FERRIS REZVANI: "Real life BATMOBIL"? | EPISODE 3

THE DARK KNIGHT OF BULLETPROOF CARS | Ferris Rezvani on Designing the World’s Most Insane Supercars

In this episode of The BASIC Show, Viktorija sits down with visionary car designer Ferris Rezvani — the creator behind the world’s most extreme armored vehicles that have taken the internet by storm.

From Knight Rider and James Bond fantasies as a kid, to building fully armored supercars driven by billionaires, celebrities, security forces, and even featured in viral MrBeast explosions (450+ million views!), Rezvani shares the wild story behind his brand.

Inside this episode:

·       The insane features packed inside Rezvani’s bulletproof cars: EMP protection, smoke screens, electrified doors, pepper spray dispensers, magnetic deadbolts & more.

·       How the “Dark Knight” model was inspired by Batman’s world.

·       Behind-the-scenes of collaborating with YouTube giants like MrBeast to literally blow up his own cars.

·       The challenges of blending design, military tech, and luxury into one of the world’s most sought-after vehicles.

·       What makes Rezvani Motors one of the most viral luxury car brands on the planet.

If you love wild inventions, viral stories, luxury design, and entrepreneurship — this episode is for you.

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Transcript

The Car Industry Conductor Ferris introduces himself as the conductor blending design, luxury, and military defense.

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I look at myself as kind of like a conductor in an orchestra.

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This is the most striking car I've ever seen.

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Pepper spray dispenser, electrified door handles, magnetic deadbolts.

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Dispenser like for nail polish. Major names like Chris Brown and Jamie Foxx and The Weeknd.

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Customers like Cristiano Ronaldo, you know, Daymond John from Shark Tank.

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Wild desire. Oh, I'm just going to start my own name car brand.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

I wanted to design cool looking cars. Approved by Ferris B's money. Design and military. Women wear heels that are military-based. Cars are the closest thing that a mechanical thing can be to an organism, to a living organism.

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It's just driving something from out of the sci-fi

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movie. Maybe an alien, actually, sitting next to you.

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Ready for the apocalypse.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Where there's a will, there is definitely a way. The money will follow.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Just going to go against these billion-dollar companies who have so much funding.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

The automotive industry is second most expensive after aerospace. and there's a reason why they cost that much

SPEAKER_01 1:02

it looks so sexy to me i would definitely own the vengeance

Childhood Inspiration from Military Bases How growing up on an Air Force base shaped his vision for powerful design.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

mr beast is just has a humongous product i'll be honest with you i was a little nervous

SPEAKER_01 1:08

not even a scratch welcome to the basic show Hi, Ferris. Hello. Welcome to The Basic Show. So my first question is that you are such an inspirational figure in the car world. You built a boutique brand that blends luxury design with military-grade defense. So what was the moment or your mindset that first sparked the idea of building the vehicles that look like ready for the apocalypse, but also inside they feel like a private jet?

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Yeah. You know, I think it goes back to my childhood. I grew up, my dad was a fighter pilot. So I grew up on the Air Force Base in Lackland, Texas. And just seeing the power of some of these aircraft and military vehicles, I was always awed by them. They had this very strong, powerful energy to them. And they also had some design to it as well. Aircraft have some design to it. So that really sparked my interest. And ever since then, you know, when I was even in class, I would be looking at military vehicles and airplane books and things like that. And as I got older, I fused the two, design and military, inspired by that. And I think it creates... You know, an emotion that's very powerful. I think they're very powerful things. And, you know, I feel that cars are the closest thing that a mechanical thing can be to an organism, to a living organism.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Well, I never thought that way. Okay.

First Time Behind the Wheel Learning to drive on a 1979 Datsun — the sense of freedom begins.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

So we connect to cars, you know, and I really connected to them. So that's how I really, you know, from my childhood is where it really, really started.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Do you remember your first time behind the wheel? What was that and what did you feel the first time you ever found yourself behind the wheel?

SPEAKER_00 3:11

I learned how to drive on an old Datsun, manual transmission Datsun.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

On the manual?

SPEAKER_00 3:16

How old were you? So I was 15 and a half.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:19

And yeah, so learning manual and learning how to drive on a 1979 Datsun, that was my very first car to learn. And so, yeah, I still remember that moment. Did you

SPEAKER_01 3:30

crash it? No?

