Joe Rogan Experience #2066 - Ralph Barbosa

1. 0:00 – 15:00

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   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music)

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:11

      Joe Rogan, how are you?

   5. RBRalph Barbosa0:13

      What's up, young gun? How are you?

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      What's up, man?

   7. RBRalph Barbosa0:15

      Ralph Barboza on the way up. What's happening? (laughs) Hey, it's good to be here.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      (laughs) Good to have you, man. I hear good things about you. I was just talking to Brian Simpson about you today.

   9. RBRalph Barbosa0:23

      Oh, I'm a huge Brian Simpson fan.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       I love that dude.

   11. RBRalph Barbosa0:26

       Yeah, he's cool.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       We were working out today and he was just saying great things about you.

   13. RBRalph Barbosa0:29

       No offense to Brian Simpson, but he works out?

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       (laughs)

   15. RBRalph Barbosa0:33

       (laughs) I never, I never thought-

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Oh, shit. (laughs)

   17. RBRalph Barbosa0:37

       ... I'd hear, like, that sentence.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       He does now.

   19. RBRalph Barbosa0:40

       Aye, hell yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       He's, yeah, he's been working out with me for three weeks now. I got, like, a little comedy boot camp going on over here.

   21. RBRalph Barbosa0:46

       Yeah?

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       Yeah.

   23. RBRalph Barbosa0:47

       That's-

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       Yeah, Shane Gillis, Duncan Trussell, Hasan Ahmad, Brian Simpson, and me, we, uh, get together and put, get some workouts in.

   25. RBRalph Barbosa0:55

       All those guys are, uh, are living down here?

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       Yeah, they're all living down here.

   27. RBRalph Barbosa0:59

       That's dope, man.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:00

       Yeah, it's dope.

   29. RBRalph Barbosa1:00

       Austin's pretty dope.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01

       Austin's dope right now.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   I bet. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      best things ever for, uh, relieving, like, uh, tension. Like, if you're fucking tense, just like you got too much going on in your world, man, you just put on some good tunes. I have a Wu-Tang playlist-

   2. RBRalph Barbosa15:13

      I bet.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      ... that I play when I hit the bag.

   4. RBRalph Barbosa15:15

      I, I would, uh-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:16

      Oh.

   6. RBRalph Barbosa15:16

      I'd go, like, early, like, early in the morning for, like, private sessions.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:20

      Mm-hmm.

   8. RBRalph Barbosa15:21

      And, uh, that's when I would put on some Wu-Tang, some RZA.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:23

      Mm-hmm.

   10. RBRalph Barbosa15:23

       RZA specifically. He has that one song that, like, uh, You Can't Stop Me Now.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:27

       Yeah.

   12. RBRalph Barbosa15:28

       It's like a boxing classic.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       R- RZA's got so many jams. But for me, number one is Protect Ya Neck. That has to be on every playlist. And, uh, that's like we... when we would drive... (laughs) we would drive to the arena shows and we'd... sometimes we'd get a police escort, and there's something wild about cop cars with flashing lights and you listening to Protect Ya Neck. (laughs)

   14. RBRalph Barbosa15:53

       Nice.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:53

       (laughs)

   16. RBRalph Barbosa15:54

       We, we've never had a... I've never had a police escort.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:57

       Gravel pit's another one.

   18. RBRalph Barbosa15:57

       But one time in a parking lot, I had a security guard escort.

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:00

       Ah.

   20. RBRalph Barbosa16:01

       But they have, like, the yellow lights. Those aren't as threatening or as fun, the yellow lights.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:05

       No, that's not as fun. You need blue lights.

   22. RBRalph Barbosa16:06

       It was also like a, like a shopping center parking lot, so it wasn't...

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       (laughs)

   24. RBRalph Barbosa16:11

       It's not exactly an arena, but I don't know.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       Dude, some of the best comedy clubs ever are in those little shopping center mall places.

   26. RBRalph Barbosa16:17

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:17

       Little fucking clubs that you would never imagine were great, you know?

   28. RBRalph Barbosa16:23

       Little Funny Bones?

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:24

       Yeah, man. Shit, there's some... I've never been to that one that's at the Mall of America, but I heard that's dope too.

