Full Transcript for FRANCISCO RAMOS & ORLANDO LEYBA

like, yo, who's this already share? 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.319 And then BT was like, I know him, he's fun. 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:34.400 But you know, that's some it's some real, I think I told them one time, people be asking to do our podcast, they don't hit the like, they don't hit the like button on no goddamn post. 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:35.520 They don't even follow you. 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.439 They don't follow them, they don't share. 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:38.719 And I'm like, so okay. 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.280 So come over here lying. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:45.840 No, uh like you do, you know. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.360 The killing, yeah, but your personal account is not a little bit of a personal, yeah. 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:53.759 But it has been your episode. 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:56.479 Well, this has been great. 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:57.120 Shut up. 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:58.800 Make sure you follow them on social media. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:03:59.919 Wait, no, joking. 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:06.800 Um I've been married too many years for a reason because I don't fall into certain traps, and you're really good at setting up those traps. 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:07.199 I am. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.520 I haven't been posting those as much lately though. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:11.680 You see, I don't I wait, wait, wait, I like your stuff. 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:12.800 Hey, get go back. 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:14.159 Ready? 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:22.319 You can see more buttons at just the players on Instagram, TikTok, and all social media platforms. 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:28.560 How y'all go about promoting y'all uh your Instagram has popped up and go? 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:29.360 Oh, Jesus. 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:33.360 You know, Hasamanac is like, hey man, I gotta follow you. 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:37.600 But you look like my daughter picked up my phone and all she saw were cheeks. 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.680 I'm like, hey man, what the f your daughter picking up your cell phone? 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.000 Hey, she's three, she should never know cell phone. 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.319 The butt cheese videos, man. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:50.480 The butt cheese videos, it's so funny, man. 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:52.000 I be seeing other people doing ratchet. 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:53.040 Praise God. 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:54.959 Praise God. 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:56.399 Yeah, yeah. 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:00.959 It's so funny because I be doing posts about how, you know, people told me not to do them. 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:03.199 Then I look at their Instagram, they're doing the same type of post. 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:04.639 They're like, man, why are you doing them? 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:06.240 Then they're like, I got mine, you know. 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:09.920 So, anyways, um I'm getting back to them when I feel like it. 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.480 I haven't been posting as many butt cheek videos. 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.120 I've been trying to clean up my Instagram a tad. 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:23.360 However, I what I told my homeboy is the same people you're trying to appease are the same people that ain't supporting you and ain't hiring you, no way. 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:23.600 Yeah. 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:25.279 So it's like so do whatever you want. 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:26.720 So do whatever you want to do. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:26.879 Yes. 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.160 Because it ain't like when I cleaned up my Instagram. 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:32.160 Oh, well, here, I got this movie role for you. 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:33.439 I got this TV role for you. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.519 So it's like, man, f all that, man. 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.120 So yeah, post what you want to post. 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:38.319 Do what's funny to you, man. 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:39.439 Do what's funny to you. 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:41.439 Man, this is why I want to kick. 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:42.480 You gotta kick off real quick. 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:43.839 This is where I wanted to kick it off from. 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:45.199 First, where are y'all from? 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:48.879 Tell tell people where y'all from originally and how y'all got into comedy. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:49.519 Okay. 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:57.120 Uh felt like this is like uh like a naturalization meeting right now. 00:05:57.839 --> 00:05:59.920 No, uh, I was born in Venezuela. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.279 I grew up I I was born there. 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.600 I moved to until I was 12, I moved to the US in in DC, Maryland. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:06.720 That's where I grew up. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:14.240 And I grew up there basically, Maryland, you know, you know, uh high school, middle school, high school, college, and then I moved to LA to pursue comedy. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:15.600 What year was that? 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:16.399 Where? 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:17.680 When you moved to LA? 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.439 Uh 2006 or 7. 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:23.120 Wow, yeah, we came here at the same time. 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:24.160 2007. 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:24.959 Wow, yeah. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.120 Yeah, I've known you like 19, almost 20 years ago. 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:27.839 Yeah, man. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:28.639 That's crazy. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:30.079 That's crazy. 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:35.759 Yeah, because I mean, like we I mean, I started doing the all the open mic stuff, you know, that little crew. 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:44.240 Yeah, that little class, which was like with Gerard and Angela Bowers and Josh Adam Myers and Tony Henry Cliff and Amir Kay and all those guys. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:45.040 Yeah. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:45.680 It's crazy. 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:46.959 We go batman so long. 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:48.399 What what about you, Orlando? 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.759 Uh born in Puerto Rico, parents are

Dominican. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:07:01.199 Uh lived in then we left Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Dominican Republic, New York City, New York City, Miami, Florida, and then that's where I grew up. 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:07.920 And then I came here to LA in 2013, at the end of 2013, just to rent the spot. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:11.920 And then I went back to Florida and came back like in February of 2014. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:13.199 Rent what spot? 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:14.800 The spot where I was gonna live. 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.399 Oh, you came set everything up. 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:17.600 Yeah, I came here. 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.439 I I had a plan, I had I had a bag, I I did it right. 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:24.879 And I had read this thing online on how to move to LA. 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:29.120 And towards the end of the year, everybody kind of gives up on their dreams, so they move back home. 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:30.959 So there's a bunch of open spaces. 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.360 That's why I came at the end of 2013. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:33.680 Wow. 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:34.560 Wait, wait, wait, wait. 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:36.720 I'm sorry, say more words, because that's that's hilarious. 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.199 Uh I know somebody's looking for a spot right now. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:48.639 So you're saying that if you just hold what was the information that you saw that it was a blog on on how to move to LA, and clearly it wasn't a young person, it was an older person. 00:07:49.360 --> 00:08:05.120 And they yeah, yeah, and they gave and they're gonna tell me and they gave the game, and they they were like, if you go towards the end of the year, and sure enough, when I came here towards the end of the year in 2013, there was a bunch of vacancies, and then I ended up by the celebrity center on Gramercy and Franklin, right? 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:14.079 And the lady wanted nine hundred and fifty dollars a month for a studio apartment because there was so she was competing with everybody else. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:17.839 And then I told her, hey, I'll give you seven hundred dollars a month. 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.439 And she was just no, it's nine hundred and fifty, and then I go, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:22.160 Let me finish. 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:23.920 I'm gonna pay you the whole year in advance. 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:27.199 You don't even gotta worry about me for the rest of the year. 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:31.680 And then that's also a negotiation tactic that you can do when you're renting something. 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:36.639 Yeah, you could either go up to like do six months in advance or a year in advance. 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:38.879 I don't know how this turned into a real estate podcast. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:40.080 No, it all counts. 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:41.120 It's all game. 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:42.639 I mean, this that's helpful information. 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:46.159 Anyone that's moving out here to LA to pursue their dreams, you get that's dope. 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:49.039 So you went till the end of the year until people go, like, I give up my year. 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:51.600 I mean, but do people have dreams and calendar years? 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:52.080 Absolutely. 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.480 Yeah, I was I was just in the gym yesterday saying how I was the only person in the gym. 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:57.440 You know what I'm saying? 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:58.399 It's the middle of the year. 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.440 I'm the only person because in the beginning of the year, everybody believes in themselves. 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:02.000 Well, that's true. 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:06.720 Yeah, you know, and then by the middle of the year, people don't really by month two or three, people don't feel off. 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:07.279 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.279 But middle of the year, ain't nobody believing in themselves. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:14.000 So at the end of the year, people have quit, they done thought about killing themselves, all type of shit. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.799 And now there's vacancies or apartments. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:18.720 Like, finally, I can get on two machines at once. 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:19.120 That's right. 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.360 And it's psychological too, the end of the year. 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:23.840 Yeah, so you come like right before Thanksgiving. 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:30.480 So people are giving up because they want to go home and be their homesick, they miss their family, they've been out here for a year already or two years. 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.120 They don't fucking punch a bunch of casting directors. 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:34.159 I tried. 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:40.159 Yeah, they did that whole thing where they got here, they was first that first six months didn't even get a job. 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.200 They just said, I'm gonna go on auditions and do like Uber and stuff. 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.720 No, dude, get a job, get a job that you can quit tomorrow. 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:47.120 Right. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:47.840 You know what I'm saying? 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:51.360 CVS is always hiring, they always hire, and you just quit. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:53.200 Like, oh no, I don't want to get the job. 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:54.080 Just why? 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.200 If you get if you get an opportunity, just quit the job. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:02.960 I mean, that's a that's an interesting subject too, like, because people come out here and they feel like you have to uh struggle. 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:15.840 And it's like, I mean, yeah, you need to put you don't want to put yourself in a in a living situation where you've lost focus, yeah, but simultaneously, you can't also do the things necessary to f to feed your dream. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:22.879 Yeah, like for me, I