SPEAKER_00 3:31

No, I didn't crash it. But it was, yeah, it was a sense of freedom. you know, you get and you can, you know, go faster than, you know, you normally can.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

So, uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

So what was your experience? I cannot imagine leaving on the, you know, in the military environment. I mean, do, Women wear heels there on the military base? Tell me, walk me through that day when you lived.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

Well, when we were growing up, the families on the base were very close together. The kids always played together and the families interacted together. But yeah, that was during the 70s.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Which state was it?

SPEAKER_00 4:09

It was in Texas. In Texas.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

And how old were you when you moved to California?

SPEAKER_00 4:13

Well, I was nine when we first moved to California. But I was around four, five, and six on the base. So

SPEAKER_01 4:23

your company has been featured on Jay Leno and Mr. Beast and even mentioned on Joe Rogan, which was a massive visibility for what started as a boutique company. Take us back to the beginning. How did you start? What kind of investment did you have to start a car company?

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Well, you know, the automotive industry is second most expensive after aerospace. So it is a very expensive industry to, you know, to get into. And so, you know, we started, you know, sort of by developing a really beautiful design and the market really, you know, loved it. And I remember we got an order for one and it was really just a render at the time. We hadn't built it. So I'm like, gosh, now we got to build it. Was it The Beast? It was The Beast, yeah, it was The Beast. And so I just basically learned how cars are made and how to make cars and hired the right people. So did

The Entrepreneur’s Visionary Role Ferris compares entrepreneurship to conducting an orchestra.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

you have first like a proof of concept, right?

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Yes, yes, we did have a proof of concept. And also, I look at myself as kind of like a conductor in an orchestra. I don't play any musical instruments, but I know what sounds good. and you have each individual instrument play and you know what it sounds like. So that's kind of how entrepreneurial I think are, entrepreneurs are. We don't ever get into the minutia of everything, but we know what overall, what sounds good and we kind of get all the resources. And so I kind of look at myself as that and that's really what I did. You just have this kind of instinct for whatever area you're interested in as an entrepreneur. And yeah. And you're able to bring those things in.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Right. Well, you had a vision, right? Because you can find people have certain skills in very narrow niches on something very specific, but you had that grand vision. You probably knew what you wanted to do, but you might not didn't know how, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, when you have that drive, you figure out how, you know, you figure out how to do it. And, you know, if you make a mistake or you fail at something at any time, then you just figure out, you know, one more way you can't, it doesn't work. Right. So you

SPEAKER_01 6:36

just- Sometimes when you have too much information, you kind of get scared and you say, oh my God, this is too much to do. I will never be able to do it. But when you just have that obsessive idea, you don't even care how and you don't think about the funds or how you're going to accomplish it. You're just going to go for it,

SPEAKER_00 6:54

right? Yeah, that old term, where there's a will, there's a way. And it really is true. Where there's a will, there is definitely a way and you can find a way to do it. So anyway, that was kind of how I started and It was definitely a lot of failures, and you get back up, you learn. And that's kind of exciting, too, when you're learning something new as you're doing it. And you don't get bored. Some of my previous engagements or jobs that I had, I would get bored after a while. So

SPEAKER_01 7:25

what did you do before, Rizwan, if you might share?

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Yeah, so before I was actually in software.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Yeah, and I got bored. Very exciting job. Yeah, very exciting. So I got bored out of that, and this was way more exciting than that.

Designing Video Game Inspired Cars The dream of making powerful, emotional designs accessible.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

So one day you're just like, okay, I want to build a car. I'm just going to go against this billion-dollar company. So I have so much funding, huge teams, and I'm just going to build this company. Because what you've done, it's really incredible. I don't think you realize yourself how incredible of a work you've done, especially in such a short time.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Yeah, it was for me, you know, I wanted to design cool-looking cars that come out of a video game, your imagination, that inspire emotion. And I was always like, why are they so expensive? I wish they were more attainable. And so that was one of my goals to go into it, is to make it more attainable. And there's a reason why they cost that much. It's the price of that type of thing, because there is so much that goes into it. Yeah. But that was the reason I really started it and was driven to that

SPEAKER_01 8:30

thing. So speaking of the specifics, a lot of people ask, like, what is the chassis? What's the engine? Can you talk us, I mean, for the geeks, you know, I mean, I don't get any of that, but maybe for your geek followers, can you tell us a little bit what's on the inside of your cars?

