Richard Rawlings Announces the End of "Fast N' Loud"

So what's happening with your show, man? What are you doing? What's the latest? Oh shit, you're just gonna go right for the big one, huh? Let's get in there, man. All right. First of all, I love your show. I've been loving it for years. It's fun. And I'm a giant muscle car fan, so it's right up my alley. But what's the latest? Well, everybody hold on to your hat out there. Fast and loud is no more. I have exited Discovery and I'm a free agent. What? I'm gonna be doing some cool things in 2021. And it just was a perfect storm, so to speak. It was time for me to expand and grow a little bit. And I'd kind of gotten to the top of that mountain, be in Discovery, and there wasn't anything else for me to do there. So, wow. I used this year to kind of rethink and reshape what I want to do in the future. And so, fast and loud, no more. Jeez Louise. Man, eight years though. That's a long run. 300-ish episodes. And that's a lot. There's only so many times you can buy a car, fix a car, sell a car, and it was time to make some changes, make it more fun. And so, the stuff we've got coming out in 2021 is gonna be quite a blast. What are you wearing on? Well, you know, I don't wanna let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. You're wearing the Wonder Woman bracelets? Yeah. Shaking off bullets with those. Yeah, a lady asked me one time, she goes, don't this bother you when they make noise? They only make noise when I do this. Did you tell that to her? Yeah. It's a good joke. Uncomfortable conversation? She thought it was funny. Oh. It was the back of my single day. Right person. I'm all married now. Right person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, we're gonna, I think I'm gonna end up doing a podcast, because there's not a whole lot going on in my genre in the podcast world. I mean, I know some guys are doing it, and they're doing well, but I've never been allowed to before. So, you gotta realize that when I signed my deal with disco was almost 10 years ago. Does that what you call it, disco? Yeah. So, Discovery didn't, you know, social media didn't even exist hardly. Yeah, yeah. So, I signed off on all media. So, up to this point until literally, you know, a couple. All media, including social media? It wasn't even social media back then. I mean, what does it, like MySpace or something? I was doing something on another network back in the day, and they wanted to get control of my social media. That was like part of the deal. And they thought it was just like an easy yes. No, it's not. I was like, you can eat shit, there's no way. You can pay for it. But it was ridiculous. They wanted to use it to promote other shows on their network. Correct. I'm like, what are you talking about? And they're like, well, everybody else let's just do it. I go, I have millions of followers. Like, there's no fucking chance you're just gonna get access to that for free. Now, I had the same conversation several times. It's a weird conversation, right? It's like, you know they're being weasily. Like, you know this is a valuable thing. Hey, no big deal, Richard. We just like to use your entire social media to promote a lot of other discovery programs. No big deal. Yeah, no big deal. You're cool with that, right? Okay, good, sign here. Well, see, they try that, but I couldn't post myself. I couldn't do things like of myself for a lot of the time. Like, if I went out and bought a car and my camera crew wasn't with me, and so I took my camera phone and whatever, and I wanted to post about it, I wasn't able to do that. You weren't allowed. No. Ooh! Yeah, it was pretty rough. But that's ridiculous, but that would just boost up your social media, which would boost up the show. You would think so. You would think that that would be the thought, that I'm going to help boost the show. Walk me through a conversation with one of these knuckleheads. I can't. Well, a fake conversation, pretend. I can't. Let's pretend it's not Discovery Channel. Let me tell you, it's a. It's called the Who-Ha Network. Yeah, let me tell you, it's so bad. The question would be, how was my tenure there? How well was I treated? So the answer is, there's a piece of the contract, of the contract when I exited. Oh, that you can't talk shit. That I can't talk. It's up to the $25,000 fine per occurrence of me. Per occurrence of you talking shit? Of me talking shit. Well, can I talk shit? You can talk as much shit as you want. I love the Discovery Channel. I would talk shit, but I watch their programs all the time. I like it too. Listen, man, the automotive programming could have been a little stronger, and we wanted to make some changes, but we were just kind of stuck in a rut. The problem is, they're a business, and businesses will get away with whatever they can get away with. There's a reason why we had to make regulations to make sure that companies don't dump chemicals in the rivers. It's because there's certain people that when they can get away with something, they'll get away with something. So anybody that's telling you, but the problem is, it's so short-sighted. Anybody that's telling you that you can't post something on your social media without a camera crew there, representing Discovery Channel, it's so silly because it would boost your social media. The more you post, the more interesting shit you put, particularly about muscle cars, right? The more it boosts your social media, the more people are gonna watch your show. It's just, it's math. It's like the rising tide lifts all boats. I agree with you 100%, but the powers that be, they were not having it. It took me five years of literally begging to do a crossover with Chip Foos. No. And of course, that episode did so well that they all think they're geniuses now. But, you know, so I had a good run with Discovery. I'm ready for the next thing, which by the way, if you're a producer or a network or a streamer out there, I'm a free agent. And I would have to say I might be a very big free agent. Woo! Catch new episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience for free, only on Spotify. Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips easily, seamlessly switch between video and audio experience. On Spotify, you can listen to the JRE in the background by using other apps and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free. Spotify is absolutely free. You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes. You just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app. Go to Spotify now to get this full episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.