worked at a full-time job as I was doing you know, open mics and then started working at the comedy store. 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:26.240 So I would work like you know, and that was like with iscos hours. 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:30.240 I would have to be at the job at 6 30 in the morning until like 2 30 in the afternoon. 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:44.799 You know, it's tough, but like, but uh but I and then after that I then I worked part-time doing uh teaching tennis or or interpreting, you know, so it's like I always felt like you be some people like they wanted to do this whole like starving artists, yeah. 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.720 Starving artists, and I'm like, no, I didn't go to college just to sleep. 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:50.159 It's hard to be funny when you're hungry. 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:51.759 You make the bad decisions. 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:57.200 And you can't create you can't create if you know that the rent is due at the end of the month. 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:08.879 Maybe some people are like, you know, that usually is like my criminal friends are really good about coming up with creative ways of how they're gonna hustle money because the rent is coming. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:17.519 But like an average human being like me, I can't create if I know that the rent is around the corner or the mortgage or the light bill and stuff like that. 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.480 I can't live in the darkness and or dodging my landlord. 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:22.960 You're writing your script by a candlelight, yeah. 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:24.080 Got a lighter engine. 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:29.200 Like the guy from uh CSI, everybody knows CSI Miami, CSI Las Vegas. 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.679 That guy wrote his script while he was a limo driver. 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:37.039 So he would drop off the passengers and while he's waiting for them, he's in the in the limo writing the script. 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:38.960 The guy that created CSI? 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:39.440 Yeah, yeah. 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:40.480 Wow, I didn't know that. 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:42.639 See, that's the real that's sacrifice. 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:48.879 When you can when you can focus and be disciplined about your dream within living life and adulting. 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.919 Because we're in this like new phase now where people don't want to adult anymore. 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:53.759 Like, like it's like a common thing. 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.159 Like I'm I'm seeing it and show responsibility. 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.840 Yeah, it's just like something will happen and people will be like, like, for example, the the finals happened. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.440 I'm watching the finals. 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:11.519 Uh Richard Wemayama doesn't shake everybody's hand, and then on ESPN the next day, they're like, Well, yeah, you know, pro athletes shouldn't have to be sports. 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:12.879 I'm like, no, yes, you do. 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:23.440 I was like, you you can't say that you want kids that are 9, 10, 11 to show sportsmanship when they can't control their emotions, but the adults, you could just say, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:23.759 Fuck it. 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:25.919 You know, I was like, no, he pulled up like say Thomas. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:26.159 Yeah. 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:28.159 And I crucified him for. 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.240 I was like, no, you can't keep moving the goalposts, you guys. 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:31.200 Sometimes you just gotta adult. 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.039 Sometimes you just gotta call it out. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:34.480 Yeah, you gotta do stuff you don't want to do. 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:38.799 You sometimes you're gonna have to work and focus on your dreams and do comedy at night and be tired. 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:39.600 That's that's the goal. 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:44.879 And that's the struggle that people I think that's also the thing that you have to embrace and like. 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:46.080 I mean, that's the thing. 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:53.200 That's what you know, Kobe would say, you know, is the the the the the is uh not the destination, but the work that you go, the wake it up early. 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:54.799 Yeah, I mean, that's part of it. 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:00.720 I mean, and like if some people want it easy, a lot of people want it easy, and it's like, no, yeah, you gotta really do the work. 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:06.320 We like I said, I had to like remember go to sleep at like one in the morning, wake up at four. 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:18.639 Literally, my whole week, I would be like just not sleeping, and I wait till the weekends to go to sleep, and then to kind of recharge, and then and all I did was just work and then and open my eggs and crowd, you know, and you didn't have a life pretty much. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.080 I was like, but I was like, I chose that. 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:28.879 I was like, this is the point of like to actually do it right, because it's like some and some people, yeah, might get it easier, but everybody, but that's just uh rarity, you know. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.080 Those are anomalies. 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:41.519 I try to p tell people these these certain certain things that happen in the universe that you're like, oh man, this guy, those are anomalies, and that sometimes is to show you, to show you that it is tangible. 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:49.200 Yeah, you know, my first time in LA, my first week, I went to a Hollywood party, and it was uh and he's the ace to this day. 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:52.720 They didn't find it. 00:13:53.840 --> 00:14:05.120 I went to Jim Jeffrey's house, and uh at the time he was staying in in the hills, and from his house you could see the comedy store, you could see the laugh factory, and you could see the improv from his house. 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:10.720 You could see I was like, oh I stood and the

first thing that I said, oh, this is tangible. 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:16.879 Because it was he had just gotten the second season of of the Jim Jeffrey show of legit. 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:31.600 It was like it was and that's my friend that I met out while working on the road, and now I got to Hollywood and he lives here, and right he brought us in for his birthday party, and I'm like, everybody else is just like and I'm just like, oh, this is tangible. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:33.440 That carried me for that whole year. 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:34.799 It's just tangible. 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:36.480 I can actually do three sets a night. 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:41.919 Yeah, is that what you were like me and you are like that in the same way. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.360 I'm I'm like uh uh if I can touch it, I can achieve it. 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:56.720 So like uh we talked about the tickets or something before, but like last night I go to the Sparks game and uh the dude that I know that has tickets also, he got invited down closer. 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.480 So now I'm like, it's a spark. 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:02.559 So I'm like three rows from from floor seats, and I'm doing like this. 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:04.879 Yeah, very soon. 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:06.320 This will be like a whole season. 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.799 It's like if I could touch it, then I can achieve it. 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:12.080 If I could see it, then you can kind of manifest it in your mind to make it happen. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:13.440 I did that with Joe Coy. 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:19.360 Joe Coy did um, it was the New York Comedy Festival, and he did uh Madison Square Garden. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:21.919 The the Madison Square, there's two Madison Square Gardens. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:27.919 There's the Hulu Theater, I don't know if it's still named that, which is just a theater where you saw Jada Kiss go off, you know. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:29.600 I'm I'm outside that one. 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:31.919 And then there's Madison, the Garden Inside. 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:35.600 Yeah, and he did inside Joe Coy, packed it out, sold it out. 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.759 And I got there, I just went with some friends. 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.399 They were like, yo, I got an extra ticket to go see Joe Coy. 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:42.799 We go see it, sure enough, we're we're by. 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:50.080 And I just remember like touching like all the guard the gates and as I was walking through. 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:50.399 Yeah. 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:52.480 And like, man, you OCD. 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:53.679 That's what the homie said. 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:54.879 Nah, nah. 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:56.159 Just don't worry about it. 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:57.600 Have you got to play the garden yet? 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:57.919 No. 00:15:58.159 --> 00:15:58.480 It's coming. 00:15:58.879 --> 00:15:59.200 It's coming. 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:06.639 When y'all when y'all started y'all comedy career, like the do Puerto Ricans consider themselves Latin also, or is that just like Spanish speaking? 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:07.039 Latin. 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:07.360 Okay. 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:07.600 Yeah. 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:10.559 So like did y'all face any challenges being Latin comedians? 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.960 Was there anything Yeah. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:17.759 Like what what's some of the challenges that you feel like you kind of had to like overcome when you got to LA? 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:26.639 Well, for me, well, I mean, go 'cause I started in LA and like I uh but yeah, here was because I I started the comedy store right away. 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:31.039 Late basically I started as a door guy, so I got into that fraternity. 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.639 And and I liked it too because I just wanted to be a comic. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:35.679 I just wanted to be funny. 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:50.480 And also the shows that were here in during that time, Latino shows, were mostly kind of like targeted for like Southern, you know, uh people that live here in California, like southern Latinos, mostly Mexicans, they kind of like that culture. 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:54.559 Which at that point I was I had no I had no idea, I didn't like what it was. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:59.840 I remember going to some shows and I'd be like, people look at me, all these guys, like, who the fuck is this guy? 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:12.319 You know, because I'm like, hey, all these guys are very tough, you know, and I'm like, and I and they had a lot of references about like, you know, you know, cholos and all this stuff, which I'm like, I don't know. 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:15.519 So I'm like so I was like, let me go back to the comedy store. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.200 There's like I'm just gonna, you know, I was like, with all the safe people. 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:21.039 You speak Spanish though too, right? 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:32.880 No, no, I do speak Spanish, but it wasn't like because in the in the where I grew up in DC, it's most like like New York or even in the east of uh the US, there's more variety, you know. 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:38.960 Like and I was like all my friends growing up were like also in DC is a lot of diplomats and international organizations. 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:47.519 So I had like friends from Mexico, but Brazil and Ecuador and Venezuela and Colombia and um Peru and um Dominican Republic, so like from everywhere. 00:17:47.680 --> 00:18:03.440 So like when I got here, it was just like one, so I was like, and I felt like oh yeah, and they're like, go do this shows, and I'm like, but I felt I felt more comfortable doing again, doing the comedy store than things, because at that time I wasn't, you know, I wasn't even aware of this, you know, of of that. 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:15.680 So to me, and I and it wasn't like it was more like I wanted to like I also wanted to

