Comedian Dean Delray

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Smoking Tire – Episode featuring Comedian Dean Delray

Episode Information:

• Title: Comedian Dean Delray
• Release Date: April 8, 2025
• Hosts: Matt Farah, Zach Klapman
• Guest: Dean Delray

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1. Introduction and Guest Overview (00:00 - 02:20)

The episode kicks off with Matt Farah welcoming listeners to "The Smoking Tire Podcast" and briefly promoting their partnership with Off the Record, an app designed to help contest traffic tickets. Matt introduces the guest, Dean Delray, highlighting his multifaceted career as a comedian, actor, musician, and podcaster. Dean's upcoming feature-length comedy special, titled 5836, marks the number of comedy sets he has performed, underscoring his extensive experience in stand-up comedy.

Notable Quote:

• Matt Farah (00:00): "Dean Del Rey is in studio. It's the Smoking Tire Podcast. Let's go week."

2. Food and Lifestyle in Las Vegas (02:20 - 04:40)

Dean shares his love for farm-to-table and clean eating, mentioning his battle with diabetes, which he overcame seven years prior. He discusses his favorite local restaurant, Public Us, and his connection with fellow Porsche enthusiasts Coco and Cam. The conversation touches on the vibrant Fremont Street area, known for its quality eateries and automotive culture.

Notable Quote:

• Dean Del Rey (02:20): "I like clean, I like to eat clean like some bougie dude. But I try to eat clean because I had diabetes and I beat that shit like seven years ago."

3. Off-Road Adventures and Porsche Builds (04:00 - 35:56)

The hosts delve into the world of off-road racing, specifically the King of the Hammers event—a week-long off-road race in the desert reminiscent of Burning Man but focused on automotive mayhem. Dean reminisces about his upbringing around off-road activities in Hanford, California, and discusses the evolution of sandrails and side-by-sides, highlighting brands like Buckshot Racing.

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around Porsche modifications, particularly the Carrera T Safari builds. Matt and Zach express their enthusiasm for customizing Porsches for off-road use, debating features like rear steering and the practicality of such modifications. They highlight the craftsmanship involved in transforming standard Porsches into robust off-road vehicles, emphasizing the balance between functionality and aesthetics.

Notable Quotes:

• Matt Farah (04:00): "The biggest bummer about the Dakar is that it's a limited edition thing, which makes it collectible. That car's gotta be disposable."
• Dean Del Rey (10:06): "I do like that companies go for it with different stuff. I like that."

4. Watches and Timepieces (11:39 - 19:48)

The conversation shifts to watches, where Dean showcases his favorite timepieces. He discusses the Tornick Rayville Reissue, praising its affordability and quality. The hosts debate the merits of NATO straps versus metal bracelets, with Dean highlighting the durability and style of his chosen straps. They also touch on various watch brands like Rolex and Omega, sharing personal preferences and recent releases.

Notable Quotes:

• Dean Del Rey (12:18): "It's the greatest 900 watch of all time."
• Matt Farah (14:58): "I want a Dakar out of like this one that I really wanted on P car last week."

5. Shrinkflation Sidebar (23:27 - 29:00)

Matt introduces a segment discussing shrinkflation, sharing stories from listeners about how companies have reduced product sizes while maintaining prices. One example includes Rhino Grind (formerly New Grind), which decreased the thickness of its concrete grinding pads by 16%, leading to faster wear and reducing value for contractors. The hosts lament the impact of inflation on product quality and consumer trust.

Notable Quote:

• Matt Farah (24:17): "They shrink flated the tooling Instead of being 18 millimeters thick, the pad, it was 15 millimeters thick."

6. Promotions and Sponsorships (29:00 - 46:31)

Throughout the episode, the hosts promote various sponsors and related podcasts. Notably, they highlight Drive with Jim Farley, a podcast hosted by Ford CEO Jim Farley, which delves into automotive passions and features guests like Vicki Butler Henderson and T Pain. Additionally, they discuss Delete Me, a service that helps users remove personal data from the internet, offering a discount code for listeners.

Notable Promotions:

• Delete Me Promo (16:07): "Get 20% off your Delete Me plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com Tire and use promo code tire at checkout."

7. Dean Delray’s Comedy Special and Experiences (41:12 - 70:44)

Dean passionately discusses his upcoming comedy special, 5836, emphasizing the hard work and dedication behind the project. He recounts filming the special in a unique cave venue, the first of its kind, and the challenges faced in promoting it. Dean also shares personal anecdotes, including his experience opening for Metallica as a comedian—a highlight and a significant milestone in his career.

The hosts explore Dean's extensive comedy career, revealing he has performed over 5,600 sets since 2009. Dean speaks candidly about his touring experiences, including a grueling 32-day comedy-rock tour with musician Marcus King. He also opens up about a harrowing motorcycle accident that led to neck surgery, underscoring his resilience and passion for performing.

Notable Quotes:

• Dean Del Rey (41:37): "This is my dream tee. And no money. I just don't have 134."
• Dean Del Rey (55:24): "I'm 58 years old and I open for Metallica. You think you're gonna say I've been 41 years this year."

8. Future Plans and Closing Remarks (70:44 - End)

As the episode nears its conclusion, Dean shares his tour dates, including performances at the Belly Up in Solana Beach and Comedy Fort in Colorado. He invites listeners to support his Patreon, highlighting the importance of having dedicated fans to sustain creative endeavors without relying on advertisements. Matt and Zach express their admiration for Dean’s work and encourage listeners to attend his live shows.

Notable Quotes:

• Dean Del Rey (68:05): "And then how's that where they tip as you're going?"
• Matt Farah (69:50): "We have some. Do some Patreons to get to. We got a few of them."

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Key Takeaways:

• Dean Delray's Multifaceted Career: Beyond comedy, Dean is deeply involved in automotive culture, music, and podcasting, showcasing a diverse set of passions and talents.

• Passion for Porsches and Custom Builds: The episode emphasizes the hosts' and Dean's shared enthusiasm for customizing Porsches, particularly for off-road adventures, blending performance with personal style.

• Resilience and Creativity in Comedy: Dean's dedication to his craft is evident through his extensive performance history and his innovative approach to creating a unique comedy special in an unconventional venue.

• Consumer Awareness: The discussion on shrinkflation serves as a critical reminder of the importance of being an informed consumer amidst rising inflation and product downsizing.

• Community and Support: The importance of dedicated fans and community support, highlighted through Patreon, underpins the sustainable creation of art and content.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Dean Del Rey (02:20): "I try to eat clean because I had diabetes and I beat that shit like seven years ago."

• Matt Farah (04:00): "The biggest bummer about the Dakar is that it's a limited edition thing, which makes it collectible."

• Dean Del Rey (10:06): "I do like that companies go for it with different stuff. I like that."

• Dean Del Rey (12:18): "It's the greatest 900 watch of all time."

• Matt Farah (24:17): "They shrink flated the tooling Instead of being 18 millimeters thick, the pad, it was 15 millimeters thick."

• Dean Del Rey (41:37): "This is my dream tee. And no money. I just don't have 134."

• Dean Del Rey (55:24): "I'm 58 years old and I open for Metallica. You think you're gonna say I've been 41 years this year."

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Conclusion:

This episode of "The Smoking Tire" offers an engaging blend of automotive discussions, personal anecdotes, and insights into the comedy world through the lens of Dean Delray. Listeners are treated to a rich narrative that underscores the intersections between passion, creativity, and resilience.

Transcript

[Matt Farah]

What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Smoking Tire Podcast. It's a big week here on the podcast and off the Record is still with us. Of course, if you want to use off the Record, we have a new code for this year, TST 25 on the off the Record app. Throw away your old codes or go to offtherecord.com TST. Why should you do such things? Well, let's say you get a ticket. You, you've been pulled over for something and are ticketed. Don't argue with that police officer on the side of the road. Instead, take that ticket and call or go on the app to off the Record and then they help fight that ticket. And most of the time, in most of the cases, make it either go away or drastically reduce it. It is the best. And if you use our code with the off the Record app, again, that's code TST25, you'll save an additional 10%. Listen, off the Record does not cost a lot of money compared to even just paying the fine and the ticket, let alone the other things about that moving violation that could cause problems with your insurance, your potential employment, et cetera. Don't plead guilty, get off the record, go to offtherecord.com TST or use code TST25 on the off the Record app. All right. On this episode of the podcast, my friend Dean Del Rey, he is a very funny comedian actor and his podcast Let There Be Talk has almost as many episodes as we do. He has played in bands and he has his first ever feature length comedy special, 5836, coming out this week. And 5836 is the number of comedy sets he has done in his life. 5836. He's great. We talk about Porsches, we get along on pretty much all levels. Watches, guitars, collectible stuff, homes, aesthetics. I love this dude. He opens for Bill Burr. He is the man. Dean Del Rey is in studio. It's the Smoking Tire Podcast. Let's go week. What are you doing for the day? What are you doing the daytime in Vegas?

[Dean Del Rey]

I got lucky, man. I love farm to table food. I like clean, I like to eat clean like some bougie dude. But I try to eat clean because I had diabetes and I beat that shit like seven years ago. Yeah. So a guy at Dream Racing turned me on to this restaurant called Public Us or Public Us. And I met this guy Coco, who's the owner. He's got like a table in the corner and he wanted to have like a Cafe, like a New York style kind of hip place where people could hang. So my buddy took me there. It turns out him and this other guy Cam are full on Porsche freaks.

[Matt Farah]

Okay.

[Dean Del Rey]

You know, and so there it is. You can see the food. It's fantastic.

