#2362 - Ralph Barbosa

23:33And I forgot where I was going with this history of war. Oh, yeah, yeah. So everything, I listened to it. I had to listen to like three times because I just, 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 broy 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.

24:10But all those old time English gentlemen, they all wanted to go to war. It was like, you wanted to prove your courage in battle. It was a, it was a, it was a, it was a broy thing. It was almost like a frat boy thing. 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 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 and don't go back to that.

24:50That'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 to just eat healthy? That's my, 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. If I become president, mandatory mushrooms.

25:30Well, 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. A vaccine for human stupidity. But I mean, that's the, 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. So 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 cut. The Huron. Huron.

26:02Before I forget this. What do you got? I got rappers. You said two things. Earlier, you said that was the most minor interpretation. Yes. And then right now you said, would you say cure the stupidity? Human stupidity. The cure for human stupidity? Yeah.

26:27The 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, we need to guide a larger percentage of people in the right direction. And that, like worldwide, would that be the only way we save this, this experiment of the human race? The only other way is AI. AI is a way that might save us or make us obsolete. Yeah. AI, that's some scary shit. Because I, I don't know if it's real. I saw this video. I don't know when it was shot or like, how recent and how recent it is. I mean, all I'm watching is just Instagram reels, right?

27:14It'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 that said, the Godfather of AI warns people about the dangers of AI. But I'm like, why? Like, if that's real, whoever it was like behind AI, whatever team it was, it's like, hey, but be careful with this. It's like, why'd you make it then? Like, I feel like it just did it to direct themselves off. Like a real op -inheimer thing, but it's like, now I become death destroyer of world. It's like, why'd you do it then? You know what I mean?

27:52Well, 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 with the whole world, it's very different. The idea is that if America doesn't, 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, speech, First Amendment, Second Amendment.

28:28There'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 communist. They're run by dictators. 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, we won. That's good. Just like we developed a nuclear bomb. We dropped a couple of them. It said, now back the fuck off. We're done here. We don't want to do this anymore.

29:01And then we never did it again. So that's good. Now if Germany had developed the atomic bomb first and Newt Britain and Newt America and just went on a nuking spree before we could ever develop one. Imagine how different the world would be. You're watching those videos. The AI videos of two celebrities making out. It'll be Elon Musk kissing Brad Pitt or Trump. I feel like we had to make a couple of those until they were 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.

29:40Recently, 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. And it doesn't 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. 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.

30:21They blew up tons of nuclear bombs. And then John Wayne just went out there and... 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. Imagine you find that the result of that. Imagine being on the team who's like sending the nukes into the air. And then you just kind of see like the cloud stayed in the air. Like, all the who's the first guy to be like, oh shit. They didn't even understand it. No one had been... No one had been subject to large scale radiation before.

30:54It was a new thing. Especially from a detonation. It had never happened before. There was no meltdowns yet. There was no 3 mile island or Fukushima yet. 1980 article People Magazine reported that out of the 220 cast and crew members, 91 had contacted cancer, 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 in debate amongst historians and scientists. But yeah, like the amount of bombs that they detonated... Was it a good movie at least? I don't think it was.

31:34It might have been that Ginghis Khan movie. Was it the Ginghis Khan movie? Oh, it was a piece of shit. What is that movie, Ray? You're not running to me. It has to be a zero. It's so bad. Oh, man. It's John Wayne playing a Mongolian. Which is the craziest thing of all time. It was the ultimate white washing. He's doing Mongolian face. And he talks like this. 10 % on Ryan tomatoes. This is where 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.

32:08Yeah. Fall off the horse. Look how hot she is. Woo. She's not impressed by anything. And he just took her clothes off. Oh. That was... Look how bad this is. He took what he wanted, when he wanted it. For a time. Meet his fire with ice. Matches his fury with flame. Your hatred will kindle him to love. Before that day dawn's Mongol. The vultures will feast it on your heart. Oh, shit. Come to the party. Bro, this is the dumbest movie ever. The game John Wayne Cancer. Bro. It's so bad. Like how bad is that movie? Women always talk about how like... Like I was reading this article where they were trying to trash F1.

33:02The 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 the first woman and whatever. And she doesn't, you know, like she doesn't level up until Brad Pitt unlocks her potential. Like, oh, 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, gang is conquering so much. But the best thing he conquered was the woman.

33:41Like, really? You know what I mean? Like, you know, 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 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 why are they going to war for now? Resources. All it is is like tricking people. Tracking people and doing something for you. Women in resources, man. Women in resources.

34:18When are we going to learn? It's just money, man. There's enough women in resources for everybody. There's not, though. You know what I mean? 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 open 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?

34:55Like, 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? Unaccident. They're unfuckable. Nobody wants to fuck them. That's real, man. That's like a real problem. A bunch of people just sit at home and watch TV. All day in order and door dash. I think you got to like split your time up, you know what I mean? I think celibacy could be good for like, like a week or two and then you got to be like, all right, no more door dash.

35:38Let's get out there. It just get out there. It's not being a pussy. Get married or, you know, get into relationships, having a 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, yeah? But something that, I don't think my stand -up comedy would ever give 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 it's a whole book. Just tell people like, get off your ass, man.

36:10Like, 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'm like, you're not autistic then. Believe what you want. How many people do you think are autistic? What percentage? Um, I don't know. I feel like probably a lot, but I think there's like, there's like a lot of people are saying they're autistic so 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 a patchy or whatever? Like Cherokee? Where you just like, oh yeah, I'm like one eighth. Yeah. I'm one eighth of autistic.

36:44Yeah. I'm kind of psychic. Yeah. Like, so I think if you come up on the spectrum, it doesn't mean you're like, eat enough. Yeah. Like you've seen people with like full blown autism 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, ah, I didn't want to shake that guy's hand because I'm just like autistic.

37:20Like... Yeah. Like, well, if I could 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 the way I grew up, but like, if I try to use autism as an excuse to get out of doing stuff, I think I just would've got smacked in the back of the head. I think I would've smacked the autism matter of me, you know what I mean? The one eighth, at least. I don't think I have any autism in me. Yeah. Unfortunately. I say unfortunately. May I be... Help with math. Help with numbers. Jamie?

37:49Like, Rainman? I think Jamie's autistic. How does he... How does he... Maybe not autistic. Maybe 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.

38:21Oh, okay. Okay. Where? Like, the spectrum could be anywhere. 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 the next one. He cares. All right. In Autism, significant delays in language, maybe nonverbal or of limited speech. Asperger's typically no language delay, advanced vocabulary for age. Interesting. Autism varies widely from intellectual disability to above average intelligence. And then Asperger is usually average to above average intelligence. Autism, social interaction difficulties may show less interest in engagement.

39:03And 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, you 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 he showed it to them. It's like if they knew. 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.

39:42Right. People definitely use, they love to be a victim of something. They love to have some sort of an ailment that you don't know about, you know. People love that. I'm not, I'm not like that. You know, I'm diabetic. I never tell people. Are you full blown diabetics? Full blown. Type one? Not like with the autism thing. Type one. So you're born with it? No. Not when I was like six. Really? Yeah. Type one when you're six. That's crazy. Yeah. You know, they just cured type one 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 could find it, Jamie.

40:21But 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 one diabetes. How do they give you the stem cells? It's a good question. A pipe? No. I think they inject it into you. But it'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 does the... It says, world's first stem cell therapy reverses diabetes.

40:56So where was it from? Where did it happen? Ground baking title and peaking university. They took cells from three people with type one diabetes and reverted them to pluripotent state, meaning they could develop into any type of cell. This technique originally developed by Shinya Yamannaka 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 and animals in June of 2023. The team transplanted about 1 .5 million isolates into a woman's abdominal muscles.

