#2066 - Ralph Barbosa

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Ralph Barbosa, on the way up, what's happening?

Ralph Barbosa (0:17)

Hey, it's good to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Good to have you, man. I hear good things about you. I was just talking to Bryan Simpson about you today.

Ralph Barbosa (0:23)

Bro, I'm a huge Bryan Simpson fan.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

I love that, dude. We were working out today and he was saying great things about you.

Ralph Barbosa (0:29)

No offense to Bryan Simpson, but he works out? I never thought I'd hear it like that.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

He does now.

Ralph Barbosa (0:40)

Hell yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

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

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

Ralph Barbosa (0:55)

All those guys are living down here?

Joe Rogan (0:58)

Yeah, they're all living down here.

Ralph Barbosa (0:59)

That's dope, man.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Austin's dope right now.

Ralph Barbosa (1:02)

Hell yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

It's a great spot.

Ralph Barbosa (1:05)

I popped in here yesterday to Austin, and I feel like I didn't used to be able to do this, but yeah, it was dope, man. I got to go do a spot at the creek, and then I got to go to your spot, got to do the little boy.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Nice.

Ralph Barbosa (1:19)

Yeah, it's been dope, man.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

Yeah, it's fun.

Austin's like, it's a new thing. It's like an exciting thing.

Ralph Barbosa (1:26)

Yeah. You know, it used to be like before COVID, Austin was, as far as Texas goes, Austin was like the place to go if you were too scared to like go to New York or LA. People were like, just go to Austin, you know? It stayed busy, but it was also like very woke.

And so you had to be like real careful. And now it's like, now it's just-

Jamie (1:46)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

It's buckwild.

Ralph Barbosa (1:47)

I like that. Yeah, it's buckwild.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

Yeah, well, you know what it is? It's Kill Tony. Kill Tony's, because Kill Tony's here, that show, it sets the standard, because it's all just about being funny.

And people realize like, this idea that you're supposed to have like some sort of fucking social message in your comedy.

Ralph Barbosa (2:08)

Yeah, I also think it's just a lot of Californians and New Yorkers as well. Because like everybody started moving down here to be able to actually be on stage.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

Yeah.

Ralph Barbosa (2:18)

From New York or LA during COVID.

And yeah, I feel like when they got here, they were like, you know, be careful. But everybody from California, New York was just like, no.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Well, it depends on where you're from. You know, I mean, there's there's pockets of people that are like enchanted by the wokeness in all sections of the country. You know, it depends. Like if you're coming from the comedy store, it's just about being funny.

But if you're coming from some of the other clubs in LA, maybe it's not like it's just it's Hollywood, man. It's like movies and TV. They're all run by executives, and you have to think like they think or you don't get hired.

Ralph Barbosa (2:56)

Well, I think I think another reason that it got so bug wild, though, is because during COVID, if you were coming here, it's because you are already like, man, fuck the fucking COVID rules. You know what I mean? If you're really that safe person, you're probably also that like woke comedian. So I feel like those people stayed back, or everybody who was ready to get bug wild came down to bug wild town.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

I think you I think you nailed it. Yeah, I think you nailed it because the people that came here like fuck this, like fuck telling me that I can't do stand up, fuck telling me I can't go to a restaurant.

Ralph Barbosa (3:28)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:28)

Especially when you go on the road and you realize that if you just live in LA and you never leave LA, you think the world is LA.

And then you go to Nashville and you go, oh, they haven't lost their mind.

They didn't lose their mind in Nashville. They were normal. Like you go to Dallas, they didn't lose their mind in Dallas. People kind of got a little freaked out for COVID for a couple of weeks, and everybody sort of just settled in. California never settled in, man. It never settled in. It's still there. I've been seeing people with masks on this week.