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Chapter 1: How did Ron White deal with COVID?
I'm feeling good, finally, after my little bout with fucking COVID.
They gotcha. They gotcha with the new COVID.
They got me with the new COVID, man.
I thought the new COVID was total bullshit. I thought it was like a baby cold.
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. I only got that part of it a couple of days.
That's interesting. 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?
I don't remember that being a symptom.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Ron White face in Las Vegas?
I don't remember having that either. You might have had a couple things at the same time. There was a bad flu going around too.
Well, I went to Vegas. And 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. What kind of steroid was it?
I don't know, but whatever it was, man, I could touch the floor without bending my knees, without stretching at all.
Like a cortisone shot?
I don't know. She said steroid. She gave it to me. I don't ask a lot of questions. So you just felt loose? 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 start to deteriorate. So I called this doctor.
It was so bad. You didn't think you were going to make it on Saturday.
I didn't. I didn't. I thought I would need another shot of steroids. That's so I called the 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.
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Chapter 3: Why is 'Kill Tony' so popular among comedians?
Just to get me around the corner. So I'm back. I feel fine today. That's good. Good to see you back. Really good news. You coming to the club tonight? You know, they asked me to, I don't know who's got the set tonight. I don't know who's got the show. We do.
Fuck it. Let's go.
Okay, let's go. I'll go.
Let's go, Ron White. Plus, Bottom of the Barrels tonight, too.
Kill Tony was on Netflix last night. Yeah, isn't that amazing?
I'm so happy. I'm so happy for Tony and Red Band and for everybody on the show. I'm just so happy that that show is now on Netflix.
It's sweet. I always believed in it, and you know that. I always saw something in Tony. I was never sure what exactly it was, but I saw something. This kid works hard. He's got a dream that he's fucking making it work, and he's making it work with hard work. He works hard.
He works really hard. really hard at that show, man.
Really does.
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Chapter 4: How does past trauma affect Ron White's comedy?
No substitute. Stage time and a good tribe.
Yeah. You've got to have that.
Because everybody's killing it. Like when I see Hasan up there killing it, I'm like, ooh, let's go. I get excited. Everybody's killing it. It's come a long way. A long way. And you see these guys like Ari Matty, these young guys coming up. You see all these people. Cam Patterson on Kill Tony Monday Night was on fire. On fire. You see the growth. You see these guys emerging.
And you're like, this is incredible. We're so lucky. We have the luckiest job in the luckiest place in the world.
100%.
Because there's just all that stage time. And you don't actually automatically get to go to the mothership, but that can be your goal.
You can get in there, man. You can get in there if you're good. You can get in there if you're good. There's a lot of guys get in there. All you have to do, a lot of women get in there, a lot of non-binary people. All you have to do is just be good. There's showcases all the time. Adam's picking people all the time. People see you if you're funny. Your shit's on the internet.
It's like the path has never been clearer now for a young comic. I mean, when I was young, starting out, it's like, how do you do this? How do you get on stage? How do you get a manager? How do you get paid? How do you do it? Now it's kind of laid out.
It is. And there are people also hanging around like me that have been through all this stuff before, you know, the growth to know how to get better, you know, because I was like you. There was no direction. There was nobody giving advice. There was... You just looked at it and went, okay, I'll try this.
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Chapter 5: What is Ron White's journey to sobriety?
you know you you hold a lot of power and you have something a lot of people fucking want and i know that because i have a i have a box of and i should have brought them and given them to you anyway i'll bring them to the club tonight but it's just a guy i met that owns a sunglass company and he makes sunglasses for hunting and he and so he said wait a minute who wears sunglasses when they hunt
I don't know. Nobody? You can't wear them when – well, I guess maybe some people probably do. I bet rifle hunters do.
Yeah. He said that one of them were specifically for bow hunting. It makes you see the target better or something.
Oh, interesting. Okay. So he's got an invention. Yeah.
You know, I don't know. I don't hunt, so I don't really know anything about hunting in glasses. He just said he was going to send a box. Would you give them to Joe? And I said, yeah, I'll give them to him. And I didn't.
I would think that glasses would get in the way because, you know, when you –
shoot with a bow there's a thing called a peep sight so you have your string and in your string is uh what one of the things that's sewn into your string is this little plastic circle sure do you know what it is yeah okay so you know it lines up with the scope the housing of the bow no i don't know that so with a peep sight is when you draw back and you you don't look through through the string you look to the circle that's on the string it's sewed into the string and that circle you line it up exactly with your sight housing
And so where your pin is, it's all about, like, staying calm and keeping that pin there, and you want to keep it all, like, connected together. So my eye is, like, right there, like, right next to this peep sight. If I had glasses, it might get in the way. You know what I mean? Like, because the string is touching my nose, and the thing is right there.
And I'm just drawing back, and I'm looking at it like that, right through it. I'll give them to you. See what you think. I don't know anybody who shoots, but I know some hunters that have glasses, so there must be a way to adjust. I don't know.
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Chapter 6: How do taxes impact comedy tours in Canada?
It is, but socialized medicine. It's expensive.
What percentage do Canadians pay in taxes?
So I don't know.
Let's find that out. What's the Canadian tax rate? I know it's higher than Americans.
I know. Mine's a bitch.
And when you go over there, you have to pay taxes, too. Like if you do a gig.
Yeah, you have to pay taxes.
Yeah, you pay Canadian taxes on your gig.
And you get paid in Canadian dollars. I'm not going up there much for shows.
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Chapter 7: What did Ross Perot predict about American manufacturing?
Yeah, at least 50.
Imagine if you're a middle-class guy, and you've got two kids, and they do real good, and they don't have scholarships, and you've got to pay for them.
I can't imagine. I mean, I don't see how people do it. I mean, I really don't.
Oh, boy. The total cost of attendance, including fees, housing, and food, reaching around $82,000. Undergraduate tuition is $56,550 for a year. That's a lot.
That's one year. And if you drop out after one year, then you have nothing and you're down 80 grand.
But if you make it through those four years, now you're 200 grand in the hole that you owe. And then you have to get a job, and then you get a job that pays 50. And you're like, what?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
I'll never pay this off.
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Chapter 8: How can mental health treatments help veterans?
Yeah, definitely in the 90s he had a pager. Because I remember sometimes he would go AWOL, and I'd be paging him, like, where are you? Like, one time we were doing a gig in Jersey. We were doing Rascals in East Orange, and he fucking never showed up. And I finally got a hold of him on the phone. He's like, I'm not going to lie to you, dog. I never left Vegas. God damn it, Joey. Yeah.
I'll never forget that conversation.
I never left Vegas.
I'm not going to lie to you, dog. I never left Vegas. It was just having a good time. But that's how you got a hold of him. You'd have to page him. That was it. And then one day he got a phone. And when he got a phone, you better not fucking text him. If you text him, he'll yell at you. Like Brian Redband used to text him. He goes, stop fucking texting me.
And then Joey eventually got an iPhone and Brian got a text from him one day. I'm like, oh, he's texting. He's like, he fucking texted me. Now we'll text you. But he doesn't like to text. How's he doing? He's good. He's coming down soon. He's going to be here in a couple weeks. Good, good. He's coming real soon, right? When is he here? Two weeks. Okay. Yeah.
He only wants to talk to you on the phone. I go, why? Why don't you like talking to people? He goes, I'm insecure. I want to hear your voice. I want to tell you I love you.
Yeah.
I'm like, okay, I get it. I get it. He's old school.
Yeah, he calls me every once in a while just to say hello. Just to say hi. Yeah, just to say hi. He's checking on you.
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