[Matt Farah]

Looks like quality food.

[Dean Del Rey]

This place is fucking okay.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, it's Fremont street, of course.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

This is where like good things are.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right. So I go every day in the morning I hang with these guys so it feels like I'm in LA like at all time. My other favorite restaurant, hanging out at.

[Matt Farah]

That part of Vegas is, is a much better.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah, it's nice. You can walk.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, they do. Oh wow.

[Dean Del Rey]

They both have defender.

[Matt Farah]

I saw a picture of you down your Instagram with a couple of dakars. Yeah, yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

They're great.

[Matt Farah]

They're good fun, aren't they?

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, dream car.

[Matt Farah]

Did you get to drive them on dirt at all? Did you drive them on dirt at all?

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, well we were getting ready to drive on dirt but they were going on a trip and. And they didn't want to leave the dirt on the car. So next month I'm going to drive in the dirt because it'd be all in there for months.

[Matt Farah]

Got to do that underside detail.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, 100%.

[Matt Farah]

It's not a big deal as long as it's not like mud. If it's like just sand. Sand is pretty easy.

[Dean Del Rey]

Mud is a mess. It was like slight mud. It's a big fucking, I mean Death Valley out there. You could see guys out there. There's no law. It's road wars and they're just out there.

[Matt Farah]

Well, that's. We just went to the King of the Hammers. Have you heard of that shit? It's a giant off road race in the des. It's like a week or so of racing and it's a hundred mile course and then at the start finish there's a big quote city they build of RVs and whatever.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, I love that.

[Matt Farah]

And then you know, the racing is one thing, right? That's official with tech and professionals. Right. But at night mayhem, just anyone with their personal rig just doing anything. This was.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's like Burning man, but with cars.

[Matt Farah]

Yes, basically. Basically. Probably less drugs, a lot more alcohol, right? Yeah, but like people, you know, just doing crazy in cars all through the night. So pretty wild stuff.

[Dean Del Rey]

You know. I grew up around people that did this kind of shit all the time. Hanford, California, Is that in the middle? That's not where I grew up. But I'm saying we'd Go out to this place. They had Sandrails.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

And these guys that you know well.

[Matt Farah]

These are the new versions of Sandrails. It's heavily modified side by sides. And then you have like production sort of level tube chassis. Like. Is Buckshot still a company? Do you remember that thing?

[Zach Klapman]

Oh, Buckshot.

[Matt Farah]

Buckshot racing.

[Zach Klapman]

Are there still a company? There's a lot of that stuff, like twin turbo V8s shoved into sandras. But the suspension technology is so evolved. We saw like two Sandraels out there, but they don't have a ton of suspension. They're meant to just be on smooth sand. Almost like.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, they're more like dragsters for the sand. They got the paddle tires.

[Zach Klapman]

Exactly.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. It's like. That's a real 60s vibe. Pismo beach type of shit. Yeah. Now it's about like going really fast over. Whoops. So it's about, you know, your travel.

[Dean Del Rey]

I play the lottery every week for two reasons. First it's a. Ode to my mom because she would always say, when I win the lottery and I've turned into her, rest in peace. But play the same number.

[Matt Farah]

Same number, same number. Play the same numbers every week on the lottery.

[Dean Del Rey]

No, I just go in. Give me the ticket. Quick, quick.

[Matt Farah]

Pick or whatever.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. Joshua Tree, Pipes Canyon. It's out behind Pioneer Town.

[Matt Farah]

Okay.

[Dean Del Rey]

And it's one of my favorite places on earth. It's like Mars. All these like. It's basically Malibu with no water. It's like extremely rich billionaires that are hiding from. You know what you mean? CEO shootings.

[Matt Farah]

You know what I. Yeah, they build.

[Zach Klapman]

A base in the middle of a mountain.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

You go out there and you go, oh, what the fuck's going on out here? And they're like, oh. Oh, well, Bezo.

[Matt Farah]

But it's like, it's all arc. It's like architectural stuff. Right. Isn't that the house that looks like the. Almost like the Sydney Opera house style of architecture?

[Dean Del Rey]

One's out there.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

The one I stay at is called Hawken mesa, which is 130 acres and you're no one around. Yeah, that kind of stuff. And not out of reach money wise, but you know, not a Dakar because it's an automatic. But make a Dakar out of like this one that I really wanted on P car last week. A T made into a full on.

[Matt Farah]

So there's a guy, and I'm sorry for forgetting his name. No, there's a guy here who I see at that Porsche Santa Clarita cars and coffee all the time who took a regular Carrera 4S and basically made it into it. You could buy most of the Dakar parts and put them on yourself, the suspension, the over fenders. So Porsche's. I want a manual Dakar too.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Porsche's argument is that PTV plus, which is their active torque vectoring, only works with pdk.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Farah]

Fair, like fair, right? Doesn't mean I wouldn't rather drive a stick one with a mechanical rear diff. I still would, but I understand what they're doing. And also like economies of scale, I think, like, it's a niche product, so offering it with both gearboxes would be possibly prohibitively expensive.

[Dean Del Rey]

I just, I love the idea of having a Dakar because it's up high and there's no, you know, front lift to get up onto the, you know, just your driveway.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, dude, there's so.

[Dean Del Rey]

Come on.

[Matt Farah]

Well, when I think when we met first I was driving my air cooled.

[Dean Del Rey]

Safari car, that's when we met. And I go, oh, I want that.

[Matt Farah]

I mean that, that was great for the city too. Same thing. And that had even more clearance and even more travel.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

If. If only for the. If only because of the. The clutch was so heavy that I ended up getting rid of it and getting that pink car downstairs. Yeah, but, but dude, they. The. It's so funny. Cause like both Lamborghini and Porsche at least last year were making lifted sports cars and also like super hardcore SUVs. And I tested the Urus Performante, which is the hardcore Lamborghini suv. Like maybe a month apart from testing the Dakar and the. Oh no. And the Sterrato, the Huracan Rally. And the Sterrato, the lifted supercar, is more fun, more interesting, and actually a much better riding car than the hardcore suv, which is actually quite stupid. Right. Like, what do you need a hardcore Urus Performante for?

[Dean Del Rey]

I don't think you need anything. I do like that companies go for it with different stuff. I like that.

[Matt Farah]

That's fair.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's like, oh, cool, they tried something, I wouldn't buy it. But you know, there's a lot of people that look at like the Dakar and they go like, that's dumb. And I just see it and go, oh, fuck. I love that.

[Matt Farah]

I don't think people who know cars think it's dumb.

[Dean Del Rey]

No, no, I think people who know.

[Matt Farah]

Cars understand exactly what that is and it's a real shame. Like, the automatic thing is a little bit of a bummer, but I've driven them enough now. Like, I get it. It does work. But the biggest bummer about the Dakar is that it's a limited edition thing, which makes it collectible. That car's gotta be disposable. Yeah, that's what you. You want a Dakar or a Sterrato? That is a thing for fun and throw in the garbage.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, well, that's my thing. Like I have to win the lottery. I said it when I was driving the Dakar on my Instagram, I go, you have to have fuck you money. Because to me, anything I ever get at any time, uh. Oh, no work this month. This is out of here.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

I keep working. I call it my parachutes. So now I don't want any. I don't mind rocks and shit. Chipping it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

But if I have to sell it, you know how Porsche people are. They show up with these four guys with binoculars and. And like, you know, microscopes. Oh, there's a screw here.

[Matt Farah]

Try selling a Ferrari. Yikes.

[Dean Del Rey]

Hold on, let me show you something. I just want to show you guys this because I think, to me, this is.

[Matt Farah]

Showing us things on your phone is great for radio, by the way.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, no, but I'm just showing you because you guys can look it up and we could see it on the screen. Works, right? Okay, so let me give you the.

[Matt Farah]

Site here while you're looking. Is that the Tornick Rayville reissue, which I very much like?

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, here you go.

[Matt Farah]

I assume it's not.

[Dean Del Rey]

No, it is.

[Matt Farah]

Is it original?

[Dean Del Rey]

No, no, it's the.

[Matt Farah]

It's the reissue. Right.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's the greatest 900 watch of all time.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it's. Oh, it's like a unimatic. But that looks good.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's. It's.

[Matt Farah]

That's quite tornic, man. And it's 900 bucks. Huh?

[Dean Del Rey]

900 bucks, man.

[Matt Farah]

I am on board. And the strap feels really nice. The double thick NATO.

[Dean Del Rey]

I put the strap on there.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, so who makes the strap? This is a good strap. That is, say, Bob something.

[Dean Del Rey]

No, here. It's. It's something. I just got it. It's like. Hold on. It's like something sail. A blue shark. Blue.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, blue shark. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah, no, that's.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's good.

[Matt Farah]

It's good. And it's double thick. Yeah. I don't love most NATO straps, but this has a very upscale. It really works with the. With this particular watch.

[Dean Del Rey]

Couple of things I hate about it.

[Matt Farah]

Should have come with it.

[Dean Del Rey]

I hate when they have the metal rings, scratches, everything.

[Matt Farah]

Dude, I'm fucking. I'm fucking. I'm using like lock breakers to get them shits off.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. Out of. So this has cloth.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, no, that's really.

[Dean Del Rey]

And it's two piece. I don't like when the NATO's underneath. That makes the wall dry.

[Matt Farah]

Bulk. Yeah, yeah. The two piece are what's up. I fuck with under the cuff. NATO's. I really like this double thick joint though. That's an excellent. Are these just readily available or is this limited edition? It was gone.

