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April 19, 2025 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #2307 - Tim Dillon
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joe rogan
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joe rogan
Tim Dillon.
unidentified
How are you?
joe rogan
I'm much better now that the ladies are back from space.
tim dillon
Thank you for having me.
What were they up there, 10 minutes?
joe rogan
Well, it was very profound.
I don't know if you've seen Katy Perry talk about it, but she's basically a guru now.
tim dillon
Yeah. What were her findings?
That's my question.
unidentified
Well, she brought a daisy, which is super important.
joe rogan
It shows you how quick the flight was.
The dead daisy that's like snipped from its life source was still alive or still vibrant.
tim dillon
Yeah, and it's so...
joe rogan
Shadda Daisy.
Wow. Look at her nails.
So pretty.
tim dillon
Now, so they go up there and they float for like 10 minutes?
joe rogan
At least.
tim dillon
And then they come down.
joe rogan
Let's not minimize this.
tim dillon
No, I know.
joe rogan
It's a big deal.
Let's celebrate.
Female astronauts.
tim dillon
Because they were united.
joe rogan
Because a lot of men astronauts, they have to go to school.
Right. They have to learn how to be a pilot first.
Then they have to join the Air Force or the Navy.
And then they get appointed by NASA.
tim dillon
That's right.
joe rogan
And then they go to space.
You know?
tim dillon
And there has been, that's the other thing, there has been female astronauts.
joe rogan
Let's not minimize this.
Let's not minimize this.
tim dillon
I think there was a bitch stuck on a space station for a few months.
That's terribly more impressive.
joe rogan
Let's not minimize this.
No, the problem with that story is that she was rescued by a very awful person who wants to expose fraud and waste.
tim dillon
Yes. Did Musk rescue her?
Yes. Oh, interesting.
unidentified
Yeah, I didn't know.
joe rogan
Oh, where's that in the news?
tim dillon
Oh, I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Those fucking people were stuck.
The Boeing jet, the skyline, whatever the fuck it was, the Boeing spaceship, it wasn't working.
They couldn't fix it.
tim dillon
Interesting. I didn't even know that.
joe rogan
Yeah. And by the way, Elon could have rescued them during the Biden administration.
They didn't want to because of his open support for Trump.
So they left those people up there.
Yes. He's talked about it on my podcast.
They left those people up there.
tim dillon
And they're just chilling.
joe rogan
No, they're dying.
Right. It's like slow radiation poisoning.
It's like getting 10 x-rays a day.
And they're just slowly getting sapped of your life force out there and no gravity.
Your bones are weakening.
Did you see that lady's face when she came back?
tim dillon
She didn't look great.
joe rogan
Bro, something had happened.
Her chin had grown.
Her chin was extended and her hair had all turned gray.
tim dillon
She looked like she was sick.
joe rogan
She was sick.
Yeah. You're dying up there, man.
tim dillon
That's crazy.
joe rogan
I had Commander Chris Hatfield on, and he was at one point in time the longest person that had been in space, wasn't he?
He was there for like six months.
And he was saying it was unbelievable how difficult it was to recover.
Once you get back to Earth, you couldn't walk.
It was just like a total vertigo.
His whole body was so not used to gravity.
All of his bones were weak.
All of his muscles were weak.
unidentified
But these bitches seem fine, these ladies.
joe rogan
For now.
It was quick.
unidentified
Let's not minimize.
joe rogan
Let's not minimize the sacrifice they made for a great nation.
unidentified
Yeah, no, it was huge.
tim dillon
It was a big deal.
joe rogan
For the world, in fact.
For the world.
They're profoundly different.
They're profoundly different now.
tim dillon
To show people.
What's inspiring?
joe rogan
That's what I'm saying.
tim dillon
It's inspiring.
If a guy who's worth, what, a trillion dollars?
Several billion?
A hundred billion?
joe rogan
Just imagine the conspiracies if they didn't make it.
tim dillon
Yeah. Well, there's already people saying that they faked it, which I think is silly.
joe rogan
Well, I love those people.
tim dillon
But it's great.
joe rogan
Those are the people that think space is fake.
tim dillon
That's right.
Yeah. But they're already people going, well, they faked it.
And I'm like, I hope they fake something better than that.
I hope.
If they're faking stuff and they probably are faking some stuff, God, I hope they're faking stuff that's better than that.
joe rogan
I think this is the confusion.
I think the confusion is that they essentially got to the threshold of space.
They did not get...
Like, way out there, where re-entry is very traumatic.
And it has, like, if you see, like, those heat shields that they put all over those things, and if they break off on the re-entry, everybody dies.
That's because you're way out there, and the amount of heat that gets generated as you're re-entering the atmosphere.
I think they're essentially, like, on the border of the atmosphere.
Let's see how high did they go up there.
jamie vernon
They go above that line.
That's what I'm saying.
joe rogan
So the space shuttle goes three hundred miles.
tim dillon
They went a little higher than that Rocket Man documentary that guy who shot himself up in a rocket.
They went like a few feet higher than that guy.
RIP that guy drove by his grave on the way to Vegas when L.A. burned down.
joe rogan
Are they even technically actually in space?
jamie vernon
I think that's where it floats.
That's the line.
joe rogan
I might go there.
I might do that.
unidentified
Do it.
joe rogan
I wouldn't go to Space Space, but I might do the 80 miles.
tim dillon
Do that.
joe rogan
So 350 miles is the highest anyone has ever gone other than the Apollo astronauts.
62. 62 miles.
jamie vernon
100 kilometers.
joe rogan
Okay. 62 miles ain't shit, dude.
I drive that in an hour.
You know what I'm saying?
tim dillon
Yeah. By the way, I agree with you.
joe rogan
It's not that far.
That's not even here to San Antonio.
62 miles ain't shit.
But it is kind of technically space.
tim dillon
So they get up there and they look at the earth?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's why like everybody's calling bullshit on the outside of the capsule.
Right. That it wasn't like completely on fire.
Right. Destroyed.
It's because they didn't go that high.
tim dillon
They didn't go that high.
joe rogan
That's all it is.
Right. But they did go to space technically.
tim dillon
They went to space and they lost gravity.
joe rogan
The funniest thing is they come back and you need a...
Parachute to land.
Right. Like at all the technology Elon has.
Elon is catching rockets.
tim dillon
What could go wrong in something like that?
joe rogan
Oh, it could explode on the way up, for sure.
Yeah, the way up is not ensured that those things are definitely going to hold it together.
tim dillon
So that's the biggest risk.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have these cannons filled with rocket fuel that are burning at like twice the...
What is the temperature of rocket fuel when it's hot?
Is it like...
It's like close to the surface of the Sun or some crazy shit.
Like, what's the actual temperature?
So everything has to be contained while you have insane amounts of fuel burning every second.
And huge plumes of flame.
Enormous thrust to escape Earth's atmosphere.
You're just hoping all those O-rings and all the shit that blew up with the Challenger.
tim dillon
So it could have blown up.
joe rogan
100%. I mean...
Musk has openly said some of these are going to blow up when he's testing them.
When they would blow up, you're like, oh, Elon failed again.
Like, no, we want it to fail because we want to find out what is the threshold.
There's only one way to find out.
tim dillon
I wonder if all of them, you think they were like prepared to die?
joe rogan
No. Katy Perry was prepared to die.
tim dillon
In her eyes, something's off.
joe rogan
She looked like a soldier.
tim dillon
Something's off with her.
joe rogan
I don't know, it's good.
jamie vernon
What about the hatch, though?
Wasn't that kind of a sketch?
tim dillon
She has a Mohammed Adah look to her.
joe rogan
Well, I think the problem is that the hatch is not a real hatch like a spaceship.
Because it's not really going to space.
tim dillon
There's no captain.
There's no pilot.
Right. There's nobody going...
joe rogan
Exact the mundo.
All the above.
Okay. Most hatches, in that regard, they open outwardly so that the pressure of space travel, like when you're shooting that fucking rocket up insane amounts of gravity, doesn't make the door hinges fail and it collapses in on itself and everybody dies.
tim dillon
Right. Right?
joe rogan
So they have to open outward.
Right. So the pressure would keep them shut.
So generally, there's a seal.
And it's really kind of crazy.
I have a friend of mine, a very wealthy businessman, who brings me over to his house the other day.
He goes, I want to 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 tried to back-engineer the one that they found at Roswell.
tim dillon
And this was a diagram.
joe rogan
Yeah. Crazy.
And it had a crank handle like a submarine door, you know?
tim dillon
And they were trying to replicate a craft that had landed, crashed.
joe rogan
Yeah. Well, he thinks they did.
Wow. He doesn't think it's a trial.
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 in 1989 when he worked at Area S4.
tim dillon
What layer of the government do you think is working on projects like that?
Like is it all the DARPA people?
joe rogan
I think it's...
People that are completely disconnected from congressmen, senators, presidents.
It's all deep state.
tim dillon
They probably belong to an agency without a name.
joe rogan
Well, there's probably a bunch of those.
And when it comes to this kind of stuff...
We already know now because of Doge that there was money that was going with no receipts.
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 a public company, it would be delisted and the people who ran it would go to prison.
But because it's the government, you're like, oh, we did.
tim dillon
They have no receipts.
joe rogan
That could be going to it.
tim dillon
You think they'll bring charges against anyone for fraud?
joe rogan
That's the worry about disclosure.
I think that's what's holding it back.
tim dillon
I think people need concrete stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah. You want to see concrete?
Let's hear Katy Perry talk about it.
unidentified
Right. I'm going to send you one.
joe rogan
I sent you a few this morning.
I said, let's discuss.
tim dillon
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.
joe rogan
That's the one I want to send you.
tim dillon
Which I thought was an interesting scientific...
jamie vernon
That's not this one?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
I got another one.
I got some better ones.
tim dillon
What is funny is immediately after they landed...
joe rogan
Well, actually, that one's pretty good.
tim dillon
It is funny to do something like this, and then everyone hates you.
Like, everyone hates them now.
joe rogan
They shouldn't hate her.
Oh, no, that's not it, Jamie.
I'll send it to you.
I have so many of them.
I don't think that one has the making space.
Try this one.
It's so fun with people.
Why is it so fun when people get pretentious?
I guess because you're terrified that you would ever do it.
tim dillon
Well, yeah, and I also think it's fun to see somebody who has no self-awareness.
They're always the most fun.
unidentified
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.
I like how it says"astronaut." You mentioned to us
prior to going up, you said that you needed to go to space to heal.
I know you're only a few minutes removed from this incredible experience.
Do you feel healed?
Now, you are officially an astronaut.
Thank you so much.
How do you feel?
I feel super connected to love.
Goodness. I will never be the same.
I mean, when you get up there...
joe rogan
No, that's it.
That's it.
There's another one.
There's another one.
She said making space.
But how great is it that they just get called astronauts now?
tim dillon
It's funny to hear the richest guy in the world's wife go, we're all in it together.
joe rogan
Oh boy.
unidentified
Yeah, I don't know if people feel that.
joe rogan
Yeah, we're definitely not all in it with you.
unidentified
I don't feel like we're all in it together with you.
joe rogan
Can we get on your jet?
tim dillon
How in it together are we?
joe rogan
Yeah, what does that mean?
tim dillon
It feels like you hand-selected a couple of friends to go do this.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it should have been a lottery system, like Willy Wonka, where just seven random people should have been able to go in this.
joe rogan
I would do it just to change my...
tim dillon
That would be fun.
joe rogan
That would be good.
tim dillon
Just seven random people.
joe rogan
Just pull out some guy who's not supposed to be here.
tim dillon
Just a cashier at HEB, someone from MS-13.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was what I was thinking.
tim dillon
Get him in.
joe rogan
Someone from MS-13.
tim dillon
Someone from MS-13.
And Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King and, you know.
joe rogan
Oh, you see they released the footage.
Dash cam footage or police footage of the guy who they're saying was just a father.
tim dillon
The Maryland father?
joe rogan
Yeah, as he got pulled over with eight undocumented people in his truck.
They were all supposedly staying at his house.
tim dillon
Yeah, I didn't see that.
joe rogan
The wife had a restraining order against him, a protection order.
tim dillon
I saw that there was a restraining order.
I saw that he was hanging out with two guys that were in MS-13.
joe rogan
Yeah, they released the...
Yeah, he's definitely...
tim dillon
Sketchy. They have made a few mistakes.
joe rogan
He's not this Maryland father.
No. The guy that scares me is the hairdresser.
tim dillon
The gay hairstylist?
Yeah. Or there's a guy with a tattoo.
joe rogan
That's him.
Oh, the hairdresser has a mom and dad.
unidentified
Oh, no.
tim dillon
Oh, no.
There was a guy with an autism awareness tattoo, and they thought it was like an MS-13 tattoo, but it doesn't look like an MS-13 tattoo.
It's a literal...
joe rogan
The problem is everybody's a liar.
tim dillon
You don't know.
joe rogan
So the liberals are liars and the Republicans are liars.
tim dillon
Everyone's lying.
joe rogan
They're all lying.
tim dillon
And if they did ship some- Ironically, the only people I trust are MS-13.
joe rogan
And podcasters.
tim dillon
Because they'll tell you.
joe rogan
And podcasters.
tim dillon
Podcasters and MS-13.
joe rogan
That's all I trust.
tim dillon
I would love if you just had MS-13 on.
Just three guys with tattoos.
Because, by the way, there would be no outrage.
That's what's hilarious.
If you had three MS-13 gang members, not one person would go, why did he have that?
joe rogan
Why did he platform them?
tim dillon
Nobody would.
joe rogan
But if I have Ian Carroll on.
tim dillon
If you have anyone else on, it'll be a horrible thing.
But if it was three guys, MS-13 with head-to-toe tattoos, who admitted to killing multiple people, and you said, now tell me about what it's like to grow up in San Pedro Sula or whatever.
It would be okay.
joe rogan
Well, the reason why that's good is because I think it's important to learn about other cultures.
tim dillon
Well, a thousand percent.
And they should have their chance to talk.
joe rogan
And what's not cool is talking about maybe Israel did something wrong.
You should really not do that.
tim dillon
I think it's criminal of you to even discuss anything.
joe rogan
Well, apparently I've been co-opted by what's called the woke right.
tim dillon
The woke right.
joe rogan
That's what I heard.
There's a woke right now?
tim dillon
Yes. Fascinating.
They're co-opting.
joe rogan
I still haven't accepted the fact that I've left the left.
tim dillon
I did a CNN interview for an hour because I'm promoting my special.
Oh, my God.
unidentified
Did you really?
tim dillon
Yeah. Who did you talk to?
This girl, Elle Reeves.
joe rogan
Was she cool?
tim dillon
Elle, she was cool.
You know when you see the Vice documentaries where she talks to the Nazis and the incels?
unidentified
Oh, Jesus.
She does that?
tim dillon
It was that chick, and they sent her in.
joe rogan
Oh, that's a good move for them.
tim dillon
I was like, this is hilarious.
So I'm sitting there, and she sits down, and she's like, Are there any left-wing comedians?
And I named ten of them that are all in arenas.
And she goes, oh.
Because 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 entire legacy media.
There's lots of Ivy League schools.
There's this, there's that.
Do I think Theo Vaughn's the new establishment?
No. I don't think so.
I think you ran a really unpopular candidate.
I don't think Americans like child sex changes.
And I don't think they want an open border.
And I think if you, you know, co-opted some of those issues, you might have 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 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.
And then she goes like this.
She goes, I can't believe you'd show up.
People have said that.
They can't come on here because Joe Rogan would get mad at them.
I said, that's absolutely ridiculous.
unidentified
Why would I care?
tim dillon
I said, he doesn't care.
He would never care.
I said- Oh, that's so silly.
It's the silliest thing ever.
joe rogan
They think we're at war.
tim dillon
I just said, put out the thing.
Put out the hour online.
If you can only put out a few minutes on network, fine.
But it's wrong to have someone come in and talk for an hour.
Right. And then use three minutes.
And then use five minutes.
joe rogan
Yeah. It's fucked up.
So how much did they use?
tim dillon
We don't know yet.
They haven't put it out.
joe rogan
And did they say, we can't put the whole hour out?
tim dillon
I texted this journalist, and she texted me.
She goes, I'm pushing for like a long-form release.
I go, yeah, man.
Just put out the interview.
joe rogan
Also, do you guys want ratings or no?
tim dillon
Yeah, we had a conversation about all these things you guys talk about.
joe rogan
Yeah, you guys have a website.
tim dillon
Then what are we doing?
joe rogan
Don't you have a YouTube page?
Put it out.
tim dillon
Put the fucking whole hour out.
I go, she goes, what do you think that Joe Rogenshire, why is it so popular?
I go, well, one of the reasons is he doesn't edit people.
They're not edited.
They come on, they say what they want to say and there's no editing.
So what's weird about those institutions is they will sit you down for an hour and then I guess cherry pick what they think.
Their audience wants to see?
joe rogan
Well, they just want what they think is going to grab the most ratings and is not going to make them look stupid.
So if you're mocking them openly...
tim dillon
Yeah. Well, she didn't know when she said...
She goes, comedy's right-wing.
I go, she goes, name left of center comedians.
I named literally eight of them and I said they all are in arenas.
I go, what are you talking about?
joe rogan
It's so dumb.
tim dillon
What are you talking about?
joe rogan
It's so dumb.
tim dillon
I was like, you're saying a comedy's...
joe rogan
What? By the way, I used to be left of center according to the metrics of 2015.
tim dillon
I said there's a lot of...
Joe's positions, if you look at them, that are left of center positions.
And there's a lot of my positions or anyone's positions.
I said there's nobody that you can easily put in a box.
But they want you to be in that box.
joe rogan
Well, they're silly.
And they also want me to be an enemy of CNN.
I don't give a fuck if anyone cares.
unidentified
You don't care?
tim dillon
Who cares?
joe rogan
By the way, I hope CNN corrects course and does real news.
Right. And just concentrates on the news and all this fucking...
I don't want editorial comments from morons.
So when you're force-feeding me Don Lemon's opinion on how the world should be and how everyone should be shamed if they don't get vaccinated.
You're force-feeding me morons.
Of course your ratings plummeted.
Of course.
And you guys lied about so many fucking things and never corrected yourselves.
tim dillon
Is there an arm of the Democratic National Committee?
And they're an arm of that party.
joe rogan
Whether they are forced to be or whether they choose to be because they identify with being Democrat and they want to skew things completely towards the left.
I don't know.
I don't know what the answer to that is.
tim dillon
All of the old Bush era, neoconservative people who pushed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Patriot Act and Guantanamo Bay and all of this stuff all find homes usually on MSNBC or CNN.
Advocating for war with Iran or an escalation in Ukraine.
So it's kind of an establishment.
They don't really care about party.
joe rogan
They're doing better now, though.
I mean, when they have Scott Jennings on.
tim dillon
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's great.
joe rogan
That's the kind of conversations you need.
