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Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
So, let's go. What are you doing?
We playing with magnets?
Yeah, man. I'm checking out all your toys.
What'd you say this guy's name is? Travis?
That's Travis Walton.
And he's a guy that got abducted, allegedly,
by some sort of a UFO in the 1970s.
And the story was so crazy that it became a movie.
It's called Fire in the Sky.
And I don't know, like I said, I don't know if he's telling the truth,
but it's very compelling.
He doesn't seem like a liar.
And he's been telling the exact same story for 40-plus years.
I think he's telling the truth.
You think so?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know anybody.
I mean, personally, I don't know anybody who's kept up a lie for that long.
There's got to be someone.
There's got to be someone that's like,
I think people can make a story up and then only keep that lie.
Usually, generally, when people lie about stuff,
they'll lie about a bunch of stuff, especially something that crazy.
They took me aboard a UFO and they fixed me.
So this is the story.
The story was these guys were all loggers in Arizona.
And so they're driving down this logging road and they see some crazy light in
the sky and it goes into this area.
They pull off to the side of the road.
They walk towards it.
And there's this disc that's hovering, this glowing disc.
He walks towards it and he got really close to it and he got hit with a beam of
light.
And he falls back.
Like, that's supposedly what it looked like.
That's the art.
The art depiction of it.
What these guys saw.
He gets hit with this beam of light and they take off.
They're like, fuck.
And they did jump back in the truck and take off.
He's lying on the ground.
And they get like five minutes away and they're yelling at each other.
We got to go back.
We got to go get him.
They were scared.
And they're like, fuck it.
Let's go back.
So they go back to go get their friend and he's gone.
So five days later, there's, you know, there's a manhunt for him.
Nobody can find him.
Five days later, he shows up, walks into town.
He's fully, it doesn't look like he's starving to death.
He's not out of water.
It doesn't look like he's been living in the woods.
It just looks like he just like a normal day.
And he tells this crazy story.
He tells this story that he got abducted.
They took him aboard this craft and fixed his body because the beam of light
that came out of the ship from whatever, whatever it was, whatever energy
source it was, fucked his body up.
They repaired it and they communicated with him telepathically while they were
on the ship.
I forget all the details of it, but this is the film of it.
But this is supposedly what he said the experience was like.
He said it was terrifying.
And he described, the thing that's crazy is that they all describe the same
exact creatures.
They describe these little...
Who is they?
People that get abducted.
Oh.
People that have had UFO experiences.
Anybody that's had direct contact.
Did you ever see that movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
I saw that movie, The Fourth Kind, when I was in middle school.
What's that one?
Is that an abduction one where they come get you?
Yeah.
It's like, man, I only watched it once.
It scared the shit out of me.
I think people go on their hypnosis and they remember what their abduction was
like or something like that.
Yeah.
Yeah, don't quote me on that.
Well, the third kind, I think, is contact.
I think Close Encounters of the First Kind is like you see it.
I don't know what the second kind is.
This is like a list of the kinds.
The fourth kind, derived, explanation is J. Allen Hynek's classification of
Close Encounters with Aliens.
The fourth kind denotes alien abductions.
Dun, dun, dun.
Yeah, yeah, that one.
I like how we talk about aliens like it's like feeling on the girl, like second
base.
Like, yeah, did you get to the fourth kind?
Get to the fourth base.
She takes you home.
Yeah.
Nah, but his friends, they, like, his friends that left him, I mean, they saw
it.
Yeah.
They all have the same story.
That has to be real.
I don't think he's going to convince these guys.
Probably not, but maybe you could.
It's like, it's not impossible.
It's not like the, it's like breathing underwater, that's impossible, right?
Okay.
Flapping your wings to the top of a cliff, you fly away, that's impossible.
Keeping a lie is possible.
It's not likely.
It doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense.
One of the reasons why it doesn't make sense is Travis and one of the guys in
the truck had gotten into a fist fight that same day.
Like, they didn't like each other.
They hated each other.
They were workers.
They were just coworkers.
You know, logging is hard fucking work, man.
You're cutting trees and carrying trees and it's backbreaking, brutal labor.
And you get hard men.
Loggers are bad motherfuckers, man.
My friend Evan, his whole family is from loggers.
And they're just, he's like, they're the hardest fucking people you've ever met
in your life.
Just hard men.
Like, doing this shit deep into their 60s and 70s, carrying logs.
Just, just a different breed of human being.
So, uh, they fucking didn't get along.
And they got in a fist fight that day.
So why lie for him?
Why would you lie for him?
Exactly.
Why would you lie for him?
Yeah.
These are hardworking men, Joe Rogan.
They don't need to lie.
They're savages.
Yeah.
Hey, did his friends get any money from that movie?
What friends?
His friends.
His friends?
Yeah.
That's a good question.
It's a good question.
Right?
Because then it would be a reason to lie.
Yeah.
But the movie was a long time after the actual event.
What year was the movie, Jamie?
93.
93.
And this happened when?
In the 70s.
In the 70s?
Yeah, there's no way.
Like, bro, any day now you're getting paid.
I got D.B. Cooper lied.
Who was the guy that was the actor?
D.B. Sweeney?
D.B. Sweeney.
That's right.
D.B. Cooper is the guy that stole the money and jumped out of the plane.
D.B. Cooper?
Confused.
Yeah.
You never heard that story?
Was he the guy wanted by the FBI?
Yes.
Yeah.
Like a top 10 wanted or something like that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He stole a bunch of money and then hijacked an airplane and then jumped out of
the airplane with the money.
And he died?
Like, they found the body and everything?
Probably.
Or was it like a mysterious, like...
It's a mysterious thing.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
You never heard that story?
Nah.
It's an interesting story, but the area the guy skydived into was heavily wooded.
And the problem with that is, if you're a skydiver and you're in a parachute
and you're going to a heavily wooded place, you're going to land in the trees.
Yeah.
And then you risk, like, getting impaled.
Well, just cutting yourself loose, also, cutting yourself loose out of the
trees.
What if you're 30 feet up?
How are you getting down?
Yeah.
What if you fall getting down?
People go missing in the woods all the time and no one finds them, ever.
You don't find nothing.
What?
Yeah.
Why don't we hear about this more often?
Well, you do if you pay attention, but...
I don't pay attention.
You know, there's only so many things you can think about.
There's a recent update on the Cooper story, but this is just the brief for
those who never have heard of it.
Okay.
D.B. Cooper is the moniker given to the Skyjacker, a dapper, dark-haired man,
apparently in his mid-40s, who called himself Dan Cooper.
The mystery man passed a flight attendant a note while on a Northwest Orient
Airlines flight in Portland, Oregon, bound for Seattle, November 24, 1971.
The note contained, claimed, rather, that he had a bomb in his briefcase, which
he opened to show a large tangle of wires and red sticks.
When the Boeing aircraft landed in Seattle, the man who became known as D.B.
Cooper freed 36 passengers in exchange for a mountain of cash and four parachutes.
The plane took off with several crew members aboard bound for Mexico City on
his orders.
Wow.
So he just made them fly him somewhere with a briefcase with a bomb in it.
They were listening to him.
So at an altitude of 10,000 feet above Seattle and Reno, he jumped from the
back of the jetliner with a parachute and the ransom money vanishing into
history.
The case remains unsolved despite a manhunt the FBI tenaciously interviewing
hundreds of people in a cottage industry of true crime buffs pouring through
the ovens.
Nah, I do got a way.
There's no way that, like, he thought all of this out and then was like, ah,
once I get in the air, I'll just wing it.
Like, the man knew he was going to jump over those woods.
He knew that the minute he landed in Mexico, they'd have some sort of, like,
dog day afternoon.
Right, but he wasn't in Mexico.
He jumped outside of Portland, right?
Yeah.
It was in the Pacific Northwest that he jumped, right?
Yeah.
Like, they just took off and, like, 20 minutes in, he's like, all right, I'm
out.
Yeah.
That's the biggest curveball to throw them because they're going to – their
plan is to –
Go to Mexico.
Go to Mexico.
Right.
Right?
He thinks he's going to land safely and then they're going to figure out a way
to –
Yeah, but the thing is, have you ever been in the Pacific Northwest?
You ever been in the woods up there?
Not in the woods, but I've been – I've seen them from the highway.
Tall-ass trees.
Okay, yeah, tall-ass trees and real dense, like this, like a box of Q-tips.
That's how I always describe the trees up there.
Like, they're really close to each other.
There's not a lot of open space up there at all.
It's all just trees.
So, if you're landing into that mess, you're not going to find a spot to land.
And then here's the other problem.
If you do find a spot to land, where are you?
Do you know where you are?
Do you know how to get out of there?
I think that dude –
You could walk for days in any direction and not find shit.
Nah, I think he planned that part.
I don't think he did.
I bet he was on meth.
For real.
Probably.
All right, that sounds more like –
I bet he was – that's a meth move.
The whole thing's a meth move.
I'm going to get a fucking bomb.
I'm going to get on the plane.
I'm going to tell them, I got a fucking bomb.
I want some money.
And I want some fucking parachutes.
And I'm going to get the money.
And I'm just going to parachute to safety.
It sounds like a terrible idea.
You think so?
I mean, I think for a second there, it can –
Like, if the guy was sober, I think he's genius.
I think he's a sober genius.
You think he's just a meth head.
Yeah, I think he's a meth head.
I think he studied the woods for, like, months.
No way.
Because how are you going to know you're going –
10,000 feet above the earth, you're going 500 miles an hour.
And you're going to jump.
So, I want you to imagine that.
So, here is this.
You're going 500 miles an hour.
And then you jump.
Where are you going to land?
You're going 500 miles an hour.
You have to fall 10,000 feet.
Where the fuck are you going to land?
You have no idea where you're going to land.
You should make tests.
Like, you should be in charge of creating the SATs.
It's like question number eight.
Where the fuck are you going to land?
Well, here's the thing.
Back then, there was no GPS.
Okay?
Yeah.
So, back then, all you had is a compass.
So, even if you have a map, like, how big is your map?
People were smarter back then, though.
No, they weren't.
Trust me.
I used to live back then.
I feel like people had to, like, I feel like the further back you go in time,
maybe not
too far back, right?
But I feel like 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s, like, people were forced to, like, learn
maps, learn
their directions.
That's true.
How to utilize a compass, like, people were better on their feet, you know what
I mean?
That's true.
They definitely knew more phone numbers.
They definitely knew how to get around more without any sort of GPS.
I'm addicted to GPS.
That shit runs my life.
If I want to go somewhere, I always put it in my phone.
Yeah, because it gives you, like, traffic updates.
That, too.
Yeah, that's huge.
Oh, detour.
Fuck you people.
Yeah.
And you feel happy.
Look, I got to run that traffic.
Back in the day, you just had to, like, memorize routes, memorize which routes
were busy
at which times.
And you had to listen to AM radio for the traffic update.
The traffic update brought to you by Costco.
Hey, who's that one guy that comes on?
I don't know if he still does.
He, like, what's the story with him?
He got, like, really rich and he gives people financial advice.
Is it Ramsey?
Oh, yeah.
Dave Ramsey?
Dave Ramsey?
Yeah.
Do you know him?
No.
Oh, I thought you knew him.
Back to DV Cooper.
I think that dude was on meth.
I think that's a total meth head plan.
I, maybe.
I got a fucking bomb.
He's got a bunch of red sticks with wires.
I'm like, blow it up, bitch.
You don't know how to, what is that?
What's in that bag?
I, I think, I think he's a pure meth head.
That's what I think.
I think a crazy wild dude.
They say, they say Hitler was on meth, too.
Yes.
Yeah, most likely.
He was definitely on oxycodone and the, the actual Nazis were definitely on
meth, for sure.
They gave Nazis meth?
Oh, yeah, man.
There's a great book.
Is it out there?
It's in the other room.
It's in the other room.
It's called Blitzed by, how do you pronounce his name?
Or, uh, God damn.
Norman Orr.
Norman Orr.
Ohler, right?
Ohler.
Norman Orr.
Great guest, too.
He was amazing.
But he wrote this book about all the meth they took during World War II.
It's all about, like, the most meth they gave to the people in the text.
Wait, wait, wait.
So he was a Nazi that wrote a book?
No.
Oh.
He's a researcher.
How dare you?
I want to read a book by a Nazi.
Well, you'd have to read, like, Mein Kampf, and you'd have to read it with,
like, a book cover on it so people don't think you're a psycho.
Well, I mean, we got to know what they were thinking, you know what I mean?
People should read it.
That's the book.
That book is great.
Blitzed.
So they were all on meth.
That's Hitler just all fucked up off meth.
Well, Hitler was definitely on oxycodone.
He was on a bunch of other shit, and he had a doctor.
It's a really good book.
You should read it.
It's very interesting because it gives you a totally different insight into why
they were behaving the way they behaved.
Like the kamikazes, for instance.
You know, they flew their planes right into the ships.
They were on meth.
What?
Yeah.
That's why they did it.
But, like, what kind of meth?
Crystal meth.
But, like, okay.
But, like, how were they taking it in?
Were they just, like, smoking the pipe and then hopping in the plane?
That's a good question.
You can eat it.
First of all, there was pills, and there were actually prescription pills that
the government would give out in Germany.
What's it called?
Previtin?
Pervitin.
Pervitin.
So, this Pervitin stuff was essentially an over-the-counter methamphetamine
that you could buy.
That's how many people were on meth.
Although, I feel like a lot of the most popular drugs at one point or another
are, like, over-the-counter medication.
Or, like, prescribed, right?
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Like, cough syrup.
Like, everybody's doing promethazine.
I mean, they still are or whatever, right?
But then they had to, like, ban it.
Yep.
Yeah.
Syrup.
For every war and abused drug.
What is this, Jamie?
It starts off with, I don't know, ISIS uses an ADHD drug?
ISIS is on Adderall.
Captagon?
Captagon sounds like a fake drug.
That sounds like a drug in a movie.
Yeah, yeah.
The kids want Captagon.
It sounds like it was made by, like, the guy who made adamantium metal.
Right, right, right.
So, it was an early ADHD, a failed ADHD drug.
It was banned almost globally in the 1980s, but a few Middle Eastern nations
are still producing it.
What does it do?
A stimulant gives some sort of euphoria and a sense of purpose.
Let's bring that shit back, Pfizer.
Euphoria and sense of purpose.
Stop trying to give me some fucking vaccines that I don't need.
And how about hooking me up with a little euphoria and a little sense of
purpose?
Little yellow tablets seem to be fueling much of the mayhem in Syria, but illicit
drug use is on the battlefield.
Is it new?
And that's Pervitin.
Yeah.
So, the methamphetamine Pervitin was distributed to soldiers in preparation for
the war.
And what's interesting about that is they had different doses for different
people.
Like, the dudes in the tank at the very front, they got the most meth.
Damn.
Of course.
You're going to need it.
You have the craziest job.
They're just like, because they would have to stick their heads out the top of
the tank, wouldn't they?
And then, like, give the directions.
So, there it is.
Fucking go.
Fucking go right now.
Fucking turn around.
Yeah.
Fucking turn around.
Bye-bye.
Take that pilot.
What's that?
Shut up.
Shut up again.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
I mean, you imagine what it sounds like when a fucking tank cannon goes off?
She says the U.S. military distributed an estimated 200 million amphetamine
pills to soldiers during World War II,
and Japanese kamikaze pilots in the Pacific used it in their final, fateful
missions.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
U.S. military.
Our guys were on meth, too?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
World War meth.
U.S. military distributed an estimated 200 million amphetamine pills to its
soldiers during World War II.
Yeah, well, this is – look, if you have soldiers and they're in combat, you
want them to live and succeed.
You don't give a shit if they're – oh, they're taking steroids.
Good.
Give them all the steroids.
Give them every fucking thing you can give them.
Give them EPO if it helps their endurance.
Give them steroids.
Give them shit that makes them more aggressive.
Give them things that make them more confident.
Give them everything.
Give them beta blockers.
Give them whatever the fuck works.
They're in combat.
Like, it's – that's important.
So, if you got amphetamine, give that shit up, dog.
Do you think anybody was, like, they stayed addicted or anything?
Oh, for sure.
Yeah?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, 100%.
Would it be cruel if I went up to, like, a World War II veteran with, like, a
pipe and was, like, torching it at the bottom?
I don't think they'd do it that way.
I think they were taking the pills.
You still like to party, old man?
Just crush some of them pills up, put it on a table.
Maybe they'll snort it.
I learned a lot when I'm here.
I feel like a lot of your guests, like, they have so much to, like, share with
the world.
But I just come here to just ingest.
Well, I'm ingesting too, dog.
Child soldiers in Africa – why couldn't I say that word right?
Child soldiers in Africa are commonly given a mixture called brown-brown, which
is cocaine and gunpowder.
Holy shit.
Whoa.
This is ingested by inhaling it into the nostrils, a method that rapidly
affects the user and is conducive to addiction.
What about the gunpowder makes it better?
Also here, as you were saying that too, back to the Civil War, they were used
in alcohol.
Yeah, American Civil War soldiers were often given alcohol prior to battle as a
form of liquid courage and as a means of steadying their nerves.
Huh.
World – oh, wow.
Niall Ferguson concluded that World War I could not have been fought without
alcohol.
During World War II, amphetamines were used.
Yeah, amphetamines are better.
Like, if you've got a choice between alcohol and amphetamines, like, bro.
I was watching this dude.
Man, I forgot his name.
He, like, gives these lectures on history.
David?
No, I don't know.
Dan Carlin?
Nah, that's not it.
Wait, can I pull out my phone?
Yeah, sure.
I don't know.
I feel like this is, like, school.
What was he doing lectures about?
I don't know.
I was only watching them because I was like, I better brief up on something to
talk about.
Because last time I was here, I was – do you know I read the comments on the
last time I was here?
And people were like, ah, this episode, this dude's not so cool.
He's, like, he's not interesting.
The last guy was better.
That was a great episode, the last guy.
So I'm like, all right, well, who is he, you know?
And that dude was, like, out here.
I think he was, like, a fighter pilot talking about aliens, like, spilling.
And I was like, why?
Why did y'all put me after that fucking guy?
And, you know, on the way here, on the way here, the driver was like, yeah, man,
the other day, we drove an Irish comedy writer, ended up getting canceled, and
this and this
happened, and fucking – they took his shows off.
But there's all this controversy, and I'm like, now I got to go up against this
guy.
Like, that guy –
You can't think about it that way, man.
That's true.
We're just hanging out.
We're having fun.
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Look, this guy's name is Dr. Roy Casagranda.
Okay, and what is his deal?
So I was watching this video where he explains like what led to World War II.