41:41A 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 one diabetes started producing enough insulin on her own. 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. It's badass. Yeah. What if I met this doctor? He was like, all right, I'll do the operation on you, but you have to say my name correctly the first time.

42:23It was Yamannaka Shinya Yamannaka. I would say practice it if you want to not have diabetes. What kind of question is that? Shinya Yamannaka. They might be able to hook you up. All right. What do you think? I don't know. How do you even start that process? You just go to China? Yeah, you got to go to China right now. Get out of here. I get on a play. 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, 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.

43:06Was that a published paper? Yeah. It's called VX -880 -Zips. I can't say that. I guess I should probably wait until they do a few more patients. It's like PS5. You want to let the first round go out first with the bugs and stuff. No, fuck it. I would go right in there. Let's go. Let's see. Let's see if you can fix me. Yeah. You just don't let it. You just shoot an insulin all the time. That's annoying. How often do you have to do it? Oh, before a meal. And I usually get about three times a day. Oh, so you have to give yourself three injections a day. That's annoying. Yeah. And since you were sick, you've been doing that?

43:42Yeah. 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 US with 12 people. Oh, they did a trial with 12 people. Uh. On 12 participants. Demonstrated engrapment with glucose responsive. Endo genus endogenus endogenus endogen and dodged. Indigenous. Well, I can't say dodged. It's like, how did I not read that correctly? Indoget C. peptide production, which is durable through one year of follow -up. Wow. Wow, what does that mean? That means a year of follow -up, it was still working.

44:24Had 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 are all off of a one dose. They got one -shot confusion. So for full dose, and then you have a complete reduction in insulin -reduce 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 gotta get in on that dog. Yeah, but I don't even know who to talk to.

45:07We'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 talked 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.

45:37I 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, Ron? Like, what if we just change the thing? What are you saying? What if I just don't know how to act afterwards, you know? Ralph. Honestly, living without diabetes, I would go to my head so fast. You get cocky? Yeah. I drop people out of my life. Like, fuck that need you for. I'm healthy. You'd be, 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.

46:11I got like a writer's block real bad right now. I don't know what to say. Yeah. I'm like unmotivated with new standup. I was reading that book you got out there. I had never wore a vort. No, no, no, no. Oh, the Hunter's Thompson book? Yeah. The Hunter's Thompson was a dude or was a chick? You don't know Hunter's Thompson, is it? 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 a fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Yeah. And what is it, Rum Diary or something? So it's a dude. Yeah. Yeah, dude, it's good.

46:53What did you take before you came here? Like, so nothing. 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. Yeah, Hunter's Thompson's a very famous writer from the Counterculture Movement. He wrote this paragraph in that book, man. And that's Johnny Joppy played him in that movie. Look, yeah, good old Johnny Depp, man. That's a fun fucking movie. I don't know if you ever seen it. I've seen most of it. Most of it. 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.

47:27He, he, that book that's out there, he said it's a first edition. Yeah. It's like a diaries of his, right? Like, he just kind of wrote his thoughts and like what he did throughout that day. Charles Bukowski has a book like that. What is it? What is it called? Like the captain is out to lunch. Something like that, right? Yeah. Felipe Sparser put me onto that book. I read, and I did his podcast. He has a couple of Charles Bukowski books in his little librarian. Oh, no shit. Shout out to Felipe. I love that, dude. Yeah, I do. So talented. Friends with him forever. The captain is out to lunch and the sailors are taking over this ship.

48:03Charles Bukowski. Yeah, so it's kind of like that. Hunter is Thompson book and in both of those, I like both of those books a lot. I read like half of that one. I'm going to buy that one. But I like where Hunter is something he said, because he talks about being in his hotel room. 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 a man.

48:42Yeah. I feel like I'm there right now. Yeah. But I don't know if I care as much as he did, because 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 successful right that was trying to like get the fire stoked, you know? That's this thing. This is a great book. You can keep this. 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 Stephen Pressfield gave me a whole box of them. I'll give you a copy when we leave. Okay.

49:17That's a book that will help you a lot, because it's basically just about that. The book is just about overcoming this resistance that people have to work. It's hard. It's hard to make yourself work. It is. Well, I like, 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, 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.

49:59And 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, this is 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. In automotive in terms of like repairing stuff. Like, yeah, we put, we got a 1989 240SX. It's my buddy's car. He bought it for like 600 bucks. And he wants to put in that lesson it, but before putting the LS in it, he wanted to blow up the original motor.

50:35So we put nitrous and turbo on it without tuning it. So there's no computer telling it like how to do it safely. Or like efficiently. So it's just like, God. And 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, yeah, it's a horrible. Why did you choose that ear? 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.

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54:02Oh yeah. He got a deal on that car. They're hard to get man. They couldn't import them into the United States until like just a few years ago. 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 a 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. Midnight purple, three probably. Yeah, bro. It is so beautiful. It's like a big, it's like a cardinal sendo to put an LS in a skyline. Oh, right.

54:41You want to use a Japanese engine? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the RB is 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. Ooh, I love it. One guy tried to sell me one of those, but I couldn't do it. It was too, it was out of my price range. I have an R35 too, but not a NISMO. Well, you can, the thing about R35s is you could turn it into exactly what a NISMO is. Yeah, I mean, everything is modable.

55:17I mean, these cars have been around for so long and the community of motors 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 Dotsin. It was back when it was Dotsin, Dotsin 240s. And turns them into these fucking six streamline sports cars with like a wider tires, much more horsepower, super lightweight. So I 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.

56:10That's my shit right there, son. I know. That's what I have. Have you ever taken 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. I'm, 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. Let's fucking say.

56:43We'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 something dude beat me. Will we be driving? Pores GT3RS. Oh, okay. I was competing against my co -hosts on the channel there, Buddy Luis. He's a user name underscore AF on Instagram. Horrible user name. But anyway, we both got the same car of the Porsche to like compare lap times. But I don't beat by like eight seconds or something like that.

57:20Well, he probably does not drive it. Also, those cars get a little scary. They're rear engine. I mean, you have an instructor just telling you what to do. But I didn't. You hit the gas harder. Yeah, I broke a little later with the gas a little harder. I almost spun out, but I wanted to find like the limit to the car. But yeah, I want 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 I went to Coda, we went for Corvette. So Corvette has the New ZR1 and it holds the record, right?

57:59Yes. At what track was it? Nerva Grand. It holds the record and basically every single track that it's ever entered into. Holy shit. Yeah, it's just a thousand horsepower from the factory. And then the record at Nerva Grand, that they did, which is the record only for American cars. It's for the ZR1 X. I believe it's, I believe the time is six minutes, 49 seconds, which is insanely fast. And it wasn't driven by a professional driver. It was driven by the engineer, right? The engineer broke the American lap time record. So everyone else is using Formula One drivers, using the sickest drivers on earth to get the most amount of time.

58:39So 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's ZR1 could have gone 10 seconds faster at Nerva Grand. Who has it said that? Is it more than one pro driver said that? No, Misha, this guy. This guy's great. I follow him. Oh, I follow him. Yes, but this is a channel called. Let's give him a shout out. You know what I'm saying? 10 seconds in the world of racing. That's like a lot. That's a lot.

59:13So it's Misha, M -I -S -H -A, and the last name I don't know how to pronounce it, is CH -R -O -U -D -I -N. Sha -R -U -D -N? How would you say that? Sha -R -D -N? Sha -R -U -D -N? Sha -R -D -N? Anyway, cool guy, great channel. It's dope. So he analyzed it, and he drives that track all the time. Like, he takes people on the rides at that track. And he's a nasty driver. He drives wicked. It's fun to watch. He looks so calm too, man. He's just hollin' ass. Well, he knows that track, like the back of his hand. He's always at the Nürburgring. Those track days on there all the time. So he drives a whole bunch of crazy cars, including GTRs, all kinds of crazy shit.