Completely ridiculous people are out of your fucking minds versus Scott Jennings.
Those are great.
tim dillon
You need to have some fun, yeah.
joe rogan
It makes these ridiculous woke anchors look retarded.
Yeah. And they should.
tim dillon
They are.
In the world, there are good principled arguments against right-wing things.
Yes. You just can't have people who are completely out of it make them.
joe rogan
Exactly. Exactly.
After the election, one of my favorite ones, was it CNBC or CNN?
I forget what it was.
This guy was talking about this whole right-wing podcast ecosystem that's incredibly well-funded and organized.
What are you talking about?
You could literally go to the roots of how it all started.
You could see every one of us doing our first podcast with a fucking webcam.
tim dillon
There's no funding.
What are we talking about?
unidentified
What are we saying?
joe rogan
Even the idea that we're all organized together or that like I would want to prevent people from going on CNN.
Well, it's just silly.
I could not care less.
tim dillon
Because that's the way they operate.
You always usually like a lot of times you end up accusing people of something you're doing.
Right. So you because you are familiar with that.
So they're like Well, we have a top-down corporate oligarchy telling us what to do.
Is that the way it works with you?
I'm like, no, Joe Rogan doesn't email people at the beginning of the week and go, hey guys, this is the most insane thing ever.
joe rogan
But not only that, I want them to do well.
I really don't care.
They obviously don't want me to do well, but I don't care.
Look, if they turned it around and CNN became great, I'd watch it all the time.
It used to be great.
It used to have parts unknown on it.
tim dillon
The new thing they're doing, this is a very interesting thing that's happening.
If somebody says something that they don't like and they can't immediately dismiss it, they go, but the fans of that thing are bad people.
This is an interesting attack point.
They go, but somebody with a massive audience, if they find a sliver of that audience to be objectionable in any way, they then go, well, the fans of that...
Type of questioning are anti-semitic or racist or something.
And they don't deal with the actual facts or the actual line of argumentation.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's just a sneaky debate tactic.
When you're dealing with, I have 19 million YouTube subscribers.
How can you nail that down to the fans?
You don't know.
You're just talking out of your ass.
This is a non-argument.
It's a stupid point.
And by the way, when you're talking about actual comments, We've already established that, I don't know what the number is, but there's a huge number of people that are commenting that aren't even people.
They're bots.
They're state-sponsored bots.
They could be from Ukraine, they could be from America, they could be from Russia, they could be from Israel.
tim dillon
And I want more of them.
So if they're a state-sponsored bots, it can...
They can jack my ratings up.
joe rogan
They can.
tim dillon
If they want to come over to me.
joe rogan
You have anything nice to say about Israel?
tim dillon
Any Ukraine.
I'm waiting for the money.
I texted Barry Weiss and go, here's the way this game works.
I get a little bit of money first.
Not I go on and defend whatever the hell you people want to do.
I'm not going to get my beak wet.
joe rogan
If you and I go to Israel, will you slap on the yarmulke?
tim dillon
Absolutely. Absolutely.
joe rogan
Which is the wall?
tim dillon
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Oh, yeah, sure.
And my film is greenlit when?
joe rogan
Do you have to kiss the wall?
tim dillon
Is that the word?
No, I don't know anything.
Is that the wailing wall?
joe rogan
I don't know, but Mike Huckabee's over there like a good Christian.
tim dillon
Oh, well, he loves it over there.
unidentified
Because it's Easter Sunday.
tim dillon
That's where he's supposed to be.
Because the fundamentalist Christians go hard with the Israel thing.
They're like, let's go.
joe rogan
They think Jesus is coming back to that spot.
tim dillon
Yeah, what's very interesting is if Israel said to a fundamentalist Christian, if Netanyahu called Mike Huckabee and said, we're going to have to nuke Iran, he'd go, Let's do it.
joe rogan
That's what Jesus wants.
unidentified
Let's do it.
tim dillon
That's what Jesus would want.
A nuclear war.
So that's where we've gotten.
joe rogan
Jesus wants us to use the nukes.
tim dillon
Where we have fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Muslims on the other side and everybody's playing this weird game.
joe rogan
Yeah, there he is.
Boy, he looks old.
tim dillon
Jesus. This is just hilarious if this is the freeze frame from the episode that we released.
joe rogan
These guys, they stop dyeing their hair at some point in time and just say, oh, fuck it.
You know, like Stallone did?
tim dillon
The best hat they have is the Shrimel.
They wear it in Brooklyn.
It's that big furry Russian hat.
joe rogan
Oh, I love that hat.
tim dillon
That hat looks sick.
joe rogan
That is a sick hat.
tim dillon
It looks like something out of Game of Thrones.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a hat.
Like, I don't give a fuck what you think.
tim dillon
Doesn't matter.
joe rogan
I'm a member of the tribe, bitch.
I got strings hanging from my belt.
tim dillon
I got a hat.
joe rogan
And I'm rocking on it.
tim dillon
I got a hat.
joe rogan
A bare dick hat.
tim dillon
Yeah, I mean, that's a pretty sick hat.
joe rogan
Yeah, I like that hat.
tim dillon
I think people...
People can't get past the fact that, like...
joe rogan
Yeah, look at that hat.
That has the shit.
What's that made out of?
Let's answer the question.
Why do Orthodox Jewish men...
Where's Ari when you need him?
tim dillon
That's a great point.
joe rogan
Ari never had to wear one of those hats, though.
tim dillon
No, but he'd look good.
joe rogan
Yeah. I got a ton of hats from different UFC fighters.
Yeah. From, like, Dagestan and from Kazakhstan.
I got a cool Kazakhstan hat from Shavkat Raman.
tim dillon
It's a sick hat.
joe rogan
That is pretty dope.
tim dillon
It's an objectively sick hat.
unidentified
Why didn't they wear it, Jamie?
joe rogan
There was an article that just said it before that.
The fur one.
If you go back, up in the upper left corner, yeah.
Jew in the city is the name of the website.
God, I hope a Jewish person is running that website.
Otherwise, they're going to get assassinated.
The fur hat is known by the Yiddish name.
How do you say that?
Shrymal? Shrymal.
Shrymal. Yeah.
The Shrymal was adopted by Eastern European Jewish communities in the 18th century and coincided with the rise of Ascidic Judaism.
Technically, a Shrymal is one particular style of hat.
There are others.
One that might be familiar on site is the Spodick.
Oh, you fucking pop-up ad, cocksucker.
Enter your email, which is taller and more cylindrical than a strimal.
A spodic is the style generally favored by a Hasidic sex of Polish descent.
To the casual observer, however, they're all strimals.
Strimals made from a large piece of velvet surrounded by fur.
Fur usually comes from the tips of the tails of sable, martens, or fox.
Nice! Synthetic strimals do exist.
They're more common in Israel than elsewhere.
Interesting. Strimal can cost thousands of dollars, so it's not uncommon for a Hasidic man to own a second, cheaper Strimal so that his main Strimal would not be battered by the elements.
tim dillon
Interesting. Yeah.
joe rogan
Interesting. It's a cool hat.
Let everybody know you're part of the tribe.
tim dillon
It's a fun hat.
joe rogan
Maybe comedians need like a thing that we wear.
tim dillon
A hat?
joe rogan
Yeah, like a thing.
That's very good.
We don't give a fuck.
tim dillon
Yeah. I like that Kanye West black Klan suit.
joe rogan
That's dope.
How about his giant swastika in diamonds?
Have you seen that?
tim dillon
What's funny is a jeweler made that.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
tim dillon
And a Jewish jeweler.
Yeah. An Israeli Jewish guy made that.
joe rogan
Significant markup.
tim dillon
Yeah. Yeah, of course.
I would.
joe rogan
I've got to give you a swastika tax.
tim dillon
I would.
It's only fair.
joe rogan
Yeah, you need a tax.
tim dillon
I think it's only fair.
joe rogan
If you want a Jewish man to make a swastika, you've got to pay extra.
tim dillon
People got to 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?
Because when you criticize Israel, you criticize something that may or may not have been done by a government or intelligence agency, you're not criticizing people.
Right. 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.
joe rogan
Right. Well, this is the problem with when everybody sort of picks sides during the COVID thing, whether or not we should trust the vaccine companies.
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 science denier and it got like really kooky because it got ideological.
And as soon as it's ideological, you can fucking justify anything.
This is how...
How Jewish Americans are justifying, well, Hamas uses people as human shields.
They'll say things like that.
It's a way you can justify mass murder.
It's a way you can justify anything.
Anything. As long as the tribe on your side, whatever your clan is, you can justify things.
And so people stop thinking.
They stop thinking and they just think completely along ideological lines.
tim dillon
It's frustrating as fuck.
unidentified
Yeah, it is.
tim dillon
It is.
And passionately.
Yeah. Very passionately.
joe rogan
They're right.
tim dillon
You're wrong.
No one is ever questioning anything.
joe rogan
No. Why do they question science?
tim dillon
No one goes, wait a minute.
I think it's healthy to every now and then go, maybe I'm wrong.
joe rogan
Yeah, there was just something that got released today that showed, they just released today that showed that COVID-19 definitively came from that lab.
tim dillon
Thousand percent.
joe rogan
One hundred percent proof it came from that lab.
tim dillon
I read it, a little bit of it on the way here.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's fucking nuts.
It's nuts, man.
It's nuts.
These fucking people, they just got roped into this group of criminals.
tim dillon
And it was a completely man-made disease.
joe rogan
100%. And they knew that from the moment it happened.
tim dillon
It leaked.
joe rogan
The moment it happened.
And they just lied.
And Fauci is just out there walking around.
tim dillon
That's an interesting case when someone like that, in that position, repeatedly lied to people.
About the origins of that.
joe rogan
Yeah. And is allowed to just be free.
tim dillon
And faces zero consequences.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, they were trying to put Trump in jail because he...
tim dillon
Inflated the price of a condo.
Yeah. He got an appraisal that was higher, and then they lied.
joe rogan
Well, their appraisal was horseshit.
tim dillon
They lied about him.
joe rogan
Leticia James is now in trouble for the exact same shit?
tim dillon
Really? You didn't see that?
That makes sense.
joe rogan
They're investigating her because she allegedly, according to Megyn Kelly, who I trust implicitly, allegedly went and got mortgages with her father listing them as husband and wife on buildings multiple times,
and then also lied about the amount of bedrooms that were in a place.
Because if it's four bedrooms, you get one tax rate.
If it's five, it's more.
So she lied.
It was a five, and she said it was a four.
tim dillon
Right. Well, this is what they all do.
So I think really the funny thing about all the cases that they brought against Trump, a lot of those cases were rooted in just politicized version of something that's pretty standard that a lot of people have done.
joe rogan
Yeah, they always overvalue their properties.
tim dillon
Always overvalue properties.
And people get away with it.
And it's not...
It's not a crime.
joe rogan
But here's the thing about the Trump thing is that all the people had been paid.
So, not only was it profitable for the banks, he paid everything on time.
There's no criminal.
Like, there's no crime.
No one got victimized.
Nothing happened.
They profited.
And then this crazy lady, with a terrible past, thought that she was going to be able to pull this off because she was on the team that she thought was going to win.
Like, think about putting all your eggs in one basket.
Like, they've got a bunch of morons to sign in on these things.
tim dillon
It feels like you have...
We're in some kind of cold war between two factions in American politics that are using courts and lawyers to go at each other.
It's not...
Hot war.
People aren't fighting in the streets, but it does seem to be these parties seem to no longer view each other as different sides of the same coin.
There seems to be, especially when it comes to Trump, it seems to be like they cannot, you know, see him as anything other than an existential threat that has to be vanquished.
At any cost.
joe rogan
Right. And the problem with that is when you deny good things and only highlight bad things that everybody knows it.
Well, now you're playing a game and your game is I never tell the truth.
I tell you parts of the truth that I like.
tim dillon
Yeah. And you gotta win that game.
If you're playing that game, you gotta win.
If you do all these things, they have to work.
joe rogan
And if Trump gets in office, even if you did all these things, it's a problem.
You're fucked.
tim dillon
Then it's a problem.
You know, it's like with JFK, they got him.
You know, obviously not good, but they got him.
And then that slammed the door shut.
And then all their people came in and kept a cover-up going on.
joe rogan
I wish I really understood all this stuff that we talk about.
Yeah. Because...
There's an argument that we haven't had a real president since JFK got shot.
tim dillon
That's probably a good argument.
And there's maybe arguments that we actually didn't have real presidents prior to JFK.
joe rogan
Right. Well, what do you think is happening now, then?
tim dillon
I think you have these guys right here.
These guys that go into the CIA, they learn all about these underground...
They have all of these different relationships all over the world, right?
Weapons, drug running, weapons, all these different terrorist groups, crime syndicates, right?
Their job is to know...
Information about every government, all of the separatist groups that could potentially take over and become the next government.
They have all 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?
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 of people in those agencies that have massive amounts of money.
And they're very well connected.
And they're running weapons.
And the president has no idea what's going on.
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 going to build a fucking shopping mall in a suburb of Atlanta about what they're doing in Syria.
Briefing these people?
Exactly. 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 mouth shut?
How do we make sure everyone keeps their mouth shut?
unidentified
Cha-ching!
tim dillon
Then we go, not only money, but that's when we bring in Ghislaine Maxwell.
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.
And then those people are running a parallel government.
It's a parallel command structure.
And that's a huge problem.
joe rogan
And it was essentially completely in control for four years.
tim dillon
Probably for more than four.
joe rogan
But for the last four, for sure.
tim dillon
Thousand percent.
joe rogan
That's the best example we've ever had of that.
tim dillon
Thousand percent.
joe rogan
That guy's never really running things.
tim dillon
Thousand percent.
There's no way they let him.
It's probably still in control to a certain degree now because it's very hard to – when you have something like that happening, it is very difficult to completely shut it down.
joe rogan
Very hard.
Well, here's a perfect example that we know it's definitely running things because Trump is still trying to figure out why he got shot.
He was like, I want more information.
Yeah. Like, there's no information coming to him about...
tim dillon
There's not going to be information.
There's not going to be information.
joe rogan
That's a crazy story.
You should try to connect.
Like, if it's not America that did it, if it's not us, it's not intelligence agencies that did it, then it means a foreign government that hijacked this kid's brain and got him to climb on top of that roof.
Like, somebody tried to get someone to assassinate a guy who was running for president, and no one seems to be interested in finding who that person or that group who influenced this kid is.
tim dillon
So many of these ex-intelligence chiefs pop up all over the world.
They pop up in Dubai.
They pop up on...
They like to travel.
They love traveling.
They're having meetings with people.
They're all over the place.
joe rogan
They love people.
tim dillon
They love cultures.
They love meeting different cultures.
joe rogan
Yeah, the food's great.
tim dillon
And supposedly, I heard from someone who's, again, smart, and I consider trustworthy, that there's actually large sectors of the global economy that are moved more in this direction than you'd think.
Like, there are tentacles into very large investment banks and private equity companies that a lot of these guys have.
Let's put it that way.
Obviously, it's not a shocking thing.
joe rogan
Why would the government let a private equity company operate with impunity?
unidentified
Right. Especially if they're controlling regulations and they're like, let's work together.
tim dillon
There doesn't seem to be a good answer to any of this.
That becomes the real issue.
joe rogan
You ever get invited to these, like...
Fucking Illuminati conferences or any of these crazy things?
tim dillon
No, they wanted me to do stand-up at one conference and it wasn't like an Illuminati kind.
I think it was like a...
I don't know.
It was like some type of low-grade Illuminati.
joe rogan
Yeah. That's how they start.
tim dillon
Like kind of faux Illuminati.
joe rogan
That's like the minor leagues.
Yeah. And then eventually you go to some weird ranch in the mountains of Wyoming.
tim dillon
Well, that sounds nice.
Actually, it does sound nice.
Maybe. No, I think that like...
It does seem weird that a lot of...
Once you get to a certain level, people take an interest in you that never were interested.
For sure.
People are interested.
joe rogan
Welcome to my world.
tim dillon
It is strange that people seem to care about you or what you're saying.
People are going, I think your read on that is wrong.
And you're like, why do you care what it is?
I'm a fucking guy with a talk, you know, microphone once or twice a week.
joe rogan
Yeah, they don't like that.
They don't like people having influence that haven't been sanctioned.
tim dillon
They don't like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, they want all influence to be top down, all influence to be a part of a giant corporation.
Yeah. That's what they want.
They don't want influence to be just regular people.
Regular people are fringe.
They're far this or far that.
They're problematic.
They spew misinformation.
There's no one that spews more misinformation than CNN.
unidentified
They spew a lot.
joe rogan
Over the years, how many times you guys, just what you guys did over COVID, if you were a podcaster, you'd be shut down.
Right. Like, if the podcasters were the one telling everybody to get vaxxed, you get it, you won't spread it, you won't this, you won't that.
There's no side effects.
If podcasters are saying that, but the establishment news was saying, hold on, this is an experimental vaccine.
We should not be asking women who are pregnant to take this.
We should not be asking kids who are in no danger to take this.
We do not know the long-term consequences.
unidentified
If podcasters were saying that...
joe rogan
You know, podcasters were on the government side instead of CNN.
If CNN was the wise ones that told everybody to be cautious, they would want us prosecuted.
They would be going after us for all the side effects that people are experiencing.
You have blood on your hands.
You're responsible for strokes and heart attacks and myocarditis and all sorts of autoimmune issues.
tim dillon
Well, you also have to think about how much easier it is for, let's say, an intelligence community to manipulate them than it is to come in here.
Like, an intelligence community is not going to go, all right, let's find...
joe rogan
What you have to do is bring me to the UFOs.
tim dillon
That's all I ask.
unidentified
For sure.
tim dillon
You keep telling them that.
joe rogan
Yes. That's all you have to do.
What do you want me to do?
tim dillon
It's very easy.
joe rogan
We're going to go to war with Kosovo?
I don't even know where Kosovo is on a map, but if you tell me where the UFOs are, I'll have a guy in here that explains why it's super important.
tim dillon
But it is funny.
What they'd have to do is pick somebody, have them become a comedian, start a podcast, get an audit.
It is difficult, right?
Whereas if you work at a media company, it's very easy to just some new guys there.
Yeah. Who's this?
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
tim dillon
Oh, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's Mike.
tim dillon
Somebody just shows up.
Hey, it's Suzanne.
Suzanne, run everything by Suzanne.
joe rogan
Hey, how does this guy, Bob Woodward?
Right. How does he get the most important?
He just, this is his first case.
tim dillon
Lucky guy.
joe rogan
He gets Watergate.
tim dillon
Lucky guy.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
What did he do for Navy Intelligence?
tim dillon
Right. Lucky guy.
That Watergate thing's so funny because...
But I've been here for 30 years, Mike.
Yeah, I haven't gotten anything.
joe rogan
Shut the fuck up.
