Full Transcript for Breaking Barriers & Cracking Jokes with Rob Rodriguez

incredible. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.360 I'm I'm on tour two to three weekends a month. 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:34.240 Wow. 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:36.160 That's gotta be a grind. 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:36.879 It is. 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:38.480 The getaway time is good. 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:39.279 It's hard. 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:43.680 It's hard when it's hard when everything I appreciate the intro. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:44.879 Sounds real impressing. 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:46.319 Well, sounds tiring. 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:48.399 People are like, ah, that's bullshit. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:49.439 He doesn't do all of that. 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.199 But yeah, I do that plus more. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:52.639 It's one of those unique lives. 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:57.279 So between owning the businesses here, the businesses here actually they've rebranded. 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:03.120 So it's uh Solutions A Z, which is a furniture installation business for corporate. 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:03.600 Okay. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:08.800 And then there's Total Lazy Wholesale, which is where we sell furniture. 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:09.360 Okay. 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:15.839 So, and then I've done I've been in the corporate furniture world for 27 years. 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:16.319 Okay. 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:18.879 I was doing that before I came to Arizona. 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:19.519 Gotcha. 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:22.720 And then I didn't start comedy until I came to Arizona. 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.199 People like to think because I got that East Coast flair. 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:27.920 I didn't start comedy until I came to Arizona. 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:33.360 So that was probably 2005, maybe 2006. 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:34.079 Okay. 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.759 And I would travel actually more back and forth. 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:42.879 Because at that time, Arizona number one still isn't a hotbed of comedy. 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:43.360 It's hot. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:43.600 Right. 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:44.879 But it ain't not for comedy. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:47.839 We have a ton of clubs now. 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:51.279 You probably saw me like years ago in my up and coming. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.720 And then I would fly back and do like open mics. 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:56.959 Like people would want me to do LA. 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:03.199 And I went to LA and got intimidated because West Coast culture is different, Southwest. 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.519 So you mentioned a couple of times on Puerto Rican. 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.319 Puerto Rican, that's a Mexican from the East Coast. 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:10.879 Good Social Security number, bad credit. 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:12.399 So they get your jokes out there. 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:13.680 They get my jokes out there. 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:18.240 Because what I would do is I found an amazing Arizona culture who was white and Mexican. 00:06:18.480 -->

00:06:19.519 And then at that time. 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:21.600 And you're Rodriguez, so everybody just figured you. 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.000 Rodriguez, they think I'm Mexican until I start talking. 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.480 And they're like, you don't have a Mexican accent. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:27.439 You talk crap. 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:28.319 You talk shit. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:33.040 Like so, but it to me was fascinating because I come from New York. 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:37.839 New York is a plethora of ethnicities and immigration truth. 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.920 So you have three, four, five different types of Latinos, Hispanics. 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.959 You have Caribbean, you have African American, then white, you're not just white in New York. 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:54.079 You're white by what you really are Irish, Jewish, German, and that's how it's divided in New York. 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.279 And old school New York, you were divided in neighborhoods like that. 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.959 Little Italy, Chinatown, and Spanish Harlem. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:02.639 So like I grew up with that. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.000 I come to Arizona, it's freaking cowboys and tacos. 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.240 Like a lot of white guys, a lot of Mexicans. 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:08.639 Yeah, yeah. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.319 Love the Mexicans to cut your grass and make you tacos, but you don't want to live next to them. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:13.680 Like, get them out. 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:20.079 So I came in and it was it was in the beginning, it was like the SP 270 or whatever it was. 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:21.360 SP 1070. 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:22.000 1070. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:22.399 Yeah, yeah. 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:23.439 And that was crazy. 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.480 I'm like, when Arizona was really derived from Mexico. 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:28.879 And then that's when I was like, there's no way. 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:34.800 Because then the more I found out about the culture, I'm like, not even the Mexicans, the Mexicans here are different. 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:35.199 Yeah. 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:42.560 Like they, Mexicans that are here legally would never want to relate to Mexicans that are coming over that they call nationals. 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:49.759 And then I looked and see, I start my business was we built corporate furniture and businesses and government installations. 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:50.000 Yeah. 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:57.199 So when during the Obama administration, he put in a whole bunch of money to build the new port of entry in Nogales. 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:05.920 So I went down to No Gallas and we were building all the homeland security, border security, all their new offices and that. 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.160 Then I looked, everybody was Mexican. 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:18.959 So I'm like, so you mean to tell me you have legal Mexicans whose job here is to protect and keep illegal Mexicans coming in from Mexico. 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:20.639 That don't happen nowhere else. 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:20.959 No. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.399 You couldn't have Puerto Ricans at the border trying to keep Puerto Rican. 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:25.439 We're letting everybody in. 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.240 Johnny's little Johnny, I know you since you were a kid, coming. 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.399 Like we live, we're not stopping everybody. 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.360 Down there, they were like, heck no, we're not letting anybody in. 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.120 So it was like that culture thing. 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:38.720 And then it was just white and Mexican. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:42.799 Because then always had good jobs, nice houses here. 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:44.720 I lived in these new communities. 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:49.360 And the white neighbors would look at me and say, like, especially who lived in Gilbert, right? 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.679 So they look at me like, like, what are you doing here? 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:52.960 And then I knew the difference. 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:54.960 Because when I knew the difference, Halloween. 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:56.960 You do you live in Gilbert and Halloween? 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:58.159 You know who's not from the neighborhood. 00:08:58.480 --> 00:08:58.720 They are. 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:06.320 All the white kids come at 5 o'clock, 5:30, and they're coming with these fancy Halloween buckets and their parents and that. 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.120 8 o'clock, everybody's gone, and who comes? 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:13.360 The Mexicans with food city bags to do trick-or-treat and pillowcases. 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:14.159 Pillow cases. 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.799 Yeah, and the Mexican family with blowrider. 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:18.080 Like it was like real stuff. 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.240 Something like, wow, that's a culture thing here. 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.759 But comparing it to the East Coast, that's where you learn. 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:25.200 But it was like a respect thing. 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:30.000 Because at that time I was a I considered myself a Democrat like most minorities. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:31.519 That's because that's how I grew up. 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:32.960 My parents weren't political. 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:36.960 My dad was a detective in New York, and my mother worked for the DEA. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:40.080 But I didn't, I was a little bit of a rogue child. 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:42.240 But there was no, we always grew well. 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:44.080 I lived in the suburbs in New York. 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:49.840 I had relatives that live in like the broad the projects or the equivalent of, let's say, the ghetto and things like that. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:51.679 So we were always at a little bit. 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:55.679 So I came out here, I'd have white neighbors looking at

you, like, hey, how do you afford this house? 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:57.039 How do you drive a nice car? 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:57.759 Things like that. 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:00.159 But I was a child of white flight. 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:08.799 Because when we moved to the suburbs in the 70s, I actually saw we saw white families move because they were not used to growing up with minorities. 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:10.960 That's how interesting I bring that story up. 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:15.840 Now I don't bring it because how crazy things are going now, but it's you learn the culture of both places. 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:19.120 People used to think I'd get insulted out here in Arizona. 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:20.159 I'm like, not at all. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:21.200 It's a culture thing. 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:27.360 And here's the thing, I realized that people that grew up in Arizona, especially white folks, they didn't know any different. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:28.559 They didn't grow around blacks. 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:28.799 Yeah. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:31.840 You didn't have contingencies of blacks families. 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:37.120 Like here, they live in certain areas, you know, they live in South Phoenix, the West Side, things like that. 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.320 They weren't in Gilbert, they weren't in Chandler, and not at that time. 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:40.639 Yeah. 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.360 But it was so it's interesting when you grow up that way. 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.320 And all of that, I say all of that to say that's actually what brought me into comedy. 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:48.799 Okay. 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:54.480 The culture change, because people always say I didn't start comedy until I was 36 years old. 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:59.600 And the culture change of comedy was um me seeing the difference. 00:10:59.919 --> 00:11:04.559 Things that went on out here, Southwest, West Coast, compared to East Coast. 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:04.879 Gotcha. 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:06.639 And I thought I found it humorous. 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:12.399 So I would go to and start tr trying to perform in Arizona, which is good. 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:15.759 You start out as a new comic pro promote performing for your friends. 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:16.080 Yeah. 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:20.000 So you're funny in front of your friends, but you're funny in front of a crowd. 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:22.399 So now a crowd that doesn't know you. 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:24.559 So I learned that also. 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:29.840 Even my wife was like, when I didn't I hid from her the first time I was doing an open mic. 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:30.320 Yeah. 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:35.039 And then when she when I told her, I was like, she was like, well, you're funny around people. 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.240 I'm like, she's like, well, you think you can be funny in front of a crowd? 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:39.919 I said, well, I married you, didn't I? 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:41.519 Like that was my friend. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.279 She got really upset about it. 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.080 But it's actually was one of the first hating jokes I've ever said. 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.600 So a lot of my a lot of my humor has to do with like just real life topics. 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:49.919 Yeah, yeah. 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:58.639 Being middle-aged man, family man, being a minority, being a business owner, growing up East Coast, growing up, I was a bad kid too. 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:00.480 Even though I was an honor student, went to St. 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:01.600 John's University. 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:03.279 I just did a couple bad things. 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.919 I ended up going to jail for a little while, things like that. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.159 Like I grew up, I was hard on myself. 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:08.559 Gotcha. 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:10.879 Not because I grew up in a bad position. 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.279 So let's talk about let's talk about that a little bit. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:14.399 Let's talk about your childhood. 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:15.519 You grew up in New York. 00:13:07.450 --> 00:13:09.610 I'm one of seven. 00:13:09.929 --> 00:13:10.649 One of seven. 00:13:11.049 --> 00:13:14.889 But it's a blended family, not three of my siblings. 00:13:15.529 --> 00:13:19.049 Three of my siblings are were my cousins. 00:13:19.289 --> 00:13:19.450 Okay. 00:13:19.850 --> 00:13:24.330 Whose mother died and she was a single mom and my dad adopted them when I was young. 00:13:24.490 --> 00:13:27.049 I was only I think I was eleven at the time. 00:13:27.129 --> 00:13:28.649 I'm the oldest of all my siblings. 00:13:28.810 --> 00:13:29.049 Okay. 00:13:29.210 --> 00:13:30.169 And we adopted them. 00:13:30.330 --> 00:13:32.330 I had two brothers from my parents. 00:13:32.490 --> 00:13:34.090 So we grew up as a family of six. 00:13:34.330 --> 00:13:34.649 Okay. 00:13:34.889 --> 00:13:41.289 And then when my father got my my father and mother were separated really like late in life. 00:13:41.529 --> 00:13:44.009 My dad had a relationship and had her seventh child. 00:13:44.169 --> 00:13:44.250 Oh. 00:13:44.970 --> 00:13:45.690 Seven of us. 00:13:46.090 --> 00:13:51.450 So everyone lives in Arizona except for my younger sister. 00:13:51.690 --> 00:13:51.929 Okay. 00:13:52.090 --> 00:13:53.690 Otherwise, everybody else is here. 00:13:54.009 --> 00:13:54.970 Did they follow you? 00:13:55.129 --> 00:13:55.929 Did they follow your parents? 00:13:56.730 --> 00:13:58.570 My parents my dad retired. 00:13:58.730 --> 00:14:03.450 He retired and went to him and my mom went to the resort city of Tucson, Arizona. 00:14:03.690 --> 00:14:04.889 Ah, lovely place. 00:14:05.529 --> 00:14:07.210 That's why I didn't come out at first. 00:14:07.450 --> 00:14:11.450 They would move out and visit, and and I was the last one to migrate. 00:14:11.610 -->

00:14:17.289 They were already here almost seven years before I decided I came to visit him. 00:14:17.450 --> 00:14:22.090 And tragic story, came out to visit him for my dad's fifty-third birthday. 00:14:22.409 --> 00:14:25.289 Brought my children with me at the time. 00:14:25.929 --> 00:14:28.250 And I saw my dad wasn't doing well. 00:14:28.409 --> 00:14:32.169 Him and my mom were in that split, but they were they were still together. 00:14:32.570 --> 00:14:35.129 And I decided at that time I'm gonna buy a house. 00:14:35.210 --> 00:14:44.970 So my brother, who was big in real estate at the time, or just getting big, and he he was working for Doug at the time, Doug Hopkins, so he knew but I didn't like Tucson. 00:14:45.529 --> 00:14:52.810 So my wife and I came up here and visited, went to some communities, and at that time Power Ranch was just being built. 00:14:53.049 --> 00:14:53.210 Okay. 00:14:53.289 --> 00:14:53.450 Yep. 00:14:53.690 --> 00:14:57.210 It only had one of the four or five communities that are in there now. 00:14:57.450 --> 00:14:58.649 And we fell in love with it. 00:14:58.730 --> 00:15:00.570 So we bought a house on the green belt. 00:15:00.649 --> 00:15:06.169 That was the tragic thing was put signed the contract, put the money down. 00:15:06.570 --> 00:15:10.330 My dad died like a month and a half, so I never got a chance to be out here with him. 00:15:10.570 --> 00:15:10.970 No kidding. 00:15:11.129 --> 00:15:13.690 Yeah, I was trying to get out there, so it was tough. 00:15:13.850 --> 00:15:17.370 And then my mom died like nine years later of lung cancer. 00:15:17.450 --> 00:15:18.970 So my dad died of hypertension. 00:15:19.129 --> 00:15:19.370 Okay. 00:15:19.769 --> 00:15:22.250 And so my siblings, now I'm the oldest siblings. 00:15:23.049 --> 00:15:26.810 Recently, last ten years, I've been the sibling that they all look up to. 00:15:26.970 --> 00:15:30.649 My dad's he's died, he's been dead 21 years almost. 00:15:30.730 --> 00:15:32.649 But uh so as a child, I was the oldest. 00:15:32.810 --> 00:15:35.610 And my kids with my my siblings are great, we're very close. 00:15:35.850 --> 00:15:36.730 But it was hard. 00:15:36.810 --> 00:15:41.049 You know, you get to that point where people I get very envious of people that still have their parents alive. 00:15:41.769 --> 00:15:46.409 Both mine died in their fifties, and now I'm in my fifties, and I don't get a chance to enjoy them. 00:15:46.649 --> 00:15:47.289 Right, right. 00:15:47.769 --> 00:15:51.610 So growing up in New York, were you involved in sports? 00:15:52.409 --> 00:15:52.570 I did. 00:15:52.649 --> 00:15:53.370 I played lacrosse. 00:15:53.850 --> 00:15:54.330 Basketball player. 00:15:54.490 --> 00:15:54.970 Yeah, yeah, Sam. 00:15:55.210 --> 00:15:57.370 I talk my mouth is better than anything else. 00:15:57.769 --> 00:15:58.649 Of course, you can remember. 00:15:58.889 --> 00:15:59.049 Yes. 00:15:59.129 --> 00:15:59.450 Oh, yeah. 00:15:59.690 --> 00:16:02.250 Yeah, I would get banned from the court sometimes. 00:16:02.490 --> 00:16:05.929 Uh funny story here, I started trying to play adult basketball. 00:16:06.009 --> 00:16:07.529 I lasted one Sunday. 00:16:07.610 --> 00:16:07.929 Uh-huh. 00:16:08.169 --> 00:16:10.409 Because I went on the court and I was talking so much. 00:16:11.049 --> 00:16:11.769 They kicked you on. 00:16:12.330 --> 00:16:16.169 No, some guy started, thought he could talk, and that's one thing you can't do with me. 00:16:16.250 --> 00:16:17.289 You're not gonna out talk. 00:16:17.450 --> 00:16:18.730 You're not gonna outcrack. 00:16:18.970 --> 00:16:19.370 Right. 00:16:19.610 --> 00:16:21.370 Like here, you know who learned the hard way? 00:16:21.529 --> 00:16:22.490 Boogie Cousins. 00:16:22.730 --> 00:16:24.649 I had floor seats for the Suns. 00:16:24.970 --> 00:16:26.889 And me and him got into such a big fight. 00:16:26.970 --> 00:16:33.529 I ended up the NBA ended up finding him and giving me money because he and I had words right on the floor. 00:16:33.610 --> 00:16:33.850 Yeah. 00:16:34.169 --> 00:16:34.810 No kidding. 00:16:34.970 --> 00:16:35.769 That is too funny. 00:16:36.009 --> 00:16:38.009 And as part of it is Doug Hopkins' fault. 00:16:38.250 --> 00:16:38.490 Okay. 00:16:39.049 --> 00:16:46.889 Doug, because they egged him on because they knew we had two in two incidences of me and him going back and forth. 00:16:47.049 --> 00:16:47.929 I wasn't talking to him. 00:16:48.009 --> 00:16:50.970 I'll never disrespect a professional athlete while they're playing. 00:16:51.129 --> 00:16:51.450 Yeah. 00:16:51.690 --> 00:16:52.730 But he's the type of guy. 00:16:52.889 --> 00:16:55.690 Matter of fact, he just got kicked off of his team in Puerto Rico. 00:16:56.009 --> 00:16:58.810 He doesn't even play professional anymore because he's such a bad teammate. 00:16:59.450 --> 00:17:00.649 Nobody would have him. 00:17:00.810 --> 00:17:03.370 So I just read a story literally two hours ago. 00:17:03.529 --> 00:17:04.089 That's too funny. 00:17:04.169 --> 00:17:05.690 And I'm like, he's such a piece of crap. 00:17:05.769 --> 00:17:06.089 Yeah. 00:17:06.329 --> 00:17:07.609 Because he was disrespectful. 00:17:07.769 --> 00:17:08.970 But yes, I play sports. 00:17:09.049 --> 00:17:09.929 I played football. 00:17:10.169 --> 00:17:11.849 I had a scholarship to Penn State. 00:17:11.929 --> 00:17:12.089 Okay. 00:17:12.329 --> 00:17:13.450 Ended up going to St. 00:17:13.529 --> 00:17:18.490 John's, but only played a year, first year of college, because I young and dumb and in love. 00:17:18.730 --> 00:17:18.889 Yeah. 00:17:19.129 --> 00:17:20.569 I I fell in love. 00:17:20.730 --> 00:17:22.329 I wanted to go into the military. 00:17:22.409 --> 00:17:23.849 I tried to go into the military. 00:17:23.929 --> 00:17:24.889 I was accepted. 00:17:25.049 --> 00:17:28.889 The day I was going in, they denied me because of my thumb. 00:17:29.210 --> 00:17:31.049 And they put me on medical

review. 00:17:31.210 --> 00:17:34.730 That's when I actually met my my first wife. 00:17:35.049 --> 00:17:37.929 And then they cleared me, but I was in love. 00:17:38.009 --> 00:17:40.009 So I said, no, I'm not going into the Air Force. 00:17:40.250 --> 00:17:41.609 I'm gonna start a family. 00:17:41.690 --> 00:17:41.929 Yeah. 00:17:42.089 --> 00:17:46.250 So that's where I like that's where things just I was that type of hardhead. 00:17:46.329 --> 00:17:47.210 I was an honor student. 00:17:47.369 --> 00:17:50.250 I had multiple scholars scholarships for lacrosse. 00:17:50.490 --> 00:17:51.929 I wrestled in high school. 00:17:52.169 --> 00:17:56.329 I was always a I was always a like like you say, like you're a hustler. 00:17:56.409 --> 00:17:58.329 That's just I was never great at anything. 00:17:58.409 --> 00:17:59.769 I was just good at a lot of things. 00:17:59.849 --> 00:18:00.009 Yeah. 00:18:00.329 --> 00:18:00.649 Yeah. 00:18:00.969 --> 00:18:03.129 You could pick up a ball and do it. 00:18:03.689 --> 00:18:04.089 You know what? 00:18:04.729 --> 00:18:07.929 I didn't have the strongest arm, but I can quarterback because I knew strategy. 00:18:08.169 --> 00:18:09.849 Lacrosse, I was definitely just a hustler. 00:18:10.009 --> 00:18:12.009 Lacrosse is like a soccer on steroids. 00:18:12.250 --> 00:18:14.489 I would run, you can hit, I can run this field. 00:18:14.569 --> 00:18:16.250 I was use I was always fast. 00:18:16.489 --> 00:18:20.649 So I can always and then I can my psyche is probably better than anything. 00:18:20.889 --> 00:18:24.250 I can psychologically take most people out of their game. 00:18:24.409 --> 00:18:24.649 Yeah. 00:18:24.809 --> 00:18:25.369 No matter what. 00:18:25.609 --> 00:18:26.409 Because they're not used to the. 00:18:26.569 --> 00:18:29.289 I'll say I've witnessed you talk some trash. 00:18:29.609 --> 00:18:30.409 Not just trash. 00:18:30.489 --> 00:18:31.449 That's the white word. 00:18:31.849 --> 00:18:33.449 Talk some sh some shit. 00:18:33.929 --> 00:18:38.969 I'll tell you, the I remember specifically one time I thought there was gonna be fist thrown. 00:18:39.209 --> 00:18:40.009 Oh yeah, for sure. 00:18:40.329 --> 00:18:41.049 The first time. 00:18:41.449 --> 00:18:44.569 Like we gotta play. 00:18:44.729 --> 00:18:44.969 Yeah. 00:18:45.049 --> 00:18:46.729 So here's the thing, right? 00:18:46.969 --> 00:18:51.529 I played, so we would play basketball, right, every Saturday, right, at KK's house. 00:18:51.769 --> 00:18:53.689 I was still playing flag football at the time. 00:18:53.849 --> 00:18:55.449 It was actually contact flag. 00:18:55.769 --> 00:19:00.409 Because you can go straight up hands, you couldn't push off, but it was hard and it was adult league. 00:19:00.489 --> 00:19:00.729 Yeah. 00:19:00.969 --> 00:19:05.049 So I played with a couple friends of mine, they brought me in and I loved it. 00:19:05.129 --> 00:19:05.529 It was great. 00:19:05.769 --> 00:19:11.449 I was heavy at the time, but