[Dean Del Rey]

They're super hard to get. So you get on the. They're about to drop them again. They drop them once a year. You go to tornicreyville on Instagram. Then you sign up and you give him like 250 for your deposit. And then it comes in about six weeks. And I'll tell you, this is the finest watch I've owned. For no money, you're not getting followed home and robbed. And it's beautiful. And then I sent it to London and the alchemist did the patino.

[Matt Farah]

It's the fake patina.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, but he did it by hand.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. No, we have a guy, Zach and I have a guy who started. His name is Rain and he started as one of the Seiko modders and now he works for Notice, which is the company that I collaborated with to release the watch.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And he works for them as well. And he's. He's done fake patina on some Seikos for me.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And he. Are you wearing your G Shock?

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And he painted Zach's G Shock hands to be more legible.

[Dean Del Rey]

What I like about this, that's it has the real water meter. So if the water gets in there, you know, it changes.

[Matt Farah]

Like the Coors Mountain.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. Like the Crors. Remember that?

[Matt Farah]

Or like. Or like Pretty Litter.

[Dean Del Rey]

I remember every comic had that joke of like, oh, I touched the can. I know it's cold. You know, this is wild.

[Matt Farah]

Isn't that a cool watch?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. It reminds me of that Porsche lately that was painted like that.

[Matt Farah]

It's the same. Yeah. Same vibe. Yeah, but that's an excellent piece.

[Dean Del Rey]

They went with the date. They got him with no date.

[Matt Farah]

They do. I don't. I wouldn't mind it with a no date.

[Dean Del Rey]

I gotta have date.

[Matt Farah]

Is it.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's at the 5.

[Matt Farah]

Is it a thinner case if you get it with no date or the same case? Probably the same case for 900 bucks. It's probably the same case.

[Dean Del Rey]

They don't make two cases.

[Matt Farah]

If it was, I would give up. If it was, I would give up date. If it gave me A millimeter. My new, my new watch fetish is thinness, which is. That's where you start spending a lot of money.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. 15, 202, 57, 11. Those are the thin, thin watches. And, and they're fantastic. Which by the way, tomorrow Rolex drops the new stuff.

[Matt Farah]

Did you see the Land Dweller?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. So the Land Dweller guys gotta take.

[Matt Farah]

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[Dean Del Rey]

So the land dweller is very thin.

[Matt Farah]

It looks thin.

[Dean Del Rey]

Very thin.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it looks like a. It looks like it was inspired by the oyster quartz.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's exactly what it is.

[Matt Farah]

I don't think it will be quartz. In fact, I think no, they show The. They show the display back. It has. It has an automatic movement.

[Dean Del Rey]

The only thing I don't like.

[Matt Farah]

I don't like the dial.

[Dean Del Rey]

I was just gonna say, why do you have a.

[Matt Farah]

A.

[Dean Del Rey]

A 9 and a 6? Just put the bars.

[Matt Farah]

Pull up a photo. Oh, that's. We'll talk about that. Pull up the new Rolex Land. And also the name stinks. Land dweller.

[Dean Del Rey]

Stupid.

[Matt Farah]

It sounds like an insult.

[Dean Del Rey]

I love how dumb it is.

[Matt Farah]

Sea dweller sounds like a compliment. Land dweller sounds like a insult.

[Dean Del Rey]

Look how beautiful this is.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. So that's Federer wearing a prototype. He likes to sneak him in there.

[Dean Del Rey]

And then they took it off right away.

[Matt Farah]

There's no. Oh, there's.

[Dean Del Rey]

If the dials. Honeycomb.

[Zach Klapman]

There's no.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, if you go to. If you just Google Land Rover. Land Rover Land. It'll come up right there in the other end. Yeah, there it is.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

So check out the dial. It's honeycomb. You know, the old.

[Matt Farah]

You know what it reminds me of is fucking speaking of the Lamborghini Urus.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

You know, Lamborghinis have hexagons all over them now.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, that's right.

[Matt Farah]

This dial has Lamborghini hexagons all over them.

[Dean Del Rey]

So go with the bars, not the six and the nine, because they don't have the.

[Matt Farah]

It doesn't have a 12 or a three. Having a six and a nine is weird. And it has an attempt at a sporty dial, but then it has a fluted bezel. Yeah, yeah. Like it can't tell if it wants to be formal or sporty. If you took the case and did a smooth bezel and a truly sporty dial in a fucking splash color, it would be a smash hit.

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, if they went. The bars.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, just bars.

[Dean Del Rey]

Just the bars.

[Matt Farah]

Just bars, Yep. Like an oyster perpetual steel. Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

And black. Blacked out with the. With the honeycomb, like their day.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, if they, like, shadowed it. Yeah. If they shadow.

[Dean Del Rey]

Because you can see it in there. Right.

[Matt Farah]

If you launch it with stone dials or something crazy, too. I don't know. I like everything about it but the name and the dial. The bracelet looks fabulous.

[Dean Del Rey]

Look how thin it is.

[Matt Farah]

And it looks thin. That I really like. And I love the. I love the back half of the bracelet, too, where you don't. Like an ap. Where you basically see nothing.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I sold my royal oak a couple years ago, and I made a lot of money on it, But I miss it.

[Dean Del Rey]

15202.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Silver dial.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, silver dial, silver dial.

[Matt Farah]

I liked it very much.

[Dean Del Rey]

They got rid of the 15202 and now they're 16202. It's the same thing, but it's like.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, this one says Automar pig instead of ap and they move it here to here.

[Dean Del Rey]

Same thing.

[Zach Klapman]

This reminds me of hex clad pants.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Zach Klapman]

Your eggs won't stick.

[Matt Farah]

And like what Lambo does all over their dashboards.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, same.

[Matt Farah]

But I do love the shape of the case and the bracelet and the back of the bracelet.

[Dean Del Rey]

Total Gerald Genta.

[Matt Farah]

Right?

[Dean Del Rey]

You know it's gonna fit amazing because it slopes down. The band is killer.

[Matt Farah]

Rolex kills everyone on their bracelets. Rolex bracelets are just the most comfortable, best fitting bracelets, no matter what which one you're doing. So I think eventually there'll be a variant of that watch that's absolutely gorgeous. Must have. But today's ain't it.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's what I said. It's like also there's always that knee jerk thing when Rolex comes out. You go, oh God, junk. And then two months later you're wearing the lefty GMT Sprite on the righty. God, I gotta have that. Like I've resisted.

[Matt Farah]

I have not purchased or desired a new Rolex in quite some time.

[Dean Del Rey]

I'm off a Rolex in the last year.

[Matt Farah]

You're an Omega man more, aren't you?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. Love the new 300. You know, I like the Bond one. The no time to die. But in the green.

[Matt Farah]

The brass now the wavy bezel of the Seamaster.

[Dean Del Rey]

I like it.

[Matt Farah]

Something. Something doesn't sit right. But the white dial. Speedy. I'm 100% on board.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, I love it.

[Matt Farah]

You see this one?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, this is 1966. This is old.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's the year I was born.

[Matt Farah]

Really?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I make good price for you, my friend. You must have both here.

[Dean Del Rey]

Love it. Love it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Three, two, one. Movement. Fantastic.

[Matt Farah]

Like a fucking Russian time bomb.

[Dean Del Rey]

This is. This is the best right here.

[Matt Farah]

It's. You know why it's the best? It's got service hands and it's got a Service movement from 68. So instead of being $50,000, it's $6,000. But it still looks like a million bucks. And I can actually Frankenspace. You know, who cares? Me and the guy I sell it to and nobody else. My buddy Kyle. Shout out to Kyle Kennard of Motor1, formerly Road & track.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

One of a very few number of people I will share a car with on launch. And I shared a car with him on this Recent press launch. I was in Vegas last week as well. And Kyle has a late 70s Daytona. Basically like a Paul Newman style Daytona. But it's a Franken watch. It has a movement from a service movement and service hands and whatever. But to anybody just looking at it on his wrist, man, is that a million bucks? But he can actually wear it because I mean it's still worth something, but it's not historically precious. Right.

[Dean Del Rey]

I, you know, to me I'd rather have this tornic than that. You know, just because at least. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I mean you're trying to keep a low profile. I get it.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

There's. Dude, there's so many cool affordable watches right now. Like the micro brand game is the best. Well, they're still three or four thousand bucks. I mean I'm talking, I'm talking about like sub 1500, sub 50. You can buy a million different cool watches.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

From under and you can get custom watches and whatever. Oh, and speaking of things being exported, I gotta take a 60 second sidebar. Because last episode we talked about Shrinkflation and I asked fans if anyone had any verifiable Shrinkflation stories from their own personal workplace. And I would not use their names or anything like that if anyone had any stories because yeah, inflation sucks. But a lot of companies really took advantage of that to just crank it up even more. So I have two good ones for today's show about Shrinkflation and if we have any more, please send them in. Okay. This dude says a company called New Grind, which is now called Rhino Grind cause they went bankrupt to ditch creditors.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh gosh.

[Matt Farah]

Anyway, anyway, they make those big concrete grinding machines for polishing floors just like you have at your house. Sidebar that concrete convention is actually very fun. The tooling that goes onto these machines are all diamond tooling. And they shrink flated the tooling Instead of being 18 millimeters thick, the pad, it was 15 millimeters thick. Not very noticeable without measuring. But honest, hard working contractors are still buying this tooling for jobs expecting to get the same amount of work done. But their pad was 16% smaller.

[Zach Klapman]

So it's going to wear out.

[Matt Farah]

So it wears out faster.

[Dean Del Rey]

Of course.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, this is. That's the same shit. They used to polish my floors here and at the other shop you got polished cement. We have polished and it was a bitch. God, did it take a long time. It took six weeks to do it here and it took I think eight weeks to do it.

