Joe Rogan Experience #1849 - Rich Benoit

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) Hello, Rich.

   4. RBRich Benoit0:13

      Hello, Joe.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:13

      Good to see you. What's happening?

   6. RBRich Benoit0:14

      How goes it, friend? It's been a while.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      It's been a while, man. I've, uh, been watching your exploits.

   8. RBRich Benoit0:18

      Thank you very much.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      (laughs)

   10. RBRich Benoit0:19

       Thank you. Thank you, thank you.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:20

       How is that, uh, V8 Tesla?

   12. RBRich Benoit0:22

       You know what's funny? I brought you something.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       Yeah?

   14. RBRich Benoit0:24

       I brought you a magazine-

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       Oh.

   16. RBRich Benoit0:26

       ... based on the V8 Tesla. That's for you.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       Oh. No shit?

   18. RBRich Benoit0:28

       Actually, my hotel key's in there, so just so you can't take the whole thing. I had to keep it-

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Popular Mechanics?

   20. RBRich Benoit0:32

       Yes, front cover.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       Wow.

   22. RBRich Benoit0:34

       Thank you, thank you.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       Did Tesla reach out or ... Well, they're still ... Are they still at odds with you? I wonder if-

   24. RBRich Benoit0:39

       You know what's funny? I don't even know if they ... They don't really care about me.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       They don't? But they did for a while, right?

   26. RBRich Benoit0:43

       I think ... You know what? They would, They would watch me in, in silence-

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       (laughs)

   28. RBRich Benoit0:46

       ... and just, and just cautiously observe what I do, pretty much.

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       We should just tell everybody why. You were one of the very first guys that-

   30. RBRich Benoit0:53

       That's yours. That's yours.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah. …

   1. RBRich Benoit15:00

      Lightweight, I think it's the fastest car in the world to like 30. I don't know what that means, that means much at all, but I think it's the, one of the few gas cars that can actually compete with the Plaid.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:10

      Yeah.

   3. RBRich Benoit15:10

      In terms of acceleration.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:11

      That's the Turbo S Lightweight, right?

   5. RBRich Benoit15:13

      Turbo S Lightweight, yes.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      Yeah. That's a ridiculous car.

   7. RBRich Benoit15:16

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:17

      It's-

   9. RBRich Benoit15:17

      And it's weird too. Like I ... The Plaid's great in every way, but I would, I would rather have the Turbo.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:23

       How come?

   11. RBRich Benoit15:23

       Is, is that weird to me? Because it's ... If I'm only gonna live with one car, I would want one that is still ... It's ho- honestly a, a marvel of technology. The Plaid is too, but all that does, it, it takes energy from the battery and it goes to two electric motors.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       Mm-hmm.

   13. RBRich Benoit15:42

       The Porsche, everything is tuned. The exhaust is tuned for a certain sound. The engine is tuned for a certain sound. Everything from that car is handmade just for driver pleasure.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:53

       Mm.

   15. RBRich Benoit15:54

       Whereas the Plaid is more like, "Hey, listen. There's Netflix. Look at that cool little screen. The car drives for you."

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       Right.

   17. RBRich Benoit15:58

       I don't want a car that can drive for you, which is why you'll see a lot of supercars don't do that. The cars that everyone achieves to be, they don't drive for you, because they want you to drive them.

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       Right. They want you to feel it. Like, a supercar-

   19. RBRich Benoit16:10

       Right.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:10

       ... wants you to feel the car. It's like it gives you a feeling, uh, an excitement of emotion.

   21. RBRich Benoit16:16

       Right.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:16

       But the p- the problem with the Turbo is that sound is not as good as the sound from, like, the GT3.

   23. RBRich Benoit16:21

       No, it's not. But the GT3 was a lot of my range. That's the only thing. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:24

       The GT3 has that, that high revving (imitates engine revving) .

   25. RBRich Benoit16:27

       Yeah. Yeah. That's ... Right.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:31

       And the shifting of the gears, the manuals, everything.

   27. RBRich Benoit16:34

       Right.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:34

       It's everything with those cars.

   29. RBRich Benoit16:35

       But I think I'm getting lazy and old.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:36

       (laughs)
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   So you have a…

   1. RBRich Benoit30:00

      the six-speed shifter, you wouldn't be able to tell that anything's special about it.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:03

      So you have a six-speed manual in there?

   3. RBRich Benoit30:05

      Six-speed manual shifter. Yeah, it-

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:06

      Wow.

   5. RBRich Benoit30:06

      ... you'll see it right there in that video right there to the ...

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      Back it up a little bit. Do you call it ICE-T? (laughs)

   7. RBRich Benoit30:10

      ICE-T, yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:11

      Internal combustion engine tea.

   9. RBRich Benoit30:12

      Engine Tesla, yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:13

       I like it. (laughs)

   11. RBRich Benoit30:14

       So there's a shifter right in the middle.And it's a six-speed. It's sequentially shifted. You tap it forward and tap it back to go up and down.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:20

       Oh, okay.

   13. RBRich Benoit30:20

       And it has ... That, that's it right there.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:21

       Like a race car.

   15. RBRich Benoit30:22

       That's it right there. Yep.

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:23

       What is that second gear to the left of it?

   17. RBRich Benoit30:25

       Uh, that's to engage, uh, reverse.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       Oh.

   19. RBRich Benoit30:27

       So you pull back to go in reverse.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:29

       Wow.