Oh, interesting.
But he spends like 45 minutes talking about the hundreds of years before World
War I even,
and how that kind of came to play.
So first he like, first he explains how World War I came to play, because to
understand why
World War II happened, you got to understand what caused World War I, you know?
And I forgot where I was going with this.
Just history?
History of war?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
No, so everything, I listened to it, I had to listen to it like three times,
because I
kept getting distracted and stuff.
But it sounds so like sophisticated, and it makes sense if you listen to it all.
I'm like, okay, I get why World War I happened now.
But then finding out that everybody was just like drunk and on meth the whole
time, just
sounds like, it sounds like just such a bro-y idea to go to war.
Like, it's all the sophistication behind it.
But then at the end, they were just like, fuck, let's just get fucked up while
we're
out there, though.
Well, all those old-time English gentlemen, they all wanted to go to war.
It was like, you wanted to prove your courage in battle.
And it was a bro-y thing.
It was almost like a frat boy thing.
Well, everybody wanted to conquer land back then, right?
And just rule empires and shit.
I feel like we should go back to that.
What are you talking about?
I don't know.
I feel like stuff is too leisurely now.
It's too comfortable.
That's true.
But we need to teach people that leisurely is not good for you.
You don't need artificial, you know, you don't need the kind of conflict that's
going to
ruin cities and kill people.
Don't go back to that.
That's stupid.
We just need to understand how to manage the human body.
What do you mean?
Manage the body.
Manage your brain and your body.
Are you saying everybody should work out?
That's the most minor interpretation of it.
But we need to figure out a way to keep people from being aggressive and to
keep people from
being greedy and keep people from stealing resources.
And we need to curb some of the worst aspects of human nature.
And I think the only way to do that is mushrooms.
Everybody has, like, mandatory mushrooms.
Mandatory mushrooms.
Mandatory mushrooms.
Yeah, if I become president.
Mandatory mushrooms.
A mushroom day.
And afterwards, everybody's just going to hug it out.
Go, I don't know what I was thinking, man.
I'm sorry.
It's like an adult vaccine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A vaccine for human stupidity.
But, I mean, that's our problem is that we're managing human behavior, right?
We're managing.
We want to steal resources from this country because they got all the natural
gas.
And this country's got all the minerals.
We're trying to make some sort of a side deal with the rebels to overthrow the
government.
That's what's the most of the problems in the world.
It's people being cunts.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Before I forget this.
What do you got?
You said two things.
Earlier, you said that was the most minor interpretation.
Yes.
And then right now, you said, what did you say?
Cure the stupidity?
Human stupidity.
The cure for human stupidity?
Yeah.
Is that what you said?
Cure for human stupidity?
Yeah.
Minor interpretation.
The most minor interpretation.
That should be the title of my next special.
And cure for human stupidity should be the title for your next special.
There's no cure.
But we need to guide a larger percentage of people in the right direction.
And that, like, worldwide, that would be the only way we save this experiment
of the human race.
The only other way is AI.
AI is a way that might save us or make us obsolete.
Yo, AI, that's some scary shit.
Because I don't know if it's real.
I saw this video.
I don't know when it was shot or, like, how recent or not recent it is.
Because I just, I mean, all I'm watching is just Instagram reels, right?
Right.
It's a minute.
At the longest, it's, like, a minute long.
So this could be a minute from some movie from 2002.
Okay.
Or it could have been recorded.
But there's a video, supposedly, it said the godfather of AI warns people about
the dangers of AI.
But I'm like, what?
Like, if that's real.
If whoever was, like, behind AI, whatever team it was, is like, hey, but be
careful with this.
It's like, why'd you make it then?
Like, I feel like they just did it to jerk themselves off.
Like a real Oppenheimer thing where he's like, now I become death destroyer of
world order.
It's like, why'd you do it then?
You know what I mean?
Well, it's the same kind of thing in that you have to do it.
Because if you don't do it, your enemy's going to do it.
If your enemy's going to hold it, the whole world is very different.
The idea is that if America does it, America, we kind of suck in some ways.
We suck with some of the things that we do with other countries.
We suck with some of the ways we spend our taxes.
But we're the best out there.
We're the best option right now.
It's the best way to run the world.
It's the best way to behave in terms of, like, your freedoms, having as much
freedom as possible.
No countries have this combination of freedom of speech, First Amendment,
Second Amendment.
There's a lot of rights that we have in this country that are just different
than the whole rest of the world.
I think it's the best way to do it.
And we like to think of ourselves as being the most benevolent of all the superpowers.
We're the best ones.
The other ones are evil.
They're communists.
They're run by dictators.
We're trying – like, that's why everybody's afraid of Trump being a dictator.
We don't want any dictators in this country.
So if we develop AI first, phew, we won.
That's good.
Just like we developed the nuclear bomb.
We dropped a couple of them and said, now back the fuck off.
We're done here.
We don't want to do this anymore.
And then we never did it again.
So that's good.
Now, if Germany had developed the atomic bomb first and nuked Britain and nuked
America and just went on a nuking spree
before we could ever develop one, imagine how different the world would be.
Yeah.
You ever watch those videos, the AI videos of, like, two celebrities making out?
It'll be, like, Elon Musk kissing, like, Brad Pitt or Trump.
Yeah, I've seen those.
I feel like we had to make a couple of those and then tell the world, like, all
right, now back the fuck off.
We did that.
Yeah.
Do you know how many times they blew up atomic bombs for tests, though, after
that?
I'm learning more and more about that recently.
I'm reading this new book right now by this guy, Richard Dolan.
He's a UFO researcher.
And he's talking about one of the things that they were doing was they were
doing altitude detonations.
So they were detonating these nuclear bombs 150 miles above Earth.
They did a bunch of them.
They did it, like, a bunch of times.
But then, was it still, doesn't it stay in the air?
They didn't even know.
They were just experimenting and testing.
There's a bunch of shit they did that is so wild.
Do you know, like, John Wayne did a movie in the Nevada desert near where the
test sites were?
Where they blew up, like, I don't know how many hundreds of fucking nuclear
bombs out there.
They blew up tons of nuclear bombs.
And then John Wayne just went out there and was, like, around?
The whole cast got cancer.
The whole cast?
The whole cast got cancer.
John Wayne died of cancer.
Like, a giant percentage of the people that worked on the show, on that movie,
got cancer.
See where you find the results.
Imagine being on the team who's, like, sending the nukes into the air.
And then you just kind of see, like, the cloud stay in the air.
Like, I wonder who was the first guy to be like, ah, shit.
They didn't even understand, man.
No one had been subject to large-scale radiation before.
It was a new thing.
Especially from a detonation.
It had never happened before.
There was no meltdowns yet.
There was no Three Mile Island or Fukushima yet.
1980 article in People Magazine reported that out of the 220 cast and crew
members, 91 had contracted cancer.
With 46 deaths.
Led to the film being dubbed an RKO radioactive picture.
The controversy surrounding the film location and subsequent health issues has
been a point of discussion and debate amongst historians and scientists.
But, yeah, like, the amount of bombs that they detonated is...
Was it a good movie, at least?
I don't think it was.
It might have been that Genghis Khan movie.
Was it the Genghis Khan movie?
Yes.
Oh, it was a piece of shit.
What is that movie rated on Rotten Tomatoes?
Bro, it has to be a zero.
It's so bad.
It's John Wayne playing a Mongolian, which is the craziest thing of all time.
It was the ultimate whitewashing.
He's doing Mongolian face.
And he talks like this.
10% on Rotten Tomatoes.
This is what you got cancer for, John Wayne.
I know.
You got cancer for the worst.
The Conqueror.
And look how hot she is.
She's, like, completely European-looking, his girlfriend.
Like, play some of this because it's so stupid.
Yeah!
Fall off the horse.
Look how hot she is.
Woo!
She's all impressed by him.
And he just took her clothes off.
Look how bad this is.
Oh, shit.
Bro, I mean, come on.
This is the dumbest movie ever to gain John Wayne cancer.
Bro.
It's so bad.
Like, how bad is that movie?
Women always talk about how, like, I was reading this article where they were
trying to trash
F1.
The movie?
Yeah.
And they were like, oh, another movie where the only woman working, because,
like, the girl
in the movie, she's, like, the first, what is she, like, the team director or
something
for an F1 team, like, first woman.
It's like, and she doesn't, you know, like, she doesn't level up until Brad
Pitt unlocks
her potential.
Like, oh, like, we need a man for that.
But it's like, bro, women have the best roles in movies.
Not in that movie.
I mean, yeah.
She got it.
She got hit pretty hard.
But if you think about it, this is a movie about, like, oh, Genghis Khan conquering
so
much.
But the best thing he conquered was the woman.
Like, really?
You know what I mean?
Like, the woman's always, like, the main prize of the movie.
Well, throughout history, that's one of the things that people did go to war
for.
Women?
Yeah, for sure.
Nobody went to war for some dude's butt.
A lot of...
I feel like a lot of war could have been prevented then if, like, porn had just
came around
way sooner.
No, because porn's out now and there's still plenty of war.
That's true.
So what are they going to war for now?
Resources?
All it is is, like, tricking people.
Tricking people into doing something for you.
Women and resources, man.
Women and resources.
When are we going to learn?
It's just money, man.
There's enough women and resources for everybody.
There's not, though.
Not?
There's at least enough women.
Yeah, but they're not the same.
Here's the thing.
For women, I think the number is women are only attracted to 20% of the men.
So, like, 100% of the women out there are only attracted to 20% of the men.
That kind of makes it fun, you know?
You got to hope you're in the 20%.
Yeah, but if you're not, you're fucked.
If you're not, you just go to war.
And there's more of those dudes that are in the 80% now than ever in history
that we know
of, right?
Like, isn't there...
Like, when they do the studies of the amount of people right now currently that
are celibate,
that are not having any sex at all, and not by their own decision,
not by their choice?
I think they're higher now than they've been in a long time.
People are going celibate?
On accident.
They just know that they're unfuckable.
Unintentional.
Nobody wants to fuck them.
Celibacy.
That's real, man.
That's, like, a real problem.
A bunch of people are just sitting at home and watching TV all day and ordering
DoorDash.
I think you got to, like, split your time up.
You know what I mean?
I think celibacy could be good for, like, a week or two, and then you got to be
like,
all right, no more DoorDash.
Let's get out there.
Just get out there.
Stop being a pussy.
Get married or, you know, get into relationships, have an affair.
Well, don't be just jerking off all day.
That's crazy.
I actually want to write a self-help book, but not, like, a real one.
Like, maybe, like, a joke one, you know?
Yeah.
But something that I don't think my stand-up comedy would ever get me canceled,
but I think
maybe, like, a book.
But I want to call it something like, like, you're not autistic.
You're just 25 and, like, an asshole or something like that.
And then the whole book just tells people, like, get off your ass, man.
Like, stop making excuses.
What do you do for actual autistic people that read that book, though?
Like, hey, he says I'm not autistic.
I'll be like, you're not autistic, then.
Believe what you want.
How many people do you think are autistic?
What percentage?
I don't know.
I feel like probably a lot.
But I think there's, like, there's, like, odd.
You think a bunch of people are saying they're autistic so that they get, like,
extra credit?
Yeah, I think it's, like, I think it's, like, being, like, like, what do you
call it?
Like, Apache or whatever?
Like, Cherokee?
Where you're just, like, oh, yeah, I'm, like, one-eighth.
Yeah.
I'm one-eighth autistic.
Yeah.
I'm kind of psychic.
Oh, yeah.
Like, so I think if you come up on the spectrum, it doesn't mean you're, like,
enough.
Full-blown.
Yeah.
Like, you've seen people with, like, full-blown autistic.
Right, right.
And the struggles they have to go through in life.
Yeah.
Like, somebody has to be in their life.
You know what I mean?
Like, to...
Yeah, for nonverbal people, yeah.
Yeah.
Or, like, just whatever.
But you can't, like, be a...
You can't just, like, wake up, you know, play video games, go do stuff on your
own, and
then, like, use autism as an excuse for other stuff you don't want to do.
Like, oh, I didn't want to shake that guy's hand because I'm just, like,
autistic.
Yeah.
Like, motherfucker, just look at the person in the face.
Don't look them in the eyes.
Just look them in the face or something.
Just don't be rude.
Like, I feel like a lot of...
And maybe it's because of the way I grew up, but, like, if I tried to use
autism as an
excuse to get out of doing stuff, I think I just would have got smacked in the
back of
the head.
I think I would have smacked the autism out of me, you know what I mean?
The one-eighth, at least.
I don't think I have any autism in me.
No?
Unfortunately.
Why do you say unfortunately?
Maybe it would help with math.
It would help with numbers.
Jamie?
Like Rain Man?
I think Jamie's autistic.
How does he...
How does he...
Maybe not autistic.
Maybe he just knows how your brain works.
How does he know to highlight the exact sentences you should read?
What's the difference between...
Because he's smart.
What's the difference between...
And he's been doing this forever.
What's the difference between Asperger's and autism?
Like, the technical difference?
Because, like, they're kind of interchangeable, right?
Are they both, like, communication type?
Well, a lot of times people say the spectrum.
They call it the spectrum.
Like, oh, he's on the spectrum.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Where?
Like, the spectrum could be anywhere.
Like, you could be, like, you could have a touch.
Just a touch of the tism.
You know?
Or you could be, like, full-blown.
I don't know if this is official, but here's an explanation.
Key characters.
All right.
In autism, significant delays in language, maybe nonverbal or have limited
speech.
Asperger's, typically no language.
No language delay.
Advanced vocabulary for age.
Interesting.
Autism varies widely from intellectual disability to above-average intelligence.
And then Asperger's, usually average to above-average intelligence.
Autism, social interaction difficulties may show less interest in engagement.
And then Asperger's, desire social interaction but struggles with social cues
and nonverbal communication.
So it seems like Asperger's is, like, the upgraded autism.
It's, like, autism is too risky.
You could, you know, get a kid who's nonverbal, but go with Asperger's, you
might get a genius.
Everybody wants autism, though.
Well, I think they really would want Asperger's if you showed it to them.
It's like Cialis versus Viagra.
Yeah, if they knew.
Yeah, if they knew.
I think people use autism as, like, oh, look, I'm not average.
I'm actually high-functioning autism.
Like, I'm actually a genius in this class.
Right.
People definitely use, they love to be a victim of something.
Yeah.
They love to have some sort of an ailment that you don't know about, you know.
People love that.
I'm not like that.
You know, I'm diabetic.
I never tell people.
Are you full-blown diabetic?
Full-blown.
Type 1?
Not like, not like with the autism thing.
Not the food stuff?
Yeah, type 1.
So you're born with it?
No.
I got it when I was, like, six.
Really?
Yeah.
Type 1 when you're six.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
You know, they just cured type 1 diabetes in a woman with stem cells.
What?
Yeah.
It was the first of its kind.
Was it China that did this?
See if you can find it, Jamie.
But, yeah, you know, they're using stem cells to try to treat all sorts of
different things.
And one of the things that they were really successful was with this lady.
They cured for the first time ever type 1 diabetes.
How do they give you the stem cells?
It's a good question.
Can you smoke it in a pipe?
No.
I think they inject it into you.
That's not too bad.
But if this, I mean, you might not have to take insulin.
Do you take insulin right now?
Yeah.
You might not have to take insulin.
They might be able to fix you.
How do I get these stem cells?
Let's see what it says.
What is the, it says, world's first stem cell therapy reverses diabetes.
So where was it from?
Where did it happen?
Groundbreaking title.
In Peking University, they took cells from three people with type 1 diabetes
and reverted
them to pluripotent state, meaning they could develop into any type of cell.
This technique, originally developed by Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University
nearly 20 years
ago, was modified by Deng's team to use small molecules instead of proteins,
allowing for
better control.
They used these chemically reprogrammed stem cells to create 3D clusters of
insulin-producing
isolates, which were tested for safety in animals.
In June of 2023, the team transplanted about 1.5 million isolates into a woman's
abdominal
muscles.
A new approach, as most isolate transplants are done in the liver.
By placing the cells in the abdomen, they could monitor them with an MRI and
remove them if
necessary.
The operation took less than 30 minutes.
Two and a half months after her transplant, the woman with type 1 diabetes
started producing
enough insulin on her own.
And she has continued to do so for over a year.
How about that?
Her blood sugar levels are stable 98% of the time, eliminating dangerous spikes
and drops.
That's crazy.
What?
This was in China?
I believe so.
Yeah.
This is badass.
Yeah.
What if I met this doctor and he was like, all right, I'll do the operation on
you, but
you have to say my name correctly the first time?
What was Yamanaka Shimoya?
Practice it.
I would say practice it if you want to not have diabetes.
What kind of question is that?
Shinya.
Yamanaka.
They might be able to hook you up.
All right.
What do you think?
I don't know.
How do I, like, how do you even start that process?
You just go to China?
Yeah, you got to go to China right now.
Get out, get out of here.
Get on a plane.
I got to finish this press tour.
I'll cure diabetes after.
I bet it's going to be mainstream within a few years.
If that worked and that's reproducible.
Dude, I want to go to China now for real.
It'll probably be in America too.
Because what they're saying, the way they're laying it out, it sounds like
there's a paper
on it.
And that thing that, was that a published paper?
Yeah.
It's called VX880.
I can't say that.
I guess I should probably wait until they do, like, a few more patients, right?
It's like PS5s.
Like, you want to let the first round go out first with the ones with the bugs
and stuff.
Nah, fuck it.
I would go right in there.
Let's go.
Let's see.
Let's see if you can fix me.
Yeah?
Yeah.
You don't want to deal with shooting insulin all the time.
That's annoying.
How often do you have to do it?
Ah, before a meal.
And I usually eat about three times a day.
Oh, so you have to give yourself three injections a day.
That's annoying.
Yeah.
And since you were six, you've been doing that?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
I'm a little tired of it.
Does it?
Yeah.
This might be it, man.
This might be able to fix you.
What if I miss the shots, though?
Like.
Here's a trial I think they've done in the U.S. with 12 people.
Oh, they did a trial with 12 people?
All 12 participants.
Demonstrated engraftment with glucose-responsive endogenesis, endogenesis, endogenesis,
endogenesis.
Indigenous.
Why can't I say endogenesis?
Like, how did I not read that correctly?
Endogenesis, C-peptide production, which is durable through one year of follow-up.
Wow.
What does that mean?
That means a year of follow-up.
It was still working.
It was still good.
Had a reduction in exogenous insulin use, meaning reduction in daily insulin
use by 92%.
So they still had to take a little bit of insulin sometimes.
So I bet this is something that you could probably do more than one time.
