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Ralph Barbosa
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Shannon Sharpe
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Shannon Sharpe
Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. What advice would you give young comedians coming up in today's game?
Ralph Barbosa
This is not only to comedians, this is to anybody. Trying to make it in any anything that's different or non traditional. Trying to be a singer type of artist is you gotta think outside the box, man. Like, and you gotta treat it like it's your full time. Even if you have a full time job. You know what I mean? If you're working at Subway, you got to get all your hours, but then afterward you got to go and get double the hours. And whatever it is your art or your craft is, man, like keep thinking. Just cuz you punch in, clock in, clock out don't mean you going to make progress, right? Like you got to be their mind, body locked in. Yeah, and, and you got to, you got to like, strategize, man. I didn't, I didn't used to strategize until I had my son. Once I had my son, all I cared about was getting in the right rooms and just kind of like making friendships with people, you know what I mean? Be ambitious, but never thirsty. Be confident, but never cocky.
Shannon Sharpe
How does it feel? You told the story. Open mic. There are only a handful of people now you performing in front of sold out theaters. Do you think about, do you ever. When you're alone, it's just you and your thoughts. Do you think about like, damn, Ralph, you come a long way, bro.
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, I don't think about it too much. I just think about the next show and hope I can make that crowd laugh.
Shannon Sharpe
Really?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. If I sit there and think about it too much, I'm gonna it up. I don't even keep like, Netflix gave me the microphone that performed that with the show. Put it in the case or like, you know, I got like a little, little glass thing from this HBO competition I did a long time ago. Like, I don't even like keeping that.
Shannon Sharpe
So in other words, you're not, you're not, you, you're not big on sentimentality, you're not big on nostalgia, huh?
Ralph Barbosa
I mean, yeah, like, for memories and stuff, but like, stuff and like, I remember.
Shannon Sharpe
But that's a memory they gave me.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, it's a memory, but like, I don't like to like, like I'm not gonna have like a trophy room. Be like this, this is like, if you come to my house, I'm gonna be like, this is the trophy I won from this.
Shannon Sharpe
Let me get that microphone.
Ralph Barbosa
Like, I'll give it to my dad. They can keep it if they want, but other than that, I don't like keeping that stuff.
Shannon Sharpe
Do you feel like it's a blessing and a curse? Like a lot of the stuff you do, release some of your stuff on the Internet. Do you feel like when you release something on the Internet, it spreads like wildfire and it limits your ability to do said joke at a later date and time?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, if I've released something online, man, you might catch me doing that joke. Like, if I do a joke.
Shannon Sharpe
If.
Ralph Barbosa
I release a joke online, I might not say that joke on stage again till like two, three years later.
Shannon Sharpe
Wow.
Ralph Barbosa
You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
But other than that, I always, I wouldn't release it until I know I got some more fuel in the tank for the live shows.
Shannon Sharpe
Having comedians, I love having. I love comedians. And I love having them on and they tell the story. But it seems like to me, some of them, like, bro, they got it so much easier now than what we had it when we were growing up, because we had to put the time in. You know, you had to work on your craft, and they feel like, well.
Ralph Barbosa
They had to go through the gatekeepers too. Like.
Shannon Sharpe
And I. Oh, you say gatekeepers. They're gatekeepers.
Ralph Barbosa
No, they're not gatekeepers.
Shannon Sharpe
No, I'm saying. But there are such things are gatekeepers.
Ralph Barbosa
Well, yeah, I mean, not necessarily gatekeepers, but like. Like you said, like the industry, whoever's booking this, you got to go through bookers, you got to go through casting directors. Like, back then, you know, they had to. Back, like, I had. I had to build a relationship with, you know, club managers, club owners, to get to do opening gigs.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
Like, that's how it goes with her. But then, you know, once I started going viral, it's. It's like I could sell tickets. Whereas, you know, back, you know, early 2000s, 90s, and before, they had to build a relationship just to get into the clubs.
Shannon Sharpe
Was it in the clubs?
Ralph Barbosa
Well, they have to hope that maybe this comic will throw them a bone and get them in front of this booker. They got to hope that that booker will throw my bone, get in front of this person. So, like, yeah, I know that's harder. Hey, but also they got to do the thing, like you said, they got to recycle jokes over and over and over again. They didn't have to burn their jokes.
Shannon Sharpe
To get to where I'm at, right?
Ralph Barbosa
I had to burn. Like, I used to write every joke in a notebook. I had stacks, you know, and I basically. Yeah, I basically had to burn these notebooks to get to where I'm at. You know what I mean? And so once I got in front of the audiences that were buying tickets to my shows, like, like, damn. Like, it took an hour of my material just to get here. And I gotta think of a whole.
Shannon Sharpe
Other hour, another hour, you know, Netflix. How did you get the Netflix special? And how did that change your career, your life? Basically.
Ralph Barbosa
My. My manager, my agent. When I first started booking shows in la, like I was saying, like, the Chicago ones, the LA ones were selling out so fast. And my manager, my agent invited a lot of industry people out there, like people from Netflix, people from Hulu, from Warner, whatever companies, you know, I mean, and Netflix, they like the show. And I think what also helped a lot. I mean, I could be wrong, you know, but I. I'M pretty confident what. What helped a lot was that Dave Chappelle co signed. Which shout out to him.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, Chappelle. Yeah, yeah, he like a deal.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. I think there was a rumor. I could. This could be all wrong, you know, it's just a rumor, but there was a rumor that, like, one of the dudes who's the head of comedy at Netflix said, like, hadn't heard back from Chappelle in a minute or something. But then Chappelle said something. He said something nice about me. Like, he finally texted him, was like, yo, like, dude, pretty funny.
Shannon Sharpe
Like, right?
Ralph Barbosa
Because Chappelle. The same week that I'm performing in LA and in front of all these industry people, Dave Chappelle just pops in and like, that's when I met him and just hung out and shit. Like it was cool as hell. So that week just made me look so good in front of everybody, I think. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Having Netflix, you know, Netflix normally come with a big check.
Ralph Barbosa
That was a big check.
Shannon Sharpe
What'd you buy?
Ralph Barbosa
Oh, man.
Shannon Sharpe
Did you get yourself anything? I mean, when you were growing up, if you said, you know what, let's just say for the sake of argument, you're from the ages of 6 to 16, and you said, if I. Man, if I ever get my hands on some money, I'm gonna buy. What?
Ralph Barbosa
I bought two cars. I bought a 1996 Impala Supersport, and I bought a 1990 Nissan Skyline GTR R32. And then I took my grandma and my mom out of debt.
Shannon Sharpe
Now, I like that last part, but I don't know why you bought that Skyline.
Ralph Barbosa
Why? I love that car.
Shannon Sharpe
What, you Tokyo Drift?
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, those don't drift. They're all wheel drive. Come on, Shannon, don't be racist.
Shannon Sharpe
Nah, but I do understand. I like the Caprice, the Super Sport. I like the 1996.
Ralph Barbosa
It's not Caprice. Please don't offend me. It's an Impala. And I know they're identical over there, but it's not the same.
Shannon Sharpe
You still have it?
Ralph Barbosa
Yes, actually. So that. That first one I bought, I remember I bought it because it had like 2, 000 original miles on.
Shannon Sharpe
Really?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. The guy who sold it to me used to go get his cuts at the barbershop I worked at.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay?
Ralph Barbosa
He held on to it for a year for me. I was like, bro, like, I'm about to pop off. I know I am. Like, I know I am.
Shannon Sharpe
Hold on to it.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, give me one year. And he gave me a year. And I Went and you ain't got it. Cashed him out. But I actually sold it so that I could buy one. I bought a cheaper one from an auction because that. That one, I wanted to change it up and do stuff to it. But you know that with 2000 original, it had like 1600 miles. Really? It's only going to keep its value if you don't drive it, right? And I started learning, and you want.
Shannon Sharpe
To drive, so you wanted something that you could drive. You ain't no guy that's gonna get a car and sit on it. You ain't put it in the ground.
Ralph Barbosa
I don't want to collect. Like, I want to drive these cars, push them out. So I went and bought a cheaper one with a whole bunch of oil leaks and everything. And we, Me and my friend Luis, he's here too. He's the one that really taught me how to. Or he's been teaching me to work on cars. We changed the suspension, all the suspension to a QA.1 suspension. We took out the motor. We. We're building an LS to put in there. We're working. We're getting a transmission.
Shannon Sharpe
Why'd you just keep it? You didn't. Yeah, I mean, the Netflix might have broke you off. You weren't gonna be hurt for that money if you'd have just kept side on it.
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, I don't want to. It's just gonna sit there. It's taking the real estate.
Shannon Sharpe
Before. Let me ask you a question. Before the Netflix thing kicked you off, were you making good money in comedy?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Yeah. We were touring for, like, almost a good year before I got the Netflix special.
Shannon Sharpe
Really?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
So how many. So let me ask, how many shows do you do? Okay, say you go, and let's just say you're here in Vegas. You're going to do two shows, right? Two shows tonight, two shows tomorrow.
Ralph Barbosa
Tonight at the. No, one show tonight. One show tomorrow. But it's a bigger.
Shannon Sharpe
It's a bigger venue.
Ralph Barbosa
Bigger venue, yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. So it's what, 2500? 3000 seats? 5000.
Ralph Barbosa
Well, now you make me feel shitty. It's 1700. Sorry. It's not living up to your expectations.
Shannon Sharpe
No, no. I'm just saying.
Ralph Barbosa
No, But I'm saying 1700 seats. Yeah, yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
And you sold out those.
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, I think we're close, but I don't think we're going to sell them out. I think we're right under.
Shannon Sharpe
Where, Where. Where is this? At the Venetian.
Ralph Barbosa
At the Venetian.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
Unless you can release this episode, like, in the next hour, I don't think we gonna sell out.
Shannon Sharpe
No. But we gonna hype it up for the. The Hulu Special.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
That's what you. You know, the Hulu Special. That's where you gonna make that bread.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Well, you. They already done cut the check now, but. Now. But when they see you on the Hulu Special, they like, man, that dude funny, man. I'm gonna go check him out. He coming to us. He coming close by. That's what we do.
Ralph Barbosa
Why? Just when you like. And this is something Dave Chappelle told me, when you put your jokes out there on a special, it's like a funeral for your jokes and you want the most.
Shannon Sharpe
Yes.
Ralph Barbosa
So, like, I want everybody to watch my Hulu special. August 8th. It's called Planet Bosa.
