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Joe Rogan Experience #2377 - Carrot Top

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Sep 10, 20252h 47mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:00 – 3:03

    Props in the Studio: Viagra sirens, prop comedy, and backhanded praise

    1. JR

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music)

    3. CT

      Hey.

    4. JR

      What's up, buddy?

    5. CT

      How are you, man?

    6. JR

      Good to see you, my man.

    7. CT

      You as well. Thanks for having me back.

    8. JR

      What's happening?

    9. CT

      I'm very, very good.

    10. JR

      It's very funny. Your- you brought a box-

    11. CT

      (laughs)

    12. JR

      ... of your stuff, and one of them immediately started going off-

    13. CT

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      ... like it's an alarm. What is that?

    15. CT

      And that's hell, isn't it? Ok-

    16. JR

      Is it a FedEx box?

    17. CT

      Yeah. (laughs) It's, uh, well, it was a- it's a- it's that commercial that runs for late night, uh, Viagra, Cialis, and it says, "Hey, we'll send you your Cialis and Viagra in unmarked white envelopes." And I always say, "Fuck that. I don't- I want just the opposite. I want my neighbors to know I'm getting laid."

    18. JR

      (laughs)

    19. CT

      "I want my neighbors to know I have a dick, a hard dick," so it's got sirens and whistles. "My dick's hard. My dick is..." You know.

    20. JR

      Uh. (laughs)

    21. CT

      So, and that's, you know, it's- it's engineering. It takes a lot of engineering.

    22. JR

      We were just talking about you the other night at the comedy club. We were like, "He owns props." Like, you can't do props now. When I was a kid, when I first started doing standup, and I'm sure you too-

    23. CT

      Mm-hmm.

    24. JR

      ... there were prop comics.

    25. CT

      Sure.

    26. JR

      There was-

    27. CT

      You know, the-

    28. JR

      ... a bunch of guys.

    29. CT

      You know, The Wid-

    30. JR

      The Wid. Yeah, there was quite a few guys that were really good, that were prop com. But you became so successful as a prop comic, you kind of stole the market.

  2. 3:03 – 6:00

    Breaking in on late-night: Carson “hates variety,” Team Leno politics

    1. CT

      But, uh, I do remember, um, the comedy, uh, the- the evening at The Improv, and I- you know, I- I- I- I played mostly that and the other one, Laugh Fa- uh, The Cheesecake Factory, what it was. And then, the, uh, The Comedy Store was more, uh, Betsy loved me, but I never really played there a lot. So Bud loved me. One night, he, uh, he- I came in. I said, "You know, can I-" I had my little back-

    2. JR

      Bud Friedman from The Improv?

    3. CT

      Bud Friedman. Improv, sorry.

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. CT

      And I had my box of stuff, and he always loved me. You know, he says, "Oh man, you know, there's no- there's no spots tonight." And I said, um, well, I drug it all the way, you know, fuck, and he's like, um, "Let- let me- let me- I'll see if I can get you in somewhere." So The Tonight Show book- bookers were there that night. They were- the- Jim McCauley and these people were there to- to pick- watch comics and pick them for The Tonight Show. So he's like, "Hey, you know what? I'm gonna slide you in. Um, they're gonna love you." So I go up, and I had the best set ever I've ever had. It was just a magical night, and I- I don't know if I was just- I knew they were there. Every comic was coming over going, "Jesus, dude. Fuck." I mean, leveled it, right? And Jim McCauley walks up and he says, "That was amazing." And I said, "Oh, thanks." Um, I said, "You booked The Tonight Show. You think that maybe I- I could get on?" And he said, "Not a chance in hell."

    6. JR

      (laughs)

    7. CT

      And I was like, I had just killed. I go, "Why?" He says-

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. CT

      ... "You're not- you're- you're- Johnny would never book you." And I said, "Why?"

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. CT

      I said, "You b- you b- you b- you booked the show, right?" He goes, "He would never- he would never allow it." I said, "Why?"

    12. JR

      Johnny Carson?