be part of it, but I was like, but I felt like I also sometimes I wasn't they learn I wasn't I wasn't part of it. 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:16.720 You weren't invited. 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.240 I wasn't invited to I wasn't invited to the Carnesada cook out. 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:23.519 That's hilarious, you know. 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:29.599 But now no mom is way out of the man, I've always had it easy. 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.200 But I come from Miami, Florida, so it was that balance. 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.960 So uh and I I I came up in gladiator school. 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.400 I came up at the Miami Improv 300 Cedars, Coconut Grove. 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:45.119 Oh, yeah, so it's like Benji Brown's uh stomping grounds. 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:45.759 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:47.359 So I used to do like Benji Brown. 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:55.759 I never headlined, I I just featured because headline, if you were headlining, you were going on uh 12, 1 in the morning if you were the headliner. 00:18:55.920 --> 00:19:01.519 And then I also used to do Marvin Dixon, which was upscale in Fort Lauderdale. 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:03.519 But then I also did the weekend shows. 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:09.680 Uh my my whole my whole I I just I always like just I take a beat, man. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:20.240 You take a beat with everything, and I look at it and I see the math, and I was just like, oh, if I stay as a if I host, I'll get up more than me over here trying to feature. 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:25.440 And sure enough, by hosting, I was able to play Miami Improv for a lot of day or West Palm. 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.720 So I could pretty much work almost every weekend as a host. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:29.039 Right. 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:34.640 And then meeting people, and then and that's how I met Bruce Bruce, and then I was able to start opening for Bruce Bruce. 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:38.079 That's how I met Sebastian Menoscalco before he popped and went to theaters. 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:39.680 I was his Florida guy. 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:40.559 You know what I'm saying? 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:42.799 So it was a lot of big acts that came. 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.960 Michael Yo, when he started building his career, it was like that was the homie. 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:51.440 I just happened to have my camera rolling, and then me and him became homies, and then that was it. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:52.480 We were off to the races. 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:54.960 Y'all been asking, how can y'all support killing it? 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:56.480 Well, we got an answer for you. 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:57.119 We got one. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:57.920 Cash app. 00:19:58.079 --> 00:19:58.400 Boom. 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:02.720 We are independently produced right now, and we're paying for this to give y'all a great show every week. 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:04.400 Y'all be asking about a Patreon. 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:06.160 You

don't even have to, this ain't even much about it. 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:08.079 Just go put something in there right now. 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:16.000 That Miami improv for the audience watching, as far as stand-up goes, that is a uh It's gladiator school. 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:16.880 Yeah, it is. 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:18.960 It's terribly tough. 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.200 There's like a couple of places that are known like that. 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:24.000 Uh Uptown, the original Uptown was like that. 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:25.839 The my that is one of them places. 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:36.640 It's like Well, like on every night back then, every night, the Miami Improv had two police officers at the door in their police that they paid with the squad cars. 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:37.039 Yes. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:38.799 So that was that was it. 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:46.960 At one point, like the the local um I don't want to say, but the local distributor was actually head of security. 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:50.559 And he wasn't even uh like security. 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:54.079 He just since he distributed to the hood, everybody would listen to it. 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:56.640 Everybody when he stood up, because he loved comedy. 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:06.079 So he would send one of his goons over to your table and be like, yo, you know, so I've been in there with with Lil Wayne sitting in the back, 300-seater pack. 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:18.640 He's amongst everybody, big Lil Wayne, you know, like everybody knows him, to like, you know, to to watching Fluffy, Gabriel Iglesias, pull up with his tour bus all wrapped, and I was like, What is this? 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:23.359 And I saw him that he stayed there that the people drank the bar. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.880 He stayed there so long, and they were they drank the bar. 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:36.480 And uh, and then uh it might have been, I don't want to say the name, but the manager turned off the air conditioner so we would leave, so the people would leave, and Gabriel would leave. 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.440 But they started, you know, he was he was just killing it, dude. 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:40.400 He was killing it. 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:40.960 You know? 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:42.240 So it's beautiful. 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:45.519 Uh uh, so um so what hold on. 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.720 When I got to LA, I was embraced by then. 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.799 People like Francisco, uh, people like Ida Rodriguez, people like Jack. 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:53.839 But that was like, yeah. 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:55.599 Yeah, but I got here in 2013. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:56.799 When it was a little better. 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:59.759 Yeah, by then, but yeah, Alfred Robles. 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.039 Uh Nick Guerra, Michael, yo. 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:11.680 By the time I got here, a lot of these walls had come down where there they people started supporting each other. 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:13.440 It was mean. 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:18.079 I walked so you could fly. 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:19.839 I walked. 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:30.240 I mean, the uh the the uh the com tell me I I would love we I don't know if you've ever touched that before. 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:42.559 Tell me about the uh the the likes to touch the manifesto every time I'm around every time I'm around president, I start doing this fucking voice. 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:44.400 Got a great voice. 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:47.119 Oh man, Brent's voice is fucking epic. 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:54.960 The um tell talk to me about the journey of the store because you know, notoriously there's like uh three ways to get in. 00:22:55.039 --> 00:23:02.160 Either you become super, super, super famous, you um it's like I want to say recommendations, yeah, and or you are a doorman. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:03.359 And you were a doorman. 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:03.680 Yes. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:06.960 It's always hilarious to me when hilarious people are doormen. 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:07.440 Why? 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:08.559 I don't know why. 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.400 I man, I saw Ron Taylor working at the store and I could not stop laughing. 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:22.880 Everybody that's trying to, it seems like um I think that there is a logic that if you decide to be a doorman, you will be passed. 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:23.759 And that's not how it works. 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:25.279 You have to be good. 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:25.680 Yeah. 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:27.759 So some of the doormen are great. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:29.680 Some of them are, you know. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:30.480 Takes a while. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:31.440 Hey, man, they figured. 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:33.519 Can you say their names in Social Security number? 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:41.119 So uh tell me about the the choice to to even make that choice to make it a journey because your name is for sure on that wall. 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.480 Uh that's as next to the greatest as it should be. 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:44.880 Yeah. 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:52.160 No, well, for me, I I would say for me, uh it was different because I started comedy when I moved to LA. 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:56.160 Like I wasn't doing comedy in DC or Maryland when I was, so I never had any. 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:58.559 So when I moved here, I was just doing open mics. 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:04.000 And one of the open mics was the best ones were the improv, the laugh factory, and then the comedy store. 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:09.680 And and when I got into doing the they started liking me and putting me lower on the on the list. 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:17.039 And then one day I was just uh you know hanging out, watching a show, and then Tommy, the booker at that time, told me, Hey, do you want to work here? 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:25.759 Well, but like, so it's I was like, Oh, it's like I was

