How Ralph Barbosa is Funding His Car Addiction with Comedy

Welcome back to Talk Talk Nation, I'm your host Joe Weber and this week I sat down with

Ralph Barbosa.

He's one of the funniest comedians out there right now and we talked about juggling life,

his kid, you know, running an automotive YouTube channel as well as traveling as a comedian.

We had such a great conversation and then afterwards I took him out in the WRX and he

scared the absolute piss out of me.

He is a crazy driver, but overall I had so much fun with Ralph and I hope you guys do

too.

So without further ado, let's get into it.

Welcome back to Talk Talk Nation, we are joined by a very special guest today.

You know him from his channel Formula Bean or maybe his new comedy special Planet Bosa,

Ralph Barbosa.

Yo, what's up everybody?

Dude.

Sorry I had to move this pillow.

Oh no worries.

Yeah, these are weirdly deep chairs.

I can't reach the floor now.

It's all good.

Dude, Ralph, thank you so much for being on this, this is our second episode ever.

Hell yeah.

Would have liked to be number one, but that's alright.

Well, dude, I just watched your special, it's so funny, I really, I was like, you know,

with guests you're like, man I hope they're cool and I was laughing the whole f***ing

time, so I'm glad that you're cool, I'm glad that you're funny.

Thanks for watching the special man.

It's really good, check it out Planet Bosa, I want to ask you, is the title based on Street

Fighter?

Yeah, it's like a Street Fighter type font, legally not legally, please don't sue.

But the title, like the name of it, was more like a Dragon Ball Z rip off.

Yeah, when you were on the Spikes Car Radio, you were talking about Vegeta or what's the

name?

Well, Planet Vegeta.

Vegeta, yeah.

That's where the Saiyans are from.

Can you explain that to me?

I have no reference for that.

Yeah, Dragon Ball Z, you know, the main character Goku and then the other dude Vegeta, they're

the like last two, or I think there's a few more, but they're like the last Saiyans

left, their whole planet was destroyed.

This is like, I'm very base level Dragon Ball Z, this is like Super Saiyan, Saiyan, it's

like different levels of fight.

They're basically, they live on Earth, but they're aliens, their original planet got

destroyed, but their original planet was called Planet Vegeta.

And then there's also a character named Vegeta, right?

Yeah, yeah, he's named after his home planet.

And now they're fighting on Earth for some reason?

Yeah, they're more like they fight for Earth.

Oh, they fight, oh, they're trying to like defend it?

Yeah, I mean, most of the time they end up defending it just because that's what that's

what like what I love about Dragon Ball Z is basically they're like on Earth.

And then like an alien dude will show up and he's like, I'm going to destroy it unless

you can kick my ass.

And then they just throw hands to like defend Earth, which is like how it should be, you

know, yeah, no guns, no like, like they like each each of these alien dudes has like enough

power to just throw like a blast to the earth and like destroy it in one blow.

But they they're like honorable.

Not too much.

They're like, I'll give you one chance, the chance, you know, the only one that I think

like one of the villains did it, I think it was Majin Buu, Majin Buu, yeah.

And I think he just was like, all right, here he goes and he destroyed the earth.

But then they brought it.

That was the end of the series.

No, it's never the end in Dragon Ball.

It's like comic books matter, but it comes back to life.

There's always 50 chances.

Man, I got to check this out now.

You should just check it out.

Do you think it's like what age is my is it appropriate for my son to start watching?

They need like now.

Really? How's your son?

He's like a year and a half.

Perfect. Yeah.

Yeah. OK.

Yeah. Lots of bright colors.

That's what got me into it.

Hell yeah.

You tell me you used to do stand up too.

I did. Yeah.

Like that would you ever go out to a show?

Well, it's funny because I didn't think about it for a while.

And I was, you know, like, I don't there's a grind to it where you're like doing open

mics every night.

And once you have kids, you're like, no, this is off the table again.

You know, unless you have a bunch of support, you can't really do it.

But it's funny once I forced.

That makes it harder.

Like it's only once I had kids.

I started writing again because you have a different perspective and you're like,

you know, it's crazy about having a boy is blah, blah, blah.

And I just started taking notes and now I have like probably like 15 minutes

I could mess around with.

Yeah. Yeah.

I just have to like I don't want to do an open mic.

I want my friend to be like, hey, you want five minutes?

You know, when you're doing stand up, sorry if this is too stand up related.

No, I don't want to talk about cars at all.

When you didn't stand up, did you ever find yourself like, like you build

like a 15 minutes, maybe over the course of a few months?

Yeah. Did you ever find yourself like, all right, I got these 15 minutes.

And then you go, or I could take out a bunch of it and make it into like even

funnier seven minutes.

Yes. I like always want to distill it down to the funniest, even if it's

like only five minutes down from 20 or something.

I think that says more than, you know, like kind of a rambling 15 minutes set.

And if people, if you leave some people in the audience being like, damn,

everything he said was amazing and funny.

And that's way more impactful than like just.

I haven't, I haven't ridden a joke in like a couple of months.

Yeah.

So I'm like, well, I think you've earned a break, right?

You did, you came out with your special.

You could take a little breather.

Yeah. I think over the last like, I've been doing comedy about 10 years now.

Yeah.

But I think over the last three years is when I like burned pretty much any

material I had and it was coming up.

Yeah.

But I'm, I was like hungry for a little break and I was hungry to dive

more into the car world.

So I've always been into cars and there was always so many things

that I wanted to do revolving around cars.

Yeah.

And I feel like now I got like a little bit of money in my pocket to do it

and a little bit of time.

That's a good position to be in.

Yeah.

Dude.

So you started in like a paint shop.

Yeah.

My dad had a body shop when I was a teenager.

My uncle would do most of the body work in paint.

He learned under another dude named Alfred and my uncle would show me

these things here and there.

And when I was like right out of high school, I was, I went to another body

shop.

I didn't want to work for my uncle anymore because I wanted to see if I

could like do it on my own, you know, at another shop without him like I was

kind of holding my hand.

So I ended up working at a body shop and I wanted to become a painter there.

I was working under their painter and then I would cut hair on the weekends

to make like extra money.

Oh, shit.

Yeah.

I was, I learned to cut hair when I was like a teenager too.

That's cool.

And then I started doing stand up and I got really into it.

So I stopped working at the body shop and just kind of transitioned over to be

in a barber full time because as a barber, you have like way more flexible.

Yeah, it's up to you.

You know, in your own hours.

Yeah.

It's on you if you make one year and a and yeah, I just didn't really with cars

for a long time, but as soon as I started, as soon as I started making

stand up money, it just like built me my own little home garage.

That was like your first priority.

Yeah.

And I started buying cars and stuff.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

I feel like there's, I had a similar arc where I, you know, I had to stop paying

attention to cars because I couldn't afford anything.

And it's an expensive hobby.

Dude, it's expensive and it's kind of stupid.

If you think about it, it's fun.

It's awesome, but you know, they're like toys and they cost a lot of money to maintain.

And then if you really put it up to work, they're always going to break.

Yeah, they're always going to break.

They're always going to be like some sort of stage of, you know, repair.

It's so fun though.

And they're, you know, just like that, that part of you that you, it starts as a

little kid where you're like, ah, cars.

You know, I see it in my son now where it's one of his first words was like car.

And so he's pointing at cars and that part of it never leaves you.

Yeah.

And it's fun to be in a position where you can like start to accumulate the cars

that you loved when you were a kid.