    13. CT

      Yeah. I said, "Why?" He says, "He hates variety."

    14. JR

      What a weird thing to hate.

    15. CT

      And I stopped in the middle of my- and I'm like, "The whole fucking Tonight Show's variety."

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. CT

      Karnak, the throwing the hatchets-

    18. JR

      Right.

    19. CT

      ... every fucking thing they do.

    20. JR

      Right.

    21. CT

      Ed McMahon's a fucking prop, right?

    22. JR

      Right.

    23. CT

      The whole thing is- is variety.

    24. JR

      They bring on animals.

    25. CT

      Animals. You think I'm kidding, right?

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. CT

      So I'm like, "Well, okay." And- and then finally, I mean, I'm talking like two weeks after, uh, Johnny left, I was on with Jay.

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. CT

      And it was just like literally, but the weird part about it was it still was the same studio, you know? They had the-

    30. JR

      Right.

  3. 6:00 – 9:06

    LA image culture: wigs, muscles, and everyone assuming everything is fake

    1. JR

      Isn't it weird that like women can wear wigs, no problem at all, but a man wears a wig, it's pathetic?

    2. CT

      Oh yeah, you're- you're a loser, absolutely.

    3. JR

      Yeah, a man with a hairpiece.

    4. CT

      Nice- nice hairpiece.

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. CT

      ... or implants. You know, when I w- I lived in LA. This is true. I lived in LA and I, I'd go to Gold's Gym. And my hair was even more out of, out of control. I had big ass hair. I'm like-

    7. JR

      Yeah, you had a giant fro at one point in time.

    8. CT

      I had big fucking arms and, and these ladies were behind me and they're like, "Oh my God, look at that, those, that woman's arms," right?

    9. NA

      (laughs)

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. CT

      Seriously. I had makeup and you know, the whole nine yards. And they were just amazed. And they came over, the ladies said, "How do you get your arms that big?" And I turned around, I said, "I don't know, you know, arm workout." And she's like, "Oh." And I could see their face turn like it said, "Dude."

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. CT

      But I was kind of, you know, pretty then. You know, I was like, you know, the younger, a lot of hair and makeup, so... And then that same gym one day, I'm, I'm working out and this guy says, um, "Nice arms." And I said, "Thanks." He's like, uh, uh, "Who, who, who did the work," right? And I thought, he's making... I said, "I didn't. I put in the fucking work." You know, like, who works out for me? He said, "No, no, no. I mean, uh, implants, right?" I'm like, only in LA would you have someone in the gym walk up and say, "Oh yeah, implants? Yeah, I have implants." You, you fucking go to the gym and you do-

    14. JR

      At the gym-

    15. CT

      ... and you do curls.

    16. JR

      ... lifting out, assuming that someone has implants is pretty wild.

    17. CT

      But I don't have that big of a... I mean, this guy thought I, you know, I-

    18. JR

      Well, that's how gross LA is.

    19. CT

      Yeah, yeah, it is.

    20. JR

      It's... That's like the default assumption-

    21. CT

      Mm-hmm.

    22. JR

      ... is that everything's fake.

    23. CT

      Yeah, yep. Every-

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. CT

      No matter what.

    26. JR

      Where'd you get your butt?

    27. CT

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      Who, who did your butt?

    29. CT

      Who did your butt? (laughs)

    30. JR

      (laughs) Where'd you get your nose done?

  4. 9:06 – 14:26

    Vegas residency life: 20 years at the Luxor, touring vs. sleeping at home

    1. JR

      Do you get a lot of people coming to your shows that are famous? You must in Vegas.

    2. CT

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have, um... We had-

    3. JR

      You've been at the Luxor.

    4. CT

      We had a guy last night, we had a guy here, uh, Chris Jericho was at the show last night and he was, uh, he said hi to you. He's a-

    5. JR

      The wrestler?

    6. CT

      ... wrestler. Yeah.

    7. JR

      Oh, cool.

    8. CT

      Real nice guy. Um-

    9. JR

      You've been at the Luxor for how long now?

