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Joe Rogan Experience #2362 - Ralph Barbosa

Ralph Barbosa is a comedian. Watch his new special, "Ralph Barbosa: Planet Bosa," premiering August 8th on Hulu, and see him live on his "Bean Without A Cause" theater tour. https://www.barbosacomedy.com Get a free welcome kit with your first subscription of AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/joerogan

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  1. 0:01 – 3:06

    Studio warm-up: magnets, UFO toys, and Travis Walton’s abduction story

    1. JR

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. RB

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) What's up, y'all?

    4. JR

      So, let's go. What are you doing? Are we playing with magnets?

    5. RB

      Yeah, man. I'm checking out all your toys. What'd you say this guy's name is? Travis?

    6. JR

      That's Travis Walton.

    7. RB

      Travis.

    8. JR

      And he's, he's a guy that got abducted, allegedly, by, uh, some sort of a UFO in the 1970s, and, uh, the story was so crazy that it became a movie. It's called Fire In The Sky. And I don't know, like I said, I don't know if he's telling the truth, but it's very compelling. He doesn't seem like a liar, and he's been telling the exact same story for 40-plus years.

    9. RB

      I think he's telling the truth.

    10. JR

      You think so?

    11. RB

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      Yeah?

    13. RB

      Yeah. I don't know. I don't know anybody, uh, per- I mean, personally, I don't know anybody who's kept up a lie for that long.

    14. JR

      (clicks tongue) There's gotta be someone. Gotta be someone that's like... I, I think people can make a story up and then only keep that s- that lie. Usually, generally, when people lie about stuff, they'll lie about a bunch of stuff, especially something that crazy. "They took me aboard a UFO and they fixed me." So this is the story. The story was... These guys were all loggers in Arizona, and so they're driving down this logging road and they see some crazy light in the sky and it goes into this area. They pull off to the side of the road. They walk towards it and there's this disc that's, like, hovering, this glowing disc. He walks towards it and he got really close to it and he got hit with a beam of light, and he falls back. Like, that's- The art. ... supposedly what it looked like. That's the art of it. That's the art, the art depiction of it, what these guys saw. He gets hit with this beam of light and they take off. They're like, "Fuck!" And they did jump back in the truck and take off. He's lying on the ground, and they get, like, five minutes away and they're yelling at each other. "We gotta go back. We gotta go get him." They were scared. And so they're like, "Fuck it. Let's go back." So they go back to go get their friend and he's gone. So, five days later, there's, you know, there's a manhunt for him. Nobody can find him. Five days later, he shows up, walks into town. He's fully... It doesn't look like he's starving to death. He's not out of water. Doesn't look like he's been living in the woods. It just looks like he, uh, just, like, a normal day and he tells this crazy story. He tells this story that he got abducted. They took him aboard this craft and fixed his body 'cause the beam of light that came out of the ship from w- whatever, whatever it was, whatever energy source it was, fucked his body up. They repaired it and they communicated with him telepathically while they were on the ship. I forget all the details of it, but-

    15. RB

      Yo, but-

    16. JR

      ... this is, this is the film of it. But this is supposedly what he said the experience was like. He said it was terrifying. And he described... The thing that, that's crazy is that they all describe the same exact creatures. They describe these little-

    17. RB

      Who is they?

    18. JR

      People that get abducted.

    19. RB

      Oh.

  2. 3:06 – 5:54

    ‘Close encounters’ classifications and abduction movies as cultural shorthand

    1. JR

      People that have had UFO experiences, anybody that's had direct contact. Did you ever see that movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

    2. RB

      Mm-mm. I saw that movie The Fourth Kind when I was in middle school.

    3. JR

      What's that one? Is that an abduction one-

    4. RB

      Where they, I think-

    5. JR

      ... where they come get ya?

    6. RB

      Yeah, it's like a... Man, I only watched it once. It scared the shit outta me. I think people go under, like, hypnosis and they re- they remember what their abduction was like or something like that.

    7. JR

      Hmm. Yeah.

    8. RB

      Yeah. Don't quote me on that.

