Joe Rogan Experience #2041 — Steve Strope Transcript

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0:00 the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day We've been friends for 20 years. Fish. Can I officially gift you in front of the And then the sun thing was just in like every other 70s artwork I could find. Yeah, there it is. like it drives so well the independent suspension the way you set it up was it art morrison yeah Right.

3:13 I think I need to get a steel version of that picture and the funny thing is, The grill is actually taller. 6, 7, 8, like 8. Yeah, those Nova front end. so those ribs aren't. That's a beautiful Nova, too. right if you had a nova it's like oh you couldn't afford a barracuda like if you had a Barracuda, you were the fucking man. Right. If you had a Nova, it's like, oh, you couldn't afford a Barracuda.

5:38 There was a Dodge. older cars were less desirable so i'm in high school in so i graduated in 85 so we're talking Yeah, 18 years old ain't shit. Unless you're like a car connoisseur. That was the one truth. older generation, when we were growing up, told us. That was the one truth. But then as you get older and you have more points of reference and more experience and more life, then you realize like, oh, my God, time is full.

7:49 Yeah, I was reading this thing. Hey, you can suffer longer. but living and working. Probably within a couple years, people can live to be 120, 150 years old, if not longer than that. off and then you have to try to bring it back up it's way harder than maintaining yeah i'm yeah How did it get in? You don't know that one? Don't move. You can handle it.

11:22 um i think you should come back and talk to our And most adults don't know that they're going blind until they're 80. And sooner or later, nothing, right? it's in indianapolis so there's no fuzzy dice there it's all race car parts and stuff like that And you're laying face down for a week. going to stick it up. That was surgery six and, um, it didn't hold. And he was more, I think he

15:32 he goes so you gotta have clean metal to clean metal to weld i go yes that's true he goes well the only thing they know how to do is tack welded up. It shrinks back. Oh, Jesus. This is what I said. Like his one eye is gone, man. Just think of a fight with two eyes. That's the real issue, right? I'm paraphrasing. They try to keep the pressures low because of my glaucoma.

20:01 the one working eye they had dropped the pressure so low i coughed So that ruined that. You grew up in them? And I was, what's the word? And I'm throwing up in his bushes out front. I really do. or just go to the shop and build some cool cars. Luckily, it's like a mile and a half from my house. We check the pressures. And he's down at, I think it's UCLA.

23:45 Still hip, man. he was one of the most amazing guests in terms of like forever you will be connected to the big machine. dr. Reardon from Panama was talking about that he's the first guy I ever had We can't, again, all they do is tack weld it up with lasers. than an eyeball that has to like, I'm like, And all of a sudden you forget your childhood. You know what I mean?

26:36 Is that real? It just, you know, this wasn't part of the plan today. So I think it does, from what I've looked at it, they have gotten it in an animal. They get me. Their job is to fucking make some shit that you're going to click on. Especially that. Luke Masella. Why not? Yeah, let's find the eyeball. Right. think they can do that he suggested it back then so i was not ready to do it.

29:38 Yeah. Okay. maybe they want a specific kind of flower somewhere. Fair enough. If they want something and they maybe want to draw it and they're very skilled, My problem, it's not my problem. And if I'm wrong, great. My friend C.T. Fletcher had a heart transplant a few years back. So your body, when you have someone else's organ in your body, your body knows it's not yours.

31:47 it's heavy i mean the heart is obviously the big one right yeah that's the big probably really the better ones will. That's where this is going. These new people in the future, the robot brain scientists. I don't know. It's hard to say because everybody's scared to die, but no one's a good question. It's a good question. It's hard to say. Because everybody's scared to die

33:03 great equalizer, is it not? Well, I'm from a – we're going to get into Appalachian in a little while. You didn't do the Yeehaw stuff. A mafia bus? It's a huge bust. because the Cleveland family fucked up the meeting, if memory serves me right That was a dirt road back then. until you find out whose fucking car it is? Some fled into the woods, But isn't that funny?

36:43 Look at this. You know, if he's, like, holding the secrets of everyone. So almost automatically you would think that he would wear drag. the one who keeps the secrets you'd probably do the weirdest shit so the possible so almost What freak shit are you doing? Staying in the club together. Freaky. No, not really. And he had, I'm not kidding, Of course he did.

