#1534 - Ron White

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Ron White (0:15)

Oh, thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

You look like you're well rested, like the COVID lockdown has done you well.

Ron White (0:21)

Thank you, you know, during this thing, I came up with a program called the Dial It Back A Little Bit program. And it's like a except there's only six steps, but you don't get completely sober.

So it's going to be very popular, I think. And the first step was Ron, why don't you quit drinking so fucking much?

Joe Rogan (0:43)

And what is so fucking much? What's the numbers?

Ron White (0:47)

You know, it's a half a bottle of tequila a night or something like that, maybe a little more. Wound back to a third.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

By the way, these little cigars are the shit. These are really good. Romeo and Julieta, tiny cigars.

Ron White (1:03)

Yeah, that's the mini cigarillo. So there's one that's a little bit bigger than that.

It's called a cigarillo and these are the minis. And I started, like I was saying, when I was playing golf, you know, that I just whenever it's time for me to hit, I just throw it away and light another one, you know, there's 20 of them for 15 bucks. So, you know, as opposed to a $15 cigar, which is what I usually smoke, something like that and.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

But it's good tobacco.

Ron White (1:30)

Yeah, it's really good. It's the same thing. It's in their big old premium cigars, just rolled by the junior rollers. That's how they like it.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

And you look like you're smoking a blunt.

Ron White (1:41)

But we're clearly not.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Clearly.

And in Austin, what were you saying about the rules? It's like, you could have as much as a quarter of a pound before they arrest you?

Ron White (1:53)

Yeah, a quarter of a pound. Is that right?

Yeah, and if you just say it's CBD, CDB, whatever, nugs, then they would have to test it, and they don't want to test it. They got other things to do, so.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

They have CBD stores out here, folks. It's very strange. They have stores that sell CBD joints, but marijuana is illegal.

Ron White (2:15)

Right, so I don't know. My son is in that business, and it is confusing.

And I think that's what helps, you know? Is they got dizzy trying to figure it out.

But I was going through LAX on the way out here a week early, because we set this up for, we were talking on Friday, and you said next Tuesday the 8th. Well, I don't even know what month it is, much less what day of the month it is. And so I just thought it's the next Tuesday coming up, which was only three days away. And I was a little mad at you. And I was like going, wow, it seems like you'd have given me more than three days notice, and I gotta find a way to get to LA. And I'm looking at flights, there's nothing good. I'm thinking about bringing my plane down, which it turns out has a problem, so we couldn't bring it down. And I get down here and he's like, the 8th is a week from today. And I was like, God, I'm so stupid, man.

Joe Rogan (3:15)

We made it work.

Ron White (3:15)

Yeah, we made it work. So they just plugged in the stuff a few days early, and here I am.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

So you're not from here, but you've been here for how long now, like two years? How long you?

Ron White (3:27)

I've got, you know, I started coming to Austin when I was 15 years old. My buddy, his brother, taught economics at UT and had a house on 4th Street, which at that time was just little bitty, low end, cracker box houses, but that mostly teachers lived in. And he would let us stay in his yard.

And so we would tell my parents that we were going camping at Lake Sutherland. And my buddy, Ricky Bellows, when he turned 16, had the littlest new Honda, but he had one that was wrecked and he rebuilt it.

And we put all our camping gear in it, come straight to Austin, and set up in my brother, my buddy Mickey McMillan, his brother, Scott McMillan. We'd set up in his yard, his backyard, and then we'd walk two blocks of 6th Street. And it was probably 71 or 72 And Austin was tripping balls. I mean, it was people on unicycles in clownsuits, juggling backwards, music pumping out of every window. Stevie Ray Vaughan coming out of this with Stevie Ray Vaughan on one end of the guitar.