#1578 - Richard Rawlings

Train by day.

Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Virgin Abloh kicks. These are air jordan five s. And like he was saying, it's real controversial. If you're gonna cut all this stuff out of the different holes.

Cut the stuff out of the holes? I don't understand that. There's holes.

I don't know. I mean, it's got stuff. He's got holes with fabric in it and you can either cut it out or leave it in.

But why would you cut it out? I don't understand.

I guess just to be one of the cool kids.

So Jamie, explain.

I'm trying to find the hole, cut.

Out some cool kids. Oh, by the way, salute, my friend.

Cheers. Thanks for having me back.

Please. My honor. Thanks for being back. Now that I'm in your home state, hell yeah. So what do you do?

But he didn't cut it out either, okay.

This guy didn't cut it out.

You see it with the yellow socks? That's what you're supposed to cut that little hole out here.

You're supposed to in that little hole.

Once you get it home.

Why would you fucking. What? You got to bring an exacto knife to fix your shoes. That's crazy. That's the thing.

That's the designer's idea.

They're running out of shit. You know what it is? It's like there's so many different kinds of sneakers that you're running out of new ways to get people. So now you have to get a fucking exacto knife. Yeah.

And cut out your circles or leave them or only cut out know. I don't know if there's any kind of hierarchy there that you might reach a point where you're a sneaker God or not. But my budy James runs this thing called off the cut little podcast about sneakers. And so he gets me hooked up on the good ones that are hard to find.

Imagine how quick you'd run out of shit to talk about if you got a podcast just on sneakers for a long time. Jamie's a sneaker head.

There's some serious guys out there.

Shit about sneakers. Jamie will jump on that mic.

Yeah. This guy James, man, he has like 5000 pair. What? Yeah.

Oh my God. That is madness. That is madness. I don't get it. These are Cameron Haynes under armours, hovers, they're great. If you want to run mountains, I hunt in these. They're good.

That's right. I think we were trying to get me on a little earlier. And you were still out hunting.

Yeah, that was in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So how you dig in Texas?

I fucking love. I. Well, I don't wish I moved here earlier, because I moved here at the right time. It was perfect time to move here. But I love it.

Everybody's moving here.

Whoo. You ain't kidding, man. Oracle just moved here. Elon Musk moved here. It's a mass exodus. Adam Carolla is moving here, too. I was watching some interview with him today. It's not just the taxes. La, they just got a new district attorney who is going to get rid of bail. They're not going to have cash bail anymore. They're not going to arrest people for resisting arrest. They're not going to charge people for resisting arrest. They're not going to charge people for. There's a bunch of things like loitering, drunken disorderly, things along those lines. So it's going to get wild.

Well, as long as the California people that move here don't bring.

That's the problem. Yeah, that's the problem, because this dude is the same dude that apparently he was doing some. The same kind of stupid shit in San Francisco.

Well, we've got a mayor in Dallas that just passed, like, I think it's up to $1,500. They don't prosecute. So literally, somebody could walk into my merch store there in Dallas, steal 1490, $9, and walk out, and they won't even get in trouble.

That is so ridiculous.

Now, I wouldn't advise them to track because they might get shot, but they won't get in trouble.

That is so ridiculous, though, that people have the lack of foresight to see how that would become a real problem.

We're starting to get a lot of homeless problems here, too, in Texas, period. Austin's pretty bad. It's the first time I spent the night here in a long time, and I was like, wow, that's a big community of homeless.

Well, you've got so many people out of work. I mean, what are the numbers of people out of work? It's some insane number. 30%, something crazy like that. When you have something like that, you're going to get a lot more homeless people. There's people that were, like, barely on the edge. The question is, how do you bring them back? How do you get them back into society? How do you help them out? How do you get them housing? Because some of them are drug addicts and mentally ill, but some of them are just people that are down on their luck and in this sort of environment. It's not even their fault. They didn't even do anything wrong. A lot of them.

No, not at all. I mean, welcome to the shittiest year in history. 2020.

I don't know about that.

It's pretty bad, though.

It ain't shit compared to like the black plague or the inquisition or the World War II.

Well, for sure. But in our lifetime, it's pretty shitty.

It's not good. It's not a good year. No, not at all.

I'm ready for 2021.

Think that's going to be better? You're going to be lining up for the fucking vaccination. What are you going to do, bro? You're going to wait?