Hell yeah.

And I love, I love, you know, I have a son too.

He's six and I love that he loves what I love.

That's cool.

Like he started to like the cars that I like.

And then he'll, he'll just randomly start telling me like, which one of my

cars is his favorite right now and like, which one he doesn't like.

That's really rewarding.

I like that.

But I've always wanted to build my own car.

And if you follow us on Instagram, YouTube, you see one of our main projects

right now is I've always really loved the 96 Impala Super Sport.

Yeah, I noticed you have a couple, like you have Monte Carlo.

I actually got rid of those, the Monte Carlo's, but I miss one.

I'm trying to buy back one of the ones I sold.

You had a really low mileage one, right?

Yeah.

I had one with 24,000 miles on it.

Man, it was super clean.

And then the Impala, the first 96 Impala I bought, actually a client of one of the

other barbers at the barbershop I worked at had it, it had 1800 miles on it.

Damn.

It was a Super Sport Impala and I told that dude to hold it for me.

Yeah.

Because I was like, I think I'm right on the brink of like, I'm going to make it

in comedy.

You felt something was coming?

Yeah.

I was like, give me like, like a year tops and he held it.

Oh, man.

I've cashed them out on it.

But then I sold it because I started realizing like, I don't want a car that's

like only valuable if I don't touch it.

That's like a museum piece.

Yeah.

And I don't want that type of collection.

So that's cool.

I sold it and then I went and bought another Impala from an auction for like, I

think it was 14 grand.

Oh, yeah.

And is that good?

I don't know what the Impala market's like.

Yeah, it's pretty good because I think the Impala market, they were getting

more expensive and then they just recently went back down a little bit.

But for the condition it was, it was really good.

And we started tearing it apart and we took, we ended up taking the modern

transmission at first, my buddy, Luis, who's standing over there.

Yeah, partner on your channel.

Yeah.

Partner on my channel, X engineer, mechanic extraordinaire.

I was like, man, can you just help me change out the suspension?

Like I want to have a whole QA1 suspension because those things drive like

boats, you know?

And he's like, yeah.

And then it turned into like taking out the modern transmission, building a whole

4th gen LS block.

It's just snowballed.

It's just snowballed, man.

I'm like learning how to weld and stuff.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, I saw on your Instagram, I saw, you got some dimes.

Yeah, I got a couple dimes in there.

But man, it's cool.

And our goal with the Impala is to not remove any of the interior, no

roll cage, no plexiglass and like that.

And just have it ride like a stock car, like inside and body wise, but have

other performance under it.

We want to get it to a thousand horsepower.

Oh, shit.

Yeah, you do drag racing, right?

I mean, I would say I'm like a drag racer, though, but we took my R35 drag racing.

Oh, nice.

Not a good idea.

No, it has like that whole bolt-on upgrade.

So it's making like 650, 660.

That's good.

But they didn't recommend drag racing it because they said it's not good for the

transmission, you know, they recommend upgrading the transmission before I

start just launching it.

But you won anyways?

Yeah, I won anyways.

I put some thicker, stickier tires on there and just took off.

But every time I f***ing, not every time, like probably about 50% of the time

that I launch it, it goes into like a limp mode.

What?

Yeah.

So like I lost, we did four races the last time we raced.

We raced it four times.

But two of those, it just like stalled out.

It goes into like a limp mode.

That's because of the transmission?

I guess.

Yeah, it's like feeling some stress or something.

Yeah.

Oh man.

So I want to like, I don't know, like it's not getting re-tuned to where it

will ignore the safety features.

Yeah.

I mean, that's dangerous though.

But I want to win, you know?

You're going for those pinks, huh?

Yeah, I raced my buddy, Marcos, who has another R35 with the same bolt-on upgrades.

And I think I only beat him maybe once, maybe twice.

But like, I think his time was like 6.98 in mine.

It was like 6.88.

Oh man.

Yeah, on the eighth mile.

How did he get around these like limp mode things?

He, his tuner just is not as careful as mine.

His tuner is cooler.

What's the solution if you were to just like upgrade the transmission?

What, what do people swap in?

I don't know.

Like, I don't, I didn't even ask.

But I was thinking about just doing it at home.

Yeah, I want to install bigger turbos in it to get like more power out of it.

Yeah, shit.

But not anytime soon.

We got to finish that in Paula.

Yeah.

What's your goal horsepower for the R35?

Maybe 800?

Damn.

800, I think, would be so dope.

And yeah, I think that would be fine.

Yeah.

But I don't know if I want to keep drag racing it.

I just got, I like driving like, I don't want to say too much.

Yeah, sure.

Down in Mexico.

Yeah, I like driving in Mexico a lot.

So you're based in Dallas right now?

Yeah, actually like about almost an hour outside of Dallas.

Okay.

I'm like, I'm in the country.

And you, I mean, you're traveling all the time to do stand up.

You make it seem like driving four hours to Austin is like nothing.

Yeah, it's more like three from Dallas.

But that's just like a thing you accept in Texas is like, you're going to have to

drive three, four hours to just do a gig.

Yeah, man.

I didn't, I didn't have like, I had chances to go like stay in New York or

LA if I wanted to, but since I had my kid, I never wanted to move.

And so I really capitalized on like using Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and

Houston as much as I could.

So I'd like, I'd always stay in contact with anybody running shows in those

cities and I just drive down to whichever one had like shows going on.

Man, that's a grind.

Yeah, it was a lot.

So I know Austin has like a pretty big scene with like Joe Rogan and the

mother shit, whatever.

Uh, what's the comedy scene like in San Antonio or San Antonio is very small

a comedy scene.

They only have like a handful of spots to do shows at.

Yeah.

Uh, they got the blind tiger though, man.

Shout out to them.

That's a good venue.

Yeah, it's, it's in the basement of, uh, one of those like restaurant places.

What is it called?

Met like magic time machine or whatever.

You just see those restaurants.

No, what is that?

I think that's what they're called.

That's some dragon ball shit.

No, magic time machine restaurants are like, um, it's like a themed restaurant.

It's like a theme.

Like the waiter dresses up like each server dresses up like a different movie

character.

So I want to be like for his gum.

The other one would be like Ace Ventura.

Wait, I want to go to this place.

Yeah.

Is it corny?

I've never actually been there during like dining hours.

Yeah.

I've only been there once the restaurant is like closed and then you go in,

there's like a bar and then you go downstairs and they can hold like 20

something, 30 people in that little basement.

Like Ace Ventura is in the audience and like Forest Gump.

Nah, those people can get the f*** out as soon as they can.

And then Houston's dope.

Houston has like, um, they have the riot.

They have secret group.

Secret group is f***ing awesome.

They got the Houston improv.

How did it become what it is now?

Joe Rogan.

But why did he move there instead of, you know, San Antonio or Houston?

I don't know, man.

I don't really don't know.

I just remember, uh, I just remember when like, uh, Joe Rogan first moved out

there is like exciting for a lot of people.

But when LA comics started going out there, I guess they didn't.

From what I understand, LA comics and like Austin comics didn't mesh well.

Has a good shock to them.

Yeah.

A lot of Austin comics were kind of like, from what I hear, that could be wrong.

I don't know, live down there, but from what, from what a couple of LA

comics were telling me is a lot of Austin comics were kind of like being

gate keeping with their shows.

That's what I've heard.

And you know, just from friends going down there.

So like it was harder for LA comics to get on shows that Austin comics ran.