59:56Different things that people have put together and modded. And so he says, with someone more comfortable with the car, he's like a sub six minute and 42nd 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 were released later when they find it necessary. So what Corvette likes to do though, they like to do their lap times with the people built the car. Because they feel like the people built the car like intimately connected. Instead of farming it off to some formula one psychopath, get the actual guys who designed and engineered the car.

1:00:33And if these guys are breaking records, they're great drivers, don't get me wrong. I drove with one of them. And when we were at Coda. Oh shit. Yeah, and I drove the car. I drove that ZR one. It's the best car I've ever driven in my life. Yeah. I've driven a lot of cars. Takes corners bad ass. It's insane. It's insane. It's got the power, like an electric car. The acceleration is bananas. It's nuts. It's zero to 16 out of two seconds. It fucking flies. And it's massive down force, 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.

1:01:12What kind of tires did 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 mean, 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.

1:01:48He got some cool stuff on you too. It was a Christy classics garage. Let me make sure I'm getting that right. He sold me a 1973, a Plymouth, Barracuda, but it has a front end from a 71 Barracuda. Oh, nice front end. Four headlights. Yeah. That's the front end. That was bad. That's the one. That's the one. I have a 70. Yeah, let's walk this. 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, I don't know. That's the 73. That's the 71 front end. It looks like, no, that's not.

1:02:27Because it only has one headlight on each side. Oh, I don't know. You know, you're right. I think that's the 73. Yeah, yeah. They wrecked into him. He had to swap it. 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 a hundred, yeah, the steering wheel became a little scary. Oh, they're super loose. The front end is so light.

1:03:02Well, it's also the steering sucks. Their steering was so safe. Well, yeah, he has like aftermarket on it. Like, I just, I don't know what 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 a, once I got on the highway closer to my house, a camera he was getting cocky. So I was just like, nah, I got a show on this. A camera? Yeah. A camera he was getting cocky. Oh, that looks great with that 71 front end. That 71 front end is gorgeous. Yeah, look, I think that's when we bought it. My friend Brigham has a 71. It's badass.

1:03:35It's so nice. This dude has everything else swapped. He has people sending him work from like other states even. Really? Yeah. But the LS swapped into a Barracuda. Ooh. Yeah, no, that's like more blasphemy like. Yeah. Like the thing we did with the skyline. You want to see the dope as Barracuda you've ever seen? 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. They did everything. And they put a, oh, they put a racing engine in it. A mercury racing engine in it. Damn. So it's like 9 ,000 RPM racing engine.

1:04:11Holy 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's gorgeous.

1:04:30But it's six -speed manual transmission. But it sounds like an exotic car.

1:04:42Oh, yeah. America. Fuck yeah.

1:04:51Hey, 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 the one thing our cooters have in common. This is the cup holder. Yeah. Well, that's all the interior's totally different. That thing is sig, bro. You have that. You got a Nismo. You have good taste. Yeah, I like stuff. What's your gayest car? The gayest car? Yeah. What's your car? 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. Is your daily driver?

1:05:23Yeah, you drive it all. I drive it all the time. It's a Model S plaid. And it's also customized. So this company called Unplug Performance. They take a Model S and then they put. Carbon fiber fenders on it, wider track, wider tires, upgraded suspension, changing interior. Hey, do you have tinted windows? Yeah. Yeah. Nobody ever recognizes you in traffic recognized me. Yeah. What the fuck? Usually they say hi. Yeah. What's up? You don't get weirdos. I feel like you don't get the most weirdos at anybody. You get some weirdos. But most people are nice. 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.

1:06:01And the reason why you can go to the mall and everyone's not trampling, tram peeding, stamp peeding over people. It's because most people are nice. Yeah. Most people are cool. Most people are cool until they start running out of women and resources. Right. In cells. In cells. They get dangerous. They get on the math. In cells. 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? No. They're super sticky. Yeah. You drive it. You'll go insane. It's the greatest car ever. Tires make a big difference, man.

1:06:32Huge 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 is pilot sport for us. And I think you could use cup tires, too. I think. I think it's an option. Made engine cars. They seem to be dominating on tracks, huh? Well, the balance is so good. And 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.

1:07:13Like, what does it, like, Laguna Secca, I think, has, like, a huge downhill uphill thing? Oh, where it helps you to have the front engine buyers. Yeah. I mean, I'd imagine that's the only place it probably can make a difference. Because, like, when you're coming, uh, 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. But I'm pretty sure that's what they were talking about. Like, uh, what are, you know, on the, on the side of the track, they have the, like, the stripes, the red and white. Yeah. Sometimes you go over that. You know, sometimes, yeah.

1:07:43So 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. And 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. Well, it could be wrong. I don't know. The motor's in the middle. So 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 what the guys who are really good at it, though, they use it to their effect. Like, they steer with the throttle.

1:08:14So as they're turning, they're hitting the gas. The ass end is kicking out, and then they're, they're modulating it, and then they're going straight. So the guys that are really good at driving Porsche's, 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 GT4, which is another amazing mid -engine car, is that engine in front of the rear wheel, 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.

1:08:49And 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 involvement of this car. And what the goal was, it's the most ridiculous production car that any American companies ever put out by far. The more you get into cars, the more you get into like physics and balance. 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, I think it's so balanced.

1:09:23Yes, balance is 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. You want to hear the sound. You want to feel the gears. Is your shifting. You want to push the clutch in and pop that sucker in the third and let off the clutch as you hit the gas.

1:10:02You want to smell it. You want to feel it. Really, you want a manual transmission and a manual steering. You don't even want power assistance 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. Those old Porsche's are so light. You can get them like 2 ,000 pounds and they strip things out of them. Those are like stupid expenses 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.

1:10:46But there's some that don't look quite as good, but fuck what it looks like. Get that out of your head. Which you want to just experience the car. When you drive, you can get like a 19. Let's find out how much is a 1982 911 cost? Let's see if we can find one. I hate that I just recently started getting into Porsche's and I like that I like them now. They're great. They are. But they're so expensive. They're so good investments. Yeah, they're worth more money after you buy them than they are when you buy them. There's one of the rare cars that will continue. Okay, there's a beautiful one. That one's pretty interesting.

1:11:26That 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. They were more like collective type. But now my garage is so different because I don't like that. Jamie, 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 elicit. I'll buy it in elicit.

1:12:05Oh, I got one of those, but not that year. Go back up. Yeah, skyline right there. Oh, yeah. I got a different one though. I got a... What one do you have? I have the 1971. 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'll be worth a million dollars someday. I don't know. I think I'm gonna elicit.

1:12:42That would have... Does it have the original engine right now? Yeah, original engine, yeah. Oh, man. I don't want to fuck with it if I was you. It still smells like the Japanese dude who used to drive it to work. This is crazy. 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, we 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... Oh, it says there's 8 ,000 miles on it. 90 ,000, yeah. What? 100 miles on the new engine, maybe.

1:13:15No, no. 8 ,475, Jamie. Right. Is that... Is that the last one? Is that up to the next mile? When that goes over to zero, does that make a six? Is it a different number, or a different color, or something? Oh. Most cars tracked up to 100 ,000, right? Yeah, maybe not. Maybe it's 9 ,000. Like, is it go 6 ,7 ,8 ,9 ,60? Does it do that? I don't know. I don't know. Hey, that's still not bad. Well, you used it at 82? So either way. Yeah, but 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. Yeah. What do you think it says? It says it was fully restored.

1:13:53Yeah, fully restored. That's it. Oh, okay. No miles. Original engine trans fully restored. No miles. Okay. So it only has 100 miles on the original... Or the engine has been fully restored. Okay. That makes more sense. So it's got... They're lying then. You can't say it has 100 miles. Because then all the trans... All the other shit. Like, the suspension. Everything else has got all those miles on it. Unless you're 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 dark leg went down to one. No, the thing just feels different.