I don't know. I think I'm going to hang out. I think I'm going to hang out and see how everybody else does because I'm just not sure. I don't consider myself against the vaccine. I can just consider myself. Let's wait and see. Let's hang out.

Yeah. I know a lot of people that have gotten the disease and I know a couple of them that it got it really bad. Real bad. Like two of them almost died.

Wow.

Yeah. One of them was an older gentleman and one of them was a young guy that was just worn the fuck out when he got sick and he was beat down already and not at his healthiest, but he's only in his forty s and he almost died.

Don't tell me that we're in our 50s.

That's what I'm saying, bro. Are you taking vitamins now? Your wife's got you working out?

Oh, yeah, getting pumped. I'd like to say that I don't work out. I hope things work out. Now she's got me going up to the gym and upstairs and like she said a minute ago, it's like I'm walking the Green Mile. Like I'm going to death. I'm like walking up the stairs all sad and slumped over.

Dude, you got a trainer. And I'm telling you, if you just stick with it, once you start seeing yourself looking good, you start getting some abs. The hell are you talking about, Joe Jack? You look better. Better than the already pristine condition you find yourself in currently on the outside. The inside, your liver is probably strong as fuck. Your liver probably looks like a linebacker. So what's happening? Your show, man. What are you doing? What's the latest?

Oh, shit. You're just going to go right for the big one.

Get in there, man. All right, first of all, I love your show. I've been loving it for years. It's fun. And I'm a giant muscle car fan, so it's right up my alley. But what's the latest?

Well, everybody hold on to your hat out there. Fast and loud is no more. I have exited discovery, and I'm a free agent. What? We're going to be doing some cool things in 2021, and it just was a perfect storm, so to speak. It was time for me to expand and grow a little bit, and I'd kind of gotten to the top of that mountain being discovery, and there wasn't anything else for me to do there.

Wow.

I used this year to kind of rethink and reshape what I want to do in the future. So fast and loud. No mus.

Jeez Louise, man.

Eight years, though.

That's a long run.

300 ish episodes.

That's a lot.

There's only so many times you can buy a car, fix a car, sell a car, and it was time to make some changes to make it more fun. And so the stuff we've got coming out in 2021 is going to be quite a blast.

What are you wearing?

I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, so to speak.

Wonder Woman bracelets.

Yeah.

Shaking off bullets with those.

Yeah. A lady asked me one time, she goes, don't those bother you when they make noise? And says, they only make noise when I do this.

Did you tell that to her?

Yeah. It's a good joke.

Uncomfortable conversation.

She thought it was funny. It was back in my single.

Right person.

Well, I'm married now.

Right person. Yeah.

I think I'm going to end up doing a podcast because there's not a whole lot going on in my genre in the podcast world. I mean, I know some guys are doing it and they're doing well, but I've never been allowed to before. So you got to realize that when I signed my deal with disco was almost ten years ago.

Is that disco?

Yeah. So discovery didn't. Social media didn't even exist, hardly.

Yeah.

So I signed off on all media. So up to this point, until literally.

All media, including social media.

It wasn't even social media back then. I mean, what is it, like Myspace or something?

Well, I was doing something on another network back in the day, and they wanted to get control of my social media. That was, like, part of the deal, and they thought it was just like an easy yes.

No, it's not.

I was like, you can eat shit. There's no way you could pay for it. But it was ridiculous. They wanted to use it to promote other shows on their network.

Correct.

I'm like, what are you talking about? And they're like, well, everybody else lets us do it. I go, I have millions of followers. Like, there's no fucking chance you're just going to get access to that for free.

Now. I had the same conversation several times.

It's a weird conversation, right? It's like, you know, they're being weasily, like, you know, this is a valuable thing. Hey, no big deal, Richard, we just like to use your entire social media to promote a lot of other discovery programs.

No big deal. Yeah, no big deal.

You're cool with that, right? Okay, good. Sign here.

Well, see, they try that, but I couldn't post myself. I couldn't do things of myself for a lot of the time. Like, if I went out and bought a car and my camera crew wasn't with me, and so I took my camera phone and whatever, and I wanted to post about it. I wasn't able to do that.

You weren't allowed?

No. Yeah, it was pretty rough, but that's ridiculous.

But that would just boost up your social