But a lot of the LA comics were talking about Joe Rogan and like the

mothership and like, if it was like Jesus Christ second coming there,

it'd be like, just wait until Joe opens up his club, man.

These are going to be different.

I remember that.

LA comics will rule again.

Like, yeah.

Well, I think it was cool to have like, just to have a city in Texas to be

that busy with comedy, you know?

We'll be right back after these messages.

Now back to the show.

You've been on Joe Rogan a couple of times, right?

Yeah.

What's that experience like?

You guys talk for a long time, right?

Yeah.

I think it's crazy that Joe doesn't believe Ford to have a delay in the gas.

What explain this to me?

You've been like in a Ford, maybe like just any Ford, just any Ford, nothing

like super performance or nothing like that.

And then you floor the gas pedal.

There's a delay.

There's a small delay before it actually like goes.

And when you release the gas, sometimes it'll keep going for like a half a

second after you've released it.

That's weird.

You've never felt this?

I, so last press car that I drove was, or not last press, last Ford press car

that I had was just a Mustang GT, like a 25.

And I don't feel like I felt, it wasn't noticeable if it was.

I think, I think if it's like a Mustang GT or like Joe was saying that he

don't feel that and he has like a super snake, I think it's tuned out of those.

So like that performance versions don't have the delay, but you're saying just

any stock like F 150, there's some weird delay.

Do you think it has to do with like, I don't know, I don't know if they use

like a drive by wire system where it's not actually connected to the throttle?

I think it's something like that.

Yeah.

I mean, that's annoying if it is actually like, I don't know if

Mustangs have it because I was telling Joe about it and I was like, what

if some of the Mustangs crashed because of like a delay?

I mean, that's, that's a good conspiracy.

But he was like, they don't have a delay.

That's impossible.

But the man believes in aliens, but he doesn't believe in delays.

Why is it impossible to have a delay?

I don't know.

He just really has like a lot of faith in Ford, I guess.

That's weird.

But I said that I was talking to him about that on his podcast and then I got

like so many DMs of people being like, I know the delay.

Wow.

I have that delay.

Like, so it's substantial.

Yes.

I'm not crazy.

It was a good hang.

Yeah.

He's cool people.

Uh, like, uh, both times I went on his show, I'm like, bro, I

have nothing interesting to like bring here.

How did you feel the time then?

I just, he's cool.

So he's like, just talk about whatever the **** who cares.

All right.

Yeah, man.

Cool.

Let's talk about Formula Bean a little bit.

So this is, uh, Ralph's and Louise's channel on YouTube.

Can you make, can you show his face?

Show your face on the camera, could Louise?

Well, we'll cut in a picture.

We'll do it.

We'll do it AI of him being like, Hey, it's me.

You guys actually had him on a video one time.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

We got tagged.

We got tagged in it, uh, because there was a video where you guys were, uh, talking

about like when you're the mechanics you see on YouTube, when you're doom

scrolling at four AM, and it was Lou, what were you working on?

He was working on the camera.

He was like doing something completely wrong.

You guys were roasting them.

Oh, sorry about that.

We'll issue an apology on it.

Nah, he did.

What are you guys working on right now?

I know you have, uh, you LS swapped your R32, which, no, you haven't yet?

No, no, no, we were acting like we're going to LS swap his R34, we're just rage baiting.

Rage baiting.

He has a, Louise has an R34.

It's a, can I tell him?

So GTT and, uh, wow, you want that going out?

But, uh, the frame is crooked.

So you have to go get it aligned.

But it needed like, they told him that the motor had to be like sitting in there.

So they could see like, it's the weight is going to be.

So we were like, he was like, let's just put an LS in it and act like, you know,

so we can rage bait people.

Yeah.

I was, it was kind of hairy too.

You're like awkwardly like straddling the top of it.

And then it just plopped in, right?

Yeah.

It almost feels like it was supposed to fit there.

What happened to the original RB?

He's rebuilding it.

Okay.

But not, not really completely rebuilding it.

You just changed out a couple, would you change out oil pump and the oil?

Whoa, complete rebuild.

No, that was, yeah, that was about it.

I don't know why I felt like more, there's more to it.

He's just, he's shy.

So that's your car, right?

The R32?

The R32 is mine, but that, that R34 we put in a lesson.

That's his.

Okay.

Yeah.

One day it'll run.

But I mean, the R32 sounds really good.

R32 started up on your like garage tour video.

Yeah.

The R32, that was the first car Luis and myself worked on.

I met him.

He came to a show with another buddy of ours that we call the Antichrist.

Why you call him that?

He's the devil.

All right, we don't have to elaborate.

Yeah, I don't want to incriminate him, but sometimes Luis and myself hang out with

the Antichrist and the Antichrist came to my show and he brought Luis and another

buddy of ours, Ivan, he's a barber.

And Luis was like, I guess trying to make conversation.

He was like, Hey, let me, let's swap your skyline.

So you have skyline.

I was like, who's this guy?

It sounds like a dumbass.

Um, but I wanted to work on my R32 like myself, you know, and so I, I hit him up.

I was like, can you show me how to work on it?

He's just like, yeah, and we, uh, we changed out the exhaust on it.

And then that was it for that one.

Then we started working on the Impala or just do random shit.

And, uh, he was, he's, he's been like an automotive content creator for like a few years

now. So I asked him if I could just kind of join him on that and started Formula

Bean. Yeah, it's been pretty dope.

We've worked on our, I think as Formula Bean, our first project was his S13.

We put Drift on, right?

No, no, no, it's just, uh, uh, it was a stock automatic S13.

What?

Oh, but yeah, we did try to drift it.

Okay.

This is what I'm thinking about.

Yeah, yeah, we did try to drift it.

How'd that work out?

Uh, I ran the car into a pile of branches and it exploded.

No, so that, that was our, like first project on it was a, we wanted to see

everything the S13 could do stock.

And then we wanted to see if we could blow up the motor by, um, putting

NOS and a turbo on it without tuning it.

Did it work?

No, we blew up the coupler though.

Oh shit.

Yeah.

But it was fun.

We went and we raced, uh, our buddy JR.

What were they driving?

Not, they were driving like a blue Civic, I think.

Yeah, it was a stock SI.

We were actually gaining on them.

We're going to smoke his ass.

Yeah.

And the, the motor just like stalled out.

Like it just shut off for like five seconds.

What?

And then it came back on.

Yeah.

That's really weird.

The little NOS switch, I was bending the f*** out of it.

It was just like, go on, go on, go on.

And, uh, yeah, it didn't work out.

And then, and then we parked it when we turned the car off and I'm an idiot.

And I clicked it like two more times than I'm, and I try to turn it on.

Yeah.

And then the coupler just boom.

Oh man.

But we didn't have a purge system.

So like that thing was going to blow anyway.

Sure.

Yeah.

What are you guys doing on your channel now?

What's the new build?

Uh, currently it's just the 96 and Paula.

Um, we also want to keep working on the 350Z.

We've, uh, we've had some cool f***ing people help us out with these builds.

I saw what, one of your first videos had like the Mexican OT on it.

Yeah.

That's sick.

Well, T's, well, T's always been a huge supporter of us.

Hell yeah.

I just made like car people though, like, but OT too.

Shout out to Mexican OT, man.

Hell yeah.

It's dope to sell, but like for the impala, Magnuson sponsors a supercharger.

Oh, that's cool.

Hell yeah.

Prisma seats, energy.

Prisma seats.

Spark plugs.

Energy.