[Dean Del Rey]

They put a coating on after they didn't.

[Matt Farah]

No coating, just shut.

[Dean Del Rey]

Just so you gotta. You gotta redo it again and again.

[Matt Farah]

Never lifetime. We just gotta mop it every day.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Here's another good one, guys. Support for the Smoking Tire comes from the podcast Drive with Jim Farley. You know Jim Farley. He's the CEO of Ford. Not only that, this guy has a GT40 and a Cobra and all kinds of amazing vintage American metal that he races wheel to wheel at places like Goodwood. He's a boss. And you gotta check out this show. It's where Jim talks to some of his favorite people about what they drive and what drives them to succeed. They just started season three with some sick new guests, including Vicki Butler Henderson, the British racing driver and fifth gear personality Randy Nonenberg from Bring a Trailer and T Pain, the musician turned drifter. Guy's got skills, actually, I listened to it the other day. It is great. Jim is a great interviewer. He's insightful and it's interesting hearing these folks open up to him. I really am about it. I support Jim's venture here. To listen to Drive with Jim Farley, just search Drive with Jim Farley in any podcast app. That's Drive with Jim Farley. And thank you for supporting this episode. Former general manager for Whole Foods Target. At Target, the diapers, the boxes stay the same price and the number of diapers were cut. We learned about it because the planograms no longer worked spacing wise. On the shelves, a $30 box of 106 Count Pampers became a $30 box of 94 Count Pampers. And at Whole Foods, the 365 Four Cheese frozen pizza was $3.99 in 2021, it's now $5.99. But the internal cost that we bought them for was identical to the cost in 2023.

[Dean Del Rey]

Whole Foods.

[Zach Klapman]

It's inflation. We all have to do our part.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, costs are going up.

[Dean Del Rey]

Whole Foods. Holy smokes.

[Matt Farah]

I just need to put this out there. The self checkout at Whole Foods doesn't have a scale in it.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Whatever you use with that information. The part of the self checkout where your bag is and you go scan bag, scan bag. The part that has the bag doesn't have a scale. Yeah, make of that. What you will just say, you know, yeah, they're stealing from you. That's what's happening here.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

So anyway, you had you requested we. We talk about a Carrera team. Well, it had been safari.

[Dean Del Rey]

Ed, I want to go to.

[Matt Farah]

So look at that thing.

[Dean Del Rey]

So about, I don't know, four or five Months ago, I went down the T rabbit hole and I saw you 2 driving the gar. I think it was Guards Red.

[Zach Klapman]

We drove an older one.

[Matt Farah]

I was talking about a dot too.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. I only like the dot too. The slash of the narrow body.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

You know, they're cool and they're raw and everything. So I'm watching that night and then I go, oh, yeah. T's the way to go.

[Matt Farah]

They're sick.

[Dean Del Rey]

They're great little cars. Right. When that happens, this comes up for sale on pcar.

[Matt Farah]

Okay.

[Dean Del Rey]

And this guy is in Florida that does these kits on this guy.

[Matt Farah]

What do you know the name of the is it?

[Dean Del Rey]

I don't, but I think it's in the feed here.

[Matt Farah]

Let's see what it's got. Maybe we know this person.

[Dean Del Rey]

So the incredible thing, what he does.

[Matt Farah]

It'S a great looking car. Wow. Wow.

[Dean Del Rey]

He logos it up too. Off road. Tea. All the logos are new. And then the interior is camo, which is.

[Matt Farah]

Well, that's fun. Wait, off road features a Baja designs light roof. Where's the suspension?

[Dean Del Rey]

Somebody did the interior.

[Matt Farah]

All right. The winter camo centers. That's fun.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Okay. I would.

[Zach Klapman]

Helps you blend in in the snow in Florida.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Florida.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

I mean it matches the white exterior.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, the. The bad.

[Dean Del Rey]

See that?

[Matt Farah]

I mean, I like it.

[Zach Klapman]

I think it's clean.

[Matt Farah]

I will say it's. I. I'll say it's cleanly done.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right.

[Matt Farah]

Not what I would do. It doesn't say what the company is that's doing.

[Dean Del Rey]

I got it on my Instagram. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I mean it looks lovely and it's probably a real good time. I mean.

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, there's a guy on YouTube that sold it and he's driving it off road in Portland, Oregon. He is going mad in the dirt.

[Matt Farah]

What'd it go for?

[Dean Del Rey]

130. Which is a good price.

[Matt Farah]

Pretty good.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

To have that. To have that ready to go. I mean, assuming you like how that one looks. I think it would cost you more to replicate. Of course.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. And I was like, those are rotiforms.

[Matt Farah]

I think that's a rotiform wheel. I like that sort of that. That little bash bar thing in the front is pretty cool.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yep. I love that. The only thing was a little leery was they drilled holes in the roof to put that for the rack.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, well, yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

I'm always like, ah.

[Matt Farah]

So the thing about racks on a car like this.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Great. If you need it.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

But a real. When you don't. I bet that whistles like a motherfucker.

[Dean Del Rey]

So I go the Dakar rack. That low profile one with the lights. Yeah, I love that.

[Matt Farah]

You know what they charge for that?

[Dean Del Rey]

What is it?

[Matt Farah]

And also, I don't know, but it's a fortune. And there. And there it's the wiring for it goes into Grand Prix motors.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's the guy that sold it. The dealer up in Seattle. He always has great shit.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, wait, scroll down. This is the guy, all right, selling it. I want to see what it's got in it. Keep going, keep going. This is the shit. The regular high end off road modifications. Wow. A DSC sport controller with an off road application could be very interesting. Interesting. GT3 control. Elephant racing. Yeah. Okay. So Elephant racing makes the. The.

[Zach Klapman]

This is what they do. They're like the name in Porsche rally suspension.

[Matt Farah]

Elephant. Yeah, Elephant made this. Made the first version of the suspension for my air cooled car leaking. Now uses a different company. Okay. So basically Elephant. Yeah. Okay.

[Dean Del Rey]

I mean it was so fast.

[Matt Farah]

That's a. I bet. That's a. I bet 130 grand. You couldn't build the same car for anywhere near that because you got to.

[Dean Del Rey]

Buy the car first. Which is like.

[Matt Farah]

So what is the market right now for these tees?

[Dean Del Rey]

95 and the no seats and the stripper type, you know, and then some that are kind of loaded. I just found one totally loaded rear steering. It's on a website out there.

[Matt Farah]

I don't want to miss it.

[Dean Del Rey]

115.

[Matt Farah]

I would. If you actually want to do this a safari, I would not do rear steer.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I don't think rear steer with a mechanical LSD will be what right? Am I wrong? That's just a vibe. Maybe we should ask an expert if you want rear steer or not for a safari build application. I mean the Dakar has it, but that's a complete package all wheel drive system. That's a whole other thing.

[Zach Klapman]

I would just. If I had the choice and the dream, I would go without it because it's a more complicated system and I'd rather have less complications in something that's gonna handle that much abuse. Hidden bumps, stuff like that. I would just want to remove that variable.

[Dean Del Rey]

What I'm finding the problem with the T was everybody tried to go poor man's GT3, right. So they, they specked them out so fierce all the way up to even sunroofs. I don't want a sunroof. I don't want back seats. I do want AC and rain. I know you're like what you know, carbon buckets.

[Matt Farah]

Buy the stripper one and then make it insanely expensive anyway.

[Zach Klapman]

Or make it heavier by getting heavy options like sunroof.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right, Right.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. I mean, that's funny. And then these tees didn't actually sell that.

[Dean Del Rey]

They didn't sell at all.

[Matt Farah]

And.

[Dean Del Rey]

But.

[Matt Farah]

But now so many people like yourself are looking for like a great value in. In this market.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right? Well, you can still get a Carrera.

[Matt Farah]

S. You could still get an S.

[Dean Del Rey]

That'S faster and hess. You know, I just wanted a T because I thought, oh, this is kind of cool. I'll get some road noise. You guys are like, you have to.

[Matt Farah]

Spend more for a T than an S. No, no, not right now.

[Dean Del Rey]

Not right now.

[Matt Farah]

All right, cool.

[Dean Del Rey]

But they only made a thousand t' 19. 19.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

There's your problem.

[Matt Farah]

That's your problem.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's your problem. There's a shitload of Carrera, right?

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. You know, so maybe eventually it'll go the other way.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, I. Dude, I'm. I'm very supportive of a. Of a safari build.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

That'd be fun, that one.

[Matt Farah]

If you liked how that one looked, that probably wouldn't have been.

[Dean Del Rey]

I absolutely love that car, man. I might not have expensive car. Yeah. You know, I'm watching it on.

[Matt Farah]

Well, look, there's. There's like relatively more budget ways to replicate. You could do this with like a 997 for 65 grand. If that's what you really wanted. It'd be a good time.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

A997s with basically everything this has less. The roof rack would be kick ass.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And it would work.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's just great to. I go out to Joshua Tree a lot and I. And I don't mind driving and you know, you get out into this. There's an area out there called Gamma Gulch. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

It is unreal, these Airbnbs out there. You are on Mars.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, the des. Dude, the desert is. Oh, look, here's another. Here you go.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's beautiful.

[Matt Farah]

I don't love the wheel choice, but everything else about it I'm kind of into.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Farah]

So you can. We'll send you this link later.

[Dean Del Rey]

Hold on. You gotta see this. See this one?

[Matt Farah]

The desert. I mean, you know, if you want. If you want to really push a car. Yeah, the desert is the best. It's better than a racetrack. It's better than a lot of places.