SPEAKER_00 8:46

Yeah, absolutely. So we build on production platforms because it is so expensive nowadays to, you know, go to develop a ground up. Mm-hmm. You know, when I had a picture, you know, a poster on my wall, it was a cool looking car. It was the design that captured me. You know, it was the design that, that's why they, you know. Do you remember

SPEAKER_01 9:23

what was it? Which poster was it?

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Well, I had some Porsches and Lamborghini. Of course, Lamborghinis are always, you know, extravagant and so forth. And so. So the design was really what I wanted to focus on because that's, in my opinion, what made it different. Everything else you can do pretty easily. So we based it on a production chassis. So Tank is based on the Jeep Wrangler platform, Vengeance on the new Escalade platform. And then, of course, we upgrade the engines, the drivetrain. We supercharge, turbocharge, put new engines in them. you know, to create, you know, the sound and the fury and the design to the eyes and everything else. And we have several new models coming out, and those are also based on, you know, talking about the top of the line, best of breed, proven platforms, you know, that are... you know, that are engineered properly and proven.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Well, you definitely achieve your goal because this is the most striking car I've ever seen. And I one time accidentally saw it in Beverly Hills and I just looked at the people like, what is this car? It's just driving the something from out of the like sci-fi movie. You just look at this car and see it on the road. Like, I can't believe this is actually a real vehicle created, you know, like what, eight years ago, eight, 10 years ago. It's incredible.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Yeah. Yeah. And really the challenge is really to be, You know, a car should look like a car and it should look like it belongs on the road. So the challenge is really to push the design envelope as much as we can, but still make it look like it belongs. You know, there are some cars out there. There's one particular car out there that just doesn't look like it belongs on the road. It just looks very odd, you know, but that's the key. So that's a key is to make it... So it belongs on the road, but it's different and extreme and exclusive and unique.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

So again, like we discussed, you cars blend art, engineering, and defense tech. So can you tell us a little bit more about the team who's behind building these amazing beasts?

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Absolutely. A lot of the team are, you know, obviously they're enthusiasts of cars. They love cars. And they love being involved in something new and different. That's more exciting. You know, a lot of car designers, they're siloed and they live a very lonely existence because, you know, in big car companies, you know, one designer just does a headlight. Another one does the taillight. Another one does, you know, the side, you know, and they all do one piece. And then the overall design director kind of looks at it as a whole. So, yeah. their dream is to design their own car. So, you know, they love working with us because we can really bring their, you know, vision to life. It really makes them alive as creators and as artists to be able to do that. So that's been exciting to get them involved. And then on the engineering side, of course, there are plenty of best of breed, you know, performance tuning and suspension tuning, all kinds of stuff like that as well. And then, you know, hand built, you know, our cars are hand built.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Oh,

SPEAKER_00 12:24

wow. Which is a really old dying art, you know, and nobody builds, you know, cars by hand. What do you mean

SPEAKER_01 12:29

hand? You have like little dwarfs, little tools carving them up.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Yeah, they're kind of, you know, because it's so low volume, you know, in order to, Maintain the

SPEAKER_01 12:42

quality.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

Yeah, it may include quality, exclusivity, and so forth. So they're all hand-built, hand-assembled, the interiors, the exteriors, and so forth. Do

SPEAKER_01 12:52

you do like a secret signature on each of the models and like put little stamp like of approval somewhere? No?

SPEAKER_00 13:00

We have done that in the past. Yeah, that is a great idea. I mean, a few clients have asked for that. I think

SPEAKER_01 13:07

you should. Like a secret one, you know, like in some unexpected place. Nobody knows. Just have like a little nice stamp.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Like underneath the car somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

Yeah, yeah.

Women Behind the Wheel Female owners, daily drivers, and designing for women’s needs.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

All right, you got it.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

Right? Hey, you know, you're welcome. And your cars... It looks so massive and masculine. But they also look so sexy to me. Do you have any female owners or women who actually are the owners of Rizvani cars?