These were all off of one dose.
They got one sugar infusion.
So if a full dose and then you have a complete reduction in insulin reduction,
so it says 83% of them no longer required insulin at month 12.
That's nuts.
83% of all the people they tested didn't require insulin a year later.
That's amazing.
You got to get in on that dog.
Yeah, but I don't even know who to talk to.
We'll find out.
We'll ask afterwards.
All right.
For real.
You should probably find out.
Like, maybe there's another trial they're doing.
I'm for real, too.
Yeah, I would get involved in that trial.
That seems, like, totally reasonable.
Yeah.
Unless I would.
Well, I'd talk to a scientist first.
I don't know.
I'd like to talk to some people that are concerned about things.
Yeah.
You always talk to the person who's, like, against the plan.
Yeah, there's always some side effect that you don't take into consideration.
Like, oh.
Well, if you do that, here's the problem.
It also does this.
You're like, oh, no.
I don't.
Yeah.
I don't know.
But what if I don't even, like, what if I suck after I'm cured?
What are you talking about, Rob?
What if it just changes me?
What are you saying?
What if I just don't know how to act afterwards, you know?
Rob.
Honestly, living without diabetes, that would go to my head so fast.
You'd get cocky?
Yeah.
I'd drop people out of my life.
Like, fuck, I need you for I'm healthy.
I've heard people say things like that before.
Like, if I fix this, maybe I won't be funny anymore.
Or if I fix this, maybe my life won't be good anymore.
Nah, honestly, I could use something life-changing.
I got, like, writer's block real bad right now.
Do you?
Yeah.
I'm, like, unmotivated with new stand-up.
I was reading that book you got out there.
I never.
The War of Art?
No, no, no, no.
Oh, the Hunter S. Thompson book?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hunter S. Thompson was a dude or that was a chick?
You don't know who Hunter S. Thompson was?
Nah, but I kind of have heard of Thompson's work through, I read in the, like,
before the
book actually starts, it's, like, other books by Hunter S. Thompson.
Yeah.
And, uh.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's him.
And, uh, what is it, Rum Diaries or something?
So it's a dude.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, dude, it's good.
What did you take before you came here?
Nothing.
Something happened?
You're on sleeping pills or something?
What the fuck is going on?
Nah, man, I'm sober.
I just woke up and came here.
Um, yeah, Hunter S. Thompson's a very famous writer from the counterculture
movement.
He wrote this paragraph in that book, man.
That's Johnny Japp.
You played him in that movie?
Yeah, good old Johnny Depp, man.
That's a fun fucking movie.
I don't know if you've ever seen it.
I've seen most of it.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
Yeah.
It's fucking great.
It's a great movie.
And the book is really great, too.
He was a fascinating guy, like, probably one of my, not probably, one of my
favorite authors
ever.
He, he, that book that's out there, you said it's a first edition.
Yeah.
It's like, uh, Diaries of his, right?
Like, he just kind of wrote his thoughts and, like, what he did throughout that
day.
Um, Charles Bukowski has a book like that.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, what is it, what is it called?
Like, The Captain is Out to Lunch.
Something like that, right?
Yeah.
Felipe Esparza put me onto that book.
Oh, okay.
I read, and I did his podcast.
Uh, he, he has a couple of Charles Bukowski books in his little library.
Oh, no shit.
Yeah.
Shout out to Felipe.
I love that dude.
Yeah, dude.
So talented.
I've been friends with him forever.
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the ship, Charles Bukowski.
Yeah, so it's, it's kind of like that Hunter S. Thompson book.
And, uh, in both, in both of those, I like, I like both of those books a lot.
I've read, like, half of that one.
I'm going to buy that one.
The, but I like what Hunter S. Thompson, he said, uh, because he's, he's talked
about
being in this hotel room, uh, and he says, living on pills, phone calls unmade,
people
unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make
some kind of breakthrough
and get moving again, get the gun off the rails, finish something, croak this
awful habit of
not ever getting to the end of anything.
Yeah.
Dude, that's, man.
Yeah.
I feel like I'm there right now.
Yeah.
But I don't know if I care as much as he did, cause he at least wrote about it
and I've
just kind of been like, ah, I'll get to it.
Well, you're a lot younger, first of all.
And second of all, like he was already a successful writer that was trying to
like get the, the fire
stoked.
You know, that's the thing.
This is a great book.
You can keep this.
Um, I have, oh, that's not it.
Sorry.
I thought that was the war of art.
We have piles of them.
Oh yeah.
I saw it out there.
We have, uh, Stephen Pressfield gave me a whole box of them.
I'll give you a copy when we leave.
Okay.
That's a book that will help you a lot because it's basically just about that.
That book is just about overcoming this resistance that people have to work.
It's hard.
It's hard to make yourself work.
It is.
You know?
Well, I like, I, I have this thing where like, I can't help, but to like obsess
on a subject
and lose a lot of interest in another subject or other subjects.
But like, I, I, I mean, I, yeah, I choose what I like or whatever.
You know what I mean?
But like to a degree, that makes sense.
So like, it's like chasing butterflies.
Like sometimes it's like that yellow butterfly.
Like I just got to keep fucking, fucking with this butterfly right here.
And there's so many other butterflies around, but then sometimes it's the blue
one.
So like comedy is like the blue butterfly.
And then like other shit is like other butterflies.
I started an automotive YouTube channel with my buddy.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It's not super big, but it's so fun.
And it's just like little challenges that I find in it, you know, like learn
this, learn
how to do that, learn how to do this.
And the automotive in terms of like repairing stuff?
Like, yeah, we put a, we got a 1989 240 SX.
It's my buddy's car.
He bought it for like 600 bucks.
And, uh, he wants to put an LS in it, but before putting the LS in it, he
wanted to blow up
the original motor.
So we put nitrous and turbo on it, but without tuning it.
So there's no computer telling it like how to do it safely or, or like
efficiently.
So it's just like, God.
And, uh, we didn't blow up the motor.
We blew up the coupler for the turbo though.
So like, and the motor sucks now, like it won't stay on.
So this is a Nissan?
Yeah.
An 89 Nissan 240.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
It's, it's a horrible.
Why'd you choose that year?
That's my friend's car.
He just, Oh, he just got a good deal.
Yeah.
Everything we find is pretty much Facebook marketplace.
Oh, okay.
And so then you're going to drop an LS into that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We might, but maybe look, that's the channel.
There's your channel.
Formula Bean.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
We chose that name.
Cause like, I feel like formula one is like, like, you know, it's like pinnacle
of racing
and they have all these such intelligent engineers working on these cars and
they make these
great motors and stuff.
And I feel like this is the exact opposite.
Oh dude, you're doing some real cars.
You LS swapped an R34 GTR?
Ah, that's more like clickbait.
It's just sitting in the car.
We didn't like hook it up or nothing.
Oh, we had to take that car to get aligned.
Click on that.
Click on that.
Those Skylines are legendary cars.
Those are legendary cars.
Oh yeah.
He got that.
He got a deal on that car.
They're hard to get, man.
They, they couldn't import them into the United States until like 25 years
after the production,
right?
So they were, the people have done shit like that before.
I've got, I went down a rabbit hole the other day of Skyline, like mods and all
the different
things that people have done to Skylines.
This is one dude.
He has this insane metallic deep purple, like a dark purple.
Yeah, midnight purple three probably.
Bro, it is so beautiful.
It's like a, it's like a big, it's like a cardinal sin though to put a LS in a
Skyline.
Oh, right.
You want to use a Japanese engine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The RB, it's the original Skyline motor.
So that's a, that's an R34 GTT.
So that comes with the RB25, the GTR, which is like the super famous, super
expensive one
comes with the RB26.
But so you really know your shit, man.
I'm learning.
I have an R35.
I have a Nismo.
Oh yeah.
You told me one time, I think.
Oh, I love it.
One guy tried to sell me one of those, but I couldn't do it.
It was too expensive.
It was out of my price range.
I have, I have an R35 too, but not an Nismo.
Well, you can, the thing about R35s is you could turn it into exactly what an Nismo
is.
Yeah.
I mean, everything is moddable.
Yeah.
I mean, these cars have been around for so long in the community of modders for
both them
and a lot of JDM vehicles like Supras, like the 240, 240 Zs, the old ones.
There's a whole company now that is in the UK that takes Nissan or Datsun.
It was back when it was Datsun, Datsun 240s, and turns them into these fucking
sick, streamlined
sports cars with like wider tires, much more horsepower, super lightweight.
See, I'd like to do that.
Oh, it's so exciting.
I love Japanese sports cars because you get the best of both worlds.
You get performance and reliability.
Like, if you get like a GTR, those are like one of the most reliable cars you
can buy.
And it's ridiculously fast.
That's my shit right there, son.
That's what I have.
Do you ever take it to a track?
I have not taken the GTR to a track.
You got a Nismo, you got to take it to a track.
I know, but I only been to a track a few times.
And the last time I went was a Corvette thing.
I went with them.
We're actually going to build a track, rather a studio on the track.
Oh, yeah?
That's our next move.
Yeah.
We're going to build a studio at Coda.
So we're going to have two studios.
We're going to have a regular studio here, and then we're going to have a
studio at the
Circuit of the Americas.
That's fucking sick.
So we're going to be able to take people around the track, and then do a
podcast right afterwards.
Hey, hire me as a driver.
Can you drive?
Are you good?
I do okay.
I got the fastest lap time at Speed Vegas.
You ever been there?
Did you really?
Yeah.
The fastest?
Yeah, for like a few hours, and then some dude beat me.
What are we driving?
Porsche GT3 RS.
Oh, okay.
I was competing against my co-host on the channel there, my buddy Luis.
It's a username underscore AF on Instagram.
Horrible username.
But anyway, we both got the same car, the Porsche, to compare lap times.
Oh, nice.
I got him beat by like eight seconds or something like that.
Well, he probably doesn't know how to drive it.
Also, those cars get a little scary, the rear engine.
I mean, you have an instructor just telling you what to do.
Mm-hmm.
But I didn't.
You hit the gas harder.
Yeah, I broke a little later.
Yeah.
Hit the gas a little harder.
I almost spun out, but I wanted to find like the limit to the car.
But yeah, on my like second lap, I almost spun the car out, but I was able to
keep it.
Yeah, those cars are just designed entirely for racing.
That's a crazy car that you can get, a race car for the street.
When we went, the last time we went to Coda, we went for Corvette.
So Corvette has the new ZR1.
And it holds the record, right?
Yes.
At what track was it?
Nürburgring.
Nürburgring, yeah.
It holds the record in basically every single track that it's ever entered into.
Holy shit.
Yeah, it's a thousand horsepower from the factory.
And then the record at Nürburgring that they did, which is the record only for
American cars,
but for the ZR1X, I believe the time is 6 minutes 49 seconds, which is insanely
fast.
And it wasn't driven by a professional driver.
It was driven by the engineer.
Yes, the engineer broke the American lap time record.
So everyone else is using Formula One drivers.
They're using the sickest drivers on earth to get the most amount of time.
So a professional driver that I follow, this guy, I forget his last name, Misha
something
or another, on YouTube, he analyzed the footage and he said, you could shave 10
seconds off
this.
Yeah.
Which is crazy.
Oh, here it goes.
Pro driver says, Corvette ZR1 could have gone 10 seconds faster at Nürburgring.
Who is it that said that?
Is it more than one pro driver said that?
No, Misha.
This guy.
This guy's great.
I follow his.
Oh, I follow him.
Yes.
What is his channel called?
Let's give him a shout out, young Jamie.
10 seconds in the world of racing.
That's like a lot.
That's a lot.
So it's Misha, M-I-S-H-A, and the last name, I don't know how to pronounce it,
is C-H-R-O-U-D-I-N.
Shahrudin?
How would you say that?
Shahrudin?
Shahrudin.
Shahrudin.
Anyway, cool guy.
Great channel.
It's dope.
So he analyzed it and he drives that track all the time.
He takes people on rides at that track, right?
And he's a nasty driver.
He drives wicked.
It's fun watching.
He looks so calm too, man.
He's just hauling ass.
Well, he knows that track, like the back of his hand.
He's always at the Nurburgring.
There's track days on there all the time.
So he drives a whole bunch of crazy cars, including GTRs, all kinds of crazy
shit,
different things that people have put together and modded.
So he says, with someone more comfortable with the car, he's like a sub six
minute and
40 second time, which is what they achieved.
It was relatively easy and possible, he would say.
He said, maybe they've already done a lap with a pro driver and will release
later when
they find it necessary.
So what Corvette likes to do, though, they like to do their lap times with the
people who
built the car.
Because they feel like the people who built the car are like intimately
connected.
Instead of farming it off to some Formula One psychopath, get the actual guys
who designed
and engineered the car.
And if these guys are breaking records, they're great drivers.
Don't get me wrong.
I drove with one of them when we were at Coda.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
And I drove the car.
I drove that ZR1.
It's the best car I've ever driven in my life.
Yeah?
I've driven a lot of cars.
Takes corners, badass.
It's insane.
It's insane.
It's got the power, like an electric car.
The acceleration is bananas.
It's nuts.
It's 0 to 60 in under two seconds.
It fucking flies.
That's great.
And it has massive downforce, huge wheels, sticky tires.
And you're going around these corners like you can't believe the amount of grip
it has
and the stability of it, the balance of it.
What kind of tires do they put on those?
They're cup tires.
I don't know what the exact...
I believe they're...
I don't want to say.
But I think they're Michelin cups.
I wish I knew how to, like, fabricate my own suspension for cars.
Really?
You want to do all that?
Yeah.
I want to learn.
I don't want to make my own suspension.
I kind of...
I mean, maybe one day.
I don't know.
I do want to learn how to fabricate other parts, easier parts.
But I feel like all the cars I buy, that's like the most important thing to me
is like
handling.
Oh, yeah.
I bought a...
Shout out to this dude.
I'm going to shout out his page.
He's got some cool stuff on YouTube.
Krusty.
What is it?
Krusty Classics Garage.
Let me make sure I'm getting that right.
He sold me a 1973 Plymouth Barracuda, but it has a front end from a 71 Barracuda.
Oh, the nice front end.
Yeah.
The four headlights.
Yeah.
That's the front end.
That was bad.
That's the one.
That's the one.
I have a 70.
He had less swapped it.
Look, that's the one.
That's the one I bought.
I love that car.
That looks like a 70.
Oh, that's the original front end.
That's the original front end before they swapped it out.
No, no, no.
That's the...
73.
71 front end.
It looks like...
No, that's not.
Because it only has one headline on each side.
Oh, no, no.
You're right.
That's before they swapped it.
I think that's the 73.
Yeah, yeah.
They wrecked into him.
Oh, I see, I see.
Yeah.
My mom had a 71 when I was a kid.
What?
Yeah.
Dude, your mom was kicking ass.
Yeah, it was pretty dope.
Dope car.
I learned how to drive on it.
That car, he had less swapped it.
And the suspension is pretty tight.
But when I got to...
It has no speedometer.
So when I got it to like what I assume is somewhere over 100.
Yeah, the steering wheel became a little scary.
Oh, they're super loose.
It became a little too sensitive.
The front end is so like light.
Well, it's also...
The steering sucks.
Their steering was so vague.
Well, he has like aftermarket on it.
Like, I just...
I don't know what all he did to it.
I got to take a deeper look into it.
I bought it and then just hauled ass back to Dallas.
Yeah.
And once I got on the highway closer to my house, a Camry was getting cocky.
So I was just like, nah, I got to show him this.
A Camry?
Yeah.
A Camry was getting cocky?
Oh, that looks great with that 71 front end.
That 71 front end is gorgeous.
I think that's when we bought it.
My friend Brigham has a 71.
It's badass.
It's so nice.
This dude has everything LS swapped.
He has people sending him work from like other states even.
Really?
Yeah.
This dude does good work.
The LS swapped into a Barracuda?
Ooh.
Yeah.
No, that's like more blasphemy like the thing we did with the Skyline.
You want to see the dopest Barracuda you've ever seen?
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
Jamie, pull up mine.
Oh shit.
I had one made by Roadster Shop.
This is the craziest Barracuda ever.
Roadster, they make the frames and shit, right?
They make everything.
Damn.
They did everything.
And they put a racing engine in it.
A Mercury racing engine in it.
Bam.
So it's like a 9,000 RPM racing engine.
Holy shit.
Oh, it's nasty.
It's so crazy.
That's it?
Yeah.
That's my car.
This thing is bonkers.
And it's got a roll cage in it.
It's all like the interior is gorgeous.
But it's six speed manual transmission.
But it sounds like an exotic car.
Oh, yeah.
America.
Fuck yeah.
Hey, you got one cup holder?
Yeah.
Me too.
Yeah, fuck everybody else.
My interior doesn't look as nice as that one, but.
That's one thing our cooters have in common is the cup holder.
Yeah.
Well, the interior is totally different.
That thing is sick, bro.
You have that.
You got an Ismo.
You have good taste.
Yeah, I like stuff.
What's your gayest car?
The gayest car?
Yeah.
What's your car that you just like?
I guess my Tesla.
Yeah, that one.
That one takes the cake.
I mean, if you want to ask the average person, but I love it.
I drove that today.
That thing's awesome.
Yeah, that's your daily driver?
Yeah, I drive it all the time.
It's a Model S Plaid.
And it's also, it's customized.
So this company called Unplugged Performance, they take a Model S and then they
put carbon fiber fenders on it, wider track, wider tires, upgraded suspension,
change the interior.
Hey, do you have tinted windows?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nobody ever recognizes you in traffic.
People recognize me.
Yeah.
You're like, what the fuck?
Usually they say hi.
Yeah.
Like, hey, what's up?
You don't get weirdos?
I feel like you'd get most weirdos out of anybody.
You get some weirdos, but most people are nice.
Yeah.
Most people, the most people in the world, the reason why you can get on the
highway and no one's just slamming into each other and the reason why you can
go to the mall and everyone's not stampeding over people, it's because most
people are nice.
Yeah.
Most people are cool.
Most people are cool until they start, you know, running out of women and
resources.
Right.
Incels.
Incels.
They get dangerous.
They get on the meth.
Incels, they get radicalized online.
Yeah.
Don't do drugs.
Take care of your bodies.
What are the tires on the Corvette, Jamie?
Do we find out what they are?
I didn't know.
They're super sticky.
You'll drive it.
You'll go insane.
It's the greatest car ever.
Tires make a big difference, man.
Huge difference.
But it's also the mid-engine.
When they switch the Corvette architecture from that front engine design from
the C7 to the C8, Michelin, yeah, there's Pilot Sport 4S.
And I think you could use cup tires, too.
