Dec. 22, 2016 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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| Sound effects. | ||
| Or was that you? | ||
| That was me. | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| I thought you paid for that. | ||
| We're live. | ||
| Ron White. | ||
| Hey, Joe. | ||
| You look like you're ready to take notes. | ||
| I signed this, you know, you shoved some paperwork at me when I don't have my glasses. | ||
| I don't even know what it says. | ||
| You have glasses on. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I do. | ||
| Oh, yeah, I do. | ||
| Yeah, and I'm not sure, but I think I've just agreed to, you know, whatever. | ||
| Trust me, we wouldn't do anything terrible to you. | ||
| No, you're my friend. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| I love you, too. | ||
| We have a mutual admiration society that we don't let anybody else in. | ||
| It's been so nice. | ||
| People want in, but fuck them. | ||
| Fuck them. | ||
| It's been so nice having you around a store, man, I gotta tell you. | ||
| It's really fun. | ||
| Yeah, it's great having you around, too, man. | ||
| It's our little home base up there. | ||
| It's a fucking hoot. | ||
| It is, right? | ||
| It's like you work on everything there and then venture forth. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's a spot. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, I've just got this big quandary now whether to even do another special or what it would do for me. | ||
| And, you know, Netflix is offering me money, but they're not offering me, you know, huge money. | ||
| They're offering me regular money. | ||
| You're trying to figure out if you want to? | ||
| Yeah, you know, it takes me, I'm not like some comics, you know, some comics can spit out an hour a year, and I don't, you know. | ||
| It takes me three years to write a new record, you know, but it's good, you know, but it takes me forever to do it. | ||
| I'm just not that prolific, I guess, anymore. | ||
| That's the big debate with comedians like how much time should you wait and Tom Papa and I were just talking about it and I've talked about it with Burr and with Louis CK and a bunch of different guys and Louis is doing like one a year for a while but he stopped doing that and I think he kind of agrees now that when you do one a year it's almost like it's a special full of like adolescent premises. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, and I've always found that my stuff ripens well, you know, on the vine, if I leave it there, if I pick it too early. | ||
| You know, I used to do a bit that was on my last album, and the punchline's not even on the album. | ||
| The punchline I wrote later, which was, it's about my wife buying me a bicycle thinking I might ride it for, you know, health reasons, and it's for sale. | ||
| And if you're looking for a bicycle, it's a great deal. | ||
| It's got 750 yards on it. | ||
| It was a demo when I bought it. | ||
| It had 350 yards already on it, but I put the other 400 yards on it myself. | ||
| That was the whole joke. | ||
| Now, here's the punchline. | ||
| And if you'd like to buy the bicycle, just go to my house in Beverly Hills, and it's 400 yards from there. | ||
| So I didn't even have the punchline. | ||
| I don't even know what I thought was funny about the other part, but when I went back and listened to it, I'm like... | ||
| I could start doing that bit again, because they still don't know how it ends, if I wanted to. | ||
| Mitch Hedberg did that. | ||
| He had a bit on his album, and he goes, this is a bit from my old album. | ||
| And he does the bit, he goes, this is the part I left out. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| And this is the new punchline. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's a funny thing, you know, development of material. | ||
| Like, you're the only one who really knows when it's done. | ||
| And sometimes you'll have something. | ||
| I've had bits that I didn't put on specials that I was doing. | ||
| I was like, this thing is not ready. | ||
| And then maybe two specials later, I'll stick it in somewhere. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah, so I don't know, you know, that Netflix wants an hour. | ||
| I really think Netflix specials should be 30 minutes. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| Because I would do a 30-minute special and not burn an hour of material on it. | ||
| And, you know, I go back. | ||
| I watched yours the other day, which was great. | ||
| And I watched, oh, the Ali Wong's special. | ||
| And it was just long, you know? | ||
| It's just long. | ||
| An hour's a long time for a special. | ||
| And as much as I was impressed by Ally, and I still am impressed by Ally, but I've been impressed with what I see in the club. | ||
| When I go back and watch her special, I see what kind of confidence that brought her. | ||
| That success of that thing, it made her a better comic. | ||
| Now she really has a great, I mean, an even better presence on stage and works even slower and more commanding. | ||
| But that's what I learned from watching it. | ||
| That kind of success makes you better. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| For her, she's sort of emerging right now. | ||
| She's one of those people that people start to talk about. | ||
| She's very, very funny. | ||
| She's really cool, too. | ||
| Really nice person. | ||
| But she's nasty and funny on stage. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Fucking vicious. | |
| And I don't know her because now she's got a kid. | ||
| So as soon as she gets off stage, she's out of there. | ||
| So I talked to her on stage a couple of times when she was bringing me up. | ||
| Yeah, she's very friendly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I'd like an hour. | ||
| I'd like an hour. | ||
| I'd like a good hour special. | ||
| You know, maybe you just don't want to... | ||
| I'm cheap. | ||
| You just don't want to do it. | ||
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I'm cheap. | |
| I don't want to do the work, man. | ||
| It's so daunting to put a... | ||
| I mean, my last special was an hour and 20 minutes. | ||
| And that's how long it was. | ||
| And when I sold it, I'm like, I don't want to go edit it. | ||
| You know, it works like that. | ||
| You can have the whole thing. | ||
| And then I'm standing there naked. | ||
| You know, I could have gotten away with 48 minutes. | ||
| You know, because it was on television. | ||
| And nobody saw it on TV because it was on CMT. Nobody watches fucking CMT. So nobody's even heard the last album and I don't do it. | ||
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Isn't country music television, isn't that real popular? | |
| Do they call it country music television anymore or they just call it CMT? But it started out as... | ||
| Yeah, I think it still stands for country music television. | ||
| But they're trying to do a bunch of other shit now, too, right? | ||
| They try to do, you know, they did a... | ||
| I had a special with them once a year, and I would do... | ||
| Then I would just have to come up with 15 minutes, which was doable, you know, that I could actually put on TV. Most of it I shouldn't even have put on TV, but that was great. | ||
| It was the salute to the troops thing and raise money and awareness for good stuff, and then they quit doing it. | ||
| And somehow bought my special. | ||
| And so I just, you know, if I do a bit from it, you know, it kills like nobody's heard it. | ||
| So I really don't think anybody really heard it. | ||
| It only sold 12 copies of those people, you know. | ||
| 12? | ||
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No. | |
| Yeah, they know it. | ||
| I have no idea how many. | ||
| We were talking about that before the show about, like, buying things. | ||
| Like, nobody buys... | ||
| Comedy albums anymore. | ||
| They just don't make any money. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like none. | ||
| Yeah, and you know what? | ||
| And I just started watching stuff on Netflix the other day because I just wanted to watch some of the specials of some of the people I knew up there to see what they were doing, you know, what they were working on. | ||
| And now why would you buy a fucking record? | ||
| You can just flip it over to Netflix and watch it, you know? | ||
| Well, I like listening to shit in my car. | ||
| I like when people release things on iTunes. | ||
| Yeah, my best comedy album story, and I don't mean this to be mean or anything else, but I was watching the record sales because my records were selling. | ||
| And then Dane Cook comes in, and he just blows by me. | ||
| And I'm like, who's this guy? | ||
| Because I'm not an L.A. guy. | ||
| I'm a road guy. | ||
| You know, we don't know what's going on out here, nor do we give a shit. | ||
| But I thought, well, so I was at a bookstore, and I saw it. | ||
| And I thought, well, I'm going to buy it and see what it's like. | ||
| So literally, I'll listen to it on the way home. | ||
| When I got home, I pulled it out and threw it in the trash. | ||
| Not to be mean, but just because I don't keep things I don't use. | ||
| And I knew I wouldn't listen to it again, and I wasn't going to give it to somebody else to listen to, and so I don't need it anymore. | ||
| We've run our thing. | ||
| And not to say anything bad about Dane, because plenty of bad things have been said, but... | ||
| But I just, that was so unintuit that I'm like, if that's what they're doing out there, then they're getting away with murder because those aren't punchlines, I'm sorry to tell you. | ||
| Well, that was a weird time. | ||
| He locked into some weird thing where he sort of appealed to young girls. | ||
| Like he did comedy design for young girls. | ||
| No, no, that's not you. | ||
| It's not me either. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's not a lot of us. | ||
| Well, he had that fascinating stage presence, too, and just really walk on stage and take command of anything. | ||
| I don't know if he can still do it, but at one time I'd watch him, and I'm like, you'll like him or not, if you're a comic, you could probably learn something from watching him. | ||
| It was a young comic. | ||
| Just walk up there and start doing it. | ||
| Stare him down. | ||
| Don't be timid. | ||
| And he was a great stage present, but the content, I was like, why? | ||
| What? | ||
| What? | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| Why don't we... | ||
| But... | ||
| And now I guess it's turned around on him. | ||
| I mean, it's not... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Well, it turned around on him when that whole Louis C.K. plagiarism thing came out and there was a lot of shit going on. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Was he supposed to have stole something from Louis? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Like a lot of things. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Before Louis was famous? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's when it's easy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, Louis was... | ||
| Get them while they're young. | ||
| Well, Louis wasn't young. | ||
| Louis was older than him. | ||
| But Louis, he made it first. | ||
| He broke through first. | ||
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Right. | |
| And then it became a giant controversy. | ||
| Like, Louis even addressed it on his television show. | ||
| Like, he had Dane on as a guest on a show. | ||
| I heard about that. | ||
| Yeah, and they kind of went over it. | ||
| It was very weird. | ||
| Like, Louis, he's so nice. | ||
| Like, the way he handled it was so nice. | ||
| Like, he wasn't mean about it at all. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He's not like you and Mencia. | ||
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Well, that was a different story. | |
| That was just the best thing ever. | ||
| You had every comic in the country just cheering your fucking name, man. | ||
| Go get him, Joe. | ||
| And you're such a badass. | ||
| What's he going to do? | ||
| Slap you? | ||
| You know, you can either listen to it or he can beat you up or whatever you want. | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| That was the worst I've ever seen, though. | ||
| I've seen plagiarists before. | ||
| I've seen guys get away with stealing people's shit. | ||
| I've never seen someone that blatant. | ||
| He was a bully about it. | ||
| He would do your shit. | ||
| He would go on in front of you and do your shit. | ||
| He would bring you up at the store and do your closing bit before he brought you up. | ||
| Man. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's one of those things like a serial killer wants to get caught, you know? | ||
| You think that's what it is? | ||
| Yeah, I do. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| Well, you know, the only thing that matters to me really is, I mean, or the thing I'm most proud of is that I'm respected by my peers. | ||
| That I didn't get here in some fucking cheap way. | ||
| I did my fucking 30 years in 9 million clubs and 12,000 shows. | ||
| And if I didn't have that, I don't know if I'd be able to show my face around here. | ||
| No, you wouldn't. | ||
| That's all there is, I think. | ||
| I think for people like us, it's probably the most important thing because there's so few of us. | ||
| I mean, is there a thousand working comedians? | ||
| Is there even a thousand? | ||
| I mean, there might not even be a thousand. | ||
| Yeah, it's a tiny, tiny subculture. | ||
| Tiny. | ||
| And out of that subculture, Maybe 300 of them I want to see, you know? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Maybe. | |
| Maybe. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So you're one of 300 people out of 300 million. | ||
| That's a tiny amount. | ||
| Fuck yeah, Ron White. | ||
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Look at you. | |
| Fuck yeah. | ||
| I'm getting buff. | ||
| I'm getting buff just sitting here. | ||
| You got fired up right there. | ||
| I sure did. | ||
| I wish we brought you tequila, man. | ||
| I'm glad I really if I would have I'd have sat here and drank it with you and then I'd have been oh now I had to get that Range Rover back to back to LA. That's what Uber's for. | ||
| You got some good goddamn tequila. | ||
| I love the fact that you sell your own tequila. | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| We wouldn't have done it, but the Riveskish family that makes it wouldn't sell it here. | ||
| And so we just pestered them because we couldn't buy it until my brother-in-law did. | ||
| And he pestered them for four years, and they finally said, okay, you can bring it over there. | ||
| They only sell it in Mexico? | ||
| They only sell it in Mexico. | ||
| In Mexico, they sell it for three times what I sell it for here. | ||
| And they only sell it in the resort cities, people coming off those boats, and, you know, it's the best tequila that most liquor stores will ever touch. | ||
| And so it's called the Gift of God over there. | ||
| I don't even know how to say it. | ||
| Spanish? | ||
| Yeah, she's Mexican, so she could tell you, though. | ||
| Does she speak fluent? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Does she get mad at you and speak in Spanish? | ||
| No, but what she does do is she's a voiceover artist as well as a singer, so she can do any accent there is. | ||
| And she has different wigs for different accents, and she lets me fuck them all. | ||
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Oh, nice. | |
| Yeah, it's fucking great, man. | ||
| That's fantastic. | ||
| I can't ask for them specifically. | ||
| They just show up. | ||
| Oh, what an interesting little situation. | ||
| Yeah, one of them is named Donna, and she's a bank teller from Denton, Texas. | ||
| And, you know, she's sloppy, man. | ||
| Just sloppy blowjobs, and it's different. | ||
| Donna is? | ||
| Yeah, Donna is. | ||
| Donna's off the charts. | ||
| Is she your favorite? | ||
| There's a little French girl. | ||
| There's a little girl from Japan. | ||
| I like them all, you know. | ||
| I like to mix them up. | ||
| Don't ever want to say that Donna gives a better blowjob than Margo, because it's technically not true, but she's still like, oh, really? | ||
| I'm like, oh, come on. | ||
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It's you? | |
| Yeah, it's you, honey. | ||
| How could you get upset at you? | ||
| She's getting jealous of herself. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| But it can happen. | ||
| Why, just because she spits on your dick? | ||
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Whoa. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, can you say that on a podcast? | ||
| Yeah, you definitely can. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Yeah, some people are into that. | ||
| The spitting on the dick thing. | ||
| It's just like, whoa, we are getting dirty for sure. | ||
| Puh. | ||
| Puh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's just, you know, people that can't afford lube. | ||
| When do you think that started, the spitting on the dick? | ||
| Because I don't think they did that in the 80s. | ||
| You don't think so? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I never saw it. | ||
| You know, it's just, I think you porn brought it around, brought it into the light. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| When you see variety instantaneously, like you don't have to venture forth into the weird sections. | ||
| You know, like if you're in a video store back in the old days, you had to go through those beads. | ||
| He and I remember those. | ||
| It was either saloon doors or beads. | ||
| We had to go into the section of the video store that had the porn and you always felt so full of shame when you were wandering through there. | ||
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It was horrible. | |
| It was horrible. | ||
| It was like, oh man, nobody does this but me. | ||
| But now you know. | ||
| But at least back then, no one had a phone with a camera. | ||
| So you couldn't take a video. | ||
| Look, I'm watching Ron White go to the fucking dirty section. | ||
| Is that a lump in his pants? | ||
| Is that gay porn you look at? | ||
| He's looking at the gag stuff. | ||
| He likes people to gag. | ||
| I do. | ||
| But that's the thing now. | ||
| It's like you can go to any one of those websites and have the porn on it, and you can just keep scrolling. | ||
| Like, oh, check this out. | ||
| And you get it instantaneously, and it's free. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But that's what I like about YouPorn, is that... | ||
| Is I don't have to worry about seeing something I don't want to see. | ||
| You know, I'm such a raging heterosexual. | ||
| And I tried one time. | ||
| I was in a hotel room, they had gay porn. | ||
| I'm like, I'm going to watch some gay porn. | ||
| See if it does anything with click. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Not a damn thing. | ||
| I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ. | ||
| This is fucking horrible. | ||
| And I guess I'm, you know, fucking some people are just straight. | ||
| Well, women like dick. | ||
| So, I mean, it makes sense that some men like dick. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I do too, but I didn't get it. | ||
| It just doesn't, you know. | ||
| That fucking story that you're telling on stage now, the story that you told about the prostitute situation? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| The one you encouraged me to do. | ||
| It's so funny. | ||
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You had to tell that. | |
| We were crying. | ||
| I'll tell you our listeners. | ||
| Now they're our listeners. | ||
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It's everybody. | |
| The Joe and Ron show. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'll be here every Thursday at 1.30. | ||
| But it was true. | ||
| I lost my virginity when I was 18 years old to a girl, a prostitute in Tijuana, Mexico, who was overweight and her teeth had no general direction or color, but she was well within my budget. | ||
| But I got stationed at Pearl, and I found out after a while, once you've been on this one part of Oahu, Hotel Street, these really cute girls would jump in your car and blow you for $5. | ||
| And it's like the best deal I've ever even fucking heard of. | ||
| I mean, I was like there twice a day, you know? | ||
| And I was there for eight months, and six months ago I was watching this documentary on transvestites, and they started talking about the transvestite scene on Hotel Street on Oahu. | ||
| I've been there for 55 years. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| I let 150 dudes suck my dick. | ||
| What's the record? | ||
| What's the record before you find out? | ||
| I wonder what the record is. | ||
| I don't know, but God, I have to be close. | ||
| I've dodged that bullet, but I've come close. | ||
| I think I've dodged that bullet. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If I hadn't dodged the bullet, kudos to whoever pretended to be a girl. | ||
| Apparently, a tongue is a tongue and a tooth is a tooth because you can't tell man mouth from woman mouth. | ||
| Now, if it would have been a hand job, I'd have been going, hey, you're a plumber, dude. | ||
| Get that hand off my cock. | ||
| Thick gorilla hands. | ||
| Yeah, Jesus. | ||
| What do you think I am? | ||
| Yeah, and I would imagine that somebody who has a dick probably knows how to work it. | ||
| I guess. | ||
| I tell you what, these girls had made quick work of me twice a day, 45 seconds. | ||
| I was in my little Datsun B-210 heading back to the ship. | ||
| Do you say girls with air quotes? | ||
| With air quotes? | ||
| Girls? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I still don't like to think of them as dudes, you know? | ||
| In my mind, I don't let myself go, but they're still hot little girls. | ||
| Not little girls. | ||
| These were fully developed men with tits. | ||
| They had tits? | ||
| They did. | ||
| And I was always wondering, well, let me play with their pose, you know? | ||
| They let you get some titty, but you start going down there where the junk is, and they were like swatting your hand away. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| Now, that should have been a bit of a flag. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, now you know. | ||
| It's one of those things. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| So, you were in the Navy? | ||
| Is that what you were doing? | ||
| I was. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| How long? | ||
| I wasn't in real long. | ||
| They... | ||
| You know, I just wasn't cut out for it. | ||
| I had the wrong mouth for it. | ||
| I stayed in trouble. | ||
| I didn't, you know, I just did a lot of drugs and, you know, I just, I was horrible out. | ||
| And they discharged me. | ||
| It was an honorable discharge under medical conditions from the Naval Drug Rehabilitation Center in Miramar, California. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| So what did you have to get rehabilitated for? | ||
| Well, I had actually never seen drugs until I got to the Naval Drug Rehabilitation Center in Miramar, California. | ||
| I mean, everybody had drugs. | ||
| You know, I was positive for heroin on a Westpac, but so were eight other people on the ship. | ||
| And then when we ate a ton of acid, you know, it was 75, and I was 18 years old, and I was off the hook wild. | ||
| And, you know... | ||
| Actually, in my hearing to get me out, the commander of our base called me a hole in our national line of defense. | ||
| I'm like, God, that's horrible. | ||
| What's worse than that, I wonder? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| That seems a little exaggerating. | ||
| Yeah, like when we're playing Red Rover, you know? | ||
| Relax. | ||
| The hole in our national defense. | ||
| We weren't even at war in 75, right? | ||
| Wasn't that the tail end of the Vietnam War? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Did you join or did you get drafted? | ||
| No, there was no draft. | ||
| My father drafted me. | ||
| I got kicked out of high school and they weren't going to put me back in this time. | ||
| And so I was 17. I kind of had my life mapped out because I worked... | ||
| Washing dishes at this huge restaurant called Lynchburg Crossing in close to Pasadena, Texas and right on the channel. | ||
| Gigantic place. | ||
| Unbelievable and served family-style all kinds of seafood and chicken and stuff. | ||
| It was really popular. | ||
| But they didn't have, they didn't go hire people to wash dishes. | ||
| They would go bail these drunks out of jail and they had bunkhouses in the back and the dishwashers would sleep back there. | ||
| They'd drink all the half drinks that came back and Crash there. | ||
| So I really, at 17 years old, I was thinking, well, I could, when I'm 17, I could join the Merchant Marines at 17, which was wrong. | ||
| And then I worked there until I retired, and then I'd go wash dishes until I'd die in that place. | ||
| Fuck out. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Like the old drunk that used to roll his joints. | ||
| We couldn't roll joints very good, and this guy could. | ||
| We came in there one day just dead as he could be. | ||
| Isn't it funny when... | ||
| He was dead? | ||
| Dead. | ||
| Oh, of? | ||
| Cirrhosis. | ||
| I mean, these guys were bad. | ||
| I mean, bad booze hounds. | ||
| But, you know, pretty good dishwashers. | ||
| Isn't it funny when you look back on your life, getting kicked out of high school, all the trouble you were in, getting kicked out of the Navy... | ||
| Getting blown by a bunch of dudes accidentally. | ||
| It's all the recipes of being a great comic, but nobody ever looks at it that way. | ||
| Right, yeah. | ||
| You don't have some of that stuff in there. | ||
| What are you going to write about? | ||
| It's almost like you have to come up to everybody who's a fuck-up and go, look, I know you're not fitting in here, but there's a place where you do. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's a place where you do it. | ||
| There's a fucking whole clan of us. | ||
| You just got to figure out how to do it. | ||