like, but I have a full-time job. 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:27.039 It's like, nah, we'll figure it out. 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:28.000 So I was like, all right. 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:31.200 So then so for me, I didn't know anything. 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:34.640 I didn't know, so that for me was easy, I guess, the choice, right? 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:38.000 Because I didn't have nothing I'm hanging out here anyway. 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:44.240 Now I'm already doing up at Max, but that's why I'm getting gonna get paid a little bit, but I'm gonna and I and to me, I would say that was my master. 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:52.480 That's how I really learned how to do those two years I worked at the store is when I really learned how to do comedy because it's also the comedy store wasn't popular back then. 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:53.119 That's a fact. 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:54.640 So I was like three people in there. 00:24:54.880 --> 00:25:21.599 So I learned how to do comedy in front of three people, and I learned so I wasn't so I had to just be myself, and that really helped me, and then I saw, and that's how so I met Sebastian, and he's one of the first ones that took me out on the road, you know, and then uh and then other comics like Ian Edwards as well became you know, we became really good friends because of that, and uh Maz Giabrani and all those guys, but like I learned through them, so I always say that the choice of I tell people I did it because I didn't know anything else. 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:39.119 Like if I would have started like you or somewhere you started in another city and you already kind of like know what you're doing, and to go and work as a door door guy, door person, like it would have been like then I would have to thought about it, but for me it worked because it really got me in stand-up, and then I worked two years. 00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:50.160 I remember I was about to quit because I was like, Alright, I am like I was like, I need I want to get passed, and then finally I I showcased and I got passed, and then I was like, alright, I'm out, and then I got it. 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:51.759 Y'all be on the road touring. 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:55.200 How y'all go about promoting y'all shows to make sure y'all got S's and C's? 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:55.759 Shit. 00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:57.599 I didn't unfollow you. 00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:58.400 I just want to say that. 00:25:58.480 --> 00:25:59.200 I didn't unfollow you. 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:02.000 I told Hasan, I said, I told Hassan, I said, hey man, just put me on mute. 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:03.359 He was like, oh, okay, yeah, I'll do that. 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:04.079 That's true. 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:07.680 So don't be trying to find clever ways to unfollow me, goddammit. 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:11.119 But how y'all promote y'all shows? 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:21.759 Uh well for me, I mean standard right now, obviously uh ads is the thing, and then uh mailing list ads on

which platforms? 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:22.880 Oh, on meta. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:44.480 Okay, you know, like all that stuff, like because a lot of my followers are from Instagram pretty much or Facebook, so to target those, you know, uh uh mailing lists, and then and I what I do also I sometimes I I contact like you know uh uh because I'm from Venezuela, so a lot of Venezuelan people come to the shows, you know. 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:50.799 Sometimes there most a lot of girl Venezuelan girls want to come and bring their like American boyfriend or husband. 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:54.480 They're like, oh finally I can they're like this the guy I'm gonna cheat on you with. 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.000 Just take a look at him. 00:26:58.480 --> 00:26:59.200 Take a look at him. 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:07.440 But I contact so then I have there's associations in states about Venezuelan like community or like businesses and stuff like that. 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:09.920 So like I kind of go, like, hey, can you promote? 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:15.119 And then I'll kind of like come to your place and you know, kind of do a story on your show, on your restaurant or something like that. 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:16.000 So little things like that. 00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.960 Hold on, you say you'll do a story on your say that again? 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:25.200 Like if I if they help me promote the show, then I can just go to their restaurant and like do a story and be like, hey, I'm here, you know. 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:28.480 Oh, like on a Saturday, like Saturday daytime or something like that, go eat at their restaurant. 00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:31.359 Yeah, like you know, and then you go thank you for this. 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:34.559 Uh come to if you're in you know Dallas, come to this. 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:35.599 Oh, that's smart. 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:36.799 You know, that's smart. 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:37.039 Yeah. 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:41.839 Yeah, because you're getting the local people. 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:43.599 Yeah, that's a great idea. 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:45.119 I never thought, see, I'm glad I asked that question. 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:45.839 What about you? 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:46.880 Uh Meta. 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:48.480 I used to do Google Ads. 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:49.680 Now I'm doing Meta. 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:58.079 And uh one of the things that really changed it, I just I did Ontario Improv and I average about 200 people a show. 00:27:58.400 --> 00:27:59.039 And I did. 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:11.759 And what really the turn was that when I'm advertising, I used to do like general, like to everybody in within the area of um of Ontario. 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:14.319 Let's just say within 30 miles of Ontario. 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:21.759 Uh, what I started doing is like I I instead of that, I clicked on people who follow me already follow me, yeah. 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:24.799 Or are like the people who already follow

me. 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:25.839 Not in the area? 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:27.839 Uh yeah, within the area. 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:28.720 Within the area. 00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:33.279 You talk about on meta, as opposed to doing a uh build out for just the space. 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:36.720 You said people that already follow me, andor people that in the area. 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:37.920 Yeah, in the area. 00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:38.319 Yeah. 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:42.160 So it automatically matches both of them, matches people with people. 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:44.240 And people that are interested in comedy, you know. 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:46.480 Come on, come on, they're you gotta sneak in, baby. 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:47.119 We going, baby. 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:47.680 We're gone. 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:48.559 They knew you was coming. 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:50.720 We knew you were out there putting in the work. 00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:52.240 We know you were putting in the work. 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:56.480 Ladies and gentlemen, Uncle Marvin is here. 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:59.039 Uncle Marvin, uh, uh, Uncle Marvin. 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:01.759 I said I told him you was doing audition. 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:03.839 He's getting his vengeance this year. 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:04.240 All right. 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:06.400 Marvin's getting his vengeance this year. 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.319 They're doing uh, I said he's doing an audition. 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:09.440 They was like, he's killing it. 00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:10.640 I said, no, he was doing shit. 00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.640 I said they were doing shit today. 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:18.000 But he's here. 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:19.599 He's here. 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:31.519 I mean, uh uh Oh, I did have another I did have a follow-up question to that, which was you I know you do Spanish speaking shows and English speaking shows. 00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:34.079 What went behind that decision to do that? 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:39.440 And do you see a difference in ticket sales between your English shows versus your Spanish shows? 00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:43.440 Yeah, I mean for me it was the the audience they were like kind of asking for it. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.799 Every time I would go, they're like, hey, when are you gonna do a show in Spanish? 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:50.240 I wanna bring my my grandma, I don't know, I wanna bring somebody. 00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:59.279 It's like when I do so, like then it depends on the city, and then I'm like, alright, let me just do one show in Spanish, and then I think it's like uh I it it's done well. 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:09.839 Like I think there like I did one in San Diego recently, and like and there was I did one show in Spanish and the rest in English, and that one worked really well for that one night, you know, compared to the English shows. 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:14.160 The English show still did well, but like, but it was

