Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1229 - Richard Rawlings
Uploaded: 2019-01-23T00:54:23.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1229 - Richard Rawlings' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-01-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1229 - Richard Rawlings' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-01-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1229 - Richard Rawlings

three two one boom and we're live what's happening how are you man i am just
stoked to be here i'm
stoked to have you here man it's a pleasure to meet you i love your show thank
you it's fun
it's a fun fucking car show it really is man it is i tell people i might be the
smartest guy in
the world i figured out how to drink beer and play with cars get paid for it
yeah but it's like
it's a fun show it's like you're not taking yourself too seriously you're
having a good time
you know you're buying and selling awesome cars oh yeah for sure it's uh it was
a dream of mine
to get it done it took eight years to get it sold but here we are now did it
really yeah i started uh
i started pitching the show in 2004 we didn't start till uh 2008 or 2012. what
were you doing before
that uh before television or before gas monkey yeah i kind of had two stages in
life i was a
firefighter police officer medic before i was old enough to drink i mean i'm
talking 19 years old
carrying a gun probably one of the smartest things for them to let me do and
then um damn you let you
have a room when you were 19 i had a badge i was a cop i mean literally i was a
police officer and uh
so by the time i was 20 i was also a firefighter and uh so i did that for a
while and then uh moved into
printing and advertising and uh then sold that and got into this so was it just
like something
you're just always into cars and that's what led you to the show you know how
would i tell the story
diplomatically um realistically i was watching the shows that were on tv at the
time i've always been
a car nut and a motorcycle guy and what have you and i realized one night that
my kids are never in the
room watching it and my wife's not in the room watching it you know and uh the
shows that were on
were a little bit too much bravado and and i'm a tough guy and you know so i
dug it and all my
buddies dug it but the wives and stuff and i was like golly they're missing a
big chunk of the market
here if you could tone down that part of it a little bit and still have a cool
brand and still be a
cool guy you know and get the moms and the kids in the room hopefully it's a
lot more successful
and so that's that was kind of where the idea came from and i just went out and
started it that's
interesting so the marketing side of you kicked in uh-huh so the marketing side
of you went uh i think
there's another way to do this yeah i mean i'm still a tattooed guy with some
jewelry but you know
i got a pit bull i got a poodle on a leash not a pit bull on a chain well the
show it doesn't seem
compromised that's what's interesting about it because it seems like a kind of
a guy's show i never
thought about that way well the way i approached it was just like when i was a
kid and my dad had a
garage not a you know not open for public garage but he had a place that we
kept his car and the
neighbors would come over and they tinker and they drink beer and that's what
car guys do so we kind
of took that approach of that's what gas monkey does we just drink some beer
and play with some cars
and goof around it's just like saturday afternoon but all week long did you
have any of a background
in in automobile knowledge did you know like how to fix things or did you yeah
i've never really been
the full fabricator uh you know i understand everything and how it works but i'm
probably more
of a business guy uh so i was able to go out and hire good guys to do the
fabricating stuff and we've
got a great team but i did have the car knowledge and i and i had you know i
had the eyeball for what
was good and keeping up with what was going to be happening and things like
that and that's kind
of my strong suit is saying okay porsches are fixed to be popular so we're
going to get into 356s or
broncos like the one you drove it is you know or what have you and i keep my
eye on the market
that's interesting so you're but you still do keep your eye on the market i saw
that 68 that you have
outside the 68 chevelle yeah 68 is that what it is 68 convertible god damn that's
a nice car it's a
good it's probably the best one i've ever seen i mean from an original
standpoint yeah it's mint i
mean it's got little scuffs out it's it's driven you know but it's it's in
perfect condition it doesn't
have any dents or anything wrong with it it's literally a little old lady from
pasadena i mean
the lady bought it brand new and she passed away a couple years ago and i
bought it from her grandson
wow what a cliche 52 000 original miles and uh never been wrecked never old
lady from pasadena
is a cliche i know right it was technically pomona but you know same shit wow
yeah that car those uh i
mean i've said this on the show a million times i'm a giant fan of like the the
time period of 1965
to somewhere around like 71 they fell apart yeah you know like you still get a
71 challenger 71
barracuda still pretty sweet for sure but then you get into like 72 73 they had
to start putting the
big bumpers on there with the shocks and everything just got ugly it just fell
apart then you got the
gas crunch and then everything got four cylinders and it was it was a bad time
in the late 70s for
sure it was a bad time but it's a good time now it's a really interesting
really interesting time now
for muscle cars it's the race is so crazy that they're putting out street legal
cars you could buy
from a dealer with 700 plus horsepower and almost every dealer has one now oh
yeah for sure i mean
i've got a demon myself and that's 808 horsepower it's fucking crazy you know
the new gt 500 is out
that's gonna have over 700 horsepower you know you have the the camaro l uh um
what is it one le
it's the no what what is it lt1 one le no what what the what the fuck is the
name it's something like