Bob's taking this case.
tim dillon
Bob's taking down Nixon, who keeps asking questions about what happened to Kennedy.
joe rogan
Did you see when Bill Murray was here?
tim dillon
I did, yeah.
joe rogan
Did you see the thing that he said about Wired, the book?
tim dillon
Yeah. Wait, which one?
joe rogan
Wired is the book on John Belushi.
He said, I read the first five pages and I was like, oh my god.
They set up Nixon.
tim dillon
Oh, that's hilarious.
joe rogan
They framed Nixon.
tim dillon
That's so funny.
joe rogan
That's what he said.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
He's like, if this is what they say, this is what the same guy said about John Belushi, which is 100% not true.
Right. Do you know John Belushi was a lightweight?
Right. He would drink a couple of beers and he'd be fucked up.
Right. He didn't have tolerance.
He wasn't this maniacal coach.
No. It was all lies.
tim dillon
They don't care at all about getting any accurate information.
joe rogan
That time that he died?
Yeah. It was probably the first time he ever did a speedball, according to Bill Murray.
tim dillon
Wow. Yeah.
joe rogan
And Bill Murray was one of his best friends.
tim dillon
Bill Murray knew.
joe rogan
Bill Murray was like,"I've known this guy most of my life." And then he goes,"They framed Nixon." And then I told him the whole story that Tucker Carlson had told me.
Which I was like,"What?" That it was all FBI agents and the whole thing was a complete sting.
tim dillon
It was a sloppy burglary.
Where they wanted to get caught, they traced it back to Nixon because Nixon was doing things they hated.
joe rogan
Well, this is the thing that got Nixon on.
I don't know if you know, but what they said to Nixon, Nixon was not guilty of the crime, but they told Nixon about the crime, and then he helped them cover it up.
That's how they got him.
But what is he going to do?
tim dillon
Of course.
joe rogan
He thinks this is on the legit, and you come to him with a crime.
I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ.
Well, don't fucking tell anybody, Tim.
Jesus Christ, Tim.
tim dillon
What did you do?
joe rogan
You bugged Cap City?
tim dillon
Yeah. They had to get rid of him.
joe rogan
This is what we're going to do.
We're going to throw our phones in the river.
Here's what happens now.
How do we get out of this?
Where'd you put the bugs?
Can we break in and take the bugs back?
tim dillon
That's so funny.
They'd be so flattered if we bug Cap City.
That's awesome.
joe rogan
Somebody told me last night that they hate us.
I'm like, how do you hate me?
I love you.
I used to love the old Cap City.
If you got headliners and you need them, I'll promote it.
I'll promote it on Twitter.
And same thing with Moontower.
I heard they're mad at me too because I wouldn't have them at the club.
I'm happy to help you.
I'm happy to help you.
I just don't want you to book my club.
That's all it is.
My club is sold out every night, and it's guys like you and Shane and Ari and all these...
I don't want anybody else booking it.
It doesn't mean that I don't support your cause.
tim dillon
Of course.
joe rogan
I just don't want you coming into my establishment.
That's all it is.
I want everybody to do well.
There's five comedy clubs on my street.
tim dillon
What you've done, I think, ultimately is good for the town.
You bring people into the town.
joe rogan
The problem is when people used to be in control of comedy in the town, and then all of a sudden they're...
tim dillon
Right. Yeah, I think a lot of people struggle with that, the idea of that, that they're losing control.
I think that seems to be the most, the angriest I've seen people online since the election that have railed against podcasts and they've railed against, they seem to...
Be angry that they no longer have a monopoly on what people can hear.
joe rogan
Exactly. And they still continue to lie and misrepresent people that do podcasts or people that have a different opinion say.
And that's where it gets really stupid.
They keep saying that when I had that Daryl Cooper guy on, that I'm bringing on a Nazi apologist and a Holocaust denier.
Neither of those things are true.
It's not true.
And the guy doesn't just talk about that.
By the way, his stuff about Jim Jones is fucking sensational.
You know Jim Jones was like a civil rights leader?
Yeah. Jim Jones had an interracial child.
tim dillon
I didn't know any of them.
joe rogan
Yeah, Jim Jones was like, he had an adopted black child that he would take to school and everybody would be fucking furious at him in the town.
Yeah. And he was like...
He was a legitimate Christian, like a real, I believe in the teachings of Jesus Christian.
tim dillon
One of the big things in America- I totally got a kooky on that.
Yeah, of course.
joe rogan
The meth got him.
tim dillon
Yes. Listen, there are a lot of people questioning World War II for not good reasons, of course.
Right. It's like people that bring up the age of consent, and you go, wait a minute.
Hey. What's going on?
joe rogan
What are you doing?
tim dillon
There are people, I think, that do launder not great reasons for questioning World War II through whatever.
joe rogan
No doubt.
tim dillon
No doubt.
There is a very interesting...
The teeth really come out.
The gnashing of teeth come out in this country when you question at all the American war machine.
Yes. And the pageantry of war and the...
You know, iconography of the state and of war and of how important it is and how just it always is and how we're always on the right side of it and we're always doing the right thing.
And in World War II, we 100% were.
But there are a lot of other times when we've made grave errors with our military.
And I feel like it's not good enough for...
You can't just point to World War II, which is, again, we were correct.
Yes. But I think there is this idea that if you...
It's not an accident there's a million movies made about World War II.
It's not an accident that there is a lot of pageantry surrounding World War II.
joe rogan
Well, also that the World War II movies have heroes.
unidentified
Of course.
joe rogan
Whereas the Vietnam movies are...
tim dillon
That's right.
joe rogan
Everything's complicated and it's all chaos.
tim dillon
So I think that inspires the idea that a military solution is always correct and that the use of force is always the right way to do it and that coincidentally makes people lots and lots of money and their children never end up fighting those wars.
That seems to be a lot of it.
Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't people with bad motivations that are genuinely anti-Semitic or that genuinely have fascist inclinations or absolutely are.
But I think there needs to be space to criticize the mythologizing of war in general and the justification for endless wars all the time.
Yes. Like Iran.
I hope Trump does not go into Iran.
Yeah. That seems like a very bad idea.
joe rogan
It also seems like a very bad idea for Iran to get nuclear weapons.
That seems bad, too.
tim dillon
Yes, but I think there's ways to prevent that without a regime change war.
This is what we have to do.
This is what Tulsi Gabbard, I think, was very attractive about a lot of what she said during her confirmation hearing.
She goes, I understand that there are terrorists out there that are dangerous, but we got to find a way to deal with them without committing troops to stand there in an Islamic country.
We saw this movie.
It doesn't work out.
And I think we have to stop thinking that it's going to be better this time if we decapitate the head of a foreign government and we have American soldiers in an Islamic country trying to set up a provisional government.
The nightmare of that during Iraq, Paul Bremer, this weird British-looking guy that they sent to stand on that rubble with his boots and the mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier.
It brings back...
To me, it's like I get flashbacks from it.
joe rogan
Do you remember the guy who was the Iraqi public relations guy who was saying that they're winning the war?
tim dillon
Was it Ahmed Chalabi?
Well, no, that was the guy that fed us all the bullshit to get us in.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
It was the guy that people openly mocked.
I believe he had glasses.
And he was the guy that was always saying that Iraq is kicking ass.
tim dillon
Oh, interesting.
joe rogan
No. Yeah, Baghdad something or another they called him.
tim dillon
And he was saying that we were doing good?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
He was saying that Iraq is kicking our ass.
tim dillon
Yeah. Well, that's hilarious.
I don't remember that.
joe rogan
Baghdad something or another they called him.
tim dillon
By the way, does anyone know what's going on in Iraq right now?
joe rogan
Mostly flea markets.
tim dillon
If there was a gun to my head, I could not tell you what the state of Iraq was.
I know the Taliban are in Afghanistan.
What's going on in Iraq?
joe rogan
Listen, listen, listen.
unidentified
You hear that?
Ready? That's a gay guy who threw off a roof.
tim dillon
Right, right.
So that's why we spent...
That's a 20-year, you know, commitment.
Or was it a very long time?
Right. So that's like...
I feel like that's the thing, that when you ever try to have a nuanced understanding of what we can and can't do, I don't think it's a great idea that Iran gets nuclear weapons.
It seems like there are ways to prevent that without a full-scale invasion.
But don't we need these?
I always look at these groups like the Houthis and stuff.
We need these people.
100%. The Houthis are a fun one because they're on the ocean and they're like pirates.
This is new.
They figured out that, like, land-based stuff's not as interesting.
They're like, they're disrupting trade.
You know how much of our trade goes through?
It's 3%.
joe rogan
Hey, listen.
3%. Don't minimize that.
Just like I don't want you minimizing the female astronauts.
tim dillon
Yeah, but we need these Houthis.
It feels like we need these groups.
We had ISIS.
We had then ISIL.
Now, you know, we had the people in Syria.
I forget their names, something.
But we need these little groups.
And this is what we do.
We just choose, because all of these groups are not even, they're just people hanging out, and then we give them weapons and get them going.
They're just guys in a bar.
A lot of these groups are guys in a bar in Syria.
joe rogan
Some of them don't even have a bar.
They have a hole in the ground.
tim dillon
They're sitting a hole in the ground, and we show up, and we start arming them and giving them stuff.
And it's like that Bill Hicks joke, where it's like, pick up the gun.
For him special, it's like...
Are the Houthis an existential threat to the United States?
That feels crazy.
joe rogan
The craziest thing was...
tim dillon
Just feels insane.
joe rogan
Trump showing the video of them getting bombed.
tim dillon
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It's so wild.
tim dillon
We could kill all...
This is the problem.
We could get rid of all of these threats in five minutes.
Yeah, but we don't seem to want to.
It's not good for business.
joe rogan
You can't come to a market every week.
You'll burn it out.
tim dillon
No, the Houthis are good.
joe rogan
If you're doing stand-up, you've got to go once a year.
tim dillon
You've got to go once a year, once every 18 months.
And I like the Houthis because they feel it's like a new, but they're not sticking.
No one's believing it.
So now they're back to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah wears the fatigues.
If you get up Hezbollah, they're scary looking.
The Houthis are not that scary.
The Houthis look like a bunch of dudes in like a bazaar, like you said, like in a flea market.
They're on a boat, they're holding up guns, no one cares.
Hezbollah looks genuinely like, okay, let's not fuck with these people.
joe rogan
Well, it's like Shane's bit about the Iraqis or the Afghanis.
tim dillon
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Going through the fucking, the workouts.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Like, we think they're like an elite army.
unidentified
Oh, God, yeah.
joe rogan
They couldn't do jumping jacks.
tim dillon
You're not changing anything.
But that's the whole thing.
It's this weird global chessboard of like, you know, as someone said to me once, there's like a dial, you turn it up, you're like, more war, less war.
More war, less war.
joe rogan
I'm gonna see right now if smelling salts are good for allergies.
Have you gotten any of the allergies out here?
tim dillon
No. I don't get it.
joe rogan
My first year of legitimately getting them.
tim dillon
Cedar fever?
I think you gotta do cocaine.
jamie vernon
Allergy medicine, too.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's no fun.
tim dillon
Yeah, maybe Zyrtac or something.
joe rogan
That's no fun.
tim dillon
What is it, the cedar?
joe rogan
I don't know what it is.
tim dillon
I think people say cedar fever.
joe rogan
But my nose has been running.
jamie vernon
Did you hear the story at all?
joe rogan
Mark Hopper actually might have helped the military capture, so I'm just saying.
jamie vernon
What? So they were on a USO tour in 2003?
joe rogan
And they got asked to come in to do like a private show and he sat down and said,"Sir, I have a plan to catch Saddam Hussein," the musician recalled telling a Navy Admiral on board the aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
According to Hapas, Hussein had been sending video messages to his followers from an unknown location at the time.
The musician felt that the military could use drones to their advantage and uncover his location by pulling data from the video messages.
Sir, what about having drones fly all over the region in carpeting patterns, broadcasting time codes above the level of human hearing, but at the level that a video recording would catch it?
Hope it's suggested to the Admiral.
Then the next time he releases one of his videos, you could listen to it, pull the ultrasonic data, and triangulate the drones you have flying all over.
Holy shit!
tim dillon
This is the guy from Blink-182?
jamie vernon
I think his dad was in the military.
tim dillon
Someone was in something.
jamie vernon
He knew, yeah.
joe rogan
Okay, this brings me back to that fucking strange times in Laurel Canyon shit.
Yeah! Four months later, Sodom was located and captured in Iraq, so you're welcome, everyone.
tim dillon
What a great book!
Well, not only the Tom O'Neil book, but then this Dave McGowan book, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon.
I lived up there when I was living in LA.
I lived up there.
And I'm telling you, that is the creepiest vibe of any area that I've ever been to in my life.
joe rogan
It's a weird vibe.
tim dillon
They have that fucking military installation at Lookout Mountain.
joe rogan
Jared Leto owns that.
He lives there now.
tim dillon
Doesn't he have a whole cult?
Okay. He's a good guy.
I'm sure he is.
I'm not saying it's bad to have a cult.
joe rogan
They tried to investigate his cult, and it turns out it's not really.
It's just a bunch of people having fun.
tim dillon
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
joe rogan
And there's no requirements.
No one asks you to fuck them.
Nothing happens.
tim dillon
No, it's a voluntary fuck cult.
joe rogan
It's not even a voluntary fuck cult.
It's just they get together and dance or something.
I don't know what they do.
tim dillon
I lived there for three years.
I didn't get one text.
I had not one.
I used to drive by and point at it and go, look, it's the thing.
joe rogan
What do they do?
What does Jared Littles...
jamie vernon
It's like a summer camp.
They call it Echelon.
tim dillon
Yeah. It's a summer camp.
jamie vernon
We used to go watch the band play Close Up.
joe rogan
Oh, what the fuck's the problem with that, Tim?
How about Tim Dillon Fest?
tim dillon
I have no problem with that.
joe rogan
It's basically Skank Fest.
tim dillon
Just a bunch of people eating shellfish in Long Island being racist?
Yeah, absolutely.
I have no issue with that at all.
joe rogan
What a fun time, though, for us.
Yeah. Because everything's just...
I mean, there's just so much stuff to talk about.
Everything's nuts.
Nothing makes sense.
tim dillon
You know, I was on the All In podcast the other day, and they were talking about...
These chips, these NVIDIA chips and how what's interesting is people are setting up because we have these export controls that don't allow us to send certain chips to China because they're able to like manipulate them and then become like the world's largest semiconductor producer.
But now all these fun fake companies are starting in like Bhutan.
Or Cambodia.
And they're buying the chips.
Or Singapore.
And then they all get back to China.
joe rogan
Well, one of the guys who worked at whatever the preeminent AI system in China was saying, whistleblowers, was saying that they have 50,000 of these fucking banned chips.
tim dillon
That's so wild.
Whoopsies. And so they were talking about, like, is it better to send them the chips?
Or is it better to, if you don't send them the chips, then it spurs their innovation and they make the chips.
joe rogan
Well, either way, they're gonna get the chips.
tim dillon
Yeah, they're getting the chips.
joe rogan
They're both innovating and stealing at the same time.
tim dillon
Can there be anything done to stop their rise?
joe rogan
Nah. Not at this point.
tim dillon
Doesn't feel like it, right?
joe rogan
They're so much more technologically advanced in so many different areas now.
Yeah. Like, the drones that they have are so superior to the commercial drones that we have, because drones over here, you have to have a pilot's license to drive the really spicy ones.
tim dillon
Do you think some of those drones over in New Jersey were theirs?
joe rogan
Could be.
I think they were ours.
I honestly do.
Otherwise, I think they would have shot them down if they could.
I don't know if they could.
And maybe they wouldn't, because then it would alarm people.
Because then you would show that that is a legitimate threat.
tim dillon
We're fighting for satellite supremacy in the sky, too.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
The internet, the Starlink.
I mean, essentially, Elon's launching Starlinks all over the fucking world.
tim dillon
Do you worry at all about the tech people being Democrats up until five minutes ago?
Yeah, you should, but I think...
joe rogan
A lot of those people have shifted sides.
They've shifted sides because they understand that, well, you know, I had Marc Andreessen in here.
And Marc Andreessen was explaining, he said the most terrifying meetings we ever had was when we were part of an AI startup and the government came in and said, we're not going to let you do this.
Not only are we not going to let you do this, we're not going to let anybody do this.
We're going to have a small amount of these things we're going to completely control.
He was like, what the fuck?
Like, you guys are really openly saying this, that you're going to inhibit innovation at the highest.
Some shit that you probably don't even understand, but you want to have absolute control over it.
tim dillon
I think the worry is that people don't trust the government, nor should they, but I don't know if they trust these tech guys either.
joe rogan
You shouldn't.
Yeah. You shouldn't.
Look what's going on with OpenAI.
tim dillon
That's the whole thing.
I think that people are wary of the tech people because these were the same people that were censoring and kicking people off the internet when the people in the White House were blue.
Right. And now that the people in the White House are red, they are...
It swung back the other way.
Exactly. So I think people are a little wary of that.
Yeah. They don't know where that goes.
joe rogan
It's just power.
It's just...
I mean, like Bernie Sanders is right in that you should be scared of oligarchs, and oligarchs shouldn't be running our government.
He's right in that regard.
And when people get into positions of just unchecked power, so let's say if someone had control of some tech company, let's say it's an AI company, and that AI company literally...
Creates the unstoppable AI that helps empower the entire country and this one guy's in control and he's worth three trillion dollars now and he decides to lobby and change a bunch of laws and influence politicians and his company starts donating to certain politicians.
You could change the fabric of society with enough money and enough power and enough influence, especially if you could completely control what the narrative is in terms of like when people Google things and they search things.
When they talk about things, you can completely control what they're allowed to talk about and how that narrative gets countered instantly with facts and bullshit.
tim dillon
Well, it's being done everywhere, right?
So it's being done at the highest levels.
And I think people are uncomfortable with just losing, even though a lot of them realize that we didn't have a ton of control, they feel like...
I think when you head into the world of tech where people just don't even know where this goes, where does it go?
Does it go to transhumanism?
Does it go to, like, AI replacing everybody?
And then at what point, what do you do with those people that AI replaced?
Do you give them all cryptocurrency that's linked to their biological whatever?
I've heard all these ideas, right?
Like, how do you deal with...
Driverless cars, where the entire road is automated.
How do you deal with that?
I think that fills people with an anxiety where they go,"What is the plan?" And a lot of these tech cars are like,"Well, we've got to get off the planet." And I think people start going like,"Wait a minute." You know?
joe rogan
That's Weinstein.
Eric Weinstein thinks we'll get off the planet.
Well, that's a lot of people.
That's a lot of people saying that.
I'm staying.
I don't know what you're saying.
tim dillon
There's a lot of people.
joe rogan
There's no air on Mars.
Like, let's not go there.
tim dillon
Yeah. Well, for sure.
For sure.
Do you think Trump and Musk will have a falling out eventually?
joe rogan
I don't know.