good because it was just you know targeted. 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:23.440 So I'm kind of like still figuring it out, but I'm definitely getting a lot of uh depending on the city, I do I am getting good, you know, a lot of good people to come to the Spanish shows. 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:27.920 So yeah, I think it's just more for you know we're good, it's still recorded. 00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:30.480 Have you tested uh have you tested Miami yet? 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:31.200 Oh yeah, yeah. 00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:34.799 I did my Miami, I do like for sure, like more shows in Spanish. 00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:36.880 There's cities that are like New York too. 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:38.799 I can do one show in Spanish, one show in English. 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:44.799 So if you have a so if you have five shows in the week, if you got two Friday, two Saturday, one Sunday, maybe you'll do Friday early show with Spanish. 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:50.720 Or or or sometimes Thursday I'll do the Spanish and then two shows Friday or two shows Saturday, something like that. 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:51.839 So like it just depends. 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:59.839 Yeah, or if I do if it's just four shows, then I'll do maybe the one show, the first show Friday on in Spanish, and then the other ones in English. 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:08.240 The um, I mean, that's a good segue into uh something you guys were both a part of uh that was you know kind of revolutionary. 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.359 Let me call it it was uh Latin Def Jam. 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:13.680 Entre nosotes. 00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:18.799 Uh you did season three, and you did season four, if I'm correct. 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:19.519 I don't know. 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.799 I don't yeah, one of them. 00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:21.200 I don't know. 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:21.680 I like it. 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:22.799 I was on there, yeah. 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:24.400 Yeah, you know, it's everywhere. 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:28.559 Yeah, yeah, that's the that's the homie Edwin Licona and Biva Films with Victor. 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:30.240 Yeah, and yeah, they put it together. 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:32.640 It's kind of like it's it's for the culture. 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:38.079 Yeah, he just said, hey, we gotta we gotta start putting on putting our own thing. 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:44.720 And they brought me on, co-signed, you know, by Ida Rodriguez, she co-signed for me, and then they brought me on. 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:52.640 Yeah, but I mean talk speak to the entity of working when you know you're gonna be working with uh HBO, even pre-cause this is a pre-year special, right? 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:53.039 Yeah. 00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:54.319 Yeah, so talk talk to me. 00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:59.519 You guys both talked to me about working with HBO and in that way when the when the project happens. 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.720 It was great because for me it was great because Edwin Licona is such a good producer. 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:11.759 He protected me from HBO, so I didn't even have to deal with them till we got to like marketing and doing all that. 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:26.640 And then there, that's when I was like pushing back, and they were pushing, and I was pushing back, and they were pushing, and then you know, some things worked that that that that that I suggested, and then some things didn't work that they suggested. 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:27.680 And you mean like on material? 00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:28.559 What what were you pushing about? 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:32.640 No, not material, material they weren't allowed to talk to me about it. 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:35.680 So no, no, they trusted me. 00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:40.400 They they they okay we trust and and again Edwin Licorn, great producer. 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:43.200 He was he he just he played guard for us. 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:50.720 He just I don't know if he if uh if you got the same room, but it was it was with me. 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:51.599 Yeah, yeah. 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:56.799 But I I was just like he protected me, and that's what's good about a great producer. 00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:03.920 And like I know that you guys are now in the market for someone to volunteer to come and do some producing on this show. 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.839 It's like that's what you need from a good producer, someone that just protects you guys, right? 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:12.079 Yeah, but but I guess you maybe you want to say, hold on, real quick, hold on, hold on. 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:13.359 Protect it, protect it. 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:16.400 I say what was he protecting you from? 00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:17.119 Them. 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:18.240 Who's them? 00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:20.480 Their creative input. 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:22.559 And what was some of their creative input that you did? 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:24.960 I never know because it never made it down to me. 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:31.359 So that's what a good manager does, that's what a good agent does, even if he just chooses to translate it in a different way. 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:31.839 Got it. 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:32.720 You know what I'm saying? 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:34.960 Because I'm me, I'm with my hair out. 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:50.240 I'm talking about my wife, I'm talking about getting into a fight at amnesia uh in the in the late 2000s uh with you know with the with a whole Jamaican crew, but then everybody thinks I'm one of the Marley kids because I got long dreadlocks. 00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:57.200 So he's I'm talking about all this stuff, and you know, there's a guy right now on HBO who has a whole special about colors. 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:04.960 And they cur uh curated that's the word curated that, right? 00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:05.599 Yeah, you know? 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:06.960 We need the color special. 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:07.279 Yeah. 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.719 My

bad, go for it, Francis. 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:16.159 So no, but for me it was it was great because it was like my first kind of like show after last comic standing. 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:22.480 That was like the last, the next kind of like little like stand-up special thing that looked good. 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.039 I mean, it was for HBO, so that's pretty cool that it happened. 00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:27.760 And for and and and and Edwin was great too. 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:33.519 I think I I mean I wasn't I did just one of the showcases, so I had like my set, but it came out really good. 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:35.840 I had like complete, I could do whatever I want. 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:37.599 It was it came out really great. 00:34:37.679 --> 00:35:02.960 It did great for me, and also it helped me kind of also have a relationship with HBO because then I I I I co-wrote and directed a a short that after we did it, we put it out on um on festivals, and then HBO contacted us to put it on uh on their streaming platform, like HBO Max for like, you know, they licensed it for like two years, so I think that also helped the fact that I was like, hey, I'm already you already have me in Entry and O'Stin, you know, kind of family. 00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:04.079 Part of the ecosystem. 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:04.639 Exactly. 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:05.519 So it was good. 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:17.280 When did you guys feel like uh if this stand-up thing was not just uh just something a hobby or something where you feel like oh I can actually live off this, I can pay some bills, I can really pursue this. 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:18.239 When did that happen? 00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:19.519 Uh 2013. 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:29.679 Uh for me, well, for me, I I took me a while because I moved here kind of like, all right, let's see if I'm good at it, but I had a date day full-time job. 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:36.639 And then I uh two years into while I was still working, I got the whole I did the voice of the monkey in Rio. 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:40.239 So that kind of like gave me like, oh well, that's kind of weird. 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:54.079 I mean, not like a little confidence of like, well, but even then I was still working and then like and then finally when I quit, you know, the job that I had the full-time job, and I still did like tennis, for teaching tennis and all this stuff. 00:35:54.400 --> 00:36:01.599 I was still make now still making more money on on stand up, but it was like my thing was gradual, kind of like going like, can I still make money? 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:04.880 Can I still become you know this professional or something? 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:16.880 So it took me I and and a comic told me growing uh when I was at the store, told me like you start making or you can start living off comedy, the average is gonna be like five, six, six years or seven years. 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:25.760 And and basically for me it was like when I was kind of living off just comedy and a little and acting, you know, was around that that mark for me. 00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:27.119 And why 2013? 00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:28.400 What was a particular project? 00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:30.159 No, 2013. 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:34.079 Uh you know, look, man, I read I read a good uh book. 00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:35.599 It's a children's book. 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:37.920 I still go back and I reread it. 00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:41.760 Is uh, you know, Will Smith has recommended it a bunch of times. 00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:44.960 I got to read it in school before Will Smith recommended it. 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:50.800 And I have it hardcover and I give it away to people, and I have an audio called The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho. 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:51.679 Oh no, that's a great book. 00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:58.639 Yeah, which is which is if you just follow Santiago's journey, it's like and what the alchemist is telling. 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:02.000 The second that you decide, it all works out for you. 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:05.679 Yeah, and I decided in 2013, I decided. 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:18.320 Moved to Los Angeles, and then it was I got here and like uh it's similar story. 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:22.719 I got here and I got like a like a$5,000 Walmart commercial. 00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:23.360 Jeez. 00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:31.599 Just when I came just to just to just to lease the joint where I told you, I just came to lease the place and I got a$5,000 commercial. 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:32.480 I just landed. 00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:38.639 I I just so happened to be in LA leasing the spot and I was going back home when they were like they brought me in. 00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:44.960 Yeah, you got this$5,000, and then they gave me an extra$500 to go shoot with a little handheld camera. 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:46.639 Oh, we're gonna do this for the internet. 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:47.119 Uh-huh. 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:49.280 The one for the internet ran longer. 00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:54.320 Right, you know, and uh then that came in um in Florida. 00:37:54.400 --> 00:38:06.239 I won like Florida's funniest comedian, and then I come here and it's like my first spot here is in the hottest night at that time in Los Angeles, which was Comedy Juice at the at the improv. 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:10.960 Yeah, so I just came into that, but I had decided. 00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:14.239 I was just like, I'm I'm in this, and then it was off to the running. 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:15.840 Yeah, I read the same book too. 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:17.280 The alchemists and the science. 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:21.679 You gotta follow the science, and the universe tells you, kind of like pushes you. 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.280 And there's there's that beginning, that beginner's luck is that's a real thing. 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:26.079 How does it end? 00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:27.519 I keep starting it, I never finish. 00:38:27.840 -->

