Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2041 - Steve Strope
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2041 - Steve Strope' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2041 - Steve Strope

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Just had a set of these on at band rehearsal on Sunday.
You look like you just had band rehearsal.
That's right.
I hate to make you feel old, but we've known each other for 20 years.
Okay.
Dude.
Thanks.
How wild is that?
Does time fly or what?
Yeah, that's...
We've been friends for 20 years.
That's pretty...
Really?
20 years.
You know what I did?
I also experienced the odd time continuum to brief myself for this.
I'm like, I should probably look back when I did this, this, and this, and this,
that, and the other thing.
I'm going, holy crap, I forgot.
That was like 2004?
Are you kidding me?
2004 seems so long ago.
Yeah.
That was the fear factor days.
Yeah.
That's like round around when I met you, when I brought the barracuda to you.
Fish.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, because you, yeah, because it was, well, I have my handy cheat sheet here.
You actually made a cheat sheet to prepare for this?
Well, there's, dude, I got paid.
Dude, by the way, the shirt, it's exquisite.
I got it.
I know.
Can I officially gift you in front of the camera?
Sure, please.
Please do.
Okay.
So.
So this is a shirt with the Nova that Steve built for me.
Yeah.
Steve built the greatest Nova the world has ever seen, a 1969 Nova with.
Camaro.
Yeah, you have to see it.
We could, you really, we could talk about it all day, but people have to
actually see it
online.
Lots of fun.
I wanted to do the kind of.
That's a dope fucking shirt.
So there's a mixture of stuff like those clouds and stuff are taken from those
crazy Chrysler
ads in the seventies, like the, the Roadrunner stuff with a smoke building up
behind it.
We copied that.
And then the sun thing was just in like every other seventies artwork I could
find, you know?
And then of course the prerequisite small UFO and I wasn't going to take your
Joe Rogan
experience.
So, and being that I, my other life was in rock and roll, of course I leaned
towards the
Hendrix of RU experience.
So it came out pretty cool.
There it is.
There's the car.
The t-shirt's very cool.
Yeah, there it is.
There's the car.
The coolest Nova of all time.
I love that thing, man.
Thank you.
It drives so well.
It does.
I mean, it's not just so cool looking, like it drives so well.
The independent suspension, the way you set it up, was it Art Morrison?
Yeah, Morrison stuff.
I went a little softer on the spring in the front and believe it or not, a
little stiffer
on the rear.
Um, and played with it quite a few times before I delivered it to you.
It's magnificent.
Yeah.
I was very, cause I set it up.
I didn't set it up for track attack cause that's not what you're going to do.
Right.
No, I'm just going to cruise around.
Right.
So I set it up so when you go over those little joints in the road going onto a
bridge, it
doesn't...
Leave that up in the background, Jamie.
Just leave that there.
That was the amazing, uh, photography of Wes Allison.
Wes Allison, you're the shit.
He is the shit.
That's a great picture.
I think I need to get a, one of a steel version of that picture and put it up
in our, yeah,
let's do that.
How big do you want it?
I don't know.
Pretty big.
We need a big one, right?
Just to see the details.
It came out real nice and the funny thing is, or the, I don't know about funny,
but the
point of it was, is there's so much done and none of it looks like anything was
done.
Yeah, it really does look like just a really cool 1969 car.
If you don't know the manipulation that you guys did to the sheet metal.
Well, then not only that, the, the grill is changed.
Yeah.
The, the, the little headlight doors on the side, those are changed.
I, I used to, uh, I would joke with different Nova people and go, give you a
hundred bucks
if you can tell me what I changed in the front.
And they're like, uh, uh, we added bars.
The grill is actually taller.
The, the, those bars.
What does it look like in real life?
Do they just have black spaces?
What they had, it was a piece of plastic that came from underneath the bumper
and it went
underneath the, that, that headlight and then came up.
So you see on the very outer edge, how there's like, I can't count from here.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, like eight.
Yeah.
Those bars right there.
The bottom three are added.
Oh, Jamie, can you pull up a 1969 Nova grill?
Yeah.
Or, or Nova front end.
Nova front end.
Yeah.
But it, uh, there's lots of little changes.
Let's see what it looks like.
Yeah.
Um, well, yeah.
I can't, can't, can't see it in that.
You can, you can see how there's just a piece of plastic under it and it comes
up.
The silver plastic comes up.
So those ribs aren't, that's not the greatest photograph.
That's a better photo.
That looks custom.
No, he's got the plastic coming up.
Yeah, he's got something else though.
You can see that piece of plastic come up.
That's a beautiful Nova too.
Boy.
So we extended the grill and extended those outer things to just fill up the
space.
It just looks better.
There you go.
It's just a unique looking car.
Yeah, there it is.
That car is just so unique.
It's such a, you know, it's, and I think it's one of those muscle cars that
really never got
it's due because it kind of started out as more of an economy kind of a car.
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Nova, yeah, Nova wasn't like, you know, if you had a Barracuda, you were
the fucking
man.
Right.
If you had a Nova, it's like, oh, you couldn't afford a Barracuda.
Like if you had a Duster.
Unless you had the Nova SS with the 396, but there was, were few and far
between.
There weren't a lot of people that ordered that.
When I was a kid, this kid in our high school had a Duster.
What was the other one?
There was a Duster.
There was a Dodge.
Dart.
A Dart.
Yeah.
He had a Duster.
Or Valiant.
Yeah.
And nobody gave it any respect.
I was like, that's a cool car.
Like what's wrong with you people?
