Joe Rogan Experience #1394 - Matt Farah

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Three, two, one. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      Three, two, one.

   2. MFMatt Farah0:00

      I gotta get a picture of that. (slaps table)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:03

      Matt Farah, ladies and gentlemen.

   4. MFMatt Farah0:04

      Joe Rogan.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:05

      We're going live.

   6. MFMatt Farah0:06

      Are we?

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Dude, the interior of your car is fucking disgusting.

   8. MFMatt Farah0:09

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:09

      And I can't believe you like it.

   10. MFMatt Farah0:10

       It's-

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:10

       Why would you do that when you can get any interior? You could make it any color. You decided to do b- what is it? Bus?

   12. MFMatt Farah0:17

       It's city bus fabric.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:18

       City, legitimately?

   14. MFMatt Farah0:19

       It's actual city bus fabric. Yeah, yeah. We got it from the city bus supplier. (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       Pfft.

   16. MFMatt Farah0:24

       I like-

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       I mean, is it just, like, puke-resistant or something?

   18. MFMatt Farah0:26

       a- It's everything resistant, UV-

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       Really?

   20. MFMatt Farah0:27

       ... dirt, stain.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       Really?

   22. MFMatt Farah0:28

       Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I-

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:30

       But does it feel good?

   24. MFMatt Farah0:31

       All right. Hi, everybody.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       Hi.

   26. MFMatt Farah0:32

       I have a-

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       It's Matt Farah.

   28. MFMatt Farah0:33

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       (laughs)

   30. MFMatt Farah0:34

       I have an old 911. It's called a safari build.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah, yeah. It's not-…

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      it?

   2. MFMatt Farah15:00

      Yeah, yeah. It's not-

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      (coughs)

   4. MFMatt Farah15:01

      You know, with a mid-engine car, what is interesting about a mid-engine car is you find this a lot. I bet if you went out and looked at a Ferrari, like a 458 or something-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:09

      Mm-hmm.

   6. MFMatt Farah15:09

      ... you'd be shocked at how narrow the tires are.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:10

      Really?

   8. MFMatt Farah15:11

      Yeah, when you do a mid-engine car, you can give up a lot of that huge fat rear rubber because the, the weight distribution doesn't necessitate it. Weight... Y- uh, tire, tire sizes are typically chosen by the weight distribution of the car. So like, your 911, uh, your o- air-cooled car, your old one, right?

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:28

      Mm-hmm.

   10. MFMatt Farah15:28

       So you got big fat rears and you've got relatively skinny fronts. That's because that engine is over the rears. So in a mid-engined like a... I just looked this up for an unrelated thing. In the 458, the front tires are only 245s on that, and the rear tires are 305s. So-

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:43

       Huh.

   12. MFMatt Farah15:43

       ... whereas a Corvette, your front tires are like 275... The old Corvette, front tires are 275, rears are like a 335. That, that difference in weight distribution is how big of a difference you need in tires.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       Oh, that makes sense.

   14. MFMatt Farah15:57

       It's weird.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       The... That's... You know, have you driven the GT500, the new one?

   16. MFMatt Farah16:01

       No, I didn't get-

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:01

       No?

   18. MFMatt Farah16:01

       ... to do it yet, unfortunately. It looks fun. Someone posted a video. It ran a 10.6 quarter mile outta the box (laughs) .

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:06

       It's crazy.

   20. MFMatt Farah16:07

       That's fucking nuts.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:07

       It's a very, very fast car.

   22. MFMatt Farah16:08

       I cannot believe some of the cars that people can just buy now.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       Well, speaking of which, that Porsche that you... You sent me the video the other day.

   24. MFMatt Farah16:16

       Yeah, the Taycan.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:17

       It's T- Tay- I gotta say it right.

   26. MFMatt Farah16:18

       Taycan.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:19

       Tay-can. Taycan.

   28. MFMatt Farah16:20

       Taycan.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:20

       Taycan.

   30. MFMatt Farah16:20

       Yeah.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. MFMatt Farah30:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      Mm-hmm.

   3. MFMatt Farah30:00

      There's a lot of backtracking going on in the full self-driving.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:03

      Mm-hmm.

   5. MFMatt Farah30:03

      Level five is not coming anytime soon. You're not gonna be able to send your Tesla out to do errands for you without a driver in it anytime soon.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:12

      What was the parking... What Tesla promises-

   7. MFMatt Farah30:15

      (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      ... one million robo-taxis 20-

   9. MFMatt Farah30:16

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:17

       That was from 2019, four-

   11. MFMatt Farah30:19

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:19

       ... before '19.

   13. MFMatt Farah30:20

       I mean technically they have a year-

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:21

       Wow, it's only April.

   15. MFMatt Farah30:21

       ... and a month left, but they have delivered zero robo-taxis. (laughs) That's a lot of robo-taxis-

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:26

       Yeah.

   17. MFMatt Farah30:26

       They gotta deliver.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       A million?

   19. MFMatt Farah30:28

       He did, he said that shit, man.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:29

       Yeah. Well-

   21. MFMatt Farah30:30

       The problem with Tesla is Elon says some shit that then is impossible, and then they have to figure out how to do it later, and sometimes it doesn't work.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       Do you know who Kyle Donegan is?