    10. CT

      19, uh, coming up on 20.

    11. JR

      That's crazy.

    12. CT

      Yeah, in November I turn-

    13. JR

      You, you probably have the longest residency of anybody in Vegas, other than like Penn & Teller-

    14. CT

      I think they were just talking-

    15. JR

      ... but they're magicians.

    16. CT

      ... but they don't count because one only talks.

    17. JR

      Ah.

    18. CT

      So... (laughs)

    19. JR

      (laughs) They've been there forever.

    20. CT

      They've been there forever, yeah.

    21. JR

      I remember I saw them there in '94. '94? '98, '98. I saw-

    22. CT

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      ... them there in '98.

    24. CT

      Yeah, they're still-

    25. JR

      At the, at the Rio, back when the Rio was nice.

    26. CT

      Yeah. Yeah, right?

    27. JR

      Now it's like you gotta wear-

    28. CT

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      ... a bulletproof vest-

    30. CT

      It's a shithole. They should just light it up, Shithole, you know?

  5. 14:26 – 16:10

    Vegas becoming a real sports town—and the endless controversy around team names

    1. JR

      Well, it seems like Vegas has become more of a community now.

    2. CT

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Right? They have the Raiders now.

    4. CT

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Aren't they getting a Major League-

    6. CT

      The Golden Knights and the, uh-

    7. JR

      What's the Golden Knights? What are they?

    8. CT

      Uh, the hockey.

    9. JR

      Hockey, right. That's right. They got a hockey team now.

    10. CT

      Hockey.

    11. JR

      And they-

    12. CT

      Always have fights. There's fights-

    13. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    14. CT

      Almost every weekend.

    15. JR

      Oh, yeah. Right. Fights are big, big, big, big time. Some, some kind of boxing or UFC event or something.

    16. CT

      And there's talking of... They're talking of building a baseball stadium, I think-

    17. JR

      Yeah, I heard. Yeah.

    18. CT

      ... for the A's.

    19. JR

      That's nice. What's gonna be the Vegas A's? That's gonna be weird.

    20. CT

      I, I guess. Yeah, I don't know.

    21. JR

      Is, is it the Vegas Raiders? Is that what they call themselves?

    22. CT

      Yeah, Las Vegas Raiders.

    23. JR

      That's weird.

    24. CT

      Yeah. When... Even the commentators, like, "And Oakland's..." Ah.

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. CT

      You can't say Oakland Raiders. You can't... You know. It takes a long time.

    27. JR

      Wasn't it the, wasn't it the LA Raiders?

    28. CT

      People still say, people still say Washington Redskins every... You know.

    29. JR

      Right.

    30. CT

      Just every... Chris Collinsworth last week. You know, the, the Redskin... (growls)

  6. 16:10 – 18:19

    Paid protesters, propaganda, and conspiracy culture

    1. JR

      You ever get protested?

    2. CT

      Uh, no.

    3. JR

      No?

    4. CT

      No. (laughs)

    5. JR

      You should be shocked.

    6. CT

      No, I, I haven't, but I, I thought... Um, I had a nightmare one night that I did. Like, we just... I, you know, I'm, I'm... It'd just be people outside the Luxor just mad about something. Uh, no, but I've thought about that, because I know people have been. Have you... You've been... Have you been...

    7. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    8. CT

      Oh, what? See, that's so strange.

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. CT

      What about-

    11. JR

      Minor. Just a bunch of people, like, mad about something. It's always something.

    12. CT

      "We hate bald guys." You know.

    13. JR

      It's always something.

    14. CT

      (laughs)

    15. JR

      You know, it's whatever it is. People just get upset. It's always a small group of people 'cause it's actually organized by-

    16. CT

      Right.

    17. JR

      ... by actual humans versus-

    18. CT

      Right.

    19. JR

      ... like, uh, these crowdfunded ones.

    20. CT

      Right.

    21. JR

      Where like they show up on tour buses and they all have-

    22. CT

      Right. They all have-

    23. JR

      ... professionally made signs.

