#2302 - Ron White

Joe Rogan (0:01)

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Joe Rogan (0:03)

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Joe Rogan (0:06)

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Joe Rogan (0:12)

We up, hey, you fella, we're up. What's going on, Ron White?

Ron White (0:16)

I'm feeling good, finally, after my little bout with fucking COVID.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

They gotcha, they gotcha with the new COVID.

Ron White (0:24)

They got me with the new COVID, man.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

I thought the new COVID was total bullshit, I thought it was like a baby cold.

Ron White (0:29)

I had, you know, my girlfriend raised two kids and she said she's never seen anybody puke as much as I did for two days. Wow. And it was brutal, it was just bile and I don't even know if I've ever been that sick. And only I asked that part of it a couple of days.

SPEAKER_4 (0:49)

That's interesting.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

I wonder if you got multiple things at the same time. Do people usually puke a lot if they get COVID? Jamie, do you know?

SPEAKER_4 (0:58)

I don't remember that being a symptom.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

I don't remember having that either. You might have had a couple of things at the same time. There was a bad flu going around too.

Ron White (1:06)

Well, I went to Vegas early and I just thought I had a cold when I went. And my doctor here gave me a shot of steroids and I felt way fucking better. I mean, I felt better everywhere. I was more flexible. I was like, fuck, I want to do steroids every goddamn day.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

What kind of steroids was it?

Ron White (1:26)

I don't know, but whatever it was, man, I could touch the floor without bending my knees, without stretching at all.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

Like a cortisone shot?

Ron White (1:34)

I don't know. She said steroids. She gave it to me. I don't ask a lot of questions.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

So you just felt loose?

Ron White (1:40)

I felt loose and good. I played really good golf. And then I got there and it started catching up with me. I had my girlfriend. I'm staying in the mansion down at MGM Grand, which is pretty sweet.

And I had that show just on Saturday. We got there on Wednesday and I'm like, fuck it, I'm not going to make it. I felt it all started deteriorate. So I called this doctor.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

It was so bad. You didn't think you were going to make it on Saturday?

Ron White (2:04)

I didn't. I didn't. I thought I would need another shot of steroids. That's so I called a doctor. I had the hotel call a doctor. And I thought I was getting the doctor that was, you know, whatever it takes to get through the show. Right. And, you know, but that's not the doctor I got. The doctor I got was we need to let's test you for COVID. I'm like, no, no, I don't have COVID. He said, I won't charge you if it's negative, which didn't make any sense to me. And I said, well, OK. And then it came up positive for COVID. And he said, see there the T and the X and the thing. And I said, yeah, I see it. Let's do it again, because I don't think I have COVID. So we did it again, came up positive again. Not only would he not give me the COVID shot, he told me to quit taking the antibiotics I was already on.

And he did nothing except for call the CDC to tell them I had COVID. And they both said, you cannot do the show. I'm like, wait a minute, you're the wrong doctor. I don't want to fucking retire today, shit. I want to hear your drummer's a junkie, he's out of heroin, get him some fucking something to get him through this guy.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

So they were telling you, you can't do the show because you had a specific kind of a cold, a COVID cold. So if you had the flu, would he have stopped you from doing the show?

Ron White (3:27)

I'd say absolutely not. That's so weird. I don't think it would even come up.

Joe Rogan (3:31)

That's so weird, because right now, like the deaths from COVID now are so low. Like the idea that this is still a pandemic and they still have to treat it differently than they do a cold.

Ron White (3:42)

They do. Well, you know, I was faced with, do I cancel a show? Well, that's not the same as St. Louis. When they just moved the date, the people from St. Louis come back out. This is Las Vegas. A lot of those people come specifically to see me because I don't do all those shows that I used to do. So it's kind of, if you want to come see it, and that's a good place. And so it's a problem, you know, it's a refund. You got to refund them all, because those people are going to be there.