I think.
I think it's an option.
Mid-engine cars, they seem to be dominating on tracks, huh?
Well, the balance is so good.
When you have that balance of the engine in front of the rear wheels, first of
all, you have massive amounts of traction because all that weight is back there.
There's always a problem with that front engine.
The only time I think the front engine can be, like, a mid-engine thing, I
think, is if, like, the track has different elevations.
Like, what is it, like, Laguna Seca, I think, has, like, a huge downhill uphill
thing.
Oh, where it helps you to have the front engine bias?
Yeah, I think, I mean, I'd imagine that's the only place it probably can make a
difference because, like, when you're coming, what is it, like, man, I think I
saw a video on it one time and I didn't have the volume up because my kid was
asleep.
Like, I'm pretty sure that's what they were talking about.
Like, you know, on the side of the track, they have, like, the stripes, the red
and white, and sometimes they go over there.
Right.
You know how sometimes, yeah.
So, if you're going off of one of those and you're also going downhill, I'd
imagine you'd want, like, a front engine.
I think you'd get the grip faster as you're coming down.
Hmm.
Whereas, if the motor was in the back, I think you'd have to kind of catch your
balance a little more than a front engine.
I could be wrong, though.
I don't know.
The motor's in the middle.
See, that's the thing.
The motor in the back with the Porsche, you have to learn how to use that
pendulum effect as you're driving, you know.
But the guys who are really good at it, though, they use it to their effect.
Like, they steer with the throttle.
So, like, as they're turning, they're hitting the gas.
The ass end is kicking out, and then they're modulating it, and then they're
going straight.
So, guys that are really good at driving Porsches, it's pretty beautiful to
watch because they just know how to use that rear engine bias.
But the thing about the Corvette and also the Cayman, the Cayman GT4, which is
another amazing mid-engine car,
is that engine in front of the rear wheel, in the center of the car, makes the
car perfectly balanced.
You just feel so confident.
Even when the tires break, you feel really confident that this car is under
control.
And the Corvette has so much downforce.
It's so well-engineered.
I mean, these guys gave us, before they let us drive, me and Hinchcliffe went
down there,
and before they let us drive, they gave us, like, this full tour-de-force
explanation of the engineering involved in this car
and what the goal was.
It's the most ridiculous production car that any American company has ever put
out, by far.
The more you get into cars, the more you get into, like, physics and balance.
Yeah.
It starts off as, like, oh, shit, like, 340 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of
torque.
And then later on, you're just like, dude, that thing is so balanced.
Yeah, it balances everything.
And really, for thrills, if you really want to enjoy a car, enjoy a car, it's
not about how fast you go.
Like, this whole lap time thing, it's cool, because if you like going on a
track, and I do like going on a track, it's fun.
And it's fun to have a car that's really good at moving around a track and
driving fast.
But in the real world, what you want is sensory experiences.
That's what you want out of a car.
What do you mean, sensory experiences?
You want to hear the sound.
You want to feel the gears as you're shifting.
You want to push the clutch in and pop that sucker in a third and let off the
clutch as you hit the gas.
You want to smell it.
You want to feel it.
You want to, really, you want a manual transmission and a manual steering.
You don't even want power-assisted steering.
So you want a light car, like an early 911.
If you really want to feel, like, what's the ultimate thrill of driving?
It's a really well-sorted out, air-cooled 911.
Air-cooled 911.
Oh, those old Porsches are so light.
You can get them to, like, 2,000 pounds and they strip things out of them.
Well, those are, like, stupid expensive now, right?
Yeah, they are now.
But it depends on which model.
You can still get some models, like the G-Body models.
They're pretty reasonable until people start realizing that and start scooping
them up, too.
But there's some that don't look quite as good, but fuck what it looks like.
Get that out of your head.
What you want to do is just experience the car.
Like, when you drive, like, you can get, like, a 19 – let's find out what a
– how much does a 1982 911 cost?
Let's see if we can find one.
I hate that I – I just recently started getting into Porsches, and I, like
– I hate that I like them now.
They're great.
They are.
They're really – but they're so – but they're so expensive.
They're so expensive.
They're also good investments.
Yeah, they're worth more money after you buy them than they are when you buy
them.
It's one of the rare cars that will continue – okay, there's a beautiful one.
That one's pretty expensive.
Oh, yeah, those are sick.
That one's 70 grand.
That seems like somebody has put some – they probably put some work into that
one.
What does it say in terms of what's been done to it?
Oh, my God.
It only has 100 miles on it?
That's crazy.
You know, when I first started making money, I felt like I was buying cars like
that, that were more, like, collector type.
But now my garage is so different because I – I don't like that.
Jimmy, don't – go back to that.
I like to fucking put miles on them.
Yeah, no, I hear you, but this is nuts.
To find an 82 Porsche with that low amount of miles, that's crazy.
100 miles?
I would LS it.
I'll buy it in LS it.
Hey, look, I got one of those, but not that year.
Go back up, Skyline right there.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I got a different one, though.
I got a –
What one do you have?
I have a 1971 Hakosuka.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it's an original.
But that car, that's one of those cars that I'm like, I don't know if I should
keep it or not because it's so valuable as long as I don't fuck with it too
much.
Oh, it's an investment.
If I had that car, if I was you, I'd just keep that sucker well-maintained, don't
drive it anywhere, hold on to it, enjoy it.
That would be worth a million dollars someday.
I don't know.
I think I'm going to LS it.
Does it have the original engine in it right now?
The original engine, yep.
Oh, man.
I wouldn't fuck with it if I was you.
It still smells like the Japanese dude who used to drive it to work.
This is crazy that this car only has 100 miles on it.
So that car is not going to be fast in comparison to a modern car, but boy,
would you enjoy driving it.
That is an enjoyable car.
You drive that car, you feel everything.
It's like you're in a ride.
I don't know what year they started doing this, but they have a...
Oh, it says that it has 8,000 miles on it.
90,000, yeah.
What?
I just thought I didn't buy 100 miles on the new engine, maybe.
No, no, no, 8,475, Jamie.
8,475, 8,475, 8.
Is that the last one?
Is that up to the next mile?
When that goes over to zero, does that make a six?
Usually it's a different number or a different color or something.
Those cars tracked up to 100,000, right?
Yeah, maybe not.
Maybe it's 9,000.
Like, does it go 6, 7, 8, 9, 60?
Does it do that?
I don't know.
Hey, that's still not bad.
What do you use it?
82?
So either way.
Yeah, if it's an 82, but that doesn't make any sense.
Oh, I think they're saying it has 100 miles on a rebuilt engine.
Let's see what it says.
Something's fully restored.
Fully restored.
That's it.
Okay.
No miles.
Original engine, trans, fully restored, no miles.
Okay, so it only has 100 miles on the engine that's been fully restored.
Okay, that makes more sense.
They're lying then.
You can't say it has 100 miles because then all the other shit, like the
suspension, everything
else has got all those miles on it.
Unless you swapped out every fucking component in the car.
They have a weird, the transmission.
I don't know what year they started doing this.
Oh, the dog leg went down to one?
No, no.
Well, the thing, it just feels different.
Like, I forgot what it was.
My buddy bought one, the guy I run the channel with, Luis.
So, this is like the cheapest Porsche ever.
But it looks so good.
He made a whole YouTube thing about it.
Like, he made videos on it.
He got this Porsche for like, I think it was like 3,200 bucks, 3,600 bucks or
something
on Facebook.
The dude was like, yeah, it's an 07 Porsche.
He's like, the motor's kaput.
It's no good.
So, my buddy goes to check it out and it has a knocking in it.
And the paint is just real ugly.
And he buys it.
He's like, fuck it.
I'm going to just take the chance.
Maybe it's a simple fix.
And he takes it to our buddy, Brian, back in Fort Worth to get it painted.
So, now the paint is just brand new, but the motor still knocks.
And my dad pulls up to that same shop that same day to get a truck painted.
And he's like, oh, what's up, Luis?
And they decide to race the truck.
It's an OBS versus the Porsche.
And Luis floors it.
And after he floors it, the knocking goes away.
It just never came back.
And the motor just runs fine.
So, he just came up on like the cheapest Porsche.
Do you have a video of this?
Is it online?
Yeah.
Bro, it's all over.
Like, can you pull it up on the Formula Bean YouTube again?
It has to be on there.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
And the only thing other than that, I think, was like the wheel alignment.
Or like it was like shaky or whatever.
But I think the, uh, I think what he said what it was, was the tires had been
sitting for so long that they kind of like got flat.
Oh, they're probably scary.
Yeah.
You shouldn't just drive on old tires, man.
Yeah, we just switched them out.
It's like fucking no problem.
Look.
The engine's making noise.
And that is race a car.
Oh, it's a Cayman.
After the race, it stopped making the noises.
Let's change the oil and see what we find.
Well, there's really two things.
That's after the paint job.
Let's put some fresh gasoline in the car and the race.
I mean, if I was going to replace the engine, why not just race it?
If it blows up, it blows up.
But ironically, the opposite happened.
The old owner warned me that the engine needed to be replaced.
And I think you can get a pretty good idea on the health of the engine by doing
an oil change.
One, it looks disgusting.
But let's see if we see any metal shavings in there.
Taking apart the old filter, I notice a lot of sludge.
But using a magnet, I don't find any metal shavings.
All right, let's go magnet fishing.
Next up, let's check the oil.
This dude's really smart.
He was an engineer for Lockheed Martin.
And I convinced him to quit his job.
Really?
Yeah, so maybe not that smart if he let me convince him to quit.
But that sounds more fun.
Yeah.
So what was that noise?
Because of the condition of the oil, I'm thinking some sludge got stuck where
it wasn't supposed to.
Maybe it was a lifter tick.
And when I finally drove it hard, it blew out the sludge.
Or maybe it was something in the clutch.
All right, guys, let's see how it runs.
How much did he pay for this?
Who knows, but now it works.
Like $3,600.
Oh, that's insane.
That's crazy, right?
What a great deal.
And that's a great balanced car.
The Caymans.
Those are super, super well balanced.
It drives really good.
That's his daily driver now.
Oh, that's dope.
That dude only buys cars if they, like, suck.
Like, you won't catch him buying something from a dealership.
He's never bought something from a dealership.
He has, like, six cars.
Yeah.
The dude's fucking crazy smart.
So I met him through our other content creator friend.
There's a dude named Papika.
Fucking hilarious dude.
Even funnier in real life.
We have the same media manager.
So anytime Papika wants to come to my shows, you know, my manager will just get
him tickets.
And I'm performing in Dallas one day and Papika shows up with our other buddy,
Ivan, and with this dude.
And he's like, hey, these are my buddies.
They're also content creators.
You know, they met, like, at a TikTok convention or something.
I don't know.
Where content creators hang out.
And the first thing he tells me, he's like, hey, man, let's swap your Skyline.
I heard you got a Skyline.
And those are, like, his favorite cars, my favorite cars.
I was like, fuck, no, I would never do that.
And he's like, well, if you ever wanted to do anything, just let me know.
So I told him I had bought an R32 GTR and I wanted to do work to it.
But I was like, I want to do it.
I want to learn how to fuck with it.
You know what I mean?
I was like, can you teach me whatever?
And I was like, I'll pay you whatever you want to teach me.
He's like, all right, well, I'll go over, like, on such a day.
Because it was a coincidence that we both live in DFW.
So he comes over to the house one day and we start, like, I think the first
thing we did was maybe change the exhaust on my Skyline.
Or maybe it was a suspension on my Impala.
I don't remember one of those things.
And I was like, well, what are you going to charge me?
He's like, nah, man, I don't care.
He's like, it's just fun.
You know, make some content from it.
Like, never charged.
We just kept hanging out.
And now we've done, I don't know, how many fucking projects together.
And we went ahead and just started the channel together.
How far in did you get him to quit his job?
I think, like, a year into knowing him.
I tried after, like, a week of knowing him.
But he's like, I don't know, man.
He's like, he grew up very, like, you know, you get a job, you keep your job
security.
Like, he grew up under that.
Most people.
Yeah.
And so.
You're a comedian.
You're like, fuck it.
Yeah, I'm like, bro.
Burn it down.
Chase your fucking dreams.
Fuck a job.
There's so many jobs out there.
Like, they're always going to be there.
But he said even before being a content creator, he thought that was, like,
impossible.
He's like, nah, like, that'll never work.
And then, you know, just went for it and saw other of his friends.
I think, like, Ivan, our barber buddy, go for it.
And it, like, just started working.
I think he made a video.
I think during COVID is when he started getting a lot of following.
He made a, I don't know what he made a video of.
And so, he just kept at it.
But to actually quit his job was, like, the next step.
That's great, man.
Look, those things are super popular.
And there's a real market for them.
I know because I watch them all the time.
I watch shows all the time online.
Do you know about Stance Elements?
I don't think so.
Okay.
There's a great channel you should follow called Stance Elements.
This dude is building a Ferrari F40.
Building.
Oh, shit.
So, what he did was, he bought all the parts that you could buy online for a
Ferrari F40.
He bought quarter panels.
He bought roof panels.
He bought front fenders, hood, all that jazz.
Yo, Ferrari doesn't like that shit, though, right?
They hate it.
Fuck them.
He fabricated the entire frame.
He built the frame.
He built the interior roll cage.
He made it dope as fuck, man.
He made it, like, and he's in the middle of this project.
This project is probably going to, that's not an F40.
That's a 308.
That's a very cool car, too, though.
So, he got an engine from an even more powerful Ferrari.
So, he got a crate engine that he installed into this thing.
So, he's going to scoot ahead.
This is, like, he's just talking about different projects he did.
That was his original M5, which is another great car.
So, look.
He fabricated this entire frame.
They did all this.
And they, you know, like, he meticulously measured and matched and then TIG
welded all this stuff together.
And this is what he's putting together.
He's making this car.
So, it's going to be, like, his version of a Ferrari F40.
But it's pretty sick.
It's going to cost him fucking shitloads of money, man.
That's so sick, though.
Yeah, like, he's pretty far ahead past this.
Now, that's what it's going to look like ultimately at the end, which is going
to be nuts.
Gas Monkey did that, too.
And I think the story with that was, like, Ferrari did everything they could to
try to stop them from getting parts.
Oh, yeah.
Something like that.
I think he got all the parts before they knew what was going on.
Now, for the next guy who wants to do one of these, Ferrari's going to be, like...
Oh, yeah.
If anybody's ordering a bunch of parts, like, crazy, they're probably going to
be, like, hold on, this is suspicious.
If Ferrari catches you repainting your car, like, a crazy color, you're fucked.
They'll sue you.
Yeah?
Yeah, they go crazy.
Didn't they go after that designer?
What is his name?
Philip Plein?
Is that his name?
He had, like, a green Ferrari.
Like, a crazy metallic green.
He must have either put a wrap on it or changed the paint.
But he was doing all this promo stuff with his Ferrari, and they sued him.
Whoa.
Yeah, that's the car.
Ferrari wins legal case against designer Philip Plein use of supercars.
But as he says, it's not over.
Like, look at the color on that thing.
That means, so that means, like, he bought it from Ferrari.
Yeah.
And must have signed something, right?
That's like...
I guess.
I agree not to...
Look at this.
It said he's been ordered to pay Ferrari $352,000 in compensation to the
Italian car manufacturer.
The case relates to a spring 2018 runway show that Plein held in Milan in June
of 2017.
During this event, Plein featured a host of exotics, including Ferraris,
Lamborghinis, and McLarens.
And Ferrari was none too pleased with this.
They took issue with Plein's social media posts, claiming that by posting
photos of his fashion collection with Ferraris, Plein was unlawfully appropriating
the goodwill attached to its trademarks to promote his own brand and products.
It added that Plein's post tarnished the reputation of Ferrari.
Like, what reputation?
Coked up dudes in Miami?
What the fuck are you talking about?
What reputation?
That's crazy.
That's a lot of money.
He has to pay them $352,000 in compensation and reimburse attorney's fees to
the tune of over $29,000.
He has to pay them the attorney fees?
Yeah, in order to remove any images from his website and social media platforms
that show any Ferrari model.
Moreover, the court said that if Plein, am I saying his name right?
Plein, Plein, refuses to delete a post depicting a Ferrari or shares a new one,
he will have to pay a fee of 10,000 pounds.
Is that pounds or is that euros?
What's that?
Euros?
For each image or video.
That's crazy.
Dude, that sucks.
Oh, shortly after the decision was made,
he went to Instagram and promptly shared an image of his bright green 812 super
fast claiming that he will appeal the ruling.
That seems crazy.
That all he did was show his stuff with Ferraris?
Like, what about rappers?
Can they not use a Ferrari if they're doing a music video?
Like, if you're a rapper and you bought a dope car and you want to have your
dope car in your music video,
does Ferrari fucking sue you?
Yeah, I'm trying to think back now.
Have I even seen, like, how many Ferraris have I seen in music videos?
I mean, you always see, like, cool cars, Lambo doors, especially old ones.
You go back to, like, old rap videos.
But, like, an actual Ferrari.
That's a good question.
Deadmau5.
Oh, he got in trouble, too, right?
Because he had a rap on his.
They sued him as well, right?
Yeah.
I got to find me a Ferrari, but not from Ferrari.
Like, I got to find it on Facebook Marketplace, like my friend with the Porsche.
See, that's what hit the back of his car.
Look at that color.
Isn't that a dope color?
It is.
I love that color.
That is the same color.
It's a similar color, rather, to what Corvette has.
Corvette has a new one called Roswell Green for their ZR1.
Looks sick.
He says, Ferrari says he was using the vehicle to add value to his products and
elevate his status as a designer.
Okay.
On the surface, this seems petty, but a dig a little closer, and you'll find
you agree with Ferrari.
No, I won't.
Don't tell me what I agree with, bitch.
The German fashion designer was not only taking pictures with scantily clad
women washing the Ferrari.
He had also been known to employ the likes of Chris Brown and Takeshi 6ix9ine
in his fashion shows,
two men with a history of perpetrating sexual assault and other unsavory acts.
Okay.
That's not 100% fair, though, because did Chris Brown commit sexual assault?
I thought it was just, you know, domestic violence.
Domestic violence.
Yeah.
He didn't rape nobody.
I don't think so.
I think they're just, I don't know what happened with Takeshi 6ix9ine either.
I don't know that story at all.
I know.
He's a rat.
So what about the Miami Vice?
What does it say?
That would be hilarious if the article was like, yeah, and he associated with a
snitch.
You know what's crazy is, like, those are really expensive.
Oh, look at that.
The Miami Vice one, a Corvette-based Daytona kit was used.
Once Ferrari got wind, it took action.