But there was like this thing where like some of those older cars were less
desirable.
So I'm in high school in, so I graduated in 85.
So we're talking about, I think, I think my friend had this car in like 84.
So, you know, it really was only 14 years old, which is kind of crazy.
Yes, it is.
That's super crazy.
Like 86 when we were driving around, a 68 was only, what, 18 years old.
Right.
Wasn't an old car.
Not super old.
Yeah.
18 years old ain't shit.
That's like 2005.
What, five?
You and I are about to do math.
Right.
That's bonkers.
23 minus 18.
Yeah.
That's bonkers.
That's a 2005.
Which is like kind of a new car.
Yeah.
Like if you have a 2005 car, you can't differentiate them at all from a 2020,
unless you're like a car connoisseur.
Yeah, sure.
You know, if you have a 2005 Camry, it looks like a 2020 Camry.
It's interesting how time marches on, how perception of length of time, like
you were saying when we sat down with our friendship, let alone everything else.
It's like, how is that 20 minutes?
Oh, it's going very fast.
That's the one thing our older generation when we were growing up told us, that
was the one truth.
It goes so fast.
Yeah.
Enjoy it because it's gone.
It's also because when you were a child, one year was literally like one-tenth
of your life.
It was so long.
It was an eternity.
Because you had so few points of reference.
But then as you get older and you have more points of reference and more
experience and more life,
then you realize like, oh my God, time is full.
I don't have much time at all.
No one does.
It's amazing how-
It goes quick.
How the boost kicks in and all of a sudden, 40, 50, 60.
You're like, what the hell just happened?
And you're just like, let's hang in there as long as I can.
I got some stem cells today.
I did?
Yeah, I was reading this thing that this year, I'll send it to you, Jamie.
But they believe now that through stem cell technology, they're going to be
able to extend lifespan far greater.
And the article said something about like having people work until they're 120,
which is like not a good selling point.
Yeah.
Here, I'll send it to you, Jamie.
Hey, you can suffer longer.
Yeah.
Hey, you can hate what you do longer.
You got it already?
Others will be living and working to 120 and it will start within a decade,
says doctor to the star.
So it doesn't, they're not necessarily saying you'll be working until you're
120, but living and working.
So this guy is using stem cells.
I believe we can create prolongation of life.
Von Schwartz cells.
That sounds like the beginning of every horror movie.
We believe we can have prolonging of life.
We can do it.
Dun, dun, dun.
Oh, goody.
Probably within a couple of years, people can live to be 120, 150 years old, if
not longer than that.
It's not just bed bound, non-communicating individuals, but really active
individuals who participate in social life, professional life, and have a
quality of life.
Because that's the goal.
Yeah.
I'm in.
Let's go.
I'm enjoying life.
You know, I'm enjoying doing stuff.
And my friends that are older, that are having like health problems, it really
makes me realize like, man, you got to stay on top of everything.
Because if you don't, if it slides off and then you have to try to bring it
back up, it's way harder than maintaining.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, the stem cell thing, if he could, if Von Doom there could get on.
On the eyeball stuff.
On the eyeball, I'd be very appreciative.
That would have, do they, let's tell everybody what happened to you because
this is a crazy thing.
Oh.
You know, it's a real bummer, right?
Yeah.
You just out of nowhere started seeing dark spots, right?
No.
What happened was, well, little background.
I had already, stage one was going into your local Dr. Eye guy because you have
metal in your eye.
Oh, wow.
Because that's some of the fun that happens even when you're wearing safety
glasses.
All the haters, calm down.
We wear safety glasses.
How do you get in?
Oh, it just bounces around.
You know, you're working with a carbide bit spinning at, you know, 15,000 RPM.
Stuff bounces around.
But since then, I've been using, I found this place in France that makes these
antique motorcycle
World War I aircraft goggles that seal.
Is this used to use for duels?
I don't know that one.
You don't know that one?
But it seals to your eyes and it's got little vents in it so they don't fog up.
So, but anyway, I got metal in my eye, which is, for those of you who haven't
done it, it's
lots of fun.
You hold still, you're wide awake, and they come at you with a Dremel drill bit
and they
drill it out.
Oh, Jesus.
So, and you, and the instructions are, hold still.
Don't move.
Right.
Oh, my God.
I mean, they put a numbing drop in, but you still see the drill bit coming.
Oh, my God.
Easy, easy.
You can handle it.
Oh, my God.
The stuff you've been through, I'm sure you can handle it.
Yeah, that's wild, though.
But so, I've been drilled a couple of times.
That sounds wrong.
And if they came up with a photo of my eye, it'd look like a golf ball, little
dimples when
the drill comes in.
So, anyway, that guy is like, you know, when they're in there, if they're
experienced cats,
they just happen to look around, right?
Yeah.
And he goes, hey, I think you should come back and talk to our other doctor so-and-so
and
have him do some tests because I saw some stuff, don't know, but I think it'd
be wise if you
blah, blah, blah.
So, I go in, we do the test, and the guy goes, and this is, wow, this is a
while ago, 14,
15 years ago.
Here we are again with that time portal.
Right.
He goes, you have advanced glaucoma.
Then I go, what the hell is that?
And he goes, it's like creeping death.
It slowly takes your peripheral.
And most adults don't know that they're going blind until they're 80, and it
moves so slow
that you don't notice the change, right?
Well, mine's trucking along.
And so, we start with medication that lowers in your eye, you basically got a
faucet and a drain.
And if the drain's plugged up or if the faucet's on overload, it's acting not
like a wa