    9. JR

      Well, the third kind, I think, is contact. I think close encounters of the first kind is, like, you see it. I don't know what the second kind is. This is, like, a list of the kinds. "The Fourth Kind derived, explains J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with aliens. The Fourth Kind denotes alien abductions." Dun-dun-dun.

    10. RB

      Yeah, yeah, that one.

    11. JR

      I feel like-

    12. RB

      I like how we talk about aliens like it's, like, feeling on a girl, like second base.

    13. JR

      (laughs) First taste.

    14. RB

      Like, yo, did you get to the fourth kind?

    15. JR

      Get to fourth base. She takes you home. Yeah. It's-

    16. RB

      Nah, but his, his friends, they, they're... Like, his friends that left them, that left him.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. RB

      I mean, they saw it.

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. RB

      So how s-

    21. JR

      They all have the same story.

    22. RB

      Has to be real. I don't think you're gonna convince these guys.

    23. JR

      Probably not, but maybe you could. It's like, it's not impossible. It's not like they... It's like breathing underwater. That's impossible, right? Okay. Flapping your wings at the top of a cliff, you fly away. That's impossible. Keeping a lie is possible. It's not likely. It doesn't make sense. Doesn't make sense why they... One of the reasons why it doesn't make sense is Travis and one of the guys in the truck had gotten into a fistfight that same day. Like, they didn't like each other. They hate each other. They're workers. They're just coworkers. You know, logging is hard fucking work, man. You're, you're cutting trees and carrying trees and it's back-breaking, brutal labor, and you get hard men. H- loggers are bad motherfuckers, man. My friend Evan, his whole family is from loggers. Um, and they're just... He's like, "They are the hardest fucking people you've ever met in your life." Just hard men. Like, d- d- doing this shit deep into their 60s and 70s, carrying logs. Just, just a different breed of human being. So, uh, they fucking didn't get along and they got in a fistfight that day.

    24. RB

      So why lie for him?

    25. JR

      And that... Why would you lie for him?

    26. RB

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      Exactly. Why would you lie for him?

    28. RB

      Yeah. These are hardworking men, Joe Rogan. They don't need to lie.

    29. JR

      They're savages.

    30. RB

      Yeah.

  3. 5:54 – 12:35

    D.B. Cooper: skyjacking mystery and whether the escape plan was genius or chaos

    1. JR

      (laughs) I got DB Cooper li- later. Who, who was the guy that was the, uh, the actor?

    2. NA

      Uh-

    3. RB

      DB Sweeney?

    4. JR

      DB Sweeney. That's right. DB Cooper was the guy that stole the money and jumped out-

    5. RB

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      ... the plane.

    7. RB

      DB Cooper?

    8. JR

      That's how I get them confused. Yeah. You never heard that story?

    9. RB

      He's... Was he the guy wanted by the FBI?

    10. JR

      Yes. Yeah.

    11. RB

      He's, like, a top 10 wanted or something like that?

    12. JR

      Yeah. Yeah. He stole a bunch of money, and then hijacked an airplane, and then jumped out of the airplane with the money.

    13. RB

      And he, he died? Like, they found the body and everything?

    14. JR

      Probably.

    15. RB

      Or he... (laughs) Or was it, like, a mysterious, like-

    16. JR

      It's a mysterious thing.

    17. RB

      Yeah?

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. RB

      Oh, shit.

    20. JR

      You never heard that story?

    21. RB

      Nah.

    22. JR

      It's an interesting story. But the area the guy skydived into was heavily wooded. And the problem with that is, if you're a skydiver and you're in a parachute, and you, you go into a heavily wooded place, you're gonna land in the trees.

    23. RB

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      And-

    25. RB

      And then you risk, like-

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. RB

      ... r- getting-

    28. JR

      Well, just cutting yourself-

    29. RB

      ... impaled.

    30. JR

      ... loose, also. Cutting yourself loose out of the trees. What if you're 30 feet up? How are you getting down?

  4. 12:35 – 21:16

    From Cooper to combat stimulants: meth in WWII and drugs as battlefield tools

    1. RB

      They say, they say Hitler was on meth too.

    2. JR

      Yes. Yeah, most likely. He was definitely on oxycodone, and, um, the- the actual Nazis were definitely on meth, for sure.

    3. RB

      They gave Nazis meth?

