RJ De Vera from SEMA talks about this year’s SEMA Show and his role in the first Fast and Furious movie.

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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RJ De Vera, Vice President of Marketing at SEMA, joins us to talk about this year’s SEMA show and SEMA Fest. Then he tells us how his involvement helping to curate cars for the original Fast and Furious movie landed him a role in the film. Presented by DrinkBravago.com

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. I'm not the other than everybody in Andrea.
0:08.0	We're going to do a little bit different episode this week. I'm going to welcome a guest, R.J. DeVara. He's the vice president of marketing at Seema. And he's got quite a bit of background in the in the Fast and Furious movies. It's a pretty interesting
0:21.7	story that I think you guys will enjoy. This was an interview that I actually already recorded
0:26.9	from a little while ago, but I wanted to bring that to you this week. But before we get started,
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1:45.8	All right, here we are, all right, we're back with RJ DeVera.
1:46.7	How are you?
1:48.2	Yeah, doing great.
1:52.5	So as we're recording this, we're both getting ready for Monterey Car Week, so it's a good time. Yeah, getting ready for Monterey Car Week.
1:54.3	Although I think by time people listen to this, Car Week might be over.
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