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Afghanistan's Opium Boom and the Intelligence Community's Dark Corners
from The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422 · #422
4 min
Tim discusses how opium production spiked under US occupation of Afghanistan, references Geraldo Rivera's poppy field segment, and theorizes that intelligence agencies use drug and trafficking operations to fund black projects.
- Jimmy Hendrix was allegedly killed by his mobster manager to keep ownership of his music catalog after he tried to leave.
- Tim connects Diddy to multiple deaths from pneumonia among his associates, noting certain poisons can mimic pneumonia symptoms.
- Cyanide poisoning produces respiratory symptoms including bronchitis, lung edema, and pneumonia as a cause of death.
- Tim criticizes Hollywood's stupidity, citing the standing ovation given to Will Smith after slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.
- He describes his time living in Los Angeles as isolating and strange, with a city that doesn't lend itself to forming friendships.
- The Comedy Store was the hub that brought comedians together from 2014 to 2019, a golden period for LA comedy.
- LA comedy has fallen apart and become diluted, with the scene now feeling lonely and vacant rather than thriving.
- Young rappers in LA today are mostly white kids drinking cough syrup and making music that's become the city's primary output.
- In modern LA, security guards pull up in vans to scoop unconscious cough-syrup-drunk kids from parking lots and place them on van tops.