so I played the line, but I was still quick and we would play. 00:19:11.929 --> 00:19:15.209 Now, sometimes we just we play some really good teams. 00:19:15.289 --> 00:19:16.809 They'd they'd kick up behind. 00:19:17.289 --> 00:19:19.289 And sometimes we would be on top. 00:19:19.769 --> 00:19:24.649 So the one thing that was consistent, I took no crap, I just talk crap all the time. 00:19:25.449 --> 00:19:27.929 So two instances happened. 00:19:28.250 --> 00:19:32.729 One ASU was in their offseason, okay, and they put a team out. 00:19:32.969 --> 00:19:33.529 Oh no. 00:19:33.689 --> 00:19:34.889 So now I'm on the line. 00:19:34.969 --> 00:19:37.449 I'm playing a guy that's like 6'8. 00:19:37.849 --> 00:19:38.649 Legit like that. 00:19:38.889 --> 00:19:41.049 Legit like 6'8, maybe 280. 00:19:41.449 --> 00:19:43.049 No offense, but you're not very tall Puerto Rican. 00:19:43.289 --> 00:19:44.489 Yeah, no, I'm 5'11. 00:19:44.729 --> 00:19:47.129 At that time, I was probably 5'11, 270. 00:19:47.289 --> 00:19:47.529 Okay. 00:19:47.689 --> 00:19:49.369 He's 280, 6'8. 00:19:49.689 --> 00:19:50.009 Yeah, yeah. 00:19:50.250 --> 00:19:52.729 So you weren't allowed to move your hands as much. 00:19:53.209 --> 00:19:54.409 You couldn't swing around. 00:19:54.489 --> 00:20:02.809 But this guy, because he was an ASU player at the time, forget his name, he thought he was playing on you know I'm Oregon or something, or freaking USC. 00:20:03.129 --> 00:20:08.250 So he's kicking my ass with swinging his arms, trying to do these swim moves. 00:20:08.409 --> 00:20:10.889 I'm like, listen, retard, you can't do this. 00:20:11.129 --> 00:20:12.250 You can push right through me. 00:20:12.329 --> 00:20:12.729 Just do that. 00:20:12.809 --> 00:20:14.169 You free you got me. 00:20:14.409 --> 00:20:15.369 He wouldn't listen to me. 00:20:15.449 --> 00:20:17.129 So I said, listen, you got one more time. 00:20:17.369 --> 00:20:18.569 So we're on the line. 00:20:18.889 --> 00:20:20.009 He's like, yeah, whatever. 00:20:20.169 --> 00:20:23.609 So the next time he goes to swim his arm, I swing my arm up. 00:20:57.490 --> 00:20:58.529 I hit him in the face. 00:20:58.689 --> 00:20:59.809 Of course, not intentionally. 00:20:59.889 --> 00:21:00.049 Yeah. 00:21:00.449 --> 00:21:01.490 I break his nose. 00:21:01.649 --> 00:21:02.209 Oh, no way. 00:21:02.529 --> 00:21:03.730 Blood starts pouring out. 00:21:04.049 --> 00:21:06.289 And it's like, have you ever watched The Longest Yard? 00:21:06.449 --> 00:21:06.609 Yeah. 00:21:06.929 --> 00:21:09.409 I think I broke his fucking freaking nose. 00:21:09.649 --> 00:21:10.849 So that's how it was. 00:21:11.009 --> 00:21:12.049 And I'm like, I told you. 00:21:12.129 --> 00:21:13.889 And then the ref throws a flag. 00:21:13.970 --> 00:21:14.289 Uh-huh. 00:21:14.449 --> 00:21:16.449 So the guy thinks the flag is on me. 00:21:16.689 --> 00:21:17.490 It's on him. 00:21:17.649 --> 00:21:18.369 And I warned him. 00:21:18.449 --> 00:21:21.169 And the ref was like there because he shouldn't have been moving his arm around. 00:21:22.049 --> 00:21:24.209 But then I would talk, so I would threaten the kick. 00:21:24.449 --> 00:21:26.929 Because people want to, they think they could talk back. 00:21:27.169 --> 00:21:29.490 That's why I stopped playing adult softball. 00:21:29.730 --> 00:21:30.849 Because I would pitch. 00:21:31.250 --> 00:21:32.209 And I talk crap. 00:21:32.289 --> 00:21:33.809 And then they start trying to hit it up the middle. 00:21:33.970 --> 00:21:34.049 Oh. 00:21:34.529 --> 00:21:35.250 They're trying to hit you. 00:21:35.490 --> 00:21:38.849 They're trying to hit me, which is supposed to be like a an unwritten rule. 00:21:38.929 --> 00:21:39.889 You don't hit it up the middle. 00:21:41.329 --> 00:21:41.569 Right. 00:21:41.809 --> 00:21:44.129 So I would want to go get a bat and beat the group. 00:21:44.369 --> 00:21:45.009 That's how I was. 00:21:45.089 --> 00:21:48.449 I'm always going to defend myself even if I think I'm in a no-win situation. 00:21:48.769 --> 00:21:51.970 I was playing softball one season. 00:21:52.129 --> 00:21:58.929 I don't remember who the group was that I was playing with at this point, but guy was pitching, took a ball right in the mouth. 00:21:59.089 --> 00:22:00.289 Just no, it's crazy. 00:22:01.009 --> 00:22:04.049 Then they started doing it, they tried to do it on purpose because I'm talking crap. 00:22:04.129 --> 00:22:04.369 Yeah. 00:22:04.529 --> 00:22:06.129 So I was like, so it that's the thing. 00:22:06.209 --> 00:22:07.569 It's funny, when you're a kid, it's good. 00:22:07.649 --> 00:22:09.169 I still do it now as an adult. 00:22:09.329 --> 00:22:10.369 People can't handle it. 00:22:10.769 --> 00:22:13.329 So it would be like I slow down on the sports. 00:22:13.490 --> 00:22:13.649 Yeah. 00:22:13.730 --> 00:22:15.889 So I'm playing at LA Fitness one time, right? 00:22:16.369 --> 00:22:20.369 When I was going to Greenfield, and like basketball today is different. 00:22:20.449 --> 00:22:20.609 Right? 00:22:20.689 --> 00:22:23.009 Because we got to stop playing indoor, outdoor. 00:22:23.089 --> 00:22:23.250 Yep. 00:22:23.569 --> 00:22:26.209 Like KK became an old man and he doesn't play anymore. 00:22:26.369 --> 00:22:28.129 So he changed it to a pickleball court. 00:22:28.369 --> 00:22:36.049 That's the white retarded version of white or what white people do when they can't tennis anymore and they think they're too tough for bad men. 00:22:36.209 --> 00:22:37.329 They created pickleball. 00:22:37.490 --> 00:22:39.970 Well now it's the biggest crazy all over the place. 00:22:41.009 --> 00:22:41.169 Yeah. 00:22:41.250 --> 00:22:42.529 So I'm like, I wish I would. 00:22:42.609 --> 00:22:43.730 You wish he would catch me. 00:22:44.049 --> 00:22:44.769 But I'm interested now. 00:22:45.490 --> 00:22:46.769 So because I I'm competitive. 00:22:46.849 --> 00:22:47.569 I love ping pong. 00:22:47.970 --> 00:22:49.809 I'll tell you I've played and

it is a lot of fun. 00:22:50.129 --> 00:22:52.129 Yeah, because it's like a big version of ping pong. 00:22:52.609 --> 00:22:54.849 Competitive person, and my body still thinks I'm 18. 00:22:54.929 --> 00:22:55.970 So Oh yeah, for sure. 00:22:56.209 --> 00:22:58.129 And you don't have to move that much because it's small. 00:22:58.609 --> 00:22:59.889 So everybody I know is doing it. 00:23:00.209 --> 00:23:01.809 They're like, hey, you gotta play ping pong. 00:23:01.889 --> 00:23:03.089 I'm like a pickleball. 00:23:03.250 --> 00:23:05.649 But yeah, I remember so I'm playing with these young kids. 00:23:06.129 --> 00:23:08.289 But all these young kids want to do is shoot threes. 00:23:08.449 --> 00:23:10.049 Oh I'm running up and down the court. 00:23:10.129 --> 00:23:10.609 You know how we do. 00:23:11.089 --> 00:23:12.369 I'm trying to play defense. 00:23:12.529 --> 00:23:17.169 And I'm like, listen, if only you freaking retards don't pass the ball. 00:23:17.329 --> 00:23:17.490 Yeah. 00:23:17.649 --> 00:23:18.369 I'm out of here. 00:23:18.449 --> 00:23:18.609 Yeah. 00:23:18.769 --> 00:23:23.730 I'm not running up and down like so like Asian kids starts talking crap. 00:23:24.049 --> 00:23:24.609 But okay. 00:23:25.089 --> 00:23:26.689 So they give him the ball, he's down low. 00:23:26.769 --> 00:23:29.250 He starts trying to push it into play. 00:23:30.129 --> 00:23:30.689 He's not doing that. 00:23:30.929 --> 00:23:32.609 Did you pull the chair or just knock him down? 00:23:33.889 --> 00:23:35.089 I tied him up so bad. 00:23:35.169 --> 00:23:37.169 He got up, his glasses were crooked. 00:23:37.409 --> 00:23:38.049 Everything else. 00:23:38.209 --> 00:23:38.689 It got bad. 00:23:38.849 --> 00:23:39.730 Everybody else said that. 00:23:39.809 --> 00:23:40.529 I'm like, you know what? 00:23:40.609 --> 00:23:42.049 I'll kick the crap out of you too. 00:23:42.289 --> 00:23:46.529 It just for some reason it just gets to people can't handle trash talk. 00:23:46.769 --> 00:23:49.889 And then they think that's I'm trash talking to get you out your psych. 00:23:50.049 --> 00:23:50.369 Yeah. 00:23:50.529 --> 00:23:53.089 Not because, and I know that turns people down. 00:23:53.329 --> 00:24:02.849 So fast forward a month later, my daughter's going to Perry, going to a Perry football game, and see these kids in front of me, they keep looking back at us. 00:24:03.089 --> 00:24:05.569 So my wife's like, Why are they looking back at you? 00:24:05.809 --> 00:24:12.689 Then I look, it's a little Asian kid, and I hear him telling him, That's that old dude that was trying to kick my ass at the basketball. 00:24:12.769 --> 00:24:14.609 And my daughter looks at me like, Really, Dad? 00:24:14.689 --> 00:24:18.449 You're freaking fighting with a freaking 17-year-old at Perry. 00:24:18.529 --> 00:24:20.129 I'm like, hey, he's on the court. 00:24:20.289 --> 00:24:21.730 He was he was talking like a man. 00:24:21.970 --> 00:24:23.089 We talk like a man. 00:24:23.329 -->

00:24:23.490 Yeah. 00:24:23.730 --> 00:24:24.929 That's the school I came from. 00:24:25.409 --> 00:24:27.089 I think we've lost that a little bit in society. 00:24:27.329 --> 00:24:27.809 Oh, absolutely. 00:24:28.129 --> 00:24:32.529 It's like the these kids know that they can get away with talking trash as an adult. 00:24:32.849 --> 00:24:33.809 You're like, I can. 00:24:33.889 --> 00:24:34.369 Yeah. 00:24:34.849 --> 00:24:35.889 Push it so far. 00:24:36.049 --> 00:24:36.849 Push it so far. 00:24:36.929 --> 00:24:41.089 I was talking early on an earlier podcast, and we were talking about teaching. 00:24:41.169 --> 00:24:43.409 And I people used to tell me all the time, you should be a teacher and a coach. 00:24:43.490 --> 00:24:44.049 I'm like, I couldn't. 00:24:44.209 --> 00:24:44.609 No, I did. 00:24:44.689 --> 00:24:45.490 I was an assistant dean. 00:24:45.889 --> 00:24:46.369 Punch a kid. 00:24:46.529 --> 00:24:51.409 I was an assistant dean in New York before I got into facilities management and furniture. 00:24:51.569 --> 00:24:53.809 And I these kids were so bad, I couldn't believe it. 00:24:54.289 --> 00:24:56.449 One time I had a situation with a kid. 00:24:56.689 --> 00:25:00.049 I went to his class and he starts yelling at me from the classroom. 00:25:00.609 --> 00:25:01.169 Man, Mr. 00:25:01.250 --> 00:25:03.250 Rodriguez, I can't believe you called my mom. 00:25:03.329 --> 00:25:04.129 You better never. 00:25:04.289 --> 00:25:05.970 He came out and got in my face. 00:25:06.369 --> 00:25:09.089 I grabbed him by the throat, put him up against the wall. 00:25:09.169 --> 00:25:09.329 Yeah. 00:25:09.649 --> 00:25:13.329 And I'm like, if you ever talk to me like that, I said, Did I talk to you like that? 00:25:13.809 --> 00:25:14.689 He calmed down. 00:25:14.929 --> 00:25:17.169 Another teacher s sees it and reports it. 00:25:17.649 --> 00:25:18.369 Do you get in trouble? 00:25:18.689 --> 00:25:24.129 They come so this is like early, this is probably 1999, 2000. 00:25:24.289 --> 00:25:26.449 So we still haven't even converted to what it is now. 00:25:26.769 --> 00:25:26.849 Yeah. 00:25:27.250 --> 00:25:29.490 Little punk kids that they people raise. 00:25:29.809 --> 00:25:31.329 So they called me in and asked me. 00:25:31.490 --> 00:25:32.769 I said, Oh, most certainly. 00:25:33.089 --> 00:25:35.089 But the kid sees me in the hall and says, Mr. 00:25:35.169 --> 00:25:37.329 Rodriguez, I just want to let you know they're trying to get you. 00:25:37.649 --> 00:25:40.849 Because they brought me in to uh wanted me to write a statement. 00:25:40.929 --> 00:25:42.049 I wouldn't write a statement. 00:25:42.449 --> 00:25:43.889 Because I knew what you were trying to do. 00:25:44.049 --> 00:25:44.769 It was like a respect. 00:25:45.089 --> 00:25:45.329 Oh, yeah. 00:25:45.490 --> 00:25:47.009 It was a minority neighborhood too. 00:25:47.089 --> 00:25:56.369 So and at that point I got out of I I had uh aspirations to get my get my degrees, and by that time I can do certification as an assistant dean. 00:25:56.929 --> 00:25:59.649 And it I lost complete interest in that. 00:25:59.809 --> 00:26:06.929 Because I I saw that now what you're doing is becoming a policeman to other kids that are being brought up and just not being raised. 00:26:07.089 --> 00:26:07.250 Right. 00:26:07.649 --> 00:26:10.769 Whether they have both parents or not, that's the biggest thing. 00:26:10.929 --> 00:26:14.609 So that's why I was the father that I was to my children. 00:26:14.769 --> 00:26:15.730 So Yeah. 00:26:16.049 --> 00:26:21.490 I think uh too often people look to somebody else to do the hard job. 00:26:21.889 --> 00:26:22.289 Well they do. 00:26:22.369 --> 00:26:34.449 So partly to some parents un unfortunately to defend some parents in this economy, if you're not disciplined enough, you gotta work two, three jobs. 00:26:34.609 --> 00:26:37.730 And what lacks at that point is family time, quality time. 00:26:37.809 --> 00:26:38.929 That's what happened with my dad. 00:26:39.250 --> 00:26:42.289 My dad retired when he retired the highest paid cop in America. 00:26:42.449 --> 00:26:44.209 Same name of mine, you can look it up. 00:26:44.449 --> 00:26:47.490 He was in Newsweek 1996, 97. 00:26:47.569 --> 00:26:53.089 He made more money than I want to say Ed Koch was the governor, excuse me, the mayor of New York at the time. 00:26:53.409 --> 00:26:57.250 In any event, he was in Newsweek for the as the highest paid cop in America. 00:26:57.409 --> 00:27:03.329 His final years on the force, he made 200 at the time, and this was big money. 00:27:03.490 --> 00:27:03.889 Yeah, yeah. 00:27:04.129 --> 00:27:05.250 This is in 97. 00:27:05.889 --> 00:27:07.569 He retired at 260. 00:27:07.809 --> 00:27:08.129 Wow. 00:27:08.289 --> 00:27:12.929 Now, now his same police force in New York, those cops make 400,000. 00:27:13.649 --> 00:27:15.329 But at that time, he was there. 00:27:15.490 --> 00:27:20.369 But I say that to say that he spent so much time working, he wasn't at home. 00:27:20.449 --> 00:27:23.169 Now we had the best house, he did everything he could for us. 00:27:23.409 --> 00:27:26.369 But it doesn't it doesn't replace quality time. 00:27:26.609 --> 00:27:29.250 Yeah, because I and I've so I've always coached my kids. 00:27:29.409 --> 00:27:35.649 One of the things that I did that I didn't give you in my I also took the first minority team to the White House to play for George Bush. 00:27:35.730 --> 00:27:38.369 Oh wow in 2000 and 2002. 00:27:38.529 --> 00:27:43.889 I was a big I ended up starting out coaching my children, then I became president of the Little League. 00:27:44.129 --> 00:27:48.769 I I had the most successful minority league at the time in the suburbs in New York. 00:27:49.250 --> 00:27:54.209 We ended up losing to there was a big scandal in 2000. 00:27:54.529 --> 00:27:55.649 Daniel Monte. 00:27:55.889 --> 00:27:57.250 That was a team from the Bronx. 00:27:57.329 --> 00:28:05.250 He was

the 14-year-old Dominican kid that ended up pitching and going all the way to the World Series in Little League Baseball, which is a big accomplishment. 00:28:05.409 --> 00:28:07.089 Then they found out he was 14 years old. 00:28:07.169 --> 00:28:11.649 Well he beat us on the way, able to be able to go to the World Series. 00:28:12.049 --> 00:28:20.529 And that was the reward that Little League gave us because we got cheated out of, had a great team, but we got cheated out of the opportunity to play in the Little League World Series. 00:28:20.769 --> 00:28:24.049 And what they did was they allowed me to take it was a T-ball team. 00:28:24.449 --> 00:28:29.730 At that time, George Bush had a program where you take a team to the White House and play on the White House lawn. 00:28:29.970 --> 00:28:30.689 How cool is that? 00:28:30.929 --> 00:28:35.649 So now we were scheduled to play on September 17th. 00:28:35.809 --> 00:28:37.730 So that was six days after. 00:28:38.209 --> 00:28:39.250 So they canceled it. 00:28:39.409 --> 00:28:39.730 Okay. 00:28:39.889 --> 00:28:42.049 And that's why we played in 2002. 00:28:42.209 --> 00:28:42.929 So I have a letter. 00:28:43.089 --> 00:28:47.089 George Bush sent me a personal letter apologizing for having to cancel. 00:28:47.169 --> 00:28:47.329 Yeah. 00:28:47.490 --> 00:28:49.569 It was a weekend right after September 11th. 00:28:49.970 --> 00:28:53.569 So we go the following year, but they pick it, we go on Cinco de Mayo. 00:28:53.730 --> 00:28:56.689 Now in New York, we don't know what the heck Cinco de Mayo is. 00:28:56.849 --> 00:28:58.129 I think in Arizona we don't. 00:28:58.209 --> 00:28:59.169 We just, it's like St. 00:28:59.250 --> 00:29:00.849 Patrick's Day for Mexicans, yeah. 00:29:00.929 --> 00:29:01.490 That's it. 00:29:01.730 --> 00:29:02.849 So, but we did. 00:29:02.929 --> 00:29:05.730 I got a chance, I got a chance to sit with George and Laura Bush. 00:29:05.809 --> 00:29:07.569 Like it was like an unbelievable experience. 00:29:08.849 --> 00:29:13.649 They held Laura Bush, my daughter, who's actually just had my ninth grandchild. 00:29:13.809 --> 00:29:17.250 She held her, and she was my my daughter was three at the time. 00:29:17.490 --> 00:29:17.730 Wow. 00:29:17.889 --> 00:29:20.449 So yeah, George Laura Bush got a chance to hold my daughter. 00:29:20.529 --> 00:29:23.649 I didn't know at the time that both Bushes spoke fluent Spanish. 00:29:23.809 --> 00:29:24.289 No kidding. 00:29:24.449 --> 00:29:27.009 So my team was half black, half Spanish. 00:29:27.089 --> 00:29:27.250 Okay. 00:29:27.569 --> 00:29:29.409 From the neighborhood we lived in. 00:29:29.649 --> 00:29:34.449 And I I sat there for like an hour and a half talking to him and Laura Bush for this game. 00:29:34.609 --> 00:29:36.449 ESPN had it set up. 00:29:36.609 --> 00:29:38.369 We had it was an unbelievable time. 00:29:38.449 --> 00:29:40.049 I wish there were cameras at the time. 00:29:40.209 --> 00:29:40.769 Like owned.

