause that's what-

    29. TD

      And I think that's what's holding it back.

    30. JR

      I think people needs concrete stuff.

  4. 9:4512:51

    Katy Perry clip reaction and the backlash to billionaire-adjacent virtue statements

    1. TD

      You wanna see concrete? Let's hear Katy Perry talk about-

    2. JR

      Right. (laughs)

    3. TD

      ... going to space. Here, I'm gonna send you one.

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. TD

      (laughs) I sent you a few this morning. I said, "Let's discuss."

    6. JR

      I saw her. I saw her. I chatted about it on my show. I saw her say something about, "We weren't taking space, we're making space."

    7. TD

      That's the one I wanna send you.

    8. JR

      Which I thought was an-

    9. TD

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      ... interesting scientific.

    11. TD

      It's not this one?

    12. No, no, no. I got another one. I got some better ones. I got this. This is it.

    13. JR

      What is funny is immediately after they landed.

    14. TD

      Well, actually, that one's pretty good. Th- this is the one I sent you?

    15. JR

      It is funny. To do something like this and then everyone hates you. Like, everyone hates them now.

    16. TD

      They shouldn't hate her. Oh, no. That's not it, Jamie. I'll send it to you.

    17. Yeah, this one has all of them in it.

    18. I have so many of them. (laughs) I don't think that one has the making space. Try this one.

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. TD

      It's so fun when pe- why is it so fun when people get pretentious? 'Cause you're... I guess 'cause you're terrified that you would ever do it.

    21. JR

      Well, yeah. And I also think it's fun to see somebody who has no self-awareness.

    22. TD

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      They're always the most fun.

    24. NA

      I will never be the same. I mean, when you get up there and you see the Earth and it's so beautiful and it just fills the screen. And it's not just your window. It's like everybody's window and there's no boundaries, there's no border. There's just Earth. And it just fills the screen.

    25. TD

      I like how it says, "Astronaut."

    26. NA

      And when you get up there and you see the Earth and it's so beautiful and it just fills the screen.

    27. TD

      Is it what you expected?

    28. NA

      No. No. (laughs)

    29. NA

      Better?

    30. NA

      N- oh, yeah. (laughs)

  5. 12:5115:06

    Immigration enforcement stories and distrust in partisan narratives

    1. TD

      Oh, you see they released the, um, footage, uh, dash cam footage or police footage of the guy who they're saying was just a father.

    2. JR

      The Maryland father?

    3. TD

      Yeah, as he got pulled over with eight undocumented people-

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. TD

      ... in his truck. They were all supposedly staying at his house.

    6. JR

      Yeah. I didn't see that, but-

    7. TD

      Yeah. Uh, uh, the wife had a restraining order against him, a pro- protection order in 2021.

    8. JR

      I saw that there was a restraining order. I saw that they... He was hanging out with two guys that were ad- m- in- in MS-13.

    9. TD

      Yeah, they released the... Yeah, he's, he's definitely sketchy.

    10. JR

      They have made a few mistakes.

    11. TD

      But it's not, he's not this Maryland father.

    12. JR

      No.

    13. TD

      The guy that scares me is the hairdresser.

    14. JR

      The gay hairstylist?

    15. TD

      Yeah. I want to know what's going on with that.

    16. JR

      Or there was a guy with a tattoo and his tat-

    17. TD

      That's him. The tet-... Uh, the- the- the mom and dad.

    18. JR

      Oh, the hairdresser has a mom and dad. Oh, no.

    19. TD

      He has the autism... Oh, no.

    20. JR

      Oh, no, there was a guy with an autism awareness tattoo and they thought it was, like, an MS-13 tattoo, but it l-... It, it doesn't look like an MS-13 tattoo. It's a literal...

    21. TD

      The problem is everybody's a liar.

    22. JR

      You don't know.

    23. TD

      So the liberals are liars and the Republicans are liars.

    24. JR

      Everyone's lying.

    25. TD

      They're all lying. And if they did ship some hairstylist-

    26. JR

      Ironically, the only people I trust are MS-13-

    27. TD

      And podcasters.