[Zach Klapman]

Because you can also push it at 24 miles per hour. Like you can slide you can hit jumps. You can play more with the car. It's the. It's the best thing to do.

[Matt Farah]

Our friend. Our friend of the podcast. Oh, that's that. That is nice. That's that.

[Dean Del Rey]

Look at that.

[Matt Farah]

It's got. Okay, it's got these sort of. Hang on, Zach. Can I. Can you go to this camera?

[Dean Del Rey]

Can you see that real quick?

[Zach Klapman]

I'm on it.

[Matt Farah]

Just to have it. So these are sort of a fuchs style wheel.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yes. I love it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. I mean, it's. That's nice. That's a. That's a. A997.

[Dean Del Rey]

Is it 997, I think with a front end.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, with like some kind of front end bumper mod. That's pretty cool. I'm into that. Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

But yeah, so you clearly need a Safari 911. Yeah, there's. There are. There's a lot of different entry points to that at different price points.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, A T. I just like to start with a T because it makes sense. So like. Oh, a T makes good sense into it. You guys got me into it.

[Matt Farah]

Can we. Oh, so we're expensive. You're welcome.

[Dean Del Rey]

Sorry. Oh, yeah, dude. I got crazy taste, dude.

[Matt Farah]

I know you do. You do have taste. We have the similar taste in cars, watches, guitars, like boots. All. All the same expensive ass.

[Dean Del Rey]

We met and we immediately hit it off on everything. And it's just this. This is my dream tee. And no money. I just don't have 134. But right here. There it is.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, my God. This is like ultraviolet.

[Dean Del Rey]

That is. That.

[Matt Farah]

Is it Ruby Star. It's Ruby Star with like gold wheels and an arrow kit.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. And numbers and the interiors and stuff.

[Matt Farah]

You know what? That's a lot.

[Dean Del Rey]

You know what?

[Matt Farah]

But I Like a lot. I am. What's the interior? Just flying black. Okay. Oh, no.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's crazy.

[Matt Farah]

The interior is also nuts.

[Dean Del Rey]

You know what that car is that.

[Matt Farah]

Purple is the interior purple.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's the color of the car.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it's like. It's okay. All right.

[Dean Del Rey]

That is a.

[Matt Farah]

That's a crazy ass car. And actually, for the money.

[Dean Del Rey]

No money.

[Matt Farah]

It's actually not no money. I mean, it's. It's nice. You're talking about $135,000. No, we're hypothesizing. But like, relative to the market. Market, that ain't bad. That's pretty crazy. You could. You would get a spot at Air Water in a featured section in that car.

[Dean Del Rey]

You know, I like you going Air water. Oh, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

26.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. I don't miss that.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. My car is going to be on a stand.

[Dean Del Rey]

Which one?

[Matt Farah]

The pink car.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh right.

[Matt Farah]

It'll be on a stand.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Which is fun. Oh, that 997 looks great.

[Dean Del Rey]

This is a two years ago company's rims are fantastic.

[Matt Farah]

Who those braids. They look like braids.

[Zach Klapman]

Like braids.

[Matt Farah]

They look like braid. Makes rally wheels. Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Like mo. That's what I had braids on my braid. Made a fuchs style wheel for Safari 911.

[Dean Del Rey]

What's that look like?

[Matt Farah]

It looks like a fuchs. Oh wow. But it fucking. It was great. They made it. Shout out to braid. They make awesome.

[Zach Klapman]

So here's the game. So this was posted in 2021. At the time of posting on road and track the bidding was up to 50 grand. What do you guys think? This car sold for 80. Matt 76. He wins 84.

[Matt Farah]

Wow.

[Zach Klapman]

Dean.

[Dean Del Rey]

Here's what I don't like the lights on the hood.

[Matt Farah]

It's a lot.

[Zach Klapman]

They're a lot of lights.

[Dean Del Rey]

It' that the other.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. This one has a pop out light pod that does not match the lines.

[Dean Del Rey]

In a regular car.

[Matt Farah]

But other than that I think good decisions made on this build.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, I like that other one.

[Matt Farah]

Can we see an interior photo? Is there anything done on the interior?

[Dean Del Rey]

Great car.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, it's got buckets.

[Dean Del Rey]

Wow. It's got rollers. She's got a cage.

[Zach Klapman]

This is legit.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, this white steering wheel. Okay. That's a bad choice. Choice. The white steering wheel is.

[Zach Klapman]

You can fix that.

[Matt Farah]

You cannot eat chicken wings and then go drive that. A lot of good decisions made there though other than the white steering wheel.

[Dean Del Rey]

So that's. That's what I want to get into.

[Matt Farah]

That car would be a good time.

[Dean Del Rey]

I want to get into one of those.

[Zach Klapman]

Have you done a rally school before where you should do a rally school if you haven't.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh no.

[Matt Farah]

Where at?

[Zach Klapman]

There's so many good ones to check from.

[Matt Farah]

Three great ones. Rally ready outside Austin, Texas. Dirt fish outside of Seattle and Team O'Neal which is up in Vermont or New Hampshire.

[Dean Del Rey]

Wow.

[Matt Farah]

Vermont or New Hampshire.

[Dean Del Rey]

And do they have cars?

[Zach Klapman]

They do, yeah. And they're. I mean it's the lessons you'll learn there can apply to driving anywhere like street, track or dirt. But if you're going to get one of these and go romp around Joshua tree, which I highly recommend, I'm so on board for you. You should just do like a two day rally school. It's the funnest driving ever. Yeah, it really Is. And then you can go out there.

[Matt Farah]

Usually a couple grand. It's not insanely expensive.

[Dean Del Rey]

I'll go to the Seattle one Dirt Fish.

[Matt Farah]

So Dirt Fish is great because they have all wheel drive Subarus and rear wheel drive Subaru BRZs. So you could learn rear wheel drive Rally, which may apply better to something like this than all wheel drive rally, which is a slightly different technique.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

Both are useful, but like, you know, you could do either or. Or both.

[Dean Del Rey]

I had the WRX. What was it? The 18? The Smurf Blue. Oh, yeah, that car. I just wish I could have the fin off it because it's a little faster.

[Matt Farah]

It had a wing on it.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's got the WRX sti. You can't get the Smurf without that. But wow, is that car great.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

You know, we were just.

[Matt Farah]

We just did a show with Jerry Seinfeld. Who. That's what he's been driving in around LA. A Subaru STI. Really? An S209? Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

A WRX with the. With the wing?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Wow.

[Dean Del Rey]

Ye.

[Matt Farah]

If you saw. If you saw that car driving up Ocean park and you saw Jerry Seinfeld driving it, you'd be like, oh, is Seinfeld impersonator is on his way to.

[Zach Klapman]

Work or he's showing his kid how to drive the kid's new car.

[Matt Farah]

I wouldn't believe that that was him in that car.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's pretty cool.

[Matt Farah]

We have some. Do some Patreons to get to. We got a few of them. But before we got to talk about the special. Please. It's the 33. What's the number?

[Dean Del Rey]

5. 5836. And what that is, you know, most people's specials are like, you know, Dirt Bag or Road Rags.

[Matt Farah]

Canceled.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, whatever, you know, So I thought, you know, I gotta get a title that I thought would be cool. And I've counted my set since I've started and at that particular night it was set 5836.

[Matt Farah]

I love it in my final. It's so appropriate. You're, you know, you're our show number 1001. So we just. We just, you know, we've just had a milestone and I, you know, I sort of. It made us think. Doing anything. Yeah, that, you know, doing anything. A thousand times. Doing anything. 5,836 times. A lot of fucking times.

[Dean Del Rey]

The reason I wanted to do that is so you can see the grind in the number. It's not just like, oh, yeah, I just did a couple years and now I'm Shooting a special. No, this is what it is. And I, you know, I busted my ass. This is self financed. Bill Burr and I made it.

[Matt Farah]

You could have had a Carrera tape instead of his special, Right?

[Dean Del Rey]

A couple. And then, you know, Marcus Price, who's also a car freak, and one of my best friends directed it. And we went out to Pelham, Tennessee, which is an hour and a half outside of Nashville or an hour and a half outside of Chattanooga. And it's in this cave. It's the first special ever done in a cave. It's awesome looking and, you know, so fucking cool. I was gonna shoot a special and, you know, nobody gave me a special. No one was gonna give me a special. You know, I'm 59. It's like, I'm not on the, you know, hey, there's something we're looking for.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

So, you know, I was gonna do it in a club and then I was thinking, and I talked to a couple comedians. They're like, yeah, no one cares what you fucking do. It's just. Just make it funny. And then I thought, that's the wrong idea. I think that if you're gonna make something, make something that people are gonna talk about. Like, you see this fucking thing? It's in a cave.

[Matt Farah]

That's cool.

[Dean Del Rey]

And that's gonna get people at least to look at it. Because in this world of a million specials, why do you want to click on this and look at it?

[Matt Farah]

It's also a beautiful set that you don't have to build. I mean, you know, like, you don't have to be like, all right, well, what's my vibe? Like, what are. What are the curtains? Or what are the. This, this. It's like the vibe is cave. We're in a cave. There will be enough lights to show that we're in a cave. That's the, like, so cool. But it, like, solves a bunch of problems at once.

[Dean Del Rey]

Here's the. The place. So they've got camping. We had people out there in Yur. This is where you walk in right here.

[Matt Farah]

This is.

[Zach Klapman]

This is the coolest venue.

[Dean Del Rey]

I mean, it's walk in here and there it is, right?

[Matt Farah]

It's like red rocks, except no sky. You're underground. You're in a cave. And so super cool.