Oh, interesting.
But it says, Ferrari was so much more fun in the 1980s,
and instead of just asking the producers of the show to take badges off
or stop using the vehicle,
they asked for the Daytona to be blown up on screen.
The moment ended up being one of the most pivotal moments of the series
in a great spectacle.
The brand was even a good sport about the whole thing
and offered the show a real Ferrari Testarossa,
the brand's flagship at the time to be used for the remainder of the series.
So, yeah, Miami Vice was known for that Testarossa,
that white Testarossa that Don Johnson used to drive around in.
Yeah.
It says Ferrari was cool back then.
They said, you're just a real car, bro.
I only know about that Ferrari because of the Wolf of Wall Street.
Oh.
What is it, the intro?
He's like, no, no, my Ferrari was white, like Don Johnson's on Miami Vice.
Yeah, I don't like the Testarossas.
I have a friend, my friend Dana White from the UFC.
He has a Testarossa.
I think they look like trash.
The Testarossas?
Yeah.
I just think it's a crappy looking car.
It's just, I'm just not interested in it.
I mean, I'm sure it's fun to drive,
but for some people, that was their car when they were a kid.
That was the car that they wanted.
For me, it was always Porsches.
Porsches and muscle cars.
Those are the cars that I wanted when I was a kid.
Those Porsches, like the Turbo with the fat ass.
Oh, yeah.
If you go like, Google 1985 911 Turbo.
This was when I was a senior in high school.
That was the first thing I liked about the Porsches, the fat asses.
Because you stare at them, like I was saying, you get into balance.
When I look at that, I'm like, look at that thing.
That thing would never flip over.
But then you can go with the BBL version of it,
which is that dude in Japan who makes those white-body ones.
Everybody was flaming them when he was gluing the parts on.
Look at that.
Sexy.
1985 911 Turbo.
Look how sexy that is.
When I was a kid, that was the car, man.
I saw that.
There was a dude at a gas station that I worked at.
He pulled in with a Porsche.
It was the first time I ever saw one up close.
I was like, holy shit, look at this thing.
It was just like that.
It was a white one.
I'd like to have one of those one day.
Yeah.
They're cool.
And again, that car, you'll feel everything.
You feel everything, man.
It's like they're so mechanical.
You just, it's just a sensory overload.
So it's more fun.
Even if you're not driving fast, like, my Tesla's fun, but one of the reasons
why it's fun,
because it's preposterous.
It goes zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds.
It's just silent.
It's just gone.
I don't like the silence.
The light turns green.
It's gone.
It just takes off.
But you have more fun in a light car like that going slower.
You don't even have to speed.
Like, you just, it's the feeling of driving, running through the gears.
Ferrari has not sued owners solely for changing the pink color or applying a
wrap.
However, Ferrari has taken legal action against owners who have significantly
altered the car's appearance,
especially when it involves modifying or replacing the Ferrari logo,
or when the car is used in ways to damage the brand's reputation.
So that's what Ferrari was saying.
I don't know how many times.
I mean, it's only been a couple times.
And I won't say who, because I don't want to get them in trouble.
But I've seen cars, Ferraris, that have been modified.
And the logo is the horse, but with, like, a giant boner.
Where have you seen that?
I can't tell you now.
Why can't you tell me?
I don't want them to get sued, man.
All right, don't tell me.
But, yeah.
It's kind of stupid, though, that a car company could think that it could stop
you from altering things.
Because, like, think about, like, the GTRs that we were talking about.
Like, a big part of the whole community and the culture is the altering of
those cars.
Yeah.
The big part is the modifying.
Yeah.
I think that's part of what got them so popular is that they were so easily tunable
and, you know, easy to modify.
It's a big part of it.
And the same thing with Porsches.
I mean, there's so many outlaw Porsches out there where people take Porsches
and change all kinds of things on them.
And, like, that gentleman, what is his name again, that does the Raw Welt Porsches?
I don't know his name, but he wears the sandals and he's wearing cigarettes all
the time.
Yeah, that guy is fascinating.
Because he does everything by hand.
Yeah.
He makes all those wide-body Porsches by hand.
There's, like, a wait list, right, to get him to fuck with your Porsche?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He just comes to your shop.
He'll travel with fucking cartons of cigarettes.
I think he drinks Coca-Cola.
Just fucking carves it up.
I like his style.
They're dope.
It's a very, like, grandma style, just Coca-Cola and cigarettes.
Yeah.
I feel like that's shit that my grandma would send me to the store for.
Flip-flops.
He's just out there smoking cigarettes and working on the car.
But that style of car, that wide-body style is, like, very controversial.
Some people think it's gross.
Like, what have you done to a Porsche?
You've cut up one of the great pieces of engineering and design, and you've
turned it into this fat hooker.
That's one thing that I, like, didn't...
That's one thing that kept me from liking Porsches for so long, was that, like,
Porsche owners were very anal about stuff like that.
Yeah.
Well, Porsche less.
Less Porsche than Ferrari.
Like, for a Ferrari, it's, like, you know, it's a sacrilege to do that.
But that does look pretty fucking dope.
That looks sick.
That looks pretty goddamn dope.
And there's giant-ass wheels and tires they have on those things.
The grip must be sensational.
I love that thing.
I would do that.
If I owned a Porsche, I would call that dude.
I'd be like, hey, do this stuff, man.
Look at that.
Look what he did to a...
That's the first or the last of the air-cooled cars, I think.
Hey, Luis, we got to call this dude to work on your Porsche.
That actually might be a 997.
I think that is a 997.
So that's a water-cooled car.
Look at the wide body on that motherfucker.
Ooh, that looks good.
That looks good.
What is his name again, Jamie?
Akira Nakai?
That's right.
Yeah.
Akira.
Like the movie.
Yeah, so that guy's got a whole cult following.
And they do a lot of LS swaps in those cars, too.
Rutledge Wood had one of those.
He had one that was LS swapped.
They put those motors into, like, what is it, the Beetles sometimes, too, right?
The Volkswagens?
Yeah.
The old ones?
Yeah.
Those are sick.
You can put an LS into anything.
They're bulletproof.
Such a good engine.
Oh, and I was talking about the Porsche engines.
I think they fit in there.
Oh, they definitely do that.
Yeah, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A lot of people have done that.
Yeah.
They put them in VW buses.
I wonder if that makes Porsche people mad.
I think the Porsche people are just a little more chill about that stuff.
They're not going to sue you.
The Ferrari thing is weird, because I think that's the only company that does
that.
That goes after people for doing stuff to their vehicles.
That would be hilarious if, like, Ford or Chevy started doing that.
It's like, you can't change your Ford Fiesta like that.
Bro, you talk about lawsuits.
How many fucking lawsuits would they have?
I mean, how many people have altered Mustangs, you know?
Come on.
I like the Mustangs.
I feel kind of bad that they got that reputation for always hitting people at
car meets and stuff
and sliding out of control.
Do they?
I think it's a Ford thing, though.
What do you mean?
Like, on memes and stuff, the Mustangs are infamous for, like, when they do
little burnouts
or when they just do a little fishtail, they end up going out of control and,
like, hitting people on curbs.
That's the driver, bro.
They get made fun of a lot.
They're like, oh, it's always in a Mustang.
But I think it's a Ford thing.
I think Ford, a lot of their cars have delays.
No.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
That's not what that's about.
But I think, I mean, yeah, it's a driver.
That's about people who don't know how to drive.
For sure, it's a driver thing.
But I think it's partly because they're not used to the delay.
What delay are you talking about?
I think, like, and I might be wrong.
Maybe it's just me.
I have a Mustang, I should just say.
I have a new Mustang.
All right.
But I have a Super Snake.
Okay.
So, I don't know.
How new is it?
Like, brand new?
Brand new.
All right.
So, I don't know about brand new, but maybe still.
Get in your Mustang and floor it and count how long it takes before it, like,
takes off.
Or try to time it.
It might be, like, half a second.
It might be a second.
And count how long it takes for the, like, when you let off the throttle, how
long, like, try to feel it, how long it takes for it to actually, the motor to
stop receiving the gas.
Like, it's like about a half a second or a second longer than most cars.
What?
I swear to God.
Find out if that's a thing.
It's a delay.
I've never heard of that before.
Yeah.
Especially, like.
Or even in a truck.
I was driving a F-150.
It has a 5.0.
It's a single cab.
Those things are fucking sick.
They're, like, the best trucks out there right now.
Delay after floor.
This is an F-150, 5 liter.
When I punch it, there seems to be about a two-second or less delay on the
initial pickup.
That's something wrong with this car.
So, I don't know if it's only the truck or if it's forged.
But see about that Mustangs.
Try it.
Try it out.
No.
I'm gathering that right now.
Mine has no delay.
No?
Mine has no delay.
No.
It's immediate.
I was thinking maybe that's why some people slide out of control, though, is
because they're not used to the delay.
Because, like, in my truck, I don't have that truck anymore, but I'd have to
kind of count for, like, all right, I'm going to floor it, and then, but also
when I take my foot off, like, I need to take it off a little earlier than I
normally would, depending on what I'm doing.
I feel like that your car was not tuned in correctly.
I feel like your car needs to be worked on.
You could probably fix it with a tune, but that's how they come out the factory.
Not mine, man.
I have a Raptor, too.
I have a Raptor, and I also have a Mustang, and neither one of them has any
problems like that.
Their immediate response.
Try it.
Compare it to your other cars.
Pull out the GTR, pull out the Tesla, pull out the Cuda.
Well, the Tesla's very different than all of them because it's instantaneous.
It's no gears.
It's one gear, and it's fucking preposterously fast.
But the Mustangs don't have that.
I think it's a bad driver.
Yeah?
Yeah.
The Mustangs are just, you know, it's like.
You got to try it, man.
It's not an expensive car.
Even the GTR has a delay.
It's turbocharged.
It's a different thing.
Okay?
The Mustangs are five liters.
So, it's a V8.
It's the Coyote engine.
But every car reacts a little different to, like, when you floor it.
Yeah.
Like, the reaction time is different.
Maybe Ford's is just.
You're just hanging on to this reaction time thing.
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
Is there anything in there about delay in the throttle on Mustangs?
One of the person having a problem with the Mustang that they personally bought.
One person.
But.
Yeah.
I don't think it's a thing.
I'm collecting data.
I'm not trying to hit on Mustangs.
I'm trying to collect data.
I don't think you're collecting data.
Yeah.
I think you're talking about anecdotal experiences from cars that weren't tuned
in correctly.
I want you to floor that Mustang, your Super Snake, and then tell me what the
time was.
I just floor that thing all the time.
But mine's not a normal one.
It's a Shelby.
Okay.
So, Shelby, North America, they take a regular Mustang.
I still want the data, Joe.
I want you to floor it and give me the data.
Yeah.
Give me the.
Give me the.
Get that.
What is it?
What do they call them?
The trackies?
Or they track everything for you.
It's like an app.
Oh, okay.
And you put this little thing in your cup holder and you floor it.
2005 to 2009 pole on a thread here.
Do I have throttle lag?
And some people do.
Some lag, you know.
These are older Mustangs.
Yeah.
But these are older ones.
They're probably out of tune.
They're probably a bad fuel injection.
Something's wrong.
Big's coming up with like a.
Yeah.
I'm just trying to collect data.
All right.
Just like you do when you have all these experts come on.
You keep saying that like you're a scientist.
I'm not a scientist.
I love that you're doing that car channel, though.
That's pretty cool.
I love cars, man.
I just.
I love watching people fix them and work on them and modify them.
Oh, it's so fun.
I mean, it might be like 20% of the content that I watch is like car stuff.
I just love it.
I love when people are really passionate about something.
You know, when they work on things.
Whenever I get interested in something, I like to really dig into it and learn
about it.
It's just so rare when I find something that I'm genuinely interested in.
But that's the problem I was telling you is that like now I'm just hyper
focused on this and I haven't written a new joke in like I don't know how long.
Do you sit down and write or do you try to like let ideas come to you?
How do you do it?
I mean, like both.
I try to let ideas come to me so I don't force something.
But once I have the idea, then I try to like write it out or like.
And I wrote.
Last night and the night before, just because I'm like, bro, I have to write
something down just to see if I can like squeeze something out.
But lately, like the shows I've been doing and it's and it's worked for the
most part lately.
I just kind of go up there with half ideas and then like sketch them out on
stage.
So you're trying to work on new material that way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a great way to work on new material because you put yourself under
pressure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it feels more like a conversation with the crowd sometimes because
sometimes I'll just straight up tell the crowd like, you know, what do you guys
want to talk about?
Because I'm out of ideas like and I might it might turn into a lot of crowd
work, which is also fun, too.
At least for me.
I know some people don't like it, but I don't know.
I'm in a weird place creatively with comedy.
I feel like anything I try to think of is just not going to be funny.
Have you been working too much?
Maybe.
That might be it, too.
Are you nonstop or do you take weeks off every now and then?
I've been pretty nonstop up until now.
I was nonstop for a long time.
And then one time I decided to take a few weeks off and I think I wound up
taking a month off.
I didn't do any sets for a month.
It was weird.
I'd never done that before.
The only other time I did that was I had surgery on my knee.
I took two weeks off.
Then I went on stage with crutches after that.
And then during COVID, during COVID, I didn't do stand up for a long time.
But I found out that when I took a month off, like, I had a chance to actually
think about what's interesting to me instead of just doing jokes that I thought
worked.
You know, so I had no pressure to do a show.
I didn't have any shows scheduled.
So I said, let me just, like, think about life.
Let me think about what's interesting to me.
Let me think about what's bothering me.
Let me think about what's exciting to me.
Let me think about what's possible.
Think about things I'm interested in.
And just start writing down subjects.
So for a full month, I didn't do any performing.
I just collected ideas.
And I didn't think of it in terms of, like, I'm under the gun.
I have to get X amount of ideas.
I just thought about it like every day I'm going to spend just a certain amount
of time either in front of the computer or looking at my phone just working on
ideas.
Just finding shit that's interesting.
And then I had a folder that I'd put all these ideas in.
And then I'd sit down and look at these folders like, no, no.
Huh, maybe that.
And then I'll write something about it.
Just a little bit.
Just write down, like, what's weird about it, what bothers me about it.
And then go back to it the next day and expand on it.
And maybe smoke a little weed and fucking think about it and go, what is, what
would life be like if no one figured out the wheel?
What would life, you know, what would life be like if no one ever invested any
time into figuring out antibiotics?
You know, like, and then you just go on a rant.
Go on a rant, write things down.
And then write it, I write in essay form.
So I don't try to write like in joke form.
I write about a subject.
Like, what is, what is about the subject that's interesting to me?
I look at it at a bunch of different angles.
And then usually when I do that, there's like a thing in there that's funny.
One thing.
And I can just pull that thing out and then figure out how do I deliver that
one thing.
Oh, I get you.
Yeah.
So instead of just, like, always thinking about, like, what can I talk about on
stage?
What are the jokes?
Think about, like, what interests you?
And if you feel like you're burnt out, if you do you have shows scheduled nonstop
from now on?
Nah.
So my next tour starts in September.
And some people were kind of upset with me because it's like a seven, eight
show tour over, like, four months.
Why are they upset?
Because they're like, hey, it's not a tour.
It's like a pit stop.
Oh, they're thinking you're lazy?
Yeah.
And, like, people are like, why did you come to this city?
Why is it, like, these seven cities?
But I'm like, I don't know.
It just worked out that way, man.
I want fucking time off, too, you know?
You've got to not listen to people.
Do what you want to do.
Don't listen to anybody.
Especially online.
I feel like I'm barely getting to that point where I, like, I can finally.
Not that I'm like, oh, okay, finally I'm here at this point.
I feel like it's, like, one step at a time.
We're like, all right, I can care a little bit less now about this.
And I'm like, with time, I can care a little bit less about that or whatever.
But it's still tough.
I also don't, I think that one of the toxic things that it could be like a
double-edged sword is, like, how much people let you do and help you do things.
Like, if I told my manager right now that I wanted to write a play, like, the
man is going to help me write a play.
But I don't know how to write a play.
Like, I shouldn't be writing plays.
And I feel like that's bad.
It's how much people let me do things.
I think sometime this week and maybe next week, as part of the press tour, I'm
going on some Spanish shows.
My Spanish is not that great.
Like, I should not be allowed to be on Spanish TV.
How bad is it?
It's like, if your first language is Spanish and you hear mine, you're just
like, that guy learned this later on.
Like, he learned it as a kid maybe, but it's not great.
Right.
It's like, I can have a conversation.
I can communicate with whoever, but it's not good enough to be on TV.
Right.
And I think it's crazy that there's not even, like, a check.
Like, there's no test.
Like, I thought at some point they'd interview me and just be like, do you know
what this means?
Do you know how to say this, say that?
Like, no.
They're just like, yeah.
Well, they're trusting you.
You say you can speak Spanish.
That's crazy, the trust they put in.
Because it only backfires.
I mean, yeah, it could backfire on my agent, my manager, whatever.
They'd be like, hey, you vouch for this guy.
Sure, but it's going to backfire on me more than anybody.
Well, you could always have someone come on that's fluent that could help you.
That's true.
Like, when I had Yoel Romero on the podcast, Joey Diaz translated for Yoel.
Yoel's from Cuba.
Joey's from Cuba.
So, Joey would just, you listen to Yoel and translate it.
And then occasionally Yoel would say things in English because his English is
okay.
Yeah, my game plan is just to, like, be straightforward with it.
Yeah.
And just be like, look, before we go deeper into this, just know I might fuck
up here or there.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just say that.
Yeah.
But that does happen in the Mexican community, though, right?
They get a little mad if you can't speak Spanish.
Oh, bro, they hate you.
It's crazy.
But fuck it.
I just think that's just the funny kind of double-edged sword about, like, the
entertainment industry, though, is, like, people will give you the tools to,
like, try whatever you want to do next.
But why do you think that's bad?
Because sometimes I think it's bad because you can set yourself up for failure,
humiliation.
Or success.
Or success.
True.
But that's why it's a double-edged sword.
Do you ever watch that movie, Top Five?
Chris Rock's movie, Top Five?
No.
I saw that movie in the theaters when I was, like, 18, maybe?
What's it about?
So he's basically, like, playing himself.
It's about a stand-up comedian who I think he's, if I remember correctly, I
think he's getting upset because people don't take him seriously as he directed
a movie and acted in a movie and people are kind of trashing the movie.
And he's just like, what the fuck?
Why don't people see I'm more than just a comedian, you know?
And I think towards the end of the movie, he ends up getting arrested and he's
in, like, the city jail.
And across from him is DMX, like, as DMX.