00:29:41.009 --> 00:29:41.970 And I'm sure there's video. 00:29:42.049 --> 00:29:45.409 I gotta ask, I gotta get a hold of Little League Baseball because I'm sure they have footage. 00:29:45.809 --> 00:29:47.169 Gotta be something in archive somewhere. 00:29:47.569 --> 00:29:49.329 Archive somewhere that I can get that footage. 00:29:49.970 --> 00:29:50.769 It was unbelievable. 00:29:50.849 --> 00:29:54.369 Like that was like so I would that that put me big into youth sports. 00:29:54.689 --> 00:29:54.929 Okay. 00:29:55.169 --> 00:30:01.490 So after I was a young dad, got married young, and I was always there, coached my children in basketball, baseball. 00:30:01.649 --> 00:30:04.369 Then I came to Arizona and I was president of the law. 00:30:04.689 --> 00:30:05.169 I made it. 00:30:05.490 --> 00:30:08.529 At the time it wasn't, I was Queen Creek Heat softball. 00:30:08.689 --> 00:30:08.929 Okay. 00:30:09.250 --> 00:30:11.569 My daughter started playing at the age of five. 00:30:11.970 --> 00:30:18.049 They uh it was the largest, second largest female softball league, literally in the country. 00:30:18.209 --> 00:30:18.769 Oh wow. 00:30:18.929 --> 00:30:23.809 Yeah, we went from 200 girls to 580 girls in three years. 00:30:24.209 --> 00:30:29.889 So I had all the girls here because it's the Queen Creek area, South Gil South Gilbert, where I lived in Power Ranch. 00:30:30.289 --> 00:30:37.490 All of that area was so developing, of course, in the early in the 2000s that by 2008, 2009, we had to leave. 00:30:37.970 --> 00:30:38.369 Exploded. 00:30:38.609 --> 00:30:46.689 I had the first teams that as president of the league, we had the first adult team that was state uh when I say adult, actually teenage girls that were state champs. 00:30:47.250 --> 00:30:48.449 Went to the regionals. 00:30:48.689 --> 00:30:49.649 They were great girls. 00:30:49.809 --> 00:30:56.209 They were part of uh this great basher group that won state like two, three state championships in in the mid-2000s. 00:30:56.369 --> 00:30:56.609 Okay. 00:30:56.769 --> 00:31:03.250 So they I was just always around kids, always around sports, developing just develop that was a big deal. 00:31:03.329 --> 00:31:04.209 It's still a big deal now. 00:31:04.449 --> 00:31:07.329 Everybody's kid, it's a baseball player, basketball player. 00:31:07.490 --> 00:31:07.730 Yeah. 00:31:08.049 --> 00:31:12.769 My wife owns a dance studio on Queen Creek called the New Evolution Studio. 00:31:13.089 --> 00:31:18.369 So we're separated now, but uh, she has a studio also that has I think over 400 girls that dance. 00:31:18.609 --> 00:31:19.169 Wow, no kidding. 00:31:19.889 --> 00:31:26.529 She we bought the studio, she has a partner, bought the studio eleven years ago. 00:31:26.689 --> 00:31:30.369 And uh so it's always been about development, family, things like that. 00:31:31.169 --> 00:31:33.649 You have a daughter that's big into dance, right? 00:31:33.889 --> 00:31:39.169 So the two of them, the softball player also danced, but my other daughter, she was on World of Dance for two years. 00:31:39.329 --> 00:31:43.089 Okay, she she competed on for J-O and on World of Dance. 00:31:43.169 --> 00:31:46.929 They were the first Arizona female group to uh to perform. 00:31:47.169 --> 00:31:47.889 I think I remember that. 00:31:48.129 --> 00:31:49.089 Yeah, yeah, she was big. 00:31:49.169 --> 00:31:50.049 It was real exciting. 00:31:50.209 --> 00:31:53.649 Went to NB, you know, went to Universal Studios, watched the tapings. 00:31:53.889 --> 00:31:54.609 It was pretty good. 00:31:54.689 --> 00:31:56.849 And she actually danced with Rihanna in the Super Bowl. 00:31:57.169 --> 00:31:57.649 No kidding. 00:31:57.809 --> 00:31:57.970 Yeah. 00:31:58.049 --> 00:32:00.609 So she was on stage with Rihanna during the Super Bowl. 00:32:00.849 --> 00:32:01.970 It was uh so she was good. 00:32:02.049 --> 00:32:04.529 And my other daughter played Division I softball. 00:32:04.689 --> 00:32:08.609 And the one that was a dancer, she's actually gets married in in August. 00:32:08.769 --> 00:32:09.250 Oh, okay. 00:32:09.409 --> 00:32:11.009 So, like I said, that's my youngest. 00:32:11.329 --> 00:32:20.449 So she's uh she's getting married in August, and then I just had my daughter that played softball, she's uh she just had her second child, and just I just have my ninth grandchild. 00:32:20.529 --> 00:32:21.649 This is so crazy. 00:32:21.730 --> 00:32:29.329 I feel like obviously we've been friends for a while, but I feel like some of the pictures of you, because you would post pictures of driving to and from softball games or something. 00:32:29.569 --> 00:32:31.649 You go to sleep sleeping in the car, everybody, and you know what's up. 00:32:33.730 --> 00:32:38.369 I put that up sometimes, and that's where people would that's when social media was really starting to pick up. 00:32:38.689 --> 00:32:40.209 But that was the funniest thing to me. 00:32:40.289 --> 00:32:45.250 Like that's I was in my comedy career, and then and then to me, I was like a sleeping pill. 00:32:46.449 --> 00:32:49.490 Whether it was a 10-minute ride or 10-hour drive, she was asleep. 00:32:49.649 --> 00:32:50.049 That's funny. 00:32:50.209 --> 00:32:55.169 Knocked out because she was a she's a diabetic, she's a 10-point diabetic, so she would just be exhausted after. 00:32:55.970 --> 00:32:56.529 So funny. 00:32:56.769 --> 00:32:58.769 Yeah, so it it was uh it's interesting. 00:32:58.929 --> 00:33:03.250 Like all of that has developed me to always be a hustler. 00:33:03.409 --> 00:33:11.169 Like, I I didn't start my own business until I got I left my company I was doing it for here in Arizona, but then I was coaching. 00:33:11.490 --> 00:33:19.009 My comedy career was going on, but I it didn't take off until my daughter actually got recruited and signed for college. 00:33:19.250 --> 00:33:21.809 Then I stopped coaching her and then I started touring. 00:33:21.970 --> 00:33:22.209 Okay.

00:33:22.369 --> 00:33:27.569 So that was one of the things I always meant to stay, I always try to stay with my kids, with my family. 00:33:27.730 --> 00:33:28.049 Yeah. 00:33:28.209 --> 00:33:31.730 So it's it was something that was important because I think that's the key. 00:33:31.889 --> 00:33:33.970 The key is at least give them a choice. 00:33:34.049 --> 00:33:36.209 If they're gonna be screw-ups, they're gonna be screw ups. 00:33:36.289 --> 00:33:36.449 Yeah. 00:33:36.609 --> 00:33:38.449 But don't be the reason why they're a screw-up. 00:33:38.689 --> 00:33:39.009 Gotcha. 00:33:39.089 --> 00:33:39.250 Yep. 00:33:39.490 --> 00:33:40.129 Yeah, absolutely. 00:33:40.369 --> 00:33:41.009 Absolutely, for sure. 00:33:41.569 --> 00:33:43.569 They have to make their own choices and decisions. 00:33:43.649 --> 00:33:47.009 And I know parents, there's no right or wrong way. 00:33:47.169 --> 00:33:54.289 They all, but I I always said to myself, it was the same thing my father told me, even though I ended up being a badass at times. 00:33:54.369 --> 00:33:55.730 I was still a great kid. 00:33:55.970 --> 00:33:57.409 But it was my decision. 00:33:57.490 --> 00:33:57.809 Yeah. 00:33:57.970 --> 00:34:03.649 I can't blame it because my dad wasn't around, you know, gave us this beautiful life and raised us, and I think that's what we lose now. 00:34:03.730 --> 00:34:03.889 Yeah. 00:34:04.049 --> 00:34:07.329 Because now remember, we didn't grow up with the social media world, right? 00:34:07.730 --> 00:34:12.129 Podcasts, streaming, being able to see whatever you want, whenever you want. 00:34:12.289 --> 00:34:12.609 Yeah. 00:34:12.769 --> 00:34:15.409 No, you were rich if you had cable and you had HBO. 00:34:15.649 --> 00:34:17.089 If you had four channels, you were rich. 00:34:17.489 --> 00:34:19.649 Yeah, you were like, I was like, oh my gosh, you got cable? 00:34:19.730 --> 00:34:19.809 Yeah. 00:34:19.969 --> 00:34:20.209 Watching. 00:34:20.689 --> 00:34:23.169 You got a box on top of your TV that gives you what? 00:34:23.569 --> 00:34:25.169 And it doesn't have a paper clip in the back? 00:34:25.329 --> 00:34:27.889 Yeah, our box used to was connected to the TV. 00:34:27.969 --> 00:34:30.529 We had this old school that was crazy. 00:34:31.329 --> 00:34:32.289 Connected to the TV. 00:34:32.369 --> 00:34:41.169 So if you had a long cord, you could sit in a chair as long as it was only seven feet away from ours was just a dial. 00:34:41.329 --> 00:34:44.449 I think we eventually got one that had a gosh, it's crazy. 00:34:44.609 --> 00:34:48.529 Like, and when I think about it now, because like I'm leading a different life. 00:34:48.609 --> 00:34:48.769 Yeah. 00:34:48.849 --> 00:34:49.489 I'm in my fifth. 00:34:49.809 --> 00:34:50.529 I'm separated. 00:34:50.769 --> 00:34:54.449 I own businesses, I traveled the country, and now you see what things are. 00:34:54.609 --> 00:34:57.649 We're electric cars, we're technology. 00:34:57.969 --> 00:34:58.369 It's

crazy. 00:34:58.609 --> 00:34:59.089 It's crazy. 00:34:59.169 --> 00:34:59.809 It's interesting. 00:34:59.969 --> 00:35:00.129 Yeah. 00:35:00.369 --> 00:35:03.569 So that's where comedy, to me, comedy keeps it. 00:35:03.730 --> 00:35:05.889 Like it's internet comedian, it's still a talent. 00:35:05.969 --> 00:35:08.609 You have to be able to get on stage, make strangers laugh. 00:35:08.689 --> 00:35:10.049 To me, that's still the hardest thing. 00:35:10.129 --> 00:35:10.369 Yeah. 00:35:10.529 --> 00:35:11.489 Because guess what? 00:35:11.730 --> 00:35:15.089 You could be a singer, so bad singers aren't going to go on stage. 00:35:15.169 --> 00:35:17.169 They try, they do karaoke nights. 00:35:17.250 --> 00:35:21.969 But a bad singer is not going to go in front of a couple of hundred people and try to sing. 00:35:22.129 --> 00:35:23.329 They know they're a bad singer. 00:35:23.409 --> 00:35:23.809 Yeah. 00:35:24.049 --> 00:35:31.089 A comedian, you're going to go in front of a couple of hundred people, and in my case, sometimes a couple of thousand people, and try to be funny. 00:35:31.169 --> 00:35:31.409 Yeah. 00:35:31.569 --> 00:36:14.329 So now do you have times this just popped my head, but do you have times where you go in and you've got like this whole game plan? 00:36:14.489 --> 00:36:15.129 Because I'm assuming you're going to be able to do it. 00:36:15.289 --> 00:36:15.689 You always have to. 00:36:15.769 --> 00:36:16.089 That's the key. 00:36:16.409 --> 00:36:16.969 You're right in your jokes. 00:36:17.049 --> 00:36:17.369 You got to do it. 00:36:17.529 --> 00:36:18.009 You gotta do it. 00:36:18.089 --> 00:36:20.889 You gotta what happens is you create a set. 00:36:21.449 --> 00:36:21.689 Right. 00:36:21.769 --> 00:36:23.210 You start out five minutes. 00:36:23.369 --> 00:36:24.889 If you can be funny for five minutes. 00:36:25.049 --> 00:36:28.730 Now, five minutes is I'm introduced, I'm dancing around on stage for five minutes. 00:36:28.889 --> 00:36:31.369 But back then, you got five minutes to be funny. 00:36:31.609 --> 00:36:33.289 That's opening joke to closing joke. 00:36:33.609 --> 00:36:35.689 So the key is you master the five minutes. 00:36:35.769 --> 00:36:36.089 That's right. 00:36:36.250 --> 00:36:39.210 Then you master the eight, then you master the fifteen. 00:36:39.449 --> 00:36:44.009 Once you've mastered the 15, and you got to do that a couple of hundred times. 00:36:44.489 --> 00:36:48.089 Because in that the way you do that is like studying for a test. 00:36:48.329 --> 00:36:51.129 You do index cards, you do topics. 00:36:51.529 --> 00:36:57.129 So with me, I know if I'm doing a long set, I'm gonna have seven topics. 00:36:57.369 --> 00:37:02.569 And I have jokes about each of the seven topics, I'm gonna put them in the order that I want to talk about them about. 00:37:02.649 --> 00:37:04.730 Then I'm gonna see how it flows through the audience. 00:37:04.889 --> 00:37:06.489 I may not get to all seven topics. 00:37:06.649 --> 00:37:06.889 Gotcha. 00:37:07.049 --> 00:37:10.250 I'm only get to three, because maybe the audience loves topic one. 00:37:10.569 --> 00:37:13.609 Or maybe they they hate it two and three, you gotta jump to four. 00:37:13.769 --> 00:37:15.449 So you gotta be able to move around with that. 00:37:15.529 --> 00:37:15.769 Yeah. 00:37:15.929 --> 00:37:19.929 And then you gotta remember that what you think is funny, not everybody else does. 00:37:20.089 --> 00:37:22.409 So you're looking for reactions from the crowd, right? 00:37:22.489 --> 00:37:24.250 You're looking to see can you get their interest. 00:37:24.329 --> 00:37:24.489 Yeah. 00:37:24.730 --> 00:37:26.809 And that's the master of comedy. 00:37:27.049 --> 00:37:31.449 Like if I sing a song and you know, you like it, you're gonna like it. 00:37:31.529 --> 00:37:31.689 Right. 00:37:32.409 --> 00:37:33.769 You came to hear music. 00:37:33.929 --> 00:37:37.929 Well, when you come to hear comedy, that might not be your brand of comedy. 00:37:38.169 --> 00:37:45.129 Well, and I would think it'd be really tough too, because I think like I'm more of a sophomoric guy comedy. 00:37:45.369 --> 00:37:47.849 Christine is very highbrow comedy. 00:37:48.489 --> 00:37:50.329 It's crazy now, because it depends what you want to. 00:37:50.489 --> 00:37:53.289 Are you gonna do penis and vagina jokes? 00:37:53.449 --> 00:37:53.529 Right. 00:37:53.769 --> 00:37:58.329 Are you gonna do, you know, we stay away from politics because politics is so sensitive. 00:37:58.489 --> 00:37:59.929 Most people stay away from color. 00:38:00.089 --> 00:38:05.529 Like, I I'm the only Hispanic comedian, because I was on tour with Faez Down Love for five years. 00:38:06.009 --> 00:38:10.089 I'm the only Hispanic comedian that was on tour in all these urban cities. 00:38:10.250 --> 00:38:12.089 And get up there, I say the N-word. 00:38:12.489 --> 00:38:13.849 I got I grew up with the N-word. 00:38:13.929 --> 00:38:14.089 Yeah. 00:38:14.169 --> 00:38:15.529 That's where I grew up. 00:38:15.929 --> 00:38:25.210 And first time that I it really came up, which I didn't even realize that, I was part of a group that put together the first urban award show. 00:38:25.289 --> 00:38:37.689 This is about seven, eight years, about eight, might even be longer than that, eight, nine years ago, and they put together this beautiful thing at Apollo, and I was probably the only unknown comic. 00:38:37.849 --> 00:38:47.529 Everyone was either so that you had Dale Hughley, George Wallace, Adele Givens, Joe and Guy, every name in urban comedy. 00:38:47.689 --> 00:38:58.569 And then there were the up-and-coming urban comedians, and I was the only one that the producer thought was funny, saw me on social media and put me into the group. 00:38:58.730 --> 00:39:01.449 So now I was also one of only two Hispanic comics. 00:39:01.529 --> 00:39:04.649 Even the Hispanic comic there was well known. 00:39:04.889 --> 00:39:07.689 And I go and they

want me to open the show. 00:39:07.929 --> 00:39:12.489 So I have to go stand up in front of this crowd of comics. 00:39:12.730 --> 00:39:16.169 Comics and just people that are looking and be funny. 00:39:16.250 --> 00:39:16.569 Yeah. 00:39:16.889 --> 00:39:21.849 So I had to go there and I had my son there, he's videoing, and I had to tell my story. 00:39:21.929 --> 00:39:22.169 Yeah. 00:39:22.329 --> 00:39:36.329 I said, listen, while my cousins were out in front of the bodegas, which is like the delis, the Spanish delis, playing dominoes in their wife beaters, I was running around with the when I said the N-word in the projects learning how to shoot dice. 00:39:36.569 --> 00:39:38.089 So I had to break that ice. 00:39:38.169 --> 00:39:38.409 Yeah. 00:39:38.569 --> 00:39:44.329 And every comedian up there, George Wallace, so many of them just were like, oh my gosh, this guy's so funny. 00:39:44.489 --> 00:39:44.889 Yeah. 00:39:45.129 --> 00:39:50.250 And that's how I ended up starting to go on tour with a lot of comics. 00:39:50.569 --> 00:39:53.129 Because I brought a different flair. 00:39:53.210 --> 00:39:54.649 It wasn't the same type of comedy. 00:39:54.809 --> 00:39:55.929 Here I am, Hispanic. 00:39:56.089 --> 00:39:57.210 And I could do mainstream. 00:39:57.289 --> 00:39:58.569 I've opened for Lewis C.K. 00:39:58.809 --> 00:39:59.049 before. 00:39:59.210 --> 00:40:03.449 I've opened for other white comics that are and I can do mainstream rooms. 00:40:03.529 --> 00:40:06.649 You know, I do JP's comedy here in Gilbert. 00:40:06.730 --> 00:40:08.409 And that's an all-where out of Gilbert. 00:40:08.809 --> 00:40:09.689 I live in Gilbert. 00:40:09.849 --> 00:40:15.049 So that type of diversity, I guess, makes the mind always thinking. 00:40:15.289 --> 00:40:16.649 And so I would do that. 00:40:16.730 --> 00:40:17.369 Like, think about it. 00:40:17.449 --> 00:40:19.689 Mississippi's never seen a Puerto Rican before. 00:40:19.929 --> 00:40:24.809 They're there to see the black headliner and the other comics that they know, Def Jam, Comic View. 00:40:25.129 --> 00:40:26.409 Here I am somebody they don't know. 00:40:26.489 --> 00:40:28.409 I gotta go up there and I gotta make them laugh. 00:40:28.569 --> 00:40:28.809 Right. 00:40:28.889 --> 00:40:30.489 So, but they don't know my history. 00:40:30.569 --> 00:40:32.969 I come from I come from New York. 00:40:33.049 --> 00:40:36.009 I grew up knowing the projects and things like that. 00:40:36.169 --> 00:40:37.769 So I I talked to them. 00:40:37.929 --> 00:40:43.769 First first joke I said in Mississippi, I'm like, you guys know you're free, right? 00:40:44.889 --> 00:40:50.889 And they looked at me like, I'm like, because the way you guys talk backwards, hey baby, I'm gonna go back over there. 00:40:51.049 --> 00:40:53.689 I'm like, how do you how did you learn that? 00:40:53.929 --> 00:40:55.689 Like, and they all start cracking up. 00:40:56.089 --> 00:40:56.730 That's awesome. 00:40:56.889 --> 00:40:58.809 So, like, and I know how to break that ice. 00:40:58.969 --> 00:41:00.730 So that way people don't feel uncomfortable. 00:41:00.809 --> 00:41:01.689 That that's the main thing. 00:41:01.769 --> 00:41:04.009 The main thing is not to make people feel uncomfortable. 00:41:04.329 --> 00:41:09.289 Maybe you feel comedy has gotten harder as we've moved, as societies move. 00:41:09.609 --> 00:41:11.449 It was going that way, and I think it's changed. 00:41:11.529 --> 00:41:11.769 Okay. 00:41:11.929 --> 00:41:17.689 I think what happened is in the last two years, things took a turn because it was going through cancel culture. 00:41:18.009 --> 00:41:19.689 Shot my comedy special and it was hard. 00:41:19.769 --> 00:41:21.289 They didn't want to show it and produce it. 00:41:21.529 --> 00:41:23.289 Netflix was like, we can't talk about that. 00:41:23.529 --> 00:41:24.809 I talk about sexuality. 00:41:24.969 --> 00:41:25.369 Yeah. 00:41:25.609 --> 00:41:29.129 And I'm like, and that was a topic they want. 00:41:29.449 --> 00:41:30.489 I said the word retarded. 00:41:30.649 --> 00:41:35.609 People like, I'm like, the only people that have a problem with the word retarded are white people. 00:41:36.009 --> 00:41:37.929 Because they they don't want to talk to their kids like that. 00:41:38.009 --> 00:41:40.089 That was a term of endearment when I was growing up. 00:41:40.250 --> 00:41:42.409 My dad would be like, are you retarded for doing that? 00:41:42.489 --> 00:41:44.329 I'm like, to me, that was him telling me he loved me. 00:41:44.409 --> 00:41:44.569 Yeah. 00:41:44.730 --> 00:41:49.049 But like, let's say you, you're not gonna tell your son, hey little Larry, are you special needs? 00:41:49.289 --> 00:41:52.409 No, sometimes little Larry's retarded, just like little Jose Lore. 00:41:52.809 --> 00:41:56.489 Like, there's this retarded is just a reference, but they didn't like that word. 00:41:56.569 --> 00:41:57.609 And then sexuality. 00:41:57.769 --> 00:41:59.609 When did everything become about a letter? 00:41:59.769 --> 00:42:00.889 What letter you represent? 00:42:01.289 --> 00:42:02.329 You don't need all those letters. 00:42:02.409 --> 00:42:03.769 You only need the second letter, G. 00:42:04.009 --> 00:42:04.250 Yeah. 00:42:04.489 --> 00:42:05.769 Gay covers everything. 00:42:05.929 --> 00:42:06.569 And we love you. 00:42:06.730 --> 00:42:07.769 Love who you want to love. 00:42:07.929 --> 00:42:08.089 Right. 00:42:08.250 --> 00:42:09.449 Be who you want to be with. 00:42:09.609 --> 00:42:12.489 Stop trying to bully me, a 50-year-old man. 00:42:12.649 --> 00:42:14.089 Stop trying to bully me to try. 00:42:14.329 --> 00:42:16.649 We don't remember what the letters are, and they keep adding letters. 00:42:16.730 --> 00:42:17.849 I'm like, what's asexual? 00:42:17.929 --> 00:42:19.769 Asexual is the first letter after Q. 00:42:19.849 --> 00:42:20.730 I had to Google it. 00:42:20.889 --> 00:42:21.689 I'm like, what do you do? 00:42:21.849