[Dean Del Rey]

And the guy that owns it, Todd Mayo, is unreal. So I had him on the podcast. I have a podcast if you guys want to hear it. Matt's been on it.

[Matt Farah]

Let there Be talk. Let There Be also at a very, like, high 700s episodes. It's also a high volume.

[Dean Del Rey]

800 now.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're doing it. Z knows how to grind, man.

[Dean Del Rey]

12 years I've been podcasting.

[Matt Farah]

Guy does not around.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. So the thing was, we went in there. I'd never done comedy in there. No one's done comedy in there.

[Matt Farah]

That's so hard to believe.

[Dean Del Rey]

We rolled the fucking dice. Because what if you go in and it sounds like shit and you're going, oh, we spent all this money and you know, and it's self finance, you know. So the really wild thing is we shoot this million dollar looking special. Yeah, it's fucking great looking. And we go to the streamers and they're not even getting back to us. We're like, hey, check this out. We know they're not going to watch the whole fucking thing because that's how people are.

[Matt Farah]

But you think they'll give you 60 seconds.

[Dean Del Rey]

We gave them five one minute clips. Just check this out. You think that if you're in the business of specials that you would see this for one minute ago. Fuck it, let's put this out. It's crazy looking. And people will have the billboards with the cage and people will click on it right away. No one gets back to us. So you can see it this the fifth or the sixth on my Patreon. Dean Del Rey is my Patreon.

[Matt Farah]

We are huge Patreon fans.

[Dean Del Rey]

I love it. And then YouTube. Now here's another thing. I want to hit people too. You, you put it on YouTube and some of my great friends, Joe List, Sam Morel, Fahim, I'm. They've all put specials on there and they've gotten millions of views and people are like, yeah, man, just the gatekeepers are gone. And you just put it on YouTube and you get a million hits. It's like, that's not how it works. You need to share the shit out of it.

[Matt Farah]

You have to promote it, share it, all that stuff. And then hopefully you get $2,000 from your YouTube, right?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'll chop it up into clips. But I really didn't want to chop it up. I wanted people to see it on a screen because it's pretty cinematic looking.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, I haven't seen it. I've only seen your trail, which is on your Instagram page. Dean Del Rey, all one word. And it does look beautiful. How did the sound work out in your favor?

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, my God. So I walk on, I do the first joke, right?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

And the laughs are thunderous.

[Matt Farah]

And I guess it's not the same. You can't just sound check it empty, right? It changes when it's full of people.

[Dean Del Rey]

Because when we're in there, it was kind of echoey and I was like, oh, no.

[Matt Farah]

And then. But then it fills with people and the people knock it out.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's kind of dirt and everything. And it's just. Just this warm sound. And the first joke dropped and the last hit. And if you watch the trailer, I go, I waited 15 years to do a special. My voice cracks because I almost cried.

[Matt Farah]

Okay.

[Dean Del Rey]

I'm so overjoyed of like, oh, my God, this is gonna work. My dream's coming true. I'm shooting a special in a cave. It does.

[Matt Farah]

So sick, dude.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, God, I love it.

[Matt Farah]

Did you ever see what it said? Bands playing there. So I guess the sound has got to be kind of decent.

[Dean Del Rey]

It was made for bluegrass. This guy Todd Mayo built it. He's got a book out called Caveman Chronicles and it talks about how he built this fucking thing. He went in there 12 years ago and he's like, I wonder what it'd be like to have a band in here. He gets Chris Stapleton in there and that's the first gig. And that's 12 years ago. Now he's got an Emmy award winning show on PBS called the Cavern Session. And he was so great to us. He goes, let's do this.

[Matt Farah]

We gotta. We have a road track event that's coming this fall that's gonna be in this area. Maybe there's a reason to go there.

[Dean Del Rey]

Dude, we're thinking about doing my Bon Scott tribute there for my 60th birthday.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, really?

[Dean Del Rey]

February?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Everybody camping in New Yorks and tents by.

[Matt Farah]

When you say my. Do you play in a Bon Scott tribute?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, I do.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, once a year I do a tribute to Bond Fun. And it's like Bill Burr on drums, like Nikki 6 bass, Scotty in from Anthrax on guitar. And Lure from Primus and Mike Inez from Alice in Chains. Dave Lombardo. It's a super.

[Matt Farah]

That seems like a good time.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, you can look at it. YouTube. Dean Del Rey, Bon Scott. Real quick, look at it.

[Matt Farah]

Is that a thing you, like, sell tickets to? It's a shut the Avalon.

[Dean Del Rey]

We do it every year. It's huge.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, awesome.

[Dean Del Rey]

But we're thinking about me and Christian. There's one right there. Flashback right there. Oh, no, to the right. Go to that one on the right there. Watch this guy head banging like crazy. This is the kind of Guy from, like, look at this guy. He's amazing at the show. He's just going. At one point, Bill Burr stopped, and he goes, I want to give a shout out to that guy. He's doing it, dude.

[Zach Klapman]

He's got an F1 driver's neck from.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

His neck is, like, thicker than his head.

[Dean Del Rey]

If you YouTube, Dean Del Rey Bond. Scott. Scott, you'll see the. The event. It's massive. I do the whole place out and. Oh, there's one right there. Right there. That's good. I do a whole place in Bon Scott. Photos. You know, they got the best digital screens in this place. The Avalon. And it is. It is unreal. That's Steve Gorman from the Black Crows on drums. We rotate drummers every couple songs. Like, we had Josh Freeze from Food Fighters this year. Yeah, we had. We had them all.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, me and Christian got to come see that.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's great.

[Matt Farah]

Sick. We have. Can we go to the Patreon? Mr. Clapman? Of course. Just like you. We love. We love the Patreon.

[Dean Del Rey]

How many guys you got, like 1500? Yeah, I got 400. And they are. I call them the real. You know, the New York Times once said, if you have 1000 true fans, you can do art your whole life.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, really?

[Dean Del Rey]

And the way they broke it down was really interesting. If each fan kind of donated around 100 bucks, you know, over the year, you'd be able to do art for every. Every year.

[Matt Farah]

If we. If we had probably twice as many Patreon people as we have now, which is possible.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

We could eliminate all advertising.

[Dean Del Rey]

Advertising, Right.

[Matt Farah]

Like, we just wouldn't have to take ads.

[Dean Del Rey]

I wouldn't have ads either.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

And also, they saved me during COVID man. I was a comic with nothing.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

All of a sudden, it stopped, and I was like, oh, my God, what am I gonna do?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it's. Fortunately, we figured out live streaming that.

[Dean Del Rey]

Helped a lot on YouTube.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

And how's that where they tip as you're going?

[Matt Farah]

Well, it's through Patreon and whatever. And mainly just, like, we figured out how to do. I don't live stream is. Was. I mean meant. What I meant to say was we figured out how to do, like, remote podcasts during COVID and that.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right, right.

[Matt Farah]

And then as soon as we didn't have to do that anymore, we stopped. Shaggin Party Wagon says, what was it like on tour with Marcus King? Oh, the questions for me, some of them will be direct. Most of them will be directly for You.

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, that's fucking.

[Matt Farah]

We'll have some other car ones at the end, but Marcus King, so sick.

[Dean Del Rey]

I'll tell you this right now. So I met him, I think around 10 years ago. He was like 20 or something. Somebody sent me his record. Hey, they know I love like soul rock. Like, you know, I'm not. Not blues. I'm talking about like black crows kind of soul rock. And so they sent it to me. I go, what is this?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

So I reach out to the kid and I have him on the podcast. He is straight up, like, shy. Introvert. Yes. Yeah. Over the years, we've become great friends. He becomes this incredible star. Right before COVID we said, let's do a comedy rock tour, he and I. He loves comedy. I love him. Covid hits Live nation, pushes it aside. Right after Covid, a year later, I get a call. Hey, tour's on. I'm like, oh, I thought that was gone. Now he's bigger. I'm a little bigger now. We're doing double nights at theaters, Beacons, Ryman's, all that. And so we went on a 32 day tour across America. One day off. And we did comedy and rock all over America. Bus, bus. And it was great. Some of the nights were awful for me. You know, if there was no seats, it was horrible. People are walking around like, why is that roadie talking about his dick? You know what I mean? They just like drinking beers, like looking at me, I'm like, hey, like start saying chick, you know? Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

If they're not like ready, you know, ready for that.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. And I was. It was a grueler. But now it's been a couple years and I look back and I get one of the best times of my life.

[Matt Farah]

I. I discovered that guy on discovered. I found him on YouTube and his voice does not match how he looks.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And his guitar playing is just about him.

[Dean Del Rey]

Is he's the triple threat. Threat. Singer, guitar player, but songwriter.

[Matt Farah]

Sure.

[Dean Del Rey]

There's a lot of guys out there, they can play the. Out of the guitar. They don't know how to write a song. Yeah, a lot of guys play the sh. Out of guitar, they can't sing. This guy is a freak of nature. I watched him every night.

[Matt Farah]

Slay it.

[Dean Del Rey]

No warm up, nothing. Just.

[Matt Farah]

You're going to get me. It's the John Daly of music.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Matt Farah]

Show up, sink down. 400 yard drum.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, my God. Hole in one.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Any slays, man.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Love Marcus King. Whip him out Wednesday. Wow. With an old OA reference. Dean. Why did your podcast with Marin only last six shows?

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, we did it during COVID Yeah. So we were like there was nothing going on. And then Covet ended and Mark's career just picked back up to TV and touring and all that. People are always looking for drama, you know, that's really what happened. It was just like people got busy. Yeah. And I love doing it, you know, it was called Dark Fonzie. It actually went 13 episodes, not. What'd he say, six?