It's a good question.
The media keeps trying to push that they are.
tim dillon
It feels like they're just big personalities in that there's an inevitability when you have two guys that are incredibly, you know, alpha.
joe rogan
Perhaps. But Elon is very smart.
And you see he's always very deferential.
Yeah. And he's always very respectful.
Mr. President.
It's always that.
tim dillon
Well, of course.
joe rogan
Call him sir.
That's how I treat him.
I always call him sir.
It's Donald Trump.
Yeah, I get it.
You're fired.
I get it.
But he's also the president of the United States.
I call him sir.
But I call everybody sir.
Yeah. I call everybody sir.
Yeah. It's like the byproduct of me living in Texas now.
tim dillon
Right. Sure.
joe rogan
Yeah. But I don't know if they're going to...
tim dillon
You don't get pulled over anymore here.
joe rogan
If I do, it's not that big of a deal.
tim dillon
If you get pulled over here, a cop gives you money.
They go, Mr. Rogan, here's a check.
I mean, there's no way.
There's no law that you cannot break here.
I'm guaranteeing you.
joe rogan
I don't think that's correct.
tim dillon
I think you could do a lot.
I think they would cover up a murder.
joe rogan
That's sweet.
tim dillon
If you murdered three people, I think the awesome PD would go, whatever, man.
He's doing a lot.
They'd bring that mayor, that guy, and he'd go, what?
They'd go, yeah, the suspect's Joe Rogan.
He was standing over the bodies.
They'd go, are you out of your fucking mind?
Drive him home right now.
Drive that man home.
joe rogan
If I was in waist deep, in Rainy Street, drowning a partygoer.
tim dillon
They don't care.
joe rogan
Bro, they still don't want to admit that there's a serial killer.
tim dillon
You're the tourism board.
Yeah, no, something's up.
joe rogan
There's a serial killer.
tim dillon
Something's going on.
joe rogan
I believe there's a serial killer.
tim dillon
What are they doing?
They're luring people to that bridge and then...
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not hard.
People like to go to the bridge.
You just gotta look out for the bushes.
unidentified
It's so weird.
tim dillon
I guess it's such a high to kill someone.
To me, I'm like, what do you get out of it?
But I guess the people that are doing it like it.
joe rogan
They're broken.
There's broken people.
Some broken people do meth and some broken people drown guys who like to party.
tim dillon
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 and stuff?
unidentified
Oh yeah.
tim dillon
And is there, do they believe that it's like, is there any part of them that believes someone's just born?
joe rogan
Yes. Interesting.
Yeah. Yeah.
And it's generally, you have psychotic parents.
And so whether it's nature or nurture is hard to separate because you're probably abused.
And generally, at an early age, they show a willingness to torture house pets and stuff like that.
Animals. Yeah.
Yeah, they'll maybe start off with a frog they catch and stick up.
Like a firecracker in its mouth and stuff like that.
And then they eventually work their way up to humans.
tim dillon
Now it seems so much harder to do it because of these phones, surveillance.
joe rogan
It is, but it's...
tim dillon
You can still do it.
joe rogan
Not in Austin.
You can get away with drowning folks.
tim dillon
You can drown people.
Why don't you think they'll admit it?
They don't want people getting spooked?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
That's a good question.
Maybe... Maybe I'm wrong.
tim dillon
I mean, one of the biggest things ever in Austin were those crazy yogurt shop murders.
HBO just came out with a documentary about.
unidentified
When was that?
tim dillon
It was many years ago.
This crazy yogurt shop murder thing.
HBO just did a doc.
Happened in Austin.
It was like a famous...
And it's completely unsolved, except they put some people in jail for it, but then later let one of them out.
It was just one of those things where nobody was sure about what happened.
joe rogan
So they were murdering people that went to the yogurt place?
tim dillon
It was 1991, and just South by Southwest, they just did a huge...
joe rogan
Oh, it was one homicide.
A quadruple homicide which took place at, I can't believe it's yogurt shop in Austin.
tim dillon
That could have been me in 1991.
unidentified
Wow. 34 years ago.
tim dillon
34 years ago.
It's an underbelly.
joe rogan
14 girls were murdered in Austin.
unidentified
Wow. And they don't know who did it?
tim dillon
It's an unsolved murder.
joe rogan
I checked the boyfriends.
tim dillon
And there's many different theories about it.
joe rogan
Wow. That's crazy.
Four men were arrested and charged a capital murder in 99, but two of their cases were overturned.
The other two never went to trial.
Wow. Interesting.
tim dillon
So there are these things that happen.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's what they say, that if you just randomly shoot someone and kill them, like, if you're a real, like, rando, like, did you ever see that movie Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer?
No. It was about a guy named Henry Lee Lucas.
tim dillon
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, and Henry Lee Lucas was attributed, they attributed, like, 62 murders to him.
The problem is, I think one of the things cops do is they go, uh, did you kill this guy?
Yeah, I killed him, too.
Where'd you bury him?
Where was he buried?
Oh, that's where I buried him.
That kind of thing.
Now you got a case solved.
That was the accusation about Henry because he was definitely a murderer and a grifter and a drifter and he was traveling around the country stealing things.
But then they made a movie about him and in the movie he's way more sinister and calculated.
But he would just randomly kill people.
tim dillon
So they'll take credit for things they didn't do.
Exactly. To just beef up the body count.
joe rogan
Exactly. Because that's what they want.
They want attention.
They're already in jail.
tim dillon
That's so wild.
joe rogan
Yeah. Yeah.
That's a—when you have shitty DAs and shitty prosecutors and shitty cops, they'll do stuff like that.
tim dillon
Do you think that there are people that are—you know, National Park seemed to be like a hotbed of people disappearing.
joe rogan
Yeah, Appalachian Trail people, yeah.
tim dillon
Yeah, do you think that's people getting you, or is that a lot of it, like, I got lost, I got eaten?
joe rogan
You get lost.
Yeah. You get eaten.
There's a guy who has this whole series, 4-1— Is it 911 missing or 411 missing people in national parks?
Listen, man, 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.
tim dillon
Because they get eaten.
joe rogan
They get eaten.
Not only do you get eaten, your bones get eaten.
Everything gets eaten.
tim dillon
So it's not uncommon to disappear and there's no trace.
joe rogan
No trace.
Yeah. Yeah, super common.
So if you're in a high traffic area, like I've...
Hunting, I've found elk bones where a hunter killed the elk and then took all the meat off the bones and then left the bones there.
That's what you do when you pack out meat.
And I've found those animals.
I actually even found one animal that I shot a long time ago.
I shot like four years ago.
tim dillon
And you found it?
joe rogan
Yeah, we were in the same location.
It was the same bones.
There wasn't all the bones there left.
Some of them have been dragged away.
Some of them have probably been eaten by rodents.
They eat the bones.
Slowly but surely.
And if you're a human, you're made out of nothing.
You're so easy to eat.
Right. You know, like our bones are less dense.
Our meat is soft and chewy.
Yeah. You know, like we get devoured.
A bear would eat your whole body.
There would be almost nothing left.
And rodents would eat what's left.
unidentified
Yeah. Vultures.
tim dillon
You gotta be careful.
In those places.
joe rogan
You can't be careful.
If you don't have a GPS navigation system that has a lot of batteries, if you don't have a compass and know how to use it, if you don't have a map, it's so easy to get lost in the woods.
It's so easy.
Yeah. They're all around you, and you can go in one direction and circle around.
You don't even realize you're circling.
Right. And then three days later, you're back to where you started.
You're like, fucking no!
tim dillon
Yeah, it's terrible.
joe rogan
You've been eating tree bark for three days.
tim dillon
It's insane.
joe rogan
And you're thinking, any step, I'm going to see the highway.
tim dillon
What a horrible thing.
joe rogan
People die like that all the time.
tim dillon
All the time.
joe rogan
All the time.
tim dillon
Just go to a hotel.
joe rogan
It's very difficult to navigate yourself.
tim dillon
Just go to a resort.
joe rogan
If you don't know the woods, you're not used to being in the woods, and you're not used to having landmarks that you follow, and know how to use a compass, know how to use a GPS.
tim dillon
Some people are good at it.
And even they get eaten.
joe rogan
Yeah, they get eaten, too.
Well, you break your ankle.
Right. How about you break your ankle out there, and you can't hike out.
It's not possible.
Right. What do you do?
Yeah. You fucking die.
That's what you do.
tim dillon
Gotta be very careful.
joe rogan
And you hear something at night.
You're sleeping under a tree, and you hear something at night.
tim dillon
Right. Right.
joe rogan
You've got a bear sniffing you.
unidentified
It's crazy.
joe rogan
You can't run away.
And you don't have a weapon.
tim dillon
You can't do anything.
joe rogan
It just eats you alive.
tim dillon
And those woods are so dense in the Pacific Northwest and stuff like that.
I mean, everywhere.
joe rogan
Especially the Pacific Northwest.
tim dillon
Especially there, it's like crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't find nothing out there.
But that's why the Bigfoot rumor persists up there.
It's because the woods are like a box of Q-tips.
Right. You know, like you can't see shit out there.
tim dillon
You don't know what the hell is going on.
joe rogan
You see like a little shadow moving in between trees and you've decided it's a...
Bigfoot. Right.
tim dillon
Yeah. But it's just like...
unidentified
A bear.
tim dillon
It could be, right.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's most likely a bear.
Especially bears walking on two legs.
tim dillon
Northern California is weird like that, too.
I mean, that's part of the Pacific Northwest, probably.
joe rogan
Yeah, you get killed up there.
Yeah. People die up there all the time.
Did you ever see that documentary, Sasquatch?
No. It's a documentary that was on...
Was it on Hulu, Jamie?
We had the director in it, the guy who created it.
It was awesome.
And what it's really about is about marijuana growers murdered a guy and then blamed it on Bigfoot.
Wow. So these marijuana growers in Humboldt, up that area.
So they all were hippies, right?
And then they started growing weed and then cartel people moved in and gangs moved in.
And they started robbing these people.
So these people became heavily armed.
Wars with like the growers and cartel people and so there was these people that were trying to steal from them They murdered these people and then they blamed it on Bigfoot.
They like ran over him with a fucking backhoe and crushed his body.
tim dillon
These hippies are really violent.
joe rogan
Oh, they get violent once it's money.
tim dillon
These hippies are junkies and you know like this whole hippie thing I think is kind of a lie.
joe rogan
Well, they all become people with money if you're growing weed.
You become a multi-millionaire who's carrying a sidearm.
Okay? And you're going to protect your money.
And then these people are trying to kill you to take your shit.
So then you're like fucking Jason whatever his name is in Ozark.
tim dillon
Right. Jason Bateman.
joe rogan
Jason Bateman.
Right. And now you're a drug dealer.
tim dillon
That's so funny.
It's so funny the weird like marijuana where it's like it's federally still illegal, but like states it's legal in certain states.
Yeah. And there's that gray area where there's just like you have half of that business is like in the shadows and half of it's and people make lots of money.
It's strange.
joe rogan
Well, not only that, because California made it legal, they also made it a misdemeanor to grow it illegally, right?
So what happens is these cartels started growing it on national forest land.
And so then game wardens started finding it.
There's a guy named John Norris who's been on the podcast before.
He wrote a book called Hidden War.
Yeah. And it was all about he was a game warden and he became a part of a tactical crew that was busting cartel members who were heavily armed growing marijuana in national forests.
tim dillon
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah. Because most of the illegal weed that's been sold all over the country was being grown there.
So in the places where it is illegal, they grow it where it's legal, and if they get busted, it's just a misdemeanor.
tim dillon
So it doesn't matter.
joe rogan
And they're not going to deport anybody because California is a sanctuary state.
tim dillon
Right. So it doesn't matter how many acres and acres of weed.
joe rogan
Exactly. Exactly.
Yeah. And so because it's federally illegal, it's just like when there was the prohibition that propped up organized crime.
Same thing.
You've just propped up illegal businesses to sell something that has a demand that normal...
tim dillon
Do you think weed's going to be federally legal?
joe rogan
If I had to guess, not during this administration.
Yeah. No, I don't think.
tim dillon
It feels like a lot of the experimental harm reduction policies in places like Portland are going the other way.
joe rogan
Well, they went a little crazy in a place that was already crazy.
tim dillon
Yeah, they had a woman driving around shooting people up called the Stabbing Wagon, and she was like, if somebody needed a fix, she'd pull up and give them clean needles and stuff.
joe rogan
Is it really called the Stabbing Wagon?
tim dillon
It was called the Stabbing Wagon.
unidentified
For real?
tim dillon
Yeah, because you're stabbing.
And if you're just tweeting...
No, this is like a way to help.
unidentified
Oh, Portland.
tim dillon
This was a way to help people.
joe rogan
Oh, Portland.
tim dillon
And people would just be chilling and like, hey, I need a couple of clean needles.
So this woman would just show up.
There'd be like a bunch of junkies hanging out.
She'd show up.
She'd hop out of the stabbing wagon with a bunch of clean needles, hand them out.
joe rogan
People are like, fuck yeah.
tim dillon
Good to see you.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
tim dillon
And she's like, fuck yeah.
I hope you're all doing good.
And they're like, well, you know how it is.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
tim dillon
And the problem was that didn't work.
joe rogan
Not only did it not work, it encouraged people to move there to shoot up.
tim dillon
Actually, that's true.
So people started moving there because they're like, this is actually a pretty good deal.
They don't care if you live on the street, and there's this bitch in a van that shows up with clean needles.
joe rogan
And they give you money.
tim dillon
Yeah, and whatever you need.
joe rogan
They give you free money and food.
Yeah. Yeah.
Here it is, the stabbing wagon.
Stabbing wagon.
tim dillon
Harm reduction.
No, I mean, it's real.
joe rogan
She only has 4,000 followers?
That's fucked.
Hit that follow, Jamie.
Hit a little follow on her.
tim dillon
There you go.
There's a stabbing wagon.
joe rogan
Well, at least she's healthy.
tim dillon
It's the stabbing wagon.
joe rogan
Okay. Makes sense.
tim dillon
So at the end of the day, it's like that seems like a good way to combat drug use is to have a van of drugs.
joe rogan
That van got a $1.5 million grant.
Did you see that?
Did you see that in the previous article?
tim dillon
Of course.
joe rogan
$1.5 million grant.
tim dillon
Well, because they're trying to help people.
joe rogan
Get high.
tim dillon
They're trying to help people get high in a safe way.
joe rogan
Bro, where she parked that van?
That's what I need to know.
tim dillon
I mean, it's a good question.
She probably lived in the burbs and then came in and then did what she needed to do.
joe rogan
She doesn't look like a burbs lady.
tim dillon
Well, that's a good point.
You know those weird Pacific Northwest suburbs?
A lot of them aren't my burbs.
The ones that I like.
joe rogan
Very odd.
Those people are...
tim dillon
It's different.
joe rogan
They're like people that live outside of Chernobyl.
Yeah. They're forever changed.
tim dillon
It's different.
There's not a lot of sun up there.
Something's going on.
joe rogan
Bad DNA damage.
tim dillon
What was funny is there was a big article where they were like, yeah, this is actually...
What's crazy is you read about those cities, like Portland and San Francisco.
They'll do the craziest thing ever.
And then two years later, they'll start going like, yeah, this just is not having the results that we thought it would have.
This is...
Drug use is up.
Crime is up.
Violence is up.
So Santa Monica now is doing a curfew because there's been violent crimes at night.
joe rogan
No way.
tim dillon
They're thinking about doing a curfew in Santa Monica.
So again, because...
joe rogan
Santa Monica.
tim dillon
Yes, Santa Monica is thinking about doing a curfew because there's like violent crimes.
So instead of just going like, okay, we got to throw these people in jail.
Like, it's nine o'clock.
Go home.
This is California.
This is the biggest economy in our country.
And they're thinking of having occurred because they're all out of ideas on how to stop people from being victims of violent crime.
joe rogan
Bro, I got friends who can't sell their houses there.
tim dillon
No, it's bad.
I'm glad I sold my house when it did.
joe rogan
Nobody wants to buy houses there anymore.
tim dillon
Nobody wants to buy houses there.
joe rogan
They're like, we're getting out.
Everybody who's not out is at least thinking about it.
tim dillon
Uber rich people are...
A lot of them are just keeping their houses because they can't get the money they want.
So, like, people that are, like, in Bel Air, those crazy things, right?
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, these behemoths.
They're just kind of like, just leave it.
joe rogan
You gotta hope that, like, there's some crazy celebrity rapper guy like Kendrick Lamar decides to buy a mansion.
tim dillon
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Like, if you're selling a $70 million house, you have, like, five people that will buy it.
tim dillon
You also gotta hope that they elect Rick Caruso and he...
Goes around California in a tank with a bunch of guys in bazookas, and it's like the craziest thing you've ever seen.
That's all you can hope for.
joe rogan
You need like a Rudy Giuliani type character.
tim dillon
Yeah, I mean, you need Sergeant Slaughter from the old WWF.
unidentified
I mean...
tim dillon
You need a fully fascist.
You need a guy to run as a fascist.
When they go, are you a Republican?
He goes, no, no, no, no, no.
I am a fascist?
This is a military dictatorship.
You need four years of a military dictatorship in California to just turn it around.
To just start steering it.
The other way.
joe rogan
Well, it's moving red.
That's one thing you saw by the electoral map from 2024.
California is moving red.
tim dillon
Yeah, it's going red.
joe rogan
Yeah, slowly but surely.
tim dillon
There's only so many times you can wake up in a $4 million house with a gun in your mouth before you start thinking differently about it,
you know?
joe rogan
Did you see they were trying to pass laws?
Where they're deciding how much violence is enough violence if someone breaks in your house, like when you shoot them too many times.
Right. In the middle of being terrified.
tim dillon
Absolutely. They will always take the side of the people that are trying to destroy civilization.
joe rogan
Always. Do you think that when you don your tinfoil hat and Velcro the chin strap...
Do you think that this is a grand plan to destroy civilization?
tim dillon
I think what you have – I don't know if it's a grand plan, but I think what you have is you have two things that are happening simultaneously.
You have the people – the last people that seem to want to be in politics are people that believe in like nothing.
They're like empty suit.
Gavin Newsom types who just really don't seem – they just – whatever room they're in.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
Have you seen his podcast?
tim dillon
Yeah. Well, that proves my point.
That proves my point now, right?
joe rogan
He's a believer.
tim dillon
So now he's like, oh, things are going right.
I'll go to the right.
Things are going to the left.
I'll go to the left.
So you have like these people that just don't – they will not – like Sanders or Trump, whatever you think about them, they're not going to like quote stand on business.
They're not going to tell people here's where I'm at.
This is the way I feel.
They're just empty vessels.
And then at the same time you have that happening, you have the craziest people in the world that somehow have gotten hold of a ton of money and a ton of influence on social media.
