The guest
Ron White: Stand-up comedian and Blue Collar Comedy Tour star, known as 'Tater Salad,' longtime friend of Rogan and part of the Austin comedy scene.
What this episode covers
Ron White joins Joe Rogan for a loose, wandering conversation that opens with his tour-bus life and the dangers of highway travel before drifting into shared obsessions. They geek out at length over pool legends like Efren Reyes, Ko Pin Chung and Shane Van Boening, and over golf's John Daly and Tiger Woods. The pair riff on cults, gurus, QAnon, mega-church wealth and the impossibility of starting a new religion today, repeatedly joking about founding a 'Church of Ron White.' They also dig into comedy itself, the founding of the Comedy Mothership, Kill Tony, and the comics who first inspired them, capping a famous on-mic smelling-salts bit.
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Crossover Symmetry
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Juju Mufu smelling salts
Juju Mufu
“the greatest smelling salts in the history of the world”
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Icarus
Bryan Fogel
“It's a great”
“Like did you ever see that documentary Icarus? It's a great I think so.”— Joe Rogan
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The Dissident
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“another amazing documentary”
“Bryan who also did the dissident which is another amazing documentary.”— Joe Rogan
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Holy Hell
“It's a great documentary”
“It's a great documentary. It's called Holy Hell.”— Joe Rogan
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South Park
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
“they're genius and the characters never get old”
“South Park is the tip of the spear in the culture war. They go after everybody forever and they can get away with it cuz it's a cartoon.”— Joe Rogan
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Osho (audiobook, title unspecified)
Osho
“his book is really brilliant”
“that guy Osho, his book is really brilliant. There's an audio version of one of his books that I got into.”— Joe Rogan
The guest's own work
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50 Years of Bad Golf, How I Did It
Ron White
“I'm writing a book right now, 50 years of bad golf, how I did it and like I had a plan to do it this bad for so long.”— Ron White
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Wild Wild Country
“there's that Portland movie, the the the Netflix series Wild Wild Country. They literally bought into a town.”— Joe Rogan
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Killers of the Flower Moon
“I didn't see that movie yet. I heard it's awesome, though. Have you seen it? Killers of the Flower Moon?”— Ron White
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Insomniac with Dave Attell
Dave Attell
“Well, he had that show. Insomniac, right? And that was true. I mean, that's what he would do every night.”— Joe Rogan
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Fear Factor
“Fear Factor comes on my television. Every time I turn it on, it automatically goes straight to Fear Factor.”— Joe Rogan
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Hell's Kitchen
“I got a Samsung TV in the gym and when I turn it on, it goes right to Hell's Kitchen every time.”— Joe Rogan
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Samsung TV
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“I got a Samsung TV in the gym and when I turn it on, it goes right to Hell's Kitchen every time.”— Joe Rogan
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Prevost (tour bus)
Prevost
“Name Steve who used to work for Prevost fixing them. And uh Fred the patch who used who built the bus.”— Ron White
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John Daly (vodka drink)
John Daly
“now he's got a vodka drink kind of like the Arnold Palmer except it's got booze in it. It's called the John Daly.”— Ron White
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Arnold Palmer (drink)
“Arnold Palmer is lemonade and iced tea, right? you add some vodka, I would imagine.”— Joe Rogan
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Callaway
Callaway
“It's a big deal from Callaway but I think he you know, he's playing slot machines a thousand bucks a pull all the time.”— Ron White
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Brunswick Gold Crown (pool table)
Brunswick
“if you buy a Brunswick Gold Crown stock from the factory, it probably has 5-in pockets.”— Joe Rogan
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Diamond (pool table)
Diamond
“If you buy a Diamond, it has 4 and 1/2, but you can get it all the way down to four.”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Ron White has owned his 60,000-lb tour bus for 17 years but has never driven it a single foot and doesn't even know how to start it.
- Ron reveals he quit drinking about three years ago, though Kid Rock and John Daly still bang on his bus to drag him to the titty bar.
- Joe and Ron do the on-mic smelling-salts bit, with Joe shouting out 'Juju Mufu' for making 'the greatest smelling salts in the history of the world.'
- Ron describes falling 78 feet off a cliff into Hamilton Pool while drunk, landing flat and tearing both shoulders, which he never had treated for years.
- Joe explains the cult building Ron once urged him to buy belonged to Buddhafield's leader, a hypnotist who reportedly gave followers orgasms, documented in 'Holy Hell.'
- The two recount how Joe's late-pandemic decision to open the Comedy Mothership in Austin, spurred by Ron, reshaped both their careers.
Worth remembering
- Backers brought pool legend Efren Reyes to America under the fake name 'Caesar Morales' so no one would call the Philippines and discover how good he was.
- Ron relays a claim that a cat will start eating a deceased owner within 24 hours while dogs hold out until they have nothing left.
- John Daly once smoked 21 cigarettes and drank 12 cans of Coke with no water at a PGA Tour event.
- Bryan Fogel's documentary Icarus accidentally captured the Russian Olympic doping scandal while he was doping himself for the film.
- Bikram yoga follows a fixed sequence of 26 postures in rooms heated between 103 and 108 degrees.
- Ko Pin Chung won 11 games in a row at the US Open on a table with tiny 4-inch pockets, a nearly unheard-of feat.
- Earl Strickland and Shane Van Boening share the record for most US Open Nine Ball titles with five each.
- From 1999 to 2009 Tiger Woods was more likely to win a tournament (34%) than to finish ninth or worse (32%).
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