Joe Rogan Experience #2571 – Jimmy Carr

• 0:20 Jeremy Clarkson’s first night at the Mothership, entertainers versus artists, and Elon Musk’s “you wouldn’t want to be me.”
• 11:00 Graham Hancock and Ancient Apocalypse, why a pyramid and a rocket are the same idea, and Krakatoa’s year without a summer.
• 25:00 Pharma distrust, polio and DDT, Dissolving Illusions, then fentanyl on tour and the Sacklers.
• 39:20 Gambling, Uncut Gems, The Color of Money and Joe’s years in pool halls.
• 52:40 Jimmy’s new book On Jokes with Amanda Baker and Abi Grant: joke types, routines and the rhythm of a set.
• 58:00 Doug Stanhope on live comedy, Tony Hinchcliffe’s Kill Tony, and Ari Matti’s pull in Estonia.
• 1:13:20 Greg Giraldo, addiction and comics who need to medicate.
• 1:24:00 Comedy clubs: the Store, the Cellar, the Mothership, When Stand Up Stood Out and the great old theaters.
• 1:29:40 Billy Corgan on MTV’s shift, then The Fourth Turning, Finnegans Wake and how Joseph Campbell led to Star Wars.
• 1:38:40 India’s Kailasa Temple, the four things that hold up the world, stockpile warnings, Cabaret and the Overton window.
• 2:05:40 Project Panama and AI companies scanning books, Iain McGilchrist, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Tim Urban and Factfulness.
• 2:29:20 Alan Watts’s The Wisdom of Insecurity, online road rage, and Jimmy’s early days at the Banana Cabaret.

The Color of Money (1986) — The pool movie that comes up as Joe describes his years around gamblers. Amazon 39:40

On Jokes: The Hidden Mechanics of Funny (Jimmy Carr, Amanda Baker, Abi Grant) — Jimmy’s new book: a taxonomy of joke types, then routines and performance. Amazon · Official site 52:40

The Fourth Turning (William Strauss and Neil Howe) — The 1997 generational-cycles book Jimmy brings up after the break. Amazon 1:33:00

The Master and His Emissary (Iain McGilchrist) — The divided-brain book behind Jimmy’s AI argument. Amazon 2:02:20

Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman) — Jimmy calls it brilliant on TV and public life. Amazon 2:08:20

What’s Our Problem? (Tim Urban) — Jimmy’s pick on red-versus-blue thinking. Amazon 2:16:00

Factfulness (Hans Rosling) — Named as the book on why things are better than they feel. Amazon 2:25:00

The Wisdom of Insecurity (Alan Watts) — Joe’s recent read, written in the early 1950s about the same anxieties. Amazon 2:29:20

Ancient Apocalypse — Graham Hancock’s Netflix series. Wikipedia 11:00

1883 eruption of Krakatoa — The eruption that cooled the planet and cost Europe a summer. Wikipedia 18:00

Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers — The family Joe blames for the opioid epidemic. Wikipedia 34:00

Uncut Gems — “Anxiety in celluloid form,” Jimmy says. Wikipedia 39:20

When Stand Up Stood Out — The documentary on the 1980s Boston comedy scene. Wikipedia 1:25:00

Finnegans Wake and The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Jimmy traces Star Wars back through Joseph Campbell to James Joyce. Wikipedia 1:34:40

Haber process — Ammonia fertilizer, one of Jimmy’s four things that hold up the world. Wikipedia 1:42:00

Cabaret (1972) — Jimmy’s point that the clubs get shut first. Wikipedia 1:53:20

Overton window — Jimmy’s case that comics widen what people can talk about. Wikipedia 1:55:00

Wang Theatre, Boston — On Jimmy’s US tour; they say no one will build theaters like it again. Wikipedia 1:26:40

Chicago Theatre — Where Jimmy got Sinatra’s dressing room. Wikipedia 1:26:40

Fox Theatre, Detroit — Joe’s pick of the great old rooms. Wikipedia 1:27:00

London Palladium — Jimmy’s UK example of the same kind of room. Wikipedia 1:27:00

Kailasa Temple, Ellora, India — The temple carved from a single rock that Joe tells Jimmy to see on his India tour. Wikipedia 1:38:40

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