Uh, all the guys at society.

Magnuson.

Dude, that's, that's a great roster of sponsors there.

Yeah.

So hopefully we don't let them down and we get these cars done soon.

Yeah.

Sorry for the delay, guys.

Do you, so as you get become a bigger channel and you have to kind of appease the

sponsors and stuff, uh, how do you find a balance between like doing what you

really want and being kind of like, because you do vlog style, right?

You, it's vlog style.

You're kind of like just speaking from the heart, cutting everything together

after the fact.

Um, are they starting to demand more stuff for builds or like, you know,

more polished stuff?

Nah, I think it's just about getting it done in a timely manner, which is stuff

because like touring helps me make the money stand up, helps me make the money

to like continue the builds and do all that stuff.

But then I have to be like out of town for like two, three weeks.

And then Luis has to just keep working on it.

Nah, he's my merch guy.

So like, if like, if I'm on the road, he's on the road, typically.

So then we come back and then we got to just cram all our free time into like the

cars and stuff.

But then we run into a lot of issues where like, with, especially with the

Impala where like, we're going, we're going, we're going.

And then there's like one tiny little part that like we need or like, maybe I

forgot to order it or we have to wait three weeks for it to show up.

Yeah.

Um, like one of the big issues we ran into, we put a four nine inch rear end on

the Impala and we have a, the QA one suspension for it.

The, the coilovers needed this bracket to link them to the rear end, but the

brackets that came with the rear end, like don't match up.

And, uh, so we called quick performance who we got the rear end from and we

told them the issue and it was like, have they ever had that issue before?

And they said, yeah, they had, so they said, send over the brackets and then

they like made brackets that fit their, their rear end and to the QA one

suspension, but it took like, you know, like a little over maybe like a month

and a half, you know, cause they had to like measure and do math and shit.

But they, they, they send them back to us and they fit perfect now.

But so like shit like that, because it's a custom build.

Yeah, it takes time, you know, or like the other little, like just random little

shit, the cover, I think it was on the front.

It was for like an LS three and we need an LS four cover.

The only difference is it like has a cam sensor at the front and it's like,

like little shit like that.

There's so much shit that you're just describing like the Porsche build.

Cause like even for the same Jen, he, he's ordering what he thinks the part is

going to be and then it's, you know, like a, the turbo version of the nine 11 or

something has a different bracket for this one little suspension piece.

And it's like, what, like, and then like it's almost the same.

And the whole will be like offset just a little bit, no, enough to be like, we

have to order this other exact part.

Like it's crazy.

And then to top it off, I'll lose parts.

Yeah.

You'll lose parts.

Well, it's because we have bad communication.

Like I have this little rolling cart and apparently the, like there are some

bolts on top of the cart, but then like my shop was just really dirty for like

over a month.

So then one day I just did like a deep cleaning.

You forgot the bolts were there.

Well, I don't know where I put them, but I didn't know that he just left them on

top of the cart thinking like, Oh, these will be here the next time we work on

this.

So now we got to like order more of these bolts.

Or I mean, I guess we don't have to order.

We'll probably find them at ease.

We'll pop up somewhere.

Just turn me off.

Do you work on cars with your kid now?

Nah, he's helped us before.

Yeah.

Hold the flashlight.

Yeah, he did.

He did him a time.

You're not holding that right spot.

Turn your head.

That's a, yeah.

Find the 10 millimeter.

I had to put them through the road.

We call it right up passage.

Yeah.

But he gets bored, man.

We'll go inside and he plays car games on like an iPad and stuff.

Oh yeah.

And he'll show me, but he's learning his cars.

And I was his age.

I didn't memorize the names of all these different cars.

But yeah, it's got a little autism with it.

Remember like the challengers and the chargers and the TR.

Yeah, does he know all the different trim too?

Like, oh, that's an RT.

He's starting to like, um, like with the R35, he's like, he's like, I think he was

telling me that he's like, he's like, I think my favorite is the R35 GTR.

He's like, but also like your R32.

So like, that was a proud as moment for him to like know the difference.

And like, he's like six and he already is like picking out his favorite skyline.

That's cool that he's forming opinions and stuff.

Yeah.

I like for him to have opinions on it.

You know what I mean?

Oh, I like that a lot.

I like to communicate with my son and let him know he can like,

he can bully me if he wants to let me know what he doesn't like.

Yeah, that's cool.

Is it hard to spend a lot of time with him when you're on the road?

Yeah, man, it's tough, especially me and his mom weren't together.

So sometimes we get along really well and I'll get more time.

And sometimes we don't get along so well and I'll get less time.

Yeah, it's tough, dude.

I like your joke about like getting her headlock pretending you're...

Oh, yeah.

She's your sister.

I'm not going to spoil it.

You got to check out Planet Bosa.

It's really good.

I appreciate that.

What's...

Okay, cars for a little bit.

Let's talk about comedy.

What's your process for writing jokes?

Are you just like, oh, that's a funny idea.

And then you build the premise around that or what?

This, you know, definitely starts like just in my head, like contemplating ideas.

What could be funny?

And so I'll just kind of like shuffle through different like subjects or thoughts

or like questions I have about something.

And then I'm like an experience that I either really didn't like or really liked a lot, you know?

And then I'll just kind of talk to myself about it.

I talk to myself a lot all day anyway, you know what I mean?

So you're actually talking out loud to yourself?

No, no, no, like in my head.

Oh, okay.

And just kind of talking to myself in my head.

And then if I think it's like somewhat interesting or somewhat funny,

then I'll dig into it more.

And then if I can think of just like one funny line, like either a setup or a punch line,

then I'll start writing it down.

And I typically write them down word for word.

Oh, yeah.

And it kind of helps me like...

I feel like if I write a joke down word for word or a story in a notebook, at least like twice,

it feels like doing it at an open mic.

It feels like it helps me skip like one or two times saying it on stage.

Yeah, like workshopping cuts down on workshopping time.

Yeah.

But then by the time I say it on stage, you know, like hearing myself say it and then watching the

audience, I'll know right then and there if it's like, if I should say it differently than I wrote

it down.

And then after I say it, if I recorded it, I'll typically go home and like

listen to the recording, rewrite it down, but like edit it.

Sometimes I don't have to record it.

Sometimes I can remember it really good because, you know, you say a joke and when it doesn't land

like it hurts, you know, it hurts.

Yeah.

So like, I'll go back.

I used to hit like being Dallas, you couldn't really hit too many mics like in New York.

You know, but I'd hit maybe one or two mics in a night.

And then at the end of the night, I'd go home and I just kind of rewrite the joke.

But I would still write the part that didn't work.

And I'd make a note like this part didn't work, but this punchline did work.

Yeah.

And then I try to rewrite the punchline that didn't work or the set of punches didn't work.

But if it just wasn't working, then I just cut it out.

So the joke would go from being like two minutes to like 45 seconds.

Yeah, like we were talking, just get the best part, move on.

That makes a lot of sense because like as I was watching your special, I'm like, man, he's so

like, I could tell that you wrote it word for word because it was so lean.

You know, like there's no fat on it.

There's no like vamping or anything like you are just like to the point.

And I really appreciate that style because it's like, it's so clear and it's so intentional.

Yeah.

Sometimes I feel like I do take out a lot of fat from the jokes.

But over time, I'll put fat back into it.

Yeah.

Especially if I drink on stage.

And I'm like, you know, like I think to the average stand up fan, maybe they like the show.