   30. RBRalph Barbosa16:30

       That was, like, the first club I got to do, like, when I started hitting the road. That was like... Or second club. I don't know. It was, like, November, like early November 2022.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

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   1. RBRalph Barbosa30:00

      like, not a comic. Like, I don't know. My uncle has a, a body shop, and, uh, sometimes there's just random dudes that'll go hang out, dudes that are getting their cars painted there, dudes that... And sometimes I, like, miss those guys, 'cause I remember them-

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:17

      Right.

   3. RBRalph Barbosa30:17

      ... just talking shit about, like, just random things.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:20

      Just regular dudes.

   5. RBRalph Barbosa30:20

      Yeah. Sometimes they're curious about things, and they don't have the knowledge of, like...... the celebrity world or, like-

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:25

      Right.

   7. RBRalph Barbosa30:26

      ... the outside this or that. You know, they're just kind of shooting the shit.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:28

      Yeah.

   9. RBRalph Barbosa30:28

      Sometimes I do kind of miss those convos, but I don't know. I, I, I don't like them getting mad at jokes I say.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:36

       Butthurt, yeah.

   11. RBRalph Barbosa30:36

       Yeah, so like-

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       I know what you're saying. Yeah, I mean, I got a lot of friends that have regular jobs. One of my best friends used to work as a maintenance guy out of high school. I've known him since I was, like, 24, 23. We been friends forever.

   13. RBRalph Barbosa30:51

       Do you ever imagine, like-

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       Shout out to Tommy Junior.

   15. RBRalph Barbosa30:54

       Yo, what up, Tommy Junior?

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       (laughs)

   17. RBRalph Barbosa30:55

       Do you ever imagine, like, going back to something like that? Like-

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:02

       To, like, regular life?

   19. RBRalph Barbosa31:04

       Yeah. Do you ever-

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:04

       Yeah.

   21. RBRalph Barbosa31:05

       ... yeah?

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:05

       Well, I think everybody that gets real famous, there's a certain amount of pressure that comes with that that's not comfortable for some people. You know, like, you think how it is, like, reading your comments? You imagine if I read my comments? (laughs)

   23. RBRalph Barbosa31:18

       (laughs) I was gonna ask you about that, too. Do you ever read them?

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:20

       No.

   25. RBRalph Barbosa31:21

       No?

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       It's not... They're not good for you.

   27. RBRalph Barbosa31:22

       They're not?

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:23

       No.

   29. RBRalph Barbosa31:23

       No.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:23

       I think the bad ones are not good for you, and the good ones aren't good for you, either.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Right. …

   1. RBRalph Barbosa45:00

      sentence.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      Right.

   3. RBRalph Barbosa45:01

      That shit made me never want to, like, check out the Bible anymore.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      (laughs) Yeah, the Bible was, uh, they think they, it was an oral tradition for hundreds, if not 1,000 years before they ever wrote it down.

   5. RBRalph Barbosa45:15

      God damn. That's a-

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      Yeah.

   7. RBRalph Barbosa45:17

      Yeah, that's a lot of mix-up.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:19

      Could be.

   9. RBRalph Barbosa45:20

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:20

       Yeah, for sure people could've added some shit in there.

   11. RBRalph Barbosa45:22

       You religious at all? Like, do you go to church or anything? You follow a religion?

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:25

       I, I'm not religious, but I'm not an atheist. People always say I'm an atheist. I'm not an atheist.

   13. RBRalph Barbosa45:30

       I, I feel like I'm on something like that, you know. Uh, there's something going on out there, but, uh, I, I mean, I grew up like somewhat Catholic, like how most Mexican Catholics are. Like, maybe you don't go to church, but you do this thing all the time.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:42

       Yeah.

   15. RBRalph Barbosa45:43

       So like I still like, you know, like, but, yeah, there is, I don't know, man. I don't know what to believe. I do want to have a religion. I'm not gonna lie, but sometimes I don't.

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:51

       It'd be nice if there was a good one, one you could like really lock into, like, "Man, you guys are making sense."

   17. RBRalph Barbosa45:56

       Well, I just like that people really like lock into something, and like, I don't know, man. I wanna, I wanna like defend something. I wanna be like, "You don't speak that way about Allah."

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       Right.

   19. RBRalph Barbosa46:07

       But-

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:08

       It's a nice gang to be a part of.

   21. RBRalph Barbosa46:09

       Right?

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:10

       Very aggressive gang.

   23. RBRalph Barbosa46:11

       But I also feel like the gang I belong to, whether I like it or not, is like the comedy world.

