The guest
Jeff Dye: Stand-up comedian and TV host (Last Comic Standing) from the Seattle/Pacific Northwest scene who moved to Austin; hosts the podcasts Wrestling With Freddy, Everybody's Got a Price, and Jeff Dye's Friendship.
What this episode covers
Jeff Dye sits down with Joe Rogan after performing at the Comedy Mothership and talks shop about the craft of stand-up, the Mothership's acoustics and design, and why the post-show 'green room hang' is the heart of comedy. The conversation roams widely: Jeff's defiance of COVID lockdowns in Los Angeles before fleeing to Austin, the fraudulent history of marijuana prohibition and hemp, and the brutal reality of combat sports and getting punched. Rogan and Dye dig into the ethics and PTSD of drone warfare, civilian casualty statistics, and a soldier who showed Jeff a real kill video. They debate manifestation, biological differences between men and women in sports and the trans-athlete controversy, gambling and match-fixing, and close on a long riff about Bigfoot, Gigantopithecus, and the Flores 'Hobbit' people.
Recommended on this episode
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Foundation Cigars
Foundation Cigar Company
“they're really good”
“shout out to Foundation cigars they actually made us some comedy Mothership logoed cigars they're really good”— Joe Rogan
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Marathon Tactical / Diver's Watch
Marathon Watch Company
“super durable; it's pretty dope actually; I love those things”
“Marathon makes these like military grade tactical watches that are like super durable and they have radium tubes in it”— Joe Rogan
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Ball Watches
Ball Watch Company
“way cooler looking watches; killer dress watches; it's a dope watch”
“there's another company called ball B a l and all they make way cooler looking watches like that they make these killer dress watches”— Joe Rogan
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Audible
Amazon
“I just listen to a lot of books and um cuz audible you can crank them out I'll be like playing video games or driving”— Jeff Dye
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Tell Your Children
Alex Berenson
“Alex Baron wrote this book called tell your children and it's all about there's like a certain percentage of people that take high does THC”— Joe Rogan
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The Art of the Deal
Donald Trump
“Trump's book the art of the deal he's always talked like that even before he was a president”— Joe Rogan
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The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
“there's something to that Oprah horseshit like manifesting things the secret you know something to that there's something to it but it's not guaranteed”— Joe Rogan
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The Color of Money
Martin Scorsese
“do you ever see the movie The Color of Money it's Tom Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Master Antonio and she plays his girlfriend”— Joe Rogan
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Vincente Minnelli
“it's something like I'll see you in St Louis or Meet Me In St Louis or something it's an older movie and Judy Garland's on the screen”— Jeff Dye
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Dumb and Dumber To
Farrelly Brothers
“is he improved that on the movie Dumb and Dumber to Jim Carrey and it stays in the script”— Joe Rogan
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The Simpsons
Matt Groening
“you go that's what this guy liked he likes Patrice he likes Norm and he loves The Simpsons and if you know that formula”— Jeff Dye
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Reefer Madness
“they made movies like Reefer madness they wrote all these stories in the newspaper about marijuana”— Joe Rogan
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Willow Creek
Bobcat Goldthwait
“did you ever watch Willow Creek I didn't piss me off because at the end it just turns out to be Billy out there killing and blaming it on Bigfoot”— Jeff Dye
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Sasquatch
“that documentary sasquatch did you ever see that it's like a documentary Series and it turns out just to be weed people killing other blaming it on a big foot”— Joe Rogan
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Call of Duty
Activision
“well dude you're like playing Call of Duty all day but you're really killing people”— Jeff Dye
Big reveals from this episode
- Foundation Cigars custom-made Comedy Mothership-logoed cigars for the club.
- Joe built the Mothership with input from comics like Louie, lowering the ceiling several feet and tuning the room like a sound studio for clean laughs.
- Jeff says he was 'Enemy Number One in Los Angeles' during COVID for refusing lockdown rules, then moved to Austin in August 2020.
- Jeff admits he repeated a bogus 'take the punch in the face, not the gut' tip from a warehouse coworker for 25-30 years.
- Jeff credits getting sober ('getting off the bottle') with making his comedy better.
- A jacked military stranger in a San Diego bar showed Jeff a real saved drone-strike kill video on his phone.
- They watch a clip of a man who beheaded his federal-employee father, called him a traitor, and read a manifesto on camera.
Worth remembering
- Marijuana was made illegal via a Hearst/Anslinger conspiracy tied to the decorticator machine threatening hemp; hemp is stronger and more durable than cotton.
- Reaction time is roughly 5-10x slower than action time, which is why sucker punches land.
- Houdini died after a McGill student punched him in the stomach and ruptured his appendix.
- A clean shin break has only happened about four times in the UFC, twice involving Chris Weidman; checking a kick means meeting it with the hard top of the shin near the knee.
- Genghis Khan's Mongols killed roughly 50-70 million people, reducing the world population by about 10%.
- US air strikes killed at least 22,000 civilians since 9/11; total civilian deaths across the war on terror are estimated around 387,000.
- The 'radium girls' who licked radium-coated paintbrushes for watch dials developed horrific cancers; early X-ray technicians' hands were destroyed by radiation.
- Marathon and Ball watches use sealed radioactive gas tubes that self-glow for roughly 20 years without needing light to charge.
- Gigantopithecus was a real 8-10 foot bipedal primate that died off around 100,000 years ago.
- Homo floresiensis (the 'Hobbit') lived on the island of Flores as recently as about 50,000 years ago, with stone tools dating back ~190,000 years.
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