| I'm telling you, Joe, the first time I walked on stage, literally I went to myself, I'm a fuck-up. | ||
| I'm a fucking comedian. | ||
| Why didn't somebody tell me? | ||
| I could have avoided a bunch of that other stuff and just started... | ||
| I was 29 when I figured it out. | ||
| I was 21. Same feeling. | ||
| Right after I did it, I was like, this is it. | ||
| I found it. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| This is the one that works. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I wasn't good. | ||
| I knew I wasn't good. | ||
| I knew I was like, there's a lot of work to be done. | ||
| But I'm like, this could be my job. | ||
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I could do this. | |
| Oh, I didn't think I'd ever do it professionally or anything like that. | ||
| I just knew I was a comic. | ||
| You know, I knew I was a comedian. | ||
| And, uh... | ||
| But I never ever saw all this fame and fortune shit coming. | ||
| I mean, I never really sat around asking the universe for it. | ||
| I never thought it would happen. | ||
| Even though I watched it happen to Foxworthy, you know, he's the biggest selling comic of all time by a lot. | ||
| He sold more records than Pryor and Cosby combined. | ||
| And he blew up standing right next to me, but I never gave it one second of thought that it would happen to me. | ||
| Well, when the Blue Collar Tour kicked off and then it took off for you, how old were you? | ||
| Let's see, probably 45 or so, 45 or 46. So you're just working as a comic up until 45 and then boom! | ||
| 16 years, clubs, 50 weeks a year, doing nine shows a week, which is how you get good at this. | ||
| That's the best way to do it, not here, out there, working on different crowds. | ||
| And then Jeff, you know, signed me up for this thing, and the first time I heard the idea, I told him, that's retarded. | ||
| That's how smart I am. | ||
| And the whole clincher to my career is Warner Brothers decided to make a movie out of that thing. | ||
| And I didn't even see that. | ||
| I mean, I had a, yeah, Warner Brothers is going to make a movie out of it, and Kathleen Madigan's falling out of her chair. | ||
| They're going, what? | ||
| I'm like, yeah, that's what they said. | ||
| But I had no idea what that meant. | ||
| You know, I don't know. | ||
| I'm an idiot from Northwest Texas, so I'm like, it sounds good. | ||
| But then it, you know, for some reason, it just tested. | ||
| It was really well-liked across the board. | ||
| And it was one of the biggest-selling comedy albums of all time, or DVDs, four million copies. | ||
| Well, it was giant. | ||
| I remember when it came out. | ||
| It was just one of those things like, whoa, nobody ever did that before. | ||
| Nobody ever put together a bunch of killers and then did a movie. | ||
| Well, actually, the Kings of Comedy did. | ||
| They did it first? | ||
| Yeah, we totally ripped off the black man again, you know. | ||
| Goddammit, Ron White. | ||
| But, you know, it was just a blue-collar shot at it. | ||
| Not necessarily, you know, redneck, but, you know, just people that work for a living. | ||
| They like who likes us, you know. | ||
| But the catalyst from that made Dan Whitney ridiculously famous and made me famous and did a lot for Bill. | ||
| But Jeff was already, you know, Jeff, so... | ||
| Do you call Dan Whitney, Dan Whitney, or do you call him Larry the Cable Guy? | ||
| Do you ever call him up, hey Larry? | ||
| You say, who the fuck is this? | ||
| No, I don't call him Larry. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| Did you know him forever as Dan? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, but you know what? | ||
| I never knew, I never saw the act that it wasn't all Larry the Cable Guy. | ||
| And I know it used to be. | ||
| And one of the funniest things I ever saw was that there used to be this tape in the South County Funny Bone in St. Louis in the condo where they live, a shitty little apartment they put us in. | ||
| And it was called Bovine Women from Somewhere. | ||
| It was about huge fat girls. | ||
| And it was a copy. | ||
| It had been around for a while, the condo. | ||
| So we'd play it for people as a joke when they came over. | ||
| And he had a VHS camera. | ||
| And because that was a copy, he edited himself into the movie. | ||
| And it was fucking outrageously funny. | ||
| So was it a porn? | ||
| A fat woman porn? | ||
| Yeah, and so somebody would be fucking her from behind, and then he'd turn the camera around and his Dan just worked out, this could be you, Marty, the manager of the club. | ||
| But it was very, very funny. | ||
| Made me laugh. | ||
| Somebody stole it after that. | ||
| Nobody wanted to steal it before it was edited, but somebody took it after that. | ||
| Yeah, that was back when you need to edit things. | ||
| You used to have two VCRs. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You used to have a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and go back and forth and back and forth. | ||
| Yeah, but those VHS cameras at the end, you know, because I had one too... | ||
| I used to tape nearly everything I did. | ||
| If it didn't have a tab broken off of it, you could just record right over whatever little part of it you wanted to. | ||
| That's right, the tab! | ||
| Yeah, if it had a tab, you couldn't do it. | ||
| So that's what you did for your wedding video. | ||
| I forgot about that tab. | ||
| Like, if you took the tab off, then nobody could record on it. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| But if it was still there, and this one was still there, so he just punched himself right into it. | ||
| The first scene is this big old 500-pounder. | ||
| She's opening a refrigerator door, so the reveal is the light of the refrigerator through her thighs, and they're gigantic, and it's a cutaway to him drinking a glass of milk going... | ||
| Real slapsticky stuff, but if you didn't see it coming, it was a big laugh. | ||
| I saw a video of him doing stand-up as Dan Whitney, and I was like, wow, this is so weird. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he had, you know, his shirt tucked in his pants, he had like a polo shirt on. | ||
| Right. | ||
| The whole deal. | ||
| Yeah, it was really smart, I mean, what he did, and, you know, at one time Larry was just a character that he did in the act, and then eventually Larry took over. | ||
| That's like the Diceman. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| That was a character that he did in his show? | ||
| Yeah, he was Andrew Silverstein. | ||
| He would go on stage as Andrew Silverstein, and he had a bunch of impressions that he would do. | ||
| He would do an impression of Travolta, he would do an Al Pacino impression, and then at the end of his act, he would do the Dice Man. | ||
| And the Dice Man was essentially a version, his take on Jerry Lewis and the Nutty Professor. | ||
| Remember when Jerry Lewis and the Nutty Professor, he was like this nerdy guy, and he drinks some fucking potion, and all of a sudden becomes this really cool guy? | ||
| Like, that was what Andrew did. | ||
| He had just become this Dice Man character, and he put the leather jacket on, and oh! | ||
| And then the rhymes and all that shit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And... | ||
| His act was so unique because he was the first guy where you could repeat the punchlines back and everybody liked it, almost like a song. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like if someone's singing a song, you like to sing along. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But for comedy, that was never the case. | ||
| It doesn't work because there's no such thing as a hit joke. | ||
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Right. | |
| There's a popular bit, but there's no such thing as a hit joke. | ||
| You never want to hear it again. | ||
| Once you know the joke, you know the joke. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, my fans, you know, they bitch at me because I won't do anything that's old, and they want to hear me do Tater Salad, and they want to hear me do some of that stuff, but there are long bits. | ||
| There are long stories. | ||
| They already know them. | ||
| So if I start one, I did it in Madison Square Garden last time I was there. | ||
| I opened with it. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| And I hadn't done it in 12 years. | ||
| I had to go back and listen to it 10 times because it's a complicated piece of comedy. | ||
| It doesn't sound like it, but it is. | ||
| You know, it still pays rhythm and timing all the way through this eight-minute-long joke. | ||
| Or story. | ||
| And so I did it, and when I started it, you'd have thought I was one of the Beatles. | ||
| They just went absolutely nuts. | ||
| But then I got to drag them through an eight-minute-long piece they already know. | ||
| So now they're not, you know, it's not the response I used to get that I loved to get from it. | ||
| So if I don't get what I want, then you don't get what you want. | ||
| But it was fun to do that one time, but I just won't go back and, you know. | ||
| Yeah, like Gaffigan is a prisoner to Hot Pockets. | ||
| He's a prisoner. | ||
| Well, that's a good prison to be in. | ||
| That's a great prison to be in. | ||
| It's a funny guy, but he has to do that bit. | ||
| Well, Foxworthy has to do the You Might Be a Rednecks, but he's also got 10,000 of them. | ||
| Yeah, that's fine, though. | ||
| That's different. | ||
| He's got so many virgins of it. | ||
| And he only does five or six at the end of the show. | ||
| I mean, that's been for years that he hasn't hardly done any of that, and that's what he was always known for, which was just a great idea for a bit that now has calendars. | ||
| True. | ||
| Just crazy, crazy the money he made off that. | ||
| Oh, that was a genius bit. | ||
| He just nailed it. | ||
| He figured out this perfect formula. | ||
| Yeah, he's a funny guy, man. | ||
| Jeff Foxboy does not get the credit he deserves. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, he's probably the most prolific writer that I know, and I also just owe him fucking everything. | ||
| He seems like a really nice guy, too. | ||
| He is a sweetheart of a man. | ||
| Humble. | ||
| Takes his kids to school every day, goes to church, has a mission project that he works on. | ||
| Very, very straight. | ||
| He was a little wilder when he was in the clubs, you know, but that's the way he was raised. | ||
| That's kind of what he went back to. | ||
| Where does he live? | ||
| In Georgia, in Atlanta. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| In a house the size of a college. | ||
| I'm sure. | ||
| I'm not talking about this University of Phoenix shit either. | ||
| I'm talking about Duke. | ||
| Yeah, that's... | ||
| You kind of have to buy one of those when you get that rich. | ||
| Well, you know, he's just the real deal, you know. | ||
| But you're right. | ||
| People kind of rat on me. | ||
| If I hear any other comics... | ||
| You know, sometimes they'll rag on the blue-collar tour. | ||
| You know, a lot of people didn't like Dan. | ||
| But it was all comics, and I've never performed for comics once in my life. | ||
| And I tell other comics, here's the worst thing you can do. | ||
| Perform for those comics in the back, because that's not whoever's going to come to see you or pay money. | ||
| Don't perform for them. | ||
| Perform for those people in the seats. | ||
| And so, you know, and whatever it was is whatever it was, and he just got popular. | ||
| And if it wouldn't have been for that huge popularity, nobody would have given a shit. | ||
| Well, that's that thing that happens when something becomes really popular, is that people decide to shit on it, even though it doesn't make... | ||
| Like, there's nothing wrong with Larry the Cable Guy's act. | ||
| It's a funny act. | ||
| He's a funny guy. | ||
| And he's a pace, rhythm, and timing comic, and he's really good at it. | ||
| He's very good at it, but I remember when he was huge, and he still is, but I mean, when it was all happening, when it was first happening, and he was doing fucking football arenas, all these... | ||
| Like, David Cross wrote some fucking open letter to Larry the Cable Guy, and I'm like, what are you doing? | ||
| Like, this doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Like, what is he doing wrong? | ||
| Like, I don't understand. | ||
| What are you trying to say? | ||
| That this character, this ridiculous, over-the-top character that he's doing isn't funny? | ||
| He's saying it's racist? | ||
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What are you saying? | |
| There were a few people that really took issue with it, and it's just comedy. | ||
| If you don't like it, listen to something else. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's the end, you know, the long and the short of it. | ||
| You know, it's not exactly my cup of tea, but I know how good he is, still. | ||
| You know, and... | ||
| I would go out of my way to see Jeff, and I probably wouldn't go out of my way to see him just to see him, but that, his style is not exactly my cup of tea, but that doesn't matter. | ||
| I can still see how good he is at it, and saw what he did and the impact that he had. | ||
| And then also, the addition, he wasn't one of the original guys. | ||
| There was another guy, and then Jeff got rid of him. | ||
| Who was the other guy? | ||
| You don't remember? | ||
| Nah, I can remember. | ||
| You don't want to say it? | ||
| No, I totally would say, but he was a guy from... | ||
| I just have a shitty memory. | ||
| Sometimes I can remember his name, and sometimes I can't remember his name. | ||
| He's the last Beatle. | ||
| He's that lost Beatle, that one guy that gets kicked out of the Beatles and fucking, to this day, beats his head against the wall. | ||
| I don't know what he does now, but he was a good comic, but he was on some kind of medication that made him just get in Jeff's face and talk to him nonstop, and Jeff doesn't like that. | ||
| And Jeff's like, hey, I'm taking a piss, dude. | ||
| Can you give me a minute? | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Like an Adderall type thing or something? | ||
| Yeah, I guess so. | ||
| But he was just... | ||
| And then he would... | ||
| You know, we're doing these big shows. | ||
| They're like, well, I put $12 on a cab and nobody's paid me back. | ||
| And... | ||
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You guys doing fucking arenas? | |
| You're right. | ||
| You're pitching about $12? | ||
| Well, that's the wrong guy. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, and then Dan came in and just shook things up, you know, and really, you know... | ||
| Like it, don't like it, doesn't matter. | ||
| He destroyed every night. | ||
| What's Bill Ingvall up to these days? | ||
| Yeah, I saw him, we auditioned for the same part in the movie. | ||
| Not too long ago, so I saw him at this audition, and it was for, I don't remember the name of the movie, but it was a huge cast, really big people in it, but the role sucked, and I mean, the role was just nothing, and then I got sideways with the people doing the interview, because they said it was a reading, so I didn't memorize the script, you know, and I came in, but I wear these tinted yellow glasses a lot of the time, and she said, can you take off the glasses? | ||
| They're too modern for this I'm like, well, if you want me to read it, the glasses are not for show. | ||
| They just happen to be yellow. | ||
| So whoever's watching it, have them close their eyes and imagine me with shitty glasses on if that's okay, but I'm not going to take them off. | ||
| And then she goes, well, I guess if you get this role, you'll cancel your live schedule. | ||
| I said, no, I won't. | ||
| No, I won't. | ||
| I was clear with him. | ||
| I said, if I'm going to do it, you've got to do it around my schedule. | ||
| I'm not canceling any days for it. | ||
| And I'm like, oh, now I'm in a fight at the casting office. | ||
| You know, that's probably not going to get this. | ||
| I didn't want it anyway. | ||
| I'd just come off of roadies. | ||
| And that was kind of disappointing. | ||
| It's a fucking weird business, man. | ||
| And the interaction that you have with the casting director is very strange. | ||
| I've had some good ones, really nice conversations, sweet people. | ||
| Oh, me too. | ||
| Gail Levine is who cast me for roadies, and she's wonderful. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's a lot of them that are wonderful, but there's a lot of them that are not. | ||
| These two chicks were snobs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, they really were... | ||
| You know, they were really talking to me like I had not accomplished a single thing in my life, and maybe if this happened, you know, I'd be able to call myself a man or something. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Well, that's their role. | ||
| I mean, that's their position. | ||
| Their position is... | ||
| That's one of the reasons why actors are so fucking crazy, is because you walk into this room, and your life depends on whether or not this person puts a check next to your name, whether they give you the green light. | ||
| And so you go in there, and you have to memorize some bullshit that you don't really care about, Most of the time, some nonsense sitcom or some fucking stupid role in a movie. | ||
| It's half charming them, half doing this. | ||
| I tell Brian Callen to this day that they've fucking ruined him. | ||
| I go, it ruined him. | ||
| You don't know how to disagree with people. | ||
| I'm like, Brian Callen will go into it and he charms everyone in the building because he's so good at auditions. | ||
| I'm like, they fucking ruined you. | ||
| You don't know how to figure out that this person is not for you. | ||
| Well, you know, now I just turned 60 on Sunday, and now if I had to, if I signed up for a TV show, I'd be signed on until I was 66 or 67. And my dad died at 51, and so that seems like an awful long time. | ||
| I mean, if it happened to be someone I really liked, you know, like if If Jay McGraw was producing it, I would probably do it just so I could hang out with him. | ||
| But I would have to really, really like somebody that I was going to be hanging with that time because I couldn't just do it. | ||
| Who would have ever guessed that Dr. Phil's kid is such a cool motherfucker? | ||
| I know. | ||
| We have a mutual friend, Jay McGraw, who's a buddy of bars, both of ours. | ||
| He's the fucking coolest guy. | ||
| Yeah, he is. | ||
| He's something else. | ||
| And so is his dad. | ||
| I'm sure he is. | ||
| His dad is a hoot. | ||
| I'm sure he is, but who would have ever guessed it? | ||
| Yeah, nobody. | ||
| Either way, I'm friends with both of them. | ||
| But Jay is just solid. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| I tell you some things he's done for me and start crying. | ||
| Aw, don't cry. | ||
| I cry so easy. | ||
| I'm such a bitch. | ||
| Me too. | ||
| Don't do it. | ||
| I don't cry for sad things, though. | ||
| I'm weird. | ||
| Like, sad things I can sort of deal with some weird way. | ||
| But when things are epic, like epic moments, I'm like, holy shit, don't cry, bitch. | ||
| Keep it together. | ||
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Woo! | |
| Like Nadia Comaneetz doing those little backflips on the bar. | ||
| I would have cried like a bitch. | ||
| Excellence chokes me up. | ||
| But, you know, my friend died last weekend, and that kind of stuff I'm okay with. | ||
| I mean, I don't get real emotional about that kind of stuff unless I've known you for 50 years. | ||
| But Jay is just a great guy. | ||
| You know, he's an unbelievably solid dude when he doesn't have to be. | ||
| He just brought me back three boxes of killer cigars from Cuba, so how can you not like that guy? | ||
| Oh yeah, he just went to Cuba. | ||
| You can bring those back now. | ||
| Yeah, I think he was on his plane or something. | ||
| Yes, yeah, you can kind of do it. | ||
| You can kind of bring them back, sort of. | ||
| You can get like a few of them. | ||
| Well, the thing is that you can get $200 worth, but the people at customs have no idea how expensive they are. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So you can just say this was $185 worth, and they go, oh, that's expensive. | ||
| But it's really $1,500 worth of cigars. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, if you pay them in American money, it probably is $150 worth, right? | ||
| Like, it's probably a pretty good bargain. | ||
| Actually, they probably know what they're worth. | ||
| No, they're really not. | ||
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| I didn't ask him because he gave them to me, but did you get a deal on them? | ||
| How often do you smoke cigars? | ||
| You know, every day. | ||
| I smoke one. | ||
| I smoke a lot of the way up there. | ||
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Every day. | |
| I saw you walked in with one. | ||
| I was like, God damn it, Ron White, you're a fucking caricature. | ||
| Look at you. | ||
| What do you got there? | ||
| Oh, that's one of those he gave me, these Bolivars. | ||
| Oh, those are good. | ||
| That's a strong one. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| And it was that big when I started, so I just smoked some of it and cut it off. | ||
| That's a strong cigar. | ||
| I like Bolivars. | ||
| I'm going to crank that back up if they're still airing my tire whenever I get out of here. | ||
| Yeah, bolivars, and well, it's something about that soil. | ||
| There's this one area of Cuba where they grow most of their tobacco, and it's like some, it's not even that big of a place. | ||
| It's not like that many acres. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Just this unbelievable soil. | ||
| Like, is it that much different? | ||
| Like, are you like a connoisseur? | ||
| Are you like a sommelier of cigars? | ||
| Sort of. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| You know, the thing is, the smart guy was Zeno Davidoff of Davidoff Cigars, because he saw it all coming. | ||
| And so before it all happened, he moved his rollers and his factory and everything over to the Dominican Republic. | ||
| So, whenever they came in and took the land from those people that started these iconic brands, and they just kicked them out of the country with nothing. | ||
| Well, they all had seed, so they could grow the same tobacco if they stayed in the same kind of region, the same parallel, like Dominican Republic or even over to Ecuador. | ||
| It was still perfect conditions for growing these plants, but what they didn't have was rollers. | ||
| And these hand-made cigars are rolled by experts. | ||
| I mean, these people in Cuba, they spend their whole lives. | ||
| It's a good job. | ||
| They have these huge rolling rooms, and these people just roll these perfect cigars, and somebody sits in the front of the room and reads them books. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Read some books? | ||
| Yeah, they read... | ||
| Like a book on tape, but someone's doing... | ||
| Yeah, somebody's actually up there. | ||
| The reader, they come in and shifts and read to them. | ||
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No shit. | |
| And they sit there and listen to the stories and roll cigars. | ||
| That's fucking fascinating. | ||
| I have a book at home that's all photographs of the Cuban cigar business and the Cuban people rolling the cigars, and it's fucking amazing. | ||
| They're smoking a fat cigar while they're rolling cigars, you know, and the whole thing is just... | ||
| It's got such a... | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, you know, I used to smoke a couple of them a day, and I always smoke on stage. | ||
| But actually now, I'm such a dinosaur, they're really starting to crack down on the cigar. | ||
| So I'll just light it, and I'll take it out there and put it in an ashtray and let it go out and do the show. | ||
| What, because the theaters won't let you smoke in the theater? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, and they used to give me some wiggle room, you know? | ||
| But now, like in Canada, they started saying, well, here's what we do. | ||
| We don't know what we're going to fine you, but we're going to hold all of your money until we decide. | ||
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What? | |
| If you smoke on this stage. | ||
| They told you that before you went up? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What a fucking buzzkill. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Well, I'm glad they didn't tell me after. | ||
| Jesus fucking Christ. | ||
| But some places, Massey Hall in Toronto, you know, that's fucking Charlie Chaplin was on that stage. | ||
| I just did that place. | ||
| Oh, did it? | ||
| It's going to be great. | ||
| Oh, it's the best. | ||
| I love Toronto. | ||
| Toronto's incredible. | ||
| I just did it two weeks ago with Russell Peters. | ||
| Me, Russell, and Big Jay Oakerson. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| What a fucking show! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't even know if I've seen Jay. | ||
| I've met him. | ||
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He's a funny dude. | |
| And I've heard him on radio, right? | ||
| He's got a radio show. | ||
| Yeah, he's got a podcast, Legion of Skanks. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| One of the greatest names for a podcast ever. | ||
| He's a funny dude. | ||
| He's a good dude, too. | ||
| And again, another one, like a real comic. | ||
| You know one when you meet one. | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| You know, like if I ran into him anywhere, like a life vest in the middle of the ocean. | ||
| If I ran into him in Dubai, I'd be like, there's one of us. | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| I could go with you to the halfway there, but not to Dubai. | ||
| You want to go to Dubai? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| You want to do shows there? | ||
| No, you know what? | ||
| Somebody... | ||
| I'm not sure that I wouldn't... | ||
| So many people talk about this huge, huge money that they're offering guys to go out to Dubai and India. | ||
| They got crazy rules, though, in Dubai. | ||
| They do? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, Dubai has crazy religious rules. | ||