    24. CT

      Sign, signs. (laughs)

    25. JR

      And they hand them to them and they're all getting paid to protest.

    26. CT

      Right, right. Yes.

    27. JR

      Those, that's a weird thing that they're doing today.

    28. CT

      Those are crazy.

    29. JR

      There, that's a... That didn't exist when I was a kid, like paid protesters.

    30. CT

      I don't think so.

  7. 18:19 – 24:53

    NASA family ties, moon-flag logic, and Area 51 flight stories

    1. CT

      So I love those 'cause I... You know, with my dad working at NASA, I would always answer... Ask people like, "What... Like what do you think?"

    2. JR

      What'd your dad do at NASA?

    3. CT

      He was, um, an engineer. He, uh...... he, he, uh, trained the astronauts in, uh, in the, uh-

    4. JR

      Was he involved-

    5. CT

      ... simulators.

    6. JR

      ... in faking the moon landing? Did you ask him?

    7. CT

      He does. Yes, yes.

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. CT

      Um, I wish my dad was alive. He'd, he'd, he'd punch you right now. (laughs)

    10. JR

      Would he?

    11. CT

      Oh, yeah.

    12. JR

      I'm hard to punch.

    13. CT

      'Cause my dad... Well, know what?

    14. JR

      I slip, I move.

    15. CT

      Yeah. No, because-

    16. JR

      (laughs)

    17. CT

      ... we had a, we had a... We just had a discussion backstage, oh, God dang, a couple of days ago. I don't know what... Something had... Something happened about a flag or something. It was something about a flag.

    18. JR

      A flag waving on the moon?

    19. CT

      No, it was something about a flag, like a burning flag. Something. And I said... Uh, my friend said, "That's an interesting question. I wonder if the, the, the m- if the flag is still on the moon." And I said, "That's a great question." Like it was one that you, you had to break it down, right?

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. CT

      So I said, "Well, my dad would know," and I guess I'm... And I'm not the brightest guy, but I would, I would do... Like, an engineer would break it down. But there's not... You know, it's... There's no wind on the moon. I mean, there might be cosmic-something wind up there, but it's not... Right? So, and there's nothing that's gonna deteriorate the flag, so it's probably still there.

    22. JR

      If, unless it got hit by a micrometeorite or something like that.

    23. CT

      Right. Some... That's what I mean. Other than that, it would be... Right. It was-

    24. JR

      'Cause the... There's no atmosphere on the moon, so like... Well, a very, very thin atmosphere. So, it gets pelted all the time with rocks-

    25. CT

      Right, right.

    26. JR

      ... where it's covered in craters.

    27. CT

      That's what I mean. The only thing that would probably... Right. But it's-

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. CT

      Unless how deep they, the fuckers put it in. But my dad trained them to drive that little lunar rover.

    30. JR

      Oh.

  8. 24:53 – 26:19

    Dropping the headphones—and how Carrot Top structures (or doesn’t) a prop act

    1. JR

      You can take those off.

    2. CT

      I know these fucking heads-

    3. JR

      Those are not working.

    4. CT

      Yeah, these aren't working for me.

    5. JR

      Something about your hair and-

    6. CT

      I can... Uh, yeah.

    7. JR

      ... those things.

    8. CT

      My physique.

    9. JR

      Let's just...... let's just go headset less.

    10. CT

      Ugh.

    11. JR

      There we go. Phew.

    12. CT

      Oh, my God.

    13. JR

      Feel better?

    14. CT

      Oh.

    15. JR

      It was a struggle.

    16. CT

      Can I take my pants off too?

    17. JR

      You can take your pants off.

    18. CT

      Thank you. Ugh.

    19. JR

      This is a pants-free zone.

    20. CT

      This is a no-headphone, no-pant-wearing zone.

    21. JR

      You probably have extra pants in there anyway.

    22. CT

      I, I, I might.

    23. JR

      Don't you? You probably have clown pants.

    24. CT

      I, I do probably (laughs) have something in there.