They'll be like, that was really funny.

But in my mind, I'm thinking about like I said and or like I said really, and like I didn't

need to like just like, I'm like, that sentence didn't need those two extra words.

And that sentence, so in my mind, I just added like a total of like,

if I did an hour, I might have added like four minutes of fat words.

Yeah.

I'm just like, man, yeah, that is, it is crazy.

Like, because if you, if you have five minutes until you get the light, whatever,

at a comedy club, you really have to be economical with your words.

And you have to really like be intentional and plan out literally every break, you know,

every laugh break, every word in a joke.

Yeah.

And I think a lot of people don't even understand that.

People are like, oh, I could do stand up.

It's just talking, right?

Like there's so much that goes on behind it.

I might, I might be like, maybe this is me just being like a stand up purist.

But I feel like nowadays you get away with more.

That's from like when I first started.

I feel like when I first started, like the older or like the more vet comics were like heavy on

like, you know, cut down the fat, cut down the fat, get to the punchline.

But I feel like now it's become a little more talkative on stage.

You can around more and stuff.

Maybe there's less pressure on it.

You know what I mean?

So as long as you can go viral, it's like, who can tell you anything?

Dude, don't get me started on like everything viral now is just crowd work.

It's a lot of crowd work.

Come on.

Like this guy destroys a heckler.

It's like, just put your joke up.

Like I want to see your writing.

I like, I like doing some crowd work.

Yeah.

And I like watching other people's crowd work.

But I definitely respect material more because like with crowd work,

you do have to be like pretty quick and stuff.

But there is so much crowd work that is very generic.

And with a lot of people.

It's so formulaic sometimes.

Yeah.

And I'm not saying crowd work is easy, but there is just a lot of it that is easy.

And I think like once you do stand up for a long time,

you can recognize like what's easy crowd work.

Like if you got on stage, you'd understand it.

Like if people did stand up, they'd understand where like the material is a little tougher

than the crowd work, which is I think why comics respect.

I think most comics respect material more than crowd work.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

Do you find a weird crossover between your stand up audience

and the people that follow your car channel?

Is there a lot of crossover there?

Or is it like?

I think there's a pretty good amount.

Okay.

Because I think a lot of my audience is like you're, what do you call it?

Like blue collar, you know what I mean?

Working class.

So I think a lot of them work in shops for our car guys, you know what I mean?

And what I'm really hoping is that a lot of the fans that aren't even into cars

can maybe get into cars through my channel.

That's cool.

That's a cool like goal to have for that.

Yeah.

Because like a lot of what me and Louise do is Louise has really just shown me a lot of stuff.

That's awesome.

That's kind of like how a lot of channels operate where you have the expert

and the person that's really hungry to learn knows a little bit about stuff,

but still needs like the exposition of someone explaining it, you know, point by point.

So like if you watch a lot of Formula Bean videos, it's like Louise either explaining

something and then I'm just like, all right, or it's like me explaining something wrong

and then Louise explaining it correctly.

That's cool too.

I like all that.

I'm hoping people see it and be like, oh, I could do this shit.

Yeah.

I hope people feel that with anything I do.

Like with stand up with whatever.

Like I hope people are like, oh, this dumb ass is doing it.

I'll knock it out.

You always, you know, all your stand up, like you say you're ugly, you say you're dumb,

you say you don't know how to do shit.

I think like secretly you're a genius.

You're just playing this character.

I just, man, we were talking about that the other day.

It's like, I feel like I've just been coasting for like a lot of shit,

but like I'll try to like really learn.

But I feel like when I really try to learn, it's like I can't really learn it.

But when I just like whatever, bro.

Maybe you just learn in a different way.

I think you're like, I think I only learn subconsciously.

Like you, Osmosis, like you absorb it.

Yeah, yeah, I think I absorb shit.

But like if I try to learn, I'm like, I don't know what's going on.

I was like a C minus student in high school.

And then like I went to music school and I find something like I got a little bit better

because I was like, oh, I want to, I want to do music.

I want to learn.

So your brain is better like on the artistic side of things.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

I'm a horrible manager.

I'm really bad at like business and that kind of thing.

You know, that's what's kind of scary about like the automotive world.

There's a lot of the guys that I meet and we're like anybody in the car world that I meet.

They're usually like the other side of the brain that I am, if that makes sense.

Yeah.

Like the analytical right side, or I don't even know what, you know, I think left is creative.

Right is like engineering.

Yeah.

Like in school, I always did really well with English and like writing.

Oh, yeah.

Like it like commended performance for like essays and shit.

That's cool.

But like math and physics now.

And I feel like everybody in the car world is really good at math and physics.

Yeah.

Like we, but they couldn't do stand up.

Yeah.

There's not a lot of like car guys that do, you know, it's like Dax Shepard and Jay Leno.

But I have like this ego thing about me though where it's like I want to get good at both.

Yeah.

That's, that's cool.

That, that hunger is like.

That hunger got me into a wall though.

Like literally like into a wall.

Like I went to a racing school and I drove into a wall.

I was like, what is this metaphorical wall?

No, it's an actual wall.

Oh yeah.

It's an actual wall.

You went to skip barber.

Yeah.

I went to skip barber racing school.

So really dope school, man.

Instructors are all cool as hell.

Well, from what I saw online, because I was just like looking up racing schools,

you can do like the Formula 4 cars.

Oh, that's cool.

Or you can do like the Mustang GT cars.

So I always wanted to do like GT type shit.

And it was really cool, man.

The crash was on me, right?

They have really good instructors.

So if anybody's planning on going to a racing school, don't be like,

like, oh man, what if I crash?

Like, no, no, no, you're good.

It's good.

It's going to happen eventually.

Yeah.

It was just me like, it was like on the third days of three day course.

And I was like on the third day and I was going like faster and faster each lap,

like just getting more confident with it.

But I made a few mistakes because it was the first lap where they let us kind of like be

on the track, all the cars all together to like race.

And I really wanted to catch up to the dude in front of me and I was gaining on them.

We're racing at Laguna Seca.

Oh, that's fun.

So for any racing fans who know the track, like the track is badass.

It lives up to the hype.

You spin around the corkscrew.

You were coming out of the corkscrew.

Oh, OK.

Yeah, I floored it and I still had the wheel turn too much.

Like I had to turn the lot like an idiot.

But every time I was coming out of that corkscrew, I was giving it more and more gas each time.

So I f***ed up going into turn six.

I downshifted when I shouldn't have.

I don't know why I was just nervous mistake.

So going towards the corkscrew, I was like, man, everybody slows down in the corkscrew,

you know, like every, like not every student there, but most of the students were like

extra cautious with that corkscrew.

And I was like, I've been f***ing getting more and more confident with it.

I was like, I'm really just floored coming out.

Like, and that's where I'll make up time where everybody slows down.

And nah, I just f***ing oversteered into a wall.

So if anybody ever drives Laguna Seca and you're coming out of the corkscrew

and you look to the right and see some paint on the wall, that's my signature.

So I know they have different levels.

You were saying that they had Formula Four, they have the Mustang.

I think Jeremiah back in the day did like the Civic Type R series through Skip Barber.

I don't even know they had that.

Yeah.

So if you want to do front wheel drive or whatever,

did you feel a delay in that Mustang GT?

Nah.

No?

I wish.

Also, when you crash, do you have to pay for it?

Do they have an insurance policy that pays for it or what?

Nah, you have to pay.

I had to take on some extra shows to pay for that.