| Like, if you in any way insult royal families or in any way... | ||
| Who was it, Jamie, that talked about that? | ||
| Was it... | ||
| I think it was Hal Sparks was telling us that he did a gig in Dubai and someone, after he got off stage, told him that he was going to be arrested for something that he said because he referred to one of the royal family as like, sir, rather than your highness? | ||
| Like, something as simple as that. | ||
| Yeah, I probably better not go. | ||
| Fuck that. | ||
| I can't do it. | ||
| I just can't. | ||
| I won't do colleges. | ||
| I won't do anything weird. | ||
| I don't either. | ||
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Fuck that. | |
| You know, I hear a Seinfeld bitching about the political correctness of college students these days. | ||
| I'm like, why don't you go perform for people your own age? | ||
| Maybe that's the problem. | ||
| Maybe that's it. | ||
| You ever think about that? | ||
| Well, they're not your people. | ||
| And they're super sensitive, and they're finally disconnected from their parents. | ||
| They're looking to call bullshit on everybody. | ||
| That's one thing about college kids, is they're looking to be right, and they're looking to establish what you can and can't say, and they're looking to control people, because they're just free for the first time ever themselves. | ||
| I probably would have done the same thing. | ||
| Yeah, if I hadn't gotten kicked out of high school and joined the Navy, I probably... | ||
| I just... | ||
| I can't do, like, regular school work. | ||
| I can't do that kind of stuff. | ||
| I've never owned a notebook. | ||
| This isn't mine. | ||
| This is yours. | ||
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You can have it. | |
| It's for you. | ||
| It's a gift. | ||
|
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Merry Christmas. | |
| Merry Christmas. | ||
| It's very nice. | ||
| Merry Christmas. | ||
| So you don't write down on notebooks? | ||
| You just come up with stuff on stage? | ||
| Or you come up with stuff? | ||
| If you have an idea, will you write it on your phone or something? | ||
| No. | ||
| No? | ||
| No. | ||
| My attention deficit disorder is so bad that if I pick up a piece of paper, I'm done. | ||
| Then I'll start thinking about the piece of paper, and then I'm off to this fucking egg land. | ||
| So it just doesn't work. | ||
| I've forgotten so much stuff I know that I could have done on stage. | ||
| But once it gets to the stage, I record it. | ||
| And I should record these short sets, but I don't. | ||
| But I record all the big sets. | ||
| You don't record the comedy store sets? | ||
| No. | ||
| You can do it on your phone, you know. | ||
| Yeah, well, you know, that's another thing. | ||
| I don't know a lot about that. | ||
| Yeah, but look. | ||
| See this? | ||
| It's so fucking easy. | ||
| See this little thing right here? | ||
| This is voice recordings. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| These are all my sets for the last, I don't know, six months. | ||
| I just keep going. | ||
| And I make notes. | ||
| I make notes for each one of them. | ||
| Did you have to? | ||
| No, you have it. | ||
| You have it on your phone. | ||
| It's an application that comes with, it's called Voice Memos. | ||
| It comes with the phone. | ||
| So you have an iPhone. | ||
| It's in there. | ||
| I'll show you afterwards. | ||
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I love you. | |
| But it's so easy. | ||
| It's so easy, Ron. | ||
| You just take that sucker, you press record as you're walking up this stage. | ||
| I sit it on the stool right by me. | ||
| It records my whole set. | ||
| Because there's many, many times that I have a new punchline, or I'll have a thought in the middle of a bit, and what the fuck is that? | ||
| And I'll go off on something just free, and I'll say afterwards, thank God I recorded that, because I've got to go listen to that. | ||
| Because for me, the store in particular is the best place for that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the Ice House. | ||
| You ever do the Ice House? | ||
| No. | ||
| Fuck, you've got to go there. | ||
| I have done it before, but I should get over there. | ||
| Do they have an open mic or something? | ||
| No. | ||
| Well, they have a bunch of shit there, but we do shows there on Wednesdays all the time. | ||
| I'm there like January, I think January 4th or something like that. | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| January 4th? | ||
| You want to do it with us, it's always sold out, and it's the fucking best room in the world. | ||
| That room, the Ice House room, is set up. | ||
| It's the best setup on Earth. | ||
| You will fucking murder that place. | ||
| I've done sets there a long time ago, and... | ||
| And I know I loved it. | ||
| And everybody says it's the best room there is. | ||
| It's the oldest comedy club in the world. | ||
| It is? | ||
| The oldest comedy club in the world. | ||
| It started in 1961, I believe. | ||
| 1961 or 1962, something like that. | ||
| Yeah, it's the oldest concurrent working comedy club on earth. | ||
| And it used to literally be an ice house before they had freezers. | ||
| People used to buy ice from the ice house. | ||
| That's how fucking old that place is. | ||
| Yeah, on the 4th, I'll come out there if you guys got room for me. | ||
| Fuck yeah, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
| Anytime you want to do a show, do it. | ||
| I got room for you. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Let's have some fun. | ||
| Bring some of that tequila. | ||
| Yeah, I got the tequila. | ||
| I'll Uber out there with a bottle of that extra Añejo. | ||
| Now we're talking. | ||
| Yeah, so you guys look that up. | ||
| Number Juan, J-U-A-N tequila. | ||
| That's what I've got to hawk. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| We're going to buy a case of that shit. | ||
| Bring it in here. | ||
| Set it up. | ||
| Don't they have it at the Comedy Store now? | ||
| I always have a bottle back there, but our distribution is just now getting fixed in California, so I'm sure that they'll pick it up as soon as these guys get all hooked up. | ||
| They just got their tequila the other day. | ||
| Well, it's a dark tequila, too. | ||
| Do you have more than one kind? | ||
| Yeah, I have a Blanco that comes straight out of the faucet, and then a Reposado, which is aged for nine months. | ||
| In two different barrels and then blended at the end. | ||
| Half of it's a French oak wine barrel, half of it's a bourbon barrel, retired. | ||
| And then nine months and then blended together. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| That's deep. | ||
| And that's what my brother-in-law, that's all he drinks is that one. | ||
| And I drink the other one because I come kind of from a Scotch background, so it's a little heavier. | ||
| Yeah, it's got like a dark sort of smoky kind of... | ||
| It's dangerous. | ||
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Dangerous? | |
| It's a dangerous bottle to have just sitting near you with no protection or, you know, just with a couple people. | ||
| Because once you start drinking it, it offers no resistance at all. | ||
| You can just sit there and polish off a bottle. | ||
| I feel like we shouldn't be having a podcast without having like a little drink. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I feel like we should have a little drink. | ||
| Get some Jack Daniels on the rocks. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
|
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Just a little drink. | |
| Just a little drink with Ron White. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Yeah, it's a good tequila. | ||
| I'm happy you're doing that as well. | ||
| It's nice to see comedians branch out and do different shit. | ||
| Well, I'd like to see some of the different stuff I do ever make money, but we have a lot of fun with the tequila, and somebody will come by and buy it one day. | ||
| We win everything with it. | ||
| How's that not making money? | ||
| That tequila's not making money? | ||
| No, uh-uh. | ||
| Well, it did. | ||
| It made money the third year. | ||
| The third year, we made $17,000. | ||
| That's the whole year. | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| Well, because it's just kind of expensive to get into. | ||
| I mean, we're shoestringing it. | ||
| I'm not putting my nut in there. | ||
| I put money in it. | ||
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Not too much. | |
| Not too much. | ||
| And so we're just kind of a really slow growth until somebody comes along. | ||
| And then if somebody wants it worse than we do, they'll have it. | ||
| So for you, is this sort of like a goof, just to get into it for fun? | ||
| No, well, a couple things. | ||
| I'd really like to see my brother-in-law, yeah, I'd really like to see it work for him, and he owns more of it than I do. | ||
| He's a comic, right? | ||
| Yeah, Alex Romundo. | ||
| I don't know Alex very well. | ||
| He's one of my best friends, and he literally, when I started doing stand-up, September 17th, 1986 is when I met him, and I was nervous. | ||
| I was going to do four minutes. | ||
| First time open mic and went straight to the bar and ordered a beer and a shot of tequila and he handed me the beer and the shot of tequila. | ||
| So he was the bartender in the club I started at. | ||
| Where was that? | ||
| In Arlington, Texas. | ||
| What's it called? | ||
| Funny Bone Comedy Club. | ||
| I think it's something else now. | ||
| But that's where that was my home. | ||
| What's Arlington near? | ||
| Dallas-Fort Worth. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| That's where Texas Stadium is and the ballpark. | ||
| Where's that funny bone? | ||
| Not funny bone, improv. | ||
| They don't have an improv in Arlington, do they? | ||
| No, they have an improv up in Irvine, Irving or something. | ||
| Up in North Dallas, there's one. | ||
| But isn't there two? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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All right. | |
| What is this? | ||
| There used to be two. | ||
| There used to be one right down on Central Expressway, but I don't know if there is any more. | ||
| This is the Sinatra Select. | ||
| Frankie, baby. | ||
| Where did we get this? | ||
| Somebody sent it to us, right? | ||
| Did Jack Daniels send it to us? | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Jack Daniels sent this to us. | ||
| They found out we drink Jack Daniels on the show, so they sent us this Sinatra Select. | ||
| Oh, yeah, baby. | ||
| It smells like toupees. | ||
| Good lord. | ||
| Cheers, sir. | ||
| Joe Rogan. | ||
| Cheers, buddy. | ||
| Jack Daniels to me means fun times and bad decisions. | ||
| Almost everything that I've ever done that I should have went, probably should have done that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| A lot of it's connected to that shit. | ||
| There's just so much fuck it in Jack Daniels. | ||
| That's their slogan. | ||
| Jack Daniels, fuck it. | ||
| Fuck it. | ||
| Just, wow! | ||
| Fuck it. | ||
| It's like almost every time I go on stage, I have a shot. | ||
| A shot of that. | ||
| A shot of this? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Not the Sinatra stuff, but it kind of tastes the same to me. | ||
| It doesn't really taste like Jack Daniels. | ||
| That's really pretty good. | ||
| I'm not much of a bourbon guy, but that's pretty tasty stuff. | ||
| Finally, weed's legal, Ron White. | ||
| I know. | ||
| You happy about that? | ||
| Well, I've been treating it like it was legal for about 50 years. | ||
| Me too. | ||
| I don't know if it's going to have that much difference. | ||
| You know, they had medical marijuana here anyway, and I was actually using medical marijuana to get off of regular marijuana. | ||
| How did you do that? | ||
| That worked like a fucking charm. | ||
| It's almost like Jesus came from heaven and healed me of this regular marijuana problem that's been haunting me since I was 13 years old. | ||
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Oh. | |
| And now that they've legalized recreational marijuana, I'm going to use that to wean myself from medical marijuana. | ||
| That's nice. | ||
| And I've got a plan. | ||
| That's beautiful. | ||
| That's like methadone. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| It took so long to get here, you know, to even this little seven. | ||
| We have seven states now that are... | ||
| I think there's more. | ||
| How many states, Jamie? | ||
| Legal. | ||
| Nine now? | ||
| Recreational. | ||
| Seven? | ||
| Seven's recreational, but then a bunch of... | ||
| You know, in Vegas, they're going to have recreational, but now that they have medical, if you have a card from anywhere, you can go in the Vegas dispensaries. | ||
| Well, what's fucked up is there's so many people that are in jail for life in Vegas from the 70s. | ||
| Right. | ||
| For life. | ||
| For, like, getting caught with, like, a dime bag. | ||
| Vegas used to be the worst place in the world when it came to pot. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| I guess... | ||
| It was ridiculous. | ||
| This is what it was. | ||
| They got legalized prostitution, legalized gambling, open carry handguns, liquor available 24 hours a day on the street. | ||
| You can actually walk out on the strip at 5 o'clock in the morning, crack open a beer, and bet on the camel toe races, but don't you dare lie to joint because there's children here. | ||
| Is that the reason why? | ||
| There's children. | ||
| I think they were just trying to discourage people from getting high because it probably cut in on the profits. | ||
| Wouldn't you assume that, like, the last thing I want to do when I get high is gamble. | ||
| I just look at buildings and I go, look how much money this building costs. | ||
| Where are they getting their money? | ||
| They must be getting their money from people like me. | ||
| People like me that don't know how to gamble. | ||
| Shit, what kind of weed are we smoking here? | ||
| That's how I always feel. | ||
| Like, I never have the urge to gamble when I'm high, ever. | ||
| But if I was drunk and I walked into a casino, I'd be like, let's see what happens! | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Come on! | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| But I'm not much of a... | ||
| Are you a gambler? | ||
| I'm good. | ||
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You good? | |
| There we go. | ||
| I'm not much of a gambler. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I played a lot of cards when I first started working in Vegas, and then I got hit a couple of times, and... | ||
| Literally, I mean, if you're going to bet $300 a hand, you better have a half million bucks sitting there, or you'll get beat. | ||
| Because it just accelerates so high off of a $300 bet. | ||
| And so if you're not ready to really bet it, you should just not bet it. | ||
| If you can't stay there until it all cycles back through, in case you start on the wrong side of it, then... | ||
| Now I'll go. | ||
| My mother, my mother's 81. She likes to get hammered and gamble. | ||
| She does. | ||
| She's always in Vegas. | ||
| I was there two weeks ago and I looked over on the side of the stage and my mother was there. | ||
| I had no idea she was coming all the way from Cocoa, Florida. | ||
| Oh, that's hilarious. | ||
| And she was just over there waving. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| And she gets hammered and gambles. | ||
| Yeah, she plays blackjack, Texas Hold'em. | ||
| And she was one of those people, her and her mother, you know, Jen, you'd think that Jen can't be skill, all skill. | ||
| But any time I played my mother in Jen, she takes one card and lays them down. | ||
| I'm like, well, how can you do that? | ||
| You can't be good and just draw all those cards. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| And my grandmother was worse than her. | ||
| So she plays serious poker, but not with serious money. | ||
| More than she used to. | ||
| And then my son loves to play Texas Hold'em, so if he comes out to Vegas, then I'll go play with him. | ||
| I have a bunch of friends that gamble really high, and I don't have that gene. | ||
| I'm missing it. | ||
| That's a good one not to have, you know, because you can really feel stupid the next day when you're going, I could have gotten, well, one of them, you know, at least a late-day Ford Escort, you know, or several Escorts. | ||
| I'm like, I could have gotten something out of this. | ||
| Instead, I got absolutely nothing except free booze. | ||
| My friend Dana White has lost as much as a million dollars in a night. | ||
| Good lord. | ||
| Yeah, but he won. | ||
| Did he say he won seven? | ||
| I think he said he won seven one night. | ||
| Yeah, I don't get it. | ||
| He's got it, though. | ||
| Whatever it is, he's got it. | ||
| Way better. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| That's also one of the big things with people that have been punched a lot. | ||
| He was a boxer for a long time, and a lot of MMA fighters, a lot of people that have experienced a lot of head trauma, they like to gamble. | ||
| There's a weird correlation there. | ||
| They don't know why. | ||
| I wonder if John Daly ever got hit in the head. | ||
| I'm sure somebody punched that guy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For sure, right? | ||
| Who didn't punch that guy? | ||
| He's a big dude, but still, somebody probably punched him. | ||
| He's a... | ||
| Yeah, probably so. | ||
| But boy, he just has a gambling problem. | ||
| He's funny because he was sober for five years and he's a buddy of mine. | ||
| I mean, I'm not saying he's a buddy of mine. | ||
| Whenever the Masters comes to Augusta... | ||
| He's always there and he sells merch. | ||
| And it's genius because he's the only person, number one, he's the most famous golfer in the city at that time, is John Daly, more famous than anybody playing in that tournament. | ||
| And then he's accessible. | ||
| He likes people. | ||
| And so he'll go out there and sell $250,000, $300,000 worth of merch out of this huge You know, he's got this big Prevost tour thing and a big old trailer and set up. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| His own store at the Hooters right next to the golf tournament. | ||
| That's genius. | ||
| During that time, yeah. | ||
| And, you know, it's all his brands. | ||
| And, you know, he just makes a killing doing it. | ||
| And it is brilliant. | ||
| But I parked my... | ||
| Tour bus right next to his. | ||
| So that's the time I see him, you know, is whenever he's doing... | ||
| Now he's on the senior tour, so I don't even know... | ||
| I don't follow golf, but I follow that guy. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| He's a fun dude. | ||
| He gets crazy, does a lot of wild, nutty shit, likes to get hammered. | ||
| I like the fact that there's a guy like that out there. | ||
| That can do it. | ||
| He might not be the best golfer in the world anymore, but he's still a very good golfer, and he's still this character. | ||
| It's part of the thing. | ||
| It's not just who wins the golf tournament. | ||
| I want to see John Daly play. | ||
| I want to see him talk. | ||
| I want to see him get crazy. | ||
| Yeah, so, well, he gets crazy, you know, he got sober for a few years, and then he called me the other day, and I was like, oh, that started again. | ||
| He was just baked. | ||
| And then the last time I was at, last year at Augusta, we got really trashed, and he was doing a podcast or some kind of radio show out of the Hooters, and besides that, he's got a radio show, or did for a while, and And he's just drunk as shit, just trashing the PGA Tour. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| And I'm like, you know, you really golf on exemptions. | ||
| But I didn't say anything to him. | ||
| But, I mean, he's just either over-the-top sober or over-the-top drunk. | ||
| He can't be... | ||
| And he's also just dead honest. | ||
| Will not lie to you to make you feel better. | ||
| Will not lie to you to make you feel bad. | ||
| He just won't lie. | ||
| He talks about how he feels and, you know, he's just one of those guys that you know. | ||
| And that's why he's so popular. | ||
| That's why the people love him. | ||
| We could all use more of that. | ||
| All of us, right? | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I think I could use less. | ||
| I think I'm going to start lying more in 2017. Just stay drunk and keep lying. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
| That should be a t-shirt. | ||
| Stay drunk and keep lying. | ||
| That's a great one. | ||
| Yeah, I know what you mean. | ||
| At a certain point in time, you go, how much fucking sand is left in this goddamn hourglass? | ||
| What are we doing with it? | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| We're on a continued path of improvement and spiritual enlightenment, or do we eventually go, hey, guys, there's a cliff coming up. | ||
| Let's just have a drink. | ||
| There's a fucking cliff. | ||
| There's a cliff right over there. | ||
| We're both looking at it. | ||
| That's what Margo and I are saying is that we're already dead. | ||
| That's how fast it goes. | ||
| We're already dead. | ||
| So while we got this last couple of minutes here, let's have some fun. | ||
| Let's not forget. | ||
| I buried some really close friends right next to each other about a year and a half ago. | ||
| And that broke my heart. | ||
| I didn't want to do stand-up anymore. | ||
| Just horrible stuff. | ||
| And then my buddy that died this weekend, I saw him three days before at a party, and he was fine. | ||
| He was laughing. | ||
| He's fit as he can be. | ||
| He plays hockey. | ||
| He's 69 years old, but he was just really, really... | ||
| He ate a hamburger without the bun while I was sitting there with him, and I was like, well, I bet he regrets that. | ||
| And I was looking back and thought, fuck, I should've eaten that fucking bun. | ||
| And then, boom, dead in three days. | ||
| What's that actor guy that just died recently? | ||
| Alan Thicke. | ||
| That's who it is. | ||
| That's who it is? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alan Thicke was on Fear Factor. | ||
| He was a sweetheart. | ||
| Oh, he's a- Such a charming guy. | ||
| He's the most charming human being. | ||
| And I don't, you know, when I met him, I'm really good friends with John Paul DeGioia, who owns Patron and Paul Mitchell, and he is just a biker. | ||
| That made billions of dollars. | ||
| Just a brilliant man. | ||
| So he has these men's knights that are kind of a league of extraordinary rich dudes. | ||
| But every once in a while an entertainer sneaks in there like me and Alan. | ||
| So the first one I went there, I recognized Al, of course, because he was a hugely famous television star when I was watching television even. | ||
| But what attracted me was just him as a man, you know, just his charisma. | ||
| He's just one of those guys that can, you know, just a man's man, you know. | ||
| Yeah, you just want to hang around him. | ||
| I was really shocked. | ||
| I was really shocked at how nice and friendly he was. | ||
| He lost. | ||
| He had to do some physical things. | ||
| He had to climb on something on the side of a building or something like that. | ||
| He wound up losing. | ||
| Took it like a champ. | ||
| Smiling the whole way. | ||
| He was playing full contact hockey with fake knees. | ||
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Jesus Christ. | |
| Christ! | ||
| He got his knees done? | ||
| Yeah, and he's still playing hockey. | ||
| They told him not to. | ||
| But he's like, what am I going to do? | ||
| So it works pretty good. | ||
| But he was playing hockey with his son when he died. | ||
| And his son told me this, and it was really funny. | ||
| He goes, while he was on the fucking stretcher, putting him in the ambulance, he goes, sorry guys, I'm an asshole! | ||
| Just for stopping the game. | ||
| And then he was dead 15 minutes later. | ||
| But he got a laugh on the way out the door. | ||
| And people were saying, man, what a tragic thing. | ||
| He died quick. | ||
| And I've had two friends die slow. | ||
| You don't want any part of that. | ||
| So quick, that's when we all agree with that. | ||
| Quick. | ||
| We want to go quick. | ||
| We want to go quick. | ||
| And that's what he did. | ||
| And when his son was with him, when he took his last breath, I think that's a good thing. | ||
| And I think his son will think it is, too, when he looks back on it, if he doesn't already. | ||
| You know, a real touchy subject, right? | ||
| People dying. | ||
| It's real touchy. | ||
| And it's also real touchy, like, what we think is going to happen after that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know? | ||
| There's people that are, like, real sensitive about what they think is going to happen. | ||
| And whether it's nothing. | ||
| A lot of people are, like, convinced it's nothing. | ||
| And I'll say it to you with such fucking conviction. | ||
| Listen, when you die, it's nothing. | ||
| It goes dark. | ||
| I know for a fact that's not true. | ||
| Because I lived in a haunted house. | ||
| If there's a haunted house, then somebody, there is an afterlife. | ||
| Because there was definitely a haunted house. | ||
| Where'd you live? | ||
| It was a lake house outside of Austin on Lake LBJ in Kingsland, Texas. | ||
| And we had to sign documents at closing saying that it had been told to us that it was a haunted house. | ||
| You have to do that in Texas. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they'd had two mediums, and I'm an extra large. | ||
| But two different mediums came in and said the same exact thing. | ||
| The ghost's name is Whitey Sour. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| And he was the barber for the town, and they couldn't tell why he was still there, but he was obviously there. | ||
| He could take... | ||
| And he would do these things in front of people. | ||
| You could take a pot of water right out of the tap, put it on the stove, stove turned off, and just sit there and wait. | ||
| And it'd start to vibrate. | ||
| And then it'd vibrate to where the waves came in from the center to the middle and then bounce up in the middle. | ||