    25. JR

      (laughs)

    26. CT

      I knew I used to have on.

    27. JR

      Do you even know what's in there?

    28. CT

      I don't kn- ... No. Not this one, I don't know.

    29. JR

      Like, do you structure your show or do you just, like, reach in and start grabbing stuff?

    30. CT

      No, the show, th- the show, the show is structured, um, but when I come and do, like, little things, uh, there's not at all. There's noth- nothing, zero, just structure.

  9. 26:19 – 33:20

    Ron White chaos: weed smoke, surprise walk-ons, and Vegas backstage life

    1. CT

      Absolutely. Yeah. I just had Ron White come up on, on stage, um, just last Friday.

    2. JR

      Oh, he was in Vegas?

    3. CT

      He was in Vegas, uh, and he came out. And a- you know Ron's just a-hoot. He says, uh... He- he comes in and I said, you know, "Wha- wha-" I said, "Well, I, I thought, you know... What do you want me to do?" And I said, "Well, you just... Just do what, uh... You know. Don't, you know, don't stress out. Don't come out and do 20 minutes. Just, I think just poke your head out." I, I have a, I had a, I have a bit in my act where I talk about my dad working at NASA and training astronauts. And he says, like, Neil Armstrong and John Glenn. They, all these pictures come up. And Katy Perry. Everybody goes, "Ah." And so-

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. CT

      ... if my dad was alive, you could hear him right now. He'd go, "What the fuck?"

    6. JR

      (laughs)

    7. CT

      And I got Ron White to do the voice for it, right? So the crowd, they already know it. Ke- you just hear his voice. "What the fuck?"

    8. JR

      Yeah.

    9. CT

      And everybody's like, "Ron White." So I said, "That sounds like Ron White." And I said, "Fucking sounds a lot like Ron White." And he, he walks out and he goes, "Well, no shit, Sherlock." And the crowd loses it, right? And he's so... He goes, "I was gonna come out here and say something, but you're fucking..." And I was having a good set. "Fucking blowing the roof off the fucking place." And so he, he says, uh, "Do you still wanna..." I said, "No, do... Joke? All right, I'll do..." And he did some joke and it was great 'cause he, he's, he was... I'm watching the whole show. He's like one of my men- heroes in life. He's sitting there watching the show and, but t- then he's gone for, like... I don't even... I'm... His bit's coming up, I don't know where he is. And you could smell pot the whole, the whole theater. So I-

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. CT

      ... that's when I realized something's not a joke. And I'm like, "Oh fuck. I hope it's... I mean, Ron, you can't, like, smoke weed in here." So he... I go off after he get... He comes out and he says, he just, whoomf, it comes. So I said, "All right, another hand for Ron White." And I said some kind of dr- I said, and, uh, "If you smell weed, it's probably..." He's back, he goes back in my dressing room. Now, there's another show back, that's back down in there, all these stripper girls. And he's... They're all like, "Hey, I didn't know you partied."

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. CT

      I'm like, "What?" They're like, "I didn't know you party." I've been there 19 years. I'm like, "I, I don't party." They're like, "No, that's..." Uh, "Oh, that's my friend Ron. (laughs) He's smoking weed." They're like, "Holy, he's got good shit." I mean, it was... It would just bellow through the whole lobby out into the lobby.

    14. JR

      Yeah, he can go hard.

    15. CT

      Oh, he goes... He let-

    16. JR

      If you smoke... I've smoked weed with him and then done a set and been like, "Oh my God. What am I talking about?" (laughs)

    17. CT

      Yeah, no. He was so obliterate... He... And then he left his weed and his wallet in my dressing room.

    18. JR

      Oh, no. Did you steal his wallet?

    19. CT

      Yeah, fuck, yeah, I stole his wallet.

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. CT

      And his weed, you know.

    22. JR

      (sniffs) He's here. He lives here.

    23. CT

      He does. I know he's here. He was... He said he might surprise me today at, uh, later.

    24. JR

      Oh, nice.

