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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 – 15:00

    (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

    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. 15:00 – 30:00

    Yeah. …

    1. CT

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

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. CT

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

    4. JR

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

    5. CT

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

    6. JR

      Right.

    7. CT

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

    8. JR

      What do they call themselves now, the Redskins?

    9. CT

      The Commanders.

    10. JR

      Hmm.

    11. CT

      (laughs) And you're, you're talking... I, I... This is pretty good. I'm like a sports guy. I know this stuff, you know.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. CT

      You know. Commanders.

    14. JR

      Yeah, Redskins is a weird one, though.

    15. CT

      The Washington Commanders.

    16. JR

      That one's problematic.

    17. CT

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      You know.

    19. CT

      Well, there's a lot of them, I guess, that... Maybe it was something... There were some articles someone did. It was really great. It broke down everything that could be, like the Braves, the thing, the Chiefs. They, they went through all these different things. We'd have to get rid of everything.

    20. JR

      How about Notre Dame?

    21. CT

      The only thing left was like the Dolphins 'cause they're just-

    22. JR

      Right.

    23. CT

      It's a little... But you, you can't... You know, it's a dolphin. You can't, you can't hurt a dolphin, you know.

    24. JR

      Well, yeah, but then there's dolphins in captivity.

    25. CT

      Right.

    26. JR

      It's kind of gross that you're capitalizing on dolphins-

    27. CT

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      ... in captivity.

    29. CT

      Right.

    30. JR

      There was a, there was a lot of people that were upset about the Notre Dame using the Fighting Irish.

  3. 30:00 – 45:00

    Oh, right. …

    1. JR

      "I'm fucking retired. I'm done. I got plenty of money. I'm just gonna enjoy life and this." Then I'm like, "Okay. Come on, man. Really?" I'm like, "You're so funny." Like, I just can't believe that. And so then, uh, Tony put on a show at The Vulcan. Tony had done, uh, like one or two shows indoors. I'm like... Which was crazy. Like, "Oh my God, we're doing shows indoors in 2020?" This is madness.

    2. CT

      Oh, right.

    3. JR

      And then LA people are freaking out, "You're killing Grandpa."

    4. CT

      Yeah, yeah. (laughs) Exactly.

    5. JR

      And so, uh, Ron, um, was like-

    6. CT

      (clears throat)

    7. JR

      ... "Oh, fuck it. I don't even know if I'm gonna do a set." And then, uh, he decided to go on stage. He went on stage. The audience went fucking bananas. He got a huge standing ovation. The moment he went on stage, murdered. I mean, murdered for 15 minutes. And then he came off stage and he grabbed me by my shoulders and he goes, "Whatever the fuck we have to do, we're gonna keep doing this. You gotta open that club." I'm like, "Okay, okay, we're gonna-"

    8. CT

      That's great.

    9. JR

      That was the, the beginning of the comedy mothership. It was Ron White.

    10. CT

      Ah. How great is that?

    11. JR

      Yeah, he's the... He was the, the original. He was the, the Christopher Columbus, but that's a bad example 'cause that guy was a real piece of shit. Uh, you know, he was the-

    12. CT

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      ... original pioneer-

    14. CT

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      ... that came here.

    16. CT

      Yeah, crazy.We went out... I remember the last... I'll do one more Ron White story, 'cause it's- it's- it's just incredible. I go, I go, he come up, we go out in this little fancy, like, one of these posh little bars down in, somewhere in the fancy hotel. And I even said, "Where do you want to go?" And he says, this is kind of like, you know, a little... I thought he wanted to go to a bar. He said, "Let's go to the one at the Aria," or whatever. So we go, and it's- it's real fancy, and then we sit down, and the waitress walks over to us and it's, there's three of us, his wife, his- his girlfriend, me, my friend. And I said, um, "I'll... Let's do a Crown on the rocks." And she, "I'll have a glass of wine." And- and as I look over to his wife, I said, "Would you like a... Oh, damn, someone smoking weed." And Ron's, is literally, he looks at me, he's like, "Well, no fucking shit." And I go, "Ron, you c- you can't s- you can't smoke pot in here." He goes, "The hell I can't. Who- who- who in the hell is gonna throw Ron White and Carrot Top out of a fucking bar?"