Shannon Sharpe
Is it easier coming up with jokes when you're broke as opposed to when you have bread?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I was hungry. I was hungry and horny. Now I'm. Now I got a belly and I'm satisfied. And Renee Vaca, he. We sat down, we talked about this. He said. He. He. He was. He brought up the Scene from Rocky 3 When. When Mickey's telling Rock, he's like, you got civilized.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
He's like, bro, he's like, we got civilized. He's like, like, nah, I don't think. I don't think we got that civilized. Because we go out there, we still have fun, man. Like. Like, it's. It's. Comedy is very. Like, I don't. I don't care if I have money or not. Like, I still want to crack a joke.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
But you said, you know, so do you have a greater appreciation for a guy, let's just say, like a Chappelle, a Katt Williams, a Kevin Hart? These guys that have these big, big followings and they've made it, and they still keep coming up with material.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, Yeah. I have so much respect for him.
Shannon Sharpe
Cause it's kind of like an athlete, you know? An athlete that, you know, works his way up. He's hungry, he's heavy, he's driven. And then all of a sudden, he's making 50, 60, 100 million a year. And he's still Floyd Mayweather, guy that worked as hard out of Grand Rapids, Come to Vegas, and you ever see.
Ralph Barbosa
Those pictures of like, like Picasso or, like, whatever artist, and they're like, this is them in their home studio. Yeah, right. Working on their art. And it's just paintings everywhere. They're somewhere beautiful, and they're in this beautiful house. So, like, Yeah, I think of that when I think of like, you know, Chappelle Cat, Williams, whoever. Because they're still able to, to work on their, on their jokes, their craft, they're still delivering, but you know, they're well off. I know they're so successful, but they're still like, it's still driven. Yeah. And I don't like, my biggest fear is. And that's why I say every time somebody hypes me up or says something like, how you introduce me?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
It's like, okay, like, yeah, I got the nice house now. It's like, but am I still filling it up with Picassos, with paintings? Like so it's like, it just makes me want to get back to the canvas.
Shannon Sharpe
You said having nice rims was more important than moving out of your parents house.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Hell yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
So the cars that you bought with the money. So you only have two cars?
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, I got a bunch of cars.
Shannon Sharpe
Damn, you can only drive one.
Ralph Barbosa
That's just the first cars I bought with Netflix money.
Shannon Sharpe
So what's the.
Ralph Barbosa
How many cars you have?
Shannon Sharpe
2.
Ralph Barbosa
You can only drive one.
Shannon Sharpe
I mean, I had. I got a 12 year old Range Rover and a 5 year old BMW.
Ralph Barbosa
Damn. Let me know if everyone sell the kind of Beamer you got.
Shannon Sharpe
I got a 2020 V12M.
Ralph Barbosa
What was that like an M?
Shannon Sharpe
760.
Ralph Barbosa
760.
Shannon Sharpe
760.
Ralph Barbosa
Damn.
Shannon Sharpe
Matte red interior.
Ralph Barbosa
Those are a little big for my taste. I like something a little smaller. Some of you can really take corners.
Shannon Sharpe
See, there you go. Nah, nah, but see, big guy, I gotta have some room. I ain't trying to be all.
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, I need to be like.
Shannon Sharpe
So what you got a Ferrari, you got a Lambo, you got the.
Ralph Barbosa
I got real cars, man.
Shannon Sharpe
How about real cars?
Ralph Barbosa
I like those cars too, but I got real cars. I got a GTR R35. I got a 1971 GTR. I got my Impala. I got a 20, 25 single cab, F150. They call those the Mexican GTRs.
Shannon Sharpe
Did you always want a pickup truck? Did you? Like, if I ever get some bread and when I become an adult, I'm gonna get a pickup.
Ralph Barbosa
It wasn't like I Dr. Dreamed of pickups, but it's like, come on, man, everybody needs a pickup.
Shannon Sharpe
No, they don't. Yeah, nah, I want a pickup.
Ralph Barbosa
Whatever.
Shannon Sharpe
I don't know, I thought, you know, I did come close before I got the BMW, I thought about getting the, you know, Shelby does a pickup.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, yeah, go get.
Shannon Sharpe
No, no, no.
Ralph Barbosa
Go get. You One. No, no, no, no, no, man. I love these trucks. I got a 87C 10. It's getting worked on right now. We got so much work between, like, we're trying to get this automotive channel to. To keep gaining traction. I mean, we work on different cars. Right now, me and my buddy are working on his 240. We just did a video with our. With our buddy from Houston, Freddy LSX, where we raced him. We put NAS in the turbo on his little shitty 240 and 240, like a Nissan 248, 1989, 240. It's a horrible idea he had.
Shannon Sharpe
I used to have a 300E. Oh, yeah, 1987.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Nice.
Shannon Sharpe
See, it was that T talk.
Ralph Barbosa
Why'd you get rid of it, man?
Shannon Sharpe
Come on, bro. Those are the fun 40 years old now, bro.
Ralph Barbosa
You. Those cars up and don't. Don't even blink twice. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Like, but it was fun. It was nice. You know, I had to call it, you know, a little dice.
Ralph Barbosa
But, yeah, we've been working on these cars. So I'm. I'm in the habit of yours, huh?
Shannon Sharpe
That's a passion of yours, working on cars?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I love cars, man. I love. I love driving them a lot. And so, like, we're trying to. I'm in the habit right now of just buying stuff that's going to be good for the channel. And that, I think, is fun. If I. If I think it's fun, I think it's good for the channel. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
So, like, we in our marketplace and bought this little shitty 350Z from a crack kid, and now I'm turning into a drift car. I don't replace the whole suspension, and.
Shannon Sharpe
You just got to be talking about stereotyping it. Now. You don't turn ball something to turn into a drift car.
Ralph Barbosa
I got. Yeah, Like, I like. But that one's real wheel drive, you see? You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I. I'm in the habit of buying just more cars that. That I. That I think other people can. The. The common person can afford them and maybe do the. That I'm doing. And, like, I didn't know a lot about the mechanical side. I used to do pain and body, but I didn't really do a lot of mechanical side. So I hope that through watching the channel, people can watch and be like, oh, I can do that, too. At my house.
Shannon Sharpe
You got a bro. You got a lot of jobs, bro.
Ralph Barbosa
Man, I just look God blessed me with a mind, a working mind and a working body. So I want to utilize, man. Like, you ever see something you'd be like, oh, man, I kind of want to try that.
Shannon Sharpe
No.
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, nothing ever. Not even yoga. You look like you do yoga.
Shannon Sharpe
I used to do. Yo, I used to do yoga and Pilates when I played, but not now. I don't. My attention span is not that long. I can't.
Ralph Barbosa
There's never been something that you're like, oh, I would like to kind of learn that. Like, everything that we want to learn is learnable.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. But if I had learned it now, I just don't have the patience. So you got, you have to have patience to do stuff, what you're doing.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I think I do have patience. Yeah. I don't mind, like, if I'm 45 and I want to go learn how to bake or something. Like, I don't mind being the oldest dude in a baking class, you know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Nah. I'm going to go to the grocery store and go to the bakery department and grab that. You got your first apartment.
Ralph Barbosa
Oh, yeah. Wow.
Shannon Sharpe
How about. Yeah, I mean, you, you got.
Ralph Barbosa
With my uncle. I didn't put that in the joke. When I got my first apartment, you.
Shannon Sharpe
Laced that thing out, that thing with wall to wall furniture. You know, you got a tv.
Ralph Barbosa
My uncle, thankfully, he had furniture. I had a, I had a mattress. Now I had a, I had one of those, what do they call them? Platform bed.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
You know, lower the ground. Then I had like some dressers. My uncle lived with me and my grandma when I was a kid for like two months and he decked it out. He was there for two months, but man, he decked it out and he left some badass furniture. And I remember when he left, he said, anything I leave in this room, you can have it. So I was like 14 with just like high end furniture. That was still the furniture I had when I was 23 and I got the apartment. I think till this day I've never even bought furniture.
Shannon Sharpe
Really? I know you ain't still got that furniture that your uncle left the house. Nah, nah.
Ralph Barbosa
I just let my loved ones, ones, like, they'll be like, hey, Mike, my. My stepmom or like even my son's mom has helped me out with being like, hey, when you're out of town, like, you want me to get you some furniture like you don't got. And so they, they've.
Shannon Sharpe
They hook it up for you?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I'll leave them some money. And when I come back, they're gonna bless me.
Shannon Sharpe
Help me understand this. You live with your family.
Ralph Barbosa
Why do you look so disappointed, Shannon?
Shannon Sharpe
No, because I just want to know this. Where do you live when you want to bring someone over? How did that work?
Ralph Barbosa
I'm on the road, baby.
Shannon Sharpe
So you'll never. When you go home, you'll never see nobody. You just.
Ralph Barbosa
I'm with my son.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I don't. I don't really. My son's jealous. He don't like when I. I've been on a few dates back home, but my son don't like that.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. I introduced him to maybe two girls in his life and he don't like sharing the time.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
So.
Shannon Sharpe
Because he gets so few of it with you because you're on the road so much.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Do you ever bring him on the road?
Ralph Barbosa
I've taken him on like two road gigs.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah? He like it?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. He likes traveling. He likes Denver. He liked that it was snowing.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Woo wee.
Shannon Sharpe
So good luck with that one. Investing? You say you invested. So the money that you're making now with the Netflix stuff, you got Hulu. When you tour, you're investing in your channel. Is that where you put your money? You buy property? So what's your investment? What's. What's the thing to make sure you. Generational wealth.
Ralph Barbosa
Oh, man, I'm not even worried about generational wealth. I gotta take care of the next generation for it.
Shannon Sharpe
Your kids in the generation, they ain't.
Ralph Barbosa
Gonna learn how to work. You know what I mean? Why am I gonna leave them rich then? How are they gonna.
Shannon Sharpe
No, I think you leave them enough. You. You leave them enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing, man.
Ralph Barbosa
I gotta leave them with as much knowledge as I possibly can and. And a little bit of money to make sure.
Shannon Sharpe
A little bit of money, huh?
Ralph Barbosa
To make sure they don't start off at ground zero. Maybe I want to leave them with more valuable knowledge than I do with money, man.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
If I leave money to anybody, to whatever family I have, that maybe isn't able to work or whatever.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
But that's on them.
Shannon Sharpe
Did you buy that Hawk Tooie coin?
Ralph Barbosa
Nah. Hell nah. That shit sounded so stupid. I don't know who bought it, but.
Shannon Sharpe
It seemed like everybody else getting the coin, man, and making bread off it.
