The guest
Tony Hinchcliffe & Brian Redban: Stand-up comedians; Tony Hinchcliffe hosts the live podcast Kill Tony and Brian Redban produces it, both longtime Joe Rogan collaborators now based in Austin.
What this episode covers
A loose, freewheeling JRE hang covering everything from gas-station boner pills and antibiotic-resistant 'super gonorrhea' to the East Palestine train derailment and the COVID lab-leak admission. The trio dwells at length on the Kennedy assassination, recounting how the Zapruder film reached Geraldo Rivera's 1975 broadcast and the CIA/MK Ultra threads in Tom O'Neill's book Chaos. They celebrate the launching-pad magic of the old Comedy Store and the new comedy scene in Austin. A big chunk centers on Kill Tony, its golden-ticket regulars, and disabled Canadian comedians Aaron Balile and Jared Nathan. They close on AI deepfakes, Unreal Engine realism, pool movies and the imminent opening of the Comedy Mothership.
Recommended on this episode
BookRecommended
Chaos
Tom O'Neill
“great book great book really I can't recommend it enough”
“that's Tom O'Neal that's chaos great book great book really I can't recommend it enough on Charles Manson it's so crazy”— Joe Rogan
MediaRecommended
Roger & Me
Michael Moore
“is amazing it's amazing that's his best work”
“that Flint Michigan documentary that Michael Moore did Roger and me is amazing it's amazing that's it to me that's his best work”— Joe Rogan
MediaRecommended
Windy City Heat
Bobcat Goldthwait
“it's so funny oh my God it's hilarious”
“I found one the other day they literally did it to Perry from Windy City Heat have you ever seen that”— Brian Redban
MediaRecommended
South Park
Trey Parker & Matt Stone
“my favorite episode of South Park of all time”
“my favorite episode of South Park of all time lemi Winks is when Mr Garrison finds out that you can get a lot of money if you get fired for doing gay stuff”— Tony Hinchcliffe
MediaRecommended
The Color of Money
Martin Scorsese
“probably the best Tom Cruise movie of all time”
“probably the best Tom Cruz movie of all time he's so cool The Color of Money rejuvenated pool that thing made everybody want to be a pool player”— Joe Rogan
MediaRecommended
Kingpin
Farrelly Brothers
“is amazing God damn that movie is funny one of the best comedy movies of all time”
“oh my God man Kingpin Kingpin is just rewatch that is amazing my God God damn that movie is funny”— Joe Rogan
MediaRecommended
There's Something About Mary
Farrelly Brothers
“something about Mary's amazing”
“that and something about Mary something I just rewatched that too I got me something about Mary's amazing”— Tony Hinchcliffe
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
BookReferencedISBN verified
Weapons of Mass Instruction
John Taylor Gatto
“it apparently it came from this says it came from a 2009 book called weapons and mass instruction and then it was echoed by someone in the New York Times”— Joe Rogan
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The Hustler
“there's only a couple of movies where they did pool correctly and the the real ones are the color money and the Hustler”— Joe Rogan
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Dumb and Dumber
Farrelly Brothers
“He has it above Dumb and Dumber too oh yeah it's definitely better than that Kingpin is like it's on another level”— Joe Rogan
MediaReferenced
Insidious
“she looks so much better than she was an Insidious oh my God in the whole Insidious movie franch 1 2”— Tony Hinchcliffe
MediaReferenced
Pool Hall Junkies
“po Hall junkies hit me right at a cool place fresh out of high school into film the problem with pool all junkies is they can't really play pool”— Tony Hinchcliffe
MediaReferenced
Full Swing
Netflix
“if you watch the full swing show that just started on Netflix they're explaining golf to people who don't really know it that well”— Joe Rogan
MediaReferenced
Doom
id Software
“when was the very first computer game that had like a 3D like Doom style engine like what was the first one was it Castle Wolfenstein”— Joe Rogan
MediaReferenced
Castle Wolfenstein
“was it Castle Wolfenstein yeah Castle Wolfenstein was that the first one probably I can't imagine there was one before that”— Joe Rogan
ProductReferenced
Black Rifle Coffee
Black Rifle Coffee Company
“I got a smoothie and Black Rifle two black rifles and then you got a cooler oh this is liquid IV”— Brian Redban
ProductReferenced
Liquid I.V.