You did a show at Laguna Seca in the paddock.

Yeah, I should have.

So you have a couple more dates this year doing stand up, right?

Yeah, this week actually.

Oh, shit.

Yeah, this is coming up week the 19th.

Do you have anything planned for 2026?

Yeah.

So by the time this comes out, I probably won't have my tour announced.

Maybe hopefully soon I will have it announced.

I'm not too sure.

But we'll open and start touring by February 2026.

I'm not sure what we're going to call that tour yet.

I think of names, but they're always like way too long.

Vegetta.

Nah, I just think of stupid ass names.

Like they're fun to me.

I like Planet Bosa.

Was that one?

Planet Bosa wasn't the tour name though.

Oh, really?

It was just the name of the special.

What was the tour name?

The tour name for that one, I think was the super cool ass tour.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's kind of dope.

The proper also super cool ass tour.

My first tour was like a rip off of Chief Keef.

Or like anything with Bosa was kind of like a rip off of Chief Keef.

Like my first tour was called the Mighty Bosa tour or like Almighty Bosa tour.

And that was from Chief Keef going by Mighty Sosa.

And I even like ripped out.

There's a picture of Chief Keef.

It's kind of like a paint, like a painting or whatever,

but it's him in the Garden of Eden walking around it.

And so I kind of just like had a guy replace his face with my face.

And it's like the Mighty Bosa tour.

So I don't know this next one.

I don't know what exactly we're going to call it, but it should last.

We've been like scheduling it out already.

So my 2026 tour should go from like February until maybe like July.

Okay, that's long.

But it's not like packed the whole time.

It'll be a lot of like maybe every other week.

So I can like stay home a week, travel week or something like that.

And you haven't started writing for this one yet, right?

I have.

Okay.

I say I haven't written a joke in like a few months.

I've tried a couple.

But I do have to come up with some more material by February

because I maybe have like 20 minutes to my name right now.

Are you someone who has to work under pressure?

Yeah, I like the pressure.

I like to book a gig or like even for an open mic, I'll have the pressure.

So like I like to know like today's Monday.

So like if I had booked something for like tomorrow night, maybe

on somebody else's show or something.

I like the challenge of like trying to write a joke or two

before a showtime and then trying it out on stage.

And then the rest, like if I'm going to do 10 minutes,

I at least want my first two jokes to be like brand new.

Oh, you start with new jokes.

Yeah.

I feel like if you treat every joke like an opener, you make it a stronger joke.

That's awesome.

That's a really good philosophy because when I was doing it, I was like,

you got to have your tent poles, your strongest joke first and strong joke last.

And then like in the middles, when you have a little bit of breathing room.

But that's a cool philosophy is like this has to be good or else I have to win them back.

Yeah, but I mean, I only do that at like mics or like shows I don't really care about.

But if it was a show that I like really cared about, then yeah, I'm gonna start with like

something more tested.

You got to get the energy up.

Yeah, yeah.

But.

Dude, you're making me want to do stand up again.

You should.

I don't think stand up is something you should ever quit.

You know what I mean?

Even if it's not like your bread and butter, like.

Well, it's something I can't turn off in my head where it's like,

you know, if I can't sleep and it's like 2.30 in the morning,

I have to get up and write in my notes or else I'm, you know.

I think it's something you'll never be able to get out.

Yeah.

But you should definitely, next time I do a show on L.A., are you down to do it?

Yeah.

Are you serious?

That's awesome.

Yeah.

I don't know if this will release in time to promote it, but I'm supposed to do something here like

January 5th and 6th.

Oh, shit.

I think at Dynasty Typewriter if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah.

We had our first and only live show for podcasts at Dynasty Typewriter.

I love that.

I've never performed there, but I've always wanted to.

Dude, it's nice and intimate and, you know, they have cameras if you want footage from it.

Yeah, part of the guys come to my shows so the parking lot can look cool, so.

Hell yeah.

Dude, you're going to sell that out in like two seconds.

Oh yeah.

It's like 90 person, 100 person.

Yes.

I need these shows so that they could keep sponsoring the Impala build.

Do you know Nolan also?

I got Nolan to do stand up class.

Oh, hell yeah.

And he's fun to write for.

People always talk down on stand up classes, but I never took one.

I wanted to take one.

I was signed up and then I didn't have the money to keep going because they're expensive.

But I think like, man, you can learn from anything.

I came from the improv world too.

And I think like everyone's probably scary to me.

Really?

Yeah.

You have a whole supportive people behind you.

Yeah, I guess so.

I don't know.

It's just that that feels like a whole other type of pressure.

Yeah, with stand up, you're just, it's just you.

So that was so intimidating going from having six people behind me to, you know,

support me if I'm struggling to just being out there by myself.

I think I like like failing on my own more than like,

if I make other people fail with me.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

If you're bringing other people down, that kind of sucks.

But I do have that kind of like masochistic part of me where I'm like,

I don't care if I fail.

I got five minutes up here.

Like you guys are going to suffer with me if I, if you don't like my shit, you know?

Yeah.

Man.

Okay.

We should probably talk about cars.

Okay.

Yeah.

How do you drive?

What do I drive?

I got three right now.

My wife is kind of getting on my case because they're just taking up the parking lot, but

parking lot driveway.

I got an 84 Datsun Z31.

Oh, shit.

Do you have, you haven't been in your driveway, but are they covered?

You got like a little roof?

Uh, I actually, I stole, we had an ad shoot for like mothers and they had this like canopy thing

and I just stole it from here.

You stole canopy from mothers.

Yeah.

But they, I mean, they offered there like, does anyone want this?

Now it's right there.

What motor comes in the Datsuns?

Was it?

It's a Z, Z 31, like the one right, right?

It's a 300 ZX, but not the twin turbo one that came out at the end of the 80s that everyone loves.

It's just like the ugly step child that no one really likes that between the 280Z and the Z32,

which is like the one that looks like a Bugatti or Bugatti ripped off.

More of that type of car that you like the uglier.

I feel like I'm, I like an underdog kind of guy where I, you know, I root for these cars

that no one really likes.

Same.

It's starting to become like a cult favorite now because there's like, there's a build,

I want to say 2022 or 2023.

This dude Arvay 38 on Instagram did this like nuts and bolts restoration of a Z31.

He painted it safari gold.

He put an RB26 in it, I think with ITBs, just like a beautiful build at one SEMA.

Since then, a bunch of Z31s have been popping up, but I got that one.

That was the year when Datsun switched to Nissan too.

So it has a Datsun badge and a Nissan badge on the back.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like an inline three liter six cylinder that makes maybe 120 horsepower.

I originally made 160, but I had a turbo version of that before that was like.

I have an S14 that makes about 120 horsepower.

It's fun.

You want to race?

Yeah, dude.

I would put my pink slip on the line for it.

Yeah, I want to, I got to switch things up a little bit,

but we did a build on the channel with it where we just kind of cleaned it up.

We put NK wheels on it.

We put, I can't remember the type of suspension.

We put coilovers on it, but that's the one that kind of sits in the driveway a lot.

I have a 98, 328i BMW.

For some reason, I thought you were going to say a 98 Trans-Am.

Oh my God, the suit has range.

I've never been a Trans-Am guy or like a Camaro guy.

No?

No.

A lot of people don't like those.

I mean, that's kind of a weird era for that car, like the catfish style.

The catfish Camaro.

Yeah.

Luis hates those.

I love those.

Are you going to get one eventually?