Ralph Barbosa
They was working now or what?
Shannon Sharpe
I don't know. I didn't look. Did you invest in bitcoin?
Ralph Barbosa
Hell no, I didn't.
Shannon Sharpe
I don't understand digital currency.
Ralph Barbosa
I don't Understand it either.
Shannon Sharpe
And so for me, it doesn't make sense. I mean, I need to know a little something about it, and then, you know, you can't have it. You have to have the password wrote down somewhere, and you get locked out of your pocket. I don't get it.
Ralph Barbosa
Like, everybody's always looking, and my dad's always talking about that, too. It's like you need a capitalize, like, on every opportunity. No, you don't.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
Sometimes, like, I make good money.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. I don't, like, ain't no sense in chasing it. Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
You could be making billions for what.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. And I could be losing.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I could be losing what I have right now, man. Like I said, my belly's full, man.
Shannon Sharpe
You met Kevin, Kevin Hart at the Netflix party. What was that experience like with Kev?
Ralph Barbosa
How'd you know about that? Yeah, that was cool, though. He was so nice. Yeah, it was just cool. He looked so beautiful. No offense to everybody else who was at that party, but.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
The thing I took away the most from that party was. And it was during the festival, and every celebrity that I met at that party or that I even looked at look pretty beat up.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Including myself.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
And maybe it was from party. Maybe it's just from working so much. You know, this is a crazy lifestyle, and a lot of the celebrities I met there, they're way more successful than I am. I could only imagine the stresses and the work that they have.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
And then Dave Chappelle introduces me to. He's like, Kevin, he's like, I want you to meet this guy. And I look at Kevin Hart, and he looks so much more beautiful than everybody there. And so much.
Shannon Sharpe
Well, like, he got no worry, no stress.
Ralph Barbosa
No. I think they injected him with like a. Like, just nutritions before he walked in. He just. But he was so nice. He was so cool, man. And he was just like, hey, man, people speak highly of know you. Right. I don't know what to say. I was so nervous. I was like, hey, people speak highly of YouTube.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Kevin Hart.
Shannon Sharpe
He got a car collection.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Have you heard about his car collection? Have you seen it?
Ralph Barbosa
I've seen a car that they built for him on this one YouTube video.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, you talking about that. That Plymouth? That road run?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's sick right there.
Shannon Sharpe
No, he got some stuff back.
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Shannon Sharpe
Ooh.
Ralph Barbosa
I would like to drive his cars. Kevin Hart, please invite me over to your house.
Shannon Sharpe
No, Kev. Kev. Kev is a serious car guy. He's a serious car enthusiast, but he got some stuff. He's got like the Grand National. He has two like grand Nationals.
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Ralph Barbosa
Okay, ladies, when I said we came to play, didn't I mean it? This Disney cruise got me feeling like a queen. We can get massages at Sense's spa.
Shannon Sharpe
Have a meet and greet with Black Panther.
Ralph Barbosa
Oh, I love him. And I can't wait to sunbathe on the private island. And the kids will be fine. Girl, they're good. Exactly. While they hang in the kids club.
Unknown
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Ralph Barbosa
Mm. And do it well all day. Disney Cruise Line is where we came to play.
Shannon Sharpe
He have a cut? He had a custom cut. He got one of those from Speedcore. One of them carbon fibers.
Ralph Barbosa
Ooh, like a full carbon fiber car.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, that thing Is fire.
Ralph Barbosa
That's scary right there. They fly.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, he got some stuff.
Ralph Barbosa
We went to that Speed Vegas yesterday. Yeah, that was tight, man. That was my first time driving on, like, a circuit.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Track. It's tight.
Shannon Sharpe
I'm gonna go see. I want to see sema. You ever been to SEMA Auto show?
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, I went to pri.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
It's not as big as sema, but it's just more concentrated on, like, racing products only. But I hope. I hope I can get it to SEMA this year because, you know, you gotta, like, work in the car industry to get in there.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna try to.
Ralph Barbosa
I hope there's a lot of girls there.
Shannon Sharpe
You smoke with Chappelle?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Hell, yeah. I'm not gonna.
Shannon Sharpe
He has some good weed. He had some good stuff.
Ralph Barbosa
I only the weed. I didn't even take no hits of his weed at first because I. I was about to go perform, right? And I knew he was gonna watch, so I didn't want to be too high, right? And I'm up there in my head too much, so I was just like, nah, I'm awake. But so when. When I met him, I met him. I had two shows that night, right? And I met him right before my first show where before I went on stage. So then I go on stage and he watches a little bit of the show. And they. In the. Because at the Hollywood Improv, there's another room called the Lab. It's a smaller room. When that comedian in that room was wrapping up his show, Chappelle just popped in and was like, hey, anybody want to stay and hang out? Like, I'm gonna just jump on stage, you know?
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
So everybody stays, you know, obviously it's Chappelle. So when I got off stage for my first show, the manager of the club was like, hey, Chappelle said, go in that room now. So I went over there and I got on stage with him and I smoked cigarettes with him. I had never smoked cigarettes. I had smoked cigarettes before that I hadn't smoked enough to even choose, like, my own, Right. My first HBO appearance got me smoking cigarettes, right? But not regularly, right? I was just. I. I appeared on hbo, but I was still very local. It didn't take me. It didn't really, like, take, take. Give me a career, like, right? So I showed up to the next local open mic at home after my HBO appearance, and I had a feeling that a lot of the comics wouldn't ask me about it. And I got so anxious, so nervous. And comedians, a lot of comedians smoke cigarettes.
Shannon Sharpe
Really?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. So I went outside with the comedians that were smoking cigarettes, and to calm my nerves, I want to smoke with them. So I smoked a couple cigarettes so that when I met Chappelle, I wasn't just like, it's my first time, like, you know. But, yeah, he. I got on stage with him and Chappelle, yeah, I was gonna smoke with him, man.
Shannon Sharpe
You meet Chappelle, he give you any advice?
Ralph Barbosa
Not. Not like, right off the bat. He did tell me, though. He was like, man, you're like. He's like, I'm not like, no teacher or nothing like that, but if there's anything you want to talk about or anything I could show you, like, just hit me up. So when I. When I closed the deal with Netflix, I asked him, like, where are the do's and don'ts? Or, like, what's the general direction I should go in now? And he kind of gave me. He sent me like, these, like, four or five mini paragraphs and was like, this is what you gotta do. This is what I recommend you do, you know? And, yeah, I think thanks to that, I had a good Netflix special.
Shannon Sharpe
Are there any comedians that you haven't met that you like to meet?
Ralph Barbosa
I mean, not really. I wish I could have met Norm MacDonald. Rest in peace to him. I thought he was really funny. Like, I wish I. I wish I could have met Bernie Mac. Yeah. He has jokes that I think people would have tried to cancel for. Cancel him?
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, back it back, way back when. I mean, him and prior.
Ralph Barbosa
A person like that, though, a person that. That will say stuff like that on stage, I could only imagine what it was like hanging out with him.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Person. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
So I wish I could have met Bernie Mac, man.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay, sorry. Have you ever been starstruck by anybody?
Ralph Barbosa
I was pretty starstruck when Chappelle walked in or when I met Kevin Hart, but. But at the same time, like, I just, you know, I mean, I don't know what it is to be starstruck. I don't know when I'm. When I'm annoying somebody.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
So maybe I have annoyed somebody, like. But, like, I don't know. Like, I don't. I don't like asking for pictures because I'm like, ah, they're probably tired of it. But I don't know. I don't know if I've necessarily been.
Shannon Sharpe
Like, superstar, straight, you know, Joe Rogan and a lot. Everybody that I've had. When I talk about Joe Rogan. They talk about. From Miss Pat to all. I mean, a lot of people talk about how Rogan helps comedians. That's trying to come up. Have you ever met Rogan?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I did his show one time. I'm supposed to do a show again. By the time this comes out, I probably would have done it already, but I'm so nervous on that show. I don't know what to talk about on the. Everybody goes on the show has conspiracy theories up to wazoo.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Or they're just like, you know, really funny and stuff. And I don't know. I don't know what to talk about on the show like that. It's too much like, I'll go on there, I'll talk about whatever, but I feel like I'm not giving them good conversation.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, they. Conspiracy. They talk about the. The world is flat. There's, you know, and then they got.
Ralph Barbosa
Like, science on, like, why flamingos can actually lift barbells or something. I don't know what to talk about on there. I haven't done my research.
Shannon Sharpe
You said that Adam Sandler, you know, you wanted to be kind of like a comedic actor, like Adam Sandler. Have you ever met Adam?
Ralph Barbosa
Once, yeah. He gave me a hug. I didn't want to let him go. I love Adam Sandler. You know what I mean? Like anybody else, I grew up watching his movies, and I had a. Had a general. My manager, my agent set up, like, general meetings. You know, you get to meet with, like, production studios, and they get to know you.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
They'll ask you questions like, do you want to write movies? You want to write TV shows? You want to act like, well, you know, because that's how they get to know you and see if they could ever use you in anything. And they told me, they're like, yeah, we got you a meeting with. With Happy Madison. So he might be there. He might not be where. And I'm in this meeting with these two dudes and just. It's pretty cool. Lay back. And all of a sudden, he just opens the door. He's like, who's this guy? I was like, how you doing, Mr. Sandler? He's like, my name is Ralph Barbosa. Whatever. And they. They were. They introduced me to him. They're like, oh, yeah, yeah, he's got a Netflix special. And he's like, oh, congrats to you. He's like, is your family excited for you? I was like, man, some of them. Some of them don't understand the word I'm saying. Like, on stage, like, they don't know what's going on, right? And he was just real cool, man. He gave me a hug, and it was cool as hell.
Shannon Sharpe
Acting, have you given up that?
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, nah, nah, nah. I had a couple acting roles, Okay. I had one on the show Mo. Shout out to my buddy Mo Amer.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay?
Ralph Barbosa
I don't know if you've ever seen the show, Mo. That show is, like, necessary right now. It's on Netflix. It's hilarious.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay? Check it out.
Ralph Barbosa
He wrote me in on the first episode of season two.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay?
Ralph Barbosa
Season one is good. Season two, I think, is even better. Season two was very necessary, especially with the things that are going on now, Right. I think Mo is crazy that Mo, like, wrote this with his team. And to see all the stuff that that's been going on after he wrote it, like, it's almost like he was predicting the future. Like, it just touches on a lot of the stuff that's heavy in America right now and the world, maybe. You know what I mean? But I was on that show. He wrote me in that show. And I did a commercial for Verizon where I was doing it in Spanish, right? And they didn't like the way I spoke Spanish.