    4. JR

      Oh, yeah, man. There's a great book... Is it out there?

    5. NA

      It's in the other room, yeah.

    6. JR

      It's in the other room. It's called Blitzed, um, by, um... How do you pronounce his name?

    7. NA

      Or, uh... Norman Ohler.

    8. JR

      Norman Oh- Ohler, right?

    9. NA

      Ohler, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    10. JR

      Ohler. Norman Ohler. Uh, great guest too. He was amazing. Um, but he wrote this book about all the meth they took during World War II. It's all about, like, the most meth they gave to the people in the tanks-

    11. RB

      Wait, wait, so he was a Nazi that wrote a book?

    12. JR

      No.

    13. RB

      Oh.

    14. JR

      He's a researcher. How dare you?

    15. RB

      I wanna read a book by a Nazi.

    16. JR

      That's the book. Well, you'd have to read, like, Mein Kampf, and you have to read it with, like, a book cover on so people don't think you're a psycho.

    17. RB

      Well, I mean, we gotta know what they were thinking, you know what I mean?

    18. JR

      Right.

    19. RB

      People should read it, 'cause-

    20. JR

      That's the book. That book is great.

    21. RB

      Blitzed. Yes, yes (laughs)

    22. JR

      So they, they were all on meth.

    23. RB

      That's Hitler just all fucked up off meth.

    24. JR

      Well, Hitler was definitely on oxycodone. He was on a bunch of other shit, and he had a doctor. It's a, it's a really good book. You should read it. It's very interesting, 'cause it- it lets you- it gives you a totally different insight into why they were behaving the way they behaved. Like the kamikazes, for instance.

    25. RB

      Mm-hmm.

    26. JR

      You know, they flew their planes right into the ships. They were on meth.

    27. RB

      What?

    28. JR

      Yeah. That's why they did it.

    29. RB

      But like, what kind of meth? Like, were they just-

    30. JR

      Crystal meth.

  5. 21:16 – 24:43

    War, human nature, and Rogan’s ‘mandatory mushrooms’ thought experiment

    1. RB

      So, I was watching this video where he explains like what led to World War II.

    2. JR

      Oh, interesting.

    3. RB

      But he spends like 45 minutes talking about the hundreds of years before World War I even and how that kind of came to play.

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. RB

      So, first he, like, first he explains how World War I came to play, because to understand why, why World War II happened, you gotta understand-

    6. JR

      Right.

    7. RB

      ... why, what caused World War I, you know. And, uh, I forgot where I was going with this. There was just a point to it.

    8. JR

      Just history. History of war.

    9. RB

      Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No. So, uh, everything... I listened to it. I had to listen to it, like, three times 'cause, uh, you know, 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." Um, but then finding out that everybody was just, like, drunk and on meth the whole time just sounds like-

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. RB

      It sounds like it just was such a bro-y idea to go to war. Like, it's all the sophistication behind it.

    12. JR

      Well-

    13. RB

      But then at the end, they were just like, "Fuck it. Let's just get fucked up while we're out there, though."

    14. JR

      But all those old-time English gentlemen, they all wanted to go to war. It was like you wanted to prove your courage in battle. You know, it was a, it was a, uh, it was a bro-y thing. It was almost like a frat boy thing.

    15. RB

      Well, everybody wanted to conquer land back then, right? And just rule empires and shit.

    16. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    17. RB

      I, I feel like we should go back to that.

    18. JR

      (laughs) What are you talking about?

    19. RB

      No, I feel like stuff is too leisurely now. It's too comfortable.

    20. JR

      That's true. But we need to teach people that leisurely is not good for you. We, you don't need artificial... You know, you don't need the kind of conflict that's gonna ruin cities and kill people. And don't go back to that. That's stupid. We just need to understand how to manage the human body.

    21. RB

      What do you mean?

    22. JR

      Manage the body. Manage your brain and your body. That's the, the-

    23. RB

      Are you saying everybody should work out to just eat healthier?

    24. JR

      That's a, that's a mi- the mo- most minor interpretation of it.

    25. RB

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      But we need to figure out a, 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.

    27. RB

      Hmm.

    28. JR

      And I think the only way to do that is mushrooms.

