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Joe Rogan · 2024-06-27 · 2h 35m

Joe Rogan Experience #1948 - Tony Hinchcliffe & Brian Redban

Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redban riff on comedy, conspiracies, drugs, the JFK film and Kill Tony's rise.

Joe Rogan Experience #1948 - Tony Hinchcliffe & Brian Redban
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.

The gist

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.

Big reveals

  • 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.

Things 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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Chaos

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“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 01:26:37
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Roger & Me

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“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 00:09:29
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“I found one the other day they literally did it to Perry from Windy City Heat have you ever seen that” — Brian Redban 00:14:08
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“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 00:37:06
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The Color of Money

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“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 02:08:28
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“oh my God man Kingpin Kingpin is just rewatch that is amazing my God God damn that movie is funny” — Joe Rogan 01:50:08
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“that and something about Mary something I just rewatched that too I got me something about Mary's amazing” — Tony Hinchcliffe 01:50:08
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Smile

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“you know what I saw recently that was really wild smile have you seen smile yeah dude it's creepy it's a horror movie but it's good dude yeah it's good” — Tony Hinchcliffe 01:53:16
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Kill Tony

Tony Hinchcliffe

“one of the cool things about what you guys are doing with kill Tony is you get to see a guy go from being first timer on stage” — Joe Rogan 02:18:16
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