Joe Rogan Experience #2087 - Ron White

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.

• 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.
  00:03:37
• 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.
  01:31:30
• 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.'
  01:38:43
• 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.
  01:45:58
• 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.'
  02:43:30
• The two recount how Joe's late-pandemic decision to open the Comedy Mothership in Austin, spurred by Ron, reshaped both their careers.
  02:58:27

• 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.
  00:17:32
• 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.
  01:05:03
• John Daly once smoked 21 cigarettes and drank 12 cans of Coke with no water at a PGA Tour event.
  01:28:25
• Bryan Fogel's documentary Icarus accidentally captured the Russian Olympic doping scandal while he was doping himself for the film.
  01:40:46
• Bikram yoga follows a fixed sequence of 26 postures in rooms heated between 103 and 108 degrees.
  01:51:40
• 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.
  02:05:42
• Earl Strickland and Shane Van Boening share the record for most US Open Nine Ball titles with five each.
  02:08:18
• From 1999 to 2009 Tiger Woods was more likely to win a tournament (34%) than to finish ninth or worse (32%).
  02:10:21

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