    29. RB

      Everybody has to... Like, mandatory mushroom-

    30. JR

      Mandatory mushrooms.

  6. 24:43 – 27:40

    AI fears: Oppenheimer parallels, deepfakes, and ‘build it before enemies do’ logic

    1. JR

      There's no cure, but we need to r-... We need t- to guide a larger percentage of people in the right direction, and that, like, worldwide would... That'd 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.

    2. RB

      Yo, um, AI, that's some scary shit, 'cause I... (laughs) Uh, I wa-... (laughs) I don't know if it's real. I saw this video. I don't know h-... When, when it was shot or, like, how recent or not recent it is, because I just... I mean, all I'm watching is just Instagram Reels, right?

    3. JR

      Right.

    4. RB

      So it's a minute at, at the longest. It's, like, a minute long. So this could be a m-... A minute from some movie from 2002.

    5. JR

      Okay. What is it?

    6. RB

      Or it could've been recorded. But there's a video supposedly the, the... It said the godfather of AI warns people about the dangers of AI. But I'm like, "Why..." Like, if that's real, if, if whoever it was, like, behind AI, whatever team it was is like, "Hey, but be careful with this," it's like, why'd you make it, then? Like, I feel like they just did it to jerk themselves off, like a, like, a real Oppenheimer thing where he's like, "Now I become death, destroyer of world order."

    7. JR

      Right.

    8. RB

      It's like, why'd you do it then? You know what I mean?

    9. JR

      Well, it's the same kinda thing in that you have to do it, because if you don't do it, your enemy's gonna do it. If your enemy's get ahold of it, the whole world is very different.

    10. RB

      Hmm.

    11. JR

      The idea is that if America does it... America, we k-... We kinda 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. This is 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. Th- th-... No countries have this combination of freedom of speech, First Amendment, Second Amendment. The... There's, there's a lot of rights that we have in this country that are just different than the whole rest of the world. I think it's the best way to do it, and we like to think of ourselves as being the most benevolent of all the superpowers. We're the best ones. The other ones are evil. They're communist. They're run by dictators. We're, we're trying v-... Like, that's why everybody's afraid of Trump being a dictator. We don't want any dictators in this country. So if we develop AI first, phew, we won. That's good. Just like we developed the nuclear bomb. We dropped a couple of 'em and said, "Now back the fuck off. We're done here. We don't wanna do this anymore," and then we never did it again.

    12. RB

      Huh.

    13. JR

      So that's good. Now, if Germany had developed the atomic bomb first and nuked Britain and nuked America and just went on a nuking spree before we could ever develop one-

    14. RB

      You see the-

    15. JR

      ... imagine how different the world would be.

    16. RB

      Yeah. You ever, you ever watch those videos, the AI videos of, like, two celebrities making out? It'll be like Elon Musk kissing, like-

    17. JR

      Trump.

    18. RB

      ... Brad Pitt or some-

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. RB

      ... or Trump, you know?

    21. JR

      Yeah, I've seen those. (laughs)

    22. RB

      I feel like we had to make a couple of those and then tell the world like, "All right, now back the fuck off."

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. RB

      We did that.

  7. 27:40 – 33:56

    Nuclear testing fallout: John Wayne’s ‘The Conqueror’ and radiation consequences

    1. JR

      Yeah. Do you know how many times they blew up atomic bombs for tests, though, after that? I'm learning more and more about that recently. I'm reading this new book right now, uh, by this guy Richard Dolan. He's a UFO researcher. And he's talking about one of the things that they were doing was, um... They were doing altitude detonations, so they were detonating these nuclear bombs 150 miles above Earth. They did a bunch of 'em. They did it, like, a bunch of times. And-

    2. RB

      But then wasn't... Doesn't it stay in the air?

    3. JR

      They didn't even know. They were just experimenting and testing. There's a bunch of shit they did that is so wild. Do you know, like, John Wayne did a movie, um, in the Nevada desert near where the test sites were where they... They blew up, like, I don't know how many hundreds of fucking nuclear bombs out there. They blew up tons of nuclear bombs.

    4. RB

      And then John Wayne just went out there and was like, "What's up?"

    5. JR

      The whole cast got cancer.