39:38 Here's a good book. Real simple. Real simple. Oh, if he's real? If he's real. He is the prince and power of the thought. Would somebody take that? If Satan really was clever. Oh, if he's real? You sound like a loon. And you're right about genius because if you're ridiculed or look like a loon for believing in Satan, I think it's like a, there's like a graph.

41:23 Satan was the number one angel. Number two tries to kill number one. That's it. There you go. It's gone on its own chute. you feel like you ate a bowl of glue. We should unfuck the wheat, kids. because i know it's like higher yield joe rogan's So you eat, like, this Monsanto corn, and they can spray glyphosate on it, and it kills everything else. Because like there's a certain amount of metals that you're going to get just from eating

44:21 And he won't eat fish from the Pacific anymore. So what what's the first of all? It's look at first one is tuna every day I love sardines. Arsenic. He goes, don't do that. Let's ask the population, the fish population in the ocean now versus 50 years ago. Let's find that out. Let's guess. I was at like 45, maybe 50. You're not a lot. Oh, dear. More than six. Yeah, especially when you, how many fucking fish there are? Very good question. Very good question. More than six.

48:01 So what's the estimates in terms of the mass that's down? That's an increase. But another guy says sounds crazy. 90%? countries with big fisheries. Holy shit That's wild. simply do not want the species they have caught. But wasteful discarding is more often the greedy fishermen, and thoughtless consumers in big businesses while making activists and

51:36 Those most affected will be the fisher folk of developing countries who fisher folk Fisherfolk. We're going to visit the fisherfolk. He's a UFC fighter. Because it's crazy. Nope. Well, thank God you can fucking turn a wrench, sir. goddamn time. So I'm tinkering on cars in Appalachian. I met him at a big show in Indy, I need somebody to like go around the country and sell this stuff.

55:33 Got out here to Riverside. And the federal marshals show up. maybe there was some stolen machinery something because federal marshals don't come out for a party. They do have one car there, a 40 Ford, which is owned by one of the guys that owned TCI, in Riverside or Oceanside actually. Um, but I'd love to go. I've read about it every year in you'll see a sign Daigle's so I went and talked with Gary Daigle and he goes well well, he's two aisles down. Take a right, go up there. You'll see a sign, Daigle's. So I went and talked with Gary Daigle, and he goes, well, you're on Jim's dime right now.

58:49 and timed it that I stopped at the Hot Rod Magazine Super Nationals in Ohio, I came with a thumb drive of a whole bunch of stuff just in case we talked about it. Yeah, New Street. And then you drove it across the country. wagons with the top pulled off the floor floor pan, in the bed, It's just like, who was like, Yeah, they had. They do. Well, a lot of those folks, they like to fucking crocodile dundee it up and go out in the backwoods.

1:01:13 There's some knuckleheads that would have bought that. Yeah, but if you're like, if you have ands, or buts. Mustang's one of the few cars Mm-hmm. It might not that. Yeah. Yeah. So I went down. No, I don't know where it went. but it was a Kinko's. because that's what the pros do. And I'm going to use these parts All right, I'll sound more official. of my El Camino that's been in the prior magazines,

1:04:53 So you built it in a garage that you shared with other people? you're building a car right pretty much and so there's a car right next to you while you're So I found the one outside the building electric outlet, bought two extension cords to go because on back then? Yeah. It's like 12 foot by 15 foot, whatever. I hung them from the water pipes. No, I always removed all the evidence.

1:07:23 He painted it for me and let me use his place for reassembly. Fresh and I'm going to drive it to Yeah there's Skelly. That's beautiful. Oh, I'm thinking of it. Dude, that's beautiful. Well, the El Camino technically did. I wanted bone, red bone. I did the driver's side. faxed it to me the idea And he's like, oh, hell yeah, we are. Not that one. It's up at the very front of the front fender.