| And then you could get a hold of it, because you're obviously stronger than the ghost, you could settle it back down and let go of it, and he would do it again. | ||
| And I know that, I mean, I happen to just know that, to be a fact, that I lived in a haunted house. | ||
| How many people do you think have actually lived in a haunted house, and how many people are just fucking crazy? | ||
| Because that's the problem. | ||
| If you really did live in a haunted house, and I believe you did, You know that some people who have told similar stories are just fucking crazy, and that might be the problem. | ||
| The problem is trying to differentiate between real, unusual experiences, which may or not be possible, that can happen to anybody. | ||
| Just because it hasn't happened to you, or it hasn't happened to me, I'm walking through life assuming that it's bullshit. | ||
| But if it did happen right in front of you, you'll go, holy shit, how am I going to describe what this is? | ||
| How many people are pretending things like that are happening now? | ||
| I don't know, you know, but it's just something that I've always been able to say after I've lived there, that I know for a fact that something happens afterwards. | ||
| And I had a talk with Whitey. | ||
| I bought the house and was still making payments to his daughter. | ||
| and whenever we first moved there, my girlfriend at the time, her uncles helped move her stuff down there, and they had a bunk bed set up in my son's room, but they didn't want to have a mattress on the bottom but not on the top, and he put his shoes up there, and during the night, for no reason, the shoes got pushed off and fell and hit him in and during the night, for no reason, the shoes got pushed off and fell and hit him Fucking Whitey. | ||
| Fucking Whitey. | ||
| And so the next day, I walked into that room, and I said, Whitey, listen I'm going to make a deal with you I love it that you're here. | ||
| It's fine with me. | ||
| We have one of his chairs that we wouldn't let anybody sit in. | ||
| It was his chair. | ||
| I said, I'm going to tell you something right now. | ||
| You fuck with my little boy, I'm going to hit your daughter in the mouth. | ||
| Because I saw her every month when I made the payment, so if he was going to jack with my little kid, I was going to fucking punch some teeth in. | ||
| You're going to punch his daughter? | ||
| Not really. | ||
| Not really. | ||
| But it's a good threat to a ghost. | ||
| You threaten a ghost. | ||
| That's so gangster. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| And he never, never, ever saw any activity in that room again. | ||
| My grandparents had a house where a guy died in the house, and they always claimed that they saw him. | ||
| He was like a guy who rented a room in their attic. | ||
| And he died and my grandmother always would swear that she could like hear him walking around up there and he'd be there You know if there is we know that all this is like most people hear ghost stories They go get the fuck out of here. | ||
| It's because so many ghost shows I mean how many times can you watch a person go into a basement with a one of those night vision Screens on and look at nothing and go. | ||
| What did you hear that? | ||
| What was that? | ||
| Oh my god Oh, they'll have entire television shows dedicated to one thing and like an egg will move an inch over a year or something. | ||
| I think it would be super arrogant to assume that it's not possible that ghosts are real. | ||
| That you just haven't experienced them yet. | ||
| Most people haven't experienced them. | ||
| All sorts of types of life, right? | ||
| There's people that are born with birth defects that make them tiny, and other people are born with gigantism, and death is, and life itself is not like this perfect mathematical science. | ||
| It's filled with all sorts of mistakes and errors and weird shit. | ||
| If there's a transition between this stage of life and the next stage of life, would we assume that it would be perfect? | ||
| No. | ||
| If there is a spirit or some sort of a soul in people, we would assume that that transition sometimes misses. | ||
| Sometimes you get caught in the howling in between the worlds, and you just ricochet back and forth off of both places. | ||
| Well, you can't unsmoke that joint, can you? | ||
| I can't. | ||
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Not anymore. | |
| Not anymore. | ||
| Hey, you know what? | ||
| I'll tell you something. | ||
| It's kind of an interesting story. | ||
| My uncle, who was a preacher, a Southern Baptist preacher, a brilliant man, has three doctorates, psychology, philosophy, theology. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And fun, fun, fun, fun guy to talk to. | ||
| And was at one time the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. | ||
| Dr. Charles Pollard is his name. | ||
| And, uh, which is a very, very powerful position to have in the South, uh, to be the president of that convention. | ||
| Uh, and, uh, so I was talking to him. | ||
| He, this is, that was a long time ago and, and, uh, they have a lot of disagreements. | ||
| He kind of had a nervous breakdown and he showed up at My grandmother's birthday party and he had a riding a Harley with no shirt on. | ||
| And then he went down and he taught the gospel according to Charlie for a while. | ||
| But this is what he said. | ||
| Because we were just talking about this exact thing. | ||
| He goes, well, Ron, here's what I believe. | ||
| I believe that when we die, we're going to be surprised. | ||
| That's all he's got. | ||
| That's all he's got. | ||
| After all these books, all these things, years of the time, you know, that's all he's got. | ||
| No fucking clue. | ||
| You know, when I was young, I was real dismissive of religion because I was real religious at one point. | ||
| When I was like real young, I went to Catholic school. | ||
| And it was a good experience because it was a bad experience. | ||
| So I realized these mean, flawed people that are teaching what they think is supposedly God's word. | ||
| And I became a very anti-religious person for a long time. | ||
| Where I thought of religion as being like an ideology that controls your brain. | ||
| But as I've gotten older, one of the things that I've been thinking more and more is that although the Bible's definitely been altered by a bunch of different people, there's a difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and even the translations of the Old Testament, they were trying to say something. | ||
| They wrote this fucking thing down and passed it down more than anything else. | ||
| Like, the Bible's almost like the story of life. | ||
| Because if you go that far back, There's no other stories. | ||
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You go far back as the Old Testament, there's no other fucking stories. | |
| There are no books. | ||
| You have to go to other cultures that had similar stories. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they're all the same thing, like the Epic of Gilgamesh. | ||
| So similar to Noah and the Ark. | ||
| There's all these... | ||
| Right. | ||
| All these similarities. | ||
| They were trying to tell us about something. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And most of it was be a good person, you know? | ||
| I mean, that was Christ's message. | ||
| I grew up watching my uncle preach, and so when I was a kid, I loved church. | ||
| I mean, I loved it, loved it. | ||
| I loved to go watch him preach. | ||
| I'd go watch him preach on Sunday, Sunday night, and go watch him preach on Wednesday. | ||
| And charismatic, funny, and just a... | ||
| And he comes from nowhere. | ||
| His mother was a hooker. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| But all a self-made man. | ||
| So I loved it. | ||
| And then we moved and I went to a regular Baptist church and I was like, this fucking sucks, man. | ||
| Get me out of this motherfucker now. | ||
| Where's the youth group fun? | ||
| You know, we used to have these youth groups that were more fun than I had anywhere else. | ||
| We went on a choir tour where we had to raise money for it, selling pens or whatever the fuck it was. | ||
| And then we all piled on a shitty bus and took off singing in churches. | ||
| And And it was, you know, it was freedom. | ||
| It was total freedom because I could buy, I could eat whatever I wanted. | ||
| I had $3.50 at 13 years old, 12, 13 years old, 11 maybe, to spend in any restaurant I wanted. | ||
| I could get whatever I wanted. | ||
| So every meal, chili and french fries. | ||
| That's all I want, baby. | ||
| You just go bring me the chili and the fucking french fries and pile them up right here. | ||
| But... | ||
| But once I found out that there are these really great orators and there are some really... | ||
| Terrible ones. | ||
| Horrible. | ||
| Well, it's like comics. | ||
| It's like people who write books or it's actors, all of the above. | ||
| There's always a bunch of that. | ||
| He made no bones about it, too, that if somebody was coming in to look at him to preach at a bigger place... | ||
| He would pull stuff out of his repertoire, you know, because he's got a killer 45 on something particular that he murders with. | ||
| And he didn't make any bones about that to me. | ||
| He goes, yeah, they're coming in to watch me, so I'm going to do my life story or whatever, which is great, you know. | ||
| But... | ||
| Well, like you were talking about with your material, that it takes like three years to really ripen. | ||
| I'm sure that's the same thing. | ||
| He had to come up with a new show every fucking Sunday. | ||
| And then you couldn't do the same thing Sunday night or the same thing Wednesday night because you had people like me at every show. | ||
| It's a lot of jazz, right? | ||
| A lot of improvisation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| A lot of recalling facts. | ||
| It's kind of like Dr. Phil is, because Dr. Phil does three of those shows a day with no script. | ||
| Has no idea what he's saying walking into it. | ||
| No idea what's going to happen when he walks into it. | ||
| And I'm going to tell you right now, nobody else could do it. | ||
| You could do it. | ||
| Shut the fuck up. | ||
| How dare you. | ||
| I could not do it. | ||
| I couldn't do it. | ||
| You know how many days a week, a month, I'm actually interesting? | ||
| I'm like four. | ||
| And the rest of them, I'm getting a fucking... | ||
| You're gonna make me cry. | ||
| I'm getting a dial tone the rest of the time. | ||
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You're gonna make me cry. | |
| I'm getting a dial tone, I'm telling you. | ||
| But Doc, I mean, just three hour long shows a day with no script. | ||
| You could do that all day long. | ||
| Fuck no, I couldn't. | ||
| I couldn't do it once. | ||
| Yes, you could do it just like this. | ||
| Like you're doing it right now. | ||
| There's no reason why we can't get a direct run away. | ||
| You haven't noticed you're carrying this conversation? | ||
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I'm not! | |
| There's no fucking way I am! | ||
| That's the weed. | ||
| The weed's fucking with you. | ||
| You've been telling some amazing stories. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| Ron White, you can do it. | ||
| There's no reason why. | ||
| Somebody figured out that Dr. Phil can do it. | ||
| He can do it. | ||
| He did it. | ||
| He's doing it. | ||
| He's currently doing it. | ||
| Somebody figured out that he can improvise about health and all that. | ||
| You could do what you're doing right now all day. | ||
| Every day, whenever you want to do it. | ||
| Yeah, but you don't need any help. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| I need a fucking shitload of help. | ||
| Well, I know, but you're going to still make it home either way, you know. | ||
| But these are conversations, Ron. | ||
| There has to be banter, and in banter, you're fucking hilarious. | ||
| Like, how dare you? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I got offered a radio job one time, and it was probably for twice what I was making as a stand-up comic, and it was with Eddie Fingers in Cincinnati. | ||
| And that was really, it was $125,000. | ||
| And I'm like, that's a lot. | ||
| That's a bunch of cash to me at the time. | ||
| You start thinking about getting a boat. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I might just buy a boat. | ||
| Boat, you know, mistress. | ||
| I got a new car. | ||
| Ooh, mistress. | ||
| That's the thing about money is that you think that the rich people have twice as much money as you, but they don't. | ||
| They have a thousand times more money than you. | ||
| The really rich people? | ||
| Yeah, so 125. But anyway, but what I realized was that they saw me come in once a year and murder on their radio show. | ||
| But... | ||
| Getting that out of me every day? | ||
| There's no way. | ||
| You got five days a week? | ||
| This is where we differ. | ||
| We have a problem here. | ||
| Because I fucking hang out with you all the time now at the comedy store. | ||
| How many times have we drank together? | ||
| A dozen? | ||
| At least. | ||
| Maybe two dozen? | ||
| Every fucking time it's been this. | ||
| It's been awesome. | ||
| Oh, well, but, you know... | ||
| I'm just saying don't count on it. | ||
| I'm fucking counting on it. | ||
| How would you possibly count on you not being you? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| That doesn't make any sense at all. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| What happened to that joint? | ||
| Oh, we got another one, man. | ||
| Fuck that one. | ||
| That one's gone. | ||
| I like how Ron White thinks. | ||
| This is important. | ||
| We're already struggling with reality. | ||
| Ron White thinks, notice you're the one carrying the conversation. | ||
| He's telling like 10 epic stories. | ||
| God damn it, Ron White. | ||
| Why is it that something... | ||
| I don't want to make you embarrassed. | ||
| But why is it something that all the great comics have? | ||
| Where there's this, like, ridiculous humility in a lot of ways. | ||
| You know? | ||
| I had a conversation with Dave Chappelle once. | ||
| Dave Chappelle and I were talking. | ||
| We went to this fucking Hollywood party. | ||
| That was like deep up in the hills. | ||
| It was Naomi Campbell's birthday party. | ||
| It was a 50-foot tall naked photo of Naomi Campbell. | ||
| We had to go to a place, and we had to park. | ||
| And then from where we parked, we had to get in a bus that took us to this fucking house. | ||
| This house was ridiculous. | ||
| And I get up there with Dave, and I was like... | ||
| It was so weird. | ||
| It was like, Demi Moore was there, and Ledney Kravitz was there, and all these famous people were there. | ||
| I saw like a ton of famous people. | ||
| And I'm like, dude, this is so weird. | ||
| There's like this gathering of famous people. | ||
| This is so strange. | ||
| He goes, yeah, man, I would never be one of those. | ||
| I don't want to be one of those. | ||
| I go, what are you talking about? | ||
| You're the most famous person in this fucking room. | ||
| And he looked at me like, what? | ||
| And I go, dude, you're the most... | ||
| We're both... | ||
| I mean, we're beyond high. | ||
| We're beyond high. | ||
| And we're hanging out at this famous party. | ||
| I go, dude, you're the most famous person here. | ||
| He goes, Joe, stop lying to me, man. | ||
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I'm like, there's no doubt you're the most famous person here. | |
| I was playing Denver, and he was working out stuff at the Comedy Works in Denver, which is one of the best comedy clubs in the country, too. | ||
| Oh, one of the best. | ||
| It's right up there at the Ice House. | ||
| He was in there all week doing sets, and so he called. | ||
| And I paid to see him in Santa Barbara like a year and a half ago. | ||
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Wow. | |
| We were walking down the street, and it was for sale, and we walked up. | ||
| You just didn't even know he was there? | ||
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No. | |
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Me and my wife walked in, sat down, and just howled. | ||
| I mean, kind of like you in a way, he'll walk out on some pretty thin limbs and just jump on them. | ||
| And has a punchline to back it up with. | ||
| And I was real, real impressed. | ||
| And then he called me when I was in Denver and said, would you come out and do a set? | ||
| Because I was coming in a day early in front of me. | ||
| And I'm like, oh, fuck yeah, I'd love to. | ||
| But anyway, after a set here one night, I hear it like we're at the comedy store. | ||
| I was leaving, and I was walking up to my car, and he's got a bunch of people in a big old huge SUV. And he goes, Ron White, you're coming with us. | ||
| I said, no, I gotta go home. | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| You're coming with us. | ||
| You have to come with us. | ||
| You are coming with us tonight. | ||
| Get in this car. | ||
| And I'm like, okay. | ||
| So we went to some club. | ||
| Couldn't tell you where it was. | ||
| I mean, you know, not that far, downtown somewhere, but really no door, no name, you know, just to get through it. | ||
| And what we did is we went out and we saw how much fun it was to be Dave fucking Chappelle. | ||
| You know, I go to the comedy store because I'm famous when I'm there. | ||
| You know, I'm not famous everywhere. | ||
| He's famous everywhere. | ||
| And he's also, you know, fun about it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You know, some people, I mean, he'll go engage every table and talk to them. | ||
| I mean, he's not, you know, come here, come here. | ||
| Oh, get away, get away, get away. | ||
| No, he's a great guy. | ||
| He's a weirdly great guy. | ||
| He always has been, too. | ||
| I think I met Dave when he was like 18 or something. | ||
| He was always like, just a super nice guy. | ||
| Just always been very genuine, you know, and in the amazing pressure that you face and being, like in a lot of ways, the voice of a comedic generation. | ||
| When he was doing Chappelle's show, it was sort of the defining show of that generation. | ||
| There's really no parallel. | ||
| He does like, what, two seasons? | ||
| Did he do two seasons? | ||
| Two seasons. | ||
| And then he had a $50 million contract and he showed up in Africa or something. | ||
| I don't know exactly what happened. | ||
| And had some of the best sketches ever. | ||
| That one, the blind guy who didn't know that he was black and he was a white supremacist. | ||
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Holy shit! | |
| I mean, he was in the KKK and he didn't know that he was black because he was blind. | ||
| It is one of the funniest bits the fucking universe has ever seen. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And he did it for two years, and it sort of, when they tried to change his show, and he just walked away. | ||
| That's sort of like... | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I don't know that anybody tried to change his show. | ||
| I know they did. | ||
| You do? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But what I... You know, that... | ||
| He couldn't go into stand-up because they wouldn't leave him alone. | ||
| You know, he couldn't start going... | ||
| Because right then, he was ripe to play every major... | ||
| Whatever he wanted to sell, he could sell it. | ||
| Still can't. | ||
| But they would... | ||
| Rick James, bitch! | ||
| They would just scream at him the whole time. | ||
| And I can only imagine how frustrating that would be. | ||
| But I... That happened for a little while, yeah. | ||
| I saw that. | ||
| But now, it's security heavy. | ||
| I mean, if you want to get thrown out of his show, there's a good chance you will. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because there's a bunch of big guys walking around, and then they try to stay pretty low. | ||
| But if you think it's going to be about you and Chappelle exchanging pleasantries, you're wrong. | ||
| You're going to be shut up and then thrown out. | ||
| But, and I get it. | ||
| I'll have somebody thrown out of one of my shows in two seconds. | ||
| Sometimes you just have to. | ||
| I saw Chris D'Elia's Instagram the other day, and there was some couple that was leaving, and apparently they were just really rude to him during his show, and they were yelling out, you're a loser and all this shit. | ||
| And he... | ||
| You know, Chris is so silly. | ||
| Chris is so silly. | ||
| He's on stage. | ||
| He's like, bye, you fucking idiots! | ||
| And he's laughing about it. | ||
| He's like, one more thing, one more thing. | ||
| Bye, you fucking idiots! | ||
| And the whole crowd starts cheering. | ||
| It's so ridiculous. | ||
| But this couple, apparently, they just wouldn't stop heckling him. | ||
| They wouldn't stop calling him a loser. | ||
| Imagine paying to go see somebody and then calling him a loser. | ||
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Like, what the fuck? | |
| Like, what the fuck? | ||
| Like, what happened? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Who needs a hug? | ||
| Who needs a hug first? | ||
| I got a pretty zero tolerance policy. | ||
| I mean, because I'm not going to banter with you at all. | ||
| I'm going to ask you to shut up. | ||
| And if you don't do that, then I'm going to tell you this. | ||
| Things have been set in motion that I cannot stop because you didn't listen to what I said last time. | ||
| And I can't because if I do that, somebody's already walking over and they're going to get thrown out. | ||
| Well, I'm like talking about some fucking Mortal Kombat. | ||
| Goddamn. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, some people... | ||
| You know, there's a lot of different kinds of people, folks. | ||
| Some of them just don't get it. | ||
| They're just too frustrating to interact with. | ||
| They just want to make it about them and scream out, interrupt a show for whatever reason. | ||
| And it's not their fault, maybe. | ||
| It's the way they were raised. | ||
| Maybe it's the fucking genetics they were handed. | ||
| They don't go to the theater a lot. | ||
| There's a lot of things. | ||
| They might be drunk. | ||
| They might be fucked up. | ||
| They might have anxiety. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Yeah, I think sometimes they think it helps. | ||
| You know, to give the comedian something to do. | ||
| I think they think it helps. | ||
| I don't think they're trying to stump the comic most of the time. | ||
| Because me, or you, handling a heckler is like playing ping pong with a chicken. | ||
| It's so fucking easy. | ||
| But I just don't want to do it. | ||
| I don't want to spend any time doing it. | ||
| I want to spend all my time entertaining these other bunch of people. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| But occasionally, I will open to the fact that there's a weird exchange between a comedian and an audience. | ||
| It's a weird exchange. | ||
| And occasionally, people say shit that's fucking funny. | ||
| It is unfortunate. | ||
| I should be more like that than I'm not. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| I'm so fucking humorless. | ||
| Because I bounce laughs off a laugh, so that's what I do. | ||
| I dribble. | ||
| I'm going to pace, rhythm, timing, boom, boom, boom. | ||
| So I'm going to start you here, I'm going to dribble you to here, and then I'm going to be slamming you. | ||
| But if you stop me... | ||
| Then I gotta go, okay, fuck. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| And I'm gonna start dribbling down here. | ||
| But I'll get there quick. | ||
| But I mean, it always makes me mad. | ||
| And it shouldn't make me mad. | ||
| That shouldn't be the reaction, but it does. | ||
| It makes me mad because I have what I want. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And you're fucking it up. | ||
| That definitely does happen. | ||
| That happens too. | ||
| I just think every now and then someone says some funny shit. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| I should. | ||
| I mean, I should. | ||
| Lighten the fuck up. | ||
| I'm a fucking comedian. | ||
| I had this one joke. | ||
| It was this one time, one of the best heckles ever. | ||
| It was in New Jersey. | ||
| I was doing a theater in Jersey. | ||
| And I had this one joke about Kim Kardashian meeting the aliens. | ||
| And I'm like, well, who do you think is the most famous woman in the world? | ||
| And this guy goes, your mother. | ||
| And it was the way he said it. | ||
| It was like the perfect timing. | ||
| Or maybe he might have said your mom. | ||
| Your mom. | ||
| I think he said your mom. | ||
| I was like, this is fucking hilarious. | ||
| Your mom. | ||
| Anytime you could say your mom. | ||
| Was it your mom? | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| I mean, that's 80% of the banter that Ari, Shafir, and I have with each other. | ||
| Was it your mom that sucked all those dicks? | ||
| No? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The guy never heckled again. | ||
| It was the one heckle in one show. | ||
| It was like perfect. | ||
| He went in like a ninja. | ||
| He dropped a nuclear bomb. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Your mom. | ||
| And it got a laugh. | ||
| It got a laugh. | ||
| Now, did you tell him that don't try it again? | ||
| No, I admitted it was really funny. | ||
| Whenever you can say that, that's fucking funny. | ||
| I wonder why I can't do that. | ||
| But I sure can't. | ||
| It just pisses me off. | ||
| Sometimes. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I'm not a heckler supporter. | ||
| I think you are. | ||
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I'm not. | |
| I'm just saying what a live show is really is some weird interaction, right? | ||
| And I think people like to know that you're right there. | ||
| Well, when I'd been doing stand-up for six years and I was headlining Comedy Club, I prayed to God somebody would heckle me because I couldn't get to 45 minutes without it. | ||
| So, you know, I needed about four or five minutes of jabber and asking Hayseeds where they're from, which is pure third-grade comedy. | ||
| And I'm clearly a fourth-grader. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| How long is it before someone does a hologram show where you go to a theater and the holograms are so good that it looks like it's really Ron White? | ||