    6. RB

      The whole cast?

    7. JR

      The whole cast got cancer. John Wayne died of cancer. Like, a giant percentage of the people that worked on that show, on that movie got cancer.

    8. RB

      Imagine-

    9. JR

      See if you can find that, the results of that.

    10. RB

      Imagine being on the team who's, like, sending the nukes into the air, and then you just kinda see, like, the cloud stay in the air. Like, I wonder who was the first guy to be like, "Ah, shit."

    11. JR

      They didn't even understand it then.

    12. RB

      (laughs)

    13. JR

      Dude, no one had been... No one had been subject to large-scale radiation before. It, it was a new thing, especially from a detonation. It had never happened before. There was no meltdowns yet. There was no Three Mile Island or Fukushima yet. Uh, 1980 article in 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 and debate amongst historians and scientists. But yeah, like, the amount of bombs that they detonated is-

    14. RB

      Was it a good movie at least?

    15. JR

      I don't think it was. It might've been that Genghis Khan movie.

    16. RB

      Oh, man.

    17. JR

      Was it the Genghis Khan movie?

    18. NA

      Yes.

    19. JR

      Oh, it was a piece of shit.

    20. RB

      What is that movie rated on Rotten Tomatoes? (laughs)

    21. JR

      Bro, it has to be a zero. It's so bad.

    22. RB

      Oh, man.

    23. JR

      It's John Wayne playing a Mongolian, which is the craziest thing of all time.

    24. RB

      Ah.

    25. JR

      It was the ultimate whitewashing.

    26. RB

      (laughs) He's doing Mongolian face?

    27. JR

      And he talks like this. 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. (laughs)

    28. RB

      This is what you got cancer for, John Wayne? Come on, man.

    29. JR

      Bro... No, he 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 'cause it's so stupid. Yeah, fall off the horse. (instrumental music plays) Look how hot she is. Woo.

    30. RB

      She's all impressed by him.

  8. 33:56 – 37:58

    Autism, ‘spectrum’ identity, and the social pull of labels

    1. RB

      I actually wanna write a self-help book, but not like a real one. Like a, maybe like a joke one, you know?

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. RB

      But something that... I don't think my standup comedy would ever get me canceled, but I think maybe, like, a book. But I wanna call it something like, like, I don't know. Like, You're Not Autistic, You're Just 25 and, Like, an Asshole or something like that. And then j-... The whole book just tell people, like, "Get off your ass, man. Like, stop making excuses."

    4. JR

      What do you do for actual autistic people that read that book, though? They're like, "Hey, he says I'm not autistic."

    5. RB

      (laughs) I'm gonna be like, "You're not autistic then believe what you want."

    6. JR

      How many people do you think are autistic? What percentage?

    7. RB

      Um, I don't know. I feel like probably a lot, but I think there's, like, there's, like, aut-

    8. JR

      You think a bunch of people are saying they're autistic so that they get, like, extra credit?

    9. RB

      Yeah, I think it's, like, it's... I think it's like being, like, like, what do you call it? Like, Apache or whatever.

    10. JR

      Oh, where you lie?

    11. RB

      Or, like, Cherokee.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. RB

      Where you're just like, "Oh, yeah, I'm, like, one-eighth."

    14. JR

      Yeah (laughs) .

    15. RB

      Some... Like, it-

    16. JR

      Like, "I'm one-eighth au- autistic."

    17. RB

      Yeah, I-

    18. JR

      "I'm kind of psychic."

    19. RB

      Oh, yeah. Like, so I think if you come up on the spectrum, it doesn't mean that you're, like-

    20. JR

      Right.

    21. RB

      ... enough-

    22. JR

      Full-blown.

    23. RB

      Yeah. Like, you, you've seen people with, like, full-blown autism.

    24. JR

      Right, right.

    25. RB

      And the struggles they have to go through in life.

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. RB

      Like, somebody has to be in their life. You know what I mean? Like, to-

    28. JR

      Yeah, for non-verbal people. Yeah.

    29. RB

      Yeah. Or, like, just whatever. But you can't, like, be a, a, a, a, 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 wanna do. Like, "Oh, I didn't wanna shake that guy's hand 'cause I'm just, like, autistic." Like-

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  9. 37:58 – 44:16

    Stem cells and Type 1 diabetes reversal: excitement, logistics, and risk tradeoffs

    1. NA

      I'm not, I'm not like that.

