#2041 - Steve Strope

Joe Rogan (0:17)

You look like you just had band rehearsal.

Steve Strope (0:19)

That's right.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

I hate to make you feel old, but we've known each other for 20 years.

Steve Strope (0:26)

Dude, thanks.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

How wild is that? Does time fly or what? We've been friends for 20 years.

Steve Strope (0:33)

Really?

Joe Rogan (0:34)

20 years.

Steve Strope (0:36)

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. This, that, and the other thing. I'm going, crap, I forgot.

That was like 2004? Are you kidding me?

Joe Rogan (0:54)

2004 seemed so long ago.

That was the fear factor days. That's like round around when I met you. When I brought the barracuda to you.

Steve Strope (1:06)

Fish. Yeah.

Because you, yeah. Because it was, well, I have my handy cheat sheet here.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

You actually made a cheat sheet to prepare for this?

Steve Strope (1:17)

There's, dude, I got paid.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

By the way, the shirt, it's exquisite.

Steve Strope (1:22)

I got it.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

I know.

Steve Strope (1:23)

Can I officially gift you in front of the camera?

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Sure, please.

So this is a shirt with the Nova that Steve built for me. Steve built the greatest Nova the world has ever seen. A 1969 Nova with Camaro shite sheet metal.

Steve Strope (1:36)

Yeah, you have to see it.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Really, we could talk about it all day, but people have to actually see it online.

Steve Strope (1:41)

Lots of fun. I wanted to do the kind of...

Joe Rogan (1:42)

That's a dope fucking shirt.

Steve Strope (1:44)

So there's a mixture of stuff, like those clouds and stuff are taken from those crazy Chrysler ads in the 70s, like the Roadrunner stuff with the smoke building up behind it. We copied that.

And then the sun thing was just in, like, every other 70s 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 my other life was in rock and roll, of course, I leaned towards the Hendrix of audio experience. So it came out pretty cool.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

There it is. There's the car. The T-shirt's very cool.

Steve Strope (2:16)

Yeah, there it is.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

There's the car. The coolest Nova of all time. I love that thing, man.

Steve Strope (2:20)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

It drives so well. I love that thing.

Steve Strope (2:23)

It does.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

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?

Steve Strope (2:33)

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.

And played with it quite a few times before I delivered it to you.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

It's magnificent.

Steve Strope (2:49)

Yeah, I was very... Because I set it up... I didn't set it up for track attack, because that's not what you're going to do.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

Right, no, I'm just going to cruise around.

Steve Strope (2:55)

Right, so I set it up so when you go over those little joints in the road going onto a bridge, it doesn't...

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Leave that up in the background, Jimmy. Just leave that there.

Steve Strope (3:05)

That was the amazing photography of Wes Allison.

Joe Rogan (3:09)

Wes Allison, you're the shit.

Steve Strope (3:11)

He is the shit.

Joe Rogan (3:11)

That's a great picture. I think I need to get a steel version of that picture. Put it up in our... Yeah, let's do that.

I don't know. Pretty big. We need a big one, right?

Steve Strope (3:22)

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.

Joe Rogan (3:32)

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...

Steve Strope (3:40)

Well, not only that, the grill has changed.

The little headlight doors on the side, those are changed. I used to... I would joke with different Nova people and go, give you 100 bucks if you can tell me what I changed in the front. And they're like, uh, we added bars. The grill is actually taller. Those bars...