He's doing a cameo.
And DMX is like, yeah, I know what you mean.
Like, nobody understands.
Like, I don't always want to rap.
I want to sing, too.
And DMX starts singing some song.
But it sounds horrible to DMX's voice.
And so the lesson there is, like, kind of, like, know your space.
You know what I mean?
Know your lane.
Know your lane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I think that's the dangerous part is sometimes you might lose sight of what
your lane is and you can go into.
You venture out, which is cool.
It's fun, you know, creatively.
But then it's like, hey, you might fucking imagine if somebody gave DMX, like,
a tour where he was just singing fucking country songs or something.
Like, it'd be entertaining, but it wouldn't be great.
You know what I mean?
Right.
But if he could do it, you got to give him a chance to possibly pull it off.
That's true, too.
A lot of people have done that.
Like, Post Malone's got a whole country tour.
That's true.
And I went to see it.
It was great.
But that is a very talented man.
I don't hear what anybody says.
Very talented man.
So it's like, you have to know how seriously to take yourself, too.
Well, sort of.
Or you have to not think about it.
Like, he's like a guy.
He kind of stays toasty.
Keeps rolling.
I don't think he ponders it too much.
I think he does what he wants to do.
But, like, me, I know myself well enough to know, like, I'm no Post Malone.
I'm not starting a car channel out of, like, I'm going to be the next fucking
Top Gear.
Yeah, but you're starting it because you're interested in cars, which is a good
reason to start it.
Yeah, but I also know myself enough to know that, like, yeah, I'm just kind of,
like, I'm keeping it goofy.
I'm keeping it light.
Yeah.
I'm not necessarily, like, I don't know how to explain it too well.
I'm just trying to make sure that I don't end up being DMX in that jail cell.
You know what I mean?
Do you worry about that?
Is that something that you worry about fucking up?
Sometimes, to a degree.
I think I know myself well enough to know, like, I'm trying to act.
I've been doing auditions and stuff.
And I think that, like, I have a pretty good gauge of, like, if I landed a role
and I heard, like, the feedback on it,
I think I'd know, like, all right, that's, like, when it's valid and when it's
not.
You know what I mean?
But my biggest fear is that, like, what if I did get, like, such a huge ego
that I'm like, oh, these idiots don't know what they're talking about.
Like, I'm just so talented.
Like, that's, I feel like that's scary.
That's a scary part of the entertainment industry is, like, when you believe
the wrong stuff.
Or I feel like you shouldn't believe any of it, right?
Like, they say the good comments and the bad comments are, none of them are
true.
Well, none of them are going to help you.
You should figure out who you are.
Yeah.
But the thing about what you're saying that rings really true is that a lot of
people grossly overestimate what they're capable of doing or how good they're
doing something.
And a lot of that is if you get famous, then you have a bunch of yes men around
you and a bunch of people kissing your ass.
And the stuff that you're putting out is, it's not the best.
It's not what you're capable of.
You have to know how to, like, toe the line between, like, confidence and just,
like, cockiness.
Most great people that I know kind of hate what they do.
Not hate what they do and that they don't love it, but they're very self-critical.
I think it's one of the ways that allows you to objectively analyze what you're
doing.
And you have to, like, make this battle.
You don't want to kill your own confidence, but you don't want to be overconfident.
And you kind of have to be hypercritical about your own work because if you don't,
you're never going to get it to where it needs to be.
But then you also have to realize at one point in time you're too close to it
to see it the way other people are going to see it.
If I'm working on a bit for, like, three or four months, right, and it's, like,
frustrating and I'm twisting it around,
I'm adding to it and subtracting and I'm trying to make it right.
Like, sometimes you're so close to it that you don't even know that it's funny
anymore.
And you don't want to lose that enthusiasm for the bit either.
So there's this balancing act for, like, paying so much attention to it that
you hate it,
but then falling in love with the idea again before you do it on stage.
Treating it as if it was new.
Yeah.
Treating it as if it was new.
That's hard for people.
That's the dance because the worst thing is seeing a comic on stage that's
bored with doing stand-up.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
And you know where people, seeing people complain before they go up?
Can't believe we have to do a second show tonight.
Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
You could be working in a bakery somewhere in front of a fucking hot oven,
sweating your dick off.
You could be a logger.
Yeah.
You could be a logger getting abducted by aliens.
You could be doing some terrible fucking job that sucks.
Instead, you have literally the greatest job in the world and you're
complaining you have to do it again.
You've got to reset your brain, reset your approach, and treat it like you love
it again.
For anybody who's been to my shows and has not liked the crowd work, I'm sorry
for that, but I'm having fun with it.
And I think the majority of the audience is having fun with it, especially the
ones that I'm fucking with that are, like, talking to, you know?
Wait, do people complain that you're doing crowd work?
Well, I've had a couple messages over the summer where they're just like, hey,
man, you did a few jokes and then you just were talking to the crowd the whole
time.
It's like, but the thing is that it's fun and I don't want to complain about my
job because it's either that or you watch me open mic it or do rehearsed jokes.
And it's true.
You can tell when a comedian is not enjoying their job and you hear comedians
talk about it.
And they're like, oh, man, I was doing that joke.
And then one day it just stopped working.
And it's like, yeah, because people probably can tell where you're just not
feeling it anymore.
Exactly.
You're forcing the joke maybe.
Right.
And I don't want to go up there and force jokes and I don't want to complain
about my job because my job is fun.
Like, I'm beyond blessed to have this fucking job.
But it's fun if, like, I feel like comedy works when you're present in the
moment.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
If I go up there and I try to force something and I'm just like, nah, like, I'm
the same old Ralph from six years ago.
Let me do the same old jokes.
You know what I mean?
Like, people are going to tell.
You know what I mean?
So, like, right now I'm having a lot of, not that I'm going to keep just only
doing crowd work, but I would do very minimal crowd work before.
Like, I'd go on stage and I might do, like, fucking five minutes tops.
Whereas now I might do, like, 20, 30 minutes of it.
But if it's fun, it's fun.
Like, it's like with the Porsches and then the dude who was a Japanese dude who's,
like, shaping them up.
Like, people might get mad, but, like, if it's cool, it's cool.
I feel like comedy is like that, too.
Like, people...
If you're having fun, that's what's important.
As long as the audience is laughing.
If some people aren't enjoying it, well, they won't go to see you again.
That, too.
And it's not like I'm going up there and, like, fucking, like, I'm having fun,
but 90% of the audience is like, this is horrible.
Like, nah, like, I'm pretty...
They're laughing, you know what I mean?
I just do feel a little bit of, like, damn.
Some people don't like crowd work.
Some people don't, yeah.
Yeah, some people just want to hear jokes.
If I have 100 people at my show and, like, three of them don't like it, though,
that does fuck with me.
I'm just like, fuck.
Those are the ones that are going to comment, too.
Yeah.
The ones that don't like it are more likely to comment.
I let them down.
Well, you can't really listen.
You got to know, right?
Everyone has to know.
And the worst thing is when you don't know.
Like, if you have a bad show and you think it was good.
We've all known guys like that, especially in the beginning.
They thought they did well.
They're like, bro, I'd kill myself if I had that set.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah.
Like, you think that was good?
It's terrible.
It's just people get delusional.
That's a fact.
But, you know, you just got to be able to self-assess.
Yeah.
You know?
And if you're self-assessing, you can't read the comments.
Because it's just going to get in your head.
And it's going to distract you from thinking about new things.
The amount of attention that you spend paying attention to other people's
opinions is attention that you could be spending improving what you're doing.
As long as you're aware of what's good and what's not good.
But sometimes you do get too close to it.
Sometimes you need friends to help you out.
You know, sometimes you need...
That's one of the great things about having a club like The Mothership or The
Comedy Store where there's a bunch of comics around.
You could say, I got this bit.
It's fucking...
I'm stuck.
I'm stuck with this.
And then someone will say, do you still do it when you say this?
And you go, no, I don't do that anymore.
I'm like, that was a big part of it, man.
You got to say that.
I'm like, you think?
I thought I could edit that out.
Like, no, no, no.
That makes it better because it sets it up for later.
Like, oh.
And then you go out and try it that way.
And you're like, oh, shit.
He was right.
Yeah.
Like, sometimes you need your friends around you to tell you, like, oh, you
know, maybe you're doing that bit.
You're doing it in a different way than you used to do it.
Or what if you added this?
Or have you ever thought about it from this perspective?
Like, imagine the person that's saying that.
What are they thinking?
They're saying something crazy.
What are they thinking?
Like, oh, yeah, I never thought of that way.
And then you have a whole new element of the bit.
I was touring with my buddy, Rene Vaca.
He's very funny.
He's big into crowd work.
But I feel like touring with him helped me work out a few bits.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, because I was like, man, I was worried that I'd go out there and, like,
not be able to keep up.
You know, you want to be as funny as the funniest person on the show.
So I was like, what if I go out there and, like, this fucking crowd hates me
and they, like, this, whatever.
But I was like, I'm going to just do what I do.
And people like him or, like, on his team who don't see me perform every
weekend are going to talk about the parts of my set that stood out the most.
Like, the best and the worst.
They will.
They'll have to.
Like, you walk off stage, they're going to be like, hey, why'd you say that?
Like, they're going to make fun of me if I fucking bomb.
Or if I kill, they're going to be like, hey, that was funny.
Like, you know what I mean?
Right.
So I was like, I'm going to just do the fucking set.
And they'll give me notes.
Like, without me asking.
Like, I'm sure they will.
And I felt like it worked.
Stuff that I was in my head, like, is this working?
Is this forced?
Like, I don't know.
I'd walk off stage and Rene would be like, why the fuck you say that?
That was fucking weird.
And I'd be like, nah, he's right.
He's right.
And then it, like, helped shape the bit over months, you know?
Yeah, for sure.
Having people that you can bounce ideas off is huge.
It's huge.
And having comics that pay attention to your set and give you notes.
I mean, Chris Rock used to hire guys just to watch his set.
He'd hire a team of comics to sit in the back.
And he would do a set at the comedy store.
And then they would meet up and go over the material.
Damn.
Yeah.
So they would have notes.
They'd all say, you know, I liked how you did this.
I liked how you did that.
I felt like this one was like, you were a little less animated this time.
And the last set, you were, like, a little more aggravated about it.
And I think it made the bit better.
You ever tried that?
No.
No?
No, I haven't done it.
I mean, I've definitely gotten notes from friends before, you know?
Which is great.
Like, when someone will sit back and give you some taglines and shit.
That's pretty dope.
I love when people do that.
But what Chris did was pretty intelligent.
Very intelligent.
But he got a lot of shit for it.
Because people were like, oh, he hires writers.
I'm like, I don't think that's what he's doing.
It's not like they're writing his set.
He's writing his set.
And then he's bouncing it off some of the best writers in comedy.
Oh, yeah.
You know?
Which I think is a really good way.
He used to do it with Richard Jenny in some of his best stuff.
If you go back to what I believe is his best specials.
His early specials are fucking incredible.
And, you know, a lot of that was him working with Richard Jenny in that
capacity.
Hey, like, when he did that bit.
I think it's like a legendary bit.
Chris Rock, bullets should cost five grand.
He's like, there'll be no more innocent bystanders.
That's fucking hilarious.
He's got a lot of great ones.
He's got a lot of bangers.
You know, you hear one of those bids where you're like, oh, I wish I would have
thought of that.
Oh, yeah.
One of those bids is one of my favorite all-time jokes.
You hear Louis C.K. when he talks about, like, he's afraid of new places.
Like, that's his biggest fear of hell is that he just won't know how things
work down there.
It's like something about, like, he's like, what if you're walking through hell
and then, like, some demon comes out of a hallway and he's like, he's like,
makes you suck his dick.
He's like, oh, I suck my dick.
And then he's like, how do you even know when a demon comes?
Like, it's like, then he comes, like, fire ants all over you.
And then he leaves, you know, and then, like, some other demon comes and he's
like, hey, man.
He's like, you didn't have to suck that guy's dick.
Like, this is hell.
He's like, this is just some demon.
He's like, you better pace yourself.
You're here for eternity.
You know, like, that's a joke.
I'm like, bro, I wish I would have thought of that.
Like, it's just right there.
Like, that sounds like a Louis C.K. joke.
Yeah.
Fucking genius.
That dude, that dude's fucking genius.
Yeah, he's great.
The fucking.
He gave me a bunch of great taglines once at the improv.
Yeah.
Sat and watched my set and had a bunch of fun lines.
That's fun to do.
I like, well, Louis did that a lot with Chris as well.
He did that with Chris Rock.
They were, like, in the same class or whatever?
Well, you know, they all were doing it together in New York at the same time.
Yeah.
Hey, do you ever act?
Like, not anymore.
No?
No, I stopped doing that a while ago.
I don't like doing it.
You didn't like it?
I'm too busy.
I'm too busy and it's not what I, I mean, I didn't mind doing it, but it's.
It's not the butterfly you want to chase?
No.
You can't chase all the butterflies.
Mm-mm.
No, it's, like, it's too time consuming.
You know, if you're acting, you're on set all day long.
You might work six days a week, 15 hours a day.
It's a lot, especially if you're doing a film.
I didn't think about that.
It's a lot.
I did a commercial for Verizon in Spanish.
Oh, yeah?
Big thing.
Again, they should have checked my Spanish first.
That's on them.
But, yeah.
Did people complain about your Spanish?
No.
Dude, you have no idea.
They made me talk to a dialect coach because they didn't have a problem with,
like,
like, it wasn't an issue of, like, oh, he doesn't know how to say this word or
that word.
No, it was, like, it's fine.
It was my accent.
They said I spoke a northern Spanish, which, I mean, yeah, my family's from,
like, the northern part of Mexico.
But apparently, I didn't know, like, I don't know.
My Spanish isn't well enough to, like, depict accents from different parts of
Mexico.
Right.
But I guess it's the Mexican version of, like, country.
Oh, so you're like southern.
Yeah, but over there it's northern.
Yeah.
And they don't like that.
They said they wanted it to be a more neutral Spanish, that they want me to
sound like I'm from, like, a city,
like a big, like, Mexico city or some shit.
So, like, I had to read.
We filmed, like, all day, right, the commercial.
And there's no talking because the dialogue is all, like, in my mind.
Oh, I see.
And so at the end of the day, they had me, like, record the lines into a
microphone.
And I'm just like, all right, easy money.
So what was the difference in the way you had to pronounce the words?
Like, can you give me an example?
Yeah, like, apparently, the way I talk, I, like, I had to say the words with no,
like, I had to say them, like, how do I explain it?
Like, just straighter.
Like, I don't know, man.
It's like, basically.
But I can't, like, it's like if you took a dude from, like, the fucking country,
like, Alabama, and you were, like, you have to talk, like, if you were just
from fucking, I don't know, Northern California.
Or where is it?
Yeah, Northern California is a good one.
Right?
They don't have, like, an accent, right?
It's like a more neutral.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's, like, it's kind of tough.
Well, it's not tough for people in America because you hear all those accents.
Well, for me, it was tough because, like, I don't live in Mexico.
So I'm like, you want me to talk like people I didn't grow up around?
Like, I'm talking like all the people I grew up around.
So it's, like, it was a little foreign to me.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I had to re-record my lines back home in Dallas, which wasn't a big deal.
I just remember talking to the dialect coach.
It's just like, no, no, no, say it like this, though.
And I'm just like, I feel like I had, I know people say I talk very monotone,
like, very laid back.
But I feel like I had to do that more in Spanish.
Like, instead of just saying, like, hey, ahora que puedes cambiar tu plan con
Verizon.
I had to be like, ahora cambio tu plan con Verizon.
Like, I had to talk like the fucking dude at the end of a commercial who's,
like, subject may vary to change.
Oh, a fast guy.
Yeah, so I had to do it, like, fast and, like, no accent.
So I couldn't, I feel like, I feel like I couldn't move my mouth a lot.
Like, I had to just, like, whisper it out.
And then that's when they finally liked it.
Which, I mean, they paid me very well.
Like, shout out to Verizon.
I'm not complaining.
I just think it's funny that they were just, like, and they didn't know at
first because it's, like, different types of, like, Latinos working on that
commercial.
It was, like, a Puerto Rican dude and a Venezuelan dude, you know what I mean?
And so you took the Mexicans to recognize the difference in the accent.
The girl who was, like, the costume designer or whatever, she was just, like,
hey, this dude talks country as hell.
And everybody was, like, what?
She was, like, y'all better not let him talk like that.
She was cool as hell.
I loved her.
But in my mind, I was, like, motherfucker.
That's funny.
They probably would have released that and people would have got mad then.
I don't think so.
I feel like maybe people from my part of Mexico would have been, like, hell
yeah.
Right.
That's us.
We feel represented.
Right.
Like, if you had something in America and you had someone talking in a Texas
accent, no one would care.
Yeah, you wouldn't.
Yeah.
You'd just be, like, all right, fuck it.
Maybe they just know the Mexican market different, though.
Yeah, I guess because they want to make sure they appeal to, like, all sorts of
Latinos and, I don't know, maybe a Puerto Rican dude would hear that and be,
like,
what the fuck is this goofiest dude saying?
Have you ever thought about doing shows in all Spanish?
Yeah.
I would like to break into that.
Tom Segura's done a bunch of those.
Bro, I saw him in Spanish.
He was hilarious.
I've never seen Tom perform in English.
I've only seen, like, you know, like his specials or, like, on YouTube.
But when I saw him in Spanish live, I was, like, bro, this guy's fucking.
He's got fluent Spanish.
And most people don't know that, which is funny because he's had people talk
shit in Spanish around him because he looks like a regular white guy.
Yeah.
But he's not.
He spent his summers, like, in Peru or something like that, right?
Yeah.
Like, growing up.
I mean, he's fluent.
I mean, he can do shows in Spanish.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He told a story about, like, a German prostitute or something like that.
I can't remember the bits.
All I remember was thinking, like, man, this dude's, like, fucking doing master
kung fu up there.
It is master kung fu if you can kill in two different languages.
That's pretty wild.
Yeah.
There's not a lot of humans.
It's like tiger style versus fucking crane or whatever.
Like, what percentage of comics can kill in two languages?
It's got to be the smallest percent.
I mean, there's probably a handful in the whole world.
I want to film a special, like, in Japan.
But I want to do it, like, just to fucking, like, troll comics, like, in the
States, where, like, I don't want people to know that it wasn't a real special.
Like, I want it maybe just a promo for a special.
And it's just me in Japan, but killing it in front of a Japanese audience.
But I'm not speaking Japanese at all.
Like, I'm just doing the same English jokes.