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. CT

      And within seconds, Metro is standing there going, "You guys get the fuck out of here." And Ron's like, "You gotta be fucking shi-" I said, "Ron, you can't."

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. CT

      Like, he just, he's, the cops are there, and he's like, "Well, they're good. They're good." I said, "No, we're not good. We gotta go." He just thought, he's, "Who's gonna..." He did that in my backstage just last week. I said, "You can't smoke pot back here." He says, "Your fucking dressing room. What does that mean?" (laughs) It means you can't smoke weed back here.

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. CT

      'Cause I've got all the-

    23. JR

      Is that a Luxor thing?

    24. CT

      No, 'cause I've got other... No, 'cause I've got the other people, the girls, the show.

    25. JR

      Oh, the next show?

    26. CT

      There's a lot of other people backstage-

    27. JR

      What is the next show?

    28. CT

      ... that I can't do that.

    29. JR

      The next show is, like, strippers?

    30. CT

      It's called Fantasy, yeah.

  4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

    Right. …

    1. JR

    2. CT

      Right.

    3. JR

      That's what's crazy. Like they nailed it. Even though I know it's fake, I love it.

    4. CT

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      And you love it too. Like, we're listening like, "This is great."

    6. CT

      I'm listening, yeah. No, that was true. That was beautiful.

    7. JR

      But we know it's fake.

    8. CT

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      That's kind of crazy. The Randy Travis thing is different because what they just did is he wrote it and then he can't sing anymore, but they have thousands of hours of him singing.

    10. CT

      His singing. So they took-

    11. JR

      They take that and then just turned it into him singing.

    12. CT

      And that's amazing. That's amazing.

    13. JR

      So it is him singing. It's actually his voice. It's just not coming out of his mouth, it's coming out of technology. But it is his voice.

    14. CT

      Crazy.

    15. JR

      And it's his writing.

    16. CT

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      Right? So it's like, it really is a Randy Travis album. It's just Randy Travis... Like, you can enjoy someone that can't do it anymore but is still alive.

    18. CT

      Right, sure.

    19. JR

      You know? Like that guy had so many great songs.

    20. CT

      Oh, man.

    21. JR

      Oh my God. That guy has incredible voice.

    22. CT

      I could go on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever, ever, ever. (laughs)

    23. JR

      Well, you have to have-

    24. CT

      No, he's got so many... I love, I mean that was my first g- uh, big country, since Kenny Rogers. My dad would go see Kenny Rogers every goddamn... Every concert my dad went to was Kenny Rogers, right?

    25. JR

      Really?

    26. CT

      Literally.

    27. JR

      That's hilarious.

    28. CT

      And then he goes-

    29. JR

      Oh, we put the headphones back on.

    30. CT

      No, I did, I'm taking-

  5. 1:00:00 – 1:02:48

    Breaker one nine. What…

    1. CT

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

    2. JR

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

    3. CT

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

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. CT

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

    6. JR

      Yes.

    7. CT

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

    8. JR

      Yeah.

    9. CT

      It was, it was, it was-

    10. JR

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

    11. CT

      Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

    12. JR

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

    13. CT

      Yeah.

    14. JR

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

    15. CT

      Yeah. Of course, he did.

    16. JR

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

    17. CT

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

    18. JR

      That's right.

    19. CT

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

    20. JR

      Bro.

    21. CT

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

    22. JR

      That is the ultimate cool guy.

    23. CT

      Yeah, look at that.

    24. JR

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

    25. CT

      Fucking right. That's my-

    26. JR

      Fuck.

    27. CT

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

    28. JR

      Bro, it is another archeological site.

    29. CT

      Pad. I love that movie.

    30. JR

      It's a dig. They've dug down to another time-

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