SPEAKER_00 13:32

Absolutely. We have several female owners, actually. We have a Vengeance owner where she drives her car, a heavily armored one, too. She drives it daily with her kids in it. That must be the

SPEAKER_01 13:45

coolest childhood. I mean, you're a kid in the back of the car from a sci-fi movie.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

To be picked up in school. To be picked

SPEAKER_01 13:52

up in school. Oh, my God.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

And then, yeah, we have another female owner in San Diego, and she's really cool, very artistic, and she loves design. So yeah, we have several female owners, actually.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

Wow, that's incredible. I aspire that I could be one of them in the near future. I would definitely own the Vengeance. And speaking of that car, I'm actually going to read it out, because when I saw the tour of Rizvani Vengeance on Instagram, it blew my mind. This is what it had. So we're talking about... Carbon fiber armor, bulletproof glass, explosive underbody protection, run-flat tires, night vision, a smoke screen system, pepper spray dispensers, I mean, and even electrified door handles. So it feels like it's from some kind of intense futuristic movie. How do you even begin designing something like that? Do you imagine a scenario and design first or you start with the tech first?

SPEAKER_00 14:52

So the inspiration came from Knight Rider. As a kid, I used to watch Knight Rider and, of course, James Bond. But Knight Rider was really cool with David Hasselhoff. And so a lot of that inspiration came from those features. So we would sit there and think about what other feature can we use, can we put in. And there's a few features that we did put in the beginning that we had to remove because they were just a little too much.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

I have some suggestions. I think they should be like a dispenser, like for nail polish, you know, or like a special compartment for your lipstick. Why

SPEAKER_00 15:26

don't cars have that, right?

SPEAKER_01 15:28

So let's say if I want that, can you customize anything for your clients? How crazy somebody can go? We can.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Absolutely, we can. That's a great idea. Let's put that together to see what

SPEAKER_01 15:39

options we can put in. I'm definitely going to start making some wish lists on that. Okay, my mind already is

SPEAKER_00 15:43

like... The car industry is too male-oriented, right? Male-oriented, right, right. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

Sometimes I thought they're not even designed to wear heels when you drive. Like my foot sometimes doesn't even reach the pedal.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Okay. There you go. I think we found a new opportunity.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

There you go. Absolutely. And so you got so much attention, especially from the celebrity world. I mean, you got some major names like Chris Brown and Jamie Foxx and The Weeknd driving Razvani cars. How did the celebrity fan base come around? And do they use these vehicles like... as everyday rides or it's more for collector items for them?

SPEAKER_00 16:22

You know, a lot of, a lot of them are artists themselves. They're creators. They like unique things and they also appreciate unique things. And so, uh, yeah, that's how they found us. And, you know, we have customers like Cristiano Ronaldo, um, you know, Damon John from the shark tank, um, you know, a lot of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, as well as creators. Um, so they, they, They have an eye for it. They have an eye for unique things. And, you know, when they see it, they fall in love with it. It's something different.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Was it something about, I saw a picture of, I forgot the name of the celebrity, had the truck designed or covered in gold? Like a golden

SPEAKER_00 17:03

tree? Yeah, we've had clients.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Yeah? I was just like, wow, this is incredible. How can you? I mean, that's definitely an attention-seeking person. I mean, let me just drive this very unique, exotic car and also cover it in gold. How much more can you imagine, yeah?

SPEAKER_00 17:18

Yeah. Yeah. There are those. Yeah. We've had a few clients like that as well.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

So you don't say no to anybody, to any wild desire. You can make it real like a magician, huh?

SPEAKER_00 17:28

We try to steer them away from sometimes from some really bad choices and decisions, but, but generally speaking, you know, if it fits, you know, if it, If we're okay with our name on the back of that car. That's what I wanted to ask.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Would you still care, right? Because it's still your name on it. So if the customer wants something outrageous, would you say no?

SPEAKER_00 17:47

Yeah. I like

SPEAKER_01 17:49

that. Keeping your boundaries, keeping it to the brand.

Customization, Pricing & Building Client Visions How far can clients go with personalization?

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Tasteless riches sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Exactly. So since we talked about the Rizvani's car that built to order, which make them ultra rare, right? Yeah. And they're completely customizable. How much does one of these tactical luxury beasts actually cost? And what kind of customization options do you offer? Or what customization options come as a base and what features you could potentially add?

