Episode #297
Dom Irrera
Books mentioned
Bhagavad Gita
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:41:10
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Dianetics
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:05:15
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The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 02:14:53
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Comedian Dom Irrera discusses his struggles with alcohol and sobriety, including how travel and performing affect his efforts to remain abstinent. The conversation ranges from comedy culture and material theft to ideology, Scientology, media controversies, boxing, nuclear history, wilderness, Alaska, fishing, and wildlife.
What they talked about
- Comedians stepping on each other's material
- Dom's early TV credit in Montreal
- Playing pool and friendship at Amsterdam Billiards
- Declining a gig in a war zone
- Drinking habits and rationalizing alcohol
- Operation Paperclip and Nazi scientists
- Nuclear war fears and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Scientology and Dianetics as self-help
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