    25. CT

      Um, may- and you've done w- with... I, I don't know if I, if I didn't-

    26. JR

      I do shows with him every week.

    27. CT

      Uh, d-... He, he-

    28. JR

      Every week. Yeah.

    29. CT

      So great.

    30. JR

      He's the best.

  10. 33:20 – 35:23

    Vegas history: mob origins, nukes in Nevada, and the creepy Bodies exhibit

    1. JR

      Vegas is just such an odd place. There's nothing like that place.

    2. CT

      True.

    3. JR

      It's so strange. It's just got such a history. I mean, it's, first of all, the beginning of it, right? It's founded by the mob. Like, they literally-

    4. CT

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      ... want a place where they can get gambling. And then, in order to have legal gambling, there's probably some sort of a deal where they let the government blow nukes off in the- (laughs) ... middle of the fucking mountains.

    6. CT

      Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

    7. JR

      So there's spots out there where you really-

    8. CT

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      ... can't even visit because they detonated 50, 60 nukes.

    10. CT

      Right, right, right. Yeah, it's- it's crazy.

    11. JR

      That's what killed John Wayne, you know?

    12. CT

      Uh, uh, Vegas?

    13. JR

      John Wayne was doing a movie in Nevada about Genghis Khan. It's a terrible movie. Uh, and, uh, he did that movie and a- a giant percentage of the people that worked on the movie got cancer from it.

    14. CT

      Oh, shit.

    15. JR

      Because they were literally, like, right down the road from one of the test sites.

    16. CT

      Wow.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. CT

      That's crazy.

    19. JR

      It's fucked, right?

    20. CT

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      But I- I always thought that's probably one of the reasons why they allowed them to do the gambling thing there. They probably made some sort of a deal. Like, "Yeah, you can have gambling, but this is what we want to do."

    22. CT

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      "We want to blow off nukes."

    24. CT

      Jesus. I feel like that sometimes, when- when I'm on stage at the Luxor or at some- something, something from, comes down and- and it, you can, the crowd can see it, just a particle of something. It's always like, "Oh, it's nice. The, you know, the place is fine."

    25. JR

      Like asbestos.

    26. CT

      It's asbestos.

    27. JR

      Well, it's not nukes.

    28. CT

      No.

    29. JR

      Luxor was built in, like, what, the early 2000s? When was that built?

    30. CT

      Yes. No, it wouldn't be nu- it wouldn't be nuclear stuff.

  11. 35:23 – 39:47

    Sponsor break: DraftKings read

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    3. JR

      It was a great idea.

    4. CT

      Yeah, uh, it's still phenomenal. You walk inside it, I'm, it's just breathtaking. You're down to your left.

    5. JR

      I was there recently. I went to see the, the Bodies exhibit.

    6. CT

      It's just, you walk, yeah, right there, you walk in. You walk in, it's like... You know, I might, I should do a joke like this. "Yeah, I got, I had sex with this really hot chick and then they finally threw me out of the Bodies exhibit," or something stupid like that.

    7. JR

      (laughs)

    8. CT

      But yeah, but something stupid.

    9. JR

      The Bodies exhibit is fucking creepy.Do you know the story behind that place?

    10. CT

      I l- well, a little. I mean, yeah, th- kind of.

    11. JR

      They're mostly t... W- w- well, they don't n- really know, like, where they're getting the bodies, but they do know that a lot of them are political prisoners.

    12. CT

      Oh.

    13. JR

      Yeah. So it's basically, like, people that ran afoul of the Chinese government, so they whack them and turn them into statues.

    14. CT

      Wow. That's creepy. It's right-

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. CT

      It's right outside my theater.

    17. JR

      Yeah. Well-

    18. CT

      Goddamn.

    19. JR

      A lot of them, they, they call, like, unidentified bodies. But the, the real problem is, like, to be a unidentified body, you have to be unidentified for 30 days. But then in order to do the plastination process, where they turn you into a statue, it has to take place within 48 hours of death. So...

    20. CT

      Hmm.

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. CT

      Wow.

