Joe Rogan Experience #2097 - Jeff Dye

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.

• Foundation Cigars custom-made Comedy Mothership-logoed cigars for the club.
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• 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.
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• Jeff says he was 'Enemy Number One in Los Angeles' during COVID for refusing lockdown rules, then moved to Austin in August 2020.
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• Jeff admits he repeated a bogus 'take the punch in the face, not the gut' tip from a warehouse coworker for 25-30 years.
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• Jeff credits getting sober ('getting off the bottle') with making his comedy better.
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• A jacked military stranger in a San Diego bar showed Jeff a real saved drone-strike kill video on his phone.
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• They watch a clip of a man who beheaded his federal-employee father, called him a traitor, and read a manifesto on camera.
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• Marijuana was made illegal via a Hearst/Anslinger conspiracy tied to the decorticator machine threatening hemp; hemp is stronger and more durable than cotton.
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• Reaction time is roughly 5-10x slower than action time, which is why sucker punches land.
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• Houdini died after a McGill student punched him in the stomach and ruptured his appendix.
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• 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.
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• Genghis Khan's Mongols killed roughly 50-70 million people, reducing the world population by about 10%.
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• 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.
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• The 'radium girls' who licked radium-coated paintbrushes for watch dials developed horrific cancers; early X-ray technicians' hands were destroyed by radiation.
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• Marathon and Ball watches use sealed radioactive gas tubes that self-glow for roughly 20 years without needing light to charge.
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• Gigantopithecus was a real 8-10 foot bipedal primate that died off around 100,000 years ago.
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• 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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