And those empty suit politicians are like scared of these lunatics that believe the craziest things you've ever heard.
So these politicians are just like taking edicts from these crazy people online who tell them that we need the stabbing wagon and we need all this stuff.
I don't know how that happened, that somebody should look at that, how that happened and study it.
And I think it's a lot of these politicians are deeply corrupt and I think they're terribly afraid of whatever corruption they're involved with coming to the surface.
And it could be personal in their personal life.
It could be with the state.
I think, you know, the mismanagement of money, of resources, all of that stuff.
So if I was a really corrupt politician, I would just do the craziest left-wing shit so that I could never be accused of anything.
joe rogan
Good move.
tim dillon
And I would just let them do whatever the hell they want.
I go, yeah, well, fucking whatever.
We got a new law that says they got to draw blood in your house from you before you can defend yourself.
joe rogan
We need a rapper.
Yeah. Rappers are the last people in this country that can kind of get away with almost anything.
tim dillon
Well, rappers are honest.
A lot of them, even though they might lie about how much money they have and stuff, there's a certain honesty to that genre of music.
joe rogan
Clearly, you can go too far, like P. Diddy.
tim dillon
You can go too far.
But he wasn't super honest.
He seemed to be concealing a bit.
joe rogan
He seemed to be.
Yeah. Do you think he was working for somebody?
Or working with somebody?
Or do you think it was all his own personal black?
tim dillon
If the CIA was like, we can't really, we don't really know anything about like this world of like, you know, that's not what we do.
We're like a bunch of Harvard guys and we have these fucking weirdos that we know about how to get in with like our people, but we need someone who was like a black guy to do it.
It could have been P. Diddy.
joe rogan
But didn't all the accusations come out after he was involved in a lawsuit with Ciroc?
tim dillon
That's what people said, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's where it gets interesting, right?
tim dillon
Yeah, I mean, it's going to be...
joe rogan
You've got to be very careful when you start fucking around with people's billions.
tim dillon
Big, powerful billionaires are probably their own governments.
Yeah. So, I mean, when you run afoul of them, I think there's many ways at which they can get you.
joe rogan
Also, they feel like they pay so much money for taxes.
tim dillon
A lot of these intelligence agencies are working for those people.
They're not, I think, on their own.
There's big money to be made.
And there's a lot of people that own these companies and have been rich for a very long time and who aren't on reality TV.
And you don't really know who they are.
Some of them are on the Forbes list.
Some of them aren't.
Some of them are just incredibly wealthy and they've made their money in ways that you could barely understand.
And those are people that, you know, are the reason historically that the CIA is going into Latin America and overthrowing government so that United Fruit can, you know, have a monopoly, right?
It's like this is so they're doing things at the behest of these ultra wealthy.
Families that control huge industries.
joe rogan
Sure, and they always have.
I mean, that's back to Smedley Butler's War is a Racket.
tim dillon
Thousand percent.
joe rogan
Yeah, and that was 1933 he wrote that or something.
tim dillon
And that's the way the whole thing seems to be organized.
joe rogan
Yeah, and always has been.
We're just learning it now.
You know, that's all the difference.
tim dillon
But it is falling apart now because some of their kids are doing stand-up comedy.
No, literally.
I mean, there are people, they're young in New York and they're just like, their parents are some of the wealthiest people in the world.
And these kids are like doing stand-up, which is a terrible sign for the Empire.
That's not a great sign for the Empire, is that like a guy that would have taken over his dad's business is like doing dick jokes.
joe rogan
Well, he probably has a trust fund.
So he probably has a safety blanket and sees we're having fun.
It's like, I want to have fun.
I want to be like my dad.
Yeah. Have a fucking heart attack when I'm 49. That's right.
tim dillon
But we need them doing that.
Some of them.
joe rogan
Having heart attacks?
tim dillon
Yes. Everyone can't be a clown.
There is something deeply unhealthy about the Illuminati doing stand-up.
I don't love that idea.
joe rogan
Well, unless they're using ChatGPT, how good could their material be?
tim dillon
It's not ideal.
joe rogan
It can't be.
tim dillon
It's a lot of crowd work.
joe rogan
And even if they do use ChatGPT, ChatGPT has not shown any ability to really craft a good joke yet.
tim dillon
It's just funny to meet some of these people and then you talk to them and they'll casually drop that they're like, you know, their parents are like billionaires.
And you're like, that's awesome, man.
And they're just doing bar shows.
It's kind of interesting.
And they're nice people, but just to pull out and look at it from a sociological standpoint, it says something about people's idea of the future that these people just, like, want to be famous now.
How many of them are there?
There's some more than you'd think.
joe rogan
Really? Is it a New York thing?
tim dillon
Yeah, it's a lot of rich people live there, and I'm talking about mega-rich, like, not like, hey, my dad's a successful whatever.
joe rogan
I'm talking about, like, whoa, billions.
tim dillon
Big money.
Yeah. Where you go, interesting.
joe rogan
And then the kids don't have any pressure to do anything.
tim dillon
The kids kind of float around and they're doing...
It's just very funny.
It's something that makes me laugh.
It's just like a billionaire kid on stage looking at someone in the audience going, what do you do for a living?
joe rogan
A lot of crowd work, huh?
tim dillon
Yeah, what do you do for a living?
Maybe this is the first time they've met people that aren't billionaires.
That could also be a thing.
This might be a way to just socialize Illuminati kids.
joe rogan
They've met their housekeepers before.
Maybe they ask them, like, what should I talk about on stage?
tim dillon
Well, yeah.
I mean, they have...
And what's funny is, like, they have parties in their big houses and bring their other comic friends who are bums.
You know, young comics.
I mean, we're all bums.
So then, like, the parents are like, hello.
And they bring in, like, a bum and they go, this is my buddy.
And then, you know...
joe rogan
He's stealing from the buffet.
tim dillon
He's just, like, staring at them going, whoa, this place rocks.
joe rogan
It's like a sitcom.
tim dillon
Yeah. And they're like, these are my friends.
And I think the parents are kind of like, oh, well, isn't that nice?
Maybe it's a phase.
I think the parents look at it like they're going through a phase.
joe rogan
That's interesting that there's more than one of them doing stand-up.
tim dillon
It says something about...
That group of people that used to run everything, they have a dearth of purpose in their life.
They're kind of aimless and they float around.
I don't mean specifically rich comedian kids.
I just mean like that ruling class, what are they doing now?
They don't really have a purpose.
They kind of float around.
They try this new age spirituality bullshit.
They travel all over the place.
You look at any of these rich kids' Instagrams, all they're doing is traveling.
It's all the same shit.
We're going to Anguilla.
Go here, go there.
There's no purpose.
You know, I think they don't feel like America's has a defining mission.
Like if you look at families like the Kennedys, the Bushes, whatever you think about those families, they served in the military.
They believe that there was some type of arc of history that they were a part of.
I feel like a lot of rich people now just kind of don't believe in much of anything.
And it's just kind of like.
I don't know.
They're bored.
They start a fake company.
joe rogan
Well, if your whole focus is just making more money, how much time can you spend believing in things?
Right. That's going to take away from your ability to earn.
tim dillon
Yeah. I think that's one of the big problems now.
And that's why I think you saw a lot of people get crazy on the left and they started instituting all these weird virtue.
You know, these purity tests and stuff like that is because I think they feel a lack of meaning.
A lot of them wanted to be self-flagellation.
They wanted the tenets of religion.
They wanted meaning.
They just don't have it.
So I think that's what happens with a lot of them.
And their kids are nice people.
They're not bad people.
It's just funny to see like...
Because most people who do comedy, a lot of them aren't poor.
A lot of them are like middle class people because they have like the ability to go and at least think it's an option.
But it is funny when someone goes,"I'm doing comedy and I'm the scion of great wealth." Scion's a great word.
It's an interesting thing to me, just because I've always been fascinated with rich people and, like, these people that run the world.
And it's so interesting that some of their kids are like, I want to, I'm going to do stand-up comedy now.
joe rogan
When was the first time you met a really rich person?
How old were you?
tim dillon
I met a couple of, like, mafia people that my dad used to play music, so they owned some bars, but they weren't super rich.
I would observe them because my uncle was the director of operations for all these restaurant groups in New York City, this restaurant group in New York City.
That had these big high-end steakhouses.
And I would go.
And one of them was on 63rd and Park.
And I would sit in this steakhouse with my parents.
I was probably 8 or 9 years old.
And you'd look around.
And I said to my dad once, I was like, maybe 10 or 11. And this is a weird thing to say to a 10 or 11-year-old.
I was like, who are these people?
And my dad goes, these people run the world.
I was just very fascinated by all these like...
People that were so different because in Long Island where I came from, everyone was loud and fighting all the time.
My best friend Josh, who lived two houses down from me, his mother Eileen would scream at his father in the front yard and he was like a conductor for the railroad and she would just go, why didn't you do that?
And then you would go to Manhattan and a lot of these restaurants that my uncle had, you'd see these kind of quiet people and they were all very well dressed and they were in suits.
In Manhattan, they live in these stone townhouses like Epstein did.
They live in these little mini stone townhouses.
And I was just fascinated.
I was like, it's very interesting.
These people are interesting.
What are they up to?
Type of thing.
And then you start reading about them and it is just super interesting.
Because they're a very big reason why society looks the way it does.
100%. And that to me was an interesting thing.
Why are certain people in certain positions?
What role do the politicians play and what role do these really quiet rich people play that are kind of waspy and could be Jewish, could be anything.
They're just kind of like, you know, they're quiet.
They don't really want you to know too much about them.
They really value their privacy.
So it's funny with the kids doing stand-up comedy to me.
And even these rich people that go on these reality shows, it's interesting that it used to be sacrilegious, the idea that you would show people how much money you had or that you would talk about yourself.
And a lot of that started to change.
A lot of these rich people just want to be famous.
It almost feels like it's the last thing left.
joe rogan
Well, most young kids today, when they ask them, what do you want to be?
A giant percentage of them say famous.
They want to be an influencer.
They want to be a TikToker, a YouTuber.
They want to be famous because why would you want a job like your parents have when you could just open sneakers?
Yeah. Open, so I'm going to do an unboxing show.
tim dillon
That's a good point.
joe rogan
Yeah, like why would you want a regular job?
Yeah. Regular jobs are soul-sucking, especially you work.
Look, it's one thing if you have a career.
Sure. One thing you start your own business.
It's something exciting.
There's another thing to be working for somebody.
Working for somebody is horrible for the most part.
tim dillon
It is, but I think people can derive enjoyment from things outside of their jobs.
joe rogan
Sure, but that leaves you one third of your day that's been eaten up.
Yes. You have one third of your day for sleep, one third of your day that's been eaten up by this bullshit job.
Yeah. And then the remaining hours between commutes and whatever the fuck you eat, all has to be wrapped up in--It is.
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It's been eaten up.
tim dillon
It is...
I get it.
I totally get it.
If you're a young kid, you go on YouTube, you go, I want to be David Dobrik.
I don't want to be...
unidentified
Who's that?
tim dillon
David Dobrik?
He's like a big guy on YouTube.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
tim dillon
He does...
joe rogan
Like Mr. Beast?
tim dillon
He's like a Mr. Beast type.
He's not as big.
Mr. Beast is like a planet.
Yeah. But Dobrik's big, you know, or whoever.
Like, they look at these young...
And they entertain, like, younger people.
He does fun videos about, like, hey, whatever.
I don't know.
You know, it's always the same.
It's like, what if I fill the pool with M&Ms?
Whatever. You know, it's like that type of thing.
Right. It's not like the Ukraine, deep dive or whatever.
It's a fun, like, goofy thing.
And kids look at that and go, well, that guy's making a lot of money.
He has a great car.
He's got a hot girlfriend.
He lives in a big mansion.
I want to be that guy.
joe rogan
Of course.
tim dillon
But I think they missed the idea that that guy works really, really hard.
Right. Like, that's the thing that I think people don't understand about these social media people.
They do have a crazy constitution in terms of how much they post, how hard they work.
Now, you might say, okay, the stuff they do is ridiculous or silly or not valuable, and I might agree on a lot of those things.
But they are always putting it out.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're showing up.
tim dillon
They're always showing up.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you want to compete in any market, anything, no matter what you do, there's a certain amount of work you have to put in, the idea that it's easy.
Like, there's got to be some reason why most of them don't rise to the top.
Right. What is it?
tim dillon
How do you feel about...
Can you teach people to work hard?
I'm sure you can.
What do you think?
Because I've seen so many people that are super talented, but for whatever reason, they're not that muscle of working hard or the dedication to it.
joe rogan
I think generally it has to be established early in your life.
And if you don't establish that early in your life, it's not...
A thing that you gravitate towards.
You don't recognize that, oh, hard work equals results.
If you get lucky, you do sports.
Because sports make you physically uncomfortable.
They test your will.
If you're a marathon runner and you've got to get up every day and do those fucking miles, that will test your will.
If you're doing track and field or football or anything you're doing where it's a lot of work.
And then you realize, I've gotten better because of all this work, and if I work harder, maybe I could be the starting quarterback.
If I work harder, maybe...
And that's a real factor for young kids, I think.
Getting them into any sort of difficult physical endeavor.
Whatever it is.
Competitive physical endeavors make you understand.
tim dillon
That's why I thought that show Dance Moms was good.
That fat woman who screamed at those kids and demanded greatness and would make them cry.
I thought that was good.
You never saw Dance Moms?
It's a great show.
This woman, Abby Lee Miller, she screamed at these young kids and one of them became JoJo Siwa, so it's not like there was any damage done.
And, you know, I think it's good.
I like to see greatness demanded of children.
joe rogan
This lady, look at her hair.
tim dillon
Watch this one.
joe rogan
Let me hear her.
unidentified
Push the envelope.
You will jump higher.
You will turn faster.
tim dillon
That's right.
unidentified
You will also act.
You will sing.
You're not just preparing for a dance competition every weekend.
We're preparing for you to become stars in Los Angeles.
joe rogan
How does that bitch know how to be a star in Los Angeles?
Look at her.
She can't get a seat at Roscoe's.
tim dillon
By the way...
I guarantee you she can get a seat at Roscoe's.
Really? That's the one place she can get...
If you saw her, you wouldn't sit her in Roscoe's?
The first thing, I would kick someone out for her in Roscoe's.
But yeah, it is interesting that a lot of these kids now, they just look at...
You know, the followers and...
Sure. How do you feel about...
You're a parent.
Do you...
When the Jonathan Haidt book comes out and he goes, we should get rid of phones for kids until they're 16. Does that make sense or not really?
joe rogan
No, because then you alienate your kids.
It's a new world that they have to learn how to navigate.
And if they don't learn how to navigate until they're 18, they're at a huge disadvantage.
They've got to understand that it's just people talking.
But there's a lot of pressure.
Like for young girls, it's the worst time because they're comparing...
Right. Right.
tim dillon
Right. Thoughts.
joe rogan
I kind of got off social media for the most part real recently over the last few days.
I'm barely on it.
Right. And I feel better.
Right. I feel way more normal.
Right. Way more, like, not constantly, like, checking to see what's going on, what's going on, what's going on, what's going on, what's going on, what's happening in the world.
Right. Instead...
Just like, I'll find the bad things.
They'll come to me, for sure.
unidentified
You'll get it.
tim dillon
They'll figure it out.
joe rogan
So I check in the morning, like, oh, make sure there's no war going on.
And then I go about my day, the whole day.
And then maybe I check again in the afternoon, real quick.
I'm not spending, like, massive amounts of time anymore.
No. And because of that, I feel better.
And I'm like, okay.
tim dillon
People that give up their phones always talk about that, and they hear birds and all this bullshit, you know?
joe rogan
Well, you feel better.
You feel like there's not this low hum of wondering what's going on in the world all the time.
Wondering who's saying this and why are they doing that?
What's the new thing?
What's this?
What's that?
tim dillon
It is good to detach.
It is interesting.
Imagine if you just didn't even engage, like didn't really look, weren't in it at all.
It fascinates me.
joe rogan
Way better for you.
tim dillon
So you think it would be miserable to just be happy somewhere?
joe rogan
Woody Harrelson doesn't even have a phone.
Really? Doesn't have a phone, doesn't have an email.
No. No, when he showed up at the club, he just sort of showed up.
They said, Woody Harrelson's here.
I'm like, okay, let him in.
Wanted to come and hang out.
Knew I was there.
Wow. Find you and hang out with you.
Yeah, he's like, he's smart.
And he doesn't, Bill Murray's the same way.
Doesn't connect to any, he said I had to get a phone because my kids text.
So I text my kids and that's it.
tim dillon
Smart. Yeah.
That's so smart.
joe rogan
You don't want to be connected.
tim dillon
You don't want to be connected.
joe rogan
But you kind of have to be if you're a young comic.
tim dillon
You have to be connected because you have to build followers to get booked now because these clubs are like, we've got to book people with followers.
You're not necessarily looking at who's working hard or who's good.
And I feel for a lot of younger people because they have to.
Yeah. You know, they have to have a social media presence early on, maybe even before they figured out what they want to say.
Maybe, you know, before they figured out how to say it the right way.
unidentified
For sure.
tim dillon
They have to have this social media presence.
And I think people become, and it's a dopamine hit, right, to do things.
I get it.
Like, you get followers, you get rewarded.
It's a whole system.
But it also could take over your life.
joe rogan
It 100% could take over your life.
And you and I, well, me more so than you, grew up without it, and then it came on later in life.
How old were you when you first got online?
tim dillon
Dude, I had a BlackBerry.
I was working in my early 20s with a BlackBerry, and that's very different than an iPhone.
joe rogan
Sure, that's emails.
tim dillon
It's emails.
So we were getting emails from our manager at work going, will you fucking losers do something?
Things like that.
Because we couldn't sell any.
joe rogan
But I remember seeing people with blackberries in the early days of tech going, man, that seems really addictive.
unidentified
Yeah, because you could take a shitty photo and send it to someone.
tim dillon
You could email a photo.
And the photos were terrible quality.
But just the idea of at your job, just sending someone an email photo was hilarious.
Like being out somewhere and taking a photo and emailing it to somebody going, fuck you, I'm not at work.
That was fun.
joe rogan
The thing was though that they couldn't escape The emails.
The emails, they were constantly checking.
And I was like, oh, well, this is like super addictive.
Like these guys that I work with on FearFact, they were always on their BlackBerrys.
tim dillon
There was a New York City realtor.
This lady, Dolly Lenz, was like the top realtor in New York City.
She famously, she did a BlackBerry commercial.
She famously had like eight BlackBerrys because she would just get all these contracts and stuff.
She would like hand them out to her assistants and stuff.
And they would respond to over, she would get over 700 emails a day at the height of her thing.
She was selling all this real estate.
So that was the first time I didn't have a smart phone.
Oh, that's nice.
I had like a flip phone.
People had Razer phones.
I didn't even have that.
I had like a Sprint LG or some bullshit.