1:14:28Like, I forgot what it was. My buddy bought one. The guy I run the channel with Louise. 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 07 Porsche. He's like... The motor's... It's... It's no good. So my buddy goes to check it out. And it has a knocking in it. And the... And the paint is just real ugly. And he buys it. He's like, fuck it. Let me just take the chance. Maybe... Maybe it's...

1:15:04Simple fix. And he takes it to our buddy. Brian, back in a forward to get it painted. So now the paint is just brand new. But the motor's still knocks. And my dad pulls up to that same shop. That same day to get a truck painted. And he's like, oh, it'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? Yeah, yeah. Bro, it's all over. Like, can you pull it up on the Formula Bean YouTube again?

1:15:42It has to be on there. It's crazy. Yeah. And the only thing other than that, I think was like the wheel alignment. It was like shakey with it. But I think what he said, what it was, was the tires had been sitting for so long that they kind of like. Oh, it's scary. Yeah. So you should just drive on old tires. Yeah, he just switched them out. It's like fucking no problem. Look. And that is race the car. Oh, it's a Cayman. After the race, it's not making the noises. Let's change the oil and see what we find. Well, there's really two things after the paint job. I put some fresh gasoline in the car and the race.

1:16:16I 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 the 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.

1:16:50Not convinced him to quit his job. Really? Yeah, so maybe that's smart if you let me convince him to quit. But this 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 lift or 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 do you pay for this? Like $3 ,600. Oh, that's insane. That's crazy, right? What a great deal. And that's a great balance car. The Cayman's. Yeah. This is super, super well balanced.

1:17:27It 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 them buying something from a dealership. He's never bought something from a dealership. He has like six cars on it. Yeah. The dude's fucking crazy smart. So I met him through our other content creator friend. This is 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 them tickets. And I'm performing in Dallas one day. And PapiKa shows up with our other buddy Ivan and with this dude.

1:18:06And 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. We're with content creators hanging out. And 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. And 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 them 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.

1:18:35You know what I mean? I was like, can you teach me with it? And I was like, I'll pay you whatever you want to teach me. And he's like, all right, I'll go over like on such a day. Because it was a coincidence that we both live in DFW. So he comes over the house one day. And we started like, I think the first thing we did was maybe change the exhaust on my skyline. Or maybe it was a suspension of my empire. 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.

1:19:04We just kept hanging out. And now we've done, I don't know how many fucking projects together. And we're going to head 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. Most, 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.

1:19:38Like they're always going to be there. But he, he said even before being a content creator, he thought that was like impossible. He's like, nah, like that don't ever work. And then, you know, just went for it and saw other of his friends. I think like Ivan or Barbara buddy go for it. And like just started working. I think he made a video. I think they're in COVID is when he started getting a lot of following. He made a, I don't know what he made a video of. And he's like, he just kept at it. But to actually quit his job, we'll take the next step. That's great, man. Look, those things are super popular and there's a real market for them.

1:20:13I 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. They hate it. Fuck them. He's fabricated the entire frame. He built the frame. He built the interior roll cage. He made it dope as fuck, man.

1:20:55He 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 we 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, fabricated this entire frame. They did all this. And they, you know, like he meticulously measured and matched and then tick welded all this stuff together. And this is what he's putting together.

1:21:30He'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 shit loads 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. Just going to be nuts. Gas monkey did that too. And I think for, I think the story with that was like Ferrari did everything they could to try to stop them from getting parts. Oh yeah. I think he got all the parts before they knew what was going on. Now, now for the next guy who wants to do one of these Ferrari is going to be like, oh yeah.

1:22:05If anybody's older in a bunch of parts, it's 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 Pleene. Is that his name? He had like a, like a green Ferrari. Like a, 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. Well, yeah, that's the car. Ferrari wins legal case against designer Philip Pleene use of super cars.

1:22:45But as he says, it's not over. Look at the color on that. So that means like he bought it from Ferrari. Yeah. And must have signed something, right? That's like, I guess. 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 Pleene held in Milan in June of 2017 during this event. Pleene featured a host of exotics, including Ferrari's Lamborghini's and McLaren's. And Ferrari was none too pleased with this. They took issue with Pleene's social media posts, claiming that by posting photos of his fashion collection with Ferrari's, Pleene was unlawfully appropriating the goodwill attached to its trademark to promote his own brand and products.

1:23:33It added that Pleene's post tarnished the reputation of Ferrari. 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. Here's to pay them $352 ,000 in compensation and reimburse attorney's fees to the tune of over $29 ,000. I have 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 Pleene... Am I saying his name, right? Pline Pleene refuses to delete a post depicting a Ferrari or shares a new one.

1:24:14He 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 Ferrari's. Like, what about rappers? Can they not use a Ferrari if they're doing a music video? Like, if you got a... If you're a rapper and you bought a dope car and you want to have your dope car and your music video, does Ferrari fucking sue you?

1:24:54Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think back now. Have I even seen like... How many Ferrari's 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. Dead mouse. Oh, you got 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 the back of his car... Look at that color. Isn't that a dope color?

1:25:29It 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... 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 it dig a little closer, and you'll find you agree with Ferrari. No, I won't. That's not what I agree with, bitch. 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 6 '9 in his fashion shows, two men with a history of perpetrating sexual assault and other unsavory acts.

1:26:15Okay. 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 when Takeshi 6 '9 either. I don't know that story at all. I know he's a rat. So what about the Miami Vice? That'd be hilarious if the article was like. Yeah, and he's associated with the snitch. You know what's crazy is like those are really expensive. Oh, look at that. The Miami Vice won a Corvette -based Daytona kit was used. Once Ferrari got winded, took action.

1:26:54Oh, interesting. But it says Ferrari was so much more fun in the 1980s and instead of just asking the producers to show and take badges off or stop using the vehicle, they asked for the Daytona to be blown up on screen. The moment ended to be one of the most pivotal moments of the series and the great spectacle. The brand was even a good sport about the whole thing and offered to show a real Ferrari Testerosa. The brand's flagship at the time can be used for the remainder of the series. So yeah, Miami Vice was known for that Testerosa, that white Testerosa, that Don Johnson used to drive around in.

1:27:25Yeah. So this Ferrari was cool back then. This had just a real car, bro. I only know about that Ferrari because of the Wolf of Wall Street. Was 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 Testerosis. I have a friend of my friend, Dana White, from the UFC, he has a Testerosa. I think they look like trash. The Testerosis? Yeah, just think it's a crappy looking car. It's just I'm 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.

1:27:56For me, it was always porches. Porches and muscle cars. Those are the cars that I wanted when I was a kid. Those porches, like the turbo, with the fat ass. Oh, yeah. Like if you go like Google, 1985, 9 -11 turbo. That's this was when I was a senior in high school. That was the first thing I liked about the porches, the fat asses. Because you stared at them and like I was saying, like you get into balance. When I look at that, I'm like, look at that thing. I think we'll never flip over. But then you can go with the BBL version of it, which is that dude in Japan who makes his car body white. Everybody was flaming him when he was gluing the parts on him.

1:28:34Look at that sexy. 1985, 9 -11 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. That 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 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. It's just a sensory overload. So it's more fun, even if you're not driving fast. My Tesla is fun, but one of the reasons why it's fun, because it's preposterous.

1:29:16It goes zero to 60 in 1 .9 seconds. It's just silent. It's just gone. Like 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. It's the feeling of driving, running through the gears. Ferrari has not sued owners solely for changing the paint 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 of damage to brand's reputation.