that zl1 one le zl that's yeah zl1 one le which is 650 horsepower and then the
new uh zr1 has 750
horsepower they're just preposterous oh it's it's uh i think it could be a
little dangerous you know
what everybody out there thinking hey i can drive a 700 horsepower car because
it's it's completely
different than you know a normal one well did you see the video of the guy from
um one of the head
guys at gm who took it on track like one of the first days they were releasing
the car and he spun
out on the first turn slammed into the wall well i can't say much i wrecked a
brand new hellcat the
other day racing at woodward did you really yeah oh no i went to woodward dream
cruise and they had a
little celebrity matchup and i was racing uh and just lost it and hit the wall
took out the whole side of
the car were you on a track or were you on a strip it was a street track uh
that they had right there
on woodward avenue so they put up the blocks and you take off yikes yeah yeah
those uh those hellcats
are beautiful but they're not they're not that great at cornering that's still
a giant car it's a big car
yeah mustang and camaro are going to do better in the corners for sure yeah the
hellcat has so much
front there's so much out in front i mean it really does remind you more than
any of those other cars
though of those 1970 cars you know really has that that shape is more icon like
if you look at a 1969
camaro and then you look at a 2019 camaro you're like uh i don't see it that's
not the same thing
but a challenger really does look like that old car well kim uh tim kaniscus
killed it i mean that
was his whole passion project the whole time he was running dodge and he just
absolutely nailed it
yeah no they did they made a great looking modern muscle car the other ones are
just great looking
cars i mean they they are still muscle cars but they don't really think you don't
really think about
the old days when you see them now they've tried but they didn't get it as good
as dodge now you guys
make some great builds too you know you guys have done some really sweet custom
builds like you were
telling me outside that the longest you do a build for is 25 days uh we've got
it down to about 25 from
32-ish when we started uh so when you see a car on the show um if it's a single
episode then we built
that car in 25 26 days that's crazy start to finish paint interior everything
how do you do it so quick
uh a lot of planning and we've learned over seven years now and 130 of them
that uh you know we've
just got our process in and the crew that i have at the shop now is
unbelievably phenomenal and there's
only six guys doing it there's six guys that do it 25 days we're done that's
insane but what about
like if you're going to do their custom suspension or you know art more morrison
chassis or something like
that it just takes some planning so literally what we do is we build the car
three times this is what i
tell everybody we'll say okay we're going to build the 68 chevelle uh and so we
decide how we're going
to build it what kind of parts we're going to use what kind of suspension
wheels motor we we put all
that down on paper and then if it works mathematically for the project we want
to do
then um i go find the car then when i find the car we order every single part
and we don't start
that car until every single thing that was on that list is in-house has been
checked and we're ready
to go so now all we've got is actual fabrication time and human error and we're
ready to go still
seems like such a short amount of time and all the builds that i've seen take
seven months nine
months a year it's just the shops are set up differently uh it may be one or
two guys or maybe
they've got kind of you know assembly programs going on or what have you but we
get in there like you'll
love the one we're building right now uh we're building a 77 international
scout and uh started
with a really nice one orange white stripes plaid interior i mean the whole
ball of wax
whack the the uh chassis out from under it put in a full chris austin uh
chassis works chassis with uh
only two-wheel drive and it's all 2018 hellcat eight-speed automatic oh jesus
in it and slammed on
the ground but it's still removable top and what it's a great california truck
i guarantee you that
oh wow so you made it so you lowered it yeah we're calling it the hell scout
ah wow that's pretty badass it's gonna be wicked car yeah those uh hellcat
chassis um uh
jonathan ward the same guy who's doing this is uh who did my bronco the icon
they're doing that with uh
one of the i think it's a super bird and one of the one of those iconic mopars
from the the late 60s
early 70s they're doing a full hellcat chassis and the whole deal with that oh
really that'd be wicked
yeah um what what company was the first one to really get stupid with these
cars i guess it was
kind of corvette with the zr1 with horsepower figures yeah for sure corvette
stepped out there with
the zr1 and started cranking it up uh everybody was kind of in production you
had you had the resurgence
of uh shelby yeah there it is there's jonathan wards wow look at that thing
that's good looking
that is like literally like trying to have a block like a city block on wheels
that you take around
a corner look how long that thing is yeah that's going to be a fresh car yeah
for sure badass he does
some awesome over there too he's uh he's doing some well he's doing one that i
don't think he can talk
about i think he's keeping it under wraps but he's got a bunch of cool yeah for
sure have you ever been
there i have not but it's right down the street i know go visit afterwards we
might i don't think i'm
gonna make my flight when's your flight i don't know i got a couple of them on
hold notice i said
that say i got a couple on hold because i don't think i make enough money for a
plane yet i'm gonna
talk to disco on that what like a private plane is that what you're saying yeah
i don't i mean we're
all scrambling for something yeah that's the ultimate scramble the private jet
money but that that is just so
much money that's that seems ridiculous yeah but i'd like to have a tricked out
one gas monkey on it
big old monkey on the tail with a keg in 