SPEAKER_00 18:19

Yeah, so we have... So there's really two basic models. There's the non-armored version and there's the armored version. The armored version is the one that gets all the bells and whistles. So pepper spray dispenser, electrified door handles, magnetic deadbolts, smoke screen, EMP protection, strobe light sirens. There's a lot. We even used to have tacks, drop tacks. The what? The giant nails. It would dispense it from behind the car.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

Oh my

SPEAKER_00 18:52

God. No way. But, but we only offered it for a couple of clients and we, and then we didn't care. It was just too,

SPEAKER_01 18:58

too

SPEAKER_00 18:58

intense. And then the interior is where the clients love their freedom. You know, that's where they really start getting attached to the car and, you know, they come in, they select their patterns and their, their, their stitching colors and their leather colors. And we have, we, We've done purple, you know, violet interiors. We've done all white, everything in headliner and everything is white, carpet white, everything we've done. You know, so they really love to do that. And I think that's something we offer because they can't get that through to the bigger OEMs, something very unique, exclusive and personal to them. So that's where it really was. And then there's other features that, you know, things like, You know, certain compartments that they need, like a rifle compartment or safes, you know, a bulletproof sunroof. You can have

SPEAKER_01 19:49

a safe

SPEAKER_00 19:50

inside

SPEAKER_01 19:51

of the car? Where would you put it?

SPEAKER_00 19:52

You can put your jewelry in it or you can put a gun. No, no, where

SPEAKER_01 19:55

would you put the safe?

SPEAKER_00 19:55

Oh, the safe? Yeah. It's in the center console.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

In the center.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

In the center console, you can kind of lift up and, you know, put whatever you want in there. Also, for a larger one, there's one in the back in the trunk area. So they could put various different things inside. And really, we've had all kinds of requests and customizations that we do.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

Yeah, I've seen some of the videos because people ask me, are these cars really bulletproof? And I've seen one of the videos, the test videos you've done. It's like not even a scratch. I'm like, wow.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

Yeah, absolutely. Mr. Beast actually.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Mr. Beast, right? That was

SPEAKER_00 20:29

his video, right? Yeah, he blew up a bomb underneath it. And when he called us, you know, we're like, okay, we've never really tested that in that way before. So was it real? Yeah, absolutely. It was 100% real. So it

SPEAKER_01 20:40

wasn't like special

SPEAKER_00 20:40

effects or anything like that? And that video, I think, has like 450 million views online. Oh, my goodness. So, yeah, he blew up one car. It blew up. Yeah, sure. Let's just blow up the

SPEAKER_01 20:52

car.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

I'll be honest with you. I was a little nervous. Yeah, I bet. Back there standing, you know, there were fire trucks everywhere kind of waiting for this to happen. And, you know, I was very nervous. I'm like, you know, this is… Wait, were

SPEAKER_01 21:03

you there? Yeah, I was there. You were there? Yeah. How far were you from the car?

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Oh, man. We were probably, I don't know, maybe… I don't know, about 700, 800 feet away.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Where was it? I mean, what can you even do this kind of experiment?

SPEAKER_00 21:16

It was in the desert in the L.A. area. Okay, okay, so it was here. Yeah, and I mean, it's a huge production. I mean, you know, Mr. Beast just has a humongous production. It was like a movie set, you know, the amount of people there and resources there. So I was, it blew my mind because, you know, when I see, you know, YouTube videos and things like that, it just seems like, you know, just somebody with an iPhone, just one or two people shooting. But, you know, there were like probably about three, 400 people, 500 people with, you know, luxury bathrooms and trailers. So it was really cool. And yeah. Yeah. So that was,

SPEAKER_01 21:53

I can imagine like you were nervous, but probably you felt so proud imagining like you've built something so amazing that it's not just a regular car. It's something that really, you know, amazes people. It's like, I would say it's a work of art mixed with, you know, next level technology.

If Elon Musk Called for a Mars Car Imagining armored Mars vehicles — with aliens in the passenger seat.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah, it is. We want to try to push all the envelope.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

So imagine a scenario. If Elon Musk one day called you and asked you to design the first armored vehicle for Mars mission, What would it look like? And what absolutely ridiculous feature would you sneak in just for fun?

