Name: Ralph Barbosa on Painting Cars Before Comedy
Uploaded: 2023-11-22T18:18:35.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ralph Barbosa on Painting Cars Before Comedy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ralph Barbosa on Painting Cars Before Comedy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-22. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience. Like I'm not even looking forward to I'm not even
trying too much right now to like actually build a house and be like this
I want my kitchen and living room not even worried about it that where I'm the
living compartment is on the upstairs I'm worried about the downstairs because
that's gonna be like my shop I used to paint cars and I want to I want to do
that in my free time again. What kind of painting? Like I was I was still very
much like like artistic painting you mean? No like you know paint the cars
like right paint them blue paint them red you know just painting cars yeah and
detailing them afterwards you know I always wanted to paint candy but you need
a lot of experience a lot of people don't know when you're painting candy you
can't just do the quarter panel and then move to the door you got to do like
the
whole. What do you mean my candy? Like you know candy paint like real real
glittery
real pretty. Oh is that what it's called? Yeah yeah come on man you're Texas
now you
gotta learn about candy paint. I didn't know that was what it was called. Yeah
you ever go to a car
show and and maybe one car just fucking pops way more has way more flake in it
yeah
candy paint but it's tough to paint you gotta you gotta build skilled like
experienced painter because you can't just fucking you know you you always got
to be
careful how you adjust your gun right you want you don't want your pattern too
wide too narrow. Are you super serious about this shit? Oh yeah man painting I
thought that was my thing. Really? Yeah I'd get so discouraged that open mics I'd
be
like let me stick to painting let me just stick to painting. Wow. But that's
fuck yeah it's
fucking dope man and my uncle's like in my opinion he's like a grandmaster
painters
and painted for years he learned so my dad had a body shop when I was a kid
very
small now back in these days my dad was involved in you know less than legal
business so this body shop was a front technically you know I mean but I mean
they got business and they got good and and my dad hired this painter named
Alfred I mean rest in peace. Alfred fucking badass painter crazy old guy he
used to
know how to break dance this shit was badass. Alfred Todd my uncle had a paint
my
uncle Jose and my uncle was young my uncle was kind of like a knucklehead at
one
point involved in like as a teenager he was involved in like fucking gang shit
some
drug deals whatever but my uncle had a kid very young and like snapped out of
it
quit just wanted to be like a respectable man just do the right thing you know
what
I mean. Right. And he's still that guy to this day my uncle's been working the
body
shop since he was like I might be getting the age wrong but he's like 20 right
now
he's in his like late 30s mid 30s and he's still he's still like the guy who
goes into
the shop at 8 a.m. will stay there till fucking midnight if he has to but he
puts food on the
table you know what I'm saying. Right. But he learned from this dude Alfred
fucking badass knowledge on
painting my uncle would teach it to me when I was a teenager my dad also had a
car wash
I'd go work in the summer sometimes and I and I'd get so mad at the car wash
like
I hated it I'm like bro anybody can just fucking rinse the car off put the soap
like
there was next door like across the street from the body shop so after work we
would go hang out
at the body shop with everybody I would tell my uncle because I don't know if
my dad was gonna take
me serious or not I'd be like can you teach me how to paint I was like I don't
want to work over
there I was like don't even pay me if you don't want just teach me how to paint
have me over here
like I want to sand the cars I want to fucking do real shit you know yeah so he'd
teach me every
now and then as I got older I'd spend a couple weekends over there at the body
shop with my uncle
whatever um after high school while my dad was already locked up or whatever my
uncle I guess
to like check on me make sure I wasn't like getting sad or some shit which he
would just call me kind
of would give me a choice he'd be like hey I need help like come help me out
with her all right and
you know I started getting good I went to paint school for a while to get like
certified those guys
hooked me up with a job like at a better shop my uncle I would also cut hair so
my uncle would always be
like man just be a barber like you don't want to be in a fucking shop sweating
your ass off breaking
your back like do something where you're going to be in the ac you know I mean
like work smarter not
harder but I was I eventually did that but at the time I'm like I want to
fucking learn this you know
yeah let me do this so I went and worked at a body shop and I worked at one
where this was painter
man I hate not to talk down another man but that guy wasn't worth the he was a
cool painter but he didn't
care so I was the paint prepper you know he started he didn't care like he wasn't
in there to do good
work he he was in there to just get his paycheck and he wasn't even like there
a lot of the time man
uh you know like there's a lot of preparation that goes into painting a car a
lot of sanding
so you gotta fucking sand and sand and sand and make sure you sand this and
then you gotta clean it
this way and make sure there's no like type of chemicals in the air like you
can't keep
like the like armor all or anything they use for detail cars you can't have
that in the same room
you're painting in you'll get a chemical reaction and your paint job will look
like really yeah it's
like just in the air yeah there's tons of little details mechanic work and
paint work cannot be in
the same room really yeah you just can't you can't have it you know what i mean
so armor all just being
in the room will up your paint yeah bro if you like let's say let's say you
like sprayed some armor
on some shit or you wipe the car down and you weren't supposed to like which is
anything that
was like cleaning product it you have to be careful what exactly you're using
so you're saying if the
armor all contacted the paint physically nah like even if it's just kind of
like in the air yeah i mean
at least that's how careful we were like what is that doing to you then what do
you mean oh all the
paint stuff oh it's killing you armor it's gotta be killing you i mean the pain
is worse than the
armor we're like breathing in like primer we're breathing in like bondo dust we're
breathing in so
much is there a lot of people that have like lung problems that are painters oh
yeah yeah yeah
even if you even if you don't like get the lung cancer right let's say you live
a full life as a
painter they've done autopsies on painters their lungs are like different
colors oh jesus christ
really yeah but i mean i'd rather have in different colors than just you know
nasty pink or whatever
what if you wear one of those fauci masks they they help no like definitely
wear your mask wear your
gloves they help but the is there you don't get it in even through those crazy
masks yeah for sure
you know there's no way and then there's different masks there's masks that
will help you block the dust
from like primer or like from the body filler but those masks aren't going to
help you when it comes
to paint and like vice versa oh so you gotta swap masks yeah sanding versus
when you're painting yeah
so i started getting pretty good as a painter when especially when i went to
work at a shop where my
uncle's not like babysitting me anymore now i'm like learning on my own and
when i say on my own i mean
like the way the reason i say that one painter wasn't worth the damn was
because when you first work
at a shop and you're trying to be a painter you got to be up like a paint a
paint prepper or like a
painter's apprentice for like a few years so it's my job to like prepare the
car i like every step of
the way up until it's in the booth taped up ready to get painted that's when
the painter would just show
up i don't know he's probably just been kicking it at the house all day he'll
show up makes the paint
paint it spray it clear it and he'd go home so i've been prepping these cars
for like days on end i'm
staying extra you know every now and then if it was a smaller piece like a
bumper or just like a like
a small piece of the car they just leave it up to me they're like will you go
ahead and knock it out
so i started getting good there was a guy there man i forget his name super
cool ass guy
who was just kind of like a shop hand like he he didn't really work on cars but
if you needed help
you know sometimes you need help moving a hood or a door like
right just random he was there and he had a buick like a like it was his
grandpa's buick like a 99
just regular buick and he was like man i want you to paint it i want you to
paint it so i painted like
half the car because it only the front end needed it that was like my only like
big paint job i started
getting good but that's when i really jumped more into comedy so i just kind of
quit and i did whatever
i had to do to make sure comedy worked out