00:38:28.159 Alchemist? 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:28.800 Yeah, the alchemist. 00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:30.639 I try to read the book. 00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:31.840 Don't spoil it, the Lord. 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:34.000 He gets beat up. 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:36.559 He gets beat up at the in the pyramids of Egypt. 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:41.199 Okay, and then he gets to see that he's digging for the treasure, and the treasure was a oh man. 00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:41.920 I'm Messiah. 00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:43.920 No, no, no, he needed to be a good thing. 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:46.400 I don't think it's a good thing. 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:50.639 He ain't gonna read it. 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:52.800 Don't even read it. 00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:54.559 Get the audio book unless you're not. 00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:57.840 Yeah, while you drive it, and the and the actor, I can't think of his name. 00:38:57.920 --> 00:38:59.039 It's an amazing actor. 00:38:59.119 --> 00:38:59.199 Okay. 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:00.480 That's doing the voiceover for it. 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:01.440 That's doing the voiceover. 00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:02.320 It's an amazing actor. 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:04.400 I get like halfway through it, then I'm like, man. 00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:06.800 I mean, that's a great conversation. 00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:08.400 You gotta finish your story. 00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:10.079 The um Which one? 00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:12.000 The the the story. 00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:15.440 The whole book is about you finish, following your story, your personal story. 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:22.239 Okay, your personal legend that that legend that the universe, God, whatever you want to call it, puts you, everybody's here for a reason. 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:22.639 Yeah. 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:26.559 And and the and and and the universe wants you to fulfill that reason. 00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:29.679 And sometimes we're so stuck in something else that we don't see the signs. 00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:40.960 Yeah, that's why we I tell people, like, you know, in the industry, like, if you're if the industry is telling you that you're good at this, at writing, or acting, or or producing, do that. 00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:52.800 Doesn't mean you can't then do stand-up or whatever, but like don't like people sometimes want to be like, but I want to be this, and I'm like, don't force it's like I was like the the the basketball analogy of like you can be a great player. 00:39:52.960 --> 00:40:03.679 Can there's only one LeBron, but then you can be Steve Kerr and be a great you know, role player and then become a great manager or become or Pelinka, be a great, you know, general man, president of operations. 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:08.800 You're still in the game, and you're still doing, but like but there's only one LeBron, there's only one Kobe. 00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:11.440 I mean, like, I mean, like, you gotta like that'd be the problem. 00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:12.400 Everybody wants

to be LeBron. 00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:14.320 I mean, it's like you're not LeBron. 00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:14.719 Right. 00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:16.320 And you can do very well not be a LeBron. 00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:16.960 Exactly. 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.719 I mean, speak you just brought up the voiceover for what's the name? 00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:30.400 Speak to uh the voiceover for Rio and and when that happens, and the we don't have enough conversations about voiceover because we all know it's very lucrative. 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:38.159 Yeah, it's like that's uh to me, that's the the best job you can have if you get like in a regular show, like uh a family guy. 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:39.840 You can see me on Lil Kev on beat. 00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:44.000 Come on, play it on season two coming soon. 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:44.800 All right, go on. 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:45.760 Yeah, no, that's great. 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:46.400 That's a good one. 00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:55.199 Yeah, so what what was it when when that uh opportunity, your because your voice is one of the things we I talk about all the time is like um uh who was that? 00:40:55.360 --> 00:41:01.599 Nav Green was here and was like, you know, there's having your comedic sensibilities, and then sometimes you're just blessed with certain tools. 00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:07.199 Like vocally, you have a uh a thing that works for your voice that was seen for this character. 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:07.440 Yeah. 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:08.960 How did how did that come about? 00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:14.880 How did it like I said, I was working, that was two I uh I remember 2006, that was like in 2008. 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:21.039 So I was still work, I was still doing open mics, and I was still working full-time at my job in investment. 00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:27.679 And I remember oh, and I got recommended by shout-out to Skylar Stone, if you don't know, you know Skylar. 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:29.760 So like everybody needs to know Skylar. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:30.400 Yeah, yeah. 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:31.280 He hooked up. 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:45.840 He hooked a lot, he hooked a lot of people, but like, so like I remember I I I he he invited me to open for him one show, and I and and then he's like uh afterwards, he's like, Hey, do you are you uh are you are you Brazilian? 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.039 I'm like, no, I'm from Venezuela. 00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:48.400 So can you do a Brazilian accent? 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:49.599 I was like, uh yeah, sure. 00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:50.000 I know. 00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:54.400 And I was like, so I was like, all right, I'm gonna potato potato. 00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:02.800 So I got he invited I got a meeting with the casting director of Fox, and I remember literally, because I used to work, you know where the CA is? 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:03.119 Yeah, yeah. 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:04.960 I used to work in those Twin Towers. 00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:06.719 So I will literally I walked. 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:08.400 I was like, I I was in my job. 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:12.159 I was like, I was like, hey, I gotta go to the doctors to do those auditions. 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.519 I walked and I did that, and I remember doing the audition. 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:16.880 I had no idea what voiceover. 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:18.400 I never took any classes, nothing. 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:20.960 This is not even not taking acting classes. 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:29.360 And I went and I'm like, I'm I started doing it, and I'm doing like a Brazilian accent in English, you know, and then the casting editor stops me, he's like, What are you doing? 00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:31.199 I was like, Well, is he is he in the Brazil? 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:33.599 He's like, Yeah, but like you already have an accent. 00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:38.800 He's like, Do you think Americans are gonna know the difference between a Venezuelan accent and a Brazilian accent? 00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:50.800 Just do you, and that really helped me kind of like let it go let it go, and I just started like going riffing and doing, and and then I had a couple of callbacks, and then I got it, and I was like, but it was just the fact that they had you do a callback, yeah. 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:53.360 Yeah, no, I did. 00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:54.800 Kevin, you know you owe me. 00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:56.159 You know you like it. 00:42:56.239 --> 00:43:00.639 But it was perfect, but it was like completely, and again, those are the alchemists. 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:07.760 The alchemist literally telling him like, how the hell in two years when I first moved here, you know, like that I got that. 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:16.559 Which also is a retrospect too, because then when you get it, then your mind starts thinking, oh now I I did it, or I what I mean, and like that doesn't mean anything. 00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:19.679 It's just a little, it's a little good step, but doesn't change your whole life. 00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:27.199 Yeah, but the homie Pat in Oswald, me and Justin were talking about it, he gave me he get one of the jewels he told me about this town. 00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.159 He said, never get too high and never get too low. 00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:30.400 Yeah. 00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:34.639 Especially when you're uh uh you're in a low moment right now. 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:42.719 Yeah, like uh like right now, everything like just on the completely being transparent, you could tell I did therapy. 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:47.840 Um, like like right now, I'm in a I'm in a sit-down moment. 00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:51.519 I don't know what he has planned for me, the creator, the universe. 00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:52.800 But he told me to sit down. 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:53.840 And I'm sitting down. 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:55.440 Yeah, I'm sitting down. 00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:59.840 I'm not trying to force anything, but the emails