--> 00:42:22.649 You do yourself? 00:42:22.889 --> 00:42:23.689 You do yourself? 00:42:24.169 --> 00:42:25.129 What's asexual? 00:42:25.289 --> 00:42:28.089 Because we've been all asexual all our lives, all of us. 00:42:28.250 --> 00:42:29.529 It's called masturbation. 00:42:29.769 --> 00:42:31.210 That's what asexual means. 00:42:31.369 --> 00:42:34.649 So they didn't like those topics when we talked about it. 00:42:34.809 --> 00:42:40.169 And I was like, well, that's my brand of humor because people think about it, older generation. 00:42:40.250 --> 00:42:40.489 Yeah. 00:42:40.649 --> 00:42:43.529 The ones that want to cancel it, sorry, that sucks to be. 00:42:43.769 --> 00:42:47.369 So it did become a little harder depending on where you can talk about things. 00:42:47.449 --> 00:42:52.009 But I think as long as you don't insult people, like you don't go out there to say hateful things. 00:42:52.089 --> 00:42:54.009 Some comedians go out and say hateful things. 00:42:54.089 --> 00:42:54.489 Yeah. 00:42:54.730 --> 00:42:57.609 As long as you don't go out to be derogatory. 00:42:57.769 --> 00:43:00.169 Well, I'm I I love whoever you love. 00:43:00.809 --> 00:43:03.289 I just don't understand why they get the whole month of June. 00:43:03.449 --> 00:43:03.689 Really? 00:43:03.769 --> 00:43:04.489 I love June. 00:43:04.730 --> 00:43:08.409 They get a whole month, but you're not gay 12 months out of the year, only in June. 00:43:08.969 --> 00:43:10.889 Last week was the Puerto Rican Day Parade. 00:43:10.969 --> 00:43:12.009 We get one day in New York. 00:43:12.169 --> 00:43:12.489 That's it. 00:43:12.730 --> 00:43:13.769 And then when it's over. 00:43:14.009 --> 00:43:18.329 So I'm like, I think we make exceptions for things that we don't need to make exceptions for. 00:43:18.649 --> 00:43:22.169 And I think that's what alienates people or makes them feel that way. 00:43:22.329 --> 00:43:23.769 And then it's the upbringing. 00:43:23.849 --> 00:43:28.649 I think everything people see on streaming and I can't even say TV no more. 00:43:28.730 --> 00:43:31.609 It's every because everything is streaming and on social media. 00:43:31.689 --> 00:43:31.849 Yeah. 00:43:32.089 --> 00:43:35.529 Because even TV is you can't watch certain things. 00:43:35.769 --> 00:43:37.689 Like everything to it's like careful. 00:43:37.849 --> 00:43:38.730 And that's what I feel. 00:43:38.809 --> 00:43:40.409 I feel like it is what it is. 00:43:40.569 --> 00:43:41.689 You're going to love or hate me. 00:43:41.769 --> 00:43:42.009 Yeah. 00:43:42.169 --> 00:43:42.649 Whatever it is. 00:43:42.809 --> 00:43:44.569 I'm going to be that a-hole no matter what. 00:43:44.809 --> 00:43:46.329 But it's like Trump, right? 00:43:46.409 --> 00:43:50.169 People, I get a lot of backlash of being a minority and being a Republican. 00:43:50.489 --> 00:43:53.449 They all you're a MAGA, you're I'm not MAGA. 00:43:53.689 --> 00:43:58.649 I said, uh I I believe in conservative ideologies. 00:43:58.889 --> 00:44:00.329 I believe in their platforms. 00:44:00.489 --> 00:44:04.169 Not all of them, a lot of them, because I believe I believe we give out too much free. 00:44:04.569 --> 00:44:09.449 I think my parent my my grandparents, not my parents, my grandparents were my grandmother was on welfare. 00:44:09.849 --> 00:44:12.089 Oh, but she did that because she was raising nine kids. 00:44:12.169 --> 00:44:12.250 Yeah. 00:44:12.409 --> 00:44:14.409 And my grandfather wasn't around. 00:44:14.730 --> 00:44:18.569 But at that point she couldn't work until a certain time in her life. 00:44:18.730 --> 00:44:20.329 So how'd he raise nine kids at that point? 00:44:20.409 --> 00:44:21.769 And then and you're an immigrant. 00:44:21.849 --> 00:44:21.929 Yeah. 00:44:22.329 --> 00:44:26.889 She was from Puerto Rico at the time, even though Puerto Rico is a commonwealth. 00:44:27.129 --> 00:44:36.089 But the thing is, if you raise your you raise families right, you can give them fish to eat, but you're better off teaching them how to fish. 00:44:36.169 --> 00:44:36.409 Yeah. 00:44:36.649 --> 00:44:38.969 And that's and then that actually moving to Arizona. 00:44:39.049 --> 00:44:54.969 It was like you want to be to a point where the difference between conservative and liberals is one believes in more government, more taxes, the other one believes in less government, less they both have quirky and screwed up platforms. 00:44:55.769 --> 00:45:00.009 But at in the end of the day, you pick the one that you feel more. 00:45:00.169 --> 00:45:02.889 So if you're more toward a liberal end, be liberal. 00:45:03.210 --> 00:45:05.849 You want to be more conservative, but then you have right. 00:45:06.329 --> 00:45:06.649 Yeah. 00:45:06.889 --> 00:45:08.569 You got extreme right, extreme left. 00:45:08.889 --> 00:45:10.569 Yeah, there's extremes on both sides for sure. 00:45:10.889 --> 00:45:11.049 Correct. 00:45:11.289 --> 00:45:11.449 Absolutely. 00:45:11.849 --> 00:45:12.089 Correct. 00:45:12.329 --> 00:45:16.889 It's one of those things like it's the same thing with me, to know me is to love me or hate me. 00:45:17.129 --> 00:45:20.489 And what happens is that's what I feel like with the president. 00:45:20.730 --> 00:45:23.609 I rather deal with the devil I know than the devil I don't. 00:45:23.849 --> 00:45:24.089 Yeah. 00:45:24.329 --> 00:45:26.969 And people don't like that harsh reality of life. 00:45:27.129 --> 00:45:31.929 That's probably that's what kind of differentiates me within with comedy within business. 00:45:32.009 --> 00:45:32.169 Yeah. 00:45:32.409 --> 00:45:35.129 But for the most part, which is what you get, yeah. 00:45:35.289 --> 00:45:37.369 And that's where we lose focus. 00:45:37.689 --> 00:45:38.730 We don't see things that way. 00:45:38.889 --> 00:45:40.489 That's why I think comedy breaks the ice. 00:45:40.649 --> 00:45:40.889 Yeah. 00:45:41.210 --> 00:45:45.529 Because I very rarely have I ever performed, and people are like,

Ah, you weren't that funny. 00:45:45.769 --> 00:45:51.129 Most of the time, I mean if you go to my IG, people comment, like, Oh my God, you were so funny last night. 00:45:51.289 --> 00:45:53.449 I've never heard of you before, or whatever. 00:45:53.609 --> 00:45:53.929 Yeah. 00:45:54.169 --> 00:45:56.329 And then my th comedy's my vice. 00:45:56.409 --> 00:45:59.449 I don't I don't make comedy doesn't pay a bill for me. 00:45:59.769 --> 00:46:00.489 Wait a second. 00:46:00.649 --> 00:46:00.969 What? 00:46:01.529 --> 00:46:03.129 Comedy doesn't that you're rolling? 00:46:03.529 --> 00:46:04.730 Yeah, everybody thinks that. 00:46:04.809 --> 00:46:06.329 No, comedy doesn't pay a bill. 00:46:06.489 --> 00:46:07.289 My businesses do. 00:46:07.449 --> 00:46:07.609 Yeah. 00:46:07.769 --> 00:46:12.169 So that that allowed me to to go after my my love. 00:46:12.329 --> 00:46:12.649 Yeah. 00:46:12.809 --> 00:46:13.689 My love of comedy. 00:46:13.849 --> 00:46:14.889 My love of being on stage. 00:46:15.129 --> 00:46:15.689 Fucking crap. 00:46:16.009 --> 00:46:16.569 Yeah, yeah. 00:46:16.809 --> 00:46:21.210 Did you I know you started comedy when you moved here, right? 00:46:21.529 --> 00:46:25.609 But when growing up, were you acting out possible? 00:46:26.089 --> 00:46:26.329 Absolutely. 00:46:26.409 --> 00:46:27.529 I was always the funniest guy. 00:46:27.689 --> 00:46:27.849 Okay. 00:46:28.009 --> 00:46:31.289 So my dad used to buy me until I could steal them from the store. 00:46:31.529 --> 00:46:32.809 Truly tasteless jokes. 00:46:32.889 --> 00:46:33.769 It's a whole series. 00:46:34.089 --> 00:46:35.049 There were these books. 00:46:35.289 --> 00:46:36.809 So truly tasteless jokes. 00:46:36.889 --> 00:46:37.529 You can look it up. 00:46:37.609 --> 00:46:38.489 It's so funny. 00:46:38.649 --> 00:46:41.289 I there's a man, there must be 50 of those books. 00:46:41.369 --> 00:46:43.609 And they're like the greatest joke stories. 00:46:43.929 --> 00:46:47.449 Then it was like some of them were raunchy, some of them were funny. 00:46:47.689 --> 00:46:52.329 And then it was all an Irish, a Scottish, and a Jew walk into a bar, that type of thing. 00:46:52.409 --> 00:46:52.649 Yeah, yeah. 00:46:52.809 --> 00:46:54.730 I'm reading that at 10, 11 years old. 00:46:54.889 --> 00:46:55.210 Okay. 00:46:55.369 --> 00:47:01.449 I grew up when I was I didn't find out I was a spic until I was about 12 years old. 00:47:01.769 --> 00:47:02.969 I'm at my best friend's house. 00:47:03.049 --> 00:47:04.089 I'd never met his dad. 00:47:04.250 --> 00:47:05.289 I'm having cereal. 00:47:05.369 --> 00:47:06.730 It's only me in the kitchen. 00:47:06.809 --> 00:47:08.889 And he was a Italian guy, a mob guy. 00:47:08.969 --> 00:47:13.769 He walks into the kitchen and he yells out to his wife, and you know, his wife was named Sal the other time. 00:47:13.849 --> 00:47:14.809 He said, Yo, Sal. 00:47:15.210 --> 00:47:17.049 You know, just like Italians do. 00:47:17.210 --> 00:47:19.449 He's like, Who's the freaking spic in the kitchen? 00:47:19.609 --> 00:47:20.009 Oh, geez. 00:47:20.250 --> 00:47:22.089 And I was sitting there like, I have four years old. 00:47:22.889 --> 00:47:25.369 I had to go home and ask my dad, who said that? 00:47:25.689 --> 00:47:26.250 I was like, Mr. 00:47:26.329 --> 00:47:26.889 Falcone. 00:47:26.969 --> 00:47:31.210 And my dad's like, he said, next time you tell him you don't want my dad to you don't want your dad to come over. 00:47:31.369 --> 00:47:40.250 I saw racism, not the hard racism that happens now, but I saw like to me it was real racism, which partial ignorance, partial just not knowing. 00:47:40.409 --> 00:47:40.649 Yeah. 00:47:40.809 --> 00:47:44.969 You know, because I think the difference is if you get raised a certain way, you just don't know. 00:47:45.129 --> 00:47:47.129 Now people say, oh, you should know better. 00:47:47.289 --> 00:47:47.849 Not really. 00:47:48.329 --> 00:47:48.730 Not really. 00:47:48.809 --> 00:47:51.289 If you don't grow around, grow up around minorities. 00:47:51.449 --> 00:47:54.889 And then even in this world now, I'm in I'm racist. 00:47:55.369 --> 00:47:56.250 I talk about everybody. 00:47:56.409 --> 00:47:57.449 I'm equal opportunity. 00:47:57.609 --> 00:48:03.369 My own race, white, black, Hispanic, Indian, Indians are, they're the ones I'm probably the hardest on. 00:48:03.449 --> 00:48:08.089 Because I'm like, if you're gonna call me to collect the bill, you can't talk to me in an accent. 00:48:08.329 --> 00:48:08.569 Right? 00:48:08.649 --> 00:48:09.609 You're not gonna do that. 00:48:09.769 --> 00:48:14.250 If you're gonna sell me anything, you ain't talking to me into a heavy and then tell me your name is Bob. 00:48:14.409 --> 00:48:14.569 Yeah. 00:48:14.809 --> 00:48:18.089 No, your name's Muhammad, and tell me what's what do you really want? 00:48:18.250 --> 00:48:18.489 Yeah. 00:48:18.649 --> 00:48:24.969 So I exposing reality, I think, is how many lets you expose the reality of the world we live in. 00:48:25.129 --> 00:48:25.289 Yeah. 00:48:25.529 --> 00:48:28.329 So that's my biggest driving force on anything. 00:48:28.730 --> 00:48:29.449 That's awesome. 00:48:29.769 --> 00:48:37.289 Did you have anybody in your life that that was a mentor through issues, problems, things? 00:48:37.609 --> 00:48:39.849 You mentioned you were married young. 00:48:40.889 --> 00:48:41.929 My dad was my hero. 00:48:42.089 --> 00:48:42.250 Okay. 00:48:42.489 --> 00:48:44.809 My dad and mom met my dad raised a family. 00:48:44.969 --> 00:48:49.369 So he was definitely, you know, people say that a lot of money, he was successful. 00:48:49.689 --> 00:48:52.409 So that was my main mentor, right? 00:48:52.649 --> 00:48:55.210 And then he has he comes from a big family. 00:48:55.369 --> 00:48:58.250 My grandparents were together, had three kids. 00:48:58.489 --> 00:49:03.369 My dad was one of three, and then they divorced, and one had six kids, one had

five kids. 00:49:03.609 --> 00:49:04.250 Oh my goodness. 00:49:04.409 --> 00:49:07.129 So we ended up it's about 14 uncles and aunts. 00:49:07.369 --> 00:49:07.849 Wow. 00:49:08.009 --> 00:49:10.969 So and then I have hundreds of cousins. 00:49:11.609 --> 00:49:15.449 So I would have to say a little part of all my uncles. 00:49:15.609 --> 00:49:18.649 And then my mom comes from a family of ten. 00:49:19.289 --> 00:49:21.369 She had six brothers and there were four girls. 00:49:21.529 --> 00:49:21.849 Wow. 00:49:22.009 --> 00:49:28.569 So I took a little bit and I I have to tell you that all my uncles and aunts great people. 00:49:29.210 --> 00:49:30.809 I think all of them are family people. 00:49:30.969 --> 00:49:32.009 They all had kids. 00:49:32.649 --> 00:49:34.569 So I watched these. 00:49:34.889 --> 00:49:38.169 I had I truly had people that I looked up to. 00:49:38.809 --> 00:49:41.049 You know, that for different reasons. 00:49:41.129 --> 00:49:41.289 Yeah. 00:49:41.449 --> 00:49:44.649 One might have taught me to play basketball, the other one taught me business. 00:49:44.809 --> 00:49:47.289 You know on my mother's side, they were all snooty. 00:49:47.369 --> 00:49:48.969 It's like a different type of Puerto Rican. 00:49:49.129 --> 00:49:51.929 My my father's side of the family was like the down home. 00:49:52.250 --> 00:49:54.409 But my mother's side was the snooty side. 00:49:54.569 --> 00:49:57.369 But those uncles, they just they they showed better lives. 00:49:57.529 --> 00:50:01.689 The ones on my dad's side, they were great guys and they were more down to earth. 00:50:01.769 --> 00:50:12.489 So that's where the joking came from and uh being open and family, big family parties that would go in drinking and playing cards and dancing and that type of thing. 00:50:12.649 --> 00:50:15.689 So seeing my family like that, I grew up big family. 00:50:15.769 --> 00:50:17.609 So that that encouraged me family-wise. 00:50:17.689 --> 00:50:18.009 Yeah. 00:50:18.169 --> 00:50:22.809 Then I w for whatever reason I wanted that's why I dropped out of school and everything to be a young dad. 00:50:22.969 --> 00:50:25.210 I wanted to be uh uh I wanted to be married. 00:50:25.289 --> 00:50:27.369 I wanted I saw that's what my father did. 00:50:27.449 --> 00:50:27.689 Yeah. 00:50:27.849 --> 00:50:29.529 So I did that retarded. 00:50:29.609 --> 00:50:31.609 I should have just stayed in school. 00:50:32.169 --> 00:50:34.649 But it's funny, that's what I wanted to do at the time. 00:50:34.730 --> 00:50:37.449 So it I grew up a little bit harder than what I should have. 00:50:37.529 --> 00:50:37.849 Mm-hmm. 00:50:37.929 --> 00:50:48.649 You know, I had to do it all over again, not to say I didn't want any of my children, but I would have s stayed in school or taken the opportunity to go into the service when it came back around. 00:50:48.889 --> 00:50:51.129 But I led my own hard luck. 00:50:51.289 --> 00:50:54.889 And then people I met in my life, I had