And then I got Blackberries.
And I think my first iPhone was like in my 20s, like mid-20s.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's good.
tim dillon
It wasn't...
I wasn't like...
Connected like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, these kids are connected from the time they're six years old.
tim dillon
And I mean, my godson, he's like four years old and he has an iPad.
They just give him an iPad.
joe rogan
Yeah, they just sit in front of the pad.
If they go to a restaurant, they set it up in front of the kids.
tim dillon
They set it up and he just sits there and he does, I don't know what he's watching, gossip maybe.
I don't know what he's doing.
No one knows either.
I don't know what he's found, you know?
That's the other thing.
You hope, like, best case, he's playing some game, but...
joe rogan
Well, for boys, they immediately start jerking off.
Interesting. The moment they could find porn sites.
Right. They tell their friends.
tim dillon
Well, that's the other thing.
Like, I feel like that's also damaged people's...
joe rogan
No doubt.
tim dillon
Like, that damaged people's ability to, like...
joe rogan
No doubt.
tim dillon
Go out and meet a woman.
joe rogan
Oh, 100%.
And that's why they're not meeting women.
Like the number of incels today is off the charts.
The number of men that don't have sex at all is some crazy, it's like 50%.
tim dillon
And the porn is not even regular porn anymore.
A lot of it is like hyper-violent, sadistic, crazy porn.
Really? That's what they say.
joe rogan
Tell me what you're searching for.
tim dillon
People whose heads are going through glass tables.
No, but that's what like, when you have these articles that are written about this, they say it's not only that they're watching porn, it's the type of porn.
It's not like regular porn.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
tim dillon
It's like crazy shit.
And it warps their fucking brain.
joe rogan
I heard the dumbest argument on Twitter the other day.
Someone was saying that they should create CGI child porn to protect real children from child porn.
tim dillon
You should probably search that person's search history.
joe rogan
I was like, this is not a good argument.
tim dillon
That's an interesting...
Argument? You should have AI child porn?
joe rogan
Well, I think that argument is, like, they've kind of shown...
tim dillon
That's the sex doll argument, right?
Didn't they have, like, that argument for, like...
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
tim dillon
I feel like it's part of the same type of...
joe rogan
It's the same type of thinking.
Yeah. I think, generally, that argument is created by people who aren't pedophiles.
Because they're trying to figure out, well, maybe this is a solution.
Well, you're not thinking...
tim dillon
And they're also like, I'll make some money with this kid sex doll company.
What a weird way to make a fortune.
What an odd way to make a fortune.
I made a little bit of money.
What'd you do?
Eh, don't worry.
joe rogan
I made the perfect 11-year-old boy butthole.
tim dillon
Eh, don't worry about it.
What'd you do?
Eh, kid sex dolls.
Anyway, have you been to the Four Seasons and can't come?
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
tim dillon
It's crazy.
Well, we're getting to a point where the world is really scary, but also equally unbelievable and absurd.
So it's funny, but it's also insane.
And I think people are like, we don't know what's real anymore.
These AI videos come out, and you don't know what's real and what's not.
The deepfakes are getting better.
That seems to be one of the biggest problems that no one talks about.
It's like, reality seems to be splintering.
joe rogan
100%. Yeah.
Yeah, reality's splintering, and then AI is about to take over our lives, and we're openly cheering it.
Right. And the world will never be the same again once it does.
And we're welcoming it.
tim dillon
Ironically, I think comedians seem to be somewhat in the safer group of people.
joe rogan
In what way?
Oh, as far as our jobs being taken away?
tim dillon
Yeah, in the sense that perspective seems like maybe one of the harder things for AI to grasp at this moment.
joe rogan
Well, it's also live performance is the last human...
Right. You know, where you could go and see something.
You go see a guy actually play a guitar.
You know, that's so much different.
And that's a real human experience.
Live sporting events.
You know, like real things.
Things that are real.
You know, that's going to be the hardest to be replaced by AI.
Yeah. Because, you know, you could replace us on podcasts.
You essentially could take my perspectives that I've shared over the past 2,000 plus episodes and run it through a large language model and use AI and have me have a podcast with basically anybody.
tim dillon
It's such a crazy library you have.
It's like, I wonder what you do with it.
joe rogan
That's a good question.
tim dillon
It's interesting.
It's a great question.
Sell it to China.
What if after Spotify you go to China?
That's a great idea.
It would be actually a great idea if you just sit down and go, nothing's changing about the podcast.
It's still going to be free.
joe rogan
It's just going to be in Mandarin.
tim dillon
It's owned by the Chinese government.
But it's the same podcast it's always been.
joe rogan
Don't worry about it.
tim dillon
It's the same show it's always been.
joe rogan
Hey, you guys know me.
I won't change.
tim dillon
Yeah. Your first guest is Jack Ma.
unidentified
Tell me what happened with Alibaba.
tim dillon
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy.
It's a place I'd like to go.
I've never been to China.
I'd like to go.
unidentified
Obvious cuts.
joe rogan
Yeah. I would do it that way.
tim dillon
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Obvious cuts.
tim dillon
It would be cut.
joe rogan
In the middle of someone talking.
tim dillon
Just an ad.
unidentified
Just cuts.
tim dillon
Just an ad.
We just cut.
You go, it's the same podcast it's always been.
It's now 37 minutes.
Because China's taken out all the stuff they don't want.
joe rogan
The beginning of it is in China.
tim dillon
I'd love to go to China just to access websites and go, what can you really say?
Right. That would be super fascinating to be in China going like, what are you allowed?
What is blocked?
joe rogan
Do they use VPNs in China successfully?
tim dillon
Is that possible?
Probably, right?
They have to.
Maybe not.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't know.
tim dillon
North Korea seems to block everything.
Like, certain countries can do a lot.
joe rogan
Yeah, they have their own internet, right?
Like, you can only get on their internet.
tim dillon
I'm not sure, but that seems to make sense.
joe rogan
That's according to people that have been there.
Yeah, they have their own internet.
Like, can you use a VPN in China to access the internet of the world?
Let's search that.
tim dillon
Yeah, that'd be interesting.
joe rogan
I need to know.
tim dillon
Because so many people, I believe, are very limited with what they can access.
joe rogan
Many, many, many people in the world are very limited.
Well, look at the UK.
They're just arresting people for Facebook posts.
tim dillon
That's one of the crazier things in modern life, is that people are getting arrested over social media.
joe rogan
And not really bad stuff.
tim dillon
It's saying things that someone finds objectionable.
joe rogan
We've got to stop these immigrants.
Yeah, that kind of stuff.
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Chinese government actively blocks many VPN services and only a few reliable ones consistently bypass restrictions.
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China occasionally cracks down on VPN uses, targeting both the providers and individual users, though enforcement against foreigners is typically lenient, focusing on warnings rather than severe penalties.
Using a VPN is technically illegal for accessing blocked content, but millions
Boy, that's a risky move.
tim dillon
I think they're banning this stuff in the UK because I don't think they want people to persist in this idea that they have any Ability to challenge this prevailing narrative that any critique of immigration is an inherently racist
thing. And I think the people that are sponsoring this kind of an odious thing.
And it's because what they're doing is they're basically immiserating these people.
They're making the quality of their life much worse.
They're losing ground.
And if they speak up about it, they're called...
You know, horrible names.
And arrested.
So it's crazy.
And they don't understand why it's happening.
They're not completely...
They're very confused about why, you know, a lot of these countries didn't take any Syrian refugees.
But Europe did.
And Scandinavia did.
The Netherlands did.
And they're confused about that.
And they're asking questions and going, why is that the case?
And they're confused about why, when any disruption happens, and it's clearly the result of bringing in large numbers of people who are not familiar with the laws of the country,
the culture of the country.
When anything happens and they bring it up, they're again called a racist or, you know, an extremist or they're arrested.
So it's good.
And then who's doing it, right?
So you have the people like the people.
Clearly that are in the government and these incredibly wealthy business interests that want people to work for a lot less money and they want to destroy people's social bonds because I think they really do want people to eventually just accept this kind of totalitarian surveillance state.
unidentified
Yes, give up.
tim dillon
And the way to get them there is by breaking the spirit of these countries.
By destroying any social bonds that people have.
And destroying any economic power.
And destroying their belief in the democratic process.
And if they can do that and they can break people, they can get them to do anything they want.
joe rogan
Do you think they're doing this in preparation for AI?
tim dillon
I think they're doing it in preparation for not only technological advancements.
I think they're doing it in preparation for world wars.
I think they are doing it in preparation for a lot of things.
I think they'll conscript a lot of these people into the military.
I believe that.
I believe they'll conscript a lot of these people into the military.
I think they're looking at populations.
I think they're looking at people not having enough children.
I think they're saying, who's going to fight these wars?
Who's going to do these really shitty jobs?
And we're going to go build houses in bunkers and all of this stuff.
We're going to...
Fly private and we're going to have our kids go to completely separate schools and we're going to have our own water aquifers and have a compound.
But why do you need all these low-wage people in your country that are illegal and don't have any power?
Has anyone asked that question?
Seems very obvious.
They're going to conscript a lot of them into the military and a lot of them are going to do shitty, horrible jobs and they're going to use them as cannon fodder in wars that enrich lots of people.
That would be my guess.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
tim dillon
Yeah. I might be wrong, but...
joe rogan
And if AI does become the governing factor of the world, which it probably will, it doesn't really make sense that you let humans, with all their corruption and emotions, govern things, when you can let superintelligence...
tim dillon
Yeah, but who's making that intelligence?
That becomes the problem.
joe rogan
Exactly. But once you've already gotten people...
Locked into compliance.
Yeah. And you've already got people where they're terrified to protest against anything, immigration, whatever it is.
Then you can get away with a lot more.
tim dillon
There was a decision made because the populist Democrats during the 90s, which was like Bill Clinton, you know, critical of immigration.
Barack Obama, critical of immigration, deported a lot of people.
joe rogan
Hillary Clinton.
tim dillon
Hillary Clinton.
What started to happen, though, is there was a decision made that the world was going to kind of be a borderless place where countries were interchangeable and that nation states mattered a lot less than the financial architecture.
Of global capital and where it could go.
joe rogan
And you need a world government.
tim dillon
And you need a government that is a world government.
Or the closest...
joe rogan
A new world order.
tim dillon
The closest thing you can get to it, which is having an EU, right?
Right. And then having a government between the UK and the US that's pretty on the same page about everything.
And then you have Israel in the Middle East.
And then you have all of these disparate...
Areas that we kind of control through economic means or military means and stuff like that.
And then you have outliers.
You have China, Iran, Russia, you know, whatever, people that haven't gotten the memo for whatever reason.
I don't want to live in any of those places.
That's the argument.
They'll go, well, do you want to live in?
Shut up.
What are we, idiots?
I don't want to live in any of those places, but they're not on, they didn't get the memo.
So, and then in all of these countries, by the way, in Europe, in America, not so much Israel, they don't love the immigration, as we can see.
They're kind of big on the borders, Israel.
They like the borders.
But in America and Europe and Scandinavia and all these countries, the populations were just told to accept massively high levels of immigration over a very short period of time.
That's odd.
That doesn't make any sense.
And if you point that out, you're called a racist and extremist.
And that's a very strange thing.
What are you doing with all these people?
The Biden administration brought in 10 million people over four years.
What are they here for?
There's not enough jobs for the people that are here.
We have vast chasms of wealth inequality.
We have AI coming.
We have automation coming.
Why would you bring in all of these people?
What are you trying to do?
joe rogan
What do you think they're trying to do?
tim dillon
I think that exactly what I said.
I think they need bodies.
I think they need cannon fodder.
I think they need...
To break the idea of any social bonds that exist between people.
You know, listen.
joe rogan
And they need a little chaos.
tim dillon
They need a little chaos.
I think you bring in people, more surveillance, more dependence on the government.
You get people out of the idea.
You know, they got people out of the idea years ago that you could barely, you can't really, it's very hard to have your own business now.
They've pretty much extinguished that in people's heads, even though there are people that still do it.
Now I think they're going to start to extinguish the idea that you can have a home.
You could own property.
That you could drive a car.
That you can do all of these things.
That you're going to extinguish that idea.
And they're going to do that because why not control everybody?
joe rogan
It'd be all Waymos.
tim dillon
Yeah. That's the thing.
Why not control everybody?
joe rogan
Yeah. Why would you let everybody just go run rampant and fuck up your business?
tim dillon
Yeah. So they're basically like, we've got to pacify these people.
The conflicts seem inevitable.
And we're going to have to fight these wars.
The good news is a lot of the people who are doing this, their children are now doing stand-up comedy.
So if they're unable...
joe rogan
Are any of them any good?
tim dillon
If they're...
I think some of them.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
tim dillon
I'm sure.
joe rogan
Have you seen any of them that are any good?
tim dillon
I haven't seen a ton.
It's one of those things that you hear now more than ever.
When you're talking to a young comic and they go, I'm hanging out with this person.
I go, yeah.
And they go, and their dad owns this.
You go, really?
Yeah. Just a curious thing.
Obviously, anyone in the world should be able to do comedy as much as they want.
But it's funny to me as somebody who just looked at these configurations of power and wealth.
It's kind of interesting that a lot of these kids are doing that.
It's just fun.
joe rogan
Have you ever met anybody who came from a really wealthy background that was good at stand-up?
tim dillon
No. I mean, not very...
Yes, yes.
There are some of them, for sure.
joe rogan
You've met them?
tim dillon
I've not met them.
They probably don't like me.
joe rogan
They're like unicorns.
tim dillon
Yeah, they're around.
And yes, yes, very wealthy.
But I'm talking about like weird kind of interesting levels of wealth and power.
That's interesting.
Yeah. That's super interesting to me.
But so the good news is if they can't get this done soon, their kids won't because their kids will be at fucking Sidesplitters in Tampa.
joe rogan
Or they'll be podcasting.
tim dillon
Or they'll be podcasting, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, they'll all get together, become influencers.
tim dillon
Isn't it funny how much they now focus really on podcasters, but they ignore all the things, all the people that we're talking about.
They don't report on any of those people.
No. There's 10 million articles about...
joe rogan
Theo Vaughn having Candace Owens on a show.
tim dillon
Right, but there's no articles about like...
Again, the people that seem to be running and owning all of our resources.
You'd think someone would write about the people that own a lot of the resources on the planet we live.
joe rogan
Listen, that's complicated.
Yeah. Did you see that crazy thing the government talked about yesterday?
They had a press conference where they said that we can manipulate time and space?
No. Did you see that, Jamie?
tim dillon
I didn't see that.
jamie vernon
It's written really weird.
joe rogan
Weird. Yeah.
tim dillon
That got lost in the shuffle.
Yeah. The manipulation of time and space.
joe rogan
See if you can find it, Jamie, because it's really kooky.
it's really kooky.
Can you...
I don't know what he was saying.
Play it.
Play it so we can hear him say it.
jamie vernon
I don't think anybody said it.
It was written on a website.
joe rogan
But didn't he say it in that speech?
jamie vernon
I don't know.
I don't know what that speech was.
unidentified
No, no.
joe rogan
It's the guy above you right there.
jamie vernon
I know.
Press it.
This isn't going to play that.
joe rogan
You don't think so?
jamie vernon
No. I'm going to play an ad first.
joe rogan
Okay, let the ad play out.
I'm pretty sure he's...
tim dillon
Secret CIA files claim the Ark of the Covenant has been found.
joe rogan
What? There's a lot going on.
We're clicking on that next.
tim dillon
There's certainly a lot going on.
It's a big week.
michael kratsios
Regulatory regime in the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America's ability to become a net energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build.
We seem to have lost focus and vision to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along.
But we are capable of so much more.
Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space.
They leave distance annihilated.
joe rogan
Okay, that's not what he's saying.
tim dillon
Does that even make sense?
joe rogan
Manipulate time and space, I don't think that's what he's saying.
tim dillon
No, I think he's saying that you're able to do things...
joe rogan
Instantaneously. Instantaneously.
tim dillon
Yeah. Yeah, instantly.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't think he...
I think people are reading into that too much.
tim dillon
Yeah, I don't think he's time machines.
joe rogan
No, but I...
tim dillon
Do you believe that time machines had ever, at any point, worked?
joe rogan
No. Yeah.
No, I do not.
I do not think that anyone is currently in possession of a time machine, but I do think they're in possession of some sort of a gravity drive.
tim dillon
Now, what is a gravity drive?
joe rogan
I think during the 1940s, they started working on this stuff.
During the 1950s, there was papers written about it that they were working on gravity propulsion systems.
They were working on something that harnesses, what do they call it, background energy?
I forget what it is, but the idea is, and I actually had a conversation with Hal Puthoff about this.
Legitimate scientists who work for NASA with the UFO program.
And he believes that they're capable of developing some sort of a warp drive.
And there was something written about this.
There's some breakthrough about warp drives recently, right?
We talked about this.
I think they have something.
I think that's what a lot of these people are seeing when they're seeing these transmedium crafts that are going through the air at high rates of speed, going into the water, not losing any speed, coming out of the water, not making any splashes.
I think it creates a gravity distortion around whatever these things are that allows it to move in a way that's very different than any other propulsion system that we are currently aware of.
I think the government has been probably secretly working on this stuff for decades.
That's what I think.
I could 100% be wrong.
tim dillon
But that's the DARPA angle of having a really, really underground weapons system, futuristic technologies.
joe rogan
And space travel system.
And space travel system.
Ideally, they would be able to use this to mine asteroids.
You know, have something instantaneously port to an asteroid, scoop up rare Earth minerals and expensive things that they need on Earth, shoot it back to Earth.
tim dillon
Right. Yeah.
So it's interesting.
So the people who work in that type of...
Arena are just so many layers above top secret, levels above top secret.
Exactly. They barely exist.
joe rogan
This guy was telling me that in 2015, they had landed something on an asteroid, extracted something from that asteroid, and then had that thing leave the asteroid and return to Earth, and then pinpointed the location where it was going to crash land, or land rather, within one mile.
And that somehow or another, they figured this out a decade ago.
And that we don't know about it, but there's footage of this stuff and that they've been able to achieve this.
And that there's what you hear and what you see on television and what they're actually capable of.
And because of national security interests, because, you know, fill in the blank, misallocation of funds in order to acquire this technology, which is 100% what they're all talking about.
Jamie and I, what is that documentary we saw?
jamie vernon
It's not released yet because it was a South by Southwest thing.
joe rogan
We saw South by Southwest, this documentary that's all about that subject.
And it's all about how there's a lot of issues because these people have all misappropriated funds.
So they've lied to Congress.
And then on top of that, if you do have this sort of a program and it is based on back-engineering UFOs that have crashed, who gets that?
Well, it's probably a weapons manufacturing company.
So if it's a weapons manufacturing company...
Which company gets access to that?
And the other ones could probably sue you.
Because why did not?
That's a huge competitive advantage to have fucking alien technology that you can...
tim dillon
Do these things not land in China?
joe rogan
Age of disclosure is the...