that used to get answered aren't getting answered. 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:03.119 The phone calls that used to get picked up, they're not getting picked up. 00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:04.400 But it's alright. 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:06.480 Something bigger is coming around the corner. 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:07.920 I just need to sit down. 00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:12.719 Sit down because if I mess around and I start, I'm gonna miss it. 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:23.119 Yeah, the stillness, stillness is a very it's a it's a necessity for how how you're gonna move through everything in essence of like it it it assesses your clarity. 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:25.119 It's like no, this is this and this is that. 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:32.000 And it's like, but if when you're doing shit, yeah, well, it's like when you're doing shit, it's like it's hard to to what to use. 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:45.440 And you guys know it's like acting, you know, if you're like really still and chill, like you're acting better if you're fucking thinking about anything, thinking about why is that person not it's like you're not concentrating the moment, then it's just and the same thing with life, you know. 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:51.599 Oh well, I was when you say you sitting still, what exactly are you doing with it? 00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:52.719 I get it, I got it. 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:55.280 What exactly are you doing with your day? 00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:57.280 Are you just like chilling? 00:44:57.360 --> 00:44:58.239 Are you watching TV? 00:44:58.320 --> 00:44:58.880 Are you writing? 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:01.039 Like, what are you doing with your day? 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:03.920 I'm working like inside. 00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:05.679 I'm working on a script right now. 00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:07.599 I make sure I bang out one page. 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:08.400 Got it. 00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:12.559 I'm not forcing it every I'm not like you know, stuff like that. 00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:15.760 Um me and BT, we have a show at the laugh factory tonight. 00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:19.599 I'll grab, I'll put my bullet points of like what do I want to do tonight? 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:20.639 What what set? 00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:22.800 You know, sit down, being chill. 00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.679 Just uh I'm not I'm not saying just sit there and don't do anything. 00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:29.920 Well, I just want to be clear for people because there's some people that are gonna be like, see, don't do shit. 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:30.559 You know what I'm saying? 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:31.360 Don't do shit. 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:36.880 So that um um go out for walks, breathe. 00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:38.400 Breathe, bro. 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:39.760 Live, yeah, yeah. 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:47.360 Yeah, it's like it's like uh it's like I that's you think right now I'm not even breathing the way I'm supposed to be, breathe. 00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:48.239 Breathe, bro. 00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:52.480 Yeah, and and uh go outside, talk to the trees. 00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:54.480 The trees carry messages, yeah. 00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:54.960 You know? 00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:57.199 Hey man, I want to hit that power ball. 00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:59.039 I say that to my trees every day. 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:00.960 Yeah, they're not listening, yeah. 00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:03.039 My two pomegranates aren't listening. 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:07.679 One of them is, the the third one is, but the other two are teaming up against the third one. 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:15.840 What's a what's a what's a hard rejection that made you press forward when you could have just tapped out? 00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:17.280 And what's one of those hard notes? 00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:32.719 I don't know if it's an audition or if it's a show, it's a project, and you got to know and you made a choice to say, you know what, as much as it as much as it was painful for you to receive, he's like he used that to kind of move forward. 00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:37.119 Uh Tommy at the comedy store told me to sit down. 00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:38.880 He told me to sit down. 00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:44.480 Uh at the time, uh Sebastian Menascalco co-signed for me because he had worked with me on the road. 00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:47.679 Bobby Lee co-signed for me because he had worked on the road and everything. 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:49.039 So I get to LA. 00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.239 I'm already working on the road, I'm a working comic. 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:56.079 And uh they introduced they they co-signed with me with Tommy. 00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:59.440 Tommy says, sit down, and then why do you say sit down? 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:00.000 What do I mean sit down? 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:05.039 Like sit down, like in the back of the room of the OR, and then he started putting, he goes, I'm gonna put you up. 00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:10.239 And then he put up comic after comic after comic, and then the chef went up. 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:11.440 That's hilarious. 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:12.159 You know? 00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:17.679 And I giggled, and then the chef was doing material in Spanish, and then you know. 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:20.639 You thought you were the first, Francisco, but you fucking was it? 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:21.519 It was the chef. 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:22.880 But the chef ain't regular. 00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:27.440 Praise gang. 00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:30.000 I didn't know, I didn't know who it was. 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:30.480 Right. 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:37.280 I didn't know who he was, and then there uh he goes up, and then I say, Oh, it hit me. 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:38.320 I was in the back of the room. 00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:42.079 I say, Oh, this is uh this is a fraternity. 00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:46.719 Yeah, I'm I'm never I I went to college, I didn't pledge. 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:53.440 All right, and then I just I looked at Tommy in his face, he

looked at me and I went and I went home. 00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:57.199 But you can become undeniable. 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:07.039 So then doing sets, doing sets, doing sets, doing sets, doing sets, doing sets, um Regine, uh that's the word that changed. 00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:19.360 Uh Emily LaFord came in there, and off of being nice, connections, networking, she was stuck, she was in a bun, and she needed a feature down in uh down in La Jolla. 00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:24.559 And I had they had just introduced me to her, and she goes, You want to do La Jolla this week? 00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:26.159 I said, Let's go, Pat, let's go. 00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:30.239 Years this when I first got here, fast forward, she becomes the new booker. 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:30.800 Wow. 00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:32.159 Gives me my shot. 00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:36.239 I auditioned, and then I get the phone call, and now the names on the wall. 00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:37.679 Woo, fine, nice. 00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:41.039 But it was kind of like persist, persist, persist. 00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:41.760 You know what I'm saying? 00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:43.760 What was your note, Francisco? 00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:45.519 I have a lot. 00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:47.840 Where do I go? 00:48:49.039 --> 00:49:08.079 Ah man, I think uh it was I think for me it was uh it was more of like an acting thing when I was like I was about to like it was the same thing, it was pretty close, and it was a show that I got, you know, it was like when they did pilot season and I reboot I love Lucy and I uh that's the one I've been pitching. 00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:11.440 Oh man, you know, but I know it could work. 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:16.559 But uh but it was like I got to the audition and I got the call back, right? 00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:20.880 The producer session, it was kind of like you already like I had to sign the the thing. 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:25.840 I was like you and then I didn't get it, like it was like the last step. 00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:29.760 It was like almost I didn't test, but almost the last step before testing, and I didn't get it. 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:37.519 And that like really it was very early on, but I remember feeling bad, but then also like at that point, because I'm like, ugh, I guess I'm not good at this. 00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:56.000 But now I remember for me, then I was like, I'm glad that because I wasn't I wasn't I was green, I was still very green, and I was like, I even I and I realized I didn't even know at that time, but now I'm like I'm glad I didn't get it because I and that's what life maybe tells you when you don't get stuff, it's sometimes that's good. 00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:57.599 Oh rejection is God's protection. 00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:02.639 Exactly, because happened if I would like rejection is God's protection. 00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:18.960 Hey me praise But I but yeah, I think now I'm like because uh let's say if I would like actually got the table read and you get fire of the table reach we've you know heard that's even more I think mentally messed up. 00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:21.360 So I think I'm glad that I didn't get to that point. 00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:27.280 So so then I could still work on the acting and then and there's a lot of stuff in my life that I'm like, why didn't I get it? 00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:29.840 I was like, and then I see it, I'm like, I'm glad I didn't get it. 00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:30.559 Because I wasn't ready. 00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:33.039 I was just it was then you're so ready for the next one. 00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:45.599 And now I'm ready because now you're like and auditions too, like they're like auditions, there's auditions that you're like, man, like this really like I can't believe I didn't get it, or I why and then I'm like, I wasn't ready for that part. 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:47.920 And it was What's the math? 00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:53.199 It was gonna be like you get and then if you get it, then you might not do anything with it, or it does nothing happen. 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:55.760 So it's like it's kind of like protecting you. 00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:01.840 So that that was my next question, which is do y'all get how like how often are y'all auditioning? 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:09.119 And do y'all feel like I don't know, the roles represent you correctly, or what type of roles do you get auditions for? 00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:11.039 If you are getting auditions. 00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:13.440 Yeah, no, I mean I do get auditions here and there. 00:51:13.519 --> 00:51:16.239 I mean, some I mean, I think it's definitely gotten better now. 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:16.400 Okay. 00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:24.960 He did a rivalry. 00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:47.840 Yeah, so that but back then it wasn't hit or rivalry, it was just like the the the the the token kind of like you know, the typical, like, and I'm like, and I would get this stuff and I'd be like, and uh my thing was like I didn't care like about the role, but my thing was like I didn't want to be known just only as that at that point because I have nothing else to fall back on. 00:51:48.639 --> 00:51:52.639 My comedy wasn't because I was like, I always call like the Brock back man kind of like thing. 00:51:52.719 --> 00:52:00.079 Like those guys, they already established, so it's like, but if you just do one guy, then then I didn't want to become the guy. 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:02.719 People was like, wait, what I want to do this, I want to do that. 00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:09.519 And I remember one time I told the it was for uh looking in HBO, I remember, I think it was a show. 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:13.599 It was like it was like basically like sex in the city about guys in HBO. 00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:18.000 And I remember getting reading the pilot, and the part that I got was the Samantha of the role. 00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:23.599 Like in the like in the in the in the in in three scenes, he's sucking