friends at different stages of your life, right? 00:50:54.969 --> 00:50:56.089 You meet people that encourage you. 00:50:56.250 --> 00:50:57.929 So I was always intrigued with business. 00:50:58.089 --> 00:50:59.849 First I started out law enforcement. 00:51:00.089 --> 00:51:04.889 That didn't work out too well because I was I had that this little bad bone in inside of me. 00:51:05.129 --> 00:51:08.250 And me growing up with the mob, friends and things like that. 00:51:08.569 --> 00:51:10.009 Sidetracked that a little bit. 00:51:10.250 --> 00:51:12.409 But I met some really interesting people. 00:51:12.569 --> 00:51:21.929 When I really got my stuff together, they were just people that were just in the common denominator, they were all family men, very stand-up people. 00:51:22.089 --> 00:51:25.129 Um, and that's what kind of gauged my life. 00:51:25.369 --> 00:51:25.529 Yeah. 00:51:25.849 --> 00:51:29.769 So I I g I want to say, and I I've probably looked up to all my children. 00:51:30.250 --> 00:51:32.089 Because I I have some great kids. 00:51:32.409 --> 00:51:40.489 I look up to them because I see me in them, and then I see them living like I can only imagine how it is to live in today's world at that age. 00:51:40.649 --> 00:51:40.889 Yeah. 00:51:41.129 --> 00:51:44.969 To grow up to be my youngest is 23. 00:51:45.689 --> 00:51:50.089 So to grow up to that age now, and it's crazy. 00:51:50.169 --> 00:51:50.409 Yeah. 00:51:50.569 --> 00:51:53.449 I can only imagine to have all these opportunities. 00:51:53.609 --> 00:51:54.329 Cell phones. 00:51:54.489 --> 00:51:56.489 Now I had one of the first cell phones too. 00:51:56.569 --> 00:51:58.409 My first cell phone was in 1989. 00:51:58.809 --> 00:52:00.009 I had the big bag phone. 00:52:00.089 --> 00:52:00.409 Oh, yeah. 00:52:00.569 --> 00:52:01.929 That's when I was doing bad things. 00:52:02.250 --> 00:52:04.089 My first cell phone bill was$3,000. 00:52:04.489 --> 00:52:05.049 No kidding. 00:52:05.289 --> 00:52:05.929 ATT. 00:52:06.089 --> 00:52:06.730 Oh my God. 00:52:06.969 --> 00:52:07.529 $3,000. 00:52:07.849 --> 00:52:12.409 It was a dollar a minute, and it all and the phone just kept dropping the first month. 00:52:12.730 --> 00:52:15.609 Needless to say, I probably only had the phone for about four months. 00:52:16.250 --> 00:52:16.409 Yeah. 00:52:16.809 --> 00:52:17.609 The bill was crazy. 00:52:17.689 --> 00:52:23.210 And then the first flip phone that came out, Motorola, like I had the first of those in technology. 00:52:23.369 --> 00:52:24.569 I always had to have those things. 00:52:24.649 --> 00:52:28.889 It was that was the part of me that was just always intriguing and always wanted to. 00:52:29.129 --> 00:52:33.929 That's like, nah, that was like I like I drive nice cars and stuff like that, but I live good. 00:52:34.009 --> 00:52:34.569 But I work hard. 00:52:34.730 --> 00:52:36.169 You work hard and you want to live good. 00:52:36.489 --> 00:52:41.529 I wish I was a little bit more humble, a little bit more subtle, but that's always me. 00:52:42.009 --> 00:52:42.169 Yeah. 00:52:42.409 --> 00:52:43.210 I don't I don't know. 00:52:43.289 --> 00:53:01.369 I it's interesting because I I look at myself and I think one of the things that has been coming up quite a bit in these conversations is is uh self-reflection and looking back and going, okay, like you just said, like it's weird because I feel the same way like when I had I known then what I know now, what would I have changed? 00:53:01.689 --> 00:53:05.929 Yeah, but what would you would you be worth what you are to like would you be who you are? 00:53:06.250 --> 00:53:09.529 No if you didn't go through right, right. 00:53:09.929 --> 00:53:11.689 Two eggs, two eggs, a cup of water. 00:53:11.849 --> 00:53:12.889 That's what our life is. 00:53:12.969 --> 00:53:13.210 Yeah. 00:53:13.369 --> 00:53:17.609 Would we have gotten to where we are now if we did it differently? 00:53:17.849 --> 00:53:18.489 Absolutely not. 00:53:18.569 --> 00:53:18.730 Yeah. 00:53:18.969 --> 00:53:19.769 Fate is fate. 00:53:19.849 --> 00:53:20.009 No. 00:53:20.250 --> 00:53:21.049 I learned that. 00:53:21.210 --> 00:53:27.369 Now, taking care of your body, I lost I'm about 195 pounds, and my heaviest house probably about 280. 00:53:27.449 --> 00:53:27.769 Wow. 00:53:27.929 --> 00:53:29.929 So I go to the gym a couple times. 00:53:30.169 --> 00:53:34.809 My separation probably contributed to that a little bit, but it was just a better lifestyle. 00:53:34.889 --> 00:53:35.129 Yeah. 00:53:35.289 --> 00:53:38.489 Now owning businesses, being able to do whatever I want. 00:53:38.569 --> 00:53:38.809 Yeah. 00:53:39.529 --> 00:53:42.329 Dating, things like that are all different now. 00:53:42.649 --> 00:53:45.769 But I think it puts me, it makes you actually makes me a better comic. 00:53:45.849 --> 00:53:46.009 Yeah. 00:53:46.169 --> 00:53:47.289 Makes me a better father. 00:53:47.529 --> 00:53:48.569 Makes me a better friend. 00:53:48.730 --> 00:53:53.529 Like all of those have been contributed because that was the recipes, recipe I put together. 00:53:53.769 --> 00:53:57.449 So, like you said, self-reflection is interesting. 00:53:57.689 --> 00:54:02.409 Because of course, there's things that we probably shouldn't have done or we would have done differently. 00:54:02.730 --> 00:54:04.969 And aren't you glad there was no cell phones back then to record? 00:54:05.210 --> 00:54:12.809 Oh my gosh, I can't even tell you that it was cell phone cameras like really didn't get big until like early 2000s. 00:54:12.889 --> 00:54:13.049 Yeah. 00:54:13.129 --> 00:54:18.329 So I want to say when I moved to Arizona, I still had a flip phone and it just started taking pictures. 00:54:18.730 --> 00:54:25.449 So I w I'm gonna say probably four or five is when the cameras take some pictures, and but you still couldn't download them. 00:54:25.529 --> 00:54:26.809 They were still on SIM cards. 00:54:27.049 -->

00:54:30.250 I say no s no SIM cards to track your every move. 00:54:30.569 --> 00:54:31.369 Yeah, no, it's crazy. 00:54:31.449 --> 00:54:32.089 That's what I'm saying. 00:54:32.169 --> 00:54:33.449 I couldn't even imagine now. 00:54:33.609 --> 00:54:40.250 Like even now, cell phones and cameras, and I my phone does did some crazy the other day. 00:54:40.489 --> 00:54:50.409 Started recording, yeah, started recording a message, or no, started recording a conversation and sent it as a message to someone. 00:54:50.649 --> 00:54:56.969 Oh yeah, and I'm gonna glad it I cut off when I did, yeah, it wouldn't have been the same. 00:54:57.129 --> 00:54:57.449 Huh. 00:54:57.529 --> 00:54:58.169 That's crazy. 00:54:59.129 --> 00:55:00.569 I would have had some explaining to do. 00:55:00.730 --> 00:55:01.049 Yeah. 00:55:01.609 --> 00:55:11.049 With regards to your the comedy stuff, is there a venue that like you love to perform at or that you would love to perform at? 00:55:11.289 --> 00:55:13.689 Well, I've done I'm hitting some of my bucket list. 00:55:13.929 --> 00:55:16.169 So here in in Arizona, I know you brought up Mic Drop. 00:55:16.409 --> 00:55:19.369 Arizona has the largest club in the country, Mike Drop. 00:55:19.449 --> 00:55:21.049 Excuse me, not Mike Drop, but Stand Up Live. 00:55:21.210 --> 00:55:21.769 Stand Up Live. 00:55:21.929 --> 00:55:24.169 So Stand Up Live is You just played there last week. 00:55:24.569 --> 00:55:24.889 Last week. 00:55:25.210 --> 00:55:25.929 Yeah, last week. 00:55:26.089 --> 00:55:27.129 The week before last. 00:55:27.369 --> 00:55:30.809 Last week we were in uh Florida, Fort Lauderdale. 00:55:31.049 --> 00:55:32.969 But that club is phenomenal. 00:55:33.129 --> 00:55:38.649 Like doing the Phoenix Club and being able, so the headline I'm with now, Gary Owen, he sells out. 00:55:38.730 --> 00:55:40.409 He's been hot social media. 00:55:40.730 --> 00:55:42.089 And he's been in a lot of movies. 00:55:42.169 --> 00:55:48.089 He was with Kevin Hart and Ride Along, and he was in Think Like a Man and a lot of movies. 00:55:48.329 --> 00:55:50.009 And he's a great guy. 00:55:50.169 --> 00:55:54.730 He's a white comic, urban, so he's probably the most successful white urban comic in the country. 00:55:54.889 --> 00:55:57.210 But he sold out four out of five shows there. 00:55:57.369 --> 00:55:57.609 Wow. 00:55:58.009 --> 00:56:00.489 One show he didn't sell out was only 400 people. 00:56:00.889 --> 00:56:01.129 Only. 00:56:01.449 --> 00:56:02.089 Yeah, only. 00:56:02.489 --> 00:56:05.529 So it's just an unbelievable club, unbelievable feeling. 00:56:05.769 --> 00:56:12.169 Certain clubs around I tell you what, the the club that's given me the most love the last two years was Baltimore. 00:56:12.329 --> 00:56:15.210 Oh figure, they're hard, and that's a hard crowd. 00:56:15.369 --> 00:56:17.289 That club holds 500. 00:56:17.449 --> 00:56:17.769 Okay. 00:56:18.169 --> 00:56:20.969 He added, we had to add three shows. 00:56:21.049 --> 00:56:22.329 So we did eight shows. 00:56:22.569 --> 00:56:23.210 Wow. 00:56:23.609 --> 00:56:24.250 Eight shows. 00:56:24.489 --> 00:56:24.649 Wow. 00:56:24.889 --> 00:56:28.409 We just did eight shows in Dallas, Texas, and those were all sold out. 00:56:28.649 --> 00:56:28.889 Wow. 00:56:29.049 --> 00:56:33.369 That club wasn't as big, but was it eight shows, what, over four or five days? 00:56:33.769 --> 00:56:34.009 Three days. 00:56:34.250 --> 00:56:34.569 Three days. 00:56:34.730 --> 00:56:38.730 So we was like two Friday, three Saturday, three Sunday. 00:56:39.049 --> 00:56:42.569 When you do that, I can only imagine like just exhaustion. 00:56:42.969 --> 00:56:43.449 Exhaustion? 00:56:43.769 --> 00:56:44.649 I'm yawning now. 00:56:44.889 --> 00:56:46.489 Just came back from Fort Lauderdale. 00:56:46.569 --> 00:56:48.730 We did six shows there, and all six shows were sold out. 00:56:49.289 --> 00:56:50.329 And today's Wednesday. 00:56:50.569 --> 00:56:51.849 How do you keep your energy up? 00:56:52.089 --> 00:56:54.409 I don't try to hang out like I was young anymore. 00:56:54.569 --> 00:56:55.369 I get up early. 00:56:55.529 --> 00:57:00.169 I still get up early to start my day, and I go to bed as a reasonable time. 00:57:00.329 --> 00:57:03.609 I really don't have an after life. 00:57:03.929 --> 00:57:05.449 I'm more of a reserved person. 00:57:05.689 --> 00:57:07.529 Live I'm I live by myself now. 00:57:07.689 --> 00:57:10.730 I just running the businesses, traveling on the weekends. 00:57:10.889 --> 00:57:12.329 I just respect my body. 00:57:12.489 --> 00:57:12.730 Yeah. 00:57:12.889 --> 00:57:14.730 I don't we were talking about this earlier. 00:57:14.809 --> 00:57:15.369 I don't drink. 00:57:15.449 --> 00:57:19.129 I I have I'm an occasional drinker, a couple of drinks, at a function. 00:57:19.210 --> 00:57:19.369 Yeah. 00:57:19.609 --> 00:57:21.849 Like I won't go home now and have a drink or a beer. 00:57:22.649 --> 00:57:23.529 I don't smoke. 00:57:23.689 --> 00:57:29.849 So I have a little bit more respect for my body, understanding that like hypertension killed my dad, lung cancer killed my mom. 00:57:30.089 --> 00:57:34.009 But then I see other people that have their parents are living into their 80s and 90s. 00:57:34.329 --> 00:57:36.969 The one denominator, the majority of them don't do those things. 00:57:37.049 --> 00:57:37.449 Yeah, yeah. 00:57:37.609 --> 00:57:38.809 And that's how they live longer. 00:57:38.969 --> 00:57:39.609 I love life. 00:57:39.769 --> 00:57:43.689 And then I have I got these beautiful kids, they're a pain in the neck. 00:57:44.009 --> 00:57:45.769 My kids are all older, but they're pain. 00:57:45.849 --> 00:57:46.329 But I love them. 00:57:46.489 --> 00:57:47.129 Beautiful kids. 00:57:47.210 --> 00:57:50.089 They're beautiful family people, my my grandkids. 00:57:50.169 --> 00:57:52.730 There's nothing like being a grandparent. 00:57:52.889 --> 00:57:59.769 Man, I know that they

always say that, but my grandkids have such all different personalities, and thank God they're beautiful. 00:57:59.849 --> 00:58:02.009 Because there's nothing worse than having an ugly grandkid. 00:58:02.089 --> 00:58:02.250 Yeah. 00:58:02.409 --> 00:58:03.529 I tell people that all the time. 00:58:03.689 --> 00:58:06.329 I'm like, because it's like, oh my gosh, look at little Joe. 00:58:06.409 --> 00:58:08.489 I'm like, little Joe's head's lopsided. 00:58:08.569 --> 00:58:09.210 Did you know that? 00:58:09.449 --> 00:58:10.409 It's so adorable. 00:58:10.730 --> 00:58:10.889 I know. 00:58:11.369 --> 00:58:12.329 It's like a little old man. 00:58:12.730 --> 00:58:17.849 I love social media, but I love social media because you could people watch and I have to stand at the mall like we used to do. 00:58:18.250 --> 00:58:19.129 Why are you staring at me? 00:58:19.289 --> 00:58:19.849 Yeah, I'm stare. 00:58:20.089 --> 00:58:23.289 I'm like, I'm like, oh my gosh, what happened to her husband? 00:58:23.449 --> 00:58:23.769 Yeah. 00:58:24.250 --> 00:58:25.129 He's cross-eyed. 00:58:25.210 --> 00:58:27.769 Like it's so funny when you just people watch on social media. 00:58:27.929 --> 00:58:28.489 That's the type of thing. 00:58:28.649 --> 00:58:29.929 I say some of the stuff you're posting. 00:58:30.250 --> 00:58:32.969 When I post, yeah, when I see crazy stuff in the street. 00:58:33.289 --> 00:58:34.569 What's your Instagram handle? 00:58:34.730 --> 00:58:35.689 At Rob Laughs? 00:58:35.849 --> 00:58:36.649 Yeah, Rob Laughs. 00:58:36.809 --> 00:58:38.409 R-O-B-L-A-F-F-S. 00:58:39.289 --> 00:58:39.369 Yeah. 00:58:39.929 --> 00:58:42.089 Yeah, you gotta follow some of your stuff you post. 00:58:42.730 --> 00:58:49.369 People say that you fat scamming the designer of those shorts did not want her to wear those. 00:58:49.769 --> 00:58:51.210 I'm not scamming the body. 00:58:51.289 --> 00:58:54.569 I'm shaming the fact that somebody sold her those shorts. 00:58:54.649 --> 00:58:55.769 Who's the cashier? 00:58:56.009 --> 00:58:57.689 And somebody let her out of the house wearing. 00:58:58.730 --> 00:59:04.009 And she actually, and the fact that she actually looked in the mirror and said, damn, this looks good on me. 00:59:04.250 --> 00:59:10.009 While the freaking so I see that or like you see people walking around like the airport, my airport shots are always the best ones. 00:59:10.089 --> 00:59:10.329 Yeah. 00:59:10.889 --> 00:59:12.649 That's why I didn't fly Southwest. 00:59:12.730 --> 00:59:16.969 Because Southwest, they let you know who the hell you're gonna sit next to. 00:59:17.049 --> 00:59:17.129 Yeah. 00:59:17.289 --> 00:59:18.250 Now here's the thing. 00:59:18.409 --> 00:59:20.809 I'm not bougie, but I do status. 00:59:20.969 --> 00:59:28.409 And I know that ugly people and big people don't normally pay extra to be up in better seats. 00:59:28.489 --> 00:59:28.730 Yeah. 00:59:28.889 --> 00:59:30.569 They just pick the cheapest ticket. 00:59:30.649 --> 00:59:30.809 Yeah. 00:59:31.049 --> 00:59:34.409 So they went, they're using group seven, group eight, group nine. 00:59:34.569 --> 00:59:36.649 I'm group one or two all the time. 00:59:36.889 --> 00:59:40.089 And I very rarely sit next to somebody that shouldn't be sitting next to me. 00:59:40.489 --> 00:59:49.049 Southwest, man, everybody's you ever seen once that group C came in, people are looking like, holy shit, I wish he doesn't sit next to me. 00:59:49.449 --> 00:59:54.809 You got your hood on your hood on, you're a earbuds in, you're like bags sitting next to you. 00:59:58.250 --> 00:59:58.569 Yeah. 00:59:58.730 --> 00:59:58.889 Yeah. 00:59:59.049 --> 01:00:00.169 That's a good thing you do. 01:00:00.250 --> 01:00:01.129 But that's it's comedy. 01:00:01.289 --> 01:00:02.809 People talk about that, but it's real world. 01:00:02.889 --> 01:00:03.929 I take real pictures. 01:00:04.089 --> 01:00:04.250 Yeah. 01:00:04.329 --> 01:00:06.250 And don't think I'm the only one that looks at that. 01:00:06.329 --> 01:00:06.409 No. 01:00:06.649 --> 01:00:07.689 I just share it sometimes. 01:00:07.929 --> 01:00:11.689 Well, it's I it's one of the reasons I love going to Disneyland. 01:00:11.849 --> 01:00:13.769 Not for the rides, not for the four times last. 01:00:14.169 --> 01:00:16.009 I love just watching the people. 01:00:16.169 --> 01:00:22.409 And really part of it is I love seeing the kids that it's their first time because it just reminds me of my kids and their own. 01:00:22.649 --> 01:00:23.210 I love Disney. 01:00:23.449 --> 01:00:24.250 I love Disney. 01:00:24.329 --> 01:00:27.769 The Disney experience, it's almost like a cult. 01:00:28.009 --> 01:00:29.369 Yeah, it is. 01:00:29.609 --> 01:00:32.730 It's almost like a cult, but I grew up loving Disney World. 01:00:32.809 --> 01:00:35.769 So last year I went to Disney World once, Disneyland three times. 01:00:36.009 --> 01:00:36.169 Wow. 01:00:36.250 --> 01:00:36.409 Yeah. 01:00:36.569 --> 01:00:37.929 See, and that's and we go. 01:00:38.009 --> 01:00:42.569 And I just I love watching people, and it's like I went as an adult with a date. 01:00:42.889 --> 01:00:44.809 Not with people like person I'm dating. 01:00:46.089 --> 01:00:47.929 I didn't go because I was taking my grandkids. 01:00:48.089 --> 01:00:51.449 I'm not going there like pop on the cart with the Mickey Mouse ears. 01:00:54.649 --> 01:00:56.169 The people watching at Disneyland. 01:00:57.449 --> 01:01:01.210 And next level besides that's crazy. 01:01:01.289 --> 01:01:02.409 But yeah, I love that. 01:01:03.129 --> 01:01:03.769 People say that. 01:01:03.849 --> 01:01:04.569 That's a cruel. 01:01:04.649 --> 01:01:06.089 Oh, you're making fun of people. 01:01:06.169 --> 01:01:08.250 Yes, partially true. 01:01:08.569 --> 01:01:09.449 Partially true. 01:01:09.529 --> 01:01:11.210 But I'm not making fun of them. 01:01:11.289 --> 01:01:12.889 I'm we're laughing with them. 01:01:13.049 --> 01:01:14.730 You know, people

don't realize that part. 01:01:14.889 --> 01:01:15.210 Right. 01:01:15.369 --> 01:01:17.369 So it's never to shame anybody. 01:01:17.449 --> 01:01:21.369 A lot of times I sometimes I'll try to black out their face or take it from the side. 01:01:21.609 --> 01:01:24.409 But sometimes stuff is outrageous. 01:01:24.489 --> 01:01:24.730 Yeah. 01:01:24.889 --> 01:01:25.849 So you just share it. 01:01:26.329 --> 01:01:27.049 And people love that. 01:01:28.009 --> 01:01:30.169 I lose followers and friends sometimes. 01:01:30.409 --> 01:01:32.089 Like, you shouldn't do that. 01:01:32.250 --> 01:01:33.529 And I'm like, you know what? 01:01:33.689 --> 01:01:35.049 Then you just unfollow me. 01:01:35.129 --> 01:01:36.730 That's a very simple task. 01:01:36.889 --> 01:01:38.089 Don't follow me, don't come see me. 01:01:38.409 --> 01:01:43.289 If you don't like it, it's kind of like it's kind of like uh we talk about this all the time, but Homeburg in the morning. 01:01:43.449 --> 01:01:47.369 Listen to his show in the morning, it's like, how does he get away with some of the stuff that he says? 01:01:47.769 --> 01:01:48.649 He loves he loves. 01:01:48.730 --> 01:01:56.089 I was on Homeberg a couple weeks ago, and that's why he loves having me on, because we talk about real we talk about real things. 01:01:56.169 --> 01:01:57.929 And but it's okay. 01:01:58.250 --> 01:02:01.609 He really should be on satellite TV satellite review. 01:02:01.929 --> 01:02:02.730 Really go full in. 01:02:02.889 --> 01:02:03.529 Go full in. 01:02:03.609 --> 01:02:05.129 You know why he's a great guy. 01:02:05.210 --> 01:02:05.849 He's a great guy. 01:02:06.169 --> 01:02:08.809 But you think how do and then they get people complaining about it. 01:02:08.889 --> 01:02:12.169 It's like, okay, if you don't want to hear it, change it. 01:02:14.250 --> 01:02:15.369 It's really easy. 01:02:15.689 --> 01:02:19.289 Don't impose your will or your taste. 01:02:19.609 --> 01:02:20.809 Because you have options now. 01:02:20.969 --> 01:02:21.210 Right. 01:02:21.449 --> 01:02:25.769 It's not like he's knocking at your door telling these jokes or he's calling you on the phone. 01:02:26.009 --> 01:02:26.649 You have a choice. 01:02:26.809 --> 01:02:28.569 Don't listen to the you like the station. 01:02:28.889 --> 01:02:31.849 You already know that he's gonna talk in the morning. 01:02:32.089 --> 01:02:36.009 And it's you know, it used to be like it used to be like that with like the old Howard Stern. 01:02:36.409 --> 01:02:37.049 That's how he was. 01:02:37.129 --> 01:02:39.929 He was that's what made him unique, that's what made him rich and famous. 01:02:40.089 --> 01:02:40.329 Yep. 01:02:40.569 --> 01:02:42.969 There's it's almost like politics now. 01:02:43.129 --> 01:02:47.129 You got some that love the extreme, some that love the conservative. 01:02:47.210 --> 01:02:47.369 Yeah. 01:02:47.609 --> 01:02:49.369 And you just gotta know where you belong. 01:02:49.689 --> 01:02:52.169 It's I'm a