| It's already there. | ||
| But you're on the other side of the planet. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's already there. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's on Rodeo Drive. | ||
| There's a company over there on Rodeo Drive that are doing the most amazing... | ||
| The thing is, it still needs to evolve. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, it's like these... | ||
| Well, anyway, it still needs to evolve. | ||
| Did you see when they did it on CNN? When they used it for the elections one year? | ||
| They had, like, Wolf Blitzer in the hologram. | ||
| Do you remember that, Jamie? | ||
| What was that about? | ||
| They tried that, like, one time. | ||
| And they're like, this is freaking people the fuck out. | ||
| Like, what are we, Star Wars? | ||
| Is he gonna beam up now? | ||
| What the fuck is Wolf Blitzer doing in a hologram? | ||
| Can't you just put a camera on him wherever the fuck he is? | ||
| Why do you have to show me a hologram? | ||
| Like, what's going on here? | ||
| People just... | ||
| Right? | ||
| Well, but now they just can't do it for as long as they want to. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So without it just costing a gillion dollars. | ||
| But eventually, you can do it on your fucking phone. | ||
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Wow. | |
| You can project an image of something you're thinking right there in front of you. | ||
| Look at this woman. | ||
| She's glowing. | ||
| She's like, help me, Obi-Wan. | ||
| You're my only hope. | ||
| This is my pussy. | ||
| CNN's Jessica Yellen via hologram from Chicago. | ||
| It's a really fucking cool-looking hologram, but she's got a weird... | ||
| Oh, I didn't even know we were watching something about holograms. | ||
| I thought you were talking to me. | ||
| You're watching television. | ||
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Look at it. | |
| It's right there. | ||
| That's that woman. | ||
| That was when they did it on CNN, where they had her as a... | ||
| This was during the McCain-Obama. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| And she's a hologram. | ||
| They did this on CNN. She's glowing. | ||
| This is so freaky. | ||
| This is so sci-fi. | ||
| I think America was like, no. | ||
| No more of this. | ||
| You know what else it is? | ||
| It's really bad radio. | ||
| Because nobody can see it. | ||
| Yeah, but there's a lot of people watching on YouTube, too. | ||
| We'll tell them. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This is also on YouTube. | ||
| Wait, what are we going to tell them? | ||
| CNN's Jessica Yellen via hologram. | ||
| Just Google that and you can watch this video. | ||
| CNN hologram first is a video we're watching. | ||
| And you can play that. | ||
| Record it and play it while you're listening to Joe and I's banter. | ||
| Just tell me what you're seeing. | ||
| Cut it. | ||
| Does this freak you out when you see this person with this blue glow around them? | ||
| Like there's some fucking alien. | ||
| What are they preparing us for? | ||
| It looks like money to me. | ||
| I don't want to go straight Alex Jones here, but... | ||
| I would say, that looks crazy. | ||
| How long before people start doing stand-up like that? | ||
| Where the audience will heckle, but it won't work because you're not really there. | ||
| So it'll only work if everybody shuts the fuck up. | ||
| You just keep on moving. | ||
| Just blow on a thread. | ||
| Sometimes I feel like that. | ||
| Well, what they'll do is they'll film you doing a set somewhere in front of a crowd with this hologram thing projecting it. | ||
| So you'll do a live show, but the live show is only going to be for the people right in front of you. | ||
| Instead of a DVD, it'll be something that maybe I could be in your living room at some point for a limited amount of dates. | ||
| No, I still can if you have a lot of money. | ||
| But eventually, I'm just saying, where does it stop? | ||
| If you can do that right there, then eventually you'll be able to do it on a small scale. | ||
| I brought my drone. | ||
| There's a drone now that'll follow you and take pictures of you. | ||
| Have you seen that? | ||
| It floats above you and films pictures of you. | ||
| So you can film stuff. | ||
| I have one. | ||
| You have one of those? | ||
| What do you do with it? | ||
| Well, lately, now that I live at the Montage in Beverly Hills, I fly it down Beverly Drive and just take footage of it and turn it around, snapshots. | ||
| But the thing is, I used to live off a canyon, right? | ||
| So if it crashed... | ||
| It was just going to go into the canyon. | ||
| Now it goes into some kid's head if it fucking falls out of the sky, right? | ||
| How often does it fall? | ||
| Never. | ||
| But I still can't keep from thinking about it every once in a while. | ||
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It is fucking weird that you could just have a robot that flies around. | |
| You can go right over to the Beverly Wilshire and just park it right in any window you want. | ||
| And if those curtains are open and you want to watch those people fuck... | ||
| They're going to get pissed when they see that goddamn drone, but they don't know who's flying it. | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| And it goes 80 miles an hour. | ||
| What are you saying, Jamie? | ||
| It's going to fall out of the sky here in a second. | ||
| It's going to fall out of the sky? | ||
| Yes, it's one of the new GoPro drones a couple weeks ago. | ||
| Oh shit. | ||
| They were over a baseball field and it took a nosedive. | ||
| Didn't hit anybody. | ||
| But that's just luck. | ||
| But it didn't fall on Beverly Drive either during Christmas season. | ||
| Oh my god, that's crazy. | ||
| What the fuck just happened? | ||
| So that thing just fell out of the sky. | ||
| Did you see the one where the guy... | ||
| That looks like bullshit to me. | ||
| That happened, I'm pretty sure. | ||
| This looks like bullshit though. | ||
| This pose looks like bullshit. | ||
| Maybe I'm just too quick to call bullshit. | ||
| Maybe, yeah. | ||
| But did you see that one where there was a guy that was on the skiing slopes, and he was in some sort of Olympic competition or something, and the drone fell behind him? | ||
| Like right behind him. | ||
| He barely missed him. | ||
| But it was a big drone. | ||
| Big drone, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, with like a movie camera on it or something. | ||
| Yeah, here it is. | ||
| So this guy's skiing. | ||
| What is this competition, Jamie? | ||
| The Olympics or something. | ||
| Oh, shit. | ||
| And look at that. | ||
| Oh, and he never saw it. | ||
| He never saw it. | ||
| But it fell right behind him. | ||
| Like, this is crazy. | ||
| Oh, it would have killed him. | ||
| It probably would have fucked him up, man. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| With this thing, and you've seen it in high speed. | ||
| First of all, look at that. | ||
| Watch. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Right behind him. | ||
| And it looks like, it's hard to tell with perspective, but it looks like just a few feet. | ||
| It looks like it busted into about a billion pieces. | ||
| That would have fucking hurt like hell if that hit him. | ||
| Yeah, you can't do that. | ||
| I'm going to quit flying it over Beverly Drive. | ||
| I can tell in my gut when I'm doing something if I shouldn't be doing it. | ||
| I really do have a little signal inside of me that goes, Ron. | ||
| And I rarely listen to it. | ||
| I rarely do. | ||
| But I think I probably ought to quit flying the drone up and down Rodeo Drive when I can't even see it. | ||
| Yeah, definitely don't have that robot monster flying in the sky dropping on people's heads like that thing. | ||
| I took it to the place where Sturgis is. | ||
| The bike thing? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| Anyway, there's a little town up there, a little casino town where Deadwood is. | ||
| I think it is Deadwood. | ||
| How do I not know where Sturgis is? | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| It's in Idaho, right? | ||
| South Dakota? | ||
| South Dakota, right. | ||
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People in Idaho go, we're not fucking South Dakota, bro. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's like, that's that big motorcycle thing, right? | ||
| Where everybody gets together and they just fucking ride. | ||
| I mean, it's a million things. | ||
| I mean, a million people. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| That is insane. | ||
| See how beautiful this little charming little street's been like this, except for the pavement, since 1785. Holy shit. | ||
| And it's always been intact because it's always been a town that always made money and doing something. | ||
| So a big gold town, but so it's all intact. | ||
| So this is all going uphill where he's going right now. | ||
| And it keeps going uphill for a ways. | ||
| And then back up to the left... | ||
| Way up a hill is the hotel where I'm at. | ||
| So I'm going to take my drone and I want to go down that strip and shoot that street, you know, just from one end to the other. | ||
| And I had a spare battery in my pocket, and so I took it out front and I took it off from there and I just kind of walked it over like I was flying a kite. | ||
| And I get up there and... | ||
| And I send it down the street. | ||
| I just fly it down there just for a practice run. | ||
| And it's, you know, almost a mile. | ||
| And then fly it back up. | ||
| And then I fly it back down there again, and while it's flying, this really good-looking girl goes, oh, you're the one with the drone scaring everybody. | ||
| And I said, the kids love it. | ||
| But then I look back around, and it wasn't there. | ||
| The drone was gone. | ||
| And then I started running down that hill. | ||
| I mean, just kind of walking fast going, where is it? | ||
| And then I'd send it up, you know, because you can hit an up button and it'll go straight up until you can see it. | ||
| And that wouldn't happen. | ||
| I was walking down. | ||
| And then I looked. | ||
| And once the battery gets so low, it just takes over itself and takes us back to where you started from. | ||
| It was taken back to the home base. | ||
| Which is right in front of that really busy hotel. | ||
| It's going to come in. | ||
| My little drone's going to come dropping in. | ||
| So I got to just huff it. | ||
| And I'm a downhill guy. | ||
| I am not an uphill guy. | ||
| And I see the drone flying over my head towards the hotel. | ||
| I can't stop it. | ||
| I'm totally out of control. | ||
| And I'm just... | ||
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I can't. | |
| I mean, I can't stop. | ||
| I got to get there. | ||
| I got to beat the fucking thing to the fucking hotel. | ||
| And I don't. | ||
| But it doesn't matter, because it comes down to about an inch or an hour. | ||
| It just comes in really slow and just lands. | ||
| So I'm bent over, holding a chair, just... | ||
| I mean, this is as out of breath as I've ever been in my life. | ||
| And this guy goes, is there any way I can get a picture of me while I'm dying? | ||
| Is that what you... | ||
| So are there drones that can navigate around trees and things? | ||
| These won't hit a wall. | ||
| Like they'll come near it and then they'll just stop? | ||
| Yeah, if you have that, you know. | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| What are you doing, Ron White? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Why the fuck are we allowing these flying robots to be everywhere? | ||
| Well, it was a big case in Texas. | ||
| My son was telling me about it where this guy flew his drone into another guy's yard and he shot it with a shotgun. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| And he's like, well, you're filming my family. | ||
| And so now it's, you know, who's the fault? | ||
| He doesn't own that airspace. | ||
| I mean, it seems like you'd own a foot or two of it, right? | ||
| Of your own airspace? | ||
| Well, it's a totally new dilemma. | ||
| And it's one more piece of technology that brings us, like, weirdly more connected, some sort of strange, almost forced way. | ||
| Like, now, we thought the only way to get around was essentially by being on foot, so you could put up a fence. | ||
| But now, if you can fly in 3D space, well, where am I allowed to go? | ||
| Where am I not allowed to go? | ||
| Are you allowed to fly over anybody's house? | ||
| How does that work? | ||
| And as technology gets closer and closer and closer and closer to whatever the fuck the singularity is, we're going to probably physically be able to do that. | ||
| Right now, we can't physically fly around. | ||
| It's too difficult to... | ||
| Have some sort of a jetpack-type situation. | ||
| Yeah, listen, those empty promises rang hollow years ago, the jetpacks. | ||
| They did, but as technology improves, there's a possibility within our lifetime of some sort of propulsion system that works on some sort of a vest that you would wear. | ||
| Next hundred years, all you got to do to see what's going to happen in the next hundred years is look at the last hundred years and that kind of momentum is going to continue straight on until this looks like antique. | ||
| Why did they ever do it this way? | ||
| A hundred percent. | ||
| Everything we're doing is stupid. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| So Ron got in a car and drove And they did what? | ||
| They met? | ||
| You know, I don't know what it's going to be, but... | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| These are like the strangest times ever. | ||
| I really feel like every day feels so strange. | ||
| Like, the fact that Donald Trump is really the president. | ||
| Like, that feels so strange. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, I didn't vote for the president-elect, but I did get my tax estimates two days ago, and when I looked at it, I was like, go Trump! | ||
| Now, I don't mean to say that I agree with anything he's ever said in his life, but... | ||
| But, you know, I don't know how these really rich guys are getting away with paying 3%, and I'm paying 34% tax on this money. | ||
| And, you know, well, he did get elected, so... | ||
| I am going to get the benefits of those tax breaks. | ||
| I wouldn't trade my country for it, but I'll take them. | ||
| It's just fascinating because he's the first truly famous, like super famous guy who ran for president and won. | ||
| No, Reagan. | ||
| I don't think Reagan can fuck with Trump in the super famous department. | ||
| Oh, come on. | ||
| Reagan was a movie star, dude. | ||
| I know, but I mean... | ||
| There was a movie star back when they had three televisions. | ||
| I was six or whatever I was. | ||
| I don't remember how old I was. | ||
| I don't remember how old I was either. | ||
| But I remember I was pretty high. | ||
| I'm not good with numbers. | ||
| I definitely wasn't voting age during the administration. | ||
| But do you really think Reagan was as big a star as Trump is? | ||
| That Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice show? | ||
| That was a big hit. | ||
| Worldwide, no. | ||
| Worldwide, no. | ||
| But U.S. wise, yes. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Every bit is famous. | ||
| And so was Schwarzenegger. | ||
| Schwarzenegger for sure. | ||
| If Schwarzenegger ran for president, if he was allowed to, he's not allowed to because he's born in Austria, he'd win. | ||
| He'd fucking win. | ||
| I think he'd win. | ||
| I think if Trump can win, for sure Schwarzenegger can win. | ||
| And I think he taught us something very important that I think changed the lives of a lot of people. | ||
| You can't unfuck the babysitter. | ||
| Can't do it. | ||
| You can't un-fuck the babysitter. | ||
| You can't take that back. | ||
| Yeah, you can't. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| So don't fuck the babysitter. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| Look what can happen. | ||
| But people still love him. | ||
| They know what he is. | ||
| He's, you know... | ||
| That's why I'm... | ||
| He smokes cigars at this place where I smoke cigars sometimes, and that's why I'm walking out of a building. | ||
| I said, hey, governor. | ||
| He didn't say anything. | ||
| But wouldn't you still call him governor? | ||
| I would call him whatever he wants, sir. | ||
| I met him once. | ||
| I think I probably called him brother. | ||
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Brother. | |
| Because they call everybody brother. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But he was super cool. | ||
| I met him at the UFC. I was like, I'm shaking his hand. | ||
| I'm like, goddamn, shaking hands with Arnold motherfucking Schwarzenegger. | ||
| It's one of those weird ones. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Certain people you meet and you go, whoa. | ||
| Certain people you meet and you're like, hey man, what's up? | ||
| Nice to meet you. | ||
| And other people you meet and you're like, I can't fucking believe I'm meeting Sylvester Stallone. | ||
| It's just weird, you know? | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| You know, like that Jack Nicklaus guy. | ||
| Or Jack Nicholson, rather. | ||
| Either one. | ||
| One of them's dead, right? | ||
| The golfer died, didn't he? | ||
| Nicholas, yeah. | ||
| He died? | ||
| Jack Nicholson, yeah. | ||
| No, he didn't. | ||
| Jack Nicholson's alive. | ||
| Arnold Palmer died. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| Jack's fine. | ||
| Sorry, Jack. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm so sorry. | ||
| Everybody. | ||
| If you're listening. | ||
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Everybody involved. | |
| If you're listening. | ||
| Jack Nicholson, though, the actor. | ||
| Like, if you met him. | ||
| And he's alive, too. | ||
| He is alive, too. | ||
| All these people are alive, Joe. | ||
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Yes. | |
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| I knew somebody died. | ||
| Couldn't figure out which golfer. | ||
| Yeah, Arnold Palmer. | ||
| But that's one, if you meet Jack Nicholson, you're going to freak out a little bit. | ||
| You have to. | ||
| Yeah, he played through our group at Bel Air one time when I was playing golf with Doc, and him and Joe Pesci played through our group. | ||
| What was that like? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| They just played through our group. | ||
| It was a par three that I played the course a lot with Doc, and But they turned around. | ||
| They both gave you the movie star look. | ||
| It wasn't much, but it was definitely two really, really, really cool, famous people. | ||
| It's not often I spazz out. | ||
| About meeting somebody, but I was like the grand marshal at Talladega, and Margo sang the national anthem, so we were like the king and queen of the Talladega Speedway that weekend. | ||
| They were filming. | ||
| Talladega Nights was about to come out, and Farrell was there. | ||
| And we went to this dinner. | ||
| It was by all these famous chefs, supposed to be really nice, and he was in line. | ||
| And I just started walking towards him like a zombie. | ||
| I had nothing to say. | ||
| I had no plan. | ||
| And then I just stopped myself and went, Ron, would you go sit down? | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| But I'm such a huge fan. | ||
| I know some other famous people, but Farrell, that's a big deal. | ||
| Every time I'm around him, and I've been around him several times, is Dan Aykroyd. | ||
| And every time I'm around Dan, I say something completely fucking stupid because I'm just a gigantic... | ||
| I mean, I couldn't even tell you how big an Aykroyd fan I am. | ||
| He's one of the fucking blues brothers. | ||
| Well, he's Dan Aykroyd. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| But that was when I was stopped. | ||
| We were stopping parties to play this stuff. | ||
| Stopping parties? | ||
| Yeah, there would be a party going on Saturday night. | ||
| They would stop it and turn on Saturday Night Live and watch... | ||
| Belushi and Ackroyd and Bill Murray. | ||
| Anyway, it was amazing. | ||
| But every time I'm around him, I always say something. | ||
| I know what you mean. | ||
| It's just like the most unimpressive I could possibly fucking be. | ||
| It's too uncomfortable. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm a comic. | ||
| He's like, yeah, you told me that last time. | ||
| I'm like, okay, fuck! | ||
| Fuck! | ||
| Oh, come on, Lord. | ||
| Give me something. | ||
| There's this fucking interview that they did recently with Jerry Lewis. | ||
| It is hilarious. | ||
| Have you seen it, Jamie? | ||
| Apparently, they annoyed the fuck out of him, right? | ||
| Like, Jerry Lewis is in his 90s. | ||
| And they were interviewing a bunch of people that are in their 90s that still work. | ||
| And they interviewed Jerry Lewis. | ||
| And I guess... | ||
| They had annoyed him so bad in bringing in a bunch of assistants and lights and cameras and shit. | ||
| So Jerry Lewis gave them one word answers. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| No. | ||
| It didn't. | ||
| So he did this interview with these fucking people. | ||
| And the guy starts weirding out. | ||
| We'll play a little bit over here. | ||
| It's on, what is it, Hollywood Reporter? | ||
| Is that who's doing it? | ||
| Is it going to come in through my headphones? | ||
| Yeah, you'll hear it through your headphones. | ||
| It's fucking hilarious, man. | ||
| Seven painfully awkward minutes with Jerry Lewis. | ||
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People who are still working in their 90s. | |
| Have you ever thought about retiring? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Was there never a moment that you thought it might be time to retire? | ||
| Why? | ||
| You come from a generation a little older, and I think of Bob Hope, George Byrne, Sinatra. | ||
| Oh, fuck you, they're dead people! | ||
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He ain't dead, look! | |
| Do you see similarities with them? | ||
| None. | ||
| None? | ||
| What do you think drives people like you and them to want to keep working? | ||
| Because we do it well. | ||
| And how about... | ||
| What's different about performing now for you than say 20 years ago? | ||
| How is it different for you? | ||
| It isn't. | ||
| Not at all? | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| I kind of see his point. | ||
| I see both of their points. | ||
| I see nobody's point but Jerry's point. | ||
| This guy's asking ridiculously stupid questions to one of the most famous comedians, certainly the best comedic actor, one of the best comedic actors that ever lived. | ||
| And he's asking him, why aren't you more like your dead friends? | ||
| Oh, well. | ||
| Because I'm not fucking dead! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think. | ||
| I think with a guy like that, if you're going to have a conversation with him, it's going to have to be in a podcast form. | ||
| It's going to have to be with someone who really respects him. | ||
| Someone who's going to have a conversation at this point in his life, after all the movies and all the stuff that guy's done, he probably doesn't want to deal with any bullshit anymore. | ||
| It seems like, to him, it was like, this is stupid. | ||
| What the fuck am I doing? | ||
| Why am I doing this? | ||
| This feels uninspired. | ||
| You know what I did the other day? | ||
| This was the worst fucking decision I ever made. | ||
| Not the worst, but a really bad one. | ||
| My mom's in town, and we're staying at the Montage because the house got destroyed. | ||
| And I'm like, Mom, what do you want to do? | ||
| She goes, Well, I've never been to the La Brea Tar Pits. | ||
| And I'm like, well, that's kind of like a puddle of mud. | ||
| Well, I'd like to go on one of those tour buses. | ||
| And I'm like, alright. | ||
| Well, I'll take you on one of those tour buses. | ||
| I'll take you. | ||
| So, we go on the TMZ bus. | ||
| Because I saw the TMZ, the big double-decker things, but that's not their bus. | ||
| They advertise for TMZ on the side of those buses, but their buses are little buses. | ||
| And they have like big bunch of television screens and they just blast! | ||
| All this footage of the... | ||
| I mean, everywhere you go, what happened there, every time Paris Hilton was on their show, you're so... | ||
| Real fucking loud. | ||
| Really, really, really annoying. | ||
| And I was like, Mama. | ||
| I mean, because we thought we were going to be really passive, you know, like, and that's where Jerry Lewis lived for 45 years, and right there is where there's George Carlin, the house, you know. | ||
| But no, it was in your face, loud. | ||
| It was like you were... | ||
| Forced to watch an episode of TMZ. And somebody tied you to a fucking chair and wouldn't let you go. | ||
| And just turned it the fuck up. | ||
| That's how fucking annoying it was. | ||
| And just horrible, horrible, horrible. | ||
| And so at one point in the tour they said, we'll be passing the Montage Hotel. | ||
| And I'm like, let's get off, Mom. | ||
| Yeah, let's get out of here. | ||
| So we scooted off. | ||
| But it was nightmarish. | ||
| And I like those guys at TMZ, and they're friends of mine, but God, would you please fucking turn it down, my mother? | ||
| I brought my mother. | ||
| I brought my mom. | ||
| I feel bad for the guy that was asking the questions to Jerry Lewis, too. | ||
| Because he probably thought he was going to have a nice, friendly conversation with a legend, probably totally intimidated. | ||
| He's in Jerry Lewis' house, having a conversation with him, and it's going to that one-word answer place. | ||
| No. | ||
| Why? | ||
| When he starts doing that, it's like, you're in verbal combat. | ||
| But listen to what the questions were. | ||
| Terrible questions. | ||
| Terrible questions. | ||
| The guy's 90 years old. | ||
| He's talking about, why aren't you more like dead? | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| How do you answer that question? | ||
| It was a poorly designed conversation. | ||
| Horrible! | ||
| Horribly designed conversation. | ||
