Joe Rogan Experience #2572 – Colum Tyrrell

• 1:00 Sydney Sweeney, gambling ads, Joe’s pool-hall years, Sunday blue laws and Dublin’s early houses.
• 14:40 Colum’s move to New York in 2014, the small Irish comedy scene, Tommy Tiernan, and Kanye West’s comeback and the song “Cousins.”
• 29:00 Nose jobs and fillers, Kris and Caitlyn Jenner, then self-ID rules in women’s prisons.
• 37:07 Colum’s fading accent, his Irish tour dates, his once-angry dad and Waffle House brawls.
• 44:37 Irish drinking culture, the Guinness coopers, Netflix’s House of Guinness and the Great Famine.
• 54:42 Ireland and Palestine, Israel’s election, Rick Springfield in Vietnam, the Gulf of Tonkin and Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon.
• 1:05:49 Smart TVs that listen, TikTok’s old terms, who owns the networks, pharma ads, Purdue Pharma and Jordan Peterson.
• 1:17:07 Bigfoot, Colum’s solo-hiking plan for Yellowstone’s Thorofare, hunting tags and why moose are dangerous.
• 1:29:52 Subway pushes, selfie deaths, Joe’s head injury at 14, Colum’s tubing scare in Laos and Bud Dwyer.
• 1:44:55 Stargazing at Big Bend, the YMCA tent moment, Nicki Minaj and Trump’s letter to Bill Maher.
• 2:07:39 Meme coins, the World Liberty lawsuit, Colum’s Katmai bear trip, birding and the World War I wolf ceasefire.
• 2:33:53 Joe’s bowhunting setup, the Pittman–Robertson Act, elk from field to table, Patrice O’Neal, Opie and Anthony, and heckling Jimmy Carr.

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon (David McGowan) — The book Joe brings up on 1960s Laurel Canyon musicians and military intelligence. Amazon 1:02:40

Garmin inReach Mini 2 — The satellite messenger Colum says he has to buy before his Thorofare hike. Amazon 1:22:43

Counter Assault Bear Spray — Closest match for the bear spray Colum says he needs for grizzly country. Amazon 1:22:47

Tommy Bahama Backpack Beach Chair — The chairs Colum and friends leaned back in for hours of stargazing at Big Bend. Amazon 1:45:40

Bells and Whistles (Colum Tyrrell, 2026) — Colum’s first hour special, filmed at New York Comedy Club and free on YouTube. YouTube 2:18:34

Birdbuddy Pro Smart Bird Feeder — Like the AI camera feeder they both describe; Colum keeps one at his in-laws’ in New Jersey. Amazon 2:22:12

Exo Mountain Gear pack — The hunting pack Joe uses to carry elk quarters out of the mountains. Official site 2:45:01

Blue laws — Sunday sales bans, from Massachusetts package stores to Texas car dealers. Wikipedia 7:18

The Tommy Tiernan Show — Tommy Tiernan’s talk show, where he doesn’t know who the guest is. Wikipedia 16:40

“Cousins” (Kanye West song) — The song Jamie reads up on, written with David Blunts. Wikipedia 20:59

House of Guinness — The Netflix drama from the creator of Peaky Blinders; the accents get mixed reviews. Wikipedia 47:24

Great Famine (Ireland) — About a million deaths from 1845 to 1852 and about two million who emigrated. Wikipedia 50:05

Gulf of Tonkin incident — Joe’s example of a war premise that turned out to be false. Wikipedia 1:01:59

Purdue Pharma — OxyContin and Joe’s point that the whole industry runs the same playbook. Wikipedia 1:13:24

Joe Rogan Questions Everything — Joe and Duncan Trussell’s show, which met Bigfoot hunters in the Pacific Northwest. Wikipedia 1:18:19

Faces of Death — The 1980s VHS series of real deaths that Joe remembers from childhood. Wikipedia 1:39:10

Y.M.C.A. (song) — Blasted from a comic’s tent at Big Bend at 2 a.m.; later a Trump rally staple. Wikipedia 1:51:25

Irish elk — The giant extinct deer whose antlers turn up in Irish lakes and bogs. Wikipedia 2:26:52

Christmas truce — The 1914 football match between the trenches, next to the 1917 wolf-ceasefire story Joe brings up. Wikipedia 2:29:00

Pittman–Robertson Act — The 1937 excise tax on guns, ammunition and archery gear that funds wildlife conservation. Wikipedia 2:40:05

Opie and Anthony — The radio show Joe calls the first real podcast, looser than a structured Howard Stern interview. Wikipedia 2:52:58

Kill Tony — Colum did a spot a couple of weeks ago and says it got him more feedback than anything else. Wikipedia 2:55:51

St. James’s Gate Brewery, Dublin — Where the old Guinness coopers drank on the job. Wikipedia 45:25

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota — On Colum’s Montana–Dakotas road trip, where he bought his Sasquatch shirt. Wikipedia 1:17:13

Yellowstone National Park — Colum plans an eight-day solo hike into the Thorofare, about 40 miles from any road. Wikipedia 1:21:17

Slieve Bloom Mountains, Ireland — Where Colum’s cousin hunts deer. Wikipedia 1:30:44

Big Bend National Park, Texas — Colum and a group of comics camped in the Chisos Mountains under the dark sky. Wikipedia 1:44:55

Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii — Joe’s best night of stars, above the clouds on the Big Island. Wikipedia 1:47:50

Katmai National Park, Alaska — Colum hopes to camp near the salmon-fishing brown bears around his Anchorage shows. Wikipedia 2:17:48

Okavango Delta, Botswana — Where the wildlife show they watch sits among well-fed lions. Wikipedia 2:20:00

Montecito, California — Where Joe saw a mountain lion cross the road. Wikipedia 2:23:50

Zion National Park, Utah — One of the national parks they rave about. Wikipedia 2:43:45

New York Comedy Club — Where Colum filmed Bells and Whistles. Official site 2:58:27

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