    23. JR

      Someone's lying.

    24. CT

      Fuck.

    25. JR

      Yeah. Someone's lying.

    26. CT

      It makes a lot more sense now.

    27. JR

      A lot of them have bullet holes.

    28. CT

      What a- what a great place to have a comedy club, right next to, like, the Titanic Museum and dead fucking bodies, right?

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. CT

      Nothing getting you more in the mood for a show, right?

  12. 39:47 – 46:12

    AI music and voice cloning: 50 Cent as a 1950s crooner, scams, and deepfake risks

    1. JR

      Have you heard what they're doing with AI music, speaking of jazz?

    2. CT

      Yes.

    3. JR

      Uh, they, they did 50... I sent it to Jamie today. They took 50 Cent's Many Men and made it, like, a soulful song that seems like it's from the '50s or '60s. Have you heard this?

    4. CT

      No, but I heard, I've heard a few other ones, not the 50 Cent one.

    5. JR

      Dude, do you wanna listen to it?

    6. CT

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      It's so fucking good.

    8. CT

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      I, I sent it to Brian Simpson, and he said, "That is the best fucking thing you've ever sent me." Let me find it.

    10. CT

      And so they just, they just, they just did that?

    11. JR

      Yes, through AI. It's not even a real-

    12. CT

      Oh, that's-

    13. JR

      ... human being's voice, and it's fucking good, dude.

    14. CT

      Oh, man.

    15. JR

      It's good, where you're like, "Whoa." Listen to this.

    16. CT

      Yeah, man.

    17. JR

      It seems weird hearing these lyrics with this kind of-

    18. CT

      Right.

    19. JR

      ... singing, you know, because it's like hardcore gangsta rap music, but with... Listen to this, though. It's kinda crazy that they're doing...

    20. NA

      Many men wish death upon me. Blood in my eye, dawg, and I can't see. I'm trying to be.

    21. CT

      Wow.

    22. NA

      What I'm destined to be. And niggas trying to take my life away.

    23. CT

      Dang.

    24. JR

      Whoa.

    25. CT

      Isn't that great? Geez.

    26. NA

      Oh, it gets better. Listen.

    27. NA

      I put a hole in a nigga. For fucking with me. My back on the wall, now you gonna see. Better watch how you talk. When you talk about me. 'Cause I'll come and take your life away.

    28. JR

      Whoa.

    29. CT

      Isn't that great? How incredible.

    30. NA

      Many men-

  13. 46:12 – 59:49

    Pre-internet culture archaeology: Kenny Rogers, Prince, swearing taboos, and old media vibes

    1. CT

      Um, the, uh, this is weird. So we get, d- d- he goes to see Kenny Rogers and I'm, I'm s- like 12 or something, 13. He says, "You wanna go." So my dad's, I said, "I'll go to Kenny." My first concert with Kenny Rogers. It's like a- a huge, he was playing like arenas. It was him and Tammy Wynette and that was great.

    2. JR

      Yeah. << You gotta know when to hold 'em. >>

    3. CT

      And I mean, right? All the hits. And we go-

    4. JR

      << Know when to hold 'em. >>

    5. CT

      Yeah. (laughs)

    6. JR

      << Know when to walk away. >>

    7. CT

      Yeah, and then the second concert I go to was Kenny Rogers, right? So I'm like, "Geez, all right. I don't think there's anything else but Kenny Rogers," right? Third time I go to this fucking thing. I'm like, "Dad, is, is, can we go to like Alabama? Can we go do another, another concert?" Because he loved Alabama, he loved just... "No Kenny Rogers is..." So then I meet Kenny Rogers in an elevator in LA. Like it's just the weirdest thing. Bing, door's open. And he gets, stands there and he gets on. I said, I said, "Oh man, I don't wanna bother you. You're a m- legend." He's like, "Thank you." I said, "Do you know the first concert I ever went to?" He says, "Uh, I'm gonna say me." I said, "Yep." (laughs) He said, "That's awesome." I said, "You know the second concert I went to?" He says, "Nope." I said, "You." He says, "Wow, that's awesome." I said, "You remember the third?" He goes-

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. CT

      "All right, fuck off." I'm like, "No, no."