| And it was obviously, that's how Jerry Lewis felt, and you could tell the guy who was asking the question was kind of, you know, he was treading on water, trying to figure out how to get the fuck through this while he's talking to this living legend. | ||
| And he didn't figure it out. | ||
| No, he didn't. | ||
| He didn't figure it out. | ||
| No, he should have... | ||
| He probably meant well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He probably meant well and just ran into everything. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Unpreparedness. | ||
| Unpreparedness, yeah. | ||
| That's a weird gig, too. | ||
| The ability to ad-lib and ask questions to some living legend like Jerry Lewis and just not realize while you're doing it that your narrative that you set up in your head is probably disrespectful to him because you're comparing him to all these dead people and why he's still working. | ||
| You're essentially saying why he's still alive. | ||
| How do you not catch that? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| How do you not catch that? | ||
| It's gotta be fucking... | ||
| You know, you almost have to wonder why he decided to do it. | ||
| I guess it's just the Hollywood Reporter, right? | ||
| It's a big deal. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, you know, I don't know that maybe... | ||
| Does he still sell tickets? | ||
| I don't know that he works. | ||
| I think he does. | ||
| I think that's what the guy was talking about. | ||
| See if Jerry Lewis still has stand-up shows. | ||
| I think he had just got done. | ||
| Fuck, I'd pay. | ||
| I'd pay, too. | ||
| I'd go see that. | ||
| Fuck, yeah. | ||
| That's, you know, Bill Burr and I had talked about going to see Bill Cosby before the scandal broke. | ||
| Like, and we had talked about going, and either one of us flaked. | ||
| I don't remember what happened, but Bill wound up going when he was somewhere in California. | ||
| We were going to make a separate trip to Vegas just to see Bill Cosby. | ||
| And Burr said he was fucking amazing. | ||
| Said he was fucking amazing. | ||
| And then the scandal broke afterwards, and, like, the touring stopped, and, like, it just became a totally different thing. | ||
| We have that VIP company. | ||
| We do other people's VIP stuff besides mine. | ||
| We do other people's. | ||
| We had just signed Cosby and that stuff breaks. | ||
| He would have been the perfect client for it because he's looking for trim anyway after the show, so he's going to want to hang and sell it. | ||
| It would have been great. | ||
| It probably would have been our best client. | ||
| He still sold a lot of tickets after that. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| An Evening with Jerry Lewis. | ||
| Saturday, November 12, 2016. So, real recent. | ||
| Yeah, that was the last show I could find listed. | ||
| Wow, that's a really recent show. | ||
| Where was it? | ||
| Where was that? | ||
| St. Louis International Film Festival. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So that was just probably him talking about... | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Which still would be fascinating. | ||
| Yeah, that would be fascinating. | ||
| But I'm pretty sure he does stand-up. | ||
| I'm pretty sure Jerry Lewis still does some sort of a stand-up show. | ||
| I think he had a show that said, like, at the South Point in Vegas. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| But they didn't have any recent shows listed or anything. | ||
| Oh, when was, like, the last show? | ||
| There was an article from September, so he might have had some shows at the end of the last year. | ||
| Pretty recent. | ||
| But, yeah. | ||
| So within the last year, he's still working. | ||
| Yeah, that's crazy. | ||
| Crazy, yeah. | ||
| I mean, if you go back and watch like the Nutty Professor, like we were talking about how that influenced Dice, you know, if you go back and watch that and just realize there had been nothing before this, you know, like there was Charlie Chapman and there was a few movies. | ||
| Chaplin. | ||
| Chaplin. | ||
| Oh my God, I'm an idiot. | ||
| Don't listen to me, I'll stop now. | ||
| But Three Stooges, you know, there was some fucking great shit. | ||
| But, god damn, man. | ||
| Those guys were like real pioneers. | ||
| How many decades had movie comedy been around back when Jerry Lewis was doing those movies? | ||
| Well, you know, you can look at... | ||
| Here's the thing. | ||
| Some comics... | ||
| We build bridges and most comics walk across those bridges after they've already been built substantially and it's set in stone. | ||
| So Lewis, you know, certainly built a bridge that Jim Carrey walked across in ballerina shoes and he knows it. | ||
| Because that extraordinary comedic talent that comes out of those two people, you're so identifiable. | ||
| I think that Pat Paulson built a bridge that Stephen Wright walked across. | ||
| Now, that doesn't mean Stephen didn't do it better, but he didn't invent it. | ||
| But don't you think all of us are, in essence, in a way, some sort of a group thing? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| We're all kind of influenced by each other's standards. | ||
| And what you appreciate, like as a comic who's been doing it for as many years as you have, you know, I'm just two years after you. | ||
| It was, when did I start? | ||
| August 27th, 1988. So that's about two years after you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which means we basically started the same day. | ||
| Yeah, pretty much. | ||
| I started literally a week apart from Greg Fitzsimmons. | ||
| Do you know Greg? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I don't know him well, but we work together somewhere and he's very funny. | ||
| He's hilarious. | ||
| He's a smart dude. | ||
| I tell you what, I tell people all the time, man, if you like stand-up comedy, go to the comedy store and make a vacation around it and go sit in there because people are going to come in and that room rattles. | ||
| Rattles. | ||
| And you better be prepared to do something or you're not going to follow some of these guys. | ||
| It's really, really strong, and it's fun. | ||
| That's what makes it so much fucking fun. | ||
| It's a pirate ship filled with murderers. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It really is right now. | ||
| It's killing everybody. | ||
| Just slaughter fests. | ||
| You're going on after savages. | ||
| It's just like, oh, Jesus Christ. | ||
| But everybody's riding the wave of everybody else, and it's an unbelievably supportive place. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| If you stop and think about how much camaraderie and friendship there is between the comedians, you would think if you get all these national comedians that tour all over the place, you put them together, oh, well, ego battles, it's going to be weird. | ||
| It's the total opposite. | ||
| That place is a love fest. | ||
| Everybody's hugging everybody and high-fiving and having drinks. | ||
| I go on, I do my time, but I try to hit them as hard as I can, right in the fucking mouth. | ||
| Because that's what I like to do, is hit them right in the fucking mouth. | ||
| And I guarantee you, somebody just got through hitting them in the mouth, so they're still wiping blood off their face when it's my turn to hit them in the mouth, but I'll hit them in the mouth anyway. | ||
| But the crowds that you get a hold of are so alive. | ||
| I mean, there's life. | ||
| It's like a swordfish on the end of a fucking line. | ||
| It just vibrates, you know? | ||
| Joey Diaz was slaughtering so hard the other night in the OR that I felt like I was having a religious experience. | ||
| I was in the back room of the OR, and Joey Diaz was slaughtering. | ||
| His face was beet red. | ||
| He was screaming out. | ||
| And I was running out of air. | ||
| I was laughing so hard. | ||
| And I remember thinking, like, this is a special time. | ||
| This is a special place. | ||
| This is a rare, rare little jewel in the universe of all the different performing arts at this one place that just sort of fucking cranked down the focus. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, the other night, Chappelle... | ||
| Would Chris Rock bring up Chappelle? | ||
| Or Chappelle brought up Chris Rock? | ||
| Rock brought up Chappelle. | ||
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How? | |
| What? | ||
| Neither one of them were even on the schedule. | ||
| Chris Rock pops in and brings up Dave Chappelle. | ||
| That's why I tell people, come to the comedy store. | ||
| You don't know what you're going to see for your $15. | ||
| Crazy spot, dude. | ||
| But you're not going to see... | ||
| If you were going to pay those guys to put a show on for you that you just saw tonight, it's $17,000 a ticket. | ||
| Or whatever it is. | ||
| It's expensive. | ||
| It's also a really honestly critical place, too. | ||
| If your new stuff sucks, they'll let you know. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I don't laugh at anything. | ||
| When I first started here, I really had a great little burst of material that I really like, and it's all the front end of my show now, and it's about 20 minutes long that I want from the front end of the show. | ||
| That's what I'm doing now on the front end of my live show. | ||
| And so it's... | ||
| But now, you know, it seems like I'm just playing around with the order of that stuff to see where it works the best and just how to just fucking really slap them in the face with it. | ||
| Because eventually, over time, your act will get into a place where it does drift into the spot it needs to be in. | ||
| But I don't have that kind of time, so I need to look at it. | ||
| And do it different ways and see where it needs to be to just slap the fuck out of them. | ||
| Which is my only goal is to slap the fuck out of them. | ||
| And when I can't do that anymore, I'll keep doing it for a couple more years. | ||
| You slap the fuck out of them. | ||
| I enjoy watching you slap the fuck out of them. | ||
| I enjoy watching you slap the fuck out of them. | ||
| I feel inspired. | ||
| You're going to just waltz on behind Rogan. | ||
| You know how big a fan I am of yours. | ||
| I know exactly who you are. | ||
| Not exactly who you are, not as much as I do now. | ||
| But I saw you do stand-up in Atlanta one time as a feature act a long time ago. | ||
| And you just really fucking tore this crowd up. | ||
| And I was like, ah, this guy's really good. | ||
| And so then, you know, I don't, unlike you, I don't hang out there and watch comics, you know, but sometimes you're right in front of me or right after me, and I just got, you know, just huge respect. | ||
| I mean, it's so much fun to watch. | ||
| You do physical things I couldn't even do, much less get the words out while you're doing them, you know. | ||
| But it's just great writing, and, you know, that's cool. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| Well, thanks, man. | ||
| I feel the same way about you, and I would say that whether or not you just said something nice to me. | ||
| But, you know, I'm honored to be friends with you. | ||
| Like, no bullshit. | ||
| As a comic, to me, that's an honor, you know? | ||
| Well, since I'm now one of the godfathers... | ||
| You're the godfather. | ||
| If you wanted to run for president of the Comedy Store, you just got here and you'd win. | ||
| Son of a bitch. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I'd be disrespectful if I went up against you. | ||
| I'll be your vice president. | ||
| No, you'd win. | ||
| You'd win. | ||
| Oh, no, no. | ||
| You're the statesman. | ||
| You're the statesman. | ||
| Clearly the voice of reason. | ||
| Actually, whenever Jay McGraw first met you, he was asking me, he goes, do you know Joe Rogan? | ||
| I go, yeah. | ||
| He goes, what do you think about him? | ||
| I'm like, he's a great guy. | ||
| He's a great comedian. | ||
| That's what people don't know. | ||
| I mean, a lot of people don't know. | ||
| A lot of people do know, but a lot of people don't know that he's a great comedian. | ||
| Not a good comedian, a great comedian. | ||
| That's very nice. | ||
| I think people know enough. | ||
| They don't need to know anymore. | ||
| I'm a good... | ||
| No, you're a great comedian. | ||
| That's not what I meant. | ||
| I mean, I'm good with no one. | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| Well, I'm just saying. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| But anyway, that's just what I told him. | ||
| I appreciate that. | ||
| And he said, but he doesn't talk much. | ||
| I'm like, huh. | ||
| It's like you guys were learning how to be boyfriends. | ||
| I don't make small talk, but I talk to people. | ||
| That's what I told him. | ||
| I said, you know what? | ||
| You're going to love this guy. | ||
| He's solid. | ||
| He's got a big heart. | ||
| He's what we're looking for for friends. | ||
| That's very nice. | ||
| This is a love fest. | ||
| This podcast is a big old love fest, Ron White. | ||
| Now Joe and I are Fucking FaceTiming Jay. | ||
| It's the gayest fucking three-way in the fucking world. | ||
| If we don't end up beating each other off before Christmas, I'll be shocked. | ||
| FaceTiming is another level of commitment other than texting with friends. | ||
| If you start FaceTiming friends, like, whoa. | ||
| Right. | ||
| All right, buddy. | ||
| Who's got the body they need to bury? | ||
| You're setting me up. | ||
| I won't even do that with my wife because I don't want to prove where I'm at. | ||
| You know, I don't want to. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| To turn around and show me the interest. | ||
| Get an Android phone. | ||
| They can't communicate with each other. | ||
| That's the move. | ||
| Get yourself an Android phone and just start Skyping from the other side of the universe. | ||
| I don't do anything wrong. | ||
| I wonder if there's some sort of a setting that you can have on... | ||
| You know that they have those goggles? | ||
| Have you seen these goddamn things now? | ||
| I've never looked through them. | ||
| What are they called again, Jamie? | ||
| Snapchat goggles, right? | ||
| Oh, I know. | ||
| So these people have these goggles where they can stream video from their fucking eyeglasses. | ||
| Anywhere they want, wherever they are. | ||
| They can stream video from eyeglasses. | ||
| To pick up where? | ||
| I could show you. | ||
| I could show what I'm seeing. | ||
| I could look over and see Jamie. | ||
| Show it to me. | ||
| How do I see it, though? | ||
| Through my phone? | ||
| People could watch it online. | ||
| They could check it out online. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| We're experiencing some next-level technological innovation shit that's happening. | ||
| Some new, even more invasive... | ||
| Internet sort of thing. | ||
| This is the next level. | ||
| The next level is you can literally show the whole world what you see. | ||
| So is this... | ||
| I mean, because I do Periscope when I'm really drunk on the bus. | ||
| Essentially a lot like that, but you don't have to hold on to it. | ||
| It's on your glasses. | ||
| So it's similar, and there's a live streaming idea. | ||
| There's like 30 second clips at a time, too. | ||
| That's all the shows? | ||
| Yeah, but I stay on... | ||
| You know, it's a blast. | ||
| We had this thing, because I got a friend that does my VIP stuff on the bus, and he was also at that first show that I did. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| And so, his name's Dave, and when we're going down the road, we're like this. | ||
| We get just baked. | ||
| You know, after the show, we travel at night, and we'll do these broadcasts, and the Big Gay Dave and Ron show, which has no content or anything. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| I don't know that it's growing that much, Periscope. | ||
| And it's the most amazing thing that you can do a live broadcast and you can pick it up in Cairo as easy as you can pick it up in Lubbock. | ||
| I think it's pretty popular. | ||
| Isn't it pretty popular? | ||
| Is it popular? | ||
| Periscope? | ||
| I know Scott Adams. | ||
| Scott Adams had a very popular Periscope. | ||
| Twitter owns it. | ||
| They just made it. | ||
| It's built right in now to Twitter's app. | ||
| So if you hit Twitter and instead of putting up a message, there's a button that says live video and it's Periscope. | ||
| It will just open right up. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| So they're trying to just figure out how to make it more available for people to be. | ||
| Whew! | ||
| And do they have a limitation on how long the clips are? | ||
| I don't believe so in there. | ||
| You can go 12 over an hour. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| You can do whatever you want. | ||
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That is so crazy. | |
| That kind of interactivity that has never existed before. | ||
| There's never existed anything. | ||
| Like, Scott Adams, like, he was doing coffee with Scott Adams, like, several times a week, right? | ||
| Wasn't he? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I just made that up. | ||
| I have no idea how many times he did it. | ||
| I could tell. | ||
| I know he did a bunch of them. | ||
| Seven. | ||
| How many times did he do it? | ||
| I might have just made that up. | ||
| Just the easy access to turning it on. | ||
| It's on now. | ||
| People know it's on now, where you are. | ||
| Yeah, and you just turn it on and they get a notification. | ||
| Ron White. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| They do that on Periscope. | ||
| You should have one on Periscope that says Ron White is drunk and he wants to talk. | ||
| I've got 25,000 followers on Periscope. | ||
| Damn. | ||
| I don't know if that's true or not. | ||
| I made that up. | ||
| You might get them after the end of this podcast. | ||
| We'll just tell you you have them, and everybody jump on. | ||
| Follow away. | ||
| We don't have a goodness signal, aren't we? | ||
| I was doing it for a while, but I got bored with the Periscope thing. | ||
| I'm like, Jesus Christ, am I exposed enough? | ||
| Instagram Live just started up. | ||
| I know. | ||
| They've been pushing that around. | ||
| I saw. | ||
| That's a little limited to an hour, and those videos don't last after. | ||
| Oh, that's weird. | ||
| They just disappear. | ||
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Oh, that's weird. | |
| That's too bad. | ||
| That's kind of too bad. | ||
| In some cases. | ||
| But I would guess that the amount of fucking data that they would have to stockpile if everybody's shit saved. | ||
| Every fucking dummy out there saved the video of them flexing on the beach. | ||
| You know? | ||
| All the fucking stupid videos of some guy telling a shitty joke at a bar. | ||
| All those things just gigabyte after gigabyte after gigabyte stored on the Twitter server. | ||
| They'd be like, fuck you. | ||
| That's what happened to... | ||
| The TMZ bus ride. | ||
| Yeah, that's the problem with the future is that everybody's gonna know everything everybody does all the time. | ||
| There's kind of not gonna be as much craziness going on in the next hundred years. | ||
| In the future, I think everybody's gonna know. | ||
| I think we're about 50 years away from us becoming some crazy hive mind. | ||
| That's what I think. | ||
| I'm stoned and drunk. | ||
| How long do you think I'm gonna live? | ||
| But I'm making some fucking points. | ||
| You can live. | ||
| You gotta just eat what I'm eating. | ||
| You gotta come to yoga class with me. | ||
| You gotta eat healthy. | ||
| You live out in the country. | ||
| I'll send somebody to you. | ||
| You're a wealthy man. | ||
| This is all we have to do. | ||
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Hey, you know what? | |
| I've been working with my yoga girl, and it's pretty basic stuff, but I'm working on it a couple days a week. | ||
| Basic stuff's all you need, man. | ||
| Basic stuff's all you need. | ||
| If you could work your way up to do a hot yoga class. | ||
| No, fuck. | ||
| You know, my wife took me to one of those. | ||
| It was the worst thing I've ever done in my life. | ||
| It's my favorite shit. | ||
| I walked out. | ||
| That's my suffer fest. | ||
| How often do you do it? | ||
| I'd never do it more than twice a week. | ||
| But I really should. | ||
| I'd practice some of it at home. | ||
| Like, I'd do some shit at home. | ||
| You have really hot room. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| When I do it at home, I'm just working on, like, basic exercises, stretching shit. | ||
| But never more, like, in class form than twice a week. | ||
| But when I have done it twice a week, I feel better than when I did it once a week. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I always do a little bit. | ||
| Margot's done it for 25 years, and Margot is strong. | ||
| I mean, she's strong. | ||
| She had handstands, but, you know, she's big-time upper body strong. | ||
| Do you think she could choke you? | ||
| Could she get your back? | ||
| If you look at her in the dark, kind of, from behind, if she's... | ||
| Flexing her muscles. | ||
| She looks kind of like Floyd Mayweather. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| I mean, just a... | ||
| That's not fun. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| She's scary. | ||
| No, she doesn't look a thing like Floyd Mayweather. | ||
| But she's just ripped. | ||
| She got ripped back, and she's really, really, really strong. | ||
| But she's always done that, so I got to do something, man. | ||
| I can't be fucking going into my 70s without being fucking more fit. | ||
| We just got to get you on a nutrient-dense diet. | ||
| Drop a little body fat. | ||
| Yeah, what'd you bring to the fucking party? | ||
| A bottle of fucking whiskey. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And a joint. | ||
| But I'm going to have that, too. | ||
| You know what I had for breakfast? | ||
| I had a kale shake with MCT oil and beets. | ||
| Raw Beats? | ||
| Then I went to yoga? | ||
| You know, we have that new This new juice presser thing at the house. | ||
| Oh, those are the shit. | ||
| Yeah, we just got hooked up with it. | ||
| Oh man, if you can just get used to drinking juice, just fresh squeezed vegetable juice, if you can just get used to doing that just a few times a day, it'll drastically improve your life. | ||
| There's so much nutrients and plants that we need and we fucking escape them for days. | ||
| We just eat mashed potatoes and meat and shit for days. | ||
| I don't have any energy for a workout. | ||
| You know, I just don't. | ||
| I get there. | ||
| I'm tired. | ||
| I don't want to go. | ||
| I dread it going in. | ||
| I dread it when I get there. | ||
| I dread putting on my shoes. | ||
| I do. | ||
| And I don't know why some people are as lazy as I am. | ||
| And I know that's what it is. | ||
| And I used to be a runner. | ||
| I used to run five miles a day. | ||
| I would run like crazy, and I hurt my knee really bad. | ||
| But I just don't like to go to the gym. | ||
| I hate it. | ||
| But... | ||
| I know I have to. | ||
| I know I have to because my friends are all dying and I'm going to be 70 in 10 years. | ||
| And so I've got to... | ||
| And I know yoga is the thing because this guy that... | ||
| This Dave, Big Gay Dave... | ||
| He's a golfer, a buddy of mine, but he's also a yoga for forever. | ||
| Well, bless you, Big Gay Dave. | ||
| Bless you. | ||
| Take him where he needs to go. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| Yoga, the best thing about it, too, is it will get your heart rate up. | ||
| It will be very difficult, but it's going to straighten your body out. | ||
| It's going to stretch you out. | ||
| It's going to straighten you out. | ||
| It's going to calm you down. | ||
| You're not trying to be a power lifter. | ||
| You don't want to do anything ridiculous. | ||
| You don't want to do anything that hurt your back. | ||
| What you want to do is something that's going to make you feel better. | ||
| Well, that's, you know, I had this new trainer, and I told the guy, I said, listen, man, I'm a pussy. | ||
| Your phone's going off. | ||
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Don't. | |
| Oh, that's my wife. | ||
| You want to talk to me? | ||
| No, but play the music that rings when your phone... | ||
| Put it up there. | ||
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Powerful Ron White. | |
| Oh, let's go. | ||
| You know, he's a buddy of mine, Brian Johnson. | ||
| Really? | ||
| His hearing apparently is all fucked up from all his crazy concerts all those years. | ||
| Well, it's kind of an interesting thing because we're talking about the holiday evolution of anything. | ||
| But there was a guy in Australia who invented the in-ear monitors, which destroyed his hearing to begin with. | ||
| So he dedicated his life to finding a way to fix that. | ||
| And so he did. | ||
| But the problem is, and it does, I mean, if you watch tape of people putting these things on, people that are almost completely deaf, putting this system in their ears, every one of them starts crying. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Every one of them. | ||
| And so he had an open letter to Brian Johnson and said, Brian, I want to come to your house in Sarasota. | ||
| I want you to put these in your ears. | ||
| But the problem is, it's not portable. | ||
| It's portable in that it's this big. | ||
| You're making like a laptop size. | ||
| Yeah, it's thicker than that. | ||
| Like a large hoagie. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| But the technology's there. | ||
| I mean, it's amazing. | ||
| And he hates hearing aids, and he's a curmudgeon. | ||
| He's the sweetest guy I know. | ||
| He's a wonderful, wonderful human being. | ||
| But you know what was cool about it, man? | ||
| When Axl Rose started... | ||
| I was like, should I accept this? | ||
| No. | ||
| Should you accept Axl Rose singing ACDC? No. | ||
| I accepted it 100%. | ||
| Because I thought, look, it might not be Brian Johnson, but it's still Axl fucking Rose. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's kind of interesting. | ||
| Brian couldn't do it anymore. | ||
| Axl steps in. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| I'm happy with that. | ||
| That's a freak show, but in an awesome way. | ||