1:10:43 So that's Matt's stitches. 66 and 67. God, it's fucking Yeah, it's cool. and this challenger x was the first car to have that i knew of street driven carbon fiber drive 72, really? You know, they started looking goofy. So you get a place. Let me see that because we're talking about it So it's small. It's centerfold pull-out poster. i was living in the shop uh i didn't have money for an apartment so my bed was next to my lift

1:15:16 A lot of people do that when they're living out of their cars. it he bought it off the guy who built it for me still owns reggie jackson might be like the biggest gentlemen from Mopar Performance from Chrysler. who is just beyond incredible um we'll get to that in a second, but on GTXR, I wanted to use the big body satellite that So this was my first time ever at SEMA.

1:17:13 Yeah, right? The photo with the blue sky? So this is like just cracking six in the morning. Why? And he's sitting there. Anyway, I hear him go, cover. Again, I don't know if you have that in, but there's an interior shot of the steering wheel. there's three horn buttons the little pads underneath the right one up at 3 o'clock, there's a micro switch under that now.

1:20:04 Yeah. Bam, bam, bam. And then this button under the horn, I use the horn circuit. Yeah, nobody cared. Right. And then the transmission would be like, By doing things like that. They followed me building my car like they followed Sickfish. show up. And then about a, I don't know it still looks like that So- Yeah, like cherry picking. Artwork and... I did a drop recess

1:23:57 on those cars, No, I saw that. The stuntmen did the burnouts. We're going to bring his character back in this movie. car in the stunt scenes. It's the car doing the So it, it's perfect. Fucking gorgeous color. Oh, yeah, at the red carpet. And then we built the Anvil Mustang. We actually bowed the quarter panels. Tail panel's changed. so you can literally snap, take out the coilovers, put in a different set of shocks. Do not stick your fingers in there, kids. No, the coilovers put in a different do not stick your fingers in there kids no bad while the car is driving do not stick

1:28:05 Fuck, yeah. It won the Ford Design Award, Car of the Show at SEMA, which was a- That fucking suspension set up in the back seat. Hot wheels. So you get a drawing from the Mattel crazy hot wheels designer. It's like make this working together we found out we love the same music we have the same sense of humor and uh so i met kelly working for bruce and i was building that when i built that charger i drove it

1:30:34 and running i've had a bunch of magazine features i'm at an airport and one of the guys i wrote that So they had a new line of, But we have X amount of little wheels you can use and X amount of this and Now in the back of the box, it says Pure my pure vision logo now in the back of the box it It's talent. You make a cool car with all these little Easter eggs in it.

1:33:00 Oh, your car. That, which is an amazing video where you go over in detail all the different weird things Sean's awesome. And the thing is, is I'm friends with him, too, so off camera, you know, he'll tell me good, bad, ugly. Is that a 67? Well, you were, you, I've still got all the notes. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. wild black 68 or 69 Nova and did some really cool stuff to it it was a few years back

1:36:00 That's what I'm talking about. Why are they showing me that? She's still on the screen? Oh, yeah. doing? He's selling the dream. Okay, the That's an older school way of- Good Lord. Yeah, look at that fucking thing. Yeah, put a fucking side view mirror on, kids. I'll have to give you, because I have nothing't. I'll have to give you because I have nothing up.

1:38:38 Bare metal and heavy fab. Oh, I know what it is. Yes. Yeah. Well, that's not hard. Again, that's just a charger with auto-drags on it or center lines. Why are you trying to change the subject? There's stuff available now that- Let's explain to people. Right, but the Charger. About 3,800. They've done quite a few of them. Oh, and it's on a brand new modern chassis.

1:41:43 So the body sits down over the chassis and that's how it sits that low. Yeah. Yeah. What do you do if you get in an accident in a carbon fiber car? Yeah. Right. There's doing a Camaro. Carbon? Yeah, look at that. Yeah, the Mustang is lighter and smaller. It depends what suspension. Is that what it is? Mm-hmm. You ain't going to the store on that. You know, I'm sure there's people that take their hot rods around as daily drivers.

1:45:19 What are you driving? They're like 18-way powered. We just finished that. I don't know. That was on one of them episodes. basically a Ferrari saddle tan. It's made to be comfy, you know, He says it all the time. So it's such a cool deal, He can just do whatever I ask him. again, So we're the only shop I know of. Literally, that's nobody sleeping. I follow him on Instagram.