Shannon Sharpe
I mean, is there a way to speak Spanish?
Ralph Barbosa
Apparently I speak, like, a country type Spanish. They. They say my Spanish is from north Mexico, which it is. That's where my family's from, right? North Mexico. But they were like, you need to talk, like, a neutral Spanish. And they had me with a dialect coach, and I didn't want to do it, but then they gave me a lot of money, so I was like, all right. I was like, but don't worry, Mexicans. I'll spread this money amongst the community.
Shannon Sharpe
George Lopez went viral. Basically. He was. I guess they say he was hating on you. Cause saying that nobody knew. You get that people from our community, when it should be a positive, should be uplifting. Somebody from the community got out. Instead, somebody from the community say something negative when you heard. I don't know if you heard it, but I'm sure if you didn't hear it directly, I'm sure some family, friends or loved ones told you or relayed to you what he had said.
Ralph Barbosa
Everybody sent me a video.
Shannon Sharpe
How did it make you feel?
Ralph Barbosa
I didn't care. You're grown man. He could say whatever he wants. It's his podcast. He paid for the equipment. You know, also, like, I didn't. I didn't. I wasn't too hurt about it because I wasn't like, A big Lopez fan growing up, right? Some of my friends were into his stand up, but I didn't, I didn't think, like, I'm not saying he's not funny, right? You know, I just wasn't into George Lopez. So, like, you know, if it had been Adam Sandler, Dave Chappelle was like, but he's Hispanic.
Shannon Sharpe
He's from the community. It hurts more. I ain't gonna lie. It hurts more when somebody from the community says something negative about me.
Ralph Barbosa
I guess so. I don't know. It just didn't really hurt too bad, you know, he's a veteran comedian.
Shannon Sharpe
Maybe he from south Mexico. And you.
Ralph Barbosa
As far as I was concerned, I'm like, look, man, I don't like if he wants to talk with the, like, come then, you know, but it didn't hurt me too bad. And he's a veteran comedian. Like, I think he's gonna go down as one of the goats. And he, he outranks me. He could say that stuff like, you know what I mean? Like, man, I, I, I don't know what's gonna happen in the future. Like, I can't just sit here and be like, ah, why are you doing that to me, George? Like, whatever. Like, what if when I'm his age, I'm doing the same thing? I don't know what I'm gonna be like.
Shannon Sharpe
You gonna be hating.
Ralph Barbosa
I hate so many people right now. I might. Nah, I hope not. I hope not.
Shannon Sharpe
Did you guys have a private conversation on the phone?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. He called me and he apologized and I told him I didn't even want him to apologize. I'm like, bro, he's a.
Shannon Sharpe
Are you like, okay?
Ralph Barbosa
But he was like, no, no, no. He's like, he's like, I didn't, he said, I didn't. I really didn't know who you were.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
And he's like, I asked around about you and people had nice things to say. So he's like, he's like, my bad, man.
Shannon Sharpe
Do you believe it's important for the younger, for the older generation to give guidance or to help if asked? I'm not saying you have to go out of your way. Let's just say, for the sake of argument, in 20 years from now, when you're one of the elder statesmen of the comedic community, do you think it's your obligation if people were to reach out to Ralph and say, hey, Ralph, hey, man, what you think? I don't know if you've seen any of my specials or any of my performances, but if any advice that you can, you know, partake on me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. I think that if anybody ever wants my two cents, I'm happy to give them to you. That being said, I think when you. And maybe, you know, like, people always have to keep in mind that this. And especially in comedy, I think in comedy, more than in other industries, when somebody gives you advice, you have to know that, like, it could be great advice. It could be great advice that worked for them, and it could work like nothing for you and yours, because everybody's comedy style is so different. My only advice to somebody who's in comedy younger than me is like, you need to be very, very, very introspective. You need to hear how you sound and know how you come off, you know?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
But, yeah, I think it's important to pass along whatever, you know.
Shannon Sharpe
What are your thoughts on cancel culture? Is there a joke that you will not, absolutely will not tell on stage?
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, I don't. I don't think my jokes get that bad. Like, if they. If you. If you're trying to cancel me, you gotta be, like, soft. Like. Yeah, like certified soft. You know what I mean? From one of my jokes to make you want to cancel me, but I don't. Like, how can you cancel? I think to cancel somebody, they have to, like, commit a heinous crime, like, for them to really lose all their fans. Because usually the people they're trying to cancel somebody is somebody who wasn't even a fan in the first place. If a man has. Or a comedian has a fan base, like, they're gonna be fine. Cancel them. You're gonna make his fans like them even more.
Shannon Sharpe
Right. Is there. Okay. Is there a joke that you regret telling? Like. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have told that one or told it like that.
Ralph Barbosa
No. I don't even remember half the jokes I tell Joe. I mean, like, I look like if I write a good joke, like, yeah, I'm proud of it, but at the same time, it's not like a painting where I'm like, oh, right, that was my masterpiece. Like, I'm out there saying poop and bud, and. Yeah, if they like it, they like it.
Shannon Sharpe
They don't. My comment ain't for you.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
The Mexican, I think his name. What was it? Ot.
Ralph Barbosa
Oh, Mexican. Ot.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, that said the N word. I mean, there ain't no pass. You don't get to be, oh, man, you know, I'm cool with the homies. No, bro.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I think that. I mean, I can't Speak for Mexican ot. But what I will say is that I don't know what it's like in Georgia, but in Texas, a lot of us were saying it growing up, and I think it wasn't until I started going to open mics that I realized, like, I don't think we're supposed to be saying it. Yeah, but I. I was so enclosed. Like, I was so.
Shannon Sharpe
But you were. You said around blacks, or were you saying it right in your community?
Ralph Barbosa
No, like, with black. Like.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
You think there wasn't no black people where I grew up?
Shannon Sharpe
No, I'm just saying we weren't saying.
Ralph Barbosa
We weren't, like, saying it. Oh, like. Like, Oh, I heard this on tv. Like, let's just say it. Like, it was just, like, saying bro. Or, like, nothing. But once I started kind of going outside of my own neighborhood, my own, like, circles, then I started realizing, like, nah, you're not supposed to be like, wow.
Shannon Sharpe
I know that.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. So that's why, like, I get. I kind of get royalty's coming from. But at the same time, like, yeah, I mean, I'm not. Like, I said, I'm not gonna speak for ot. And, like, be like, he shouldn't say this. Should have said that.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
But, like, I somewhat understand what he was saying. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
Only because it's, like, where we're growing up, everybody was saying it. Like, white kids were saying it where I was growing up with other black kids.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
And, like, maybe some of the black kids didn't like it, but, like, nobody was saying nothing. Like, for the most part, like, it was. It was okay right there. As kids now, as we grew up and started going into different circles, I think it was on us to kind.
Shannon Sharpe
Of, like, realize that, yeah, that ain't cool.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. I'm not gonna make a career saying this on stage.
Shannon Sharpe
Joke stealing. Worry on. Joke stealing.
Ralph Barbosa
That's horrible. That's worse.
Shannon Sharpe
Cause it's kind of split. I've heard people say, look.
Ralph Barbosa
Mexican saying the N word is just a little bit worse than joke stealing.
Shannon Sharpe
So joke stealing right below Cindy. Because I've heard, you know, different people.
Ralph Barbosa
Say, might even be worse. Like, at least when you say in the N word, you're not stealing someone's joke. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
No, I think that they did work. That's. But now, in seriousness, though. Cause I've heard different comedians say different, like, hold on. If that's not the only joke, or tell better jokes. And then there are some people that go, nah, bro, you can't do that, you cannot take someone material. And even if you try to dress it up, even if I'm talking about. Even if I'm talking about a bird, you can't come back and say it was an owl, even though I was talking about an eagle and have the same premise.
Ralph Barbosa
I think that you're gonna cross premises no matter what with people.
Shannon Sharpe
Cause your mind a lot alike.
Ralph Barbosa
I mean, but you, like, if it's like, it can get a little sketchy, where you're like, ah, well, they're similar, but it's. But it's a little different. But if it's a little too similar, like, just change it.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Like, you know, like, you brought up the joke I did about aliens earlier.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
There's a comedian out of Texas, the local guy not trying to down talk, like, I'm not trying to be like, he's not famous, but the comedian who, like, showed me where he was, like, first he tried to. I think he tried to say I stole his joke, right? Because the first few words were the same where we're saying, like, oh, yeah, I believe in aliens, but I don't believe in them.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
But then his joke goes kind of this way and mine goes that way. But it was similar enough to where, like, I never did the joke again. I took it offline, right? I'm like, you know what? It's too similar, right? And I like, man, I think I'm creative enough. I could think of something else, you know?
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
But I think that if it's, like, close enough, one of y' all has to stop doing it, right? If you're a good comedian, you're gonna come up with something funnier anyway, like, you know the next joke, but, like, don't. And I think older comics fight about that more than nowadays, because now it's like, I post it first, I said it first. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
Like, even. Cause how do I know, like, if a comic in Ohio has a joke similar to mine, right? But I never heard his joke or he never posted his joke, and I posted mine. Well, like, I. I didn't steal it, right? We had a similar joke ideas. Maybe right? Now, if somebody posted a joke, and then I just started doing that joke word for word. Now that's an obvious steal, right? That's Haynes. Chop his head off.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
But back in the day, I think older comedians struggled with that kind of stuff more because they used to sell each other jokes. I don't think people do that in my generation, Right. I think that was like an Old school thing. So people could be like, hey, you stole that joke for such and such. And they could be like, nah, I bought it.
Shannon Sharpe
I bought it. Yeah, right? Have you ever had a joke stolen?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, but it was, like, local, and it was, like, not even a good joke. I don't remember how it went, but it's. I didn't trip. My buddy Wes Corbin gave me the best advice on that. He's like, man, if they're stealing jokes, they're gonna run out of jokes to steal someday. Like, they're gonna burn out. But if you wrote a good joke, we're stealing. You got it in. You write another good joke.
Shannon Sharpe
Have you write. Do you write for other comedians?
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, but me and other. Like, if I'm hanging out with comedians and they want to talk shop and be like, hey, help me out with this bid. I'm working. Hell yeah, I'll help them write. And they'll. They'll help me write. Felipe Esparza's help me out. Right? Like, he'll hop on a phone call with me and help me.
Shannon Sharpe
Who?