    28. JR

      ... 'cause they'll, they'll tell you.

    29. TD

      And podcasters.

    30. JR

      Podcasters and MS-13.

  6. 15:0626:51

    CNN, editing, and the “podcasters are the new establishment” debate

    1. JR

      I did a CNN interview for an hour because I'm promoting my special, and then-

    2. TD

      Oh, my God. Did you really?

    3. JR

      ... I... Yeah, and they asked me-

    4. TD

      Who'd you talk to?

    5. JR

      This girl, Elle Reeves.

    6. TD

      Was she cool?

    7. JR

      Elle, she was cool. She does all the... You know when you see the Vice documentaries where she talks to the Nazis and the incels?

    8. TD

      Oh, Jesus, she does that?

    9. JR

      It was that chick.

    10. TD

      Oh, whoa.

    11. JR

      And they sent her in. I-

    12. TD

      Oh, that's a good move for them.

    13. JR

      I was like, "This is hilarious." So I'm sitting there and she sits down, she's like, "Are there any left-wing comedians?" And I name 10 of them that are all in arenas. And she goes, "Oh." 'Cause their whole thing now is that podcasters are the most powerful people in the world. And she goes, "Do you think your friends are the new establishment?" I said, "Well, there's 22 intelligence agencies and it's hard to legace media. There's lots of Ivy League schools. There's this, there's that. Do I think Theo Von's the new establishment? No."

    14. TD

      (laughs)

    15. JR

      "I don't think so. I think, (laughs) I think you ran a really unpopular candidate. I don't think Americans like child sex changes."

    16. TD

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      "And I don't think they want an open border. And I think if you'd, you know, co-opted some of those issues, you might've won." They said to me at CNN, they're like, "We're editing the interview." I said, "Put the hour out." I sat there for an hour and, and we had a nice conversation, but, you know, we talked for one hour. And I was like, "Put it out." I'm like, "I understand if you can't put it out." Uh, and then she goes like this, she goes, um, "I can't believe you'd show up. Um, people have said that they can't come on here because Joe Rogan would get mad at them." I said, "That's absolutely ridiculous."

    18. TD

      Why would I care?

    19. JR

      I said, "He doesn't care. He would never care." I said-

    20. TD

      Oh, that's so silly.

    21. JR

      "It's the silliest thing ever."

    22. TD

      They think we're at war.

    23. JR

      I just said, "Put out the thing. Put out the hour online. If you can only put out a few minutes on, on network, fine. But it's wrong to have someone come in and talk for an hour-"

    24. TD

      Right, and then-

    25. JR

      ... and then not-

    26. TD

      ... use three minutes.

    27. JR

      ... and then use five minutes."

    28. TD

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      It's fucked up.

    30. TD

      So what, uh, how much did they use?

  7. 26:5132:35

    War, ideology, and the post-COVID trust collapse (lab leak, Fauci, accountability)

    1. JR

      People gotta separate, you know, and I think this is not... I think people got to separate, like, governments from people, intelligence agencies from people. I think that's the whole thing. I think people are losing the ability to do that in this case, right? 'Cause y- people that, when you criticize Israel or you criticize something that may or may not have been done by, uh, a government or is an intelligence agency, you're not criticizing people.

    2. TD

      Right.

    3. JR

      You're criticizing a group of people making decisions. I don't think America always does things that are in the best interest of the American people.

    4. TD

      Right. Well, this is the problem with when everybody sort of picks sides during the COVID thing, w- whether or not we should trust the vaccine companies, because, like, y- you did it because you're on the left and the people on the right were the ones who didn't want to take it. So instead of just looking at it objectively, the people on the left were like, "Everybody who doesn't agree is a, a science denier," and it got, like, really kooky, 'cause it-

    5. JR

      Right.

    6. TD

      ... it got ideological. And as soon as it's ideological, you can fucking justify anything.

    7. JR

      Right.