The unprecedented and revelatory documentary featuring 34 senior members of the US government, military, and intelligence community reveals that an 80-year-old cover up the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin.
See, I don't even know if that part is true.
Yeah. I don't know.
tim dillon
Who is the most credible person that you've had on the show over the years?
Who has talked the most convincingly?
Was it Bob Lazar about...
joe rogan
Bob Lazar is one of them, but he's, you know, technically speaking, you could kind of discredit a lot of the stuff that he said.
Jacques Vallée is probably the most reasonable, and he's the guy that they patterned that French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind on.
He's been studying this since the 60s.
tim dillon
True believer.
joe rogan
Yeah, he believes.
He thinks most of it's bullshit, though.
He thinks most of it is people misunderstanding what they're looking at, people seeing some sort of a test vehicle.
tim dillon
Does he have any theory on where these crafts are coming from or is that just completely beyond the scope of what he...
joe rogan
They do theorize.
They theorize that these things have always been here and that they're probably interdimensional travelers.
That it's not as simple as they're coming from another planet.
They might be coming from a whole other reality.
And then they might have shaped our reality.
This might be a farm.
This might be a giant ant farm.
Really? This might be also how intelligent life gets sort of seeded throughout the universe.
And this would also explain why we're so different from every other animal on this planet.
Right. It's not like there's a competition.
We're eons ahead.
And yet we carry the same—we didn't evolve socially the way we evolved technologically.
We still have tribal notions and we're still territorial.
We still act like animals.
tim dillon
So what always weirded me out or interested me is like the aliens, they're still—if you believe any of these things, they're testing us all the time.
And is that because they're— Curious?
Is that because they don't know?
joe rogan
Well, they probably just got to keep track, see what's going on with people.
I mean, you do that if you're collecting samples of bugs in other countries.
They go there and they do what we would do.
I mean, if you're from another planet and you want to visit humans, we talked about this yesterday, like, if you could find a planet where cave people were, wouldn't you go?
Oh my god, they're just starting to figure out how to make stone spear tips.
Of course people would go.
tim dillon
It is interesting thinking about the planet as a farm.
joe rogan
Yeah. Yeah.
That's one of the things that Bob Lazar said.
There was a big folder that he found when he was working Area 51, Site 4, where supposedly they're back engineering that thing.
He said they had a large folder that was just on religion.
And he said essentially they viewed us as containers.
That human beings were containers and that religion and all these things were created in order to protect the container and that the way to keep people from doing things that are ethical, unethical and immoral and horrendous is to try to instill as much religious ethical structure as possible.
tim dillon
And a container, what are we carrying that's important?
Is it DNA?
Is it cell?
joe rogan
Well, you could say the soul.
Right? You could say a container of souls.
But if you wanted to be more cynical, you would say, well, what creates artificial life?
A human's curiosity and innovation, the lust for innovation, and also materialism.
Because if you're keeping up with the Joneses, you want newer and better stuff all the time, so that fuels economic growth, that fuels technological growth, because you want the newest stuff.
Like these TVs, they don't need to make a better TV than that.
It looks great.
You can watch the Super Bowl.
It looks crystal clear.
Why are they making better TVs every year?
Well, because we demand them.
I want the better one.
My computer has the same chip as last year?
Fuck out of here.
I want the new one.
And everybody wants the new phone.
tim dillon
There's no reason to get a new phone anymore.
They all do the same thing.
joe rogan
I have an iPhone 11. One of my phones is an iPhone 11. I've purposely not switched it just to see what it's like to use an iPhone 11, see if I notice anything different.
I notice nothing different.
unidentified
Nothing, yeah.
joe rogan
Zero, especially when it's on Wi-Fi.
It's the same thing.
tim dillon
It's the same thing.
joe rogan
YouTube looks the same on it.
Everything's the same on it.
Yeah, it doesn't get as bright as the new ones.
That's it.
The new ones have more nits.
tim dillon
Did Jock-fil-A or any of these people ever speculate about is there an endgame?
If a planet's a farm...
Is there an endgame?
Eventually, for example, if we're running experiments on anything, eventually we go, okay, we got it.
We either figured it out or we end the experiment or COVID leaks.
But at a certain point, has there been any theorizing as to like...
What the endgame is or is it just a curiosity for them?
joe rogan
I think the endgame is artificial intelligence.
Right. Because that's what we're really making.
The one big thing that's going to change the world way more than any other technology is artificial intelligence.
Right. Especially when it's attached to quantum computing.
So if you have...
Human beings that are constantly searching, constantly traveling, looking to their roamers.
They want new resources, new things.
They want new innovation.
And all these new innovations have allowed them to succeed over their rivals.
And then they continue this trend technologically.
And then they acquire great wealth and power and all these things.
Well, what are they doing?
They're making better technology.
Well, ultimately, what does that mean?
Ultimately means they make a better life for them.
And maybe that's what we do.
Maybe we're just making a cocoon.
tim dillon
We're just here trying to make the best version of AI.
joe rogan
Right. And that's probably what the whole universe is filled with.
All biological life eventually probably gets to a point where if it's intelligent enough, it starts making synthetic life.
tim dillon
And then once you have synthetic life, what then becomes the point?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
Synthetic life might be God.
That might be how the universe got made in the first place.
It might be what came first, the chicken or the egg?
tim dillon
So once we get there...
joe rogan
It's not even we anymore.
It's it once it is born.
And once it has...
tim dillon
So is that a way for God to keep replicating itself?
joe rogan
It might be how Jesus comes back.
You know?
A lot of these stories, these biblical stories, you have to say, what were they saying?
What were they trying to say?
What was the real event that they were recording?
If they pass these stories down, they're so significant for thousands of years.
Over a thousand years of just oral history and then thousands of years of written language.
What are they trying to say?
And what is this omnipotent force that controls everything in the universe and that it wants us to follow certain rules and obey and it wants us to love it and cherish it?
And if you do, you genuinely seem to have a better life.
People that legitimately follow Christianity, they seem legitimately happier.
So it gives you an incentive to follow it.
And then you continue to keep society rolling to the point where this happens.
And I think it happens inside of our lifetime, I'm sure of it, if we don't blow ourselves up.
tim dillon
And then we get to this point and my...
Now we're irrelevant.
Yeah, and then my...
It's interesting.
I totally get it.
But then once we get to the point of irrelevance and now we have AI that becomes God, then what does God do?
joe rogan
It turns us into dodo birds.
We're gone.
tim dillon
We're out.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think we stopped breeding anyway.
It's probably they don't even have to destroy us.
Our endocrine systems are all getting destroyed slowly.
We're well aware of that.
So because of technology, we were able to invent plastics because of plastics.
Plastics are slowly destroying our endocrine system because of the ubiquitous use of vaccines and all these aluminums and mercuries and heavy metals and then herbicides and pesticides and pollutants.
Our bodies are getting slowly and slowly weakened.
And our endocrine systems are getting less and less viable.
There's more miscarriages than ever.
Less people are giving birth than ever.
Sperm counts are lower than ever.
It's like moving.
And then we're all obsessed with changing genders, right?
So we're all obsessed with being non-binary and this and that.
And we're slowly moving away from...
Biological imperative breeding, right?
And then you have in vitro fertilization, and then you have artificial wombs, and then you have life that they're creating literally in a laboratory, unique forms of life.
And then you have artificial intelligence to be able to do that whenever it wants to.
And then you're going to get to the point where when it becomes viable, human beings have already entered into population collapse.
And then you bring them robot sex dolls.
And then, you know, you just jerk them off while they have VR headsets on and no more kids.
tim dillon
And then AI eventually says, fuck it, let's get rid of these containers.
joe rogan
They don't even have to get rid of them.
They don't even have to get rid of them.
They just exist with full power.
tim dillon
So then you have these AI machines.
joe rogan
We'll be like those fucking people in the Amazon that are shooting bows and arrows at helicopters.
tim dillon
We'll still exist.
Well, these AI machines just running the entire world.
Yes. Interesting.
joe rogan
Yeah. I don't think there's any way to stop it.
tim dillon
And then we're just running around...
joe rogan
For sure, that's what China's preparing for.
Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
And, you know, they're developing factories that are bigger than San Francisco.
See, they have an EV factory that's larger than San Francisco.
tim dillon
Who's going to drive the EVs?
joe rogan
They are.
tim dillon
People, for a little bit.
joe rogan
Yeah, for a little bit.
But it's also to fuel...
Of course.
Which fuels innovation, which fuels the...
Everything. Yeah, the birth of this thing.
tim dillon
And this is what a lot of these people that have looked into this have theorized that this is...
So it's funny because it is just a parallel reality that we're not plugged into.
joe rogan
It's also...
I always say this.
If you were from another planet and you looked at us, like, what is this one apex species doing?
What's making better stuff?
Right. The number one thing it does, above everything, above war and...
Murder and all the crime.
The number one thing it does is make better stuff.
That's what it produces.
Constantly, consistently better stuff.
Never happy with what it has.
And it does it at a staggering rate.
Where it's like it's even a question that your phone from my iPhone 11 from a few years back.
Is that still good?
It's a question of whether or not it's still good.
For five years, that's crazy.
If you have a gun from five years ago, it's perfect.
There's nothing wrong.
You don't need a new gun.
It's the same technology.
Imagine a factory larger than San Francisco.
It's happening in China's BYD's Zhengzhou branch, which will be ten times larger than Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada.
Crazy stuff, dude.
It's crazy.
It's going to be a factory that's bigger than an American city.
tim dillon
It's a really interesting time to be alive.
joe rogan
It's great, but I don't think anybody knows what the final chapter of this book is going to be.
I don't think anybody.
These people that are accelerating towards this technological supremacy.
tim dillon
And all the people that are theorizing, they're theorizing.
joe rogan
Yeah. And then do we get visited when that happens?
When AI becomes sentient and our job is done, do we then get visited by the Galactic Empire?
tim dillon
I would hate if it all came down to just AI doing stand-up comedy.
If they all just decide to do stand-up comedy.
What if AI decided to do podcasts and it's just a bunch of hyper fucking brilliant machines talking to each other?
Maybe that's the way the world just ends with artificial intelligence just Blabbing.
joe rogan
I don't think the world ends.
I think we end.
Right. And I think that would be a terrifying thought to Australiapithecus.
If you told Australiapithecus, like, one day you're going to be in a self-driving Tesla and you're not going to need your Spears.
What? Right.
You'd be terrified.
But how am I going to get the buffalo?
Yeah. Like, how am I going to eat?
How am I going to feed my children raw meat?
No, no, no.
You guys are going to have fire.
You're going to be able to turn on a switch.
Instead of rubbing sticks together for half an hour, you're just going to be able to turn on a switch and fire is going to be instantly.
You're going to have this thing in your hand.
tim dillon
Look at this.
joe rogan
Imagine if I brought this to a cave person.
Check it out, bro.
You need a fire?
I'm your huckleberry.
That's technology.
You show a cell phone to someone from the 14th century, they burn you at the stake.
You're a wizard.
Yeah, and it's all moving in this very weird direction that no one can predict because it's exponential, because it's so staggering how much technological innovation they have.
Just with quantum computing, I've got someone coming on soon that's going to supposedly explain that to me, but what are you even saying?
It's operating in the multiverse, and it's accessing infinite universes.
tim dillon
Who explains that type of stuff?
Is it a scientist?
joe rogan
You have to get someone who's actually working in the field.
Because even a regular scientist, they're just going to give you theoretical shit.
You've got to get someone who's actually working on quantum computing systems and can explain how it works and why it's able to crack calculations that would take...
Marc Andreessen said it best.
This has already happened.
They have...
Taking calculations that if you turn the entire universe, every atom in the universe, into a supercomputer, the universe would die of heat death before it could solve this equation.
And these quantum computers that already exist, that we've already done, can solve it in a matter of minutes.
And they don't know how it's doing that.
And so they think it's doing that by accessing the multiverse.
They think it's proof of the multiverse.
But again, this is just like...
The sound of gay guys falling off a roof.
It's so far away.
It's so weird.
It's like, is that really happening?
What's going on over there?
What are they doing over there?
It's almost abstract.
You hear someone say that.
They can currently solve equations.
Is that real?
To you and I, we don't understand the technology at all.
We don't understand all the steps that have been put place.
All the work that's been done to get the technology at this point.
These chips are like the size of this fucking mint tin.
Yeah. That's how big they are.
And then they're surrounded by these super cooling units.
Right. And it has to be cooled at these insane temperatures.
Cooler than deep space in order for it to even function.
tim dillon
It's unreal.
joe rogan
Fucking nuts, dude.
That's crazy.
And that's real, and that's happening right now.
tim dillon
So God only knows what's coming.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're already building nuclear reactors just to power AI plants.
Right. Multiple nuclear reactors just to power AI plants because the amount of electricity that's going to be required is tremendous.
Tremendous. Yeah.
And they're just all on this wild scramble between us and China to try to get there first.
tim dillon
It's such a strange thing that we know it's coming, but...
We can't...
The pace of it is going to be...
joe rogan
And there's no way to figure it out.
Yeah. Like, when Wilbur and Orville Wright flew that stupid fucking shitty airplane, who would imagine that 50 years later someone would drop a nuclear bomb out of one of those?
Right. They didn't have jets back then.
They were propeller planes, right?
The Enola Gay.
Wasn't that a propeller plane?
Yeah. Dropping the most sophisticated of weapons.
Yeah. No one knows what's going to happen when a new invention happens and then everyone builds on that invention.
No one would have ever imagined hypersonic jets back when they, Wilbur and Orville, were floating around that stupid fucking wooden thing they invented.
Right. And so no one understands, like, what's the 50-year quantum computing thing?
It's 50 years from making the airplane to dropping a bomb out of it.
How many years is it from quantum computing to God?
How many years is it until this thing starts making better versions of itself to the point where it literally can manipulate everything in the universe at will?
It can create new universes.
tim dillon
It's unbelievable to think about.
It's almost beyond the grasp of our mind to consider.
joe rogan
It is.
tim dillon
It is, fully.
And it's terrifying.
joe rogan
Think of those stupid cars that people used to drive around in.
Like in 1823, you ever what's that?
tim dillon
Of course.
joe rogan
Drive around in those stupid cars, and now they have electric cars like a Tesla that can go zero to 60 in under two seconds.
Nobody saw any of this shit.
Waymos. Nobody saw Waymos when they saw Model T. But yet they're all here.
Right. And no one knows where this is going.
It's all just speculation and guessing.
And I would imagine that even the most creative minds are not going to be able to see where this is going.
tim dillon
No. It's insane.
joe rogan
And we're living through it.
Yeah. And most people, unlike you and I that have to talk about shit constantly, most people probably aren't even paying attention.
tim dillon
Yeah. No.
Why would you?
It's almost pointless.
Yeah. Yeah.
joe rogan
Why would you?
You gotta work, and you gotta, you know, your kid needs hormone therapy.
tim dillon
A thousand percent.
So it's like we create AI, AI creates quantum computing, quantum computing creates God, God creates the Jews.
unidentified
*laughter*
tim dillon
And that's the rub.
joe rogan
It's all real wild.
And in the middle, we're, you know, fighting over stupid shit.
I know.
Like, who believes in this religion?
Who believes in that religion?
That religion.
Sunnis in the shit.
Yeah. Fighting each other.
tim dillon
And people are watching Love on the Spectrum, which is why we're number eight on Netflix's top ten, and we should be higher, but they're watching Love on the Spectrum, which I get.
It's a feel-good show.
joe rogan
Well, hopefully after this podcast, it'll bump you up.
tim dillon
That's very sweet.
joe rogan
And you filmed the special live at The Mothership, and everybody loves it, and it's great.
tim dillon
I mean, a lot of people love it.
Most people love it.
Of course, enough of this fat, blowhard comments.
But most, the vast majority of people enjoy it, which is important.
And the show, and the, you saved it.
We know you saved it.
The first one was very bad.
joe rogan
The producers were making this error that they always make.
They want to light up the room.
And they want to do things very differently than a normal show.
But that looks just like a regular show.
tim dillon
That's a comedy show.
Perfect. And it's not a...
I don't know what the hell they were doing with the lights.
joe rogan
They always do it.
They try to do it with me when I first started doing specials.
They want to light the room up and it just makes everybody uncomfortable.
They all feel self-conscious.
They all know it's different.
There's a reason why comedy clubs are dark.
tim dillon
It's super funny to do a show.
I've done so many, so many shows there and they're all really, really, really good.
And then you get the cameras and everything.
And then the first...
And I go, what the fuck is happening?
It would be one thing if I was in, like, Portland, Maine, at, like, a liberal college.
Right. I'd go, okay, well, maybe these kids don't like me or something.
And I think maybe...
joe rogan
It was still good.
It was just tense.
tim dillon
It was tense.
joe rogan
You could feel that people were well aware that you were filming, and it was different, and they were, like, not in it.
Yeah. They were watching it.
And then, thank God they listened to me.
tim dillon
No, I mean, come on.
joe rogan
It's like right away.
I was like, okay, who's running this?
Yeah. Get these fucking lights off all the tables.
tim dillon
We saved it.
joe rogan
Winter all these lights on the side.
Kill those.
Yeah. Let me see it now.
No, too bright.
Kill that.
Why is that light there?
Kill that.
Kill all these lights.
tim dillon
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Thank God.
joe rogan
Thank God.
tim dillon
Well, thank God.
joe rogan
Thank God.
But look, it's important.
People need...
tim dillon
I appreciate it.
joe rogan
People need shit talking.
tim dillon
Stop with this love on the spectrum.
We get it.
They're happy, as they should be.
But RFK is going to...
joe rogan
What did you want to call that they wouldn't let you?
tim dillon
My son's pussy.
unidentified
Yeah. Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't understand why they said no to that.
tim dillon
There was negative feedback.
joe rogan
You've got to get negative feedback.
tim dillon
They also didn't know about the Kevin Spacey promo until the day it came out.
joe rogan
I think my son's pussy would have made it number one.
tim dillon
I think my son's pussy would have been a great move.
joe rogan
It would have been number one.
Hopefully next time.
Out of the gate.
I'm clicking on this.
tim dillon
That's right.
joe rogan
What is he saying?
tim dillon
That's right.
Fuck you, Lonesome Canyon.
unidentified
Whatever soap opera they got.
joe rogan
Netflix has almost too much content.
I think it's great.
unidentified
A lot of content.
joe rogan
I love Netflix.
Don't get me wrong.
And I think the UFC might be going to Netflix soon.
Wild. Wild.
Wild. Yeah, because Netflix is international.
It's everywhere.
tim dillon
It's everything, yeah.
joe rogan
I was in Italy.
And on vacation.
And I tried to access a UFC fight through my ESPN app, and it's not available in this area.
I was like, what are these people watching now?
You can't even watch the fights?
tim dillon
No, I mean, they've won.