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Oh, gosh. Definitely big wheels and tires, you know, off-road looking. And let's see, a fun feature in it. Oh, man.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

Something high for the aliens.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

Yeah, exactly. Maybe an alien, actually. Yeah. sitting next to you. Right. That would be

SPEAKER_01 22:51

fun. That would be nice. I'll definitely go into that mission.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Because I would totally feel safe.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

If you get in that vehicle, I mean, man, you can just go into the end of the world, right? So you're building cars that could survive the apocalypse, right? So let's say society collapses tomorrow. What three things would be in your Resvan Avengers when you drive off into the wasteland? Like the first three things it would take with you.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

I would definitely take some water, of course, some solar panels to be able to power whatever you want to power, and then take some funny videos that you can watch to get your mind off things, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

I like that. Yeah. So if you like go down, go down laughing.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Yeah, go down laughing. That's the

SPEAKER_01 23:46

way. I love that.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Okay. And something personal, give us a little bit of the background of Ferris behind your legacy, behind your work. So when you're not building Armored Beast, what is your ideal off-grid day look like?

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Let's see. So You know, I'm obviously a workaholic. I'm always working. And when I, you know, turn off beast mode is what I call it. I love getting in a convertible and just going for a nice drive, you know, hearing the exhaust sound, the wind, the smells in the air that you can smell in a convertible. You know, you're in tune with the machine and the road and everything around you. So that really puts me at peace and really, it's really... Nice. I'm also a big foodie. I love trying new foods and things like that. A

SPEAKER_01 24:37

question about the perspective of some, you mentioned some challenges you went through, right? So did it ever cross your mind that you want to give up Rizvani and do something else? Was it a time in your life when you felt it's so tough, it's unrealistic, some challenges that you couldn't go through? And if you did, what helped you to kind of go through that moment?

SPEAKER_00 25:01

Yes, absolutely. There were definitely times that things get very tough and rough and you're like, I could have gone into something a lot simpler and cheaper and there's probably better ideas. Why did I choose the most difficult industry to deal with as a product for consumers? It's one of the most difficult. Why can't I just sell something off Amazon?

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

But what got me back in is just, you know, how far we've come and how difficult it's been and the future. And also I think about all the, some of the people that, you know, some of the people we've inspired, the fans, you know, and so forth that feel that, you know, they can do some, you know, they can do this. So those inspirations kind of make me feel, you know, inspired. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

that idea you really need to dream that concept 24 7 like you're saying you're workaholic right you really devoted your life to this project to to this dream of yours and you made it happen what do you think is the advice or maybe what actually you think motivated you to be so resilient in such a difficult industry and just keep going keep pushing i

SPEAKER_00 26:39

think

SPEAKER_01 26:40

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SPEAKER_00 26:40

loving what I do. Definitely. I think, you know, a lot of young, younger people always, you know, ask me what, you know, how do you, you know, how do you start, what am I going into and things like that. And I always, you know, I really think that if you love, love anything, if you love a subject or love what you do and you have some talent for it, the money will follow. You'll be, will be successful. You know, if you're the best plumber, you're going to grow an empire. If you're the, you know, whatever it is that you are the best of art, fashion, you know, uh, I mean, you're like yourself, you know, um, you know, I mean, I always admire how, you know, when everyone's getting out of print, you know, you're going into print and then you make, you know, the best quality magazine, the coolest, best fashion, you know, you do it right. You do it, um, You do it right, you love it, you live it. And

SPEAKER_01 27:32

it's so challenging. And I feel like my industry is similar to yours. It's very difficult because it involves so many different processors and layers from creative part to production to marketing to really finding, fine-tuning and following the trends to creating the trends. And same in your business. I don't know much about the car industry, but I haven't seen any celebrities who are like, oh, I'm just going to start my own name car brand, right? They start with tequila, right? Or like with nail polish or a beauty product. But I haven't seen any celebrity who could do what you do. Even they might have access to unlimited funds. So that means what you do, even if you do have the funds, you really have to have the tenacity and passion and dedication to your job, to your craft, to really make it happen, what you do. And I know you're so humble. You're such a humble person. You probably don't even realize the amazing, amazing things you've done with your brand That's really, really incredible. And speaking of something off the beat, can you define to me what masculinity means to you and if it has changed through the times for you?