1:49:21 So really, really, really thankful for that as you know you you know you've got a Like, yeah, it gets really hot in the summer, but that doesn't seem to bother me. you know, comedian and all the other stuff I've done. I was part of it. I understand it. You had to check all the boxes. that people have that live to fit in, Then what you have to do is you have to get in front of casting agents so people get to pick you.

1:52:27 And she started crying saying, when is something going to happen for me? It's different. You know, it's real simple, my favorite little place to get Philly cheesesteaks, which you can't find for shit out in California, I've been out there because Tarrant Tactical, that's out in Simi Valley. Yeah, if I'm in LA and I have time, I go back there. Yeah, it's good to know.

1:54:35 Oh, yeah. Yeah, he trained Michael Jordan, Michael B. Jordan. what amount of pressure you put with your left hand versus your right hand, Super legit. Taron? I forget who brought me there. He directed it and produced it. He's that good. Fascinated me. Weren't you doing that yeah i still do it yeah But if you're in the mountains, Right. And then have the aim.

1:57:58 a lot of hunting, fishing, that kind of stuff, from HEB. So they lose a ton of weight because they're just running around chasing tail. coming you know or they can get injured and a cat catches them limping and then that's a wrap and just work on, you know, all the things, the cardio, It's so easy to get a chicken sandwich. They, you know, tried to escape.

2:00:58 You just came back from one. It's the only reason. It's a different realm than the realm we exist in. that realm it is though it is like a realm you know they were the real what Everything that dies gets consumed by the earth. Oh, man. Oh, they're amazing. They make no noise. They are. So look in the distance, and you'll see the eyes soon. Watch this. Look at the eyes.

2:05:46 Look at the eyes, man. But because it's got feathers, for some reason, we like to think this thing is this wise, cute thing in the forest. Wham! Poisons the owl. To me, it was almost like symbolic of the life I knew here dying, Hollywood Hills as well, that people were poisoning rats and the rat poison was killing owls. I know people in my neighborhood are using rat poison.

2:08:35 I had rats as pets. Like, you don't understand the scope of the rat problem in this country. See if that's true. And if it's 50 million, it's what? And it's way more. a rat tunnel where the rats go, Like they know. What is that? That looks small enough to be a mouse, That thing. This motherfucker doesn't even flinch. every time it snaps that Iraq gets killed but the food still there yeah

2:11:56 and I was like, this might be... trap with a fucking stick. I wonder how many died trying to figure it out. I know, right? And they document that in the Netflix special, too. So I got together like books. every automotive magazine that was the first and mr Mr. Peterson, I mean, he had everything. like written a book about the covers than go through every one of them.

2:15:11 on the cover, if there's more than one out right now in the newsstands. You have, oh, I've got it in my briefcase. Well, he's an island, you know. Trying to get on four times? Did you find it? If they feature it to own two vehicles, in history. I know it's a prestigious thing. for this gig. I don't wrench on them, but I do love them. to look at it again.

2:18:37 It really is. Artisan. Do you woodwork? like i just don't even know how the fuck is he doing that the sounds is just magic i love it i love that i have no connection to it i love that And that is burned in my brain. And we always wanted to take auto shop class They want to put this, you know, this fucking Jackson Pollock painting in their wall, Because that's what it is.

2:22:26 You found this thing that you're really good at. Unbelievably fortunate that I've – or as a joke, they put up with me and help forge this stuff that I. They're just a good human being. They treat my stuff like it's something, you know, they put the care into it and their talent into it. need to hear like that there's a path to finding what it is you do and that path is going to be

2:24:34 It's like, you know, you've actually got to work hard at this. Right. That's what people need to understand. It's, it's amazing. It's really, really fucking cool. It's fun. It's great. You know, what you separating church and state But it's a completely different gig. Not to pretend to interview you, but did you i i think it just naturally happened i don't think you on purpose set out to

2:26:52 Yeah. And then with MMA, it's like what's possible like talking about michael bisping This guy, Alex Pejeta, has beat him twice in kickboxing. Hey, shush, shush. Listen up. I want to say something. People, earth, I need to say something. this level of happiness as you rise one time in your life but i'm blessed to be able to feel this s*** again and again and again and again

2:29:40 Thank you. And what you did with that car is