Ralph Barbosa
Felipe Esparza.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
He'll help me. Like, like, you know, said the joker.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. Now that you've made it, how have you been able to deal with fame?
Ralph Barbosa
I don't think I'm good at whatever level of fame I have. But, I mean, I don't know. I don't like that people opinion, like, have opinions on, like, serious opinions or, like, serious accusations on me. They don't know who I am. They might have seen me on. On video for 45 seconds, right. And they want to comment that, like, oh, he probably voted for Trump, or, oh, he probably voted for Biden. I didn't vote.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
Which is probably worse. I know both people hate that. You know what I mean? But I. I'd rather go. I'd rather get hate for the truth than get hate for an assumption.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
I mean. But yeah, like, I just. That's the only part of fame I don't like is when people just comment. Real serious assumptions or accusations. I mean, they don't. Off of a video, off of one video. You know what I mean? The two videos, tops.
Shannon Sharpe
Like, man, how has it changed your life?
Ralph Barbosa
I don't. When I'm home, I don't leave my house no more.
Shannon Sharpe
Really?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. I don't trust you. I don't. Sometimes, like, I love my fans. Like I said, like, they've given me everything. Like, and I will always love anybody who's helped. But at the same time, man, like, I've read So many ignorant ass comments that sometimes I'm at a Walmart and somebody will come up to me and be like, like, hey, you that guy? And yeah. And then there's a. There's a lot. It feels, even though it might be five seconds before their next question, it feels like an hour before. I don't know if they're gonna ask me for a picture or if they're gonna compliment me or they're gonna. Or when they, when they take long to say the next thing. I'm like, this person has so many questions they want to ask about so much bullshit I don't want to talk about. And I'm like, which way? Like, what comment have you left before, bro? And I almost just want to walk out and be like, man, you know what I mean? But then, like, then, then other people come up and they're just like, oh, bro, I like your stuff. And I'm just like, oh, thank God. Like, it's such a relief for them to just say something so quick and so nice.
Shannon Sharpe
Be gone.
Ralph Barbosa
And just be gone. Yeah. Because other people, I'm like, what do you want to talk about, bro?
Shannon Sharpe
Like, right.
Ralph Barbosa
What is it that you really want to say?
Shannon Sharpe
How's it dating now that you're famous and you got some bread and the people know you got bread?
Ralph Barbosa
I think some. I think there's been like a couple girls here and there that I'm like, ah. I think they just think I'm rich or maybe, you know what I mean? Or other girls think they don't trust me. They think that I'm not being genuine. They're like, ah, you just, you think because you. Who you are, who you are. You know, you probably say this to other girls, but I also don't even have the patience for it. Like if they don't, they don't believe me. All right then. And.
Shannon Sharpe
You been on some bad dates lately?
Ralph Barbosa
Not really. Haven't really been on any dates lately.
Shannon Sharpe
What would you consider a bad date?
Ralph Barbosa
Consider a bad day. When I meet a girl who's just kind of like, I don't know, maybe doesn't take care of her hygiene. Or maybe she's just like, I've been on a.
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Ralph Barbosa
Okay, ladies, when I said we came to play, didn't I mean it? This Disney cruise got me feeling like a queen. We can get massages at Sense's Spa, have a meet and greet with Black Panther.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, I love him.
Ralph Barbosa
And I can't wait to sunbathe on the private island. And the kids will be fine. Girl, they're good. Exactly. While they hang in the kids club.
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With Mickey Mouse, we can do our.
Ralph Barbosa
Thing and do it well all day. Disney Cruise Line is where we came to play. I've been on a couple dates where the whole time a girl's like, can you do a video for, like, my cousin? He's a big fan. I'm like, I'm trying to eat spaghetti with you, bro. I got sauce on my mouth. I'll do the video, but I'll never call him back again. I'll never call him back on a date. Never again. We ain't ever hanging out again.
Shannon Sharpe
You're antisocial.
Ralph Barbosa
I. I mean, maybe like two of the.
Shannon Sharpe
You're introvert.
Ralph Barbosa
I'm an introvert. Naturally, if I. Once I start getting comfortable with people, I can come out myself. Yeah, yeah, but I started off on zero, you know Right.
Shannon Sharpe
So let me ask you. Ideal. Ideal mate. Ideal date? What. What is. What is where for you? What do you want.
Ralph Barbosa
An ideal date?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, ideal.
Ralph Barbosa
I don't have expectations like that. I feel like I won't know what the. What the. What the. What a good date was until after it's done. You know what I mean? Yeah, I don't. I don't.
Shannon Sharpe
You don't have. You don't have. You don't have a type. You just, like, go with the flow, whatever, you know the flow.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
One time I heard this on a. On an anime. They say you don't know what type of person you were until right before you die because you weren't done living until that point. You know what I mean? So, like, I don't know what a good date until it's done.
Shannon Sharpe
Have you ever had a situation where, like, you said, like, they ask you to take videos or say happy birthday? And I hate that, too. Don't get on FaceTime. Hey, can you. Can you say hey to my dad? My dad's a big. Can you say hey to my brother, bro?
Ralph Barbosa
I almost, like. I didn't used to like it. Sometimes they would just run up to you and already have. Yes. So I didn't used to like that. And I still kind of. Don't. Don't get me wrong. But I actually prefer that, as it were, to when they come up to you and they ask you, like, can you do this? And then let's say you're like, okay, yeah, I'll do it. And they're like, okay, let me just call them. And then they gotta unlock their phone, and they're nervous and they forget their code, and I'm like, bro, I gotta go. I gotta get you, dude.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, I gotta. Yes. Yes, yes. It's like, I'm like, man, I don't.
Ralph Barbosa
Hate, Like, I don't hate that necessarily. But it's just like, if you're gonna.
Shannon Sharpe
I mean, if it's not too much. Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
If you're gonna sandbag me, like, ambush me with this FaceTime, at least have the person on there already, bro. Like, we gotta keep it moving.
Shannon Sharpe
Guess you will never go get. You never go, guess who I ran into at the hill. You never go, guess, Guess who it is.
Ralph Barbosa
And then I'm right there, like, oh.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
That's what they. Yeah, they ran into me.
Ralph Barbosa
And you're not gonna tell me what to say either. You say what I want. It's my conversation. One time, this lady pulled up like, this is my dad. I'm like, hey, your daughter's a whore. You want me to say, man, I don't know you. You could be a whore.
Shannon Sharpe
Boy, I sure hope you didn't say that. But knowing you, hey, that. You a comedian, you can say, yeah, I'm not. But look, I think the biggest thing is, is that I don't mind, you know, Sometimes I'm in a hurry. But it's like when they come up and says, oh, you gonna take this picture? Oh, you gonna do this? What about whatever happened to ask, do you mind taking a picture with me? They'd be like, hey, do you mind signing?
Ralph Barbosa
I'll take a picture real quick.
Shannon Sharpe
Yes. How you gonna tell somebody they are. Oh, I. I gotta get. I gotta get this picture.
Ralph Barbosa
Here's the one that bothers me. Here's the one that I. That I do hate. Like, this is the one that I'm like, we do this. I do not like you is when somebody calls me out from, like, a distance to be like, Ralph. And I look and then they go, come here.
Shannon Sharpe
Who the are you, bro?
Ralph Barbosa
I'm in the middle of a conversation over here with somebody. You're like, come here. Like, I'm gonna be talking with my friends and be like, sorry about this guy. This stranger's calling me like, the. Out of here, bro.
Shannon Sharpe
Hey. Or they call you hey, Shannon. Shannon. You Shannon Sharp. I say, hey, yo, what's up, man? Are you Shannon?
Ralph Barbosa
Yes, bro.
Shannon Sharpe
You call my name. I turn around and say, yeah, what's up? And then you get close to me and say, you Shannon Sharp.
Ralph Barbosa
People forget that you just like another person, too, bro. Like, I don't like when people don't believe that. I'm like, me. But you asked me. Yeah, that happened on 4th of July. I went to go buy fireworks, and one of the dudes at the Casual was like, bro. He's like, you're Ralph, right? I said, yeah, man. He's like, can I get a picture? I was like, yeah, bro, no problem. And then his buddy comes up and he's like, you're Ralph Real? I said, yeah. He's like, don't. Don't bullshit with me. I'm like, okay, I'm not. And then he's like, nah, but for real, like, are you Ralph? I'm like, bro, it's not my job to convince you that I'm Ralph. Like, if you don't believe me, I don't care. Like, if you believe me or not. He's like, nah, bro, prove to me you're Ralph. I'm like, nah, fuck that. How am I gonna prove it, bro? Let me call my mom. Bring my birth certificate, like, if you don't believe me. What the. Do I care?
Shannon Sharpe
Hold on. You send girls money on cash app?
Ralph Barbosa
Have I send girls money on cash app?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, not if. Not like, if I.
Shannon Sharpe
Not recently.
Ralph Barbosa
That's old Ralph that was broke Ralph.
Shannon Sharpe
Hold up, Whitney, you own if that's broke Ralph. How you got bread to send money on cash app?
Ralph Barbosa
Broke Ralph was sending her 20 bucks and think he was doing something. Something. But here's some gas money.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, but they. They ate 20 bucks. They go cut it now, because they won't. I mean, I be seeing the list. Like, hair is like 400, nails is like 150, and they're like skin care. Like, I'm like, well, damn, I'd be.
Ralph Barbosa
Impressed with girls that do all that. I'm like, did you pay for it all yourself? That's insane. But now I don't be sending girls no money on cash. Not unless, like, if I. My last relationship, I might have gave her some money here and there. But I learned my lesson.
Shannon Sharpe
What you learned?
Ralph Barbosa
I learned that I'm into girls who. Who like to earn their own money. Now, if I was to give them a gift or something, I feel like they appreciate it more because they know the work that comes behind it. You know what I mean? Yeah, but I don't. My biggest fear is that I'll date a girl who is just using me for the money and then go show off. Because, like, who. Go show off and be like, hey, look, he pays for this for me. He pays for that for me. I don't like that.
Shannon Sharpe
You don't like that, right?
Ralph Barbosa
If I pay for something for somebody, I want them to really appreciate.
Shannon Sharpe
Appreciate it. And it's not for the world. It is not for everybody.
Ralph Barbosa
And usually the people who appreciate it are the people who have their own career. Right. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Red flag. What are some of the red flags?
Ralph Barbosa
They're breathing.
Shannon Sharpe
Hold on. I just want to know, do you care to share her name? The one that. The one that's just one that done the damage that made you become so cynical.