[Matt Farah]

Six.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, it went 13 episodes and then it was gone. But it was fun to do what it did. It was way bigger than my podcast.

[Matt Farah]

Also Whipmil Wednesday. He says, in all the years you're with bands, what was the best or band you played with?

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, the best band I ever played with was two years ago I opened for Metallica as a comedian. Two nights, Stadium Arena, Chase arena, two nights, 40th anniversary.

[Matt Farah]

No pressure.

[Dean Del Rey]

Although it was absolutely the hardest thing I've ever done, really. And they're my favorite band and I'm from the Bays, they're from the Bay, we know each other. So I'm like, if I fuck this up, it's all going to be on me.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. And if I it up, you can't go, you can't be friends with Metallica anymore.

[Dean Del Rey]

Well then just be like, hey, it's that weird thing, man. When you bomb at a gig and your friends are there, they don't say anything, they don't address it. They're like, hey, you want to go get something to eat or something? They don't go like, good show. Because they know you're, you know that.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, they know you would know. They're lying.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Right.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. So the first night was really difficult and there's a lot of technical problems on their half with the video that I was introducing videos and then riffing and doing jokes and stuff and their video server crashed and you know, so they're like, stay out there. And I'm like, oh yeah, I was getting that one stretch. And I was like, oh God. But the second night was one of the greatest nights of my life.

[Zach Klapman]

Are the audiences receptive to, you know, they're there to see Metallica. It's not just like a music show. It's Metallica.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

Heavy energy, fast, all that stuff. Are they surprised when a comedian comes out first? Are they open to it?

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, they. Here's what I didn't take in into consideration was this was their 40 year anniversary two night party. It wasn't like a tour. This is specifically this. So Fans flew in from Ecuador, Hong Kong, Oklahoma, you know, all over. So it was this gamut of people out there and I'm doing jokes. Some people don't know what comedy is, you know what I mean? They're like from Brazil or whatever. So that was really fucking difficult. But Metallica came out and they said, hey, we're gonna go backstage and get ready. But in the meantime, our good friend comedian Dean Del Rey. So I got a window of about two minutes to start getting them.

[Matt Farah]

And were you. Did it feel more like a little more like emceeing than doing comedy? It was like, well, that's the way.

[Dean Del Rey]

I had to approach it because it was three six minute sets. They didn't tell me that until an hour before I was getting there. I thought I was just going out and doing 15, 20 minutes and then bringing Metallica on.

[Matt Farah]

So three broken up by videos.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, so it was like six minutes and then go, hey, look at this video of when Metallica started. Then you leave the stage, then you come back, do six more minutes. Hey, look at this. And that is the most difficult.

[Matt Farah]

It's like Oscars host or something.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, that's different. So you gotta take. You gotta adapt immediately. And if you haven't done a million shows, you're not gonna be. You're just gonna eat shit. And I was able to adapt. And it was.

[Matt Farah]

I did an arena with Metallica is a pretty good one on the fucking resume.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's solid as fuck anybody. That's the thing. Like, you'll get these people. Ah, fuck you. I was there, you weren't funny. It's like, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter what you think.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, you bought a ticket and I was on stage.

[Dean Del Rey]

Doesn't fucking matter. I'm 58 years old and I open for Metallica. You think you're gonna say I've been 41 years this year. 41 years. 25 music, 15 on my 16 comedy. Nothing is going to faze me and make me stop. I got bad reviews in the fucking 80s, you know what I mean? And I got great, great fans that outweigh all of that.

[Matt Farah]

That's why you have a career. Joe says favorite pair of sunglasses.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, well, I wear Jacques Marie Maj, which I'm wearing right now. And I wear Blake Kuaha. And those are two brands that are the fine. This is the finest eyewear made on the planet. Takes a couple years to make it. The guy is Jerome Maje. He is one of the greatest eyewear guys ever to live. Hands down.

[Matt Farah]

It takes a Couple years to make it. You go for a fitting and a meter and then it's made for you. How does that work?

[Dean Del Rey]

It's not made for you, but the way he sources and makes this acetylch acetate Old world way in Japan in these stone tumblers. And he goes to acetate like libraries and finds the old colors. He is the ultimate freak of eyewear. There's no better than this guy. An eight barrel hinge so the hinges don't fall apart. You know, it's all this stuff and it's stuff that people go, fuck that. I'd never spend that. It's like, yeah, well you'll buy 19 pair of glasses. Yeah, yeah, I'm buying one. And it'll last forever.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Can you insure it?

[Dean Del Rey]

You can insure 100%.

[Matt Farah]

So then there you go.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah, man.

[Matt Farah]

Of course if you lose it, it takes you years.

[Dean Del Rey]

And they're really, you know, they only make like, there's like 100 of this shape. So then they're gone, you know.

[Matt Farah]

So can you buy them in. In LA or you have to go.

[Dean Del Rey]

I go to Optical Connection. It's a. In Studio City they got them all.

[Matt Farah]

Interesting. We have a sunglasses sponsor. We're very fortunate. Dylan. Shout out to him. Yeah, yeah, that's nice to have the high end sunglasses sponsored and they make a new product. Enrico Palazzo says you are the hosts of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for a Day. Who's your comedian guest and what is the car?

[Dean Del Rey]

If I was the host? Well, I mean, Jerry's had all the greats.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

So you can't really. I mean, you know, Norm MacDonald was one of the greatest episodes ever and he's top three comedian ever.

[Matt Farah]

It wasn't a hypocrisy.

[Dean Del Rey]

Fucking best line ever. Fucking crazy. But so if I was the host, it would be a Dakar and I would just go out driving with my good friend Bill Burr and we would just go fuck around and go out there to the Newcomes or whatever and just eat some lunch and laugh.

[Matt Farah]

It's a good plan.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, see who you know. You know there's like, do you take the big star or do you take.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, honestly, I think I have. I would take someone that I. That I. If we're filming Comedians in Cars getting coffee, it has to be someone that I have a rapport with. I wouldn't want it to be like a Meet my Idol sort of moment. So I'd probably go with Segura. Tom Segura. And just. I would be okay that we could do a good.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

I think that's probably. That might be. Sounds like a cop out. But also, I like Tom very much.

[Zach Klapman]

So I think. I'm thinking Eddie Murphy just because he's like an idol, obviously. But the car selection is tough. Like you want to pair with the person.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

Because he was such a powerhouse. Right. When he came out at like 19. It's kind of like R32 GTR.

[Matt Farah]

Well, the actual car from that episode of Comedians Cars Getting Coffee was a Carrera gt. That's what they. That's what Jerry took him out.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right.

[Zach Klapman]

That makes sense.

[Matt Farah]

You know? Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah. I would go something different, but I understand the theory. I'm not gonna argue with which, by.

[Dean Del Rey]

The way, I would use that brand new Singer Turbo that just looks like the old car.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

So I would drive it. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

It's the best.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, you drove it?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Which one, the silver or the white one?

[Matt Farah]

Neither. I drove my friend's personal car. It's blue. I drove it on a wet Willow Springs.

[Dean Del Rey]

What's that like?

[Matt Farah]

Sick. It's the most interesting. And I did not get to really exploit it because it was a wet Willow Springs and The car had 341 miles on it. Which we're gonna get to drive the white one, Zach and I, in a couple of weeks.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh.

[Matt Farah]

Kind of sort of proper. You come out if you want.

[Dean Del Rey]

I gotta go.

[Matt Farah]

You can meet us out there.

[Dean Del Rey]

I'll just meet you wherever you're at.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, we'll be up on the mountain with it 100%. But what the most. By far the most interesting thing about it was there was absolutely no evidence that a car was there before. Like, it didn't feel like a car that started as another car and was restored. This is a new car. It's a totally new car. And even though the engine is air cooled, whatever they've done, it makes it feel very much like the engine in a Carrera T. Wow. Which is real crazy. And it feels like a brand new OEM level product which I have not seen before. And so it's pretty extraordinary.

[Dean Del Rey]

Turbo lag.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, I didn't drive it around the city. I got four wet laps around Willow Springs. So, I mean, I can't imagine it's bad. I think it's a delight. I think it's. They've made some smart decisions. And we'll let you know when we drive it for real.

[Dean Del Rey]

I love what they did with the, like the shark fin.

[Matt Farah]

It's beautiful.

[Dean Del Rey]

And the Accordion rubber bumpers. It's just crazy.

[Matt Farah]

You know, they're not rubber, they're carbon.

[Dean Del Rey]

I know.

[Matt Farah]

That's what I'm saying. And you can get them in visual weave or you can get them in black, and I actually think they look better in black.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's sick. Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I went down there to the factory factory last week.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, they did a drone tour of it. Oh, my God.

[Matt Farah]

They got a lot of bills going.

[Dean Del Rey]

Factory.

[Matt Farah]

The little In Sun Valley with four bays.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah, four bays.

[Matt Farah]

Long time ago.

[Dean Del Rey]

What?

[Matt Farah]

So. But I. I was a little. I said this on another show, but I was a little disappointed overall with the creativity of their customers when it came to picking colors. Oh, yeah, there was a couple of unbelievable showstoppers, and there was a lot of very muted colors that would have been from cars from the 70s and stuff.