You have some kind of Camaro, right?

Man, so I had a 76 Camaro and we learned how to like

with the carburetor.

We got it running and driving, but then I sold it because I feel like just have a lot of

shit just there.

Man, one thing I bought that I shouldn't have bought was out of my death.

Now I'm like learning to like catch up to this purchase.

I bought a 72 Camaro that was made just, it was like built just to drag.

That was like fiberglass front end.

Oh, shit.

That's a roll cage.

Like a supercharger or something?

Nah, the dude has a, it's another 60 LS that he like built, but it's just sitting there.

Like it's not like connected to the car, just sitting in the car.

The engine?

Yeah.

The engine's just sitting there.

Like I bought it incomplete, you know?

Oh man.

And I was just like, I'll finish this.

Do you feel like you have a problem like finishing projects?

Nah.

No?

Maybe.

I think I have like little short-term goals that I want to get it to and then maybe a long-term,

maybe I have a hard time getting it to like the long-term goals with the short-term goals now.

Like, I wanted to practice drifting.

So we bought a 350G on Marketplace from a dude we call Crackhead Jesus.

And there's a good drifter, I forgot his real name,

but Crackhead Jesus lives in San Antonio and he's a really good drifter.

If you're watching this Crackhead Jesus, I'm sorry, we keep calling you that on the channel.

That wasn't like his nickname.

Somebody, I saw, I don't know if his name was like Mark or something.

I just remember somebody commenting on the video.

There was just like, not on the first video we mentioned them, but like,

we've mentioned them a bunch of times and on like, on the latest time we mentioned them,

somebody commented something like, man, they keep doing Mark Dirty, calling him Crackhead Jesus.

At least he learned his real name through that comment though.

That dude right there, I don't know if he did it or who did it, but they put a hydraulic,

the e-brake, but the line for the brake, they to like secure it, they tap the screw into the

gas tank on accident. What? Yeah.

Such as leaks?

Yeah, so that was like one of the first things I had to fix on that and change out the

control arms. So like that was a short-term goal, like change out the control arms,

to fix the leak in the gas tank, and then we got ripping and riding again.

Hell yeah.

So shit like that is cool.

So that's a goal for the future is like learn how to drift, dial it in.

Yeah, I want to learn all types of driving, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

I saw you guys had that WRX outside with the-

The blue one or the orange one?

The blue one.

Yeah.

It had like some grippy tires on there for some rally racing.

Yeah, so that was one of our high-low cars. That was Nolan's low build, which means he had

like a smaller budget to work with.

The low build one looks funner than the high build one.

The high one's very fun to drive.

Yeah.

They're both fun to drive.

Yeah, we could drive both of them if you want, you want to hear it?

Yeah.

One of you guys was telling me, I think the turbo kicks in at a lower RPM on the low build one.

I think so. Yeah, I think it's a smaller turbo, so it spools up quicker.

That sounds a little funner, honestly.

It's fun. Yeah, there's not, you know, the roads around here aren't great,

but it's got rally tires on it.

I like those rally tires.

Yeah.

I wanted to do that eventually.

You should do dirt fish.

Dirt fish?

It's a school where you learn how to rally drive.

They have like a sick course built up.

They, you know, they have instructors that teach you every step of it.

Let me write that down.

Write it down, man. It's fun.

That is the goal of mine.

Because I was like, I was, when I first started racing games when I was a kid,

I'd, rally games were like my favorite.

And I used to race the Evos and the STIs and stuff.

We also, hold on, we got off topic.

You ever would I or 328 I?

Yeah, just a three series 98.

I actually bought it in Austin at 24,000 original miles and it was kept

in the desert for a long time in a heated garage.

And just like it's a two door.

Yeah.

Convertible five speed and just like meticulously maintained.

And I got a really good deal on it.

So I pitched them like a short for donut Instagram where I was like driving my cheap

BMW 24 hours.

So I had, you know, like a six month old at home.

I couldn't be gone for long at all.

And so I pitched them.

I was like, I'm going to fly to Austin and drive it back in one shot.

And we bought it.

It was great.

And then like 30 miles outside of Austin, it just died.

And we're like, oh, this is like probably old fuel or something.

You know, like fuel pump it related felt like that.

So what we did was it would die if the gas fell below like two thirds of a tank.

And so we'd roll into a gas station, leave the car running, gas it up, you know, one third,

drive it and just keep it on every 20 something miles.

It was about, I don't know, maybe like 50 to 80 miles in between gas ups.

What ended up being that it was like the fuel pump?

It was a fuel pump.

And knowing now we could have just like replaced on the side of the road and not had to deal with

this, but we kept it on for basically 22 hours.

And it ran like a champ.

It made us, it got us back to LA.

They didn't frustrate you.

Love that car.

It sucked because every time we were going uphill, you know, like the gas tank,

the gas like leaned away from the input.

And so it was like jerking up these hills.

But West Texas is like pretty flat.

Yeah.

Or like Arizona and shit.

Arizona was like, we found the flat path too.

But it was, I feel like after a trip like that, the last thing I want to do is take

care of a six month old.

Dude, it sucked.

I felt like I was like in a static TV, just like, but man, West Texas kind of sucks.

Why?

He's just boring.

He was empty, nothing to look at.

I, we were driving for like 12 hours before from Austin until we got to like New Mexico.

And it just like smelled like ass.

We broke, actually broke down because we were like talking and we were not checking the gas.

And we got on this slight incline Fort Stockton area.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I'll never go out there.

So we broke down and we're like right in the middle of these like oil fields, like we see the

fire like, and it was like 11 at night.

We're like, we're not like this is going to take forever to find a tow truck driver.

And it was like three hours on the side of the road, just like that oven air where it's just

like super hot.

Oh, I thought you had somebody like with you that could go and get gas or something.

No, no support.

Zach from the main channel, but this dude showed up and he was like the worst vibes.

He didn't want to be there.

We didn't want to be with him.

But he's just like, he's like, you're not trying to.

He looked at my license and he's like, oh, you're from LA.

You're not trying to move into my state.

Am I?

And I said the exact wrong thing, which was now I'm trying to get the out of your state.

And then he took like 45 minutes to just like load it up, put the chains on.

And I was like, all right, we good to go.

And he goes, hold on.

It's like the takes his hat off, scratches his head.

You know, all right, ready?

You mean from around here?

Yeah.

Like I should have been respectful when I was not.

Man.

And then your third car?

Oh, my third car is just my daily is my Audi A3 hatchback.

Because before that, I was driving a four runner, a 94 four runner.

That was like eight miles to the gallon.

It had huge like 34 inch tires and suspension.

Do people really hate on shit like that out here?

We're very much based in cars out here.

And you know, like a lot of time is spent being in your car going two miles per hour.

And so I would say if I'm spending, you know, so much money a week on just getting to work,

then it starts to get to you.

But nobody ever pulls them next to you in traffic.

You want to just like asshole?

No, dude, there's like hummers.

There's like a lot of off road builds because like you can drive 20 minutes

and be in like the best off road area and do rock crawling, do mud pit, whatever you want to do.

So there's a lot of like land cruiser builds, four runner builds,

that kind of stuff around here.

So no one hates on like every car is accepted.

No one's like rolling down the window and be like, you gas guzzler kind of shit.

That's not like that.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

This is like the hub of where car culture started like, you know, 40s to the 60s.

So there's a respect for that.

Yeah.

Do you have a dream car you still want to get?

You're doing the interview now, huh?