Ralph Barbosa
I'm not. I don't. Look, man, I'm exaggerating a lot of the cynical stuff I'm saying here, but it's like, everybody has red flags. I don't know. What are some, like, major ones? I think maybe some of the major red flags is like. And look, this sucks to say, because, like, if I'm on a date With a girl, and she gives me the chance to sleep with her on the first night. I'll probably take it, but that's probably a red flag.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
But it also doesn't might not mean she's a hoe. Maybe we did just hit her off that night.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
But I'm always gonna wonder, like, she do this with every guy? Does she sleep with every first date? How many first dates has she gone on this month?
Shannon Sharpe
What if she's wondering that about you? Does he do it on every birthday?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. I probably got tons of red flags.
Shannon Sharpe
You get jealous if someone you're seeing, they mention something that they did with their ex. Well, maybe they went bowling. Maybe they went. Maybe they went this or they did that. You get jealous.
Ralph Barbosa
I don't get jealous, but I would say that, like, if they keep bringing up their ex, I' ma wonder if they're trying to get a reaction out of me.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
And if they're doing that, I'm like, why? That's another red flag. Why do you want to get the reaction?
Shannon Sharpe
Right? And if he was so great, why are you here with me now and not with him?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, go. That guy. He sounds amazing. I want to meet him.
Shannon Sharpe
But you know what they're going to say? If I wanted to be with him, I would be with him. But I'm here with you. Why are you so. I mean, why are you so insecure?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, why are you bringing up those memories?
Shannon Sharpe
You don't see me throwing up. My ex. Well. Oh, man, we used. Oh, she used to cook me breakfast, bring me breakfast in bed. We used to go watch to the movies. We used to hold hands walking on the beach. You don't wanna hear that.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Ooh. God forbid I bring up my ex on the first date. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Your father. You mentioned your father. Obviously you're very close to your uncle. What type of father are you to your son?
Ralph Barbosa
I think I'm pretty stern. I feel like when you have a kid, it is now your responsibility to make sure that this person doesn't go out into the world and just become a piece of shit. So I want to make sure that I'm raising a kid who can be a good person, who can be a good member of society, who can be respectful to others and hold his own and. You know what I mean? Be responsible. But at the same time, like, I gotta let him be a kid. So I think I'm the type of father who's always in his head, but I'm Trying to have fun with my son. I want him to have a childhood. I want him to not worry about adult problems or like, problems. He's six right now, right? So I try to make sure he can live like a six year old, but I also try to stay stern on him and make sure that he's not becoming this. This spoiled brat who's. Who's developing patterns that. Because sometimes some things is like, let him get away with that, he's a kid. But other things, it's like, nah, that's a pattern as he gets older and he'll never break it. You know what I mean? So, like, I think I'm pretty stern but fun.
Shannon Sharpe
You found out your ex was pregnant after you guys broke up.
Ralph Barbosa
How'd you know that? Who you been talking? You do talk to my ex, right? Ah.
Shannon Sharpe
So when she told you I'm pregnant, did you think she was telling you that to try to get back with you?
Ralph Barbosa
No, she was being honest.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
And we were like, on and off, dude, because we were young. We were like, you know, 20, 21. We started dating. We were like 18, 19.
Shannon Sharpe
Now that was your wife and you didn't even know it.
Ralph Barbosa
We, we, you know, we end up getting pregnant, whatever. Like 20, 21. My son was like, yeah. I was like 22 when my son was born. You know, so we're just real dumb, real mature.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
Toxic for each other maybe. So I don't think she. She wasn't like, oh, I'm gonna do this to get back with him. You know, it was just. It was what it was and we dealt with it.
Shannon Sharpe
Right. You put yourself on child support.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Cause she was being difficult. I might have been being difficult with her too, I don't know. But she was being like, extra. She was very emotional.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
Once I had my son, all my decisions were really about him. And I think a lot of hers were.
Shannon Sharpe
And you try to take the emotion out of it. Look, I understand that, you know, look, it didn't work out between you and I, and whatever the case may be, but in the best interest of him, let's try to be the best parents we can be. Although we're not together. But there's something that's never gonna change. You gonna always be his mom, I'm gonna always be his dad. And we're gonna have to live. We're gonna be in each other's life forever.
Ralph Barbosa
We're. Man, for a minute, she was like a tumor in my head. But one thing I kept reminding myself is that, like, man, we're on the same team.
Shannon Sharpe
Yes.
Ralph Barbosa
You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Yes.
Ralph Barbosa
Which is something I feel like a lot of people need to remind themselves when they're struggling. And some people were like, man, I don't want to pay no child support because of the money or whatever. I had no problem putting myself. I mainly did it because we were having a lot of conflict over scheduling and if I was going to take my son or not. She didn't want me to, like, take him nowhere with her until, like, so I put myself on child support to take the power out of her hands. And it's like, I wanted my. I wanted to see my son way more than every other weekend.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
I didn't want to just stick to that. But at least, like, this, it was like, you. You can't say.
Shannon Sharpe
You can't deny.
Ralph Barbosa
You can't say no just because you're mad.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
You know what I mean? And as far as the money goes, I think I'm fortunate that my son's mom has never been irresponsible with money. Whether I gave her. If I gave her $700. And I said, spend every dime of this only on my son, not for you. Like, she'll do that.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
And mostly. And a lot of it was out of spite, too, because she was like, I don't want to take your money. You don't got to support me. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
So, like, I never had a problem paying child support.
Shannon Sharpe
Right. How different are you as a dad than your dad was to you?
Ralph Barbosa
I mean, I. I don't know. I mean, I think we're different in a lot of ways. My dad was very stern with my dad. Didn't like, no jokes. My dad would pick me up and we'd go to, like, a family party, and I would. I would be my usual self. Like, I'm at home, say some jokes, and my dad would, like, raise his hand like he's gonna smack me for, like, everything I said was disrespectful to my, like, in my dad's eyes. So, like, with my son, I think we joke a little more. I do try to tell him, like, hey, don't say stuff like that. You know what I mean? On certain subjects. But, like, I think for the. I think the biggest part is that, like, I can joke with my son a little more and, like, let him know it's okay to, like, speak your mind. Whereas with my dad, he's like, you better not be thinking like that. You better not be joking like that. I don't know I better. I better just be on mute.
Shannon Sharpe
I read that you're learning. It's not necessarily your teaching, but you're learning as your son is learning.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, for sure. I don't think anybody knows how to be a parent, right?
Shannon Sharpe
There ain't no. Cause it varies. I mean, everybody write these books on how to be a parent or being a parent for dummies or whatever the case may be. But you gotta be adaptable. You got to be a parent.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. You gotta do your best. Just try your best. When my son asks me questions, why is this? Why is that? I'll answer to the best of my knowledge. If I don't know, I'll tell my son, I don't know. Let's find out.
Shannon Sharpe
Right? You said that when your son asks you a question, it's like a new employee trying to tell a newer employee what to do.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, I'm still figuring it out myself, bro. We'll figure it out together.
Shannon Sharpe
But. So when you get him, what do you guys like to do together?
Ralph Barbosa
Go to the movies. We go to the movies a lot. Or arcades. He loves arcades. But my son is. Is a lot like me in the fact when I was growing up, when I was his age, I was. He's the same way. He loves to be on, like, at home. He don't like to go nowhere, like, unless it's to the movies, right? And even at that, he don't like to go to the one that's far. He's like, he's going as close. So, like, he loves to be at home. He loves to be in front of tv. And I watch whatever he watches, or like, I make sure he watches what I watch. You know what I mean? Like. But he loves to be at home or with the Hot Wheels. We set up little Hot Wheels. We have little competitions on which one can stay on the track the longest. Stuff like that. Like, we. He's very homebody.
Shannon Sharpe
Women like men, that kid.
Ralph Barbosa
You think?
Shannon Sharpe
So he help you. He help you pick up women?
Ralph Barbosa
I think. I think when I, like, I. I don't really post them now.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
You know what I mean? Because my biggest fear is that somebody will say something ignorant, right? Like. Like responding. So I don't really post.
Shannon Sharpe
But when you had the movie, just you and him, are y' all going to the arcade? Yeah. Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
I don't know. But like you before, when I used to post them, before I had any fame, I'll post them. Yeah. Girls will respond to the story would be like, oh, this is so cute. Or like, whatever. Especially if it's like, you know, another. Like a single mom or something, you know, maybe feel more comfortable with you.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. Yeah. You know, we ought to get together, you know, have our kids have a.
Ralph Barbosa
Play date and stuff like that. Yeah, but I tried that once. My son hated it. My son hated it. Really hated that other kid. I dated a girl for, like two months and she had a kid. Her kid was cool with her. But, like, man, my son hated that. He would tell me, he's like, but I don't want to hang out with them.
Shannon Sharpe
He likes being the only child.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. He has two sisters through his mom. His mom had two more kids after him. And so, like, he's cool to his sister, you know, whatever. But, like, yeah, he has a lot of only child syndrome.
Shannon Sharpe
No, it ain't that. It's you. He wants all this time to be with you.
Ralph Barbosa
He does? Yeah, he does.
Shannon Sharpe
Like the problem. That's what that is. Because you said he doesn't have a problem with his other siblings. But his other siblings are not around when he's with you.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. When it's just me and him.
Shannon Sharpe
He could. He wants your undivided attention.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Which I love it. I mean, I'm for it.
Shannon Sharpe
Good luck getting married, having a girlfriend, having another kid. Good luck with that ass.
Ralph Barbosa
We'll see how it goes.
Shannon Sharpe
Are you type one diabetic?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, type one.
Shannon Sharpe
When did you realize you have it?
Ralph Barbosa
I was like, six.
Shannon Sharpe
Really?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
So you had juvenile diabetes?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Why does it say it like that, Julian? That sound like I was like a bad kid. Like, he diabetic and he don't know how to act. He's diabetic and he steals.
Shannon Sharpe
I guess. I guess kid diabetes was so. So how have you had. I mean, how did that impact you as a child?
Ralph Barbosa
Man, I think that made me feel weird a lot. You know what I mean? Like, I didn't want other kids to know or to ask me about it, but they would because, like, every grade, pretty much 10 minutes before whatever our lunchtime was, I would have to go to the nurse's office to, like, check my sugar and take insulin. And so kids, like, I would hate it. I would be, like, on edge because I would hate if I was just anticipating the day that one of my classmates would be like, why you leave early? Yeah, I have to tell them now. But for the most part, they would. They would be like, oh, okay. And then, you know, they wouldn't really ask too much about it. But, yeah, I definitely felt, like, a little. Little weird in some classes, as I got older, I got over it. You know what I mean?