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SPEAKER_00 28:42

Yeah, I think for me, you know, obviously... masculinity was watching the incredible Hulk, you know, as a kid, that was when I was a child, that was, you know, muscle. Yeah. And then, you know, growing up through as a teenager, you know, bodybuilding and doing that, I was kind of masculine, not showing emotion, things like that. And of course, as I've gotten older, um, you know, masculinity is become, I guess for me is, um, directing that, that, that aggressive energy not to being, um, dominant or not to acting a certain way or this way, or, you know, building yourself up, but really directing that to something that you can build, whether it's building a business or whether it's, you know, creating something or being the best at your job or, you know, really directing that energy to that. I see a lot of like YouTube trying to define masculinity, you know, and they're all about, yeah, you gotta, you know, you gotta treat women bad and you gotta, you know, you know, treat other people bad and you got to be dominant to other people. And that is not masculinity. Masculinity is directing the masculine energy into something that is civilized in today's world, but also that creating something, right? Creating a business or making something. And that to me is true masculinity.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

So if you had to design any iconic movie car, like a Batmobile or DeLorean or Mad Max Interceptor, which one would you give the Rizvani treatment to and why?

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Well, two of my favorite cars are the Batmobiles and, of course, Knight Rider because of the look of the company. But the Batmobiles, they're so much cooler. So we actually have a new model that we just released. It's called the Dark Knight. Oh, wow. And it is essentially based on that theme and that comes from that world. Then it has all the gadgets and... And the armory.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

Yeah, what kind of gadgets do they have?

SPEAKER_00 30:36

It has all the same kind of gadgets that we offer. You know, okay, a pookie under other cars.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

And design looks a little bit different. Is it Batman ears?

SPEAKER_00 30:45

Not quite that way. It's a little more, you know, elegant in their way. But it is called the Dark Knight and is inspired sort of with that theme in mind.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

So it's called Rizvani Dark Knight. Okay, I gotta look out for that one. And... So your cars already feel like something James Bond or Tony Stark would drive. Which superhero or action character do you think would actually buy one in real life?

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Oh, geez. I would say it's definitely Iron Man because, you know, Iron Man is just a normal guy, but he wears this armor suit and becomes somebody else, right? And so I think, you know, I think when we drive a car, we are somehow wearing an Iron Man suit. You know, we're wearing something that is, you know, Expression of ourselves. Expression of ourselves, but also gives us superhuman powers, right? You can go fast. We can get places. We can turn quiet. It gives us a certain emotion. So I think, you know, I always feel like it's an Iron Man suit because of the powers that it gives you.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

And speaking about the future, would you ever... or did it ever cross your mind to collaborate with any of the fashion designer, rapper, or gaming company to build a limited edition Brismani? And, or, at or, who is your dream, Kalha?

SPEAKER_00 32:04

So, yeah, I mean, all of those, you know, you know, video games, I'm a bit, you know, I love Star Wars and those types of things. I'd love to do a collab with Battlefront or those video games like that. We are on several, our cars are on several of these, um, you know, asphalt and, and Forza and some of the other car games, but I really, you know, love to do that. So I've done these white cars that are kind of, uh, similar to like storm trooper or something like that. Um, and, uh, fashion brands. Yeah. I have a lot of respect for fashion brands and, and, uh, how they're constantly reinventing new things, you know, um, uh, and, uh, You know, on the jewelry side, I really admire Roberto Coyne. He's one of my favorite jewelry designers. And on some of the mainstream fashion brands, probably Bulgaria, I like their designs.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

If you go back and give your 20-year-old one piece of advice, not about business, but about life, what would it be? Oh,

SPEAKER_00 33:10

geez.

SPEAKER_01 33:11

Yeah. Hey, little fairies, just want you to know,

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SPEAKER_00 33:16

I would say to look deep in yourself and follow what you really want, not what other people say or influence you to do or think you should do. Do what your gut feeling tells you, your intuition. Your intuition is always right. It's so right. I think a lot of times your intuition in mind just kind of confuses you by thinking too much. So I think just listening to your intuition, following your intuition, And, yeah, from the start. Because I probably would have started the car company way, way earlier if I would have listened to my future self. But then that kind of dawned into software and some of the other things that, you know, at the time was there.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

Well, I wish you the best. I want you to know how really, really proud of what you achieved. And I'm really happy you came to The Basic Show and share your story. And I cannot wait what the world holds for responding like years from now. Thank you. All the best of luck. Thank you. Thank you.