And I want to promote it as if I recorded it over, like, a Japanese tour.
And just everybody wonder, like, what the fuck?
Like, was it English speaking Japanese people?
Well, you just gave it up already, so it's not going to work now.
I'll still fuck with the people who don't listen to your podcast.
They'll find this recording.
They'll go back and find it.
He was planning on trolling us.
Why is that even interesting to you?
Why do you want to do that?
I just think it's funnier to fuck with people.
And I just think it would make me laugh to watch, like, a trailer for a special
where I'm just, like...
Killing in Japan.
Yeah, like, to people who have no idea what I'm saying.
But, like, I want people to wonder, like, did they know?
Was there a translator or something?
Well, a lot of people in Japan speak English.
You probably could do shows over there.
And there's a lot of expats over there.
Like, if you wanted to do a show in Japan, you'd probably have a lot of expats
and British people.
What is that, expats?
People that left America and live in Japan.
There's a lot of those.
It's really cheap to move to Japan.
They're actually encouraging people to move to Japan.
Bro, I saw a YouTube video on that.
This dude, I think he moved from, like, L.A. or somewhere in California.
And for, like, 110 grand, he got, like, an acre and a half or something like
that or more, maybe.
Well, Japan is experiencing population collapse.
What?
Yeah.
They're not having kids at a replacement rate.
So, replacement rate means, like, if there's two parents, you should have, like,
three or more kids.
Like, if you're trying to replace the people that are here, when you think
about how many people are going to die of old age, how many people are going to
die, how many people are going to live, how has the population sustained itself
over the course of the next X amount of generations?
Well, you have to have a high replacement rate.
And right now, Japan has a very low replacement rate.
Like, it's spooky low.
We're at the point where they're in a panic.
And they're trying to figure out how to encourage people to move to Japan, how
to get people in Japan to have kids.
Oh, because there's, like, a lot of insults, though.
That's what it is.
But, no, what I'm saying is, like, they're, I mean, that's got to be kind of
scary because if they're not replacing people, that means, like, fucking jobs
won't get.
Not just jobs.
They're going to, the country's going to go, there won't be any people left.
What do you mean?
I mean, there would just be way less people, but it's not like they're going to
office appear.
Well, they'll all die off.
And if they don't have kids, that's it.
I'm worried about, like, who's going to fucking, you know, farm and take care
of the animals and shit.
Yeah, well, there's going to be less of that, too.
But they're probably the people that will have kids, is the farmers and the
rural people.
But what is Japan's replacement rate?
It's very low, right, James?
How's our replacement rate?
We're all right, right?
We're not going to get in our house.
Knocked up like crazy.
A little weird, too.
Yeah?
Yeah, we're in a weird situation, too.
I feel like all my friends knocked up their girlfriends already.
Well, that's good.
That's nice.
There's a lot of people here.
And there's a lot more people aren't having kids than have ever before.
It's different.
We're not in danger, but, like, South Korea is in danger.
Like, South Korea, the replacement rate is really bad.
Yeah, I think it's something crazy.
Like, how many people that are alive today will have grandchildren?
And it's very small.
Fuck, man.
Yeah.
But you don't think about it that way because you just look at all the people
that are there right now.
Right?
If you're in Japan, you see all this traffic, like, oh, their population's fine.
If you go to Korea, look at all the people.
But the reality is these are people that are alive now because the baby boomers,
then Generation X, and then people are still having kids.
But the amount of people that are having kids right now is lower than it's ever
been.
So how do we fix that?
It's hard because you're going to have to make people attracted to each other.
And some people just aren't attractive.
Some people put no effort into that.
Some people are social outcasts, and they've lived their life that way.
So Japan's population is shrinking.
Here's what it means and what some are doing about it.
So Japan may have the longest national life expectancy, about 85 years, and the
world's largest city, Tokyo.
But the nation's population has been in decline for 15 years.
Last year, more than two people died for every baby born, a net loss of almost
a million people.
And now the island nation is on pace to shrink in half by this century's end.
Diminishing population is Japan's most urgent problem, says Taro Kono.
He's a longtime, high-ranking minister of Japan's parliament.
Kono, nearly elected prime minister in 2021, said he intends to seek the
highest office again and believes the country should prioritize combating the
population decline.
It's a giant issue.
There are less and less number of younger generation.
All the burdens are on the young generation, and they won't be able to sustain.
So our society is going to be breaking up.
Economy is just going to stagnate.
Pretty nuts, man.
Japan's military recruited only half the people it needed.
There's a labor shortage in every industry, including the government.
That's true.
Bless you.
Thank you.
Crazy, right?
It's crazy that the cure to this is just, like, don't pull out.
Well, not just don't pull out, but actually raise your children.
Yeah, that too, you know.
And have a bunch.
Yeah, that's why Elon has, like, 19 kids.
He does?
He's got a ton of them.
But I think you're supposed to take care of the kids.
You're supposed to be around them all the time.
How are you going to do that if you have 19?
Yeah, it's like a little village.
Yeah, that's a lot of people.
Kondo says he's one of thousands of Japanese in monogamous romantic
relationships with fictional characters.
What?
That's the guy?
I don't know.
Who's that?
Oh, that's this guy.
That guy.
That guy's in a...
Oh, yeah.
He looks like he needs to be in a romantic...
He married an anime character in a formal ceremony in 2018.
Oh, Christ.
Anime was fucking it up.
Look at this dude, man.
He's in a monogamous relationship with fictional characters.
Almost half of Japan's millennial singles, age 1834, self-report as virgins.
What the fuck?
Compared to barely 20% in the U.S.
That's a lot in the U.S.
There's 20% 34-year-old virgins?
That's crazy.
Oh, self-reported.
Right.
They might be lying.
Lying hoes.
How many of them are ladies?
How many of them are ladies with a body count?
Bro, but here's the thing.
It's like, fuck, man.
Why?
This sounds like the plot of a funny movie.
It's like, we gotta make these guys get laid, you know?
Right.
But they're out here fucking getting in relationships with anime characters.
It's like, do we want that guy to have more kids?
You know what I mean?
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
And what girl's gonna want to be burdened down with that guy is your provider.
And also, you're gonna have to have sex with him.
You're not gonna be attracted to that guy.
What Japan should do is they should outsource.
But they're doing that, too.
Yeah?
Yeah, they're bringing in a lot of people from other countries.
They gotta bring in people to train these guys.
Oh, to train them.
Yeah.
You need more than that.
I got douchey friends who are, like, on dating apps and shit.
And they're fucking, they're just sleazy, you know what I mean?
They're out here trying to go out on dates, like, every fucking night with
girls.
Send these guys over there.
We pay them a handsome price.
And we get them to make their, like, hinge profiles for them.
And just fucking lie, you know?
What is this, Jamie?
What do you show me?
A village in Japan that has a bunch of puppets around.
What?
Because of the population decline?
Yeah.
Oh, God.
And they make you feel like they're surrounded by people.
I don't know.
Oh, my God.
To combat its loneliness, creating colorful mannequins, resembling their loved
ones?
What?
That's depressing.
Mimicking the vibrant life.
So they have dolls everywhere mimicking the people because they're in such
population decline.
There's fucking people in Japan who hate, like, tourism.
Motherfucker, you need me out there.
Yeah.
Well, there's people that were the grandchildren,
the people that survived the bombs.
Oh.
That wasn't me.
I was Oppenheimer.
A bunch of old white dudes, you know?
Yeah, I wasn't there.
Yeah.
Come on.
My grandpa was in Mexico doing, you know what?
Creating two families so that we don't have your problems.
There you go.
We have an uncle that my mom found on Facebook when I was in high school.
It's like, you know, one of my grandpa's, I know there's a bad way to put it,
and I love
my uncle, but he's like one of his bastard children, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
And I just thought, I don't know.
It was always hilarious to me that, like, my mom just found this dude and, like,
brought
him over.
And my grandpa was just like, hey, like, how you been?
Because my grandpa apparently used to go check up on him from time to time.
Wow.
But it was just so funny to me that my grandpa, like, nothing ever happened.
Like, oh, yeah, I didn't tell you guys?
Like, those were his vibes, you know what I mean?
We all went to a baseball game together.
Wow.
How weird was that?
I didn't think it was too weird.
Did you feel sad for him?
Nah.
I thought it was cool.
I don't think he, like, needed my grandpa.
Like, I think he grew up with, like, a father figure, like a stepdad or
something.
So, I don't think it was like, oh, my dad.
You know, I think he was kind of, he probably, I mean, I don't know what all
his emotions were.
I imagine that's hell, you know, beneath.
But, like, on the outside, he was just very nice to me and, like, he's cool
with my mom.
He's cool with my uncle.
I think for him, he, I would say this.
For me, he was the first relative that I, on my mom's side, that I felt like I
really related to.
He's the only one on my mom's side that looks like me, too.
Wow.
And my mom, my uncle, my cousins, they're all, like, tough.
Like, I've seen them all been questioned by police in handcuffs and they don't
break.
And, like, even my mom, and I'm sitting there, like, whispering to my mom, like,
just snitch, just snitch.
Like, say something, you know, and, like, my mom, like, I've seen the, you know,
and, like, then I meet my uncle.
He has, like, this kind of, like, hey, let's look at the glass half full, like,
more sensitive type.
And I'm like, that's my guy.
Like, me and this dude, click.
He's a teacher.
Yeah, he's such cool people.
I just thought it was hilarious that my grandpa never, like, I don't know if
you apologize to him, but, like, to my grandpa, it was just like, hey, look,
look what ended up happening.
The whole family's together.
And it's like, bro, you hid a kid from your other kids for, like, years.
Like, these are all grown adults in their 30s now.
Wow.
And my grandpa even, I remember my grandpa telling my uncle, he's like, yeah,
don't you remember?
He's like, you were in karate.
He's like, I used to go down there and stay with you every now and then.
He's like, and you were showing me what you learned in karate.
You were, like, 12 or something.
And he's just like, no, I don't remember that.
But, like, my uncle and my other uncle and my mom are listening to this story.
And I imagine in their minds, they're just like, what the fuck?
Like, so that weekend that you were gone for, like, work, like, that's what you
were doing?
Like, going to see your other kids karate?
Yeah.
In another country.
But my grandpa, like, he never really talked, like, if he did anything wrong,
which I thought was hilarious.
It has to be traumatizing for my, you know, my mom and my uncle and stuff.
But, like.
People were different back in those days.
Yeah.
For sure.
When life is harder, people are less sensitive.
Oh, yeah.
For sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When, you know, you go back to your grandpa's days or my grandpa's days,
different world.
Plus, you know, you got to realize those people were dealing with, that was
like, like, what year was this?
What, when my grandpa was having these kids?
It's like 80s.
Yeah, different world.
Yeah, for sure.
He told me stories.
Like, I think they put my grandpa to work when he was, like, seven.
Both my grandparents.
Yeah.
Like, on both sides.
But.
Harder people, man.
Like, loggers.
Yeah, like loggers.
Yeah.
It's all good.
I, that's why I think we need to go back to, maybe not like, you know, trying
to conquer empires and shit, but we need to dial it back a little bit.
People need more pain.
Life is getting too leisurely.
Yeah.
When people, when life gets too leisurely, you start to, I think you start to
look for, like, the next little issue.
Sure.
And the issues get smaller and smaller.
Exactly.
You know what I mean?
Well, we're finding that in this society, for sure.
Yeah.
People concentrate on a lot of things that aren't really important because life's
a little easy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nothing wakes people up like a nice attack.
Like, after September 11th, let me tell you something, man.
This country, you were too young to probably remember it, but during September
11th, the country was so united.
It was so crazy.
Everybody in L.A. had American flags on their cars.
In L.A.
In L.A.
I mean, I'm talking about, like, 80% of the cars.
You drive down the street for the first couple of weeks, 80% of the cars had
American flags on them.
It was nuts.
Everybody was united.
That, um, that's always kind of crazy to me when I hear people talk about, like,
because I don't go to L.A. too often, but I hear people talk about, like, how L.A.
was.
Yeah.
Like, the South Park guys, I think in an interview, they were saying, like, to
be, like, punk rock in L.A., you had to say you were, like, Republican.
Yeah.
L.A. trips me out, though.
I don't know.
I mean, there's stuff that fascinates me about liberals and, like, Republicans,
maybe, because I'm not, like, too far on either side or whatever, but it just
trips me out that there's, like, not that I'm, like, a huge patriot, but it
does trip me out that, like, people, I guess, are not happy here or, like, not
proud of it.
I used to spend my summers in Mexico.
It's, like, you'll appreciate a lot of American shit like that, you know what I
mean?
Yeah.
But I'm not going to go too far into this.
Well, it's what you were talking about before, is if your life is too easy, you
find things to complain about.
Like, America's the worst.
Like, no, it's not the worst.
It's the best.
It's just people are fucked.
And people in other parts of the world, and you give them more power, and you
have less control of your own life, and you have less freedom, less ability to
express yourself.
It's a lot fucking worse.
I'm just happy we got all this food, too.
Like, we got good food.
You ever hear about, like, a menu, like, in some European country?
Or, like, I saw a menu for a restaurant, like, in fucking Prague or something
like that one time?
I'm not saying that.
All their food is like that.
They look fucking horrible.
They look like bland food.
And I know that our food is bad, and it's making us fat.
But at least it's good, you know?
Like, at least we have the fucking option to get fat.
The option.
The options are good.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, but if you live in a place where people are poor, you're going to eat
bland food.
It's true.
Unless they have good spices that aren't expensive.
You eat, like, Indian food?
I love Indian food, yeah.
I can't do it.
You can't eat spicy?
I like spicy.
You like spicy Mexican?
Yeah, spicy Mexican.
Yeah.
What's wrong with spicy Indian?
What don't you like?
I mean, it tasted good.
I've only had it, like, twice.
But both times just gave me the runs.
Like, my stomach's not built for it.
Not built for curry?
Uh-uh.
I'm not.
But it was, and like, I don't know.
Then again, maybe it was just the people who made it.
Both times it was homemade.
Oh.
So, I'm not going to say their names.
Yeah, go to a good Indian restaurant.
See if you agree still.
I like sushi a lot.
Okay.
That's my shit, man.
Well, you want to get the runs, that's a good way to do it, too.
Sushi?
Sure.
Oh, because it's like raw fish and shit.
Well, you can get parasites and stuff.
I like sushi, too, but there's a reality of eating raw things.
That's why pregnant women aren't supposed to eat sushi.
I fucking, I tried, uh, what do they call it?
The snails?
What do they call it?
Escargot.
Bro, I tried that for the first time.
That shit's delicious.
It's pretty good, right?
Yeah.
Who would imagine snails taste so good?
Whoever had the balls to try that first snail, like, they were on to something.
Bro, they were poor and starving.
They probably cooked everything they could.
They probably tried everything.
That's why people eat crickets.
That's why, you know, people are starving.
Never tried crickets.
They're good.
Yeah?
Yeah, I've had them in Mexico.
Yeah?
Yeah.
The fuck?
Yeah.
They fried them up and served it.
I've heard about that, but.
They, like, had a bowl of them sitting in the hotel when we got in there.
I was like, what is this?
What the fuck?
What part of Mexico did you go to?
I think this one was, I think it was Puerto Vallarta.
I've never been out there.
I think that's where we were.
I think we were Punta Mita.
But there's a lot of people that eat bugs, man.
A lot of people eat fried bugs.
Oh, it's nuts, bro.
I like crawfish.
They're actually not bad.
They're kind of crunchy.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Not bad.
Cicadas.
You know when those cicadas hatch?
Yeah.
People eat cicadas.
I've got a lot of those in my garage.
Do you?
I might try it.
Try it out.
Find a recipe online.
I leave the garage door open.
Yeah.
Get those fuckers.
Fry them up.
I don't know.
I'm not kidding.
Yeah?
Yeah?
My friend Ryan, yeah, who was just on the podcast recently, he had a big hatch.
You know, because every X amount of years, they have a bunch of them emerge,
and it's like crazy.
And they were everywhere.
And he baked them in the oven, I think, with teriyaki sauce.
He said they were delicious.
Do you ever take advantage of the fact-
Yeah, look at that.
These crickets.
Oh, no, I couldn't eat those.
Are those cicadas, too?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Are those cicadas and crickets, or just cicadas?
I think it's just cicadas.
So they're on a stick.
They're on a stick, like a shish kebab.
Fuck that, dude.
Fuck yeah, bro.
I changed my mind.
I'll get in there.
Do you realize, like, and do you ever take advantage of the fact that you hold
so much power over so many people?
Like, you're Joel Rogan.
If you told somebody right now, like, if you eat fucking gum off the floor, it's
twice as nutritious as, like, a steak.
You can do that once.
People will believe you.
No.
They only believe you if you lie to them once.
They'll believe you that time.
And then every time after that, they'll never believe you.
Have you ever tried to fuck with anybody?
No.
No.
With great power comes great responsibility, Ralph Barbosa.
If I was you, I'd be lying to people all the fucking time.
You probably would.
Yeah.
You probably would.
I'd be like, STDs are a myth.
That people would just stop using condoms.
And then I'd fix Japan's population problem, you know?
Well, you just need to send some horny dudes over there.
Get things going.
They're going to have to do something, though.
They're importing humans.
They're asking people to move there.
I might move there.
Very beautiful place.
Beautiful, safe, peaceful.
If they say people are real quiet, though, that kind of scares me.
Because, like, I'm quiet, but I'm afraid to be the loud guy now.
You will definitely be the loud guy in Japan.
Yeah.
They're real quiet.
And they're super orderly.
When they walk down the street, they don't bump into each other.
They move around each other.
Everyone's really polite.
Everything's super clean.
Like, you go through Tokyo, big, beautiful city.
Everything's clean.
No garbage on the ground.
No pollution, I mean, pollution for sure.
But, I mean, no just garbage, trash.
But they live pretty compact, don't they?
In the city, at least.
In the city.
Well, they do in New York City, too, you know?
Yeah, dude, that's, I don't know if I, I stayed in New York for, like, two,
three months.
It's not my jam.
I like it, but I, after that, like, two, three, it was, like, two months, maybe,
I was, like,
all right, I need to go back to where there's, like, fucking space.
Yeah.
Even when I lived in New York, I didn't live in New York City.
I couldn't afford it.
I had to park, I had to, I had to have a car back then because I was doing road
gigs.
So, I would, I would have had to get a parking spot at a garage in New York
City so you'd have to pay.
And they could be hundreds of dollars back then a month, probably now thousands
of dollars a month that I just didn't have.
So, in order for me to, and also the apartments in New York were so much more
expensive than where I was.