Shannon Sharpe
The. Were there certain things that you couldn't eat because it would drop your insulin level or it was spiky.
Ralph Barbosa
It would spiky. You know, I have to learn to like, I had to be very. Like, I have to know my body and how it reacts and so I have to feel a lot. Like, I could feel it when my sugar's getting low. I could feel it when it's getting high. Some diabetics can't feel it.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
And some can. Like, I'm very sensitive to it. So like, yeah, there'd be times where we're at school and like they're doing a pizza party with snacks and cupcakes and everything. And they'd be like, why aren't you eating a cupcake? And I'll be like, oh, I just don't want one.
Shannon Sharpe
And you really want one?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Or there'll be other times where I'm eating one. And one of the kids that already knows I'm diabetic, he's just looking out for me. But now he's putting me on the spot. He's like, you can't eat that. Don't let him eat that. I was like, bitch, let me get away with a cupcake.
Shannon Sharpe
So you have, so you have one of those things on that you check with your phone and you check it all the time.
Ralph Barbosa
Nah, I'm trying to get one, but I got this shitty insurance right now. I can't even get into damn appointment with the doctor. But anyway, I'm working on that right now.
Shannon Sharpe
So. But I'm trying to think, is there a lot of sweets in the Hispanic diet?
Ralph Barbosa
Man, there's a lot of lard and flour and milk.
Shannon Sharpe
So I was thinking like Hispanic diet.
Ralph Barbosa
Is designed to give you high blood sugar and high blood pressure.
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Ralph Barbosa
Okay, ladies, when I said we came.
Shannon Sharpe
To play, didn't I mean it?
Ralph Barbosa
This Disney cruise got me feeling like a queen. We can get massages at Sense's spa.
Shannon Sharpe
Have a meet and greet with Black Panther.
Ralph Barbosa
Oh, I love him. And I can't wait to sunbathe on the private island. And the kids will be fine.
Shannon Sharpe
Girl, they're good.
Ralph Barbosa
Exactly. While they hang in the kids club.
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Ralph Barbosa
Thing and do it well all day. Disney Cruise line is where we came to play.
Shannon Sharpe
But does anybody else have diabetes in your family?
Ralph Barbosa
So it's kind of a funny story. So my grandpa was a old school type man. What that means is, you know, he used to cheat on my grandma. So. Okay, I have a uncle that my mom found, I think on Facebook maybe. So it's like her. What do you. What do they call it? Estranged brother.
Shannon Sharpe
Yes.
Ralph Barbosa
He was raised by his mom.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
My grandpa side too. So that uncle was the only other relative with diabetes. My mom has it now, but she didn't get it till like adulthood. And I think my uncle did too. But like, I was the only one. Everybody was like, how did he get diabetes? Like, nope, there's no family history of it. And then we found out that it's on my grandpa's side. We found out through his bastard children.
Shannon Sharpe
You mentioned one of your friends, Kim Flores. He died at age of 28 of cardiac arrest when you received that call.
Ralph Barbosa
It's horrible.
Shannon Sharpe
28.
Ralph Barbosa
28. We're the same age. Me, Ken and Renee.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
We're. I mean there was, I feel like there was something special about the three of us just because we're three Hispanic comedians the exact same age. All three born in 96. Ken was from Chicago. Chicago. And then later on moved to Aurora. So he's from Chicago area.
Shannon Sharpe
Moved to Aurora, Colorado.
Ralph Barbosa
Ken did. Yeah.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
Ken moved there when he was a kid from Chicago.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
Which is, I mean it's basically the same. Maybe not to them, you know, but for outsiders, I'm like, it's all Chicago.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. Right.
Ralph Barbosa
At Renee being from California from like LA area, me being from Texas. Even though we're from three different parts of the map, I felt like we all come from like dissimilar backgrounds. We all grew up Mexican as hell.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
You know, probably crazy ass families, maybe a little traumatic, but we all grew up with the same dream and we started popping off around the same time. And so I feel like that really brought us closer together. So. Yeah, it sucked, man. When I got that call, I was immediately worried about Renee because Renee and Ken were super, super close to one together all the time. And I was on Alcatraz. I went on that tour. I had been on Alcatraz island in San Francisco. Yeah, I love going to San Francisco. Shout out to.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, I thought you was talking, I thought you was talking about the, the immigration thing that they're talking about now.
Ralph Barbosa
No, no, no, that wasn't a thing yet.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah, I was like, how'd you get on that?
Ralph Barbosa
This was back in January and I had just did a set with Renee and Ken, like not even a whole week before me, Renee and Ken were working on a tour together. We're working all the details to tour together. And they, they, you know, our, our agents, our managers routed, they had this whole route, the schedule, all the details, all the commissions, everything. Right. And the day that we're supposed to like sign off, like the three of us each put our signature on there. The. The tour is set.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Was the day that we heard Ken pass and it sucked. I remember I was in San Francisco and I got, and I'm, I got off the zoom meeting with some people from FX because they saw me, they came to my show in la. I did a pop up show in la. I had just filmed the Hulu Special. I filmed the Hulu Special. The next day I go to LA just to hang out and start working on new material. And I, and I booked this show right there in la. And Renee comes and he brings Ken and I'M like, hey, I told both of them. I was like, I'm gonna go on stage for, like, 10, 15 minutes, and then I'm gonna bring y' all on stage, right? And they're like, nah, nah, it's your show, bro. We just came to the port and hang out. And I was like, nah, that y' all are here. Like, y' all have to. Like, I have no option, right? So we go on stage, we end up doing like an hour and a half, getting drunk on stage, bullshitting with the audience, right? I mean, and there's a moment. It's like. It was like something out of a movie how everything's so dramatic because there's, like, a moment we're on stage, and me and Renee are talking about how much we love Ken. We're sandwiching him. We're hugging him, like, you know, And a few days later, I'm in San Francisco, and I have. And fx, the people from sfx, the executives were at that show. I forgot they were at that show. I'm like, man, they heard us say so much stupid shit. I was like, probably didn't even like it. So a few days later, I'm in San Francisco, and we're in this email talking about how, like, hey, like, we need y' all to sign off on the tour days, like, as soon as. If y' all like it. Because me, Ken, and Renee agreed that, like, nothing can be. Like, nothing can move forward until the three of us talk and agree on it, right? So they're like, hey, did y' all talk about it? Yeah, I like it. I'm like, ah, I talked to Renee, but I talked to Kane. Yeah, I'm gonna talk to him later today. Like, we'll see, you know? So I write back that email. Like, yeah, I'm talking to them. Yeah, I don't worry about it. Then I hop on the Zoom call with the people from fx, and they're like, man, they're like, they've. You know, they start off with the basic conversation, How'd you get into comedy? Do you want to write with her? And then they kind of switch gears, and they're like, hey, they're like, you and Renee and Ken on stage? Like, that was really funny. Like, that was hilarious. They're like, do you guys want to work more together? Like, what do y' all got planned? And I'm like, man, we're about to go on tour together, right? Like, we're about to sign off on that. We're about to go on tour together. They're like, would you ever want to make a movie, write a show? And, you know, when. When a comedian has his own show, it takes a lot of work. It's a lot of writing. Yeah. Months and years of writing and yeses and no's here and there. You know what I mean? And that. I remember that lady, straight up, she hadn't cussed the whole Zoom call. I. I was afraid to cuss because, you know, so, like, yeah, professional.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
But she started because she was like, y' all were funny. She was like, if y' all ever wanted to make a show, y' all just write it. I'll make that happen.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
And I was like, damn. Like, I had no interest in writing a show, but I know Renee likes that stuff. And I was like, I'm gonna tell them. Like, maybe they want to do that. We'll see. And so I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna talk to them later today. Like, today we have a meeting. So, like, I'm gonna talk to them. And, yeah, man, I go to kill time. I go do that Alcatraz tour later that day. I always like that tour. I've been on it, like, three times.
Shannon Sharpe
Okay.
Ralph Barbosa
And I get the call as the tour's over. Like, I'm waiting for the boat to come back to take it back, and I get the call about Ken, and, man, it felt like that boat was never gonna arrive. Like, I just felt like I'm sitting on this stupid ass island. Like, I don't even want to be there, but I also don't even know where to be. Like, I don't know what to do. And, yeah, like, I'm not making none of this up. This is, like. It sounds dramatic as. But I remember just sitting on that boat on the way back to San Francisco, and I see these three sea, like, seagulls flying, following the boat, and then one of them just goes off, and then two go this way, and I should just maybe burst into tears, man. Like, But Ken was so cool and so funny. Like, I have to remember. And I know Rene feels the same way. And, like, I have to. Even though we're sad he's gone, I have to just focus on the time we did get with him and, like, be grateful for what we had with him.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
You know? And his parents are so cool. I met his parents. I didn't meet his parents till after he passed away, but they're very positive. And his mom was always smiling. And his mom came out on stage and just, awesome, man. She was so cool. His family is so Cool. Everybody that I've met that was a part of his team, it's just he had the best people around him.
Shannon Sharpe
Transitioning.
Ralph Barbosa
You talk about hookers.
Shannon Sharpe
No, don't. The relationship between your community and my community, there seems to be differing of opinions. Some say it's okay, some says it's not. We see right now what's going on with the mass deportation. And it's like, well, we need our black brothers, which is people that look like me to be supportive.
Ralph Barbosa
I think that's up to each individual on their own. Me, this is my personal opinion. I'm not saying, like, this is how people need to think or nothing like that. Personally, I feel like. And again, I cannot emphasize this enough. This is, this is an opinion of a comedian who makes stupid, oh, Lord. Juvenile diabetes jokes. Don't take me too serious. Y' all be crucifying me for my stupid ass little opinions. I don't think that just, just because you're of a color, you're obligated to support one person or another. I, I've met black Republicans, I've met black liberals, like, word, support who you want to support. You know what I mean? I remember, like, when the Black Lives Matter protest was going on, it's like if you kind of stay silent, it kind of. I kind of look bad, you know, it sucked. You know what I mean? And like, not that I was out there protesting, but I do feel, I know, I know who I was in support of and like, what I was doing to support. You know what I mean? But now that it's like this, it's like, I don't think because you're black, we need you to support, but I think, hey, if you really are a supporter of, like, what's going on with, like, us in our situation, like, whether you're black, Chinese, whatever, like white people, like, I like to see it, I appreciate it from when I see it, but I do think it's a little like, when I see like, black people be like, man, deport them. I'm just like, damn, bro.