firm believer of keeping it real. 01:02:52.329 --> 01:02:52.489 Yeah. 01:02:52.730 --> 01:02:53.369 Keep it real. 01:02:53.689 --> 01:02:55.929 If you keep it real, people choose. 01:02:56.329 --> 01:03:01.609 And if you're still good when they keep it real, then you know, then you're good. 01:03:01.689 --> 01:03:02.009 Yeah. 01:03:02.250 --> 01:03:04.809 With me, people know where I come from. 01:03:04.969 --> 01:03:06.809 They know, they know what they get. 01:03:06.969 --> 01:03:08.089 So I don't get hurt. 01:03:08.730 --> 01:03:10.089 And I'm still gonna love everybody. 01:03:10.169 --> 01:03:10.809 That's the truth. 01:03:10.889 --> 01:03:11.049 Yeah. 01:03:11.210 --> 01:03:14.169 I really don't have I don't have a lot of malice in my heart. 01:03:14.329 --> 01:03:15.609 I just want to think I learned. 01:03:16.089 --> 01:03:17.609 Treat me well, I'm gonna treat you well. 01:03:18.009 --> 01:03:19.849 And then even if you don't treat me well, it's okay. 01:03:20.569 --> 01:03:21.210 I I still love you. 01:03:21.609 --> 01:03:22.649 It's gonna trash talk. 01:03:22.809 --> 01:03:24.730 You you I'm gonna talk shit about you for sure. 01:03:24.809 --> 01:03:26.169 Yeah, that's gonna be what it is. 01:03:26.329 --> 01:03:27.449 It there comes a price with T. 01:03:27.689 --> 01:03:28.329 Yes, for sure. 01:03:28.489 --> 01:03:31.369 Like TSA, I'm I'm a big I gotta be careful. 01:03:31.529 --> 01:03:38.730 I've been uh I'm getting rid they're gonna take away my TSA status one day because I think those are the biggest retards in the world. 01:03:38.969 --> 01:03:43.529 Like I I had a big thing at the airport about what I had post I had posted, I don't know if you saw it. 01:03:43.609 --> 01:03:46.649 It's a video I took about four or five months ago. 01:03:46.809 --> 01:03:50.169 And they're patting down this 90-year-old man out of a wheelchair. 01:03:50.969 --> 01:03:53.849 I'm like, if he's gonna bomb the plane, kudos to him. 01:03:54.089 --> 01:03:54.329 Right. 01:03:54.569 --> 01:03:57.369 Like, where did he get the money right for the C4? 01:03:57.689 --> 01:04:00.969 And you know, but do you really think he wants to kill himself up in the air? 01:04:01.210 --> 01:04:03.210 Like, and it's stupidity like that. 01:04:03.289 --> 01:04:05.769 And I'm asking him, what are you checking him for? 01:04:06.009 --> 01:04:07.369 He's a drug runner, what is this? 01:04:07.449 --> 01:04:09.129 A Clint Eastwood and the mule? 01:04:09.369 --> 01:04:10.649 Like, what are you doing? 01:04:10.809 --> 01:04:12.009 Are you guys retarded? 01:04:12.089 --> 01:04:12.250 Right. 01:04:12.409 --> 01:04:15.689 And it led to a whole big thing that with TSA and Oh, really? 01:04:15.849 --> 01:04:20.489 Yeah, yeah, because then I guess that's the other thing that's I have I struggle with things. 01:04:20.649 --> 01:04:23.049 Everybody at the airport needs a wheelchair. 01:04:23.210 --> 01:04:32.250 So they hire like Walmart people to push around lazy, fat people at the airport to get to their gate, right? 01:04:32.489 --> 01:04:36.089 So my thing is this guy gets upset. 01:04:36.250 --> 01:04:37.929 He's like, Yeah, you should mind your business. 01:04:38.009 --> 01:04:39.849 I'm like, Yeah, you should get another job. 01:04:40.009 --> 01:04:41.049 Like, what are you doing? 01:04:41.210 --> 01:04:43.049 Because I see that all the time. 01:04:43.129 --> 01:04:43.210 Right. 01:04:43.529 --> 01:04:45.049 Like, people in wheelchairs first. 01:04:45.129 --> 01:04:46.569 No, they got here to the airport. 01:04:46.649 --> 01:04:47.769 They didn't have a wheelchair. 01:04:47.929 --> 01:04:50.329 They take away the fun out of being handicapped. 01:04:50.489 --> 01:04:51.529 I was like, really? 01:04:51.609 --> 01:04:54.250 Like, shit, where's the regular handicapped people anymore? 01:04:54.569 --> 01:04:55.609 You ever go to a casino? 01:04:55.689 --> 01:04:58.569 There's 800 only handicapped people go to the casino? 01:04:59.049 --> 01:04:59.929 They want the elderly. 01:05:01.289 --> 01:05:01.849 Across the street. 01:05:01.929 --> 01:05:02.489 I was walking. 01:05:02.649 --> 01:05:03.529 I 70. 01:05:03.609 --> 01:05:05.849 I'm like, I'm coming over here to the podcast. 01:05:06.009 --> 01:05:10.009 I want to go play a big bingo game at the American Legion across the street. 01:05:10.329 --> 01:05:12.730 Nine grandkids, or you're gonna have nine. 01:05:13.049 --> 01:05:13.529 No, nine. 01:05:13.609 --> 01:05:15.129 The ninth one was just born on Friday. 01:05:15.449 --> 01:05:15.609 Okay. 01:05:16.009 --> 01:05:16.969 Congratulations. 01:05:17.210 --> 01:05:19.129 No, that see, that's what the life is about. 01:05:19.210 --> 01:05:20.009 That's my legacy. 01:05:20.329 --> 01:05:21.849 Are they all here in Arizona? 01:05:22.009 --> 01:05:22.809 Yeah, they're all no. 01:05:23.129 --> 01:05:24.250 Two of them are in New York. 01:05:24.409 --> 01:05:24.649 Okay. 01:05:24.809 --> 01:05:26.569 But there are seven of them here in Arizona. 01:05:26.730 --> 01:05:26.969 Wow. 01:05:27.129 --> 01:05:30.329 And that's to me, that's my that's the best. 01:05:30.569 --> 01:05:30.969 That's awesome. 01:05:31.129 --> 01:05:35.849 And then I don't really associate with them until they're uh they have a limit, like 11, 12 years old. 01:05:36.089 --> 01:05:36.649 And then you're done. 01:05:36.809 --> 01:05:38.169 Because they're retarded before that. 01:05:38.329 --> 01:05:41.129 They asked, they they act stupid and say dumb things. 01:05:41.210 --> 01:05:43.529 You don't want to you don't want to retard a grandchild child. 01:05:43.689 --> 01:05:48.889 So until I know that they're able to hold a decent conversation, I don't call them. 01:05:48.969 --> 01:05:51.049 Like I buy them their cell phones. 01:05:51.129 --> 01:05:51.210 Yeah. 01:05:51.449 --> 01:05:55.449 I do all of that because grandkids are a reflection of yourself. 01:05:55.769 --> 01:05:58.809 So do you so you are you with them when they're a little bean, small little

child? 01:05:59.449 --> 01:06:02.009 And once they start talking, you're like, at two years old, I leave them alone. 01:06:02.169 --> 01:06:02.329 Okay. 01:06:02.649 --> 01:06:03.849 Sometimes they get annoying. 01:06:04.089 --> 01:06:05.769 And then I pick them up about eleven. 01:06:05.929 --> 01:06:06.169 Gotcha. 01:06:06.329 --> 01:06:07.689 And they can come back and talk to grandpa. 01:06:08.089 --> 01:06:11.210 So are you gonna roll back into the T-ball softball? 01:06:11.609 --> 01:06:12.329 So they've tried. 01:06:12.569 --> 01:06:17.689 So my oldest granddaughter, she was, she really didn't want to pick up softball. 01:06:17.849 --> 01:06:21.210 Otherwise, I thought she was the one that was gonna get me tuned into that. 01:06:21.769 --> 01:06:24.489 And she's 16. 01:06:24.969 --> 01:06:27.689 So she's but she's a great flag football player. 01:06:28.009 --> 01:06:28.329 Okay. 01:06:28.489 --> 01:06:33.689 So she goes, now that's a varsity sport here in Arizona for for girls, which was great. 01:06:33.929 --> 01:06:36.409 So I I never got a chance to coach her. 01:06:36.569 --> 01:06:38.649 And then I I just gotta see if I have time. 01:06:38.809 --> 01:06:41.049 I think that's the one part that I may skip. 01:06:41.609 --> 01:06:45.449 My son was coaching his boys a little bit in some flag football. 01:06:45.689 --> 01:06:46.809 It's not the same anymore. 01:06:47.049 --> 01:06:48.649 And then you gotta have time and commitment. 01:06:48.809 --> 01:06:48.969 Yeah. 01:06:49.210 --> 01:06:53.449 And then what happens now is I spent a lot, I spent almost 30 years coaching. 01:06:53.529 --> 01:06:55.289 I was coaching since I was 16 years old. 01:06:55.529 --> 01:06:56.089 No kidding. 01:06:56.250 --> 01:06:59.849 I was volunteering when I was a kid in high school because they needed coaches. 01:06:59.929 --> 01:07:00.009 Yeah. 01:07:00.169 --> 01:07:02.489 So I'd coach little younger teams and things like that. 01:07:02.889 --> 01:07:08.089 So I coached from maybe might be even longer, but I mean I had some time off in between, right? 01:07:08.169 --> 01:07:14.009 So but I started at 16 and I probably stopped coaching at a long history there. 01:07:14.329 --> 01:07:15.689 Long history there of coaching. 01:07:15.929 --> 01:07:16.649 And I enjoyed it. 01:07:16.730 --> 01:07:21.769 I enjoyed coaching teaching children, especially those that really get the most out of it. 01:07:21.849 --> 01:07:22.009 Yeah. 01:07:22.250 --> 01:07:26.169 Sportsmanship, strategy, how to win, how to lose. 01:07:26.329 --> 01:07:26.969 That's a talent. 01:07:27.210 --> 01:07:28.250 How to lose with grace. 01:07:28.489 --> 01:07:29.529 How to lose with grace. 01:07:29.769 --> 01:07:34.009 And then I found that in more affluent neighborhoods, both parents come to it. 01:07:34.169 --> 01:07:35.849 For the most part, sometimes it's only one. 01:07:36.250 --> 01:07:45.049 But I started out coaching girls because I would find that dads would not be associated, not be into their girls' sports. 01:07:45.289 --> 01:07:45.529 Interesting. 01:07:45.849 --> 01:07:47.129 I would turn that over to the women. 01:07:47.289 --> 01:07:47.529 Yeah. 01:07:47.769 --> 01:07:55.049 So I first was coaching girls basketball young and I would find that it was just a lot more single parents. 01:07:55.210 --> 01:08:01.129 And then when I was coaching softball and I coached for a lot of years here and all over the state. 01:08:01.689 --> 01:08:04.569 It was such an honor for me, these young ladies' coaches. 01:08:04.649 --> 01:08:08.730 And like now, all these ladies that I coach, a lot of them, I got a lot of girls into college. 01:08:08.889 --> 01:08:13.849 I want to say there's probably about 30 plus girls that I coached that went and played at college levels. 01:08:14.009 --> 01:08:15.369 I coach hundreds of girls. 01:08:15.449 --> 01:08:15.609 Yeah. 01:08:15.769 --> 01:08:19.769 But to really play, those 30, 40 girls in particular that played at college. 01:08:19.929 --> 01:08:23.210 But then now all these girls, I get these thank yous. 01:08:23.289 --> 01:08:24.489 They have their own families. 01:08:24.649 --> 01:08:24.809 Wow. 01:08:24.969 --> 01:08:26.169 The most coach Rob. 01:08:26.409 --> 01:08:26.809 I took them. 01:08:26.889 --> 01:08:27.849 We played all over the country. 01:08:27.929 --> 01:08:31.929 When I had, I coached my daughter's club team, we'll bankrupt the family. 01:08:32.409 --> 01:08:33.849 But we played all over the country. 01:08:33.929 --> 01:08:38.329 We played in Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, New York. 01:08:38.409 --> 01:08:40.329 He traveled, California, Texas. 01:08:40.569 --> 01:08:41.129 No kidding. 01:08:41.289 --> 01:08:45.049 My daughter, when we were at the height of club ball, we played 100 games a year. 01:08:45.369 --> 01:08:46.009 Really? 01:08:46.409 --> 01:08:47.609 Oh my gosh. 01:08:47.849 --> 01:08:48.889 100 games a year. 01:08:49.369 --> 01:08:50.889 11 months out of the year. 01:08:51.129 --> 01:08:51.609 Wow. 01:08:52.089 --> 01:08:52.809 It was crazy. 01:08:52.969 --> 01:08:53.369 Huh. 01:08:53.609 --> 01:08:54.169 Interesting. 01:08:54.329 --> 01:08:55.529 I didn't realize there was that much. 01:08:56.329 --> 01:08:59.929 It's funny because I where I grew up, we didn't have I mean we had Babe Ruth. 01:09:00.089 --> 01:09:00.729 That was the closest thing. 01:09:01.289 --> 01:09:02.169 When I grew up, that's how it was. 01:09:03.369 --> 01:09:04.729 But now it's like everybody's got a club. 01:09:04.809 --> 01:09:08.250 My neighbor my neighbor's got three daughters, all three of them are into volleyball, and they're every week. 01:09:08.729 --> 01:09:10.169 Volleyball club, that was the big deal. 01:09:10.489 --> 01:09:11.289 Going differently. 01:09:12.009 --> 01:09:17.369 Volleyball is probably the biggest soccer was, and then I think volleyball took over for the club scene now. 01:09:17.609 --> 01:09:18.329 It's incredible. 01:09:18.489 --> 01:09:21.689 Yeah,

because I want to say that soccer is softball, volleyball. 01:09:22.169 --> 01:09:22.969 Those three right there. 01:09:23.449 --> 01:09:34.250 So like I said, it was it's and that accomplishment, like to see these young adults turn into family people and things like that, because there's some tragedies involved. 01:09:34.649 --> 01:09:35.609 I started seeing that. 01:09:35.770 --> 01:09:37.369 I saw, especially with young ladies. 01:09:37.529 --> 01:09:43.130 Mo then was the bullying team here that had a young lady that was bullied and she killed herself. 01:09:43.289 --> 01:09:55.369 And to me that was incredible because I couldn't I couldn't imagine not being there for my child that was going through a bullying and that she was so she got so messed up by it that she felt that taking her life. 01:09:55.529 --> 01:09:57.369 And that's the stress kids have today. 01:09:57.449 --> 01:10:05.850 That's why I don't envy parents today because they're they're up against the phone, they're up against peer pressure that we've never seen before. 01:10:06.010 --> 01:10:06.409 Yeah, yeah. 01:10:06.649 --> 01:10:08.730 This peer pressure is unbelievable. 01:10:08.970 --> 01:10:16.649 And that's why it's so important that you get your kids involved in things because everything is about everything other than family value. 01:10:16.810 --> 01:10:17.050 Yeah. 01:10:17.210 --> 01:10:19.210 And I think that's where we lose focus. 01:10:19.369 --> 01:10:21.929 And then broken homes are such a prevalent thing now. 01:10:22.010 --> 01:10:22.569 Yeah. 01:10:22.809 --> 01:10:31.849 And so it's hard to be a single parent or an outside dad, and then get your kids and then still be a part of their lives and things like that. 01:10:32.010 --> 01:10:33.689 And that's what we're up against. 01:10:33.769 --> 01:10:34.010 Yeah. 01:10:34.250 --> 01:10:38.010 So not to get not to be Debbie Downer, but that's just the reality. 01:10:38.250 --> 01:10:38.569 For sure. 01:10:38.729 --> 01:10:40.329 That's so that's part of my background. 01:10:40.489 --> 01:10:42.809 My background, that's what's developed me. 01:10:43.050 --> 01:10:47.369 People say, Well, how did you get to, or what do you that's how I was developed. 01:10:47.609 --> 01:10:50.329 I was developed with the family structure. 01:10:50.489 --> 01:10:54.329 I was developed in adversity, I was developed, love everybody. 01:10:54.889 --> 01:10:57.849 Great qualities that my parents taught me. 01:10:58.010 --> 01:11:00.489 And and then you gotta one day you gotta be the parent. 01:11:00.569 --> 01:11:00.809 Yeah. 01:11:00.970 --> 01:11:06.569 I I have some I have some in my family that now I'm having to support and be there for. 01:11:06.729 --> 01:11:09.529 And I'm like, I don't want to be an adult all my life, I want to be a kid. 01:11:09.689 --> 01:11:11.609 That's why I went to Disney four times last year. 01:11:12.250 --> 01:11:14.489 That's why I shoot off to Hawaii when I'm not on tour. 01:11:14.649 --> 01:11:23.289

Anytime I can get away, I was upset because I wasn't on tour this weekend, and uh I rent the house when I'm not there and it's rented you know almost a whole month. 01:11:23.449 --> 01:11:23.689 Yeah, yeah. 01:11:23.929 --> 01:11:25.449 So I can't go until July. 01:11:25.609 --> 01:11:27.529 But I'm performing in Vegas in July. 01:11:27.689 --> 01:11:27.929 All right. 01:11:28.250 --> 01:11:31.210 I'll be at the Palms Hotel July 12th. 01:11:31.609 --> 01:11:32.970 So that's a big gig. 01:11:33.289 --> 01:11:35.769 I have a couple weeks off, and then we have the Vegas gig. 01:11:35.929 --> 01:11:36.250 Okay. 01:11:36.409 --> 01:11:38.250 And then I got a busy summer after that. 01:11:38.329 --> 01:11:42.489 I'm in South Carolina, DC, New York, Sacramento. 01:11:42.889 --> 01:11:45.609 Like this just it goes right on to Memorial Day. 01:11:45.849 --> 01:11:48.809 Uh do you have a website that where people can follow that? 01:11:49.050 --> 01:11:49.769 I will soon. 01:11:49.929 --> 01:11:53.130 What happened was when I shot the special, we took everything down. 01:11:53.449 --> 01:11:57.769 Websites are only as good as you can up keep upkeep. 01:11:57.849 --> 01:11:58.250 Yeah. 01:11:58.569 --> 01:12:05.529 So it will, I will develop it the minute I'm going through some personal changes, separation. 01:12:05.769 --> 01:12:09.529 My businesses, I have two businesses that are migrating that are going through a merger. 01:12:09.689 --> 01:12:13.369 A couple of those things, when I get by, I know by the end of the year I will. 01:12:13.689 --> 01:12:20.090 I've had offers I'm on the talks with Paramount and that to do shoot a special at the end of the year. 01:12:20.250 --> 01:12:20.409 Nice. 01:12:20.569 --> 01:12:25.130 So we're looking at trying to do that, but what happens is you can only put so much on your plate. 01:12:25.289 --> 01:12:25.449 Yeah. 01:12:25.609 --> 01:12:26.010 Oh, for sure. 01:12:26.250 --> 01:12:33.369 So it's it becomes one of those things where you want to be you want to be a creative mind and you don't want to have all the outside influences. 01:12:33.529 --> 01:12:36.809 Because I'm I'm funny as I'm funny as what as can be. 01:12:36.889 --> 01:12:37.050 Yeah. 01:12:37.289 --> 01:12:42.329 But I'll even be funnier when I don't have all the trials and tribulations behind me. 01:12:42.649 --> 01:12:44.970 Now, do you listen to other people's stuff? 01:12:45.210 --> 01:12:49.050 Obviously, you tour with other comedians, but do you try to keep it Once in a while. 01:12:49.130 --> 01:12:53.130 I I'll listen more to some podcasts than I will other comedians. 01:12:53.289 --> 01:12:54.250 It it's a thing. 01:12:54.889 --> 01:12:58.409 Actually, it came up in conversation with the comedian I tour with. 01:12:58.569 --> 01:13:03.609 He says what happens is sometimes you don't want to listen to other people. 01:13:03.929 --> 01:13:10.649 Well, you're not gonna steal their jokes, but you the topic might sound interesting, and then sometimes that comes across that way. 01:13:10.889 --> 01:13:16.970 So it's like staying away from listening to other comedians lets you be a little bit more creative. 01:13:17.210 --> 01:13:17.609 Gotcha. 01:13:17.849 --> 01:13:22.889 Now, if there's a funny comedian like I like I know Dave Chappelle, I know Kevin Hart. 01:13:22.970 --> 01:13:26.409 I really can't sit through a Kevin Hart set. 01:13:27.529 --> 01:13:29.849 In person, nobody funnier. 01:13:30.250 --> 01:13:32.970 And Dave Chappelle, nobody funnier. 01:13:33.289 --> 01:13:37.289 But when they do their set, I'm like, eh, it's okay. 01:13:37.369 --> 01:13:37.609 Yeah. 01:13:37.849 --> 01:13:41.130 I know some other comedians that have never really made it as big. 01:13:41.210 --> 01:13:43.050 And I talk to them all the time. 01:13:43.130 --> 01:13:44.649 And to me, they're the funniest. 01:13:44.729 --> 01:13:47.769 Because we have real life conversation and we have real life jokes. 01:13:47.849 --> 01:13:48.170 Yeah. 01:13:48.329 --> 01:13:51.130 And that's really like that's the benefit of the comedy world. 01:13:51.369 --> 01:13:51.609 Gotcha. 01:13:51.929 --> 01:13:53.529 Is uh being able to network. 01:13:53.689 --> 01:13:55.849 I've met all the big comics. 01:13:56.010 --> 01:14:03.849 You know, I've I've done theaters, like there's no better feeling to come out and do a comedy theater and have a couple thousand people make them laugh. 01:14:04.010 --> 01:14:05.929 Yeah, it's it's it's unbelievable. 01:14:06.010 --> 01:14:06.729 There's no feeling. 01:14:07.050 --> 01:14:11.050 Like I get so excited for this Vegas set that it's like, wow. 01:14:11.449 --> 01:14:13.849 And it's doing the club weekends are great. 01:14:14.010 --> 01:14:22.090 But theaters, when you get a chance to do it, now the cup now the theater, we don't do not this particular theater, I don't get to do as long of a set. 01:14:22.250 --> 01:14:22.970 It's Vegas. 01:14:23.050 --> 01:14:23.210 Yeah. 01:14:23.449 --> 01:14:24.329 The palms, you know. 01:14:24.569 --> 01:14:25.609 So it's big, it's big. 01:14:25.849 --> 01:14:27.050 The three thousand people. 01:14:27.449 --> 01:14:29.369 I've killed them the last two years. 01:14:29.449 --> 01:14:29.769 Yeah. 01:14:30.010 --> 01:14:32.090 I've killed them every time I go out there. 01:14:32.729 --> 01:14:40.970 Well, and if you can get a small percentage of those people that pick up and start following you, and then they may come at another time when they find you in town, wherever they're from. 01:14:41.529 --> 01:14:41.929 Well it was. 01:14:42.250 --> 01:14:45.849 I went there, and then I think maybe a month later I went to your show. 01:14:46.010 --> 01:14:49.369 People online, they're like, that's Rob, that's Rob Rodriguez a comedian. 01:14:49.529 --> 01:14:50.250 And it was really cool. 01:14:50.329 --> 01:14:51.929 They're like, we were at your show last month. 01:14:52.090 --> 01:14:52.649 Oh, that's awesome. 01:14:52.809 --> 01:14:54.729 And it was