| It's like, how often are you going to see this? | ||
| How often are you going to see Axl Rose singing as a lead singer for AC fucking DC? Like, wow. | ||
| Well, their ticket sales dropped by 70%. | ||
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That's a bunch of pussies in America that don't respect Guns N' Roses! | |
| Well, that's true. | ||
| They don't. | ||
| But the thing is, that's Brian Johnson's voice. | ||
| Oh yeah, I agree. | ||
| Back in Black was the second biggest selling album of all time, behind Thriller, and 52 million copies. | ||
| That's Brian Johnson, not fucking Axl Rose. | ||
| I 100% agree. | ||
| Still a freak show vocalist. | ||
| And at some point, you know, his brother Malcolm... | ||
| Malcolm was the better guitar player anyway. | ||
| Better than Angus. | ||
| And Angus knew it. | ||
| Everybody fucking knew it. | ||
| Strong words. | ||
| Yeah, but he was the engine behind that really complicated... | ||
| It doesn't sound complicated. | ||
| Really fucking complicated rock and roll. | ||
| And that's why it was so engaging for the whole fucking planet. | ||
| But it was Brian Johnson's voice, not Bon Scott's. | ||
| You know, he was their lead singer for five years. | ||
| But Von Scott had some great fucking songs too, right? | ||
| He did. | ||
| He did. | ||
| Who were the big hits under Von Scott? | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| Because I've only heard Brian sing them. | ||
| But Back in Black, which was the second biggest selling album of all time, was all Brian Johnson. | ||
| Yeah, no doubt about it. | ||
| I'm not saying he wasn't fucking incredible. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| And I'm wrong, as I usually am. | ||
| Because why not? | ||
| And Angus still loves to play it, and why not? | ||
| It got ugly a little bit. | ||
| Well, that's not my place to talk about that. | ||
| Oh, there was some political shit? | ||
| Well, whatever. | ||
| And I also heard some reviews that he did a really good job. | ||
| Who sings these, Jamie? | ||
| These are Bon Scott songs. | ||
| Which ones? | ||
| Dirty Deeds? | ||
| Highway to Hell. | ||
| Oh my god! | ||
| Highway to Hell?! | ||
| Dirty Deeds. | ||
| Oh my God, the best ones. | ||
| Go back up to Dirty Ds. | ||
| That's Brian Johnson right there. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It is. | ||
| If you want to hear somebody sing it. | ||
| Well, he was fucking amazing. | ||
| Look, they were both amazing. | ||
| I'm not, like, picking sides. | ||
| But what if Brian Johnson just came out to the shows? | ||
| I mean, he can't... | ||
| He can't do it anymore. | ||
| Why would you do that? | ||
| Just because it would be cool to see him there. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He's not wheeling him out. | ||
| He just can't. | ||
| Could he not hear that sound anymore? | ||
| He still races cars. | ||
| I mean, he's got a fucking car team that he races these Lolas, these guys that were in Pan Am races. | ||
| These cars are running 200 miles an hour. | ||
| He races them now. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| And he travels the country. | ||
| He's got a new car show coming out that I'm going to be part of. | ||
| No shit. | ||
| He insisted on. | ||
| I mean, I think we're going to film my part in like a couple of days for the whole season. | ||
| But can they in any way restore his hearing to the point where he could start singing again? | ||
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Yes. | |
| And he would. | ||
| And he would. | ||
| Dude, I felt like, you know, when he stepped out, I was like, this is a weird moment in our love of these epic rock stars. | ||
|
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Right. | |
| Well, you know what? | ||
| The thing is, I went to see Chicago the other day with my son, and it was great. | ||
| It was fucking great. | ||
| There's three guys. | ||
| One of the singers, the one that wasn't as good, he was replaced by this Irish tenor that could just hit every single one of those notes, and it was great. | ||
| I was with my son. | ||
| We were partying. | ||
| So the only reason is it's kind of personal to me because he's a friend. | ||
| And so I know what he was going through that year, and also the death of his best friend, and then the loss of his hearing, and then the loss of his band. | ||
| And there were only a few dates left, but that's not the way he wanted to go out. | ||
| But he's Brian fucking Johnson. | ||
| He's the shit. | ||
| He's literally a treasure of a fucking guy. | ||
| He's right up there with Charlie Chapman. | ||
| Charlie Chapman, Brian Johnson. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt about it, man. | ||
| I mean, he's a fucking epic vocalist. | ||
| Epic, you know? | ||
| His fucking impact and his intensity got me through many a workout when I was a struggling adolescent. | ||
| It's still on my bum. | ||
| Fuck yeah, man. | ||
| I mean, that's one of the all-time hardest-hitting bands ever. | ||
| You could pull up footage, I guess you can, of Margot and Brian on stage in Jacksonville, Florida in a little club. | ||
| Oh, shit. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Put Brian Johnson and Margot Ray and see if that comes up. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
|
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Holy shit. | |
| Oh, good lord. | ||
| It was Margot's show, and towards the end of it, Brian was there, and I was like, you know, her band always shook me all night long. | ||
| They've been working out all week. | ||
| Do you want to go sing it? | ||
| He goes, well, I don't know if I can sing. | ||
| I have a full run. | ||
| I haven't sung it in years. | ||
| I have a full run. | ||
| Oh, there it is, right there. | ||
| That's my wife, Marco. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
|
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This is so crazy. | |
| When was this? | ||
| It's 2014. Three or four years. | ||
| Oh, it was it? | ||
| Two or three years ago. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Wow. | ||
|
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This is pretty cool. | |
| She goes, okay, a friend of mine is going to come up and sing a song from ACDC, Brian Johnson. | ||
| And how many people are in this room? | ||
| 175. That is insane! | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Oh my god, that must have been the most epic shit ever. | ||
| Yep. | ||
|
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To be in that room. | |
| Goddamn, man. | ||
| I saw Gary Clark Jr. in Honey Honey play in front of like 300 people. | ||
| Do you know Gary Clark Jr.? | ||
| He was in an episode of Roadies. | ||
| Goddamn, that dude's good. | ||
| I know, I know, he's sick. | ||
| Holy shit, him and Honey Honey, they played this midnight show in downtown L.A., You know what, that's the thing. | ||
| You've been waiting for your Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan. | ||
| Where's that guy coming from? | ||
| That's who it is. | ||
| It's Gary Clark. | ||
| Dude, that guy's... | ||
| He's got something crazy going on. | ||
| The way he... | ||
| He's got such a specific guitar sound. | ||
| Like, he did this riff, and while he was doing this, they... | ||
| They did a cover of the Midnight Rider. | ||
| They decided on the spot. | ||
| So Suzanne from Honey Honey didn't even know the words to the song. | ||
| So she got on her phone and downloaded the words. | ||
| So she had the words on her phone. | ||
| She's reading it off the phone. | ||
| And people got mad because they're like, this bitch keeps checking her phone while she's taking notes. | ||
| She's literally, she joked around about it. | ||
| She doesn't know the words to the song. | ||
| Because although she's a fan, She hasn't sung in years. | ||
| She doesn't know it. | ||
| She's probably never sang it live. | ||
| So she, live, for the first time ever, improvising on the spot, sings her version, unprepared, of Midnight Rider, while Gary motherfucking Clark Jr. Plays all the Dickie Betts parts. | ||
| Look at this shit. | ||
| Listen to this. | ||
| I recorded this from the front row. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| Dude. | ||
|
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I recommend getting out there and doing the Joe Rogan podcast. | |
| Get fucked up and listen to some music. | ||
| This dude is an alien. | ||
| I feel real comfortable in saying that's the most intriguing guitarist since Hendrix. | ||
| I feel real comfortable saying that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's a bad motherfucker! | ||
| And to see that live in like a couple, maybe 300 people at the most in that place. | ||
| He sat down and played, you know, he came out whenever my character died. | ||
| He was one of the guys that came to the funeral and sang, and the character, I don't know, wrote, nobody watched it, so... | ||
| You were so psyched about that, man, before it came out. | ||
| I was. | ||
| I was, and it was, you know what, it was good. | ||
| It was really good. | ||
| I thought it was wonderful. | ||
| And it was, the problem was, it was, you know, a lot of people have a fucking heart on for Cameron Crowe for some reason. | ||
|
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Really? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| They don't like him? | ||
| You know, they jumped on the show's back so hard, so fast. | ||
| You mean the critics did? | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| So it's a bad relationship with the critics, perhaps? | ||
| Yeah, the first word out of their mouths was just this fucking, it's the worst piece of shit. | ||
| I'm like, what? | ||
| The one, I love it. | ||
| I think it's, you know, Cameron always has a sweetness to his shows. | ||
| I mean, his movies always have a sweet edge to them. | ||
| You know, no matter what it is, whether it's, you know, Fast Times at Ridgemont High or, but the whole line of movies, Jerry Maguire, uh, uh, Almost Famous. | ||
| You know, they all had... | ||
| Those two, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Almost Famous. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Those are epic movies, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And Jerry Maguire won best... | ||
| Somebody won something for something in Jerry Maguire. | ||
| Show me the money! | ||
| Cuba Goodies. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so, anyway, the... | ||
| I forget what we're talking about. | ||
| Tom Cruise. | ||
| Tom Cruise. | ||
| No. | ||
| No? | ||
| No. | ||
| Oh, yeah, the movie. | ||
| They just jumped on it. | ||
| They just jumped on it. | ||
| They were shitty. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Because they could, and they're cunts, and whoever that bitch is that reviews for Variety magazine, one day she's going to feel a turd in her throat. | ||
| Whose turd will it be? | ||
| It'll be my turd. | ||
| Oh, you're going to shit right in her mouth? | ||
| I'm going to shit in her mouth. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| These are strong words. | ||
| Oh, they're horrible words. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay, maybe I'll just flick some ink on her dress. | ||
| I think it's going to be way easier if you... | ||
| I think about the kind of grudges that someone can have with someone like him, like Cameron Crowe. | ||
| It's going to be way easier to avoid that stuff if you're being reviewed by everybody. | ||
| Instead of just being reviewed by a bunch of selected outlets like the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Hollywood Reporter, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Just the open-ended aspect of the internet is kind of changing that, don't you think? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| You know, I think so. | ||
| You know, they canceled it. | ||
| My character was going to die anyway. | ||
| So I was like... | ||
| But I still love the cast so much. | ||
| It was, you know, fucking Machine Gun Kelly who got a fucking huge hit on the radio or just did. | ||
| That kid's cool as fuck. | ||
| Machine Gun Kelly, do you know who it is? | ||
| I don't know that guy. | ||
| Oh, he's a... | ||
| I've heard that name. | ||
| He's a young... | ||
| Jamie just nodded at me like I'm an old man. | ||
| Yeah, he's a young, unbelievable rapper. | ||
| White guy out of Cleveland. | ||
| That's what the world needs. | ||
| More white rappers. | ||
| Fucking crazy. | ||
| Because of the age of Trump. | ||
| No, they don't need more. | ||
| But they need this one. | ||
| Because he's the real fucking deal. | ||
| I believe you. | ||
| And he's a... | ||
| He was great in the show. | ||
| Just great. | ||
| He really gave the honesty to the fucking show. | ||
|
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Beautiful. | |
| Because he is a big partying rock star. | ||
| I'm writing his name down. | ||
| I'm going to buy his shit right after I get out of here. | ||
|
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MGK. Yeah, MGK. Nice. | |
| Well, it's always cool to see and hear about new shit. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| I heard there's a documentary on Netflix called Rat. | ||
| I'm scared. | ||
| Have you seen it, Jamie? | ||
| No, but I think I told you about it a while ago. | ||
| Rat? | ||
| Rat. | ||
| Is it about rats? | ||
| Yeah, rats in New York. | ||
| Jesus Christ, Morgan Spurlock. | ||
| Why are you trying to fucking freak me out again? | ||
| I saw it. | ||
| I saw it on there and I chose not to watch it. | ||
| He freaked me out about McDonald's. | ||
| Now he's freaking me out about rats. | ||
| That goddamn Morgan Spurlock! | ||
| Rats, apparently, in New York City, there's as many rats as there are human beings. | ||
| I made that up. | ||
| 20 million. | ||
| Sounds good, though, right? | ||
| I was with you. | ||
| In the days before the internet, I could get away with that. | ||
| I think it's probably pretty close, though, honestly. | ||
| There might actually be more rats. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Because look how much space they take up. | ||
| Whoa, look at this. | ||
| Morgan Spurlock flying over New York with a drone. | ||
| That's a big rat right there. | ||
| The space of a Jack Daniels whiskey bottle is about the size of a good... | ||
| Look at the floor on this thing. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| It's a beautiful bottle. | ||
| It'd be awesome for a bar fight. | ||
| Some shit broke out. | ||
| Are we out of ice? | ||
| Do you care how drunk I get? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| I'm going to have my car towed. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| How about your fucking car towed? | ||
| Don't worry about the ice. | ||
|
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There's plenty of ice, Mr. White. | |
| Where are you? | ||
| People are text messaging. | ||
| My wife is. | ||
| Tell them you're on YouTube. | ||
| Out in Al Gore's interwebs floating through space. | ||
| And look, it's young Jamie with the ice. | ||
| Bam. | ||
| Young Jamie. | ||
| Camera operator. | ||
| Ice gutter. | ||
| Bad motherfucker. | ||
| Ron White, what are you doing? | ||
| Text messaging? | ||
| No, I am. | ||
| My wife is trying to find me. | ||
| I told her this was going to be about an hour, so I told her. | ||
| You've got to get her a drone, bro. | ||
| Like a little one. | ||
| Just keep it right next to you. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Have it follow me around. | ||
| Also, it's like practice for your focus. | ||
| Bust my fucking balls. | ||
| Because if you have an artificial drone flying over your head like that, at least it gives you this mental discipline. | ||
| You have to ignore the drone. | ||
| Ignore the drone. | ||
| Ignore the drone. | ||
| Okay, I'm going to bring her on. | ||
| Don't do it! | ||
| Don't do it! | ||
| Ron White, this will be chaos! | ||
| We could wrap this up if you want. | ||
| No, no, I don't want to wrap it up, but... | ||
| Oh, she thought it was going to be an hour? | ||
| We've definitely done hour podcasts. | ||
| Only a couple. | ||
| Like, maybe three. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| No, I'm having a blast. | ||
| I want to stay here and drink. | ||
| That's what I'm talking about, Ron White. | ||
| Until nobody cares anymore. | ||
| That's not going to happen. | ||
| That place isn't going to exist. | ||
|
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Send Margo a text. | |
| I'm still at work. | ||
| Ron White is at work, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| These cameras aren't on, though, right? | ||
| Definitely not. | ||
| Why would that be? | ||
| Are they? | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| Oh, good. | ||
| We're streaming. | ||
| We stream on YouTube. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And record, and then it gets uploaded after the fact. | ||
| We put it on the iTunes. | ||
| So are we live to anybody right now? | ||
| Probably, like, let me guess. | ||
| 10,000 people? | ||
| Oh, I guessed. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Wow, that's a fucking good guess. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| I wouldn't even have had a guess. | ||
| I've never asked before. | ||
| Like, only in the big ones, like when we do Fight Companions. | ||
| What's the most it's ever been, like 30 or something? | ||
| 33,000 or so. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 33,000. | ||
| The most I can get stirred up on Periscope is about 3,200 maybe. | ||
| I don't know what I've ever got. | ||
| I haven't used it in so long. | ||
| But it's one of those things where if someone found out, like, that's one of the things that happened with that... | ||
| The Scott Adams guy. | ||
| Because people found out. | ||
| They're like, well, this really intelligent guy is also a Trump supporter. | ||
| Is he a Trump supporter? | ||
| No, he's not a Trump supporter. | ||
| He's literally not even voting. | ||
| But he's breaking down why he thinks Trump's going to win, and people are freaking the fuck out. | ||
| Like, he literally is telling you, I'm not voting. | ||
| I'm not voting for anybody, because then I'll have some sort of a player in the game. | ||
| He is a weird guy, that Scott Adams, in a good way. | ||
| Like, he's sort of defying... | ||
| He defies a lot of your... | ||
| He's a Democrat. | ||
| He's sort of a Democrat. | ||
| Democrat-ish. | ||
| Well, he's very open-minded, I would say. | ||
| But he got unfairly labeled as being like this Trump supporter. | ||
| Whereas, I don't think he was a Trump... | ||
| He most certainly was not anti-Trump. | ||
| But what he was trying to say... | ||
| Trump's program for him to say Trump's gonna win for sure, and I'm the one that knows. | ||
| And he also has the background that says he's the one that knows. | ||
| So it wasn't, you know, it was one of the several blows that Hillary took, besides being a horrible candidate, that she took that knocked it out of her hands. | ||
| You know, these two people were running against the only people that they could possibly fucking beat. | ||
| You know, if she just wouldn't have said basket of deplorables. | ||
| When she said that, I was like, Jesus titty fucking Christ, really? | ||
| There was a bunch of them. | ||
| Give them a hammer. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Just, you know, when people, even people that wanted to look at it as an alternative vote, like as an alternative to the potential chaos that Trump could cause, You know, and some people looked at it that way, and some people, honestly, I think, I don't know what percentage I would guess it would be, but there's a bunch of pragmatists that got in there, and when it came time to vote, looked at that fucking ballot and said, you know what? | ||
| Let's just see what happens. | ||
| Let's just see what happens if we put this fucking crazy guy in here. | ||
| We were in England. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| At one of Margo's friends' house, and this guy who I really, really like, he goes, well... | ||
| The monkey in me would love to see Trump win. | ||
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That's me! | |
| Yeah, right. | ||
| The monkey in me. | ||
| The fucking monkey in me. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| You know, what could he really do? | ||
| But, you know, I don't know. | ||
| He could definitely do something, but what would he do good? | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| What would a complete shakeup of the system look like? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You know, and I think that there's this weird defining of things right now where everyone has to absolutely say in one way or another, either support or deny that. | ||
| They either support him or don't support him. | ||
| It gets to me to be real cultish. | ||
| It gets to me to be real, like, fucking patriot pride. | ||
| You know, yo, I'm fucking, I'm for the Dolphins no matter what. | ||
| It gets real weird. | ||
| It gets real weird. | ||
| Hey, I had a guy who wouldn't take a picture of me at a meet and greet because I was, somebody just brought up the subject, and I don't fucking bring it up at my meet and greets or my show. | ||
| I used to do one bit about it that was barely Could be conceived as anti-Trump. | ||
| Because half my fucking fans, I'm not going to lose half my fucking fan base over a goddamn presidential election. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| I'm greedy. | ||
| I'm not a Dixie chick. | ||
| People will get mad at you about shit like this, too. | ||
| Literally, he had two girls with him, and they took pictures. | ||
| He goes, you're the turn to take a picture. | ||
| He goes, if he's not going to support Trump, I'm not going to take a picture with him. | ||
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Ah! | |
| And you know what I said? | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| There's a door right the fuck there. | ||
| And you can just walk the fuck out of it. | ||
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Wow. | |
| He wants to drain the swamp. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| Hashtag drain the swamp. | ||
| Nobody's draining no swamp, though. | ||
| There ain't no swamp being drained down there. | ||
| Dick Cheney emerging as key Trump advisor. | ||
| Jesus fucking Christ. | ||
| Darth Vader has returned. | ||
| We're bringing Halliburton back into the son of a bitch. | ||
| He's been on ice, it turns out, for eight years. | ||
| The only Dick Cheney that we've ever seen in news reports has been this artificial Dick Cheney. | ||
| Dick Cheney has cryogenically frozen himself for eight years to get through the Obama administration and then to pop back up in the Trump administration. | ||
| It's fully renewed and invigorated. | ||
| He couldn't go three months without having open-heart surgery back when he was... | ||
| Jesus Christ, Ron White. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| There was a point in time where Dick Cheney literally did not have a pulse. | ||
| And I was like, Jesus Christ, isn't this in the fucking Bible? | ||
| I mean, really. | ||
| If you want to, you guys want to follow the Bible about the end of the world? | ||
| I don't know if it's in the Bible, but he had a machine inside his body that pumped his blood and it didn't make a pulse. | ||
| So he didn't have a fucking pulse for a long time while he's waiting for a heart transplant. | ||
| See, Cheney has heart, just fucking pop-ups! | ||
| Cheney has heart pump, but no pulse. | ||
| What? | ||
| That's gotta be a zombie. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Are you excited or are you not? | ||
| I can't even tell. | ||
| I put my fucking fingers on your neck and I don't feel shit, you fucking vampire. | ||
| And you're still going. | ||
| You're still going? | ||
| You're still running Halliburton and you're the... | ||
| He's still in politics. | ||
| He's not fly-fishing. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I haven't heard his name in years. | ||
| I'm like you. | ||
| I've heard his name in years. | ||
| He had a heart transplant. | ||
| I had a joke that I could never figure out how to get to work. | ||
| It was about how one Secret Service agent realized he wasn't really a Secret Service agent. | ||
| He just had the exact same blood type as Dick Cheney. | ||
| And they'd be like, how come I gotta eat tofu and you guys are eating burgers, man? | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| And they just never told him. | ||
| How come I got to run every day and you guys don't have to fucking run? | ||
| Shut up, bitch. | ||
| Get running. | ||
| And they sit behind him in the car, pacing with him, smoking cigarettes. | ||
| And then one day, Dick Cheney has a fucking heart attack and they open that dude up like a fish and just scoop out his fucking fresh heart and do some roadside service. | ||
| I can never figure out how to get to work. | ||
| I think it's very funny, but I don't know how you're going to get it to work. | ||
| It's never going to work. | ||
| It was just terrible. | ||
| It was about heart attacks and dead people and it's not funny enough. | ||
| Yeah, I got baby duck pussy lip tacos to work. | ||
| That was a... | ||
| One thing I can comfort myself in is knowing that Dick Cheney did not get any advantage as far as waiting in line for a heart. | ||
| Guarantee you, it was 100% fair and across the board... | ||
| How do you know? | ||
| Without a doubt, Dick Cheney did not have any influence whatsoever in anyone moving him to the front of the line to get a young, fresh 20-year-old basketball player's heart. | ||
| There's definitely no, no, no, no chance about it. | ||
| No? | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| That the motorcycle victim, 17-year-old super stud athlete, there's no way that heart is going into Dick Cheney's heart. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's not going to. | ||
| Did it? | ||
| I would guess so. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So how's he doing now? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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When did that happen? | |
| Did he have a... | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| Does anybody know? | ||
| They didn't know whose heart it was? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He had a transplant at age 71. Jesus Christ. | ||