Shannon Sharpe
Well, I mean, the thing is, I mean, like that I think I look at it like this. You got what you voted for. If somebody tells you this is what I'm going to do, you can't be surprised when they do what they said. They ran on that.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. And I'm not going to sit here and be mad at like a black person who's supporting Trump because it's like, I'm not gonna sit here and be like, bro, but you're black. You gotta understand me. Like, nah. Like, I got. I don't. There's Mexican. Like, you've seen it.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
Especially in Texas, there's so many Mexican Trump supporters. And that. That really has my mind.
Shannon Sharpe
I'm like, you know what he's like, said he's gonna do it is going to break up families and X, Y.
Ralph Barbosa
And Z. Yeah, bro. Like, and I don't. Like, I mean, my main. I don't care. Like, I was saying, like, I don't care if you. I don't care what race you are. Support who you want to support.
Shannon Sharpe
Absolutely.
Ralph Barbosa
The only one that. That does, like, confuse me is when. When Mexicans are so hard on the border laws. Like, bro, like, we. We didn't get here 400 years ago.
Shannon Sharpe
Right.
Ralph Barbosa
A lot of. A lot of our people are just immigrated here. Like, you've been here, like, a generation, and you already want to close the borders. Like. Like, bro, that's like, if you just walked in the club and you're like, y' all should close now.
Shannon Sharpe
Right?
Ralph Barbosa
I'm here.
Shannon Sharpe
Yeah. Well, that has to happen. I'm up here. So I take. I'll pull the ladder out the way. Yeah. So that way you. Hey, I'm here.
Ralph Barbosa
What makes you so special, bro?
Shannon Sharpe
I see. I get what you're saying. I totally understand. I told you.
Ralph Barbosa
That's why with Mexicans, when they go super Republican, that's why I'm like, that's the only time I'm confused. Everybody else, I'm like, all right, do you. I'm sure you have your reason.
Shannon Sharpe
I get what you're saying. What can they expect on the Hulu special?
Ralph Barbosa
A whole lot of tomfoolery, jokes, personal stories, some observations, some opinions. I think you can expect to laugh. I think you can expect to laugh. My Netflix special, Nate Bargotti, gave me some good advice. He's like, hey, put all your best jokes out there, and the pressure to need more jokes is gonna make you write more jokes. So that's. That's what I did on my Netflix. That's what I did on my Hulu. Personally, I might catch some backlash for saying this. I think. I think I like the jokes on my Hulu one better.
Shannon Sharpe
Really?
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah. Because my Netflix one, I was still so nervous. I was still getting used to having a following my Hulu one. I feel like I got to go back to just being my normal self.
Shannon Sharpe
Right? Yeah.
Ralph Barbosa
I was, like, the person who I am. It took me a while to, like, be comfortable being that on camera. So when I got on Netflix, I'm like, oh, I want to show them this because I want them to know I'm this or I don't want them to know I'm that.
Shannon Sharpe
Right On Hulu.
Ralph Barbosa
I'm like, look, bro, this is just me. Like this.
Shannon Sharpe
Who you. What you see is what you get what you see.
Ralph Barbosa
So, like my Hulu special, I'm a little more comfortable with it, right? I don't know how much y' all gonna respond to that. I think it's better than my first one.
Shannon Sharpe
Wow.
Ralph Barbosa
So I hope y' all enjoy it.
Shannon Sharpe
Why do you want to be buried in pajamas?
Ralph Barbosa
Cause I never walked around in suits.
Shannon Sharpe
I mean, what about, you know, cons? Black jeans and a T. I don't know.
Ralph Barbosa
My biggest fear is that the afterlife, you have to wear the clothes you were buried in. Whether I'm in, like, heaven or hell, I just want to be comfortable.
Shannon Sharpe
You also said babies should be made to wear suits at the beginning because first impression. First impression is everything.
Ralph Barbosa
Yeah, well, I mean, like, if I go to the hospital to see the newborn baby, it needs to be an impressive baby.
Shannon Sharpe
So you need a little double breasted suit.
Ralph Barbosa
Welcome to the world, kid. Start earning your keep.
Shannon Sharpe
Oh, man. Ralph Barbosa. Thank you, bro.
Ralph Barbosa
Thank you, sir.
Shannon Sharpe
Appreciate you, man.
Ralph Barbosa
Thank you for having me. Yeah. Big hands, help catch footballs. All my life been grinding all my.
Shannon Sharpe
Life Sacrifice, hustle, paid the price, wanna slice, got to roll the dice that's why all my life I've been grinding.
Ralph Barbosa
All my life all my life Been grinding all my life Sacrifice, hustle, pay.
Shannon Sharpe
The price a slice got the rolling dice that's why all my life I've.
Ralph Barbosa
Been grinding all my life.
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Club Shay Shay - Ralph Barbosa Part 2 Summary
Hosted by NFL legend Shannon Sharpe and produced by iHeartPodcasts and Shay Shay Media, this episode of "Club Shay Shay" delves deep into the life and career of comedian Ralph Barbosa. Released on August 6, 2025, the conversation spans Ralph's journey in comedy, personal experiences, challenges, and insights into maintaining authenticity in the entertainment industry.
The episode kicks off with Ralph welcoming the Johnson family aboard the Disney cruise, setting a lighthearted and familial tone. Ralph shares his enthusiasm for the trip, highlighting activities like massages at Sense's Spa and meet-and-greets with Disney characters.
Ralph Barbosa [00:00]: "This Disney cruise got me feeling like a queen. We can get massages at Sense's Spa…"
Shannon Sharpe asks Ralph about his advice for young comedians navigating today's competitive landscape. Ralph emphasizes the importance of treating comedy as a full-time commitment, strategizing, and building meaningful relationships within the industry.
Ralph Barbosa [02:07]: "You gotta think outside the box, man. … Be ambitious, but never thirsty. Be confident, but never cocky."
He underscores the necessity of burning out old material to keep his performances fresh and engaging.
Ralph Barbosa [06:19]: "I used to write every joke in a notebook… I had to burn these notebooks to get to where I'm at."
Ralph credits pivotal moments in his career, such as securing a Netflix special, to strategic networking and endorsements from established comedians like Dave Chappelle.
Ralph Barbosa [06:50]: "I think what helped a lot was that Dave Chappelle co-signed. … That week just made me look so good in front of everybody."
Shannon probes into how Ralph utilized his tours to enhance his visibility, leading to significant opportunities in the entertainment industry.
A significant portion of the conversation revolves around Ralph's passion for cars. He details his collection, including a 1996 Impala Supersport and a 1990 Nissan Skyline GTR R32, and discusses ongoing projects aimed at restoring and modifying vehicles.
Ralph Barbosa [10:01]: "I got a GTR R35. I got a 1971 GTR. I got my Impala… I'm building an LS to put in there."
Ralph highlights his collaborative efforts with friends to enhance his automotive channel, aiming to inspire others to engage in car maintenance and modifications.
Ralph shares insights into managing fame, expressing the challenges of public scrutiny and maintaining privacy. He discusses interactions with fans and the dichotomy of receiving both positive and negative attention.
Ralph Barbosa [45:40]: "I don't like that people opinion, like, have opinions on, like, serious opinions or, like, serious accusations on me. They don't know who I am."
When it comes to relationships, Ralph talks about the complexities of dating while maintaining authenticity and avoiding superficial interactions driven by his financial status.
A heartfelt segment where Ralph discusses his role as a father. He reflects on his own upbringing and contrasts it with his approach to parenting, striving to balance being stern yet allowing his six-year-old son to enjoy childhood.
Ralph Barbosa [59:44]: "I think I'm pretty stern but fun. … I want him to have a childhood. I want him to not worry about adult problems."
Ralph emphasizes the importance of imparting knowledge and responsibility over mere financial support, aiming to prepare his son for independence.
Ralph delves into the nuances of cultural identity and political affiliations within the Hispanic community. He expresses his belief that support should be based on individual convictions rather than racial or cultural obligations.
Ralph Barbosa [81:34]: "I think that just, just because you're of a color, you're obligated to support one person or another. … Support who you want to support."
He discusses the diverse political views within the Mexican community, highlighting his confusion over dissenting opinions on issues like border laws.
Ralph recounts the tragic passing of his friend Ken Flores at the age of 28, sharing the emotional impact it had on him and his close-knit group of Hispanic comedians.
Ralph Barbosa [74:25]: "It sucked, man. … I just have to focus on the time we did get with him and be grateful for what we had."
He reflects on the importance of cherishing memories and the support system he found within his comedic peers during tough times.
Looking ahead, Ralph expresses optimism for his upcoming Hulu special, "Planet Bosa," and discusses the evolution of his comedic style. He appreciates the freedom to be his authentic self on this new platform compared to his earlier, more nervous Netflix special.
Ralph Barbosa [85:45]: "My Hulu one… I'm a little more comfortable with it. I don't know how much y'all gonna respond to that. I think it's better than my first one."
Shannon and Ralph engage in a candid discussion about the ethics of joke stealing and the implications of cancel culture within the comedy community. Ralph advocates for originality and personal responsibility in crafting material, while also acknowledging the complexities comedians face in the digital age.
Ralph Barbosa [43:00]: "Like, if it's close enough, one of y'all has to stop doing it, right? If you're a good comedian, you're gonna come up with something funnier anyway."
He emphasizes the importance of adapting and moving forward rather than dwelling on negative accusations or conflicts.
Ralph Barbosa [02:07]: "You gotta treat it like it's your full time. Even if you have a full time job."
Ralph Barbosa [06:19]: "I had to burn these notebooks to get to where I'm at."
Ralph Barbosa [45:40]: "I don't like that people opinion, like, have opinions on... they don't know who I am."
Ralph Barbosa [59:44]: "I want him to have a childhood. I want him to not worry about adult problems."
Ralph Barbosa [81:34]: "I don't think because you're black, we need you to support one person or another."
In this engaging episode, Ralph Barbosa offers a transparent look into his life as a comedian balancing personal passions, fatherhood, and the pressures of growing fame. His insights provide valuable lessons for aspiring comedians and individuals striving to maintain authenticity amidst success. Shannon Sharpe adeptly navigates the conversation, allowing Ralph's genuine personality and candid reflections to shine through, making it a compelling listen for both fans and newcomers alike.
This summary encapsulates the essence of Ralph Barbosa's second part on "Club Shay Shay," highlighting his journey, challenges, and philosophies, all enriched with direct quotes and time-stamped references for an immersive understanding.