like, wow, that's that's that's great. 01:14:55.050 --> 01:14:55.849 Be recognized, yeah. 01:14:56.170 --> 01:14:59.529 Be recognized as and then to hear cop, you know, I'm a humble guy. 01:14:59.689 --> 01:15:01.289 I'm arrogant, but I'm humble. 01:15:01.449 --> 01:15:04.250 And I love that people, you know, the best compliments. 01:15:04.329 --> 01:15:09.529 I love to say goodbye to people after the show, and then they always say it, you know, I'm spoiled now. 01:15:09.689 --> 01:15:15.449 That's when I say I I know when I kill a room because I I want to know, and I let people, hey man, you were awesome. 01:15:15.529 --> 01:15:17.050 I can't believe you, blah, blah, blah. 01:15:17.130 --> 01:15:20.090 And then they'll comment, see it on my on my IG. 01:15:20.409 --> 01:15:22.409 It's that's a satisfying to me. 01:15:22.489 --> 01:15:23.210 That's a high. 01:15:23.369 --> 01:15:23.769 Yeah. 01:15:23.929 --> 01:15:24.250 Yeah. 01:15:24.409 --> 01:15:25.130 That's awesome. 01:15:25.210 --> 01:15:25.529 Yep. 01:15:25.769 --> 01:15:26.970 Where do you go from here? 01:15:27.210 --> 01:15:30.090 It's it you get to a certain age and it's day by day. 01:15:30.729 --> 01:15:38.729 I I my business had we had a rough day in business today, not for no other reason that we had to make some changes to some staff and things. 01:15:38.889 --> 01:15:39.609 That's hard. 01:15:40.170 --> 01:15:49.449 So my business, when I have about 25 employees, they uh when you're responsible for people like that and you're responsible for their livelihood, you have to be careful. 01:15:49.849 --> 01:15:50.329 Heavyweight. 01:15:50.489 --> 01:15:52.010 Yeah, yeah, you gotta be careful. 01:15:52.170 --> 01:15:54.170 So that's always been the heavyweight. 01:15:54.250 --> 01:15:56.809 So like I look forward to retiring in a couple of years. 01:15:56.970 --> 01:15:59.050 This merger is gonna help me do that. 01:15:59.210 --> 01:16:02.409 Um, because I don't I'm tired of the responsibility of having that. 01:16:02.569 --> 01:16:04.729 I took it on for 15 years. 01:16:05.130 --> 01:16:07.130 What got you into that world, just out of curiosity? 01:16:07.449 --> 01:16:14.329 I started as facilities man, I loved facilities management, and that was running companies behind the scenes. 01:16:14.489 --> 01:16:18.170 So I it was a big home health care agent that I worked my way up. 01:16:18.569 --> 01:16:22.970 This guy, the records keep until the guy that kind of ran facilities. 01:16:23.210 --> 01:16:27.289 So that they had over 400 people, 50 branches all over the country. 01:16:27.369 --> 01:16:30.170 So I loved that kind of interaction and things like that. 01:16:30.329 --> 01:16:33.369 Then I became good friends with the furniture guy. 01:16:33.529 --> 01:16:38.409 So we were moving companies and we had to move the furniture, cubicles and things like that. 01:16:38.970 --> 01:16:41.050 And it was so interesting. 01:16:41.210 --> 01:16:42.970 And that he and I became good friends. 01:16:43.210 --> 01:16:47.689 Well, I ended up getting fired because I worked for my uncle and he got fired. 01:16:47.849 --> 01:16:51.369 And then I was because I was family, I was gonna be next. 01:16:51.529 --> 01:16:54.489 And sure enough, they fired me, so I went to go work for the furniture. 01:16:54.649 --> 01:16:58.090 This was in the late 90s, and at that time, internet was taken. 01:16:58.409 --> 01:16:59.849 It was all the dot-coms. 01:16:59.929 --> 01:17:00.170 Yeah. 01:17:00.329 --> 01:17:08.090 So when all the dot-coms started developing, and we I started getting involved in building for companies in these large skyscrapers in New York. 01:17:08.250 --> 01:17:10.889 And I'm like, wow, this is a different job. 01:17:11.130 --> 01:17:14.329 Like, I built a couple of floors of the World Trade Center before they went down. 01:17:14.489 --> 01:17:14.889 Wow. 01:17:15.289 --> 01:17:16.010 Crazy. 01:17:16.250 --> 01:17:18.970 But it was that interesting doing something different all the time. 01:17:19.130 --> 01:17:19.289 Yeah. 01:17:19.529 --> 01:17:21.130 It was almost like being a designer. 01:17:21.289 --> 01:17:26.010 So we would build all these extravagant, orphan things look, and that's what got me into furniture. 01:17:26.409 --> 01:17:30.809 And then I loved the adversity of just doing something different all the time. 01:17:30.889 --> 01:17:31.849 And then I got good at it. 01:17:32.010 --> 01:17:33.849 I was al I've always been a manager. 01:17:34.010 --> 01:17:36.649 So it was always good, you know, from manager to owner. 01:17:36.809 --> 01:17:39.289 I was always good at, you know, rallying up the troops. 01:17:39.369 --> 01:17:39.529 Yeah. 01:17:39.689 --> 01:17:46.329 And then once I got into business myself, came a sense of accomplishment and responsibility. 01:17:46.569 --> 01:17:48.250 So, you know, we've done that. 01:17:48.329 --> 01:17:49.050 A lot of changes. 01:17:49.289 --> 01:17:51.289 Almost went bankrupt twice. 01:17:51.849 --> 01:17:53.689 And uh there's a lot involved with that. 01:17:53.769 --> 01:17:58.010 So once you get good at it, then you So that's what got me into the furniture. 01:17:58.170 --> 01:18:03.449 My if you guys, anybody's ever interested, it's my website is uh one of them, it's totalazy.com. 01:18:03.769 --> 01:18:07.210 You go on there, you'll see all our home furnishings, things that we're selling. 01:18:07.369 --> 01:18:11.449 We're gonna be expanding to an auction type format as well. 01:18:11.609 --> 01:18:14.250 In addition to what we have, I have a showroom in Phoenix. 01:18:14.329 --> 01:18:19.849 So if you go to total lazy.com, you see my warehouse address and ours, and you can come by. 01:18:19.929 --> 01:18:22.329 And I buy great stuff from wholesalers. 01:18:22.569 --> 01:18:28.649 I don't buy a lot of any one thing, I buy many of specialty things that I like personally. 01:18:28.889 --> 01:18:29.289 Gotcha. 01:18:29.449 --> 01:18:30.569 So that's how that works. 01:18:30.889 -->

01:18:31.210 Okay. 01:18:31.769 --> 01:18:32.809 Secret sauce. 01:18:33.210 --> 01:18:36.729 It well you said you've almost gone bankrupt a couple times. 01:18:36.889 --> 01:18:39.210 Obviously, you've had some trials and tribulations through there. 01:18:39.449 --> 01:18:43.449 Having great friends in the business in business and networking. 01:18:44.010 --> 01:18:44.569 Insurance. 01:18:44.729 --> 01:18:47.289 You have you and I have talked insurance a couple times. 01:18:47.369 --> 01:18:50.170 We could never get to that point, but there was different reasons. 01:18:50.250 --> 01:18:55.929 You taught me how to do better insurance, how to keep your classification rates down, yeah. 01:18:56.170 --> 01:18:56.889 Things like that. 01:18:57.130 --> 01:18:59.609 Of course, we have the mutual friends, Doug Hopkins. 01:18:59.689 --> 01:19:05.689 Everybody knows Doug Doug Hopkins, learning real estate from him, just seeing how smart he is with his money. 01:19:05.849 --> 01:19:06.010 Yeah. 01:19:06.170 --> 01:19:06.809 Things like that. 01:19:06.889 --> 01:19:14.090 Now, I'll never be that smart, but being a good manager, being a good person, that's the secret sauce is being a good person. 01:19:14.250 --> 01:19:14.409 Yeah. 01:19:14.649 --> 01:19:17.210 Like my dad said there's one thing, you can do all kinds of things. 01:19:17.289 --> 01:19:20.809 The one thing that you can change your appearance, you can you really can't change your name. 01:19:20.970 --> 01:19:21.289 You can't. 01:19:21.449 --> 01:19:23.369 He goes, your name, you carry your name. 01:19:23.529 --> 01:19:28.649 If you carry it well, you carry it well, it'll all the all the rewards come with that. 01:19:28.729 --> 01:19:29.050 Yeah. 01:19:29.289 --> 01:19:34.090 Like when my dad died, about 400 people come to the service in New York. 01:19:34.409 --> 01:19:37.289 The mayor of New York at the time, who didn't even know my dad. 01:19:37.529 --> 01:19:40.649 And he, I never seen so many grown men cry. 01:19:40.889 --> 01:19:50.889 After the service, you know, meanwhile, my dad, I was a little bit, I was a little bit, of course, I was heartbroken, but I was always a little sore that he never coached my team, so to speak. 01:19:51.050 --> 01:19:51.289 Yeah. 01:19:51.529 --> 01:19:53.609 But I didn't understand what his hustle was. 01:19:53.849 --> 01:19:56.090 His hustle was to make sure our family never needed. 01:19:56.649 --> 01:20:00.649 So he I saw grown men cry, police officers, family. 01:20:00.970 --> 01:20:09.449 We got, and I still have some of them, received so many letters, and so many people came up to me personally to tell me how great of a man he was. 01:20:09.609 --> 01:20:22.250 Now I know I'll never be that great of a person, but and everything that they wrote about him was that he was probably the most upfront, down the earth, nicest person they ever met, polite, you name it. 01:20:22.489 --> 01:20:29.769 And I always told myself, now I mean while I was already in my 30s when he died, I said, man, I want to grow up to be like him. 01:20:29.929 --> 01:20:30.170 Yeah. 01:20:30.329 --> 01:20:32.649 I want to, of course, I want to outlive him. 01:20:32.970 --> 01:20:41.369 So then I my trials and tribulations now, we most people might say, hey, you know what, he's an asshole, but he's a gro he's a great guy. 01:20:41.529 --> 01:20:41.929 Yeah. 01:20:42.250 --> 01:20:44.090 Because that's what it is. 01:20:44.170 --> 01:20:46.489 They know I'll give somebody the shirt off my back. 01:20:46.569 --> 01:20:48.970 But they know if I can't give it to you, I'm gonna tell you how to get it. 01:20:49.050 --> 01:20:49.210 Yeah. 01:20:49.289 --> 01:20:52.409 If I share, if I have knowledge, I'm gonna share knowledge. 01:20:52.569 --> 01:20:54.729 If you just need me to listen, I'm gonna try to listen. 01:20:54.809 --> 01:20:56.809 I'm a talker, but I'm gonna try to listen. 01:20:57.050 --> 01:20:57.130 Right. 01:20:57.369 --> 01:21:02.170 But then if I can give you some advice that you want to hear, I'm not gonna tell you what you want to just wanna hear. 01:21:02.250 --> 01:21:02.489 Yeah. 01:21:02.649 --> 01:21:04.250 I can give you advice. 01:21:04.569 --> 01:21:07.449 But I think we people lose that now. 01:21:07.609 --> 01:21:07.849 Yeah. 01:21:08.090 --> 01:21:19.050 I've lost some friends, I intimidate people a little bit when you say secret sauce, because I have friends and people that I associate associated with that are stagnant in their lives. 01:21:19.449 --> 01:21:20.409 Because people always say that. 01:21:20.489 --> 01:21:25.210 Like, what do you one time my wife and I were having a conversation, and I'll never forget this. 01:21:25.289 --> 01:21:27.689 And she told me, she said, I'm envious of you. 01:21:27.929 --> 01:21:28.729 I said, Why? 01:21:29.449 --> 01:21:30.649 This is my wife telling me. 01:21:31.050 --> 01:21:33.689 She said, Because you go after what you want. 01:21:33.849 --> 01:21:36.649 And maybe you might not always get it, but you try hard for it. 01:21:36.729 --> 01:21:38.010 And a lot of times you do get it. 01:21:38.649 --> 01:21:40.409 And she's not that type of person. 01:21:40.569 --> 01:21:42.409 Yeah sometimes people shy away from that. 01:21:42.489 --> 01:21:44.090 They won't know what motivates them. 01:21:44.250 --> 01:21:44.649 Yeah. 01:21:44.970 --> 01:21:50.889 Me, I most of the time I motivate, whether I fall down or not, if I want something, I'm gonna go after it. 01:21:50.970 --> 01:21:51.130 Yeah. 01:21:51.289 --> 01:21:52.250 Whether I get it or not. 01:21:52.329 --> 01:21:53.849 And a lot of times I've gotten it. 01:21:54.090 --> 01:22:00.970 So it's one of those things where it's through hard work, perseverance, all the corny stuff. 01:22:01.050 --> 01:22:06.329 But the two things I would always tell people when they ask me my secret sauce, I call it H H. 01:22:06.569 --> 01:22:07.689 I'm always working at it. 01:22:07.849 --> 01:22:08.889 Trying to be humble.

01:22:09.529 --> 01:22:11.369 Man, that humble is hard. 01:22:11.609 --> 01:22:11.849 It is. 01:22:12.010 --> 01:22:14.729 And I'm an arrogant, I'm an arrogant guy. 01:22:14.970 --> 01:22:16.729 I can be a little flashy. 01:22:16.889 --> 01:22:19.769 And I own 160 pass niggas and growing. 01:22:19.929 --> 01:22:20.809 170, I think. 01:22:20.970 --> 01:22:21.449 Seriously. 01:22:21.609 --> 01:22:24.090 And then yeah, my my wardrobe is ridiculous. 01:22:24.170 --> 01:22:25.369 Because I wear it on stage, you know? 01:22:25.529 --> 01:22:25.609 Yeah. 01:22:25.929 --> 01:22:26.809 My jewelry alone. 01:22:27.369 --> 01:22:27.689 Yankees. 01:22:29.210 --> 01:22:31.289 I have I have 110 Yankee hats. 01:22:31.449 --> 01:22:31.769 No kidding. 01:22:32.090 --> 01:22:32.569 Different colours. 01:22:32.809 --> 01:22:33.130 Wow. 01:22:33.289 --> 01:22:34.409 Yeah, all different colours. 01:22:34.569 --> 01:22:35.769 Because I wear it, that's my stage. 01:22:35.929 --> 01:22:36.170 Yeah, yeah. 01:22:36.489 --> 01:22:38.569 So being humble is hard for somebody like me. 01:22:38.809 --> 01:22:43.210 Because I have that kind of confidence, but I I know that's the key to life. 01:22:43.449 --> 01:22:48.889 And then the the biggest one is with that I'm to the day I die is practicing humility. 01:22:49.130 --> 01:22:52.250 So practicing that humility is man, that's a mother. 01:22:52.329 --> 01:22:52.489 Yeah. 01:22:52.649 --> 01:22:55.130 And men are stubborn when they get older. 01:22:55.369 --> 01:22:57.130 Me, uh, not so much. 01:22:57.289 --> 01:22:59.130 I've I've I've what do you say? 01:22:59.210 --> 01:23:01.130 You I've given in a little bit sometimes. 01:23:01.289 --> 01:23:23.849 Like I I've given myself up to know that I want to be better, I wanna I wanna live longer, I wanna love more, I wanna and then I give a lot because I know, and I'm not a religious guy, I was raised a Catholic, did all my sacraments, but I know that the only reason I get blessings is so that I can forward them. 01:23:24.090 --> 01:23:24.409 Yeah. 01:23:24.569 --> 01:23:29.849 To me, that's the key, because that we all have a selfishness within us, right? 01:23:29.929 --> 01:23:38.170 Yeah, it's always selfish, but you live better being living a selfless, selfless life as instead of a selfish life. 01:23:38.489 --> 01:23:39.529 I yeah, no, I agree with that. 01:23:39.609 --> 01:23:48.329 And I feel like for me, I and I'm a service-minded person as it is, but I if I can do something to help somebody else, it fills me up more than anyone. 01:23:48.569 --> 01:23:49.050 Without a doubt. 01:23:49.210 --> 01:23:50.170 So without a doubt. 01:23:50.250 --> 01:23:51.130 I do that with laughter. 01:23:51.369 --> 01:23:54.170 People that come out spend good money, yeah, I'm gonna make them laugh. 01:23:54.250 --> 01:23:55.130 I want them to feel good. 01:23:55.210 --> 01:23:56.409 I'm not gonna talk about them. 01:23:56.489 --> 01:24:02.329 I'm gonna I'm gonna do that, and that laughter, man, it lets you forget about what's going on in your life. 01:24:02.489 --> 01:24:02.649 Yeah. 01:24:02.970 --> 01:24:03.849 Who did you just lose? 01:24:04.010 --> 01:24:04.569 Who's sick? 01:24:04.649 --> 01:24:05.529 Who's dying? 01:24:05.929 --> 01:24:08.729 Like I I'm going through some tough times in life. 01:24:08.970 --> 01:24:10.889 Like off air. 01:24:10.970 --> 01:24:14.569 You and I have talked about this a little bit, and it's hard for me. 01:24:14.889 --> 01:24:16.090 You find yourself alone. 01:24:16.170 --> 01:24:16.489 Yeah. 01:24:16.729 --> 01:24:20.250 Because I become I'm the one that people look to. 01:24:20.889 --> 01:24:23.369 So I'm like, man, I didn't sign up for that. 01:24:23.449 --> 01:24:25.369 I didn't want to be the big brother. 01:24:25.529 --> 01:24:31.609 I didn't want to be the I might have acted like that, but sometimes I just want to just want to be able to live your life, be you. 01:24:31.849 --> 01:24:33.369 I want to just live mine, and it's hard. 01:24:33.449 --> 01:24:33.609 Yeah. 01:24:33.849 --> 01:24:35.769 And people say that, how do you do that? 01:24:36.010 --> 01:24:39.289 You I do that because I remember those things that I told you. 01:24:39.369 --> 01:24:41.769 I do that because I know God blesses me. 01:24:41.849 --> 01:24:44.090 I do that because I know I have gifts. 01:24:44.489 --> 01:24:46.170 I have gifts to give. 01:24:46.409 --> 01:24:49.529 And then I also know that when I die, I can't take anything with me. 01:24:49.849 --> 01:24:50.489 That's true. 01:24:50.809 --> 01:24:56.090 So what happens is the only thing I'm gonna leave is my legacy, my grandchildren, my children. 01:24:56.329 --> 01:25:02.889 And that I raise them well enough to be and to carry on that type of that type of because we live in this hard world. 01:25:02.970 --> 01:25:03.130 Yeah. 01:25:03.369 --> 01:25:06.170 Because, you know, they're not gonna be ready when the day I go. 01:25:06.329 --> 01:25:06.569 Right. 01:25:06.729 --> 01:25:08.729 I'm that big in my kids' lives. 01:25:08.970 --> 01:25:09.769 I know that. 01:25:10.090 --> 01:25:12.729 But I'm confident enough that I've raised them. 01:25:12.970 --> 01:25:14.489 Same thing with my employees. 01:25:14.649 --> 01:25:19.689 I let this company merger go because I want to give them opportunity if I'm not here. 01:25:20.090 --> 01:25:20.970 That's all I'm doing. 01:25:21.050 --> 01:25:21.289 Yeah. 01:25:21.529 --> 01:25:29.210 The company that we're merging with is gonna be an employee-owned company, be security for my employees, and they'll have the opportunities, partial owners. 01:25:29.289 --> 01:25:29.529 Yeah. 01:25:29.689 --> 01:25:31.369 So when I'm done, and that's good. 01:25:31.449 --> 01:25:32.889 I know I've taken care of everybody. 01:25:33.130 --> 01:25:33.609 That's awesome. 01:25:33.769 --> 01:25:35.369 But that's really what we do. 01:25:35.449 --> 01:25:38.010 Oh, like same thing with comedy. 01:25:38.170 --> 01:25:40.010 I'm never gonna be