   21. RBRich Benoit30:30

       Yeah. So that's the only way you could tell. I mean, everything else works on the screen. Like, the door indicator buttons work, the sunroof works. Literally everything works in that car.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       How hard was this to do?

   23. RBRich Benoit30:39

       Um, it, it took a team of us. It was ... We have, uh, uh, Joshua, our, uh, our fabricator. We had to literally cut the car in half.

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       Really?

   25. RBRich Benoit30:48

       To form the transmission tunnel. Because Teslas are ... Teslas are one of the few cars which are great because they were designed as EVs only.

   26. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       Right.

   27. RBRich Benoit30:56

       Right? Some companies will take a gas car and then throw an electric drivetrain in it and call it a day. Teslas were designed from the ground up to be electric vehicles. Well, the Model S was. So the floor is completely flat. Y- y- ... If ... For rear-wheel-drive cars, you have a drive shaft-

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:09

       Mm-hmm.

   29. RBRich Benoit31:09

       ... that goes from the front to the back. Well, we couldn't put that there because the floor is flat. We had to cut the car in half, install the engine, and then build a transmission tunnel over that drive shaft from the front all the way back. Also a transmission tunnel as well.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:24

       Whoa.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah, but the... but,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      .

   2. RBRich Benoit45:00

      Yeah, but the... but, but they are fun, but i- it's... some places are saying, "These are so dangerous that we don't want them on the road anymore."

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:06

      When it comes to nostalgia, for me there's one car that I've been thinking about a lot lately, it's the NSX. Oh my gosh. I had two NSXs.

   4. RBRich Benoit45:14

      You have?

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:15

      I used to. I don't have any anymore.

   6. RBRich Benoit45:17

      Okay.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      But I ha- I had one in the '90s with the flip-up headlights.

   8. RBRich Benoit45:20

      Mm-hmm.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:21

      And I had another one in 2005.

   10. RBRich Benoit45:23

       With the static ones?

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:24

       Yes.

   12. RBRich Benoit45:24

       Yeah. Those were nice cars, man.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:26

       It wasn't fast, but I put a, uh, a Comptec supercharger on it-

   14. RBRich Benoit45:30

       Mm-hmm.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       ... and it got into like the 400 horsepower range.

   16. RBRich Benoit45:33

       How was it?

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:33

       It was great.

   18. RBRich Benoit45:34

       Really?

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:34

       It was fun. But it, the... it was just there's something about the cockpit and the feel of that car.

   20. RBRich Benoit45:41

       Oh, I want that. I want the new NSX.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:42

       You like the new one?

   22. RBRich Benoit45:43

       I like the new one, yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:44

       They're s- they're not making them anymore.

   24. RBRich Benoit45:45

       They stopped making them. And the prices shot up.

   25. JRJoe Rogan45:47

       They're making the S. The S is the, the, the latest and greatest and it's supposed to be pretty fucking incredible.

   26. RBRich Benoit45:52

       How come you didn't get a, uh, a second generation NSX since you like

   27. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       'Cause it's automatic.

   28. RBRich Benoit45:56

       Yeah, I feel you.

   29. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       What I, what I liked about the first generation NSX was that it was a super lightweight mid-engine car-

   30. RBRich Benoit46:02

       Mm-hmm.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:02:14

   Okay. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      show Triggonometry. And Francis for a long time actually taught a comedy course.

   2. RBRich Benoit1:00:04

      Okay.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      And he's a funny comic and he taught-

   4. RBRich Benoit1:00:06

      Right.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:06

      ... a comedy course. And he ... That's the rarity. Most of the people that teach those things suck.

   6. RBRich Benoit1:00:12

      Right.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:12

      They're usually failed comedians and they're trying to like eke out some money by-

   8. RBRich Benoit1:00:17

      Gotcha.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:17

      They put together a course and the, the course serves function though. One of the things that it does serve is it-

   10. RBRich Benoit1:00:22

       Is it a free course?

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

       No.

   12. RBRich Benoit1:00:24

       This thing's never free, is it?

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:25

       There was ... Yeah.

   14. RBRich Benoit1:00:25

       This thing's never free. It's a joke. Damn it.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:26

       Not in that world.

   16. RBRich Benoit1:00:27

       Damn it.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:28

       No, those people that do that are doing that just ... Uh, some, some of them would say, you ... People would say, some people would say, not me, that that's a scam.

   18. RBRich Benoit1:00:34

       Right.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

       And that they're not teaching you shit. But what I think, they're providing a service where they're allowing you to get on stage for the first time.

   20. RBRich Benoit1:00:42

       Really?

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       And sometimes that's enough. Like sometimes ...... some people wanna do comedy and they don't know how to start, and so, "Oh, I'll take a comedy course." And they'll-

   22. RBRich Benoit1:00:50

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       ... at the end of the course, they, they get you on stage, and you perform.

   24. RBRich Benoit1:00:53

       Oh, you actually get on stage?

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:54

       Yes. A lot of them do that.

   26. RBRich Benoit1:00:56

       Oh, shit, that's scary.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:00:56

       Yeah, they have like a five-week thing or something like that, and they'll have you try out your jokes in front of the crowd-

   28. RBRich Benoit1:01:03

       Right.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       ... of comedians that are also there. And then after five weeks, then they put together a natural show and friends and family will come-

   30. RBRich Benoit1:01:10

       Oh.

Episode duration: 2:41:54