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:16

       Yeah.

   25. RBRalph Barbosa46:16

       Just make fun of everything.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:18

       Yeah. That's our gang. But I think religion helps a lot of people, and I don't necessarily think it's-

   27. RBRalph Barbosa46:26

       Oh, yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:26

       I, I think it came from somewhere, and I think there's, there's like real wisdom to these stories that people wrote down thousands of years ago. But there's a lot of problems in the translations, too, 'cause they're translating shit from, uh, like the... Here's a good example. The Dead Sea Scrolls is the oldest version of the Bible that they're aware of, and it's from, uh, Qumran. It's these, uh, it's this, the, they had these like, these caves, and they found these big pottery vessels with scrolls in them. And these scrolls, uh, they're all made of, uh, animal skins. Like that's how old they are.

   29. RBRalph Barbosa47:06

       Oh, shit.

   30. JRJoe Rogan47:06

       That was their paper. They wrote on animal skins. And the, one of the ways that they figured out, they had to put it all together again, and a lot of it was crumpled and falling apart. And so they had to do DNA testing so that they could figure out, okay, this sample, these samples are all from this cow, and so we'll put these here. And it took, it took them fucking years and years and years to do this. And out of, after 14 years of deciphering it, there was this one guy, his name is John Marco Allegro, and he was, uh, uh, he was a p- an ordained minister, but he was also agnostic because when he studied theology, the more he started studying it, the more he's like, "Wait a minute, what the fuck is, how come this is so much different than this? And what's the origins of these words, and where does this all come from?" So this guy studies this Dead Sea Scrolls for 14 years, and then he writes a book called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, and he said that the whole Christian religion was really about psychedelic mushrooms and fertility rituals, that these people had hidden all of these stories in these allegories and in these tales. They'd hidden all this information on what to do and when to do it. And that all, like it's a very, very controversial book, but that all of the, like even-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:06:12

   Oh, nice. …

   1. RBRalph Barbosa1:00:00

      like, you know, made sure that they lived there. He got out of prison like 2019 and he went back to like painting cars, working on cars, started saving money, started doing like contractor jobs, started his own business. Now he does like pretty big business, contract-type work with a couple other guys that have their own business. And he like built his dream house-

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:22

      Oh, nice.

   3. RBRalph Barbosa1:00:23

      ... on that land. No more trailer home. He gave the trailer home to my cousin and they moved it like further back on the next piece of land so, you know, now he has to like start his own little journey or whatever.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

      Nice.

   5. RBRalph Barbosa1:00:33

      But he built that, uh, he built that house and it's nice, man. I started building a house on that land as well before my cousin's house so I could like outshine my cousin's house.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:42

      (laughs)

   7. RBRalph Barbosa1:00:43

      But it's not done. But my house is purely ... Like, I'm not even looking forward to ... I'm not even trying too much right now to like actually build a house and be like, "This is how I want my kitchen and living room." Not even worried about it. The h- Where I'm ... The living compartment is on the upstairs. I'm worried about the downstairs, 'cause that's gonna be like my shop. I used to paint cars and I wanna, I wanna do that in my free time again.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:01:03

      What kind of painting?

   9. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:04

      ... like, uh, I was, I was still very much, like-

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:01:07

       Like artistic painting, you mean?

   11. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:08

       No, like, you know, paint the cars, like-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:10

       Right.

   13. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:10

       ... paint them blue, paint them red, you know.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:12

       Oh, just painting cars.

   15. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:13

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:13

       Painting cars.

   17. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:13

       Detailing them afterwards, you know?

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:15

       Oh, okay.

   19. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:15

       Uh, I always wanted to paint candy, but you need a lot of experience. A lot of people don't know, when you're painting candy, you can't just do the quarter panel and then move to the door.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:23

       What do-

   21. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:23

       You gotta do, like, the whole sur-

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:25

       What do you mean by candy?

   23. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:26

       Like, you know, candy paint, like real, real glittery, real pretty-ass paint.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:29

       Oh, is that what it's called?

   25. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:30

       Yeah, yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:31

       All right.

   27. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:31

       Come on, man. You're in Texas now. You gotta learn about candy paint.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:32

       I didn't know it was called can- I did- I didn't know that was what it was called.

   29. RBRalph Barbosa1:01:35

       Yeah, you ever go to a car show and, and maybe one car just fucking pops-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:39

       Yeah.

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