Liquid I.V.
“oh this is liquid IV oh look at trying to stay hydrated I got all I got factor I got liquid”— Joe Rogan
ProductReferenced
Factor
Factor
“I got all I got factor I got liquid ey I got all the sponsors you've remained remarkably healthy”— Brian Redban
ProductReferenced
Black Rhino (gas station pills)
“black rhino it had a hologram of a rhinoceros and I have like I collected the containers that they came in”— Brian Redban
ProductReferenced
Viagra
“there was all sorts of stuff in there viagara and Calis and steroids there was like different mixtures when they got caught”— Brian Redban
ProductReferenced
Cialis
“there was all sorts of stuff in there viagara and Calis and steroids there was like different mixtures when they got caught”— Brian Redban
ProductReferenced
TruBrain
“I was just swallowing a true brain what's that it's a neut Tropic you want to try it yeah”— Tony Hinchcliffe
ProductReferenced
JBL Bluetooth speaker
JBL
“puts it on top of a Bluetooth speaker that he already has hooked up oh a Bluetooth battery in a JBL it's about 12 to 13 hours”— Brian Redban
ProductReferenced
Rolex
Rolex
“jeans and a Rolex in a pool in Tampa that sounds like Hans Kim that's our boy that's an original”— Tony Hinchcliffe
ProductReferenced
Unreal Engine 5
Epic Games
“this is a Alleyway from Hong Kong recreated in unreal 5 oh my God it looks incredible”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Dick Gregory and Robert Groden brought the Zapruder film to Geraldo Rivera's 1975 'Good Night America', the first wide TV airing showing Kennedy's head snap backward.
- Tom O'Neill's book Chaos alleges CIA figure Jolly West, tied to MK Ultra, visited Jack Ruby in jail and may have engineered Charles Manson.
- Tony recounts homeless vendor Boon Shakalaka making him flash his genitals for a laptop that turned out to be broken.
- Joe cites research claiming legalized prostitution sharply lowers rape and sexual crime rates.
- The Department of Energy concluded COVID-19 most likely emerged from a Wuhan lab leak, years after the idea was dismissed.
- Right after Woody Harrelson's SNL monologue joking about pharma, coordinated hit pieces branded him an anti-vaxxer stoner.
- Aaron Balile, a mute Canadian comic with cerebral palsy, won a Kill Tony golden ticket performing via thumb-typed text-to-speech.
- The Comedy Mothership club is days from opening, with neon Joey Diaz quotes and spaceships in the build-out.
Worth remembering
- Two people have reportedly been effectively cured of HIV via stem-cell transplants and immune therapies.
- A Washington Post analysis found Trump-era deregulation cannot be blamed for the East Palestine train wreck.
- There are roughly a thousand train derailments per year in the US.
- 'Super gonorrhea' resistant to all known antibiotic classes appeared in two Massachusetts cases in January 2023.
- Life magazine bought the Zapruder film for about $150,000 in 1963, roughly $1.3 million today.
- Zapruder donated part of his payment to the widow of officer J.D. Tippit and insisted frame 313 be withheld.
- On a $1.35 billion jackpot the cash option was $707 million, with the IRS taking 24% off the top.
- Tom Cruise trained with left-handed pool champion Mike Sigel to look authentic in The Color of Money.
- About 80% of witnesses said shots came from the grassy knoll in front, contradicting the lone-gunman account.
- Youngstown, Ohio was the world's top steel-producing city through the 1930s-50s before the mills suddenly closed.
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