| It's three years ago. | ||
| Hanging on, son. | ||
| He suffered five heart attacks, undergone open heart surgery, multiple catheterizations and angioplasties, had a defibrillator implanted and a pump attached directly to his heart. | ||
| All of that before his transplant at age 71. Or some young strongman winner. | ||
| Now he's a sprinter. | ||
| They got some fucking kid from Iceland that dropped one of those mallets on his head, and they just grabbed him and just threw him on ice, sent him over to Jack. | ||
| Just keep him alive. | ||
| Jack's gonna be your surgeon. | ||
| We're gonna bring this whole thing back around. | ||
| We're gonna be fine. | ||
| Yeah, and then that fucking super hearts and Dick Cheney. | ||
| All of a sudden you see him. | ||
| Posture looks better. | ||
| Face starts to suck in a little bit, loses the jowls. | ||
| Hair's growing back. | ||
| I just don't know why a guy like that would want to still be in the business. | ||
| Like, at this stage of the game, like, is it just... | ||
| He doesn't want to... | ||
| Just the bailout money from Halliburton was like $150 million. | ||
| And that was to become vice president. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| You know, I don't know. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| I have no idea what drives any of those idiots. | ||
|
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Yeah, that's what you've got to worry. | |
| What's the end game? | ||
| Where are you going when you're working that hard at 70? | ||
| What are you shooting for? | ||
| Are you trying to save the world? | ||
| Are you trying to tell people how it is? | ||
|
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What is it? | |
| I wonder, you know? | ||
| It can't totally be I want to keep making money, right? | ||
| Can it be? | ||
| Ego. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Maybe while you're alive, you're just alive. | ||
| Maybe all these ideas that we have about people getting older and wiser, maybe that's all just bullshit. | ||
| Maybe you just get older. | ||
| Like a lot of people don't. | ||
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What? | |
| They just get older. | ||
| So if they're fucking crazy when they're 30 and they want to take over the world, why do we automatically expect them to be on some path of self-regulation and improvement to the point where they become enlightened and they don't want to... | ||
| Take over the world anymore now that they're 70 and they've had 15 open-heart surgeries. | ||
| But no, it doesn't. | ||
| They're just people. | ||
| My goodness gracious, Joe Rogan. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Hey, you know what? | ||
| I think that this has been a lot of fun, and I love you to death. | ||
| I think it's been a lot of fun, and I love you to death as well. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| I can't believe it took us this long to go do this thing. | ||
| I'm getting so fucked up that I can't respond anymore. | ||
| You're fine. | ||
| So it's always better if I just don't respond once I get this fucked up. | ||
| I completely understand your position. | ||
| But from a fan's perspective and a friend, you've been amazing and fine. | ||
| And you could skate right through this like a goddamn champion. | ||
| Like Tonya Harding before the incident. | ||
| Remember her? | ||
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The little fat thighs. | |
| That little freak could spin around and fly through the air. | ||
| She was amazing. | ||
| That's you right now. | ||
| That's you right now. | ||
| You're like every great comic. | ||
| You have a low self-opinion of yourself. | ||
| It takes a certain amount of ego to be great. | ||
| That was easy for you to say. | ||
| I'm telling you right now. | ||
| It takes a certain amount of ego to be great, and then a certain amount of ego to move past that, where you have to understand your ego. | ||
| And you're one of those understand your ego guys, and so you squash that motherfucker every time it gets. | ||
| So you're always looking for self-deprecating moments, even in front of people that love you. | ||
| Yeah, well, maybe I do. | ||
| Maybe I do. | ||
| But it's because you're a bad motherfucker. | ||
| There's no way you wouldn't be. | ||
| You wouldn't be as funny. | ||
| That's a whole part of the whole thing, man. | ||
| Getting to know you and be friends with you at the Comedy Store has been really fun, man. | ||
| I love your comedy. | ||
| I've always loved your comedy. | ||
| I love watching you work shit out. | ||
| I love hanging out with you. | ||
| It's just fun, man. | ||
| It's just fun. | ||
| And having you on here has been just nothing but a blast. | ||
| I knew it would be. | ||
| I knew it would be a hoot. | ||
| People right now are saying, no, don't stop! | ||
| No! | ||
| I still have to drive 45 minutes to get to New Hampshire! | ||
| They listen to this in New Hampshire? | ||
| Fuck yeah. | ||
| They listen to this shit in Dubai. | ||
| In Dubai? | ||
| God damn it, we could have gotten work there if you wouldn't have been dissing them. | ||
| No, just being honest with them. | ||
| They got to straighten their game up. | ||
| Can't arrest people from saying the wrong magic word. | ||
| They do. | ||
| I don't know if they do, but... | ||
| Yeah, I just really... | ||
| You gotta get the game up. | ||
| You know, at some point... | ||
| You know, I did that getting Doug with high or whatever. | ||
| Did you do that? | ||
| How was that? | ||
| I got so fucked up, I couldn't even think. | ||
| Doug wasn't there like a flight attendant trying to bring you back into the runway. | ||
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Come on! | |
| And I was there with Josh Blue, who smokes more weed than anybody. | ||
| Josh Blue, the comedian from Denver who won Last Comic Standing. | ||
| He has cerebral palsy, right? | ||
| Funny as fuck is what he is. | ||
|
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Really funny. | |
| Very funny. | ||
| Really fucking good. | ||
| He's one of the rare people that actually uses medical marijuana. | ||
| And you can watch it. | ||
| You can watch it relaxes that fucking tension in his fucking muscular dystrophy arm or whatever the fuck it is. | ||
| Yeah, that's good to bring up. | ||
| Very important to bring up. | ||
| Because that's a clear beneficiary of actual medical marijuana, unlike you or me. | ||
| Oh, no, that's not true. | ||
| That guy's using it for medicine. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I was taking Xanax... | ||
| To sleep? | ||
| No, to get up. | ||
| Just to get out of bed? | ||
| Yeah, for a while. | ||
| Ooh, that Xanax is a tricky one. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How long did you take it for? | ||
| 26 years? | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| No, I'm kidding. | ||
| I'm not on Xanax. | ||
| I'm going to step in as a fake pharmacological expert. | ||
| No, I'm not on Xanax. | ||
| I'm good. | ||
| I'm good. | ||
| I smoke a lot of weed, and that's good, and I drink a lot of tequila, but I'd like to thank the Jack Daniels folks for sending this over, because this is fucking delicious. | ||
| That's a... | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| Man, I think... | ||
| I think we're all real lucky right now. | ||
| I think it's just a perspective issue. | ||
| It's really a perspective issue of understanding what a strange time this is, you know, for all of us. | ||
| Well, everybody's freaking out about Trump, freaking out about the future, and what are they going to do with Russia? | ||
| The fuck's going to—you worry about Russia? | ||
| How often in Ron White's day does Ron White worry about fucking Russia? | ||
| Well, you know, we're already dead. | ||
| So, I mean, in my opinion, I don't worry about Russia. | ||
| I really don't even think about Russia. | ||
| But I also don't think about any of it. | ||
| I mean, not in details, I don't. | ||
| You know, I was a presidential candidate. | ||
| My paperwork was completely filled out. | ||
| I was a candidate for the president of the United States this year. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| Who put you in? | ||
| I did. | ||
| You put yourself in? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Now, are you a part of the Bilderberg group, or are you a supporter of any sort of the Illuminati, anything that's going on that's ruling the world, Ron White? | ||
| No. | ||
| You were just going to run for president as a normal dude? | ||
| How come I didn't hear about this until right now? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Research? | ||
| How the fuck am I supposed to know you ran for president? | ||
| Well, look, pull up Ron White for president. | ||
| I would have had you in. | ||
| Who'd have tried to rig the election? | ||
| Are you willing to do it again in four years? | ||
| No. | ||
| You know what scared me was that I didn't realize anybody was taking this seriously. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Ron White for president. | ||
| Vote smart because you can't fix stupid. | ||
| So that's me at my house in the Beverly Hills side of the paperwork. | ||
| Oh my god, that is so hilarious. | ||
| I've actually never made that face before, so I don't know where they got that image, but it's certainly not me. | ||
| How weird, man. | ||
| And so, what happened? | ||
| People took it seriously? | ||
| Help support injured service members, war on the drugs that matter. | ||
| I had this war on meth thing that I felt like, because I have the same, I have a comics perspective of the American people. | ||
| Which means for the last 30 years of my life, I've done nothing but travel back and forth across this country, upside, downside, one left to right, right to left. | ||
| And I've made these people laugh. | ||
| I've drank with them in bars. | ||
| I've had dinner in their homes. | ||
| I've cried with them when their kids died. | ||
| And, you know, I know them. | ||
| Donald Trump doesn't know them. | ||
| Nobody else up there knows. | ||
| I know them. | ||
| You know them. | ||
| I know who they are. | ||
| I know exactly who they are, and I know what bothers them. | ||
| And one of the things that bothers them is the fucking meth is just killing everybody. | ||
| And nobody ever brought that up in this election, that meth. | ||
| The meth, even the meth made here, not even the meth from Mexico, the meth made here in America. | ||
| It kills more people than ISIS ever will in this country unless something fucking... | ||
| I mean, you know, this is going on right now. | ||
| 100 people a day, dead, dead, dead. | ||
| 100 people a day? | ||
| 100 people a day, dead over either the byproducts of doing meth over a period of time. | ||
| 100 people a day. | ||
| Easy. | ||
| How many people a day die from skateboarding? | ||
| Google that. | ||
| I'd say half a person a day. | ||
| You think? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What do you think is the most dangerous sport that people die from a day? | ||
| A hundred people a day die from meth? | ||
| If I'd have been elected president, here's my plan. | ||
| The most dangerous sport would have been run a meth lab. | ||
| That would have been the most dangerous fucking sport. | ||
| That would have been it. | ||
| Because I would put U.S. troops on the ground, and I would put a bounty of $20,000. | ||
| If you can show me an operating meth lab, we'll go in there, boots on the ground, we'll give you eight seconds to give up your meth babies, and then we're going to kill everybody in the fucking place. | ||
| And we're going to blow the place up. | ||
| You would kill the dude from Breaking Bad? | ||
| The teacher? | ||
| No, I don't think that's real. | ||
| But if it was real? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fuck, yeah. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Because he's killing people, and he knows he's doing it. | ||
| He knows he's doing it. | ||
| He's doing it just for profit. | ||
| He's a profiteer. | ||
| Could you just enjoy a little meth, like a wine tasting? | ||
| No. | ||
| Just a little? | ||
| Just a good discipline? | ||
| I could, but still. | ||
| I would like to see if Navy SEALs did meth. | ||
| If you could take guys with a tremendous amount of discipline. | ||
| If you got Tim Kennedy to do meth one time, I guarantee he's not going to become a meth junkie. | ||
| Or crack. | ||
| Crack cocaine is even more addictive. | ||
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Is it? | |
| But meth, you know, you watch the deterioration of somebody on meth over a 10-year period of time. | ||
| It could be a most beautiful woman in the world, all the way down to skank in 10 years, completely toothless. | ||
| It's horrible for you. | ||
| Yeah, man, we're going deep, deep down the world of neither one of us know what the fuck we're talking about. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| No, we're not. | ||
| Absolutely we're not. | ||
| I told you, man. | ||
| I feel like a Navy SEAL can smoke some meth. | ||
| I told you a while ago, I'm too fucked up to keep doing the show, and you're the one that kept going. | ||
| We're fine. | ||
| Everything's fine. | ||
| We're just in a civil debate about whether or not a Navy SEAL can smoke a little meth and just put it down and walk away. | ||
| Because he's not a bitch. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| No. | ||
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Right? | |
| It grabs your DNA, doesn't it? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
|
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Who knows? | |
| I think a Navy SEAL... I don't think a Navy SEAL would do it in the first place. | ||
| That's the whole key. | ||
| But if they did, for like an Army investigation. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| The Army had to find out. | ||
| Is it... | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Is it willpower? | ||
| Is it physical? | ||
| Like, what's the deal? | ||
| It'd be sucking a dick for a sandwich in the... | ||
| No, I'm not kidding. | ||
| They don't want sandwiches. | ||
| They want meth. | ||
| Yeah, you're right. | ||
| If they have meth, the sandwich has no importance. | ||
| It seems like for a lot of people that's the case. | ||
| But the question is, how even are we? | ||
| All of us. | ||
| Why do some people have cat allergies? | ||
| Why do some people have peanut allergies? | ||
| What the fuck's going on? | ||
| How many people that smoke meth just smoke it and they go, ugh? | ||
| How many people smoke meth and bing! | ||
| It's a high note, right? | ||
| Like we did with me and you. | ||
| I don't think we know, right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because some people smoke pot and they go, well, I'll never do that again. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| But I didn't say that. | ||
| You didn't say that. | ||
| No. | ||
| I don't like things that make me vibrate. | ||
| And I like to nap. | ||
| Responsible methamphetamine use and community. | ||
| I use meth on occasion. | ||
| I'm not one of those crazies. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Says he takes a little puff before work. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| I don't know if this is real, but I mean, there are people apparently that agree with him and there's a whole community discussion about this. | ||
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Of course they do. | |
| Bunch of meth heads. | ||
| Meth heads are all getting together, chewing each other's fingers off, saying everything's fine. | ||
| And you know who's pitching in? | ||
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The dentists. | |
| The fucking dentists are fucking going, yeah, yeah, do a little meth. | ||
| Just do a little meth. | ||
| We're going to make you a metal teeth set. | ||
| Like that dude from the James Bond movie. | ||
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Arr! | |
| Jaws, remember that guy? | ||
| Metal teeth. | ||
| For a while, rappers were going with the metal teeth. | ||
| Jamie, has that let up? | ||
| No. | ||
| No. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| It's your grill. | ||
| Yeah, the grills are still in full force? | ||
|
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Definitely, for sure. | |
| Interesting. | ||
| Ron White, have you ever considered getting a grill, like maybe perhaps something with platinum and diamonds? | ||
| No. | ||
| Something? | ||
| No? | ||
| Nothing? | ||
| No. | ||
| Like Little Wayne-esque, perhaps? | ||
| That's when Cameron decided to make my character bald. | ||
| I don't know if you ever saw it or not, but it was pretty funny. | ||
| You'd laugh at it. | ||
| Did you see my character? | ||
| I didn't see that show once. | ||
| If I had known that in any way I could have helped and kept it on the air, I would have watched every episode. | ||
| How do they find out who's watching? | ||
| How do they find out? | ||
| I feel like a dick for not watching your show now. | ||
| I think I probably wanted to get around to it, but there's a lot of shit. | ||
| I haven't seen that... | ||
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Who's the black superhero? | |
| Luke Cage. | ||
| I want to see that show. | ||
| I keep hearing awesome things about it. | ||
| Now I'm in trouble, because I said the black superhero, even though he's exactly that. | ||
| What other ones? | ||
| Netflix has a couple. | ||
| They have Daredevil. | ||
| They have Luke Cage. | ||
| What else do they have? | ||
| The Punisher, I think. | ||
| Oh, they have The Punisher. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| I'm hearing good things about that, too. | ||
| But more about Luke Cage than anything. | ||
| I heard a lot of people... | ||
| Somebody has a bit about Luke Cage. | ||
| Jerron Horton. | ||
| Jerron Horton has a really funny bit about Luke Cage. | ||
| Jerron Horton, who opened up for me in Denver at the Comedy Works. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| Is he from Denver? | ||
| No, he's from here. | ||
| He's from LA. You brought an opener all the way from... | ||
| Funny, man. | ||
| I always bring openers. | ||
| You don't bring openers? | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| Texting people? | ||
| Whoa, what's happening there? | ||
| That's my character. | ||
| Oh, Jesus Christ. | ||
| What did they do to you? | ||
| How rude. | ||
| I'm bald. | ||
| They made you look like shit. | ||
| I like the glasses, though. | ||
| And the t-shirt. | ||
| Well, those are the glasses that they didn't like at the fucking audition. | ||
| Those glasses are awesome. | ||
| Fuck them. | ||
| That's funny, man. | ||
| So you enjoyed doing that show, though? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it was a blast. | ||
| The dialogue was a blast to do. | ||
| You'd like it. | ||
| Watch episode eight. | ||
| Is it available on Netflix or you gotta go to a Showtime app? | ||
| I know I have Showtime. | ||
| Do they do it on demand? | ||
| Is it on demand? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I saw it was on a... | ||
| I think it was a Delta flight. | ||
| I think right now those providers, all these different people, are trying to figure out how to get that straight so you can watch pretty much. | ||
| I mean, how many years, you think, if you're realistic, how many years are we away from everything that everyone makes being able to be watched online real close? | ||
| It's just got to be some universal currency thing, some universal one-click like Amazon, something along those lines where you can get things on the spot right after they come out. | ||
| Because, you know, that's going to massively increase how many people watch a show or any show. | ||
| Because some people just don't want to pay for that Showtime package. | ||
| Maybe they're broke. | ||
| Maybe they have one chance. | ||
| Like, what do you want? | ||
| Oh, let's get HBO. You know? | ||
| Or maybe they're really cheap and they're like, I'm going to go with Cinemax. | ||
| I'll get Cinemax only. | ||
| What does that cost? | ||
| 50 bucks. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what it costs. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| Cinemax is awesome. | ||
| That's not my point. | ||
| My point is that if you have it online... | ||
| If it's easy to get to, you get this open river. | ||
| It's like the blockades you put up where it makes it hard for people to buy shit. | ||
| That's what fucks everything up. | ||
| Like, oh, you want me to sign up? | ||
| Oh, I don't want to sign up. | ||
| I got to put my email address? | ||
| Oh, here comes the spam. | ||
| If there was just some one easy way that you could put that fucking thing online, just one simple way where everybody could just give you, like, a buck or whatever it is for an episode. | ||
| Just real easy. | ||
| Let me watch the episode real quick. | ||
| You know? | ||
| It'd be goddamn everywhere. | ||
| It'd be everywhere. | ||
| Everywhere! | ||
| Everywhere. | ||
| It's just too, right now, it's too complicated. | ||
| Right now they're trying to figure out the various portals for people to be able to profit off these things. | ||
| How do we start this? | ||
| I can't wait. | ||
| I can't wait to figure it out. | ||
| Because I don't profit off of the internet at all. | ||
| At all? | ||
| You definitely do. | ||
| Because people on the internet love you, so they come to see you. | ||
| Well, yeah, in that way they do. | ||
| You know, I do that. | ||
| Yeah, that's a big part of it, right? | ||
| Gotta get the Ron White show started. | ||
| Jamie, this is important. | ||
| Needs to be done, right? | ||
| No. | ||
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No? | |
| What do you mean, a podcast? | ||
| You should do something like once a month. | ||
| No. | ||
| Where you commit to once a month. | ||
| Just once a month, it's not that much time for an hour. | ||
| Ron White answers questions. | ||
| Alright, I'll do that. | ||
| Look what we did. | ||
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Look what we did. | |
| Boom. | ||
| Look what we've created here. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| You don't have to. | ||
| Did I put you on the spot? | ||
| No. | ||
| I feel bad now. | ||
| No, you know, everybody's been honored to do it. | ||
| But once a month, nobody said that. | ||
| Once a month's the way to do it. | ||
| Nobody said that. | ||
| Everybody else is like, 17 days a week. | ||
| I'm like, I don't have 17 days a week to fucking do this shit. | ||
| That's what I was going to tell you earlier. | ||
| I would never encourage any changing of any of what you do. | ||
| Because then you wouldn't be Ron White. | ||
| But if Ron White decides at one point in time that he wants to change whatever behavior, if Ron White decides that he wants to start drinking carrot and ginger and garlic juice every morning and going to the fucking CrossFit gym... | ||
| I'm drinking Jack Daniels with you. | ||
| You're Mr. Mixed Message. | ||
| I am definitely a mixed message. | ||
| You are. | ||
| I am 100%. | ||
| And I'm guilty as charged. | ||
| Just trying to squeeze as much life out of this thing as we can, Ron White. | ||
| I know. | ||
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Squeeze. | |
| I know, but I'm not sure that helps. | ||
| I don't think so either. | ||
| The expression is little old man. | ||
| Not big old man. | ||
| It's little old man. | ||
| You never hear anybody say big old man. | ||
| It's poor little old man. | ||
| Tiny, little, tiny, little old, tiny man. | ||
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Look, he's got the cane. | |
| What? | ||
| He's 104. That is the great grave pulling him towards it. | ||
| How fucked up is that? | ||
| That it's ultimately what is actually happening to your body as you get older. | ||
| You have a stick to fight off the slow pull of gravity. | ||
| That's tenacious. | ||
| That's just sucking you into its grave. | ||
| The undeniable constant pull that you could... | ||
| It used to kick your ass when you were a baby. | ||
| And you'd just fall over and kick your ass all the time, and then you got a little stronger, and then it got to where you could fucking run, and then it got to where you could jump, and you were like kicking gravity's ass for a few years. | ||
| But gravity never stopped. | ||
| Gravity never fucking stopped. | ||
| Gravity kept on fucking tugging on your goddamn ass. | ||
| Gravity's like Nick Diaz in his prime. | ||
| Sucking you down to the fucking earth. | ||
| Nick Diaz in his prime would land a lot of like 50% punches. | ||
| He would just kind of like punch at your face until you got hurt. | ||
| And then he would start digging hard. | ||
| Boom, boom, boom. | ||
| That's kind of like gravity. | ||
| Gravity is just slowly chipping away at your meniscus and your discs. | ||
| Right, they have no idea. | ||
| You have no idea. | ||
| Your posture, your hips. | ||
| Oh, why do your feet hurt? | ||
| Gravity, bitch. | ||
| Right, ankles sucking into your fucking metatarsals. | ||
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Into the lava from which you came, Ron White! | |
| Motherfucker! | ||
| Thunder! Thunder! Thunder! | ||
| And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of this podcast. | ||
| Ron White is available for children's parties. | ||
| He plays clubs and colleges all across the country. | ||
| You can catch him! | ||
| All throughout the land! | ||
| Ron underscore White on Twitter. | ||
| Ron White official on Instagram. | ||
| Is that correct, sir? | ||
| That is, uh... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't even know about the Instagram stuff. | ||
| You're one of the baddest motherfuckers alive, Ron White. | ||
| I hope you appreciate that. | ||
| J. Joe Rogan, you are one of the greatest motherfuckers alive. | ||
| Thanks for having me on the show. | ||
| Please, my honor. | ||
| I know it'd be a blast. | ||
| It's fun that we hang out together so much. | ||
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Fuck yeah. | |
| And we just really talked about this last week. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And, uh... | ||
| But it was a lot of fun. | ||
| This was a good time, man. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Alright, we'll be back tomorrow with Brian Redband. |
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