Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2302 - Ron White
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2302 - Ron White' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-09. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2302 - Ron White

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We up? Hey, you fellow, we're up.
What's going on, Ron Wayne?
I'm feeling good, finally, after my little bout with fucking COVID.
They gotcha. They gotcha with the new COVID.
They got me with the new COVID, man.
I thought the new COVID was total bullshit.
I thought it was like a baby cold.
I had, you know, my girlfriend raised two kids,
and she said she's never seen anybody puke as much as I did for two days.
Wow.
And it was brutal. It was just bile.
And I don't even know if I've ever been that sick.
I lasted that part of it a couple of days.
That's interesting. I wonder if you got multiple things at the same time.
Do people usually puke a lot if they get COVID?
Jamie, do you know?
I don't remember that being a symptom.
I don't remember having that either.
You might have had a couple things at the same time.
Because there was a bad flu going around, too.
Well, I went to Vegas early, and I just thought I had a cold when I went.
And my doctor here gave me a shot of steroids, and I felt way fucking better.
I mean, I felt better everywhere.
I was more flexible.
I was like, fuck, I want to do steroids every goddamn day.
What kind of steroid was it?
I don't know.
But whatever it was, man, I could touch the floor without bending my knees,
without stretching at all.
Like a cortisone shot?
I don't know.
She said steroids.
She gave it to me.
I don't ask a lot of questions.
So you just felt loose?
I felt loose and good.
I played really good golf.
And then I got there, and it started catching up with me.
I had my girlfriend.
I'm staying in the mansion down at MGM Grand, which is pretty sweet.
And I had that show just on Saturday.
We got there on Wednesday.
And I'm like, fuck it.
I'm not going to make it.
I felt it all started to deteriorate.
So I called this doctor.
It was so bad.
You didn't think you were going to make it on Saturday.
I thought I would need another shot of steroids.
So I called the doctor.
I had the hotel call a doctor.
And I thought I was getting the doctor that was whatever it takes to get
through the show.
But that's not the doctor I got.
The doctor I got was, let's test you for COVID.
I'm like, no, no, I don't have COVID.
He said, I won't charge you if it's negative, which didn't make any sense to me.
And I said, well, okay.
And then it came up positive for COVID.
And he said, see there, the T and the X and the thing.
And I said, yeah, I see it.
Let's do it again.
Because I don't think I have COVID.
So we did it again.
Came up positive again.
Not only would he not give me the COVID shot, he told me to quit taking the
antibiotics I was already on.
And he did nothing except for called the CDC to tell them I had COVID.
And they both said, you cannot do the show.
I'm like, wait a minute.
You're the wrong doctor.
I don't want to fucking retire today shit.
I want to, here's the, your drummer's a junkie.
He's out of heroin.
Get him some fucking something to get him through this guy.
So they were telling you, you can't do the show because you had a specific kind
of a cold, a COVID cold.
So if you had the flu, would he have stopped you from doing the show?
I'd say absolutely not.
That's so weird.
I don't think it would even come up.
That's so weird.
Because right now, like the deaths from COVID now are so low.
Like the idea that this is still a pandemic and they still have to treat it
differently than they do a cold.
They do.
Why?
Well, you know, I, I was faced with, do I cancel a show?
Well, that's not the same as St. Louis when they just moved the date and the
people from St. Louis come back out.
This is Las Vegas.
Right.
A lot of those people come specifically to see me because I don't do all those
shows that I used to do.
So it's kind of, if you want to come see it, that's a good place.
And so it's a problem.
You know, it's a refund.
You got to refund them all because those people aren't going to be there.
Most importantly, your fans are bummed out.
Yeah.
My fun, I've disappointed them.
Everybody's here.
Fuck, let's do the show.
So I just sit there.
I didn't know what to do.
So I'm like, well, I'm just going to call MGM Grand and tell them what the fuck's
going on.
I'm going to let it be their call, you know, and they're like, so how do you
feel?
I'm like, I feel like I can make it through the show.
And they're like, well, I say, let's just go ahead and do it.
You're, you know, it's a big room.
You're not within six feet of anybody.
It's 2025.
It's 2025.
You, if you told me you had, you did tell me you had COVID and I gave you a big
hug on Monday.
I saw you on Monday.
Yeah.
When we did Kill Tony.
Right.
And I was fine.
You were a super spreader on Kill Tony.
You son of a bitch.
I'm an asshole.
The biggest asshole ever.
It would be so horrible.
Nobody got sick.
I know.
Nobody did.
Nobody got sick.
And it wasn't until the next day that I got sick.
That's when the vomiting started.
Wasn't in Vegas.
It was day two.
It was Tuesday after Kill Tony.
That's when I got sick.
And it was fucking awful.
I mean, for two days, just awful.
Did you get another steroid shot?
No.
Nobody would give me one.
So, I don't know, man.
I just got the wrong goddamn...
You gotta go to Cole's gym.
Yeah, right.
Find the biggest guy in the room and say, who's your doctor?
Dude, you got something, don't you?
You know you got something, bro.
Come on, man.
Aren't you a Ron White fan?
Give me some fucking steroids.
Just to get me around the corner, so...
Yeah.
So, I'm back.
I feel fine today.
Well, that's good.
Good to see you back.
Which is really good news.
You coming to the club tonight?
You know, they asked me to...
I don't know who's got the set tonight.
I don't know who's got the show.
We do.
Fuck it.
Let's go.
Okay, let's go.