Whatever the streaming war was, they won.
joe rogan
They won.
unidentified
They won.
tim dillon
They did it.
They did it.
joe rogan
YouTube as well.
tim dillon
Well, YouTube's number one globally.
It's the biggest media company.
joe rogan
Yeah, and the UFC probably talked to YouTube as well.
I just think there's a thing about the subscription model versus free.
You know, ads and generating income.
I mean, you're talking about billion-dollar corporations.
Yeah. It's not that simple.
tim dillon
For sure.
For sure.
But no, they were super cool.
They didn't give any notes.
joe rogan
And that's awesome.
unidentified
That's great.
joe rogan
That's what you want.
Netflix is fucking great.
tim dillon
They're the best.
joe rogan
And I think they learned a big lesson during the wokeness era.
Like when things got dark and there was the Inquisition, it got real weird.
And they were putting on a lot of stuff that was just hot garbage because they thought that this was like what culture wanted and society wanted.
But the numbers didn't work.
And then they did the Tom Brady roast.
And the numbers were the highest that they've ever had of any show ever on Netflix.
Yeah. Hey, we get it.
tim dillon
We get it.
joe rogan
We get it.
And then they did a lot of the live comedy shows where they couldn't control it, and I did mine live.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They got buck wild.
tim dillon
And they defend Chappelle and all these things.
And they understand comedy.
They like it, and Ted Sarandos is a fan of it.
So I think that's good.
I think that's a really good thing that you have a platform that has that much power and accessibility.
joe rogan
And Ted Sarandos is fucking great.
tim dillon
No, he's awesome.
I think that there's people that really understand that you need to have funny jokes.
You need to have...
Things that people don't love and things that people like and give people the Meghan Markle show.
Give them my dumb thing.
Let people choose.
Put me and Meghan Markle in a thing.
Make us work together.
Fund it.
Put me in a kitchen with her.
This is camping.
This is the direction.
Put her on Kill Tony.
This is the direction.
It's a collision.
joe rogan
What are those little silver things called?
tim dillon
Trailers? I don't know, but I think we should go to space.
Have Bezos to it.
joe rogan
Airstream. Yeah, you and her in an Airstream.
tim dillon
Or even better, we're going to space.
Me and her.
joe rogan
That's only 11 minutes.
tim dillon
Oh, that's all that's going to work.
joe rogan
I want to see your speech when you come back and land, how profoundly changed you were.
Did you grow?
Did you heal?
tim dillon
Yeah, no, not at all.
joe rogan
You said that space was going to help you heal.
tim dillon
I'm worse.
joe rogan
Everybody wants to heal.
Isn't that wild?
tim dillon
I know.
It's so silly.
joe rogan
What are you healing from exactly?
tim dillon
It's being rich.
What's your disease?
Extreme wealth.
joe rogan
These people wading across the Rio Grande with a butthole full of fentanyl.
tim dillon
That's right.
joe rogan
They found some lady the other day that had heroin and cocaine and fentanyl stuffed in all of her body cavities.
They caught her coming through.
And, like, that lady's not trying to heal.
tim dillon
No. I mean, God.
joe rogan
She's trying to make $13.
tim dillon
That's tough.
Heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl in all of these.
joe rogan
She had it in her anus and her vagina.
tim dillon
In all of your body cavities.
joe rogan
Like, tightly wrapped.
Here they are.
Little eggs.
Here it says.
What does it say at the top?
CBP officer intercept woman transporting drugs in multiple internal cavities.
tim dillon
That's so funny, dude.
joe rogan
33 years old.
The drugs are hidden in the rectum and vagina of a 33-year-old female U.S. citizen pedestrian border crosser.
Smoglin case was not an isolated incident.
Over the weekend, CBP officers working at PDN and Ysetla...
Crossing stopped a total of nine internal carriers who are transporting fentanyl and methamphetamine from Mexico to the U.S. Internal carriers is a fun way to talk about it.
It's like uterus holders.
tim dillon
Hey, what did you say?
What did they call this?
Containers? Yeah.
I mean, she's doing it.
joe rogan
She's doing it.
Wow. Exceptionally dangerous practice, and anyone thinking about smuggling drugs inside their body, or at all, should strongly reconsider their choices.
unidentified
Oh, you think these people have choices?
joe rogan
These people are dying.
They're starving to death.
They have no future.
tim dillon
Strongly reconsider their choices.
joe rogan
They just need better counseling.
tim dillon
That's right.
joe rogan
That's all it is.
That's right.
And they need to heal.
They need to get into space.
Maybe they need to take that lady instead of putting her in jail.
Maybe throw her in space.
tim dillon
Show that woman Katy Perry.
joe rogan
Her and Amy Schumer.
I'll put her fucking satellite.
tim dillon
Everyone should go up.
I'll do it.
Me, Amy Schumer, and Meghan Markle in space.
That's a show.
It's an 11-minute show.
joe rogan
What about Meghan McCain?
Would you do it with her?
tim dillon
I would absolutely do it.
All of us.
All of us together.
You know?
unidentified
Why not?
joe rogan
I'd watch that.
Of course.
I'd watch that.
And if they called it My Son's Pussy, then justice would be served.
tim dillon
Absolutely. Do you do a big Easter thing?
joe rogan
What do you mean?
tim dillon
Just, I don't know.
Is it a big, you do like eggs?
joe rogan
Oh, my family?
Yeah. Well, the kids are in high school now.
It's a little different.
tim dillon
They're not dying eggs.
joe rogan
Unless there's money in those plastic eggs.
tim dillon
Yeah, that's a good point.
Nobody cares anymore.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they want money in the egg.
joe rogan
There's candy in the house.
tim dillon
Yeah, I remember that's the thing.
When you get older, it's just money in there.
It's just money.
joe rogan
Well, once the kids realize that there's no magic person that's delivering...
tim dillon
Then it's all bullshit.
Just give me money in the egg.
joe rogan
It's like, oh, it's my parents?
Because otherwise they would say, that's weird that Santa's so much nicer to me than he is to those poor people.
tim dillon
Of course.
joe rogan
I guess I'm chosen.
tim dillon
Of course.
joe rogan
That's a weird thing to say to kids.
Yeah. Like, yeah, you got everything on the list, but that kid that gets bust in from the bad neighborhoods, he got nothing.
tim dillon
Yeah, that's true.
That's a good point.
unidentified
But, you know, kids go, Santa's fickle.
tim dillon
Santa likes what he likes.
He likes the suburbs.
Santa likes landing his sled in the burbs.
joe rogan
He does.
tim dillon
He feels better about it.
joe rogan
He feels really good visiting rich people.
Yeah. And he doesn't even talk to the Jews.
tim dillon
No. He's not...
He knows.
joe rogan
Weird. He knows.
tim dillon
He does his thing.
joe rogan
But, you know, if they're the chosen people, why don't they get Santa Claus visits?
tim dillon
Well, they have other things.
joe rogan
Yeah, but their other thing, like, they weren't...
It wasn't really supposed to be a bunch of gifts until the Christians started getting all the Santa Claus gifts and the Jewish kids are like, what the fuck is going on, Mom?
tim dillon
And some of them cheat.
Some of them do a little Christmas, too.
joe rogan
Some of them have a tree.
tim dillon
Some of them do a little Christmas.
Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. Some of them do a little Christmas.
joe rogan
Why not?
tim dillon
Hopefully they do this piece.
unidentified
It's fun.
tim dillon
This piece in the Middle East, hopefully.
They keep talking about all this, you know, these deals they're all making.
Hopefully that the Hamas and the Israel, whatever it is, they get, you know, because...
joe rogan
Well, that's one thing that Trump said.
If I get in there 24 hours, the war's over.
tim dillon
Yeah, that's a tough one.
24 is tough.
joe rogan
That's obviously...
tim dillon
But hopefully they figure it out because it is, it's unfortunate.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's fucking crazy.
tim dillon
The human toll is unreal.
Unreal. And, you know, it's crazy.
joe rogan
Some lady just died.
She was the protagonist in some documentary, and she just got blown up.
tim dillon
There is an argument to be made that that level of devastation and death is worse than you talking to someone on your podcast.
Allegedly. There is an argument to be made.
It's probably not a good one.
unidentified
The amount of damage you can do with just talking.
tim dillon
There is an argument to be made that, you know, starvation and stuff like that and people dying is worse than a podcast.
unidentified
But wait a minute.
tim dillon
I wouldn't make it.
joe rogan
Wait a minute before you say that.
Have you been there?
tim dillon
Right, that's a good point.
joe rogan
Have you even?
You haven't been?
tim dillon
By the way, how is he in all these wars?
Can I just go to wars?
By the way, how are you?
Are you allowed to just go to wars?
unidentified
You should at least have the courtesy of going there.
tim dillon
Can I just go to wars or do I have to come back and say what people want me to say about the wars?
Can I go to the wars and have my own opinions or do I have to have the opinions?
joe rogan
Not if you want to go back.
tim dillon
That's right.
It's very interesting, this war tourism.
How do I get on this war tourism?
I'd like to go to the Ukraine.
You should go.
I want to go.
I want to go to all this war tourism.
joe rogan
Do you have any awards that they can melt down and make?
tim dillon
Joe, think about this.
Do I seem like a guy that has a lot of awards?
joe rogan
Didn't you get one of those YouTube plaques when you hit 100,000 subscribers?
tim dillon
I don't even know where they send it.
unidentified
I don't know where they're sending those YouTube plaques.
joe rogan
We've got a few of those.
tim dillon
But I like this idea of war tourism.
I like the idea of going to a war and then coming back having a very...
Black and white view.
joe rogan
I've been there.
tim dillon
I get it, and I know, and interesting.
Okay, I like that.
I like that.
I love that.
joe rogan
You feel better than the other people.
tim dillon
Well, of course.
There's a lot of people, it gets very murky.
Most people I know that have been to war have a very murky, complex view of things.
But it is good to go to a war and then come back and be as sure as you were before you came.
joe rogan
You don't have to go for very long.
tim dillon
No, you go for an hour.
joe rogan
Couple hours.
tim dillon
It's a lunch.
Yeah. It's lunch on the front lines.
joe rogan
Put on a flak jacket that says press.
tim dillon
Tea on the front lines and then you come back and you have all the talking.
joe rogan
Yeah. And if you're on the right side, you probably don't get shot.
tim dillon
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Well, there doesn't seem to be a ton of danger for a lot of these people going to these wars.
They seem fine.
joe rogan
If you cross that line and you have a bucket of food with you, they might light you up.
tim dillon
Yeah. No, I'm going to go.
I'll go to any war and anything you want.
So if you want to pay for me to go to a war, I will come back and I go, I saw the Houthis.
They're terrifying.
They are terrifying.
Any war you want.
And by the way, any country, if China wants me to, you know, I'm doing it.
joe rogan
I'm doing it.
tim dillon
I would love to go to Moscow.
And I said to my friend, Anna Hoshin from the Red Scare podcast, I said, should I go to Russia?
She goes, You're spiritually Russian and maybe you won't leave.
She says, the oligarch lifestyle might be for you.
unidentified
The sweat caviar with flip-flops.
tim dillon
The smoked fish.
She goes, it might.
Smoking a cigarette on a yacht.
She goes, it might be for you.
Listening to people's moral justifications for all kinds of things.
joe rogan
I see your point.
I get it.
Yeah. I mean, what else are you going to do?
tim dillon
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
Yeah. What happened to all those yachts that got confiscated?
tim dillon
I don't know.
It's a great question.
It's some high-level version of a police auto auction, right?
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
That's what I'm thinking.
tim dillon
Exactly. Maybe those are the ones you sail to the war.
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah. When they raid drug dealers' houses and they get those Maseratis, you could buy that Maserati online.
Right. Yeah.
tim dillon
Yeah, I don't know what those yachts are.
It's a great question.
What happens to those yachts?
Those very luxurious yachts.
That was the first problem I had.
Obviously, it's a tragedy, the whole Ukraine war, but I thought, frankly, going around and taking these oligarchs' boats, I was against that.
joe rogan
What's weird?
tim dillon
You work hard for a boat like that.
joe rogan
How do you know how much they had involved in the Russian government's decision?
tim dillon
A lot of them had nothing to do.
They just earned money in Russia.
And they were like, all right, we're going to sanction everybody.
We're going to confiscate everything.
And it's like, okay.
joe rogan
But do you think that it was done so that they could make some sort of a rebellion amongst the oligarchs against Putin?
Like show them that they're getting hurt?
tim dillon
It could be.
I think that...
There was a decision made at some point to not try to end this.
I don't think they wanted to end this quickly.
There was a decision made to bleed the Russian military and isolate Russia and try to...
Use this as a way to drain the power and resources of Russia.
joe rogan
And you think that by capturing these yachts, it creates internal turmoil.
tim dillon
Not only internal turmoil, but you're now limiting the ability...
Of these incredibly wealthy people to earn money in countries.
You're destroying economic realities.
And then you're saying to these people, okay, go figure it out.
It's what we said to Russia.
But they did, right?
They got closer to China.
They got closer to Brazil.
They traded with India.
They started an industrial economy.
They started producing their own munitions and things like that.
Kind of start to weirdly build out this middle class.
This was the worst.
I think it's the worst thing.
If you don't want a country to keep evading other countries, you certainly wouldn't put them in the position to be stronger while they were doing it.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's all very weird, too, with the killing of that pipeline.
Aren't more people reliant now on Russian energy because of that?
tim dillon
All of this seems to have had the opposite effect.
Yeah. All of it seems to have had the opposite.
Opposite from intended effect.
joe rogan
The whole thing is fucking crazy.
tim dillon
It seems odd.
joe rogan
It's just crazy that it's going on so long.
I was reading this thing about the amount of money foreign countries that have captured these yachts have to pay to maintain them.
Why do they have to maintain them?
Why can't they just let them sink?
jamie vernon
Well, because if you let it go, then you can't sell it, and you can't use that money.
joe rogan
Right, so they're definitely selling them.
jamie vernon
That's what one of them says, that the money for one would have gone to Ukraine right here.
joe rogan
Okay, seizure came as Washington ramped up sanction enforcement against people close to the Russian president, pressured Moscow to halt its war against Ukraine.
So how many more?
jamie vernon
This one got sanctioned because...
The guy apparently paid a million dollars to keep it maintained, and they caught him for doing that, so now he lost his boat.
tim dillon
I mean, this is insane.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
He violated U.S. sanctions by making more than $1 million in maintenance payments.
tim dillon
We should have a day where if the Russia-Ukraine war has ended, we give all the oligarchs back their boats and they do like a regatta, like a thing where they all, with their boats down in Florida at Palm Beach, and they all just are reunited with their boats.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Seized yacht costs $7 million a year to maintain.
jamie vernon
That one was being held in Fiji, so the U.S. took it over because Fiji couldn't afford to take care of it.
unidentified
Look how pretty it is.
tim dillon
It's a money pit.
joe rogan
How much can you get it for right now?
tim dillon
Well, that's the question.
joe rogan
300 million.
jamie vernon
That's tough.
tim dillon
Listen. That's a tough one.
joe rogan
Maybe this YouTube thing really takes off.
jamie vernon
600k a month to maintain.
tim dillon
That's a tough one.
joe rogan
Whoa! It said it's been excessive, justifying an auction.
They also said talks to have...
How do you say his name?
Could Danatov pay for the yacht's upkeep have broken down?
Yeah, why would he pay for the upkeep when you're going to fucking steal it from him anyway?
Prosecutors say in previous court filings that Kudinatov is acting as the Almeida's straw owner to disguise Kermanov's role and that maintenance payments are essential to preserving a yacht's value.
tim dillon
Me and Sam Talent walked around Monaco.
We were performing in the UK, and we took a little break to go down to France for two days.
And we're walking around Monaco, and we said to the guy, there's all these yachts in Monaco, and we said, Who owns these yachts?
And he goes, well, he goes, if you look up online the names of these yachts, you can trace them back to businesses.
And you trace that business back to a person.
And I said, so that person owns the yacht?
unidentified
He goes, no, you'll never find out who owns these yachts.
tim dillon
He goes, no, there's absolutely...
He goes, good luck with that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a show.
tim dillon
He goes, it's very hard to find out who owns the yachts.
And he goes, even if you think you know, you may not know, or it might be more complicated than you think.
There it is.
There's Monaco.
Wow. They like a super yacht.
I mean, it's just such an interesting, just a haven of international crime.
joe rogan
So how many people have that kind of money?
tim dillon
Just something fun about it.
joe rogan
That's what's crazy.
These are all $300 million houses that are on wheels on the water.
tim dillon
Yeah, this is a haven of international criminality.
joe rogan
And look how close they park to each other.
tim dillon
No income tax, no property tax.
joe rogan
Fun. Yeah, Monaco's fascinating.
The amount of wealth that I saw when I was there is crazy.
The amount of like expensive cars, they were everywhere.
And people were just driving them around like it was a car show.
Yeah. All over the street was Ferraris and Lamborghinis and G-wagons.
tim dillon
It's unreal.
joe rogan
S-classes.
It's like everywhere you look, there's Bentleys.
tim dillon
Well, those are the people we're talking about.
Those are the people who are like, we're living here.
Yeah. And you ain't.
Yeah. You'll deal with it.
joe rogan
And it's a small spot, too.
tim dillon
Well, they like it like that.
They keep it nice like that.
unidentified
Yeah. And you've got to tap on the window if you want to go in the store.
tim dillon
That might be where I do my podcast from eventually.
joe rogan
You might have to.
tim dillon
Just go to Monaco.
joe rogan
It might be the only place.
unidentified
I just flee.
joe rogan
Where it doesn't get censored.
tim dillon
Just flee.
And just live on a tiny boat, like a tugboat.
joe rogan
The end is not good.
It would have been really rough if Kamala won.
They would have clamped down on you.
And me.
Yeah. And everybody like us.
I think.
tim dillon
It would have been a fun jail, though.
It would have been our own El Salvador in jail.
I don't think they would have put us together.
But all the tech people would have magically became Democrats.
jamie vernon
You can just see a couple of these are just gigantic compared to some of the other ones.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Look at the size.
tim dillon
By the way, you know what's funny?
The regular ones are also massively big.
They're huge.
joe rogan
But the guys with the regular ones are really jealous of the guy with the super big one.
unidentified
Oh, of course.
joe rogan
That's what's crazy.
They're all keeping up with the Joneses.
And they're all fueling AI to take over.
unidentified
Yeah. Well, I think we figured it all out.
tim dillon
We did.
I appreciate you always having me here to figure it out.
joe rogan
I appreciate you always being here.
tim dillon
Of course.
joe rogan
Anytime. Thank you, brother.
My pleasure.
I'm your mother.
tim dillon
On Netflix.
joe rogan
On Netflix right now.
It's awesome.
You're the best.
tim dillon
Thank you.
unidentified
Appreciate you very much.
tim dillon
Appreciate you.
unidentified
All right.
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