Joe Rogan Experience #1758 - Carrot Top

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. CTCarrot Top0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Cheers, sir.

   4. CTCarrot Top0:14

      Dude, yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Uh, happy New Year.

   6. CTCarrot Top0:15

      Happy New Year to you, too.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      And very nice to officially meet you.

   8. CTCarrot Top0:17

      Yeah, it's cool. Hmm. (glasses clink) Oh.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:21

      I follow you on the Instagram. Watch your posts-

   10. CTCarrot Top0:22

       Oh, yeah, yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:23

       ... all the time.

   12. CTCarrot Top0:23

       Okay, good. Yeah, I follow you, too.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       See what a big, silly goose, you're having a good time.

   14. CTCarrot Top0:26

       Yes. (laughs) I've been doing these, uh, these little, um, in... what do you call it? Where you kind of reenact a scene from movies, and it's been really fun. And it's hard 'cause you have to, you have to, like, know the scene really well. So I've done, like, the Planes, Trains, and All... you know, My fucking car?

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       Mm-hmm.

   16. CTCarrot Top0:41

       My fucking w-... Um, so it's been fun. It's, um, my new little, uh, gig. But yeah, I try to keep it fun, Instagram, for-

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       No, you definitely do. And y- you're obviously... You've done a lot of radio 'cause you have one ear on-

   18. CTCarrot Top0:52

       I, you know, so... (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       ... and one ear off. That's... Jim Norton always does that.

   20. CTCarrot Top0:53

       Now that I'm this retarded, no, I, I do it...

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       (laughs)

   22. CTCarrot Top0:55

       ... this in p-... Oh, Jim Norton does that too?

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       Yeah.

   24. CTCarrot Top0:57

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       A lot of people do that-

   26. CTCarrot Top0:58

       I don't know. I like, uh...

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:59

       ... who don't do a lot of radio.

   28. CTCarrot Top0:59

       Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. So I like doing it like...

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01

       Yeah, they want, like, a little amb- ambiance.

   30. CTCarrot Top1:01

       Yeah, a little bit of... Yeah, a little... Exactly, exactly.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah, yeah. For a…

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      But i- when we realized that the government can stop you from working, that... And you know, not just for two weeks but for fucking almost two years.

   2. CTCarrot Top15:07

      Yeah, yeah. For a year. Yeah. Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      It was so long before they allowed indoor shows again. I was like, "These people are out of their fucking minds." Like, you got to let people make their own choices. Also, this is a respiratory virus. You're, you're not stopping shit, as you can see.

   4. CTCarrot Top15:19

      Yeah. Yup, it's very true. Um, we, I was talking to, uh, the girl out there, um, about when we first got back. We were, we were, very first show back in Vegas and it was, uh, one of those things where, uh, there was just, you know, "We want you back." And I said, "Well, who else is coming back?" They said, "Nobody. Just you." And I said, "What?"

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:39

      You were the first show back?

   6. CTCarrot Top15:40

      First one. But I think it's because I was the only guy on stage. So at the shows with all the dancers and things... And even with, you know, other people. So I was the only one. Penn and Teller didn't want to do it and, you know, Criss Angel didn't want to do it. No one wanted to go back and, and I, I was dying to go back. I was, you know, uh, a year of sitting in... I mean, it was nice sitting in my boat in Florida but at the same time you're like, "I'm losing my sense of purpose, like what the fuck. I gotta, I gotta perform again." You know?

   7. JRJoe Rogan16:05

      Yeah.

   8. CTCarrot Top16:06

      So, yeah, I went back and, and then, uh, but the weird part we could, they put us in this 2200 seat theater. Um, it was the old Criss Angel theater when he played there and it was only 100 people allowed. So you had 2-

   9. JRJoe Rogan16:19

      2200 theater and 100 people?

   10. CTCarrot Top16:20

       200 seats. Yeah. 100 people and sep- distanced.

   11. JRJoe Rogan16:24

       Yeah.

   12. CTCarrot Top16:24

       And a, a 40-foot moat.

   13. JRJoe Rogan16:27

       What?

   14. CTCarrot Top16:27

       Yeah. So-

   15. JRJoe Rogan16:28

       40 feet between you and them? (laughs)

   16. CTCarrot Top16:29

       For the, for the... I swear to God, right?

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:31

       So far.

   18. CTCarrot Top16:31

       And I used to, I used to make a joke, I said, "In fact, Galag would be hor- do horrible in here." You know, wouldn't hit anybody, you know. But, um, 40 feet is so far.

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:37

       Literally f-

   20. CTCarrot Top16:38

       Oh no. And then, and I know. And then, then, then, you know, it was, it was, it was really weird. I gotta be hon- you know. And me and my, my guys would be at the end and say, "You know, it really wasn't that bad considering in their masks so you can't... It's muffled, it's, it's..." It was...

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:51

       Yeah.

   22. CTCarrot Top16:52

       But it wasn't... I don't know, it's better than just not doing a show.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:54

       Yeah.

   24. CTCarrot Top16:55

       But there were nights you're like, "Wow, this is not k- I'm not, I don't wanna do this." You know?

   25. JRJoe Rogan17:02

       Yeah.

