Ian Edwards

Date: 2025-09-24 | Duration: 2h 51m

Episode Overview

Comedian Ian Edwards — long overdue for his first JRE appearance — joins Joe for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from stand-up craft to CIA history, glyphosate, and light heavyweight boxing legends. Edwards walks through the process of saying something for the first time on stage and realizing it didn't land the way he heard it in his head, and the craft of finding the softer entry point. The conversation covers Bob Foster, the light heavyweight champion who flatlined opponents with his left hook with a regularity that seemed impossible. A significant thread on the CIA's funding and training of the Nicaraguan Contras — remnants of Somoza's National Guard — leads into Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto and the glyphosate poisoning story. Edwards talks about his move to the Encino area for the backyard his dogs needed, the strange phenomenon of the one-hit wonder, and the physics of falling out of a boxing ring onto the back of your head.

About Ian Edwards

Ian Edwards is a celebrated stand-up comedian known for his sharp wit and keen observational humor. With a career spanning over two decades, he has made notable appearances on platforms like "The Joe Rogan Experience" and has been featured on "Comedy Central," "Conan," and "The Tonight Show." Edwards is also the host of the popular podcast "Soccer Comic Rant," where he combines his passion for soccer with comedic storytelling, engaging fans of both sports and comedy alike. His unique perspective as a comedian of Jamaican heritage adds depth to his performances, making him a distinctive voice in the comedy scene. With a blend of humor and insight, Ian captivates audiences, proving that laughter and sports can go hand in hand.

Key Moments

– Stand-up craft — first time saying something and finding the softer entry
– Bob Foster's left hook — flatlined opponent after opponent
– CIA funding and training the Nicaraguan Contras
– Bayer acquiring Monsanto and the glyphosate poisoning story
– The one-hit wonder phenomenon — putting it all together just once
– Falling out of a boxing ring and landing on your head
0:34:48 – First time on stage — said it, it didn't sound right; finding the softer way
1:10:57 – Bob Foster's left hook — took a lot of dudes out of this dimension
1:28:42 – CIA, the Contras, and Somoza's National Guard — funded, recruited, and trained
1:50:06 – Bayer bought Monsanto — glyphosate poisoning and the merger nobody was happy about
2:24:30 – One-hit wonder phenomenon — putting it all together perfectly just once
2:46:39 – Falling out of the ring and landing on your head — the underrated danger of boxing

Transcript Excerpt

Starting point is 00:00:00 Joe Rogan podcast checking out The Joe Rogan Experience Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night All day Tadda What's up, son? How is it possible you haven't been here In the five years I've been living here? Starting point is 00:00:20 Oh, shit, it's been five years? Yeah, man, it's been five years. That's pretty fucking crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. That doesn't make any sense. It doesn't. I like it, though. Thank you. Starting point is 00:00:28 It's like. It's got the sauna walls and shit. It's very close to what the old one was instead of brick we went with wood. Because we were kind of faking it with the brick in the old place. It was fake brick. It wasn't fake brick. It was real brick. But what they do is they take like a mesh. Starting point is 00:00:45 And then they take real bricks and they slice them thin. And then they put up the cement and they glue the real bricks in place. Oh, okay. But it's not really a brick wall. It just looks like a brick wall. I feel like a real brick wall should only be. be the only brick wall that you show right you like I went to a pool hall the other day and they had a plastic brick wall and I got deeply disappointed I touched it I was like oh this is a fake brick Starting point is 00:01:12 wall this is bullshit this is plastic yeah I mean it's it's a push to have like a half fake brick wall yeah to have like a plastic brick wall that's that you're going too far did you just leave the pool hall like fuck this place no no I did no I'm a junkie I stayed but the The brick used to bother me that it was fake brick at the other studio. I'm like, we're kind of bullshit in here. Some people have like some comedy clubs or somebody fake a comedy spot. It's just a sheet. Yeah. Starting point is 00:01:42 Like a, it's not a curtain, but. A brick sheet. A brick sheet. And you're like, bro, what you got back there? Let's just show that. Just show whatever's back there. It's weird how that became the backdrop for a com...

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