the biggest comic. 01:25:40.170 --> 01:25:44.170 You know, I'm gonna be a funny guy, but it fulfills me enough. 01:25:44.329 --> 01:25:50.250 But I get to the last couple of weekends, between the last three weekends, probably six thousand people. 01:25:50.970 --> 01:25:51.289 Wow. 01:25:51.529 --> 01:25:52.489 In three weekends. 01:25:52.729 --> 01:25:53.449 That's incredible. 01:25:53.689 --> 01:25:55.369 Yeah, yeah, over six thousand people. 01:25:55.529 --> 01:25:56.090 That's awesome. 01:25:56.250 --> 01:26:01.050 And I got a chance to stand up on stage and say, hey, knock, whatever. 01:26:01.210 --> 01:26:04.250 And help them forget about whatever their problem is in that moment. 01:26:04.489 --> 01:26:04.889 Absolutely. 01:26:05.210 --> 01:26:08.409 And I like making that difference, as corny as it sounds. 01:26:08.729 --> 01:26:12.329 It's it is that's that self-satis satisfying. 01:26:12.489 --> 01:26:15.849 You know, that's I'm a big believer in self-gratification. 01:26:15.929 --> 01:26:16.329 Yeah. 01:26:16.569 --> 01:26:19.289 And that means that's awesome. 01:26:19.449 --> 01:26:21.210 Well, hey, I this has been awesome. 01:26:21.449 --> 01:26:22.170 We covered, yeah. 01:26:22.649 --> 01:26:23.529 Or do we go with it? 01:26:23.609 --> 01:26:28.010 Yeah, no, I mean it's crazy because as long as I've known you, I don't think we've ever sat down and just had a conversation. 01:26:28.250 --> 01:26:34.409 You don't you don't realize that until you're older because it's always been to an occasion of with friends and things like that. 01:26:34.729 --> 01:26:38.970 And but different times of life, like you were going through a different thing at that time of your life. 01:26:39.050 --> 01:26:40.329 I was going through something else. 01:26:40.409 --> 01:26:44.489 Yeah, we would get together, the common thing was playing basketball or football. 01:26:44.569 --> 01:26:44.729 Yeah. 01:26:44.889 --> 01:26:48.329 Like I missed the weren't doing the turkey bowl no more. 01:26:48.409 --> 01:26:50.010 Yeah, we used to have a great time on the turkey ball. 01:26:51.449 --> 01:26:54.250 Yeah, we got too old with that, but that turkey bowl was good. 01:26:54.409 --> 01:26:55.769 You know, it was a great time. 01:26:55.929 --> 01:27:04.409 Then I've seen you, you became a big community guy, and what you were doing in Gilbert, and I've seen you come up the ranks and doing your insurance and everything else. 01:27:04.569 --> 01:27:06.329 It's it was a big deal. 01:27:06.409 --> 01:27:07.849 Like I saw you go through that. 01:27:07.929 --> 01:27:11.050 I saw the struggles you had with your personal life. 01:27:11.130 --> 01:27:11.449 Yeah. 01:27:11.689 --> 01:27:17.369 And but it was like you were always the most polite, most still confident, great type of guy. 01:27:17.529 --> 01:27:20.569 And that's why I was always fortunate enough to be around those types. 01:27:20.729 --> 01:27:26.889 That's why, like the uh mutual friends, it was always a great thing

to be around them because they were all good people. 01:27:27.130 --> 01:27:30.889 So yeah, we deal with that, and it it it it builds us. 01:27:30.970 --> 01:27:32.170 Yeah, it makes us who we are. 01:27:32.250 --> 01:27:33.609 So people say, Who are you? 01:27:33.769 --> 01:27:35.130 I'm a little bit of everybody. 01:27:35.529 --> 01:27:35.849 Yep. 01:27:36.090 --> 01:27:40.809 Every little path I walk, every little thing I do, every experience that I have, right? 01:27:41.130 --> 01:27:41.929 We talk about that. 01:27:42.569 --> 01:27:49.210 Not you and I, but I've talked about that where it's you have these i I can only make decisions based on my experience, right? 01:27:49.369 --> 01:27:52.090 And it doesn't mean my decision is the right decision. 01:27:52.329 --> 01:28:00.329 Like you said, I grew up in a very white community in northeastern Washington, and we had one colored kid in the and then we had migrant workers. 01:28:00.409 --> 01:28:05.609 And you at the you were at the furthest point away from the east coast where you couldn't see that. 01:28:05.849 --> 01:28:09.689 So it's uh we're always we're always learning. 01:28:09.849 --> 01:28:14.809 I don't know if people realize that, and we're always teaching through our actions. 01:28:14.970 --> 01:28:15.369 Yep. 01:28:15.609 --> 01:28:19.050 So it's uh sometimes I get real philosophical with things. 01:28:19.210 --> 01:28:22.250 Part of it's bullshit, some of it's philosophical, right? 01:28:22.489 --> 01:28:27.529 But it's you need a little bit of everything, a little bit of the hard knocks and a little bit of the education. 01:28:27.689 --> 01:28:27.849 Yeah. 01:28:28.090 --> 01:28:30.250 And that's what I think people lack today. 01:28:30.409 --> 01:28:37.449 I think they lack the mixture of reality and truth, and just being honest with yourself. 01:28:37.609 --> 01:28:38.010 Yeah. 01:28:38.250 --> 01:28:39.449 Because it's hard. 01:28:39.609 --> 01:28:42.090 I don't envy people that are struggling. 01:28:42.170 --> 01:28:43.689 And just think everybody's struggling. 01:28:43.849 --> 01:28:46.809 Somebody's struggling about the light bill today, their car payment. 01:28:47.130 --> 01:28:48.329 Where am I gonna live? 01:28:48.569 --> 01:28:53.130 Their health, their children, their siblings, their spouse, yeah. 01:28:53.369 --> 01:28:54.809 Everyone has something going on. 01:28:54.889 --> 01:28:55.050 Yeah. 01:28:55.210 --> 01:28:57.050 So how do you balance that, right? 01:28:57.289 --> 01:29:01.210 So, and then it's everyone in your life is going through something. 01:29:01.529 --> 01:29:18.729 Well, and to bring it back to the social media, I think one of the biggest issues we have today is everybody's got those issues, everybody's got those problems, everybody's got something going on, and all we see is look how beautiful I am on the beach, look how wonderful I am doing this. 01:29:19.130 --> 01:29:21.849 There is the other part of it, but you don't want to read, you don't want

to see those. 01:29:22.010 --> 01:29:22.170 Right. 01:29:22.329 --> 01:29:33.369 Because you always hear, like I think today, which is I think is probably the most selfish thing anybody could do, is commit suicide as if a lot of times I said that could I have done could I have been there for them. 01:29:33.609 --> 01:29:33.849 Right. 01:29:34.090 --> 01:29:36.409 Where was I at when that happened? 01:29:36.649 --> 01:29:40.329 And honestly, a lot of times you might not be able to make a difference. 01:29:40.409 --> 01:29:40.729 Right. 01:29:40.889 --> 01:29:44.809 I have a very close friend of mine that that deals with depression. 01:29:44.970 --> 01:29:45.449 Mm-hmm. 01:29:45.769 --> 01:29:48.649 And man, we have a great time together all the time. 01:29:48.970 --> 01:29:51.449 But sometimes they go into a depression state. 01:29:51.529 --> 01:29:51.769 Yeah. 01:29:52.010 --> 01:29:59.449 And I don't understand why, because I do everything in my power to make sure they don't have things and they still come up. 01:29:59.609 --> 01:30:01.289 And I'm like, what can I do? 01:30:01.609 --> 01:30:01.769 Yeah. 01:30:02.010 --> 01:30:02.889 You know what they told me? 01:30:03.529 --> 01:30:05.050 Just be there for me when I need you. 01:30:05.210 --> 01:30:05.529 Yeah. 01:30:05.689 --> 01:30:05.929 Right? 01:30:06.010 --> 01:30:06.970 And that's deep. 01:30:07.130 --> 01:30:07.369 Yeah. 01:30:07.609 --> 01:30:10.329 Cause I had a and I don't know if you ever got a chance to meet him. 01:30:10.489 --> 01:30:13.529 Because I did you ever take did you you never came with us to Vegas? 01:30:13.689 --> 01:30:13.849 No. 01:30:14.010 --> 01:30:15.289 That used to be the best trips. 01:30:15.369 --> 01:30:15.529 Yeah. 01:30:15.689 --> 01:30:20.809 So we had a good friend here, and you might have met him here to a function, but his name was Mono, right? 01:30:21.050 --> 01:30:28.090 So Mono, handsome, six foot four, black guy, nine eyes, married, unbelievable guy. 01:30:28.250 --> 01:30:29.689 And this is a couple years ago. 01:30:29.769 --> 01:30:34.090 He got diagnosed, four years ago, he got diagnosed with I knew I didn't know much about it. 01:30:34.489 --> 01:30:36.250 And then I did the research. 01:30:36.329 --> 01:30:39.449 And the thing that hit me the most now he him and his wife never had kids. 01:30:39.849 --> 01:30:40.970 Said no cure. 01:30:41.369 --> 01:30:44.090 Average average span is three years. 01:30:44.409 --> 01:30:44.889 Really? 01:30:45.130 --> 01:30:48.329 The most anybody's ever lived with it is ten years. 01:30:48.729 --> 01:30:50.970 No one's ever lived past ten years. 01:30:51.210 --> 01:30:51.609 Ever. 01:30:52.010 --> 01:30:53.849 No medication, no cure. 01:30:54.090 --> 01:30:55.369 And I'm like, that's crazy. 01:30:55.849 --> 01:30:57.769 A small percentage of people get it. 01:30:58.090 --> 01:31:00.409 And I watched him deteriorate. 01:31:00.489 --> 01:31:02.729 Now he's probably one of the most beautiful people I know. 01:31:02.970 --> 01:31:06.409 Never heard him say a bad thing about anybody in his life. 01:31:06.809 --> 01:31:08.729 Never got a chance to be a father. 01:31:09.050 --> 01:31:10.729 Was always a friend, things like that. 01:31:11.210 --> 01:31:14.090 To me, I'm like, I couldn't imagine if I was never a dad. 01:31:14.250 --> 01:31:14.569 Yeah. 01:31:14.729 --> 01:31:15.050 Right? 01:31:15.210 --> 01:31:16.729 If I never had grandkids. 01:31:17.289 --> 01:31:19.289 So I watched him deteriorate. 01:31:19.609 --> 01:31:21.449 So true story. 01:31:21.689 --> 01:31:22.649 He starts getting him down. 01:31:23.050 --> 01:31:28.970 Most of the time, what ends up going as they lose all their motor functions is their voice. 01:31:29.210 --> 01:31:30.489 He kept his voice. 01:31:30.809 --> 01:31:32.329 Now I go to see him. 01:31:32.409 --> 01:31:33.369 Now he's bedridden. 01:31:33.689 --> 01:31:34.489 He's a hundred pounds. 01:31:34.649 --> 01:31:35.130 He's a skeleton. 01:31:35.289 --> 01:31:37.130 He took a medical bed in his house. 01:31:37.210 --> 01:31:38.170 And he looked at me. 01:31:38.489 --> 01:31:39.130 True story. 01:31:39.289 --> 01:31:41.689 He said, Man, I'm so proud of you. 01:31:42.170 --> 01:31:43.130 What are you talking about? 01:31:43.449 --> 01:31:45.369 He says, Man, I look up to you. 01:31:45.529 --> 01:31:50.250 I see you traveling, doing your I remember the first time you performed. 01:31:50.489 --> 01:31:52.569 And you're just you're living your life. 01:31:52.809 --> 01:31:53.689 I'm so proud of you. 01:31:53.769 --> 01:31:55.210 I said, he goes, I look up to you. 01:31:55.529 --> 01:31:56.889 He says, you inspire me. 01:31:57.050 --> 01:31:59.849 And I couldn't believe that because he's dying. 01:31:59.929 --> 01:32:01.210 I'm watching him die. 01:32:01.369 --> 01:32:01.609 Yeah. 01:32:01.769 --> 01:32:04.569 And I'm saying to myself, because I'm asking him, How are you doing? 01:32:04.729 --> 01:32:06.010 He says, No, how are you doing? 01:32:06.489 --> 01:32:07.769 That's all he could talk about. 01:32:08.090 --> 01:32:10.010 He goes, keep me living right now. 01:32:10.489 --> 01:32:12.250 And he wanted to take his own life. 01:32:12.329 --> 01:32:18.250 If self-suicide was available, because it was he said, I can't do it, because I can't wipe my own ass. 01:32:18.409 --> 01:32:19.929 I can't I can't eat. 01:32:20.170 --> 01:32:24.170 And man, this guy, KK knew him, Dougie knew him, everybody knew him. 01:32:24.569 --> 01:32:27.769 And he I watched and he told me that day. 01:32:27.849 --> 01:32:28.729 He and he thanked me. 01:32:28.809 --> 01:32:29.769 He said, Thank you. 01:32:30.329 --> 01:32:31.289 Thank me for what? 01:32:31.769 --> 01:32:33.449 Because thank you for being a friend. 01:32:33.529 --> 01:32:34.649 Thank you for being there. 01:32:34.970 --> 01:32:36.489 It bothers me to this day. 01:32:36.649 --> 01:32:39.130 He dies two months later. 01:32:39.609 --> 01:32:43.849 And all the money in the world, all the

laughter, nothing I could do to save him. 01:32:44.090 --> 01:32:46.569 I would have given anything for him to live. 01:32:47.289 --> 01:32:50.090 And to me, that's what people take for granted. 01:32:50.809 --> 01:32:52.489 Because that just came out of nowhere. 01:32:52.569 --> 01:32:52.729 Yeah. 01:32:52.970 --> 01:32:55.449 It wasn't he didn't do anything bad in life. 01:32:55.769 --> 01:32:59.050 It's like when people get cancers, he didn't do any of that. 01:32:59.609 --> 01:33:00.889 He had no cure. 01:33:01.130 --> 01:33:05.210 He was, man, the gentlest soul, the most lovable guy. 01:33:05.449 --> 01:33:06.569 I miss him to death. 01:33:07.369 --> 01:33:09.130 But that's my recipe. 01:33:09.210 --> 01:33:10.409 That's my secret sauce. 01:33:10.649 --> 01:33:10.889 Yeah. 01:33:11.130 --> 01:33:16.569 My secret sauce is appreciating life and living every day for what it is. 01:33:16.809 --> 01:33:18.409 No matter how bad it gets for us. 01:33:18.729 --> 01:33:20.889 No matter what trials, we're always gonna have that. 01:33:21.050 --> 01:33:23.689 And we're always gonna have people and things that come at us. 01:33:24.010 --> 01:33:24.569 No matter what. 01:33:24.649 --> 01:33:25.769 We're gonna lose our homes. 01:33:25.849 --> 01:33:29.849 I my house was foreclosed now back in in 2008. 01:33:30.090 --> 01:33:32.569 And I said, things are replaceable. 01:33:33.050 --> 01:33:34.409 Health and freedom are not. 01:33:34.489 --> 01:33:34.649 Yeah. 01:33:34.970 --> 01:33:36.250 And strong mental. 01:33:36.649 --> 01:33:42.489 So I said, I watched that, and it's tough, but that's what keeps me going. 01:33:42.809 --> 01:33:43.929 And good friends, you know. 01:33:44.170 --> 01:33:45.849 Just surrounding yourself with good people. 01:33:46.010 --> 01:33:46.250 Yeah. 01:33:46.409 --> 01:33:48.250 And I think it's a mental toughness. 01:33:48.409 --> 01:33:49.609 So that's my story. 01:33:49.849 --> 01:33:50.729 Nice to that. 01:33:51.130 --> 01:33:52.809 Well, dude, I appreciate it. 01:33:52.970 --> 01:33:53.609 I appreciate you. 01:33:53.689 --> 01:33:54.170 Thank you very much. 01:33:54.889 --> 01:33:57.130 And good luck with what you're doing. 01:33:57.210 --> 01:34:01.130 Because I think one day I will I wanted to start a podcast, right? 01:34:01.289 --> 01:34:02.250 There's so many of them. 01:34:02.489 --> 01:34:09.369 And I think that it's always interesting because I think we people lose that kind of talent to try to just talk and interviews. 01:34:09.609 --> 01:34:09.849 Just talk. 01:34:10.170 --> 01:34:11.689 Because nobody listens to radio anymore, really. 01:34:12.170 --> 01:34:12.569 They do. 01:34:12.649 --> 01:34:25.210 And but if I can inspire someone and help them by what I do, if something I said is familiar, if something I if somebody wanted to know a little bit about business, reach out to me. 01:34:25.609 --> 01:34:27.529 Reach out to to to Yon. 01:34:27.769 --> 01:34:29.289 He'll give me, give you my number. 01:34:29.689 --> 01:34:30.809 I'll I'm there. 01:34:31.050 --> 01:34:44.170 If somebody wanted to know how to deal with a certain situation with their children and their or their home or financial or friends or whatever, business, I'm there, you know, because I realize that's the gift I have. 01:34:44.329 --> 01:34:49.609 So if I can give that advice out, then I hope somebody else could benefit from it. 01:34:49.689 --> 01:34:49.849 Yeah. 01:34:50.010 --> 01:34:52.809 So besides being funny and trying to live life good. 01:34:53.210 --> 01:34:53.449 Yeah. 01:34:53.689 --> 01:34:54.729 Well, I appreciate that. 01:34:54.889 --> 01:34:55.449 Thank you very much. 01:34:55.769 --> 01:34:56.090 For sure. 01:34:56.250 --> 01:34:58.170 Um I've got something for you. 01:34:58.569 --> 01:35:01.609 Everybody that comes on the show gets a little gift. 01:35:02.010 --> 01:35:08.569 And so for you, whatever your drink of choice, orange juice, milk, oh, very nice. 01:35:08.889 --> 01:35:09.369 Cocktail. 01:35:09.849 --> 01:35:13.449 I know you as Big Rob, and so it has Big Rob on it, has the year. 01:35:13.609 --> 01:35:17.369 It's engraved by a friend of mine who owns Rock Sync Calligraphy. 01:35:17.689 --> 01:35:18.170 Very nice. 01:35:18.329 --> 01:35:20.649 So yeah, so that's your awesome, man. 01:35:20.729 --> 01:35:21.130 Thank you. 01:35:21.289 --> 01:35:21.449 Yeah. 01:35:21.609 --> 01:35:24.649 I love and I love these little I love these little collectibles. 01:35:24.809 --> 01:35:25.529 That's what I do now. 01:35:25.769 --> 01:35:27.529 Collecting just beautiful. 01:35:27.609 --> 01:35:31.449 Like I go to Hawaii, I buy anything with turtles and surfboards. 01:35:31.849 --> 01:35:32.729 That's my big thing. 01:35:32.889 --> 01:35:34.970 I and freaking that damn Mickey Mouse. 01:35:35.050 --> 01:35:40.489 Well, I got more Mickey Mouse stuff now that I get that's you know, but wow, this is beautiful. 01:35:40.569 --> 01:35:40.889 Thank you. 01:35:41.050 --> 01:35:41.449 You're welcome. 01:35:41.609 --> 01:35:42.090 Well, thank you. 01:35:42.250 --> 01:35:43.609 I very much appreciate you coming on. 01:35:43.689 --> 01:35:44.569 I appreciate your time. 01:35:45.369 --> 01:35:46.409 Any anytime, you know that. 01:35:46.569 --> 01:35:49.050 So we can do that, definitely. 01:35:49.210 --> 01:35:49.449 All right. 01:35:49.689 --> 01:35:50.170 Well, thank you. 01:35:50.569 --> 01:35:51.050 Thank you very much. 01:35:51.449 --> 01:35:51.689 Yep. 01:35:51.849 --> 01:35:55.689 This is Rob Rodriguez, and I definitely went above and beyond.