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. CT

      He goes, "Fuck off. Where are we going with this?" I said, "My dad took me to your concert three times in a row." And then he goes, "Well, you have a, you have a great dad." And I, and then it was just kind of awkward and he was just, we were just, I kind of ran out of-

    12. JR

      Dude, that's exactly what we were talking about. You act weird in front of celebrities.

    13. CT

      And, yeah, and I did, right? And we're look, I'm look, we're just looking at the numbers and we're going up and finally I said, "Oh, and you know what? You have great chicken." And I'm like-

    14. JR

      (laughs)

    15. CT

      "What the fuck?" I didn't know what else to say. And, but he really did have good, it was great chicken, Roaster's thing. And that's what I said. And he went like, he looked at me like, "Fuck off." I said, "No, and the sides are great too, the, the chicken."

    16. JR

      Yeah. That m- that song The Gambler, how many did that turn into gambling junkies? (laughs)

    17. CT

      Right. Oh God.

    18. JR

      You romanticize gambling, but it seems so << You gotta know when to hold 'em. >> I do, I do. I know when.

    19. CT

      Yeah. But you gotta know when to fold.

    20. JR

      I know when to walk away. I know when to run.

    21. CT

      And I know what I'm doing. I got this shit.

    22. JR

      Didn't they make a, make a TV movie about that?

    23. CT

      Mm-hmm.

    24. JR

      Wasn't there like a TV movie?

    25. CT

      Yeah, I think they did. Yeah, called The Gambler. Wasn't it called The Gambler?

    26. JR

      Was it? I think there was a TV movie called The Gambler. Yeah.

    27. CT

      I think so. Hmm. We'll find out in seconds.

    28. JR

      Uh, yep.

    29. NA

      1980.

    30. JR

      Yep.

  14. 59:49 – 1:28:14

    Old-school cool: Smokey and the Bandit, Burt Reynolds incidents, and Jay Leno respect

    1. JR

      You could talk on a walkie-talkie. Or I knew a dude who had a CB in his car.

    2. CT

      He had a CB so he could listen to CB.

    3. JR

      He would just have random conversations with people. Bro, they would just start talking about stuff.

    4. CT

      Yeah. Now, yeah, yeah. Hey, breaker one nine. Breaker one nine, what you up to? Yeah, yeah.

    5. JR

      Breaker one nine. What you got tonight? Yeah, yeah. And they would just have conversations, and people would meet people.

    6. CT

      And like you said then, wh- the smoking, the ban. That was, that, that was-

    7. JR

      Yeah.

    8. CT

      But that, that is about the time you're talking about, too-

    9. JR

      Yes.

    10. CT

      ... where they were... We had CBs, but they were also, like, cavemen. They were just-

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. CT

      It was, it was, it was-

    13. JR

      But you were the cool guy if you had a CB in your truck.

    14. CT

      Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

    15. JR

      If you had a CB in your truck, you were cool.

    16. CT

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      Didn't, didn't Burt Reynolds have a CB in his Trans Am?

    18. CT

      Yeah. Of course, he did.

    19. JR

      Did he in the, in the Burt Reynolds Trans Am?

    20. CT

      Yeah, he had to. Yeah, he talked to... Yeah, he did, "Hey, hey, big nutter, uh, what's up? Brrup, buh."

    21. JR

      That's right.

    22. CT

      "And we're gonna pull over here and feed the dog and he-"

    23. JR

      Bro.

    24. CT

      "... 10-4, good buddy."

    25. JR

      That is the ultimate cool guy.

    26. CT

      Yeah, look at that.

    27. JR

      He's got a walkie-talkie in his Trans Am with a cowboy hat on.

    28. CT

      Fucking right. That's my-

    29. JR

      Fuck.

    30. CT

      By the way, that's... It is one of my only movies that I own on my iPod.

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