    2. JR

      You know-

    3. NA

      I'm diabetic. I never tell people.

    4. JR

      Are you full-blown diabetic, like-

    5. NA

      Full-blown.

    6. JR

      ... Type 1?

    7. NA

      Not like, not like with the autism thing.

    8. JR

      Not the food stuff?

    9. NA

      Yeah, Type 1.

    10. JR

      Um, so you're born with it?

    11. NA

      No.

    12. JR

      No.

    13. NA

      I got it when I was like six.

    14. JR

      Really?

    15. NA

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      Type 1 when you're six. That's crazy.

    17. NA

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      You know, they just cured Type 1 diabetes in a w- woman with stem cells.

    19. NA

      What?

    20. JR

      Yeah. It was, uh, the first of its kind. I... Was it China that did this? See if you can find it, Jamie. Um, but yeah, you know, they're, they're using stem cells to try to treat all sorts of different things, and one of the things that they were really successful was with this lady, they cured, for the first time ever, Type 1 diabetes.

    21. NA

      How do they give you the stem cells?

    22. JR

      It's a good question.

    23. NA

      Do you smoke it in a pipe?

    24. JR

      No. I think they inject it into you. Um, but-

    25. NA

      That's not too bad.

    26. JR

      But if this... I mean, you might not have to take insulin. Do you take insulin right now?

    27. NA

      Mm-hmm.

    28. JR

      Yeah. You might not have to take insulin. They might be able to fix you.

    29. NA

      How do I get these stem cells?

    30. JR

      Let's see what it says. What is the, the...

  10. 44:16 – 47:37

    Creative slump and ‘The War of Art’: resisting resistance as a comedian

    1. RB

      (laughs) Nah. Honestly, I could use something life changing. I got like writer's block real bad right now.

    2. JR

      Do you?

    3. RB

      I don't know what to talk ... Yeah. I'm like un- ... I'm like unmotivated with new stand-up. I was reading that book you got out there. I never-

    4. JR

      The War of Art?

    5. RB

      No, no, no, no. Um ... Oh, the Hunter S. Thompson book?

    6. JR

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    7. RB

      Yeah. Hunter S. Thompson was a dude or that was a chick?

    8. JR

      You don't know who Hunter S. Thompson is?

    9. RB

      Nah. But I kinda-

    10. JR

      How dare you.

    11. RB

      ... have heard of Thompson's work through ... I read in the bef- like, before the book actually starts, it's like other books by Hunter S. Thompson.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. RB

      And, uh ...

    14. JR

      Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

    15. RB

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      Yeah, that sounds-

    17. RB

      And, uh, what is it? Rum Diaries or something?

    18. JR

      Yep. Yep.

    19. RB

      So, it's a dude. All right.

    20. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    21. RB

      Nah, that dude's good.

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. RB

      (laughs)

    24. JR

      Jesus Christ. What did you take before you came here? Like something-

    25. RB

      Nothing. I just-

    26. JR

      Something happ- ... You're on sleeping pills or something? What the fuck is going on?

    27. RB

      No, man. I'm sober. I just woke up and came here.

    28. JR

      Um, yeah. Hunter S. Thompson's a very famous writer from the counterculture movement.

    29. RB

      He, he wrote this paragraph in that book, man. And, um ...

    30. JR

      That was Johnny Depp, he played him in that movie.

  11. 47:37 – 50:25

    Ralph’s car obsession and Formula Bean: chaotic builds, learning, and content creation

    1. RB

      Well, like, I, I have this thing where like I can't help but to like obsess on a subject and lose a lot of interest in another subject or other subjects. But like, I, like ... I mean, I ... Yeah. I choose what I like or whatever, you know what I mean?

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. RB

      But like, to a degree. That make sense?

    4. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    5. RB

      So like, it's like chasing butterflies. Like sometimes it's like that yellow butterfly, like I just gotta keep fucking, fucking with this butterfly right here. And there's so many other butterflies around. But then sometimes it's the blue one. So, like comedy is like the blue butterfly and then like other shit is like other butterflies. I started an automotive YouTube channel with my buddy.