I'll go.
Let's go, Ron White.
Plus, bottom of the barrels tonight, too.
The Kill Tony was on Netflix last night.
Yeah, isn't that amazing?
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy for Tony and Red Band and for everybody on the show.
I'm just so happy that that show is now on Netflix.
It's sweet, you know.
I always believed in it, and you know that.
And I always saw something in Tony.
I was never sure what exactly it was.
But I saw something, you know, that this kid works hard.
You know, he's got a dream that he's fucking making it work.
And he's making it work with hard work.
He works hard.
He works really hard at that show, man.
Really does.
I mean, I call him in the middle of the day sometimes.
And he's just laying out, like, how he's going to do the show.
What he's got.
He's like, he's planning it.
He's wandering around his apartment, writing notes down.
Just planning it out in his head.
He's legit.
Tony's legit.
This is the thing about success.
It's a product of hard work.
And in that example, I fucking know it's a product of hard work.
Those guys did that show every goddamn Monday for 10-plus years.
Starting with six people in the crowd.
I was one of them.
I was there when they were doing the Belly Room show.
But I always encouraged it.
I encourage people to do shows when no one's watching.
Because I think that, you know, the only way something builds is you've got to
get it started.
You can't think you're going to launch a podcast and it's going to have a
million downloads.
It's not that way.
And you don't want it that way anyway.
You want to get good at it.
You want to learn how to do it.
You want to iron out the kinks.
I agree.
I agree.
And they did it.
They fucking did it.
They did it.
And now it's one of the best shows in the world.
It's the funniest fucking show on television, for sure.
You know, as far as just a fucking entertaining thing to goddamn do, I mean,
just to come down, you know, my last girlfriend was so addicted to the show.
She would come almost every Monday.
And it's hard for me to go down there on Kill Tony night because they got the,
you know, the green rooms hocked out to 19,000 people.
And there's no place for me to go.
Right.
And so, you know, but she was addicted to it.
I mean, just it's something fun to do, you know.
It's a fun thing to do.
Because you're going to get some great comics.
And it doesn't matter if the comic eats it on stage because it's still funny.
You know, that's not the point.
The point is that everybody has access, you know, in some way.
And there's no shortcut to get there because I tried to shortcut it because I
thought I could because I was Ron White.
And my banker said, yeah, I've been doing stand-up and I'd love to get on.
I'm like, no problem.
I'll tell them.
I'll fix this for you.
And he was like, yeah, no, you can't.
It's a bucket pull.
That's the only way he can do it is to get his name in there.
It's a legit bucket pull.
It is.
It really is.
And sometimes one of our guys gets in, like, Hassan's been on a couple of times
now, you know, and sometimes not.
You put your name in the bucket.
You'll see.
There's hundreds of names in that bucket.
It's a great idea.
It's a great idea.
It really is.
And it's inclusive to anybody.
I mean, it's amazing to me who he saw that had the vision to put anybody,
anybody, no matter what kind of physical shame.
You can't even say a word.
Right.
And handicapped on top of that.
And, you know.
All I have to do is just give it a go.
Give it a go.
Give it a go.
Try to be funny.
Do your best.
Just do your best.
And there's a lot of people doing their best.
I'm thrilled.
I'm thrilled for the success of it.
It's incredible.
Yeah, it really is.
It's fun, too.
It's like it makes everything more fun.
When there's a fun thing like that out there in the world, more of us have fun.
We have more fun at the clubs.
We have more fun talking about comedy.
Yeah.
And, you know, it made me really proud, too, to, I mean, just to walk out on
stage.
And it's, you know, it's you and Shane and Segura and Tony.
And these are my friends.
You know, these are my buddies.
This is my tribe right here.
And we're doing something really special.
And it's a fucking hoot.
Yeah.
It is a fucking hoot.
It's a fucking hoot.
Yeah.
And it's, that club's the best place for it.
I had a nightmare the other night.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
And it was about the club.
Oh, no.
And that I was the headliner that night.
And I got down there, and there were like nine 11-year-old girls.
And that's all the tickets we could sell.
And I was like, did you tell them I was coming?
And I mean, yeah, we put it in the thing.
And nobody showed up, Ron, except for these chicks.
If I was your psychiatrist, I'd sit down and go, Ron, what do you think this
means to you?
What inside of your subconscious makes you think that only 11-year-old girls
would come to see you do comedies?
That's because for 38 years, I've been waiting for the end.
You know?
And it finally happened that night in the middle of that dream.
See?
I knew it would happen.
I knew it.
You think like that.
It drives me crazy.
I don't understand how you can think like that.
I just always have because, you know, it never works as good as it works for me,
you know?
I mean, it's worked okay for you.
But, I mean, you know, these kind of careers don't last forever unless they do.
And there's not very many of them that do, you know, last fucking four decades.
It's a different world now, Ron.
I think they do last now.
I guess so.
I think the thing that was going on before was everybody thought you did comedy
to get to something.
You did comedy to get to the movies.
You did comedy to get to TV.
And if you didn't, then you were a failure.
And you thought of yourself as a failure and other people thought of you as a
failure, too.
And that would diminish your confidence.
That would diminish your draw.
And only a few people survived that and escaped.
And a lot of great comics, like Richard Jenny, for instance, he got caught up
in that and felt like he was a failure and a loser and wound up fucking killing
himself.
Meanwhile, he was one of the greatest comics that's ever lived.
That ever lived.
He just missed the boa