I lived in New Rochelle, which is, you know, a half hour plus outside of New
York City.
I don't even know that.
It's just a regular suburban neighborhood, but it was great.
I had a little driveway, I could park my car in my driveway.
It was golden.
It was perfect.
My favorite wings are in New York, on the Upper East Side.
There's a place called International Wing Factory, which I think is a crazy
name, International Wing Factory.
There's only two tables in there.
You can fit four people in that restaurant.
But the wings, the Nashville hot wings, they're so fucking good.
Well, New York has an insane number of great restaurants.
That's one good thing about living in New York City.
If you're a person who likes to go out to dinner and you live in New York City,
you can go to a different place every night of the week for years.
And you have some of the best restaurants on earth.
I don't know what, like, the math is on this, but if you have so many good
restaurants.
Yeah, that's the spot.
Two tables.
They play techno a lot.
Yeah, no, it's a great place to eat.
I just don't think it's good for your brain to be surrounded by that many
people all the time.
One thing they have, though, that's nice is the park.
Central Park is incredible.
Like, if you live in the city, you can actually be in nature.
You say you don't think it's good for there to be a lot of people around you?
I don't think stacked up like that on top of each other is normal for people.
I don't think your brain is designed to operate like that.
Just to be constantly surrounded by people you don't even know all the time,
that's very unusual in human history.
Like, most people knew everyone around them up until, you know, X amount of
thousands of years ago.
We're kind of designed to be in tribal environments where we understand what
our environment is and who's around us and what's our community.
You know, I have my friend Jim Norton, who lives in New York City, who was
telling me, he's like, I live in this giant apartment.
I don't know anybody in it.
He goes, I don't know who my neighbor is.
I don't know anybody.
He goes, which is kind of crazy because you think about it, you're in a
building.
You share a building with hundreds of people.
They're in every direction of you.
All around you.
You don't know any of them.
I just think it takes away a sense of community, which is weird because you
would think the more people, the more community.
But it doesn't work like that.
When you have too many people, I think oftentimes you don't value them because
there's too many of them.
They become a burden.
Less importance.
Yeah.
They don't mean anything to you.
Hey, that must be why they let people just, like, I saw this dude one time at
the subway laying down, face down on the ground.
And everybody just kept walking around them.
Yeah, they don't give a fuck.
And I was like, well, that guy could be dead.
Nobody, it's just another fucking day to them.
Right.
If it was a small town in the middle of Oklahoma and a guy, like, was laying
down like that and was a regular guy, you'd be like, oh, my God, you okay, sir?
People will, like, check in on you.
They call the police.
Yeah.
And the subway, that guy could be dead for a day before anybody says anything.
Also, you have to deal with schizophrenics and fucking psychotic people so when
you're going down to the subway, you can't stand close to the edge because
people literally push people in front of trains.
Hey, well, hold on.
That brings me up.
I want to ask you something.
Have you ever, because I saw you have, like, the books on psilocybin.
I know you've done a lot of research, like, on mushrooms.
Have you ever read anything about, like, mushrooms or other kinds of drugs
being able to, like, trigger schizophrenia in people, like, if it's in their
genetics?
They think that's the case with marijuana, especially high-dose pot, maybe edibles.
I'm not sure if they think it's more from edibles or more from just smoking it,
but, yeah, there's a certain amount of people that it seems like it triggers
some kind of schizophrenic break.
Like, maybe they might have a tendency toward schizophrenia and something, you
know, like, the real crazy paranoia that you can get if you get really high?
Yeah.
For some people, that crazy paranoia hits the switch and they don't come back.
I've had my last few mushroom trips, not with weed, though, but I'm trying to
think if I was smoking and on shrooms.
My last few mushroom trips, I started hearing voices, but I also think it might
have been, like, I was exhausted, like, my brain was just, like, because I'd be
awake all day, and then I'd do the mushrooms, like, at midnight, and then I'd
be awake until, like, the next day, basically.
But at some point or another in the trip, usually towards the end of the trip,
I'd, like, hear voices, so it scared me off of mushrooms.
I haven't done them in, like, I don't know how long, but I was just, I read, I
heard them.
What were the voices saying?
One of them, I remember arguing with, like, other versions of myself.
You were talking to them?
I was talking, like, loud, like, on one of them, it was a really bad trip,
though.
I ate, like, somewhere north of, like, seven or eight grams, and that one was
bad.
I kept blacking out.
But on that trip, I argued with, like, two other voices, which I'm pretty sure
were, like, other versions of myself, which was me.
Me was me, me, like, the balanced one, more balanced one.
And then I had, like, this other one that was, like, a very, like, angry
version of myself, very much like a, like, like, like, like, shut the fuck up,
stop complaining type.
And then I had, like, a very, like, sensitive little bitch version of myself,
and I felt like they were all three arguing, and I was just, like, arguing back.
Out loud?
Out loud.
Out loud.
Out loud.
Was there anybody around you?
No.
Well, that's good.
I was in a hotel room by myself.
Jeez.
Yeah.
I fucked that hotel room up.
You took seven grams in a hotel room?
Mm-hmm.
Like, 90% of my trips have been in hotels.
Why?
I don't know.
I have fun.
Why don't you go out into the nature?
I never tried that.
Oh, it's better.
It's way better.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't want to be, like, high in public.
Oh.
Well, that's a good point.
I've done it, like, in Vegas.
Go somewhere that's unpopulated.
Like, go to some national forest place.
Do it out in the place where Travis Walton got abducted.
Go down that logging road.
Take seven grams right at the spot.
I wonder if you could find the spot where he got abducted.
I wonder if there's a pin, like a Google pin.
Yeah.
I'd go to that.
Sniff the ground.
I hope I never get abducted by aliens.
Why?
I don't know, man.
They always bring you back.
Everybody seems to come back.
They don't steal people.
No one's going to believe me.
I know a lady whose grandfather was a famous abductee.
Like, do people believe them?
Oh, yeah.
I believe them.
I don't know.
Because he was an abductee in the 1950s.
I think it was the 50s.
Betty and Barney Hill.
I believe it was the 50s.
So, Angela Hill is a UFC fighter.
And she didn't even tell me this until after the podcast.
Betty and Barney Hill.
Aren't they the Flintstones?
No, no, no.
That's Rubble.
Oh.
No, this is a very famous case.
So, what year was this, Jamie?
1961.
1961.
So, Betty and Barney Hill were driving.
Wait, were they even a racial couple?
Yeah.
That must have been crazy for the times, huh?
Oh, yeah.
Crazy for the times.
And then on top of that, they get abducted by aliens.
And she's like, can they catch a fucking break?
So, their granddaughter is Angela.
So, Angela who fights in the UFC.
Okay.
And I didn't know about it.
Well, we did a whole podcast together.
I just want to talk to her about her career, fighting career.
At the end of the podcast, she's like, oh, my grandfather, I forgot to tell you,
was Barney
Hill.
I was like, what?
That's what that is.
Because I know that case.
It's a crazy coincidence.
I know that case inside and out.
It's a crazy case.
So, they both came back.
They went on a trip and then they saw something in the sky and then they blacked
out and lost
time and they don't know what happened.
And they woke up on the side of the road in the car and drove, but they were
missing
time, like more than an hour, I think it was.
And then they started having these crazy nightmares.
So, they both go to psychiatrists and the psychiatrist or the psychologist does
a hypnotic regression
thing.
Like, let's try to find out what happened to you.
And they both independently have this crazy story of being taken aboard a UFO
and examined
by these beings.
And this is in 1961 when this was not something that people talked about.
This is like, now the problem is that whole UFO abduction, close encounters
with the fourth
kind, that's become a thing that everybody knows about.
Everybody knows UFOs abduct people.
But when 1961, when these people told that story, that was a completely novel
thing.
Nobody had ever heard that before.
And so, it was a really crazy story.
And then other people with similar stories started telling them.
What are the experiments that they conduct on them?
That's a good question.
You know, you don't know because hypnotic regression is weird.
So, someone could hypnotize you and put thoughts in your head.
If they were manipulative, they could put thoughts in your head and memories in
your head that
didn't exist.
So, you could, someone could hypnotize you.
And if they were very skilled, they could figure out a way to get you to
believe that something
happened to you, especially something minor, that didn't really happen.
I could hire a hypnotist to put the memory in my head that I hooked up with Margot
Robbie and
a fucking threesome with Scarlett Johansson.
No, that's too outside of science fiction.
That's too ridiculous.
Nobody would believe that.
But, you wouldn't even believe that.
And then you'd be DMing them and then they'd have restraining orders on you.
Hey girls, let's do that again.
That shit was fire.
No, but like, you know, you could, maybe, maybe someone could put a memory in
your head that
you got lost at the park when you were a child and you were terrified and then
the police
found you and they brought you back to your parents.
Do you remember that?
You're like, no, I don't.
You probably blacked it out.
Let's try to remember that.
And they could put a fucking fake memory.
Well, there's already like a, I don't know.
There's just like some shit I've saw on another fucking Instagram reel.
But don't they say like a lot of our memories, like we change them each time we
remember them?
Yes.
And then your memories become a memory of your recollection of the memory.
So it's like one thing that happens to your friends when they want to tell some
crazy
story about high school or something like that.
Over the years, that fucking story morphs and changes and shit gets added to it.
And then she's got a fucking frying pan and she's running down the street
screaming.
Her tits are hanging out.
And then your friends are like, what?
Her tits are hanging out?
No, no, no.
You never told it like this before.
It's like over time, stories change, you know, because the human memory is like,
I have
a very good memory, but it's also not exact, right?
Like I don't see it in my head like a film, you know?
Like I could see the most amazing movie.
I could go see like a crazy movie, science fiction movie that I love.
It's incredible.
And then afterward, I don't remember everything exactly.
I can't replay that movie in my head like pressing play.
So, memory is like scattered, it's abstract, it's a bunch of like weird flashbacks
of things.
Oh, yeah, then there was that thing.
Oh, yeah, then there was that thing.
But they've shown that you can introduce memories into people's heads that aren't
real.
So, this is the problem.
With hypnotic regression, you have to wonder, the people that are involved in
like writing,
there was a book called Abduction by this guy named John Mack, who is a
psychologist at Harvard,
I believe.
And he did a series of these hypnotic regression things with people that have
had abductions
with aliens.
But he's also writing a book about that.
Like, so it makes you want to go like, but did he want to achieve those results?
Like, how did he talk to these people?
Like, what was the questions?
Did he guide them in that way?
You know, it's like, were there independent people?
Did they speak to different hypnotic regression therapists that had different
results with
them?
Is it dependent upon how the person is talking to you?
Because someone's talking to you while you're in hypnosis.
It's not as simple as like, you take a pill and then you remember your past.
No, someone's talking to you.
They're asking you specific kinds of questions with a specific tone, you know,
and it's maybe
it's a man's voice that maybe is like, you feel like he's judging you, or it's
a woman's
voice, it's more comforting.
Yeah, it's got to be scary, you know, to get hypnotized.
And then what if they make me talk about a memory that I didn't want to bring
up?
Right.
Or what if they put something in your head, like a Manchurian candidate thing?
You know that, that concept?
Manchurian candidate is like, you hypnotize someone into, you can bring them
into action
with like a phone call.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You call, you have been activated.
They're like, click.
You say like a phrase and then.
And then you go.
And then you go and assassinate the president or whatever it is.
Yeah.
You know.
That's from scary shit.
That's scary shit because I don't know how much they can actually do.
I know they've definitely done a bunch of experiments to see how much they
could talk people into
doing certain things.
How much they can hypnotize people into certain behaviors.
Whether or not they can get someone to be an assassin with a phone call.
I know this sounds crazy, but I believe, well, I mean, not that I believe it,
but I guess
I like play with theories in my head.
But what if all the music that gets allowed to be on the radios and all the
shows that get
allowed to be on TV are like, it's like certain patterns in the music or like
to the words
that they say in the shows, like that, like brainwashes you to like do stuff
that we do.
Like maybe that's what makes us like go to work and do our 40 hours a week and
like respect
a 30 minute lunch or something.
Like the Rowdy Roddy Piper movie, like They Live.
Like that kind of, it's like, uh, that's a bad idea.
The idea, there's too many variables, like too many people that have to be
working in
coordination.
Everybody is in on this except for you?
No.
All the people making the music are in on this?
No, but out of all the music that gets made, there's a lot of similarities
within music.
Right.
Because there's only a certain amount of chords.
Right.
And there's a lot of genres and there was repetitive topics that people choose
because
they're popular.
So I don't think every hit is a hit.
Like, like sometimes you hear a song on the radio and you're like, how did this
get on
the radio?
This sucks ass.
Right.
But maybe it hit within those chords that like, like when you hear a certain
chord and
it makes your mind go into like a different state, like more relaxed or more of
this, right?
Well, there's definitely that.
Maybe they need, maybe they need our minds to stay in a certain state.
So they only allow certain music with certain chords or patterns to play on the
radio to keep
our minds going this direction.
No, no, Ralph.
No.
See, you would have to have a grand mastermind who's in charge of manipulating
everybody
all the time.
Maybe it's you.
To be able to come up with something like that.
Like that, I'm on your tail.
I don't know, man.
I think I'm onto something here.
I think you're definitely not and you're going to waste your time pursuing this.
I know a lot of musicians, none of them are being contracted to make certain
frequencies
that alter the way you behave.
You think so, Jamie?
There's something to what he's saying.
I'm going to be honest with you because there's a video going around.
I'll play it for you right now.
I think this is a beautiful one.
I might be the next Terrence Howard.
It's not, I mean, it's similar.
So this is Charlie Puth.
He's describing what happens after songs are, like, this is in the mixing
process.
Okay.
...hired and emotional.
It's because the song is pitched up with a tape machine.
Back in the day, they call this sweetening the audio.
Here's what it originally sounded like.
Same thing with this song.
Everybody wanna steal my girl.
That is sped up.
And this is what it originally sounds like.
Everybody wanna steal my girl.
Everybody wanna take the heart away.
You might be thinking to yourself right now, Charlie, why do people do this?
I will tell you, viewer, when you speed music or tones up and down, it's
scientifically proven
to make you feel different emotionally.
This is the tone all music is basically tuned to.
But when you pitch it higher, it brings you to the love frequency, known as 528
hertz.
So when people pitch their music up, it brings the listener closer to that
feeling.
I think music science is really cool.
Listen to this song.
Oh, okay.
Well, that's interesting, but that's a little bit different.
That's just, like, making you feel good.
That is exactly what I was trying to say.
Oh, yeah.
That just makes you feel good.
Yeah.
There's definitely that, man.
Music is like a drug.
It's a pretty dope drug.
Look, you're proving my point even now.
No, but I mean, like, it's an inspirational drug.
Yeah, but it does different things to you, you know?
That's one of the reasons why I like to mix my drugs when it comes to music.
Like, my Spotify playlist, it's all scattered.
It's a bunch of different stuff.
Like, you might get, like, Nas, and then right after Nas is Leonard Skinner.
I'm the same way.
But I feel like it's important to listen to different types of music,
not only because it's cool to, like, see different people's talent,
like, from different, like, I think I can appreciate talent from, like, any
genre,
so, like, if you hear, like, a Leonard Skinner song, you're like,
holy shit, that guy sang the shit out of that note.
Maybe I don't relate to what he's saying, but, like, that was fucking dope.
But I also think it helps you communicate and, like, connect with people
from, like, different cultures, different backgrounds.
Yeah, for sure.
Kind of, like, understanding.
Like, because I listen to a lot of, like, a lot of rap, a lot of Spanish music,
but then I listen to a lot of country as well.
But, like, old country, new country, I feel, sometimes I feel, like, a lot of
what comes up,
maybe because I don't dig into it too much, but, like, a lot of what comes up
on my algorithm
is very, like, modern, like, pop, like, more poppy, like.
Right.
You know what I mean?
I know what you mean.
Yeah.
Manufactured feels like.
Yeah.
But I do like to listen to, like, different types of shit because it's, like, I
want to know.
Not that I necessarily want to know, but it helps me know and understand what,
like,
somebody from a totally different part of the country might, like, experience
or, like, enjoy.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Well, that's a cool thing about traveling, right?
That's one thing that comics have that really, I think, helps us get a better
understanding
of the whole country is you're on the road a lot.
So you're traveling to Ohio one weekend, then you're in Florida, then you're in
Michigan,
and when you do that, you get a better sense, like, oh, this country varies a
lot.
There's a lot of different kinds of ways to live out there.
There's also, one thing that was crazy to me when I started traveling is how
similar a lot
of people also are.
Yeah.
Like, sometimes you run into people that are, like, very proud of, like, the
city they're
from and, like, their neighborhood.
Yeah.
And, you know, they'll fight for it.
They'll fucking die for it.
Oh, yeah.
And then you go to another city, and it's, like, the same person, just a
different title.
Yep.
Yep.
Just fucking...
Yeah, people get real tribal.
They're real tribal for their stupid-ass town.
All right, Ralph Barboza, tell everybody where you're going to be.
You got a website they can go to to find you with your seven tours, seven-day
tour?
Yes, sir.
Catch me in one of the seven Cs at...
Oh, my website is called barbosacomedy.com.
You can see any shows I got coming up.
My Instagram, Ralph Barboza03.
Automotive channel, Formula Bean, if you want to see.
Yeah, definitely.
I'm going to check that out.
I'm going to subscribe to that, for sure.
A couple of beans, just street racing, slow cars.
How many videos do you have up there?
We got quite a few.
So, it was my buddy's YouTube channel before we converted it to, like, our
channel.
So, it's just, like, tons of car footage on there.
As far as, since we became a channel, it might be, like, 10, 15 videos.
Nice.
Yeah.
What are you doing tonight?
Taking off to New York?
What time you leave?
Like, they're dropping me off at the airport right after this.
I was going to invite you to come do the show at the mothership.
There it is.
Ralph Barboza, Planet Bosa.
Yeah.
Hularious stand-up comedy.
I like that Hulu's doing this.
Hulu did a lot of specials this year.
It's great.
Yeah.
It's great.
It's awesome.
I was a little nervous about, like, switching over.
Because I did my last one with Netflix and this one with Hulu.
A lot of people have Hulu.
I have Hulu.
Everybody has Hulu.
I figured, why not try it?
Why not?
I'm very happy they're doing that.
Hell yeah.
It's just nice.
It's nice that there's more options for comics.
And Hulu also, thank you for the money they gave us.
They came with the cash?
Hell yeah.
Nice.
Nice.
All right, Ralph Barboza.
Appreciate you, brother.
Thank you for coming in.
Thanks for having me.
Always fun to have you.
All right.
Bye, everybody.
Bye.
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