   23. MFMatt Farah30:39

       No, who's that?

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       One of the funniest guys alive. He's got the best Instagram on the planet, and he does face swaps.

   25. MFMatt Farah30:44

       Uh-huh.

   26. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       In his video... You- you- you, now that you know, you didn't know-

   27. MFMatt Farah30:47

       Is it the deep fake guy?

   28. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       Now that you know, he does a lot... Well, Dr. Fakenstein did a lot of his-

   29. MFMatt Farah30:51

       Oh, that's the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       ... or the fakening, the fakening.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      cool as a Sharkwerks 911 GT3 RS.

   2. MFMatt Farah45:04

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      It's not, because a Sharkwerks is just as fast. You could drive it anywhere, you park it anywhere. It handles probably better.

   4. MFMatt Farah45:13

      Maybe. I don't know.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      Sounds just as good.

   6. MFMatt Farah45:15

      Bro, there is no rhyme or reason or math that leads you to buy (laughs) something like this.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:20

      No. Like, the air cooled thing is a weird world's what I'm getting into.

   8. MFMatt Farah45:23

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:23

      That world's weird. Like, if you had a 500 horsepower engine anywhere else that cost you 400 grand, people would kill you.

   10. MFMatt Farah45:29

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:29

       You go-

   12. MFMatt Farah45:30

       What?

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       Air cooled is like-

   14. MFMatt Farah45:30

       "What are you talking about? They'd beat you to death."

   15. NANarrator45:32

       Did we talk-

   16. MFMatt Farah45:33

       "Did you just charge me $400,000 for a fucking engine?"

   17. NANarrator45:35

       Yes. (laughs)

   18. MFMatt Farah45:36

       "I'll kill you."

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:36

       Yeah.

   20. MFMatt Farah45:37

       Did we talk about this on the last show?

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:39

       Um, no, we talked about this in text.

   22. MFMatt Farah45:40

       Okay. The, the value-

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:41

       We were talking about... Yes.

   24. MFMatt Farah45:43

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan45:43

       Explain that.

   26. MFMatt Farah45:43

       Air cooled horsepower-

   27. JRJoe Rogan45:44

       Yeah.

   28. MFMatt Farah45:44

       ... is like the worst value in motoring.

   29. JRJoe Rogan45:47

       Yeah.

   30. MFMatt Farah45:48

       So if you want, like... Let's say you're starting with an engine that works. You buy a regular car. Like, my Carrera is an '87. It's... My P- Porsche star- You're starting with an '87 Carrera, okay? And, and you go in and you have an engine that works, and you go to a performance shop and you say, "This engine makes about 200 horsepower as it is. I want it to make 300 horsepower." You have to give him your engine and probably $50,000 or $60,000. If you want that engine to make 350 horsepower, you probably have to give him $100,000. And if you want that engine to make 400 horsepower, you have to give him a quarter of a million dollars.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:08:30

   I believe that it's…

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      they're doing that. That they're making these standards extremely high.

   2. MFMatt Farah1:00:04

      I believe that it's good to have high standards.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:06

      Yeah.

   4. MFMatt Farah1:00:06

      And that you can get e- you know, you, but you end up with a higher quality product and you can then charge more for it, you know, and that's sort of how it works, but...

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:15

      That's a big leap for you, to just jump in and build some crazy car storage building.

   6. MFMatt Farah1:00:20

      (laughs) Yeah, I'd never done shit like that before.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:21

      Like what... Did you think about the like, the amount of money that must cost is fucking extraordinary.

   8. MFMatt Farah1:00:26

      I'll tell you off mic, but it's-

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:27

      Tell me. Yeah.

   10. MFMatt Farah1:00:28

       It's a, it's a, it's-

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:29

       I, I, I can only guess.

   12. MFMatt Farah1:00:29

       You could probably guess.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

       I can only guess.

   14. MFMatt Farah1:00:30

       But it's cra- it's crazy and it's scary. And it started small-

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       How much... Yeah, and-

   16. MFMatt Farah1:00:35

       ... and then it, and then it was like, well, it, the, the model doesn't work small. Well what about medium? Well the model doesn't work medium either. What about big? Well it only works big if you build the building. You know, 'cause you, the, the land is so expensive that you have to go vertical.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:48

       Uh, right.

   18. MFMatt Farah1:00:48

       And you can't go vertical in an existing structure 'cause it just doesn't meet earthquake codes.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       Oh.

   20. MFMatt Farah1:00:53

       So you have no choice (laughs) but to build. And then-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:56

       Wow.

   22. MFMatt Farah1:00:56

       ... there's a law in LA that if you build, for every 1,000 square feet of commercial real estate you have, you need to have two street-accessible parking spaces.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       Oh my God.

   24. MFMatt Farah1:01:04

       So I had to dig a basement. So I da- I dug a 7,000 square foot basement.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

       Oh my God.

   26. MFMatt Farah1:01:09

       So I have 30 underground parking spaces that counts. So the half the cost of the building was digging the basement.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:15

       Jesus Christ, dude.

   28. MFMatt Farah1:01:16

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:16

       And where is this?

   30. MFMatt Farah1:01:17

       It's in Playa Vista. It's across the street from Google and Yahoo and the Clippers building.

Episode duration: 3:08:49