    8. TD

      This is how, how Jewish-Americans are justifying, "Well, Hamas uses people as human shields." Like, they'll say things like that.

    9. JR

      Right.

    10. TD

      Like, it's a way you can justify mass murder.

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. TD

      It's a way you can justify anything. Anything. If, as long as the tribe on your side, what- whatever your clan is-

    13. JR

      Right.

    14. TD

      ... you can, you can justify things. And so people stop thinking. They stop thinking, and they just think completely along ideological lines, and it's-

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. TD

      ... frustrating as fuck.

    17. JR

      It is. It is. And passionately.

    18. TD

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      Very passionately.

    20. TD

      Oh, they're right, you're wrong.

    21. JR

      No one is ever questioning anything.

    22. TD

      No one ever questions science.

    23. JR

      No, no one ever, no, no one goes, "Wait a minute." Like, I think it's healthy to, every now and then, go, "Maybe I'm wrong."

    24. TD

      Yeah, there was just something that got released today that showed, they just released today that showed that COVID-19-

    25. JR

      Yep.

    26. TD

      ... definitively came from that lab.

    27. JR

      1000%

    28. TD

      100% proof it came from that lab.

    29. JR

      I read it, uh, a little bit of it on the way here.

    30. TD

      Yeah, it's fucking nuts.

  8. 32:351:02:01

    Parallel power: intelligence agencies, blackmail, Epstein, and ‘who really governs’

    1. TD

      Well, what do you think is happening now then? Do you think that ...

    2. JR

      I think you have these guys, right? So you have these guys that, that go into the CIA. They, they, they, they learn all about these underground groups. They have all of these different relationships all over the world, right? Weapons man- you know, weapons, drug running, weapons, all of these different, you know, terrorist groups, crim- crime syndicates, right? Their job is to know information about every government, all of the, you know, separatist groups that could potentially take over and become the next government. They have all of these connections, and then they either leave the CIA, they retire, or supposedly it never occurs to any of them to make a buck. That's the real question, right?

    3. TD

      Uh.

    4. JR

      It never occurs to any of these people that there might be a great way to make a buck working with some of these people outside of Congress, the White House, all of that. That's, as it's been explained to me by pretty smart people, that's what you have. You have a rogue element-

    5. TD

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      ... of people in those agencies that have massive amounts of money.

    7. TD

      Right.

    8. JR

      And they're very well-connected, and they're running weapons, and the president has no idea what's going on.

    9. TD

      Right.

    10. JR

      And Congress has no idea what's going on. They're not briefing a teacher from Georgia who got elected because he promised he was gonna bring, build a fucking shopping mall in a suburb of Atlanta-

    11. TD

      Right.

    12. JR

      ... about what they're doing in Syria.

    13. TD

      Right.

    14. JR

      They're not briefing these people.

    15. TD

      Exactly.

    16. JR

      There's nothing Democratic about what's happening. And so then you think to yourself, you're like, "Well, how do we make sure everyone keeps their mouths shut? How do we make sure everyone keeps their mouth shut?"

    17. TD

      Cha-ching.

    18. JR

      Then we go, not only money, but that's when we bring in Ghislaine Maxwell.

    19. TD

      (laughs)

    20. JR

      That's when we bring in Jeffrey Epstein, right? That's when we bring in people who go, "Let's all have fun. We've got a great weekend getaway planned, and then we can all be on camera doing something that would get us thrown in jail, have people rightly disgusted and want to kill us." And the worst things ever are now on camera somewhere, those tapes are somewhere. Now everybody is completely incapable of ever coming out and saying what's going on.

    21. TD

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      And, you know, and then those people are running a, a, a parallel government. It's a parallel command structure, and that's a huge problem.

    23. TD

      And it was essentially completely in control for four years.

    24. JR

      Probably for more than four.

    25. TD

      But for the last four-

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. TD

      ... for sure.

    28. JR

      Thousand percent.

    29. TD

      That's the best example we've ever had of that.

    30. JR

      Thousand percent.

