The guest
Sam Tallent: Stand-up comedian and author of the novel Running the Lights; from Colorado and deeply involved in building the open-mic comedy scene around Rogan's Austin club.
What this episode covers
Sam Tallent joins Joe Rogan for a loose, freewheeling comedy hang that touches almost no single topic for long. They trade road-comic war stories about eating out of dumpsters, sleeping in bathtubs, and bombing at college gigs while chasing the dream, then pivot into religion, cults, atheism, and the Dalai Lama controversy. Mid-episode Rogan brings out psychedelic 'mad honey' from Nepal and the two sample it on air, with Tallent noticeably feeling it later. The back half spirals through nature's brutality, UFO and ancient-alien lore, gold, the pyramids, cannibalism, and the Bud Light / Dylan Mulvaney culture-war discourse. It closes with Tallent plugging his novel Running the Lights and his shows at the club.
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Zima
Coors
“I'm sorry it's delicious; I liked them a lot; it's not a bad product”
“Comics were making fun of me for drinking zema I'm like I'm sorry it's delicious it looks like a 10 things about Z”— Sam Tallent
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The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann
“I love that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio”
“I love that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio he's the man I love the fake car like a car that didn't really exist”— Joe Rogan
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Succession
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“it's great though”
“and then you have succession right yeah you know don't spoil it I'm not spoiling all right it's great though”— Joe Rogan
The guest's own work
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Running the Lights
Sam Tallent
“buy it off my website by the way fuck Amazon buy it off Sam talent.com and I'll give you a signed copy”— Sam Tallent
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Mad honey
“it's mad honey it's from Nepal it's those guys that psychedelic honey yeah psychedelic is a strong word for what I experienced”— Joe Rogan
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Bud Light
Anheuser-Busch
“I can't drink Bud Light anymore I'm drinking Bud Light more now no I do because it gets me so hard”— Sam Tallent
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Miller Lite
Miller
“I just I don't care I like Miller Light more I like Sam Adams I like a dark beer oh I want a beer”— Joe Rogan
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Samuel Adams
Boston Beer Company
“I like Miller Light more I like Sam Adams I like a dark beer oh I want a beer I can have like 17 of”— Joe Rogan
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Coors
Molson Coors
“I mean I'm from Colorado and Kors has had those rainbow cans forever fuck Shane Gillis is heartbroken”— Sam Tallent
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White Claw
Mark Anthony Brands
“tell me how the fuck white claw made it and Zema did it is it a timing thing is it like betamax and the VHS tape”— Sam Tallent
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Jones Soda
Jones Soda Co.
“no Jones Jones so like Jones is good yeah that's what I'm saying you have a case of like some Artisan soda”— Sam Tallent
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NAD IV therapy
“the lady who gives me the IVs I get an IV uh twice a week like a vitamin IV NAD IV”— Joe Rogan
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Mossberg shotgun
Mossberg
“I'm going next door with my Mossberg being like what do you got in here who's ripe hand it over”— Sam Tallent
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Richard Mille watch
Richard Mille
“you got to have a $2 million rishard mle watch what are those called rishard mle yeah that's it”— Joe Rogan
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Rolls-Royce Boat Tail
Rolls-Royce
“the first one I found was a $28 million yacht inspired Rolls-Royce that had like 500 horsepower what”— Joe Rogan
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Rolex
Rolex
“I'm going to wear a Rolex on both wrists I'm going to have a headband it's a Rolex”— Sam Tallent
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Euphoria
HBO
“I love Euphoria great show great feeling I haven't watched it but I do enjoy the feeling”— Sam Tallent
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Yellowjackets
Showtime
“we're watching this show Yellow Jackets me and my wife and they're all like upset about having to eat one of their friends”— Joe Rogan
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The Last of Us
“we're going to be eating each other's kids and shit yeah yeah yeah the last of us I don't think I'll do well in that situation”— Sam Tallent
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Dexter
Showtime
“would you want to kill and eat the people that were a problem first just like clean up Society Dexter Style”— Joe Rogan
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Patch Adams
“that deleted scene from Patch Adams he's smooching all the sailors when they get back from they don't have much time to live”— Sam Tallent
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Faces of Death
“I don't want to watch a guy die no that's not my thing remember faces of death I do you know”— Joe Rogan
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Chariots of the Gods
Erich von Daniken
“I only like familiar with the Chariots of the Gods type shit yeah Chariots of the god is interesting too I met that guy”— Sam Tallent
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The 12th Planet
Zecharia Sitchin
“he wrote this the what is it called the 12th Planet I think um that was the first of them he wrote multiple books”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Tallent says there's video of him as a toddler doing a stand-up bit, and he has no memory of ever not wanting to be a comedian.
- Tallent describes grinding as a young comic by eating croissants and bagels out of 7-Eleven dumpsters and riding Greyhound buses to gigs.
- Rogan brings out 'mad honey,' psychedelic honey from Nepal, and both try it live on the show; Tallent feels it kick in over the rest of the episode.
- Tallent reveals comedian Doug Stanhope is the reason his novel got noticed, hand-delivering copies to other comics.
- Tallent recounts cutting from 320 to 275 pounds in weeks for high-school heavyweight wrestling, once urinating out 8 pounds of retained water.
- Rogan discusses a jiu-jitsu lawsuit where a man's neck was broken in a roll, leaving him paralyzed and awarded $46 million.
- Rogan lays out Zecharia Sitchin's Anunnaki / Nibiru theory that aliens engineered humans to mine gold for their atmosphere.
Worth remembering
- Among the Amish, married men shave their mustaches but keep their beards; only unmarried men may shave their beards, functioning like a wedding-ring signal.
- In Tibet, sticking out one's tongue is a traditional greeting stemming from a 9th-century myth about an unpopular king with a black tongue.
- The first recorded kiss dates to roughly 1500 BC, and some researchers believe kissing began with mouth-to-mouth feeding of children.
- The LA River is a concrete channel that funnels street pollution straight into the ocean, which is why surfers get sick surfing after heavy rain.
- Hornets that breach a beehive can decapitate around 30,000 honeybees and eat the larvae to bring nutrients back to their own young.
- In UFO lore, sightings exploded after 1947, the year of the Roswell crash and the fat-man / little-boy bomb detonations.
- Only about 208,000 tons of gold have ever been mined in human history, roughly two-thirds of it since 1950, and almost all of it still exists.
- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Great Pyramids.
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