1:29:59So that's what Ferrari was in. I don't know how many times. I mean, there's only been a couple times. And I won't say who, because I don't want to get the image over. I've seen cars, Ferrari's, that have been modified, and the logo is the horse with like a giant boner. Where have you seen that? I can't tell you now. I don't want them to get sued, man. All right, don't tell me. But it's kind of stupid, though, that a car company could think that it could stop you from altering things. Because think about the GTRs that we were talking about, like a big part of the whole community and the culture is the altering of those cars.

1:30:38The big part is the modifying. I think that's part of what got them so popular that they were so easily tunable and 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. Like that gentleman, what is his name again? That does the raw, well, Porsches? I don't know his name. He was the sandals and cigarettes all the time. Yeah, that guy's fascinating. Because he does everything by hand. Yeah. He makes all those wide -body Porsches by hand. It's like a wait list, right?

1:31:14Oh, yeah. To fuck with your Porsche. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He just comes to your shop. He'll travel. He'll fucking cartons of cigarettes. I think he drinks Coca -Cola. Just fucking... That's it, man. Carves it up. And, you know... I like his style. They're dope. But they like grandma style. Just Coca -Cola and cigarettes. Yeah. I feel like that's shit that my grandma would send me to this store for. Flip flops. Yeah. 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?

1:31:47You've cut up one of the great pieces of engineering and designed and you've turned it into this fat hooker. That's something that I, like, didn't... That's one thing that kept me from, like, in 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 Ferrari, it's like, you know, it's a sacrilege to do that. But that does look pretty fucking good. That looks sick. Oh, it's 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.

1:32:22I would do that. If I own the Porsche, I would call that dude, that would be like, hey, dude, this stuff, man. Look at that. Look at what he did to a... That's the first or the last of the air -cooled cars, I think. Hey, Louise, we gotta call this dude a 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.

1:33:01Yeah, I think those... Relge Woodhead, one of those, one of those LS swapped. They put those motors into like... Or is it the Beatles sometimes, too, right? The Volkswagen? Yeah. The old ones? Yeah. They're sick. You can put an LS in anything. They're bulletproof. Such a good engine. Oh, and I'll tell them about the Porsche engines. I think they fit in there. They definitely do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of people have done that. Yeah. They put them in VW buses. Only 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.

1:33:32The 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. 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?

1:34:04Like, on memes and stuff, the Mustangs are infamous for when they do little burnouts or when they just do a little fishtail, they end up going out of control and hitting people on curbs. That's the driver, bro. They get made fun of a lot. 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 what that's about. I mean, yeah, it's a driver thing. 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 it might be wrong. Maybe it's just me.

1:34:40I have a Mustang. I should just say. I have a new Mustang. But I have a Super Stank. 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 takes off. Or try the time. It might be like half a say, it might be a second. And count how long it takes for the, like, when you let off the throttle, 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?

1:35:19I swear to God. Find out if that's a thing. It's a delay. I've never heard of that before. Yeah. Especially when you're 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 fluent. This is an F -150, five -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 forced. Try it. Try it out. No, I'm gathering. Mine has no delay. No, it has no delay. No. So I was thinking maybe that's why some people slide out of control of those because they're not used to the delay.

1:35:58Because they're getting 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. You could probably fix it with a tune, but that's how they come out the fact. I have not mine, man. Let's put it to the tune. I have a Raptor. And I also have a Mustang. And neither one of them has any problems like that. They're immediate response. Try it. Compared to your other cars.

1:36:31Pull out the GTR. Pull out the Tesla. Pull out the cooler. The Tesla is very different than all of them because it's instantaneous. It's no gears. It's one gear. 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 fine. 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. Every car reacts a little different to like when you floor it. Yeah. The reaction time is different.

1:37:03Maybe four is just the floor. You're just hanging on to this reaction topic, man. I don't know, man. I don't know. Anything in there about delay and the throttle on the Mustangs? The problem with the Mustangs that they personally bought. One person. 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. I think you're talking about anecdotal experiences from cars that weren't tuned in correctly. I want you to floor that Mustang. You're super snake and then tell me what the what the time was. I floor that thing all the time.

1:37:33But mine's a normal one. It's a Shelby. Okay. So Shelby, North America, they take a regular. I still want the data, Joe. I want you to floor it and give me the data. Yeah. Give me the get that. What is it? What do they call them? The Trekkies. They track everything for you. It's like a app. Oh, okay. And you put this little thing in your cup holder and you floor it. 2005 to 9 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.

1:38:17Bigs 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 say they're 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. That'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.

1:38:54It's just so rare when I find something that I'm genuinely interested in. Yeah. 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 right 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 ride it out or like. And I wrote last night in the night before. Just because I'm like I have to write something down just to see if I can like squeeze something out.

1:39:29But 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.

1:39:58At 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. Are you non -stop or do you take weeks off every now and then? I was non -stop 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 or I didn't do any sets for a month and it was weird. I'd never done that before. The only other time I did that was I surgery in my knee. I took two weeks off. Then I went on stage and crutches after that.

1:40:37And then during COVID, during COVID I didn't, didn't 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. So I had no pressure to do a show. I didn't have any show scheduled. So I said, let me just 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.

1:41:14I 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, 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 folder 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.

1:41:51And expand on it. And maybe smoke or never read. And fuck them. Think about it. And go, what is? What would life be like if no one figured out the wheel? What would life be like if no one ever invested any time in figuring out antibiotics? And then you just go on a rant. Go on a rant. Write things down. And then write it in essay form. So I don't try to write in joke form. I write about a subject. What is about the subject? It's interesting to me. I look at it at a bunch of different angles. And then usually when I do that, there's a thing in there that's funny. One thing. I could just pull that thing out and then figure out, how do I deliver that one thing?

1:42:32Oh, I get you. Yeah, so instead of just always thinking about what can I talk about on stage? What are the jokes? Think about what interests you. And if you feel like you're burnt out, do you have to show scheduled nonstop from now on? No. 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 they upset? Because they're like, hey, it's not a tour. It's like a pit stop. Oh, the thing you're lazy. Yeah. And then 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.

1:43:08It just worked out that way, man. I want fucking time off too, you know? You got to not listen to people. Do what you want to do. Don't listen to anybody. I feel like I'm on. 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 like with time, I can care a little bit less about that or whatever. It's still tough. 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.

1:43:49Like 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 you're... If you're 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.

1:44:26Right. 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, you know what this means? You know how to say this? Say that? Like no, they're just like... Well they're trusting you. You say you can speak Spanish. That's crazy. The trust they put in. Because they're only backfire... I mean yeah, I could backfire on my agent, my manager, whatever it would be like, hey you've out for this guy. Sure.

1:44:55But 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 a Yo -L Romero on the podcast, Joey Diaz translated for Yo -L. Yo -L's from Cuba. Joey's from Cuba. So Joey, just you listen to Yo -L and translate. And then occasionally Yo -L would say things in English because his English is okay. Yeah, my game plan is just to like be straightforward with it. Yeah. And you should 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.

1:45:26Yeah. But that does happen in the Mexican community though, right? They get a little mad if you can't speak Spanish. Oh, they hate you. It's crazy. But fuck it. I just think that's just the funny kind of dub -witch sort 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 of humiliation. Like, or success. Or success. True. But that's why it's a dub -witch sort. Did you ever watch that movie Top 5? Chris Rocks movie Top 5?

1:46:10No. 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 a, he directed a movie and acted in a movie and people kind of trash in the movie and he's just like, what the fuck? I don't people see him 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.

1:46:47And 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. Know your lane. Know your lane. Yeah. So I think that's the dangerous part. 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 song or something.

1:47:24Like it'd be entertaining, but it wouldn't be great, you know what I mean? Right, but if you could do it, you got to give him a chance to possibly pull it off. That's true. A lot of people have done that. Like Post Malone's got a whole country tour. That's true. And it's, I want to see it. It was great. But that is a very talented man. That's how anybody says. Very talented man. So it's like, you have to know how seriously to take yourself to. Well, sort of, or you have to not think about it. Like he's like a guy, he kind of stays, stays toasty, keeps rolling. I don't think he ponders it too much.