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, the. That buy. Those are extremely rich. And they not necessarily want to be popping. Yeah, like, to me, I'm always into popping because it's like, why wouldn't wear a Rolex sub? Because you walk in the room and there's 80 subs.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

I want to be. And not just for you to look at me. I more always wanted something that was just different than everybody. That's why I shot that special in a cage. That's why I'm always seeking something that other people don't have. Because I grew up in the Bay Area, and when that cotton Dockers Gap thing hit and everybody looked like a fucking. Just take me to the techie building. I was like, what the fuck happened here? We had, like, 60s hippies.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

We had beak, you know, beat poets. We had blue collar. We had the punk rockers, and we had the metal heads. And now everybody's just wearing one outfit. For me.

[Matt Farah]

Vest, button down.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh. So I think it really has an effect on me. You know, it really knocked me into, like, I can't do this.

[Matt Farah]

For me, I think the more expensive the car, I mean, I guess. I guess I can relate to this singer thing because the more expensive the car, the less flashy the color. I usually want to. I love a hatchback in nuclear arms.

[Dean Del Rey]

Right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

[Matt Farah]

You know, and yes, I have a.

[Dean Del Rey]

Pink Porsche, but, like, I go pink all day long.

[Matt Farah]

Pink's good. That carat was crazy. This pink, The Ruby Star Carrera T with the Aero kit is a lot.

[Dean Del Rey]

What about this? This pink gt? Hold on. This thing is insane. And it's an rs. I don't know who made it, but I saw it and went, oh, I Want to meet that guy?

[Matt Farah]

Oh, is. Are you about to show me the pink RS with, like, the McDonald's interior? It's like pink with yellow and red interior.

[Dean Del Rey]

I didn't see the interior.

[Matt Farah]

There are some builds that someone should.

[Dean Del Rey]

Have said, this is Barbie pink, though.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, you know, no, I haven't seen that one.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's not the. Not a pink. You ever see, like, hot pink? Oh, yeah, like Barbie pink. I was like, oh, my God, it's like Paris Hilton when she had that Bentley. And pink.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, I remember that. Yeah, I was not a fan. Is it. Is it? That's not pink, is it?

[Zach Klapman]

That's very pink.

[Dean Del Rey]

That's it right there. Look at that thing, man.

[Matt Farah]

That looks like. Well, it's a Middle Eastern plate.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Hermes pink, Sakura.

[Dean Del Rey]

It's like Dubai special.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, definitely.

[Dean Del Rey]

But look at that thing.

[Matt Farah]

Not bad, though.

[Dean Del Rey]

No, I love it.

[Matt Farah]

Wait, a license plate. 911 in the UAE. You think that's real?

[Dean Del Rey]

I don't know, but look at it.

[Matt Farah]

But it is pink. That's true. Yeah, that's the Barbiest of pink. That's a Lumiere. I don't know what that.

[Dean Del Rey]

I don't go the.

[Matt Farah]

The wing.

[Dean Del Rey]

You know, that's. That's where I draw the line. I'll go pink, but no wing. Taurine. Only GT3 touring only Bruce Canopa, when.

[Matt Farah]

He sells his GT2Rs, he flips them over there. He takes the wings off, sells them as these.

[Dean Del Rey]

Sort of subtle.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, I get it. I totally get it. The special is up on your YouTube.

[Dean Del Rey]

Channel on April 17th, but you can see it on my patreon.com deandelre starting this Sunday. And then tour dates. Deandelray.com. i'm going to Austin, Texas for two nights next week with Joey Diaz. Really?

[Matt Farah]

What nights? Wait, go look. I'm in Austin next week.

[Dean Del Rey]

No, April 17, 18. I don't know when this comes out.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, no, it's okay. Okay, you actually said it right, for when this comes out. I'm in Austin the weekend before that. But that'll be a awesome show. You and Joey Diaz. He's a lunatic.

[Dean Del Rey]

I love him. He's a great friend of mine. And we're doing two nights at the Paramount Theater.

[Matt Farah]

Then, yo, the Belly up with Tom Green and Solana Beach.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, I'm doing a Tom Green tour.

[Matt Farah]

Can I come?

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, 100%.

[Matt Farah]

I have family in Solana Beach. I love the Belly up.

[Dean Del Rey]

Get out there.

[Matt Farah]

And I love Tom.

[Dean Del Rey]

Come backstage, hang out.

[Matt Farah]

Dude, count me in for the belly Up.

[Dean Del Rey]

Let's fucking go. And then Comedy Fort. One of the greatest clubs in Colorado, hands down. Friday, June 13th and 14th. And then Las Vegas, May 12th through the 18th at the Comedy Cell.

[Matt Farah]

Is that at the Rio Hotel?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Didn't. Did someone, a comic owns a club in Vegas also. Who?

[Zach Klapman]

Well, Brad Garrett.

[Dean Del Rey]

Garrett. I never work it, but he's a great comic and his room's great. I've been trying to get in there for, like, six years, but, you know, it's one of those rooms.

[Matt Farah]

Call the man back.

[Dean Del Rey]

I know, right?

[Matt Farah]

I will. 100%. See you April 24th in Solana Beach. I love the belly.

[Dean Del Rey]

Then April 17th, YouTube. Subscribe to my channel now. Dean Del rey, the special 58, 30, 36, produced by Bill Burr and myself, Self Finance. So anything you throw at it would be greatly appreciated. And Eendel Rey is my Instagram. Thank you for having me so much.

[Matt Farah]

Thanks, Dean. Good to see you. Let's get this man a Carrera T Safari. Yes, he very much. Definitely 5836 goddamn comedy sets. He deserves it.

[Zach Klapman]

Yes.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, I think you deserve. I think if you get. If you do 5,000 of something, you deserve a Porsche.

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, it's funny when you did that many sets, man, and you. I'm at 6,000 now.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

So when you look at it, it's just like. And you're 59 years old. I just want to tell everybody.

[Matt Farah]

When did you do your first set?

[Dean Del Rey]

I said December 6, 2009. So I was 44 years old. I stepped on the stage at the Comedy Store.

[Matt Farah]

So 15 years.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, 15.

[Matt Farah]

6,000 sets.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

How many sets a year is that? That's more than. I mean, it's more than 2,000.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, well, no, right. No, no, no, no, no. I'm at 6,000.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Sorry, my math, 505.

[Matt Farah]

It's a couple hundred a year, for sure.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, but way over that.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. I mean, with my first year, I did 296.

[Zach Klapman]

400 a year.

[Matt Farah]

400 sets a year?

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah. So my second year, I did 580, and then I got on almost to 600. I've never made 600 in a year. And I can't do it now because I do way longer.

[Zach Klapman]

You do it in LA or in New York?

[Dean Del Rey]

LA and the road in New York.

[Zach Klapman]

I was going to say, like, New York. You can kind of like walk from show to show. Easier than here, Right here. You got to, like, drive between mics.

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, I did. I'm going to tell you this. I did 5,000 of those sets on a Motorcycle, like all over. Bakersfield, Sacramento.

[Matt Farah]

You toured on a motorcycle?

[Dean Del Rey]

I rode everywhere. I didn't have a car kind of bike. Well, Harley at first, and then I went to the A Beamer GS.

[Matt Farah]

There you go. At least you figured out a good road tripadi.

[Dean Del Rey]

Multistrada. Oh, Pikes Peak.

[Matt Farah]

How many miles you get on those bikes? Well, when you're doing 40, 50, 000 miles on those bikes.

[Dean Del Rey]

I had multiple bikes, so I just rotate them, but all of them had like 20, 000 a year, and I just flip them for the new bike, you know, that's.

[Matt Farah]

That's Road Warrior.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, dude. Boiling hot sandstorms. Slight snow, rain, you know, freeze and cold. Yeah, man.

[Matt Farah]

You still ride much? I haven't seen you on a bike.

[Dean Del Rey]

I got ran over. Yeah. Meth head hit me doing 70 on the 110 and I had to have neck surgery. Shout out to Lifespan Medicine. They saved my fucking life. Rogan sent me to this guy. My arm was numb, my foot was numb. I couldn't fly. I was like, I'm not going to be able to work. She hit and ran me, and they never caught her. So I didn't get it.

[Matt Farah]

You got nothing?

[Dean Del Rey]

There was no suing or anything. I was broken up. The, you know, Burr was coming over, bringing me these white T shirts. I was just bleeding out, and I'd put the shirt on and just bleed into it and just throw it away. It was gnarly.

[Zach Klapman]

That's not how biomedicine.

[Dean Del Rey]

It was gnarly, dude.

[Matt Farah]

That's not like, normal, good medicine.

[Dean Del Rey]

No, that's bad. No.

[Matt Farah]

So, all right, so no more motorcycles.

[Dean Del Rey]

Well, I rode after that because I didn't, you know, that's what I had. But now.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. With age comes a cage.

[Dean Del Rey]

Yeah, yeah. With age comes today. You know, Bill and I ride when we're out on the road. If we're out in, like, Wyoming, we'll get some bikes. And we just rode all through the Colorado Rockies.

[Zach Klapman]

It was awesome.

[Dean Del Rey]

Insane. Jason Chinnick, who's the CEO of Ducati, is a good friend of mine. He hooked us up with.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, I met that guy. Yeah, he was cool. Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

We rode up to the Shining Hotel.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Dean Del Rey]

Stunning.

[Zach Klapman]

I used to ride around there.

[Matt Farah]

It just got very hot, dude. Thank you very much. For those of us listening live, we're back at 3pm Pacific. We got a double header today.

[Dean Del Rey]

Oh, really?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, I'm going out of town for a week, so we gotta get ahead.

[Dean Del Rey]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

All right. All the radio today and, yeah, get Dean special. Go see him live. Meet me at the belly up, April 24th. We'll see him live together. And thanks for listening, everybody. We'll see you next time. Bye.