   26. CTCarrot Top17:02

       And so, and then it slowly, slowly got bigger and bigger. Now we're back in our, our original theater but...

   27. JRJoe Rogan17:06

       (sighs) We did, I did one show in July of 2020. I did one weekend at the Houston Improv. They were still allowing people to do shows. And this was obviously pre-vaccines, pre-everything and, you know, was still a little sketchy. And I did the show and then we had a great time and I thought, "God dammit, I'm gonna go out on the road again." And then I got really high and then I thought, "What if I get COVID and I give it to someone and they die?"

   28. CTCarrot Top17:30

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan17:31

       That's what I thought. I thought, "What if..." And I said, "Okay, you know, I can't do this." And so it was just too weird back then. There was no real treatment for it, no one knew what was going on.

   30. CTCarrot Top17:40

       It was a little scary, yeah. People didn't have any idea of what was happening.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Like him. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      not. I mean, I know him very well. He's a fucking fantastic person. He's not... That's not him. He's just making jokes about stuff, and it's like-... you can't read all those goddamn comments. Most of the comments are super, super positive.

   2. CTCarrot Top30:16

      Like him.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:16

      Most of them. But if you have a thousand people that are commenting on something, you're gonna have 10 that are just angry, negative, shitty people, and those are the ones, if you're a sensitive person-

   4. CTCarrot Top30:27

      My audience, my audience basically, thank you.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:28

      Oh, all of our audience.

   6. CTCarrot Top30:28

      My crowd. (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:29

      (laughs) If you're a sensitive person, those are the ones that are gonna stand out.

   8. CTCarrot Top30:32

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:32

      And you're gonna go, "Oh, my God, what have I done?"

   10. CTCarrot Top30:34

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       So he started deleting posts and then apparently- Me see this. ... there was a bunch of shit posters and TERFs and all kinds of other stuff. TERF's a great name.

   12. CTCarrot Top30:44

       (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       (laughs) It is.

   14. CTCarrot Top30:44

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       You want some f- real whiskey, get outta here with that.

   16. CTCarrot Top30:46

       Well, what do you mean real whiskey? Was that, was that Trace, uh-

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       Buffalo Trace.

   18. CTCarrot Top30:49

       Buffalo Trace Atkins? Buffalo Trace Atkins.

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       (laughs) That's, that's real shit. (door creaks) It's America right there. That's America before it was America.

   20. CTCarrot Top30:56

       That is America, I like that. Right?

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       Yeah.

   22. CTCarrot Top30:57

       Thank you. (drink slurps) You're definitely doing better than me. Look at his, look at mine. Hm. (drink glugs) (exhales)

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:06

       Well, there's nothing wrong with Crown.

   24. CTCarrot Top31:08

       That's what I can afford, I can afford.

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       You stole it from the hotel bar.

   26. CTCarrot Top31:09

       (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:10

       Stop lying. (laughs)

   28. CTCarrot Top31:10

       From your hotel bar. (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:12

       It's not my hotel. (laughs) He just is where you put me after you left. It's just where we put you up.

   30. CTCarrot Top31:15

       Yeah, that's right.
4. 45:00 – 59:34

   Yeah, those were my…

   1. CTCarrot Top45:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      Yeah, those were my favorite days.

   3. CTCarrot Top45:01

      And there's a... well, it's kind of sad. He's, he's sweating and he's-

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      Yeah.

   5. CTCarrot Top45:04

      ... he's overweight.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      Still killing it.

   7. CTCarrot Top45:05

      And they're interviewing him, and they say, uh, "Do you, um, you look... you don't look good," or something.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      (laughs)

   9. CTCarrot Top45:12

      No, no, they really honestly say this, like, the reporter says, "You look like shit." And he says, uh, "I'm s- I'm sorry." And they're like, "Yeah, you just, you know... what happened?"

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:23

       (laughs)

   11. CTCarrot Top45:24

       And he, you see it, you see it in his face. He's... and he's literally takes a moment, and he says, "I'm sorry I don't live up to what you wanted me to look like. I'm, you know, I'm doing my best." And then he just kinda walks off, like, in tears.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:35

       Really?

   13. CTCarrot Top45:35

       Yeah. Ooh, let's, let's find that.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:37

       Find that.

   15. CTCarrot Top45:37

       Yeah. It's, it's, it's, I think it's at El- I think it's in the Elvis, uh, it's either Netf- it's a two-hour or two, or two for- two-part thing. So Bill Hicks, this is, uh...

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:47

       But l- but before we get to Bill Hicks, it's like, no one was like that before him. Like, there was no kind of star of that magnitude.

   17. CTCarrot Top45:56

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       It didn't exist.

   19. CTCarrot Top45:58

       And literally, and like Michael Jackson took over-

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       There was always stars, right?

   21. CTCarrot Top46:01

       Right, right, right.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:01

       There was always, you know, there was Little Richard and Chubby Checker, and there was always, like, uh, Buddy Holly.

   23. CTCarrot Top46:07

       Right.

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       There was stars.

   25. CTCarrot Top46:08

       But not, not of that...

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       No.

   27. CTCarrot Top46:09

       No.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       It's a different kind of star.

   29. CTCarrot Top46:10

       Agreed, agreed.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:11

       And-

Episode duration: 2:26:36