1:47:56I think he does what he wants to do. Yeah. 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 gonna 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, 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. Yeah. Do you worry about that?

1:48:30Is that something that you worry about? Fucking up. Sometimes to a degree. I think I know myself well enough to know like, 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 so talented. Like that's, I feel like that's scary.

1:49:09That'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 yeses been around you. A bunch of you kissing your ass.

1:49:43And 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, yeah, tell the line between a like confidence and just like cockiness. Most great people that I know kind of hate what they do. Not not hate what they do and that they don't love it, but they 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, but 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.

1:50:20But 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. 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.

1:50:55Treating is as if it was new. Yeah. Treating is as if it was new. That's hard for people. That's the dance because the worst thing is seeing a comic on stage is bored with doing stand up. Yeah. Oh my God. You know what people see in people complaining before they go up? I 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.

1:51:34And you're complaining, you have to do it again. You gotta 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. 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.

1:52:03And 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 rehearse jokes. And it's true. You can tell when a comedian is not enjoying their job. And you hear comedians talk about it. 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 you're just not feeling it anymore. Exactly. You're not 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.

1:52:39Like, I'm beyond blessed to have this fucking job. But it's fun. 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, I'm the same old route 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 go on stage and I might do like fucking five minutes tops. Whereas now I might do like 20, 30 minutes of it.

1:53:15But if it's fun, it's fun. Like, it's like with the portions and the dude who was a Japanese dude who was like shaping them up. Like, people might get mad. But like, if it's cool, it's cool. I feel like comedies 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 see you again. That too. And it's 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?

1:53:46I 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. They're fucking people, man. Or more likely to comment. I let them down. Yeah. 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.

1:54:15Especially in the beginning, they thought they did well. They're like, probably killing myself if I had that set. That's ridiculous. Yeah. Like, you think that was good? That's terrible. People get delusional. That's a fact. But, you know, you just got to be able to self -assess. Yeah. 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.

1:54:45As 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 mother ship or the comedy store with 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 some will say, do you still do it when you say this? And you go, no, I don't do that anymore. 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.

1:55:13That 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, never thought of that way. And then you have a whole new element of the bit.

1:55:40I was talking with my buddy, René 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. They like that. 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.

1:56:14Like, the best and the worst. They will. They'll have to. Like, you walk off stage are 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? 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 for us? Like, I don't know. I'd walk off stage and René would be like, why are you fucking say that? Those fucking weird.

1:56:40And I'd be like, ah, he's right. And then it's like, help shape the bit over months, you know? You're having people that get bounce ideas off. It's 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 they would, he would do a set at the comedy store. And then they would meet up and go over the material. Yeah. 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.

1:57:13And the last set, you were like a little more aggravated about it. And I think it made the bit better. You were trying that. No. No, I haven't done it. I mean, I've definitely got notes from friends before, you know? Which is great. Like when someone will sit back and give you some tag lines 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.

1:57:45And 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 when some of his best stuff. If you go back to like his, 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. I like when he did that bit. I think he's like a legendary bit. Chris Rock bullets. 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.

1:58:18You know, a lot of bangers. You're here one of those bits where you're like, ah, I wish I would have thought of that. Oh, yeah. One of those bits is one of my favorite all -time jokes. You're here to Louis CK when he talked about like, he's afraid of new places. Like, that's his biggest fear of hell. He just won't know how things work down there. No, I would do it that bit. 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, ah, suck my dick. And then he's like, how do you even know when a demon comes?

1:58:47Like, then he comes. It's 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, the fucking best joke. I'm like, bro, I wish I would have thought of that. Like, this is right there. Like, that sounds like a Louisiana joke. Yeah. I'm just fucking genius. That dude, that dude's fucking genius. Yeah, he's great. He gave me a bunch of great tag lines once at the improv.

1:59:17Yeah. Sat and watched my sat and had a bunch of fun lines. That's fun to do. Well, Louis did that a lot with Chris as well. He did that with Chris Rock. They were like in the same class order? Well, you know, they all were doing it together in New York at the same time, yeah. Hey, do you ever act? Not anymore. No? No, it stopped doing that a while ago. I don't like doing it. Do you like it? I'm too busy. I'm too busy and it's not what I mean, I didn't mind doing it, but it's not the butterfly you want to chase. Yeah. You can't chase all the butterflies. No, it's like two time consuming. You know, if you're acting, you're on set all day long.

1:59:53You 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. I did a commercial for Verizon in Spanish. Oh, yeah. Yeah. A big thing. Again, they should have checked my Spanish first. That's on there. 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 of Northern Spanish, which is, I mean, yeah, my family is from like the Northern part of Mexico.

2:00:34But 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, it's 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 wanted me to sound like, I'm from like a city, like a big, like a Mexico city or something. 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.

2:01:13And I'm just like, hi, he's in money. So what was the difference in the way you had to pronounce the word? So can you give me an example? Yeah. Like, apparently, the way I talk, I like, I had to say the words with no, like, like, I had to say, I'm like, I don't explain, like, just straight it. Like, I don't know, man. It's like basic example of the words. Like, I had to, like, I had to say like, I would like, I would like to speak one horizon, I would like to do a narrow, 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, like, or where is it?

2:01:58Yeah, northern California is a good one. Right? They don't have like a neutral accent, right? It's like a more neutral. 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. So I just remember talking to the dialect coach.

2:02:30And she's like, I don't know, 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 late back. But I feel like I had to do that more in Spanish. Like, instead of just saying, like, hey, I'll have to be able to plan for a sunrise. And I have to be like, I'll have to come into Plankovar. And I had to talk like the fucking dude at the end of a commercial, who's like, something maybe very to change. Oh, a fast guy. Yeah. So I have to do like fast and like, no accidents. So I couldn't... I feel like I feel like I couldn't move my mouth a lot.

2:03:00Like, I had to just like whisper it out. And then that's when they finally liked it. Which I, 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 Puerto Rican dude and Venezuelan dude, you know what I mean? And so it took the Mexicans to recognize the difference in the accent. The girl who was like the costume designer, whatever. She was just like, hey, this new talks country is hell. Everybody's like, what?

2:03:31She was like, I better not let it talk like that. She was cool as hell. I loved her. But in my mind, I was like, well, the fuck you're like, that's funny. They probably would have released that. People would have got mad then. I don't think so. I think 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 to a Texas accent, no one would care. Yeah, you wouldn't. Yeah. You should be like, all right, fuck it. Maybe they just know the Mexican market different though.

2:03:58Yeah. I guess because they want to make sure they appeal to like all sorts of Latinos and may... I don't know. Maybe... Maybe a Puerto Rican dude would hear that and be like, the fuck is this goofy as dude saying? Have you ever thought about doing shows in all Spanish? Yeah. I would like to break into that. But I... Tom Seger has done a bunch of those. Right. I saw him in Spanish. He was hilarious. Yeah. I've never seen Tom perform in English. I've only seen like, you know, like his specials are like on YouTube. But when I saw him in Spanish live, I was like, raw. Oh, he fucking... He's got fluent Spanish.

2:04:28And 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. He's not. He spent his summers like in Peru or something like that. Yeah. I mean, he's fluent. Well, I mean, he could do shows in Spanish. 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 was 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. Yeah. It's not a lot of humans.

2:04:58It's like Tiger Style versus fucking Crane or whatever. Right. Like, what percentage of comics can kill in two languages? It's got to be the smallest percent amount. I mean, it'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 were recorded it over like a Japanese tour and just everybody wanted like, what the fuck?

2:05:45Was it English speaking Japanese people? Well, he 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 funny to fuck with people. I just think it make me laugh to watch like a trailer for a special or I'm just like killing in Japan. Yeah. It's 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?