My hands down, you know, like number one dream car is a 911.

And I want to say like early 90s, but I would take any 911 at this point.

What about you?

A Porsche guy or no?

Nah, not really.

You're an American car guy, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

I don't know.

I mean, other than the Nissan.

You know what I really like?

I don't maybe I'm just not doing my research because I've never really seen anything about

one of these doing any crazy like lap time or, but I like the builds that I see on these.

What's your favorite build going on right now?

Really expensive.

I really want a Ferrari F40.

Oh, that'd be sick.

Yeah.

But that is a lot of people's dream car.

Like, I don't know what like they, I feel like they keep going up in price.

Yeah, they're pretty insanely price right now.

More and more of a dream.

Yeah, that is every year.

I mean, you're in a position now where you could probably make that happen.

Maybe, but it was bad.

They're like, I don't make that much money where I could just buy one of these and be like,

I'm still good.

Yeah.

I think they only made about like 1200, 1300 of them.

Damn.

So they're pretty rare.

And those things are dope.

They look so sick.

Yeah.

But I would abuse the out of one.

Yeah.

I mean, it's meant to be driven.

It's basically just like a, you know, space frame to chassis with a kit car.

I think it'd be cool to do a motor swap on one of those just to piss people off.

That would piss a lot of people off.

I think it'd be cool to put a like a LS in there.

Going back to your R32 with the LS, LS swap.

No, no, no, R34.

Did you, did the rage bait work?

Did a lot of people comment?

Yeah, right, bro.

This is sacrilege.

Yeah.

A lot of people.

And then like, hey, we ended up on the Africa, whose camera was like some car podcast.

They're talking shit about you.

Yeah.

Remember, they were like, oh, I'm just tired of these people thinking this is cool.

Like it's not cool.

Stop doing this.

People just like whoosh over their head kind of stuff.

Yeah.

And it's like, they just showed us like in a small clip, but I thought that was hilarious.

We didn't actually do it.

But who knows?

Like as, as we're throwing it in there and it just wanted to fit so good, we're like,

bro, why not?

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

That's funny.

But that skyline needs a lot of work, man.

I bought another GTT and that one works and everything.

The GTT is like the lower rung.

Yeah.

It's a rear wheel drive.

Rear wheel.

Yeah.

Which I think is fun.

Yeah.

Anything you could do, donuts, and it's pretty fun.

Yeah.

I'll say the norm.

I was like, you can just drive this one for now, bro, if you want, because this guy line's

been sitting for so long.

He got a cheap ass deal in it.

Well, that's Luisa's thing.

It's like the cheapest, most challenging.

Like I could find a car online for sale, like running and driving, which is like,

dude, you can find one $10,000 cheaper, just missing wheels.

Dude, that came in that you guys found.

Oh yeah, that's all him right there.

So if you don't know, they found like an 07 came in that supposedly had like rod knock or

something.

The engine was the, you guys got it for an amazing price because the guy thought it was

knocking and then you just like rung the hell out of it.

Never made the noise again.

$3,600 bucks.

That's nuts.

And then he just painted it.

Was it $3,800?

$3,800 bucks for an 07 came in.

That thing, we've been like just floating about it on all these.

We're like, runs bad ass now.

You think the guy's going to come after you?

No, I think the guy messaged Luisa was like, hell yeah, I'm glad you guys are joining us.

Oh, that's great.

But the other day, it just shut off on them.

Oh no.

Just died out of nowhere?

Yeah, he was just driving and just died.

Oh man.

He had to tow it home and you got it to start again, but now it has like even worse knock.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it was just, it's like when, you know, people are on their death bed and they have

that moment of clarity.

The car's not in remission anymore.

They call it terminal lucidity, where they wake up for like a day and they're like,

I'm all better than they die the next day.

Oh, shit.

That's a real thing that happens.

Yeah, that's f***ing, the Cayman did that.

But I mean, it ran good for like f***ing months.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

I mean, even if you're renting a Cayman for that long, you got your money's worth.

Yeah.

And you got it repainted.

Your original idea was to put another engine, a used engine in it anyways, right?

So now you got a reason to do that.

I don't know, man.

You want to rebuild that one?

Put a Honda motor in there.

We'll see.

Okay, 24.

So we are running out of time right now.

But what's, I want to ask you, you said you're interested in all types of driving.

What would you say is like your number one style of driving that you really want to like master?

I want to get good at like endurance racing, man.

Oh, yeah.

Like prototype racing or GT3?

Like GT3.

Okay.

Yeah.

So that's why you were training with the Mustang.

Yeah, I want to do like GT3 racing.

Other than that, I'd like to take some rally racing courses.

Like you said, what was it called dirt?

Dirt fish.

It's on, it's the, it have a bunch of courses on like games too.

Like a project cars too has dirt fish tracks in it.

I think they do like the smaller like focus or Fiesta.

Yeah, I like cars.

That's probably the next car I'll buy is a Ford Fiesta or something like that.

Just to like, just to go rally racing.

That's fun.

Honestly, I mean, Luis could take turns being navigators.

That'd be fun.

That's just scary though, because they drive with the navigator and like,

that guy's life is in my hands now.

Yeah.

There's all those compilations of like people like one dude had like a rock shoot up through the

floor pan into his ass.

Stop, stop.

I don't know how they don't get sick because they're like

reading the notes the whole time.

Yeah, bro.

I'll get car sick.

Yeah.

If I look at my phone, like we went to Chick-fil-A before this.

Yeah.

And Luisa showed me a video.

What are those transmissions called?

8 HP.

You seen those?

No.

They're like a Dodge transmission and they also use them in what else, bro?

BMWs and Dodge, it's like a really good transmission.

And a lot of people are adapting those to different cars now.

Somebody adapted one into a Skyline, I think.

Oh, shit.

But you were reading about that?

Oh, you showed me a video about how like they take apart the torque converter and stuff.

Yeah.

And like, I'm like trying to watch it, but I'm also trying to like look up and then

watch it and then look up at like at the road, because I would get car sick.

Super f***ing fast.

I can't imagine how the navigators are like reading and shit.

I know.

Wide left.

Yeah, and they're f***ing turning and shit.

Well, I think with that, like the short tracks, you don't really need a navigator.

Do you know the track?

I'm down for a short track.

Yeah.

I would say do it.

It seems super fun.

Our video, we have a video on it.

I'm not trying to promote our own videos, but it's a good entryway into that style of racing.

Hell yeah.

So you want to take a spin in one of the WRXs?

Hell yeah.

Okay, let's do that.

All right, Ralph Barbosa, thank you so much.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, check out Formula Bean.

Also, check out his special Planet Bosa on Hulu.

For tour dates, go to BarbosaComedy.com or follow me on Instagram, Ralph Barbosa03.

Dude, I had such a pleasure talking with you.

Oh, likewise, man.

Thanks for having me, Joe.

And next time you're in town, let me know.

We can take more cars out.

We could go cruising on the canyons.

Hell yeah.

Whatever you want to do, man.

Our parking lot is your oyster.

Bad ass.

Someone's got food poisoning from oysters.

Okay.

It's your buffet, then.

Hell yeah.

All right, Ralph, thank you so much.

And we'll see you next week.

Where's your restroom?

So we're driving in the low-rex right now.

Ralph is at the wheel.

Might not be great for audio, but this thing is f***ing loud.

Oh yeah.

Oh my God, dude.

I mean, I was expecting to do some interview questions,

but I can't even talk right now.

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