  9. 1:02:011:05:54

    From conspiracies to local chaos: Austin serial-killer speculation and true-crime detours

    1. TD

      (laughs) Bro, they still don't wanna admit that there's a serial killer.

    2. JR

      You're the tourism board. Um, yeah, no. There, there's... Something's up.

    3. TD

      There's a serial killer.

    4. JR

      Something's going on.

    5. TD

      I believe there's a serial killer.

    6. JR

      And what are they doing? They're luring people to that bridge, and then-

    7. TD

      Yeah, well, it's not hard. People like to go-

    8. JR

      Right.

    9. TD

      ... to the bridge. They just gotta look out for the bushes.

    10. JR

      So weird. I guess it's such a high to kill someone. It's, uh... To me, I'm like, "What do you get out of it?" But I guess the people that are doing it like it.

    11. TD

      They're broken.

    12. JR

      Inters-

    13. TD

      There's broken people.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. TD

      And some broken people do meth, and some broken people drown guys who like to party.

    16. JR

      Do you ever talk to, like... I'm sure you have. This is a stupid question, but, like, the high-level law enforcement guys that have just met these monsters-

    17. TD

      Mm-hmm.

    18. JR

      ... and stuff?

    19. TD

      Oh, yeah.

    20. JR

      And i- is there, is there... Uh, do they believe that it's, like... I- is there any part of them that believes someone's just born-

    21. TD

      Yes.

    22. JR

      I- interesting.

    23. TD

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. TD

      And it's generally you have psychotic parents. And so, it's... Was it... Whether it's nature or nurture is hard to separate, because you're probably abused. And generally, at an early age, they show, like, a, a willingness to torture, like, house pets and stuff-

    26. JR

      Animals.

    27. TD

      ... like that. Yeah.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. TD

      Yeah, they'll maybe start off with a frog they catch and stick a, like, a firecracker in its mouth, and-

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  10. 1:05:541:10:45

    Disappearing in national parks: predators, exposure, and why no trace is common

    1. JR

      Do you think that there are people that are... You know, national parks seem to be like a hotbed of people disappearing.

    2. TD

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      And do you think-

    4. TD

      Like Appalachian Trail people, yeah.

    5. JR

      Yeah. Do you think that's people getting you, or is that a lot of it? Like, "I got lost. I got eaten."

    6. TD

      You get lost.

    7. JR

      Yeah.

    8. TD

      You get eaten. There's a guy who has this whole series, uh, 41... Is it 911 Missing or 411 Missing People in National Parks? Listen, man, (clears throat) you're just meat out there, and you get eaten. And by the way, you don't find dead anything out there. You don't find dead mountain lions. Guess what? They die all the time. I've never seen a dead mountain lion when I was hunting.

    9. JR

      Because they, they get eaten.

    10. TD

      They get eaten.

    11. JR

      Right.

    12. TD

      Everything gets eat... You get... Not only do you get eaten, your bones get eaten. Everything gets eaten.

    13. JR

      Right.

    14. TD

      It's...

    15. JR

      So, it's not uncommon to disappear and there's no trace.

    16. TD

      No trace.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. TD

      Yeah, super common. So, if you're in a, a high traffic area, like I've, um... Hunting, I've found elk bones where a hunter killed the elk and then, you know, took all the meat off the bones and then left the bones there. That's, that's what you do when you pack out meat.

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. TD

      And I found those, those animals.

    21. JR

      Wow.

    22. TD

      I actually even found one animal that I shot a long time ago. I shot, like, four years ago. And we were-

    23. JR

      And you found it?

    24. TD

      Yeah, we were in the same location, and it was the same bones. There wasn't all the bones there left.

    25. JR

      Right.

    26. TD

      Some of them had been dragged away. Some of them have probably been eaten by rodents. You know, they, they eat the bones.

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. TD

      It's slowly but surely. And if you're a human, you're made out of nothing. You're so easy to eat.

    29. JR

      ... right.

    30. TD

      You know, like, our bones are less dense. Our s- our meat is, is soft and chewy.

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