    6. JR

      Oh, okay.

    7. RB

      Yeah. It's not super big, but it's so fun. And it's just like little challenges that I find in it, you know? Like, learn this, learn how to do that, learn how to do this.

    8. JR

      And the automotive in terms of like repairing stuff? Like what are you-

    9. RB

      Yeah. We put a ... We got a 1989 240SX. It's my buddy's car. He bought it for like 600 bucks. And, uh, he wants to put an LS in it. But before putting the LS in it, he wanted to blow up the original motor, so we put nitrous and turbo on it, but without tuning it.... so there's, there's no computer telling it, like, how to do it safely-

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. RB

      ... or, or, like, efficiently. So, it's just, like-

    12. JR

      God.

    13. RB

      And, uh-

    14. JR

      How'd that go?

    15. RB

      ... we didn't blow up the motor. We blew up the coupler for the turbo, though. It's all, like... And the motor sucks now. Like, it won't stay on, but-

    16. JR

      So this is a Nissan?

    17. RB

      Yeah, an '89 Nissan 240.

    18. JR

      Oh, wow.

    19. RB

      Yeah, yeah. It's, it's a horrible grade car.

    20. JR

      Why'd you choose that year?

    21. RB

      That's my friend's car. He just-

    22. JR

      Oh, he just had it laying around?

    23. RB

      ... he got a good deal. Yeah. Everything we find is pretty much Facebook Marketplace.

    24. JR

      Oh, okay.

    25. RB

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      And so then you're gonna drop an LS into that?

    27. RB

      Yeah, yeah.

    28. JR

      Okay.

    29. RB

      We might, but maybe. Look, that's the channel.

    30. JR

      There's your channel.

  12. 50:25 – 1:16:10

    Car nerd deep dive: GTRs, track dreams, Corvettes, balance, and driving feel

    1. RB

      It's like a, it's like a big, it's like a cardinal sin, though, to put a, a LS in a Skyline.

    2. JR

      Oh, right, you wanna use a Japanese engine, yeah.

    3. RB

      Yeah, yeah, the RB, it's the original Skyline motor. So that's a, that's an R34 GTT, so that comes with the RB25. The GTR, which is like the super famous-

    4. JR

      Yes.

    5. RB

      ... the super expensive one, comes with the RB26, but...

    6. JR

      So you really know your shit, man.

    7. RB

      I'm learning.

    8. JR

      I have an R35. I have a Nismo.

    9. RB

      Oh, yeah?

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. RB

      You told me one time, I think.

    12. JR

      Ooh, I love it.

    13. RB

      One guy tried to sell me one of those, but I couldn't do it. It was too exp-... It was out of my price range.

    14. JR

      It's expensive.

    15. RB

      I have, I have an R35 too, but not a Nismo.

    16. JR

      Well, you could... The thing about R35s is you can turn it into exactly what a Nismo is.

    17. RB

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      I mean, y-... The... Everything is modable.

    19. RB

      Yeah.

    20. JR

      I mean, these cars have been around for so long in the community of modders for both them and a lot of JDM vehicles, like, uh, Supras, like, uh, n- the 240, 240, uh, Zs, the old ones. There's a whole company now that is in the UK that takes, uh, 2... Nissan, uh, Datsun. It was a... Back when it was Datsun.

    21. RB

      Datsun.

    22. JR

      Datsun 240s. And turns them into these fucking sick, streamlined sports cars with, like, wider tires, much more horsepower, super lightweight. It's...

    23. RB

      See, I'd like to do that.

    24. JR

      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, o- one of the most reliable cars you can buy, and it's ridiculously fast. That's my shit right there, son.

    25. RB

      I, uh...

    26. JR

      That's what I have.

    27. RB

      You ever take it to the track?

    28. JR

      Um, I have not taken the GTR to a track.

    29. RB

      Yeah, you got a Nismo, you gotta take it to a track, bro.

    30. JR

      I kn- I know, but I've only been to a track a few times, and the last time I went, um, was a Corvette thing. I went with them. I'm, I'm... We're actually gonna build a, a track, um, rather a studio on the track.

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