2:06:20Well, 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 that left America, 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. I saw a YouTube video on that. This dude, I think he moved from LA 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.

2:06:53What? Yeah. They're not having kids in a replacement rate. So, replacement rate means like, if there's two parents, you should have like three or more kids. Like, you have, 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 is 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 is 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.

2:07:34Oh, because there's like a lot of insults, though. That's what it is. No, but I'm saying it's like there, 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 replaced. 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, which is not like they're going to disappear. Well, they'll all die off. And if they don't have kids. 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.

2:08:08But they're the probably 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? It's our replacement rate. We're alright, right? We're knocking. We're knocking. We're a little weird, too. Yeah. Yeah, we're in a weird situation, too. I feel like all my friends, not 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 they've 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.

2:08:42Yeah, 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 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. 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?

2:09:16It'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.

2:09:54The menacing population is Japan's most urgent problem. Says Tarou Kono, long time, high ranking minister of Japan's parliament. Kono, nearly elected Prime Minister in 2021, said he intends to seek the highest office again and believe 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.

2:10:30There's a labor shortage in every industry including the government. 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 you can do that if you have 19? Yeah, that's like a little village. That's a lot of people. Condo says he's one of thousands Japanese in monogamous romantic relationships with fictional characters.

2:11:09What? That's the guy? No, no. Who's that? Oh, that's this guy. That guy. 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. Animes was fucking. Oh, look at this dude, man. He's in a monogamous relationship with fictional characters. Almost half of Japan's millennial signals, age 1834, self -report as virgins. What the fuck? Compared to barely 20 % in the US. That's a lot in the US. There's 20 % 34 -year -old virgins. That's crazy. Oh, self -reported. Right. They might be lying, lying host. How many of the ladies? How many of the ladies of the body count?

2:11:59Well, but here's the thing. It's like, fuck, man. This sounds like the plot of like a funny movie. We got to make these guys get laid, you know? Right. But they're actually fucking getting a relationship 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 girls want to be burdened down with that guy is your provider. And also, you're going to have to have sex with him. You're not going to be attracted to that guy. What you're going to have to do is they should outsource. They got to do that too. Yeah.

2:12:29Yeah, they're bringing in a lot of people from other countries. They got to bring in people to train these guys. Oh, to train them. Yeah. Like, I got douchey friends who were like on dating absences. And they're just fucking, they're just lazy. You know what I mean? They're trying to go 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. 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?

2:13:02Yeah. Oh. And they make you feel like they're around on my pee. I don't know. Oh my god. To come back, it's loneliness creating color for 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. My fucker, you need me out there. Yeah. Well, there's people that were the grandchildren, the people that survived the bombs. Oh. I was in me. I was off in Hymer. A bunch of old white dudes, you know? Yeah, I wasn't there.

2:13:43Yeah. Come on. My grandpa was in Mexico doing, you know what? I wasn't 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 like in high school. It's like, you know, one of my grandpa's. I know it's like a bad way to put it. And I love my uncle but it's like one of his bastard children, you know what I mean? Yeah. And I just thought it, 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.

2:14:20Wow. But it was just so funny to me that my grandpa, like nothing ever happened. 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 you'd 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 he was like, oh my dad, you know, I think he was kind of... 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.

2:15:01He's cool with my uncle. I think for him, he... I would say this, for me, he was the first relative that I... 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 and 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. And like my mom, like I've seen that, you know, and like... Then I meet my uncle and he has like this kind of like, hey, let's look at the glass half full, like more sensitive type.

2:15:50And I'm like, that's my guy. Like me and this dude, he's a teacher. Yeah, he's such cool people. I just started with 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 is together. And it's like, bro, you hit 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, Ted and 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.

2:16:30He's like, and you were showing me what you learned in karate. You were like 12 or something. And he's just like, nah, 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. 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 mom and my uncle and stuff. People were different back in those days.

2:17:03Yeah. For sure. And life is harder. People are less sensitive. Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah, yeah. And 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? Doing my grandpa's 70s? Yeah. Just like 80s? Yeah. Different world. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, 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 of. But harder people, man. Like loggers. Yeah, like loggers. Yeah. It's not. It's not good.

2:17:45I, 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 gotten too leisurely. Yeah. When life gets too leisure, you start to, uh, I think you start to look for like the next little issue. Sure. And issues get smaller and smaller. Exactly. You know what I mean? We're finding that in this society for sure. Yeah. And 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.

2:18:27This country, you were too young to probably remember it. But during September 11th, the country was so united. It was so crazy. Everybody in LA had American flags on their cars in LA. In LA. 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 LA too often. But I hear people talk about like how LA was like, uh, like the South Park guys I think in the interview they were saying like to be, to be like punk rock in LA.

2:19:06You had to say you were like Republican. Yeah. LA troops 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 treats me out that there's like, not that I'm like a huge patriot. But it does treat me out that like people, I guess they're 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're talking about before is if your life is too easy, you find things to complain about.

2:19:48Yeah. 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, 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 well. I'm just happy we got all this food too. Like we got good food. You're here 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. Other food is like that. Really fucking horrible. They're like bland food.

2:20:20And 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 give fat. The option. The options are good. There you go. Yeah, but if you live in a place where people are poor, you can eat bland food. It's true. Unless they have good spices that aren't expensive. You 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 with both times which is giving me the runs.

2:20:54My stomach's not built for it. Not built for curry. Uh -huh. I'm not. And like, I don't know. Then again, maybe it was just the people who made it. Both times it was homemade. Uh -huh. So I'm not going to say that. Yeah, go to a good Indian restaurant. See if you're great 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. 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. Fucking, I tried, uh, what did they call the snails?

2:21:30What do they call it? Escargo. Bro, I tried that for the first time. That's just delicious. It's pretty good, right? Yeah. Who would imagine the snails taste so good? Whoever, 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. They have had them in Mexico. Yeah? Yeah. They're a foot. Yeah. They fried them up and served it. They've heard about that.

2:22:01But they've like had a bowl of them sitting in the hotel when we got in there. I was like, what is this? They're like, what part of Mexico does you go to? I think this one was... I think it was a Puerto Vallarta. On there, I've been out there. I think that's where we were. I think we were Puntamita.

2:22:22But there's a lot of people that eat. They eat bugs, man. A lot of people eat fried bugs. That's nuts, bro. I like crossing it. I like crossing it. They're kind of crunchy. Yeah. Yeah. Not bad. cicadas, you know, when those cicadas hatch. Yeah. People eat cicadas. Got a lot of those in my garage. Yeah. I might try it. Yeah. Was that a lot in the country? I like the garage. They're open. Yeah. Yeah. Get those fuckers, fry them up. I don't know. I'm not kidding. My friend Ryan, yeah, he was just on the podcast recently. He had a big hatch. You know, because every ex amount of years, they have a bunch of them emerge.

2:22:56And it's like crazy. And they were everywhere. And he baked them in the oven. I think with teriyaki sauce. So they were delicious. Do you ever take advantage of the fact that these crickets are not going to eat those? Are those cicadas too? Are those cicadas end crickets or just cicadas? So they're on a stick. They're on a stick like a shishikabab. Fuck that, dude. Fuck yeah, bro. I'll get in there. Do you realize and do you ever take advantage of the fact that you hold so much power over so many people? Like, you're Joe Rogan. If you told somebody right now, like, if you fucking gum off the floor, it's twice as nutritious as like a steak.

2:23:37People that want to 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. Yeah. With great power comes great responsibility, Ralph Barbosa. They follow you. I'd be lying to people all the time. You probably would. Yeah. You probably would. Yeah. 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 to get things going. They're going to have to do something though.

2:24:10They'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 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 walked on 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 for sure.

2:24:42But I mean, you know, just refuge, just garbage, trash. They live pretty compact, don't they? In the city. In the city? Well, they do in New York City too, you know? Yeah, I do. I don't know if I stayed in New York for like two, three months. It's not my jam. I like it, but after that like two, three 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 have a car back then because I was doing road gigs. So I would, I would have had to got a parking spot at a garage in New York City.

2:25:23So you 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, 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, half hour plus outside of New York City. I don't even know it. 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.

2:26:00There's only two tables in there. You can fit four people in that restaurant. Put the wings and 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 the math is on this, but if you have so many good restaurants. Yeah, that's the spot. Two tables. And they play techno a lot. Yeah, no, it's a great place to eat.

2:26:34I 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. If you live in the city, you can actually be in nature. 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 be constantly surrounded by people that 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.

2:27:10We'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 friend, like my friend Jim Norton, who lives in New York City, who's 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 a library 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.

2:27:48But 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 that become a burden. Less importance. Yeah, they don't mean anything to you. That was 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. I was like, I could be dead. Nobody, it's just another fucking day to them. Right, if it was a small town in the middle of Oklahoma, the guy was laying down like that, it was a regular guy. He was like, oh my god, are you okay, sir?

2:28:21People will they check in on you, they call the police? Yeah, in the subway, that guy could be dead for a day before anybody says anything. I'll also have to deal with the 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, no, no, no, that brings me up. I want to ask you something. Have you, because I saw you have like the books on psilocybin. I don't 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 and people like if it's in their genetics?

2:29:04They think that's the case with marijuana, especially high dose pot, maybe, 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 towards 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.

2:29:46My 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 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, like your voices. So it scared me off of mushrooms. I haven't done them in like, I don't know how long. But I heard more of the voices saying. One of them, I remember arguing with like other versions of myself. I was talking like loud. Like one of them was a really bad trip though.

2:30:24I 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 a 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 shut the fuck up. Stop complaining type. And then I had like a very like sensitive little bitch version of myself. I felt like they were all through arguing. And I was just like arguing back. Out loud. Out loud.

2:31:07Out loud. Is there anybody around you? No. That's good. I was in a hotel room by myself. Geez. Yeah. I fucked that hotel room up. You took you took seven grams in a hotel room? Mm hmm. I like 90 % of my trips have been in hotels. Why? I don't know. I have fun. Did you go out into the nature? I never tried that. I never tried that. It's way better. Yeah. I don't know. I don't want to be like high and public. Oh. Well, that's good point. I think there's somewhere 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.

2:31:47Go 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. Oh, yeah. I'd go to that. Sniff the ground. I won't mind if I get abducted by aliens. Why? I don't know. I always bring it 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 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. Believe it was the 50s.

2:32:25So Angela Hill is a UFC fighter. And she didn't even tell me this until after the podcast. Betty and Barney Hill. What is the Flintstones? No, no, no. That's rubble. No.

2:32:41No. No, this is a very famous case. So what year was this, Jamie? 1961. So Betty and Barney Hill. Wait, were they in the 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. Can they catch a fucking break? So her, 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.

2:33:19I was like, what? That's what that is. Because I know that. 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 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 psychiatrist. And the psychiatrist or the psychologist does a hypnotic regression thing. Like, let's try to find out what happened to you.

2:33:55And they both independently have this crazy story of being it 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, closing counters to the fourth con. 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. What are the experiments that they conduct on them?

2:34:36It'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 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.

2:35:17That'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...

2:35:54I 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, where tits are hanging?

2:36:29No, no, no. You never told it like this before. It's like at overtime 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... Oh yeah, then there was that thing.

2:37:07Oh 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?

2:37:41Like what was the questions? Did he guide them in that way? You know? It's like where there are independent people that 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. 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 it's judging you or it's a woman's voice and it's more comforting.

2:38:19Yeah, 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 concept? Manchurian candidate is like you hypnotize someone into you can bring them into action with like a phone call. Oh yeah, yeah. You have been activated. Don't like click. You say like a phrase and then you go. And then you go and assassinate the president or whatever it is. Yeah, you know, ask them. Scary shit. That's scary shit because I don't know how much they can actually do.

2:38:59I know they've definitely done a bunch of experiments to see how much they can talk people into doing certain things, how much they can hypnotize people in 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 certain patterns in the music or like to the words that they say in the shows that like brainwash is you to like do stuff that we do.

2:39:40Like 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? I understand. That's like, that's a bad idea. There's too many variables. With too many people that have to be working in coordination. Everybody is in on this except for you. 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 certain amount of chords. Right. And there's a lot of genres and there's repetitive topics that people choose because they're popular.

2:40:23So I don't think every hit is a hit. Like sometimes you hear a song on the radio and you're like, how is it going on the radio? It 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, the stuff we 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. Nothing. No, Ralph. No. So you would have to have a grand mastermind who's in charge of manipulating everybody all the time.

2:41:02Maybe it's you. To be able to come up with something. You don't like that. I'm on your tail. No. I don't know, man. I think I want to 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 are you saying? Yeah. I'll be honest with you because there's a very good one around. I'll put it for you right now. What is it? Yeah. I might be the next Terrence Howard. Shit. It's not. I mean, it's similar.

2:41:35So this is Charlie Puth. He's describing what happens after songs are like, this is in the mixing process. Okay. I heard 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.

2:41:56Same thing with this song. That is sped up. And this is what it originally sounds like. Everybody wants to hear my every word. Everybody wants to hear my every word. 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.

2:42:35Listen to this song. Oh, okay. Well, that's interesting, but that's a little bit different. That's just like making... 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, 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 they're right after Nas is Leonard Skinnerd.

2:43:12I'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 see different people's talent, like from different... Like, I think I can appreciate talent from any genre. So if you hear like a Leonard Skinner song, you're like, holy shit. That guy is saying the shit out of that note. Maybe I don't relate to what he's saying, but that was fucking dope. But I also think it helps you communicate and connect with people from different cultures, different backgrounds. Yeah, for sure. Cause 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.

2:43:51But 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. Right. You know what I mean? I know what you mean. Yeah. A manufactured feels like... Yeah. Yeah. But I do like to listen to like different types of shit, because it's like, I want to know, not that I honestly 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 or... Oh, yeah, for sure.

2:44:26Well, 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, 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 is when I started traveling is, how similar a lot of people also are. Yeah. Sometimes you run into people that are like, very proud of like the city they're from and like their neighborhood.

2:45:00Yeah. And you know, fight for it or fucking tie for it. Oh, yeah. And then you go to another city, and that's like the same person, just a different title. Yep. Yep. Yeah, people get real tribal. They're real tribal for their stupid ass town. All right, Ralph Barbosa. Tell everybody where you got to be, you got a website they can go to, you can find you with your seven tours. Yes. Seven date tour. Yes, sir. Catch me in one of the seven seas at, oh, my website is called BarbosoComedy .com. You can see any shows I got coming up. My Instagram, Ralph Barbosa 0 -3. Automotive channel for me to be mean, if you want to see.

2:45:37Yeah, definitely. I'm going to check that out. I'm going to subscribe to that for sure. A couple of beans, just street racing. How many videos 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. What are you doing tonight? Take it off to New York now. 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.

2:46:09Ralph Barbosa, Planet Bosa. Yeah. Who Larius stand up coming? I like that Hulu's doing this. Hulu did a lot of specials this year. It's great. 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. People love Hulu. I have Hulu. Everybody has Hulu. I figured why not try it. Why not? I'm very happy they're doing that. It's nice. It's nice that there's more options for comics. Hulu also. Thank you for the money. They gave us. They came with the cash. Hell yeah. Nice. Nice. Alright Ralph Barbosa. Appreciate you brother.

2:46:46Thank you for coming in. Thanks for having us. It was fun to have you. Alright. Bye everybody.

2:47:03Thank you.