dick, you know. 00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:33.119 Like I'm going like Hollywood, and I'm going, and this is like very little, still, I mean still kind of like maybe open mics. 00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:39.599 I don't know, maybe I was a little passive, but it's like watching in the shadows, like I've tried to deal with it. 00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:41.599 Hollywood, don't do it. 00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:47.679 So I was like, I remember telling the the the the the the agent, I was like, nah, I can't, not this one. 00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:50.639 Like I feel like I know so I was like, because I was like, it was too much. 00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:56.800 I was like, oh, so I wasn't gonna even do a good job because it was like it was at that, you know, and I'm thinking about my mom. 00:52:57.119 --> 00:52:58.559 I can't suck dick believable. 00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:01.440 I have to practice first. 00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:01.920 Yeah. 00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:07.599 Um I have to ask, what's the uh well uh the audition acting thing too? 00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:14.480 Uh when we were right now I'm not getting anything, but when we used to go in person, I used to get a lot. 00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:15.599 Before pandemic, I think. 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:17.679 Yeah, before the pandemic, I used to get a lot. 00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:28.559 But then it was also weird because it's uh uh does casting was in uh the I don't know if they don't know that we look like this on the East Coast. 00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:29.039 Right. 00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:45.360 So they I would get brought in for a lot of like Mexican roles, and it was like then it's uh is Jesus Trejo and and and Saúl, and it's all the homies that I know, and then me just standing there, and it was like, and I always I'm glass half full guy. 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:47.039 I was like, okay, I'm gonna stand out. 00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:54.639 I always said, man, I'm gonna be like Luis Guzmán, which is the dad in the Adams family, which once I hit it, then there's gonna be boom. 00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:57.920 Boom, and then it's gonna be, oh, he has a hundred films under his belt. 00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:02.239 You know, and that's that's what I that's I'm waiting on that moment to arrive. 00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:05.519 Yeah, you know, that's a great person that you just brought up. 00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:06.159 I love that dude. 00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:14.639 We have to talk about um the I want to talk about the expectation versus the reality of doing late night. 00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:22.639 What did you expect going in and when when it once it happens, what do you expect on the other side versus what it actually ended up being? 00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:24.320 Like the tonight show. 00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:24.719 Yeah. 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:26.800 So you're on Fallon. 00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:27.119 Yeah. 00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:30.960 Yes, I've done Fallon, uh Humble Bragg, I've done it five times. 00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:33.360 So, shout

out to Michael Cox. 00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:35.840 Hey, we brag brag with you, baby. 00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:39.599 Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's a blessing. 00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:41.440 Is uh shout out to Michael Cox. 00:54:41.519 --> 00:54:52.159 He saw me at multiple festivals, and then uh I met him at the at the improv, introduced to him by Josh Sandoval, who was also producing for America's Got Talent. 00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:53.920 Fast forward, I end up on America's Got Talent. 00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:54.960 Oh, we're gonna get to that today. 00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:58.239 As a as a as an established comic already. 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:01.119 Um I wasn't expecting anything, dude. 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:03.280 Honestly, I'm not trying to be humble. 00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:06.239 I I just I didn't even know that that was an option for me. 00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:07.199 Gotcha. 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:14.719 I I I always aimed, I always, dude, I I there's other podcasts where people I thought I was moving to LA. 00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:18.000 I was gonna be a character actor, I was gonna be Luis Guzmán. 00:55:18.079 --> 00:55:19.920 Whatever Luis Guzmán doesn't take, I'm gonna take. 00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:20.559 Right, right, right. 00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:24.800 I'm gonna be his little brother, I'm gonna be his son, I'm gonna whatever he don't know. 00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:26.400 Because he's priced out, okay. 00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:27.920 I Lando will do it for 10. 00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:28.079 Yeah. 00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:28.800 Yeah. 00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:30.960 I do the same for Donald Glover. 00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:33.679 Anybody turn down, I'll do it. 00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:34.480 Go for it. 00:55:34.719 --> 00:55:43.440 So, um, so then um when I got there, uh between Michael Cox, the producers, and Jimmy Fallon, he's really that dude. 00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:47.360 He's really just happy, go lucky, wow, kind, and everything. 00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:48.960 That's because he's always drunk. 00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:50.480 And employed. 00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:51.599 Being employed. 00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:52.960 I'm just talking shit. 00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:54.559 Rumors, how about rumors? 00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:55.360 I'm just talking shit. 00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:55.840 Come on. 00:55:56.960 --> 00:55:58.400 Anyway, and employed. 00:55:58.719 --> 00:55:58.880 Yes. 00:55:59.199 --> 00:55:59.920 That's what he's saying. 00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:01.679 I love that London said that. 00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:04.559 He's like, um, he's that guy. 00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:05.440 Did it. 00:56:05.599 --> 00:56:11.039 Um, what it did for me, I which my mom's super proud. 00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:13.440 Uh, you know, relatives started calling her up. 00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:19.760 I started getting asked for loans, and I was just like, nah, dog, I make about as much as a garbage man that puts in overtime. 00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:20.159 That's all. 00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:20.320 Yeah. 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:22.400 And garbage men don't even put in overtime. 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:22.639 Right. 00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:23.599 You know what I'm saying? 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:26.480 So that happened. 00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:34.239 But um, and and then it did that first one did open the door to more festivals than I did Moontower. 00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:35.920 Then, yeah, it did. 00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:36.800 Wow, man. 00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.840 Just right now, why looking at it with the wide lens. 00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:42.400 Off of my first episode, that got me Moontower. 00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:51.440 Moontower got me just for laughs, and then that got me into the room with Fox where I was able to sell a show, and we were going, the script got approved. 00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:56.480 Shout out to Chris Turner, she was my showrunner, and um, then the pandemic hit. 00:56:56.559 --> 00:56:59.840 We were doing a multicam, and then everything just got blown up. 00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:02.159 We made it to the front of the line. 00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:04.800 Me and Justin were just talking about this off camera. 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:06.400 I made it to the front of the line. 00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:10.559 I took my shot, it didn't quite go in, it danced around the rim. 00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:10.880 Right. 00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:13.440 You know, it it there wasn't no one there. 00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:15.599 OG wasn't there to tip it back in. 00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:20.079 And then they said, All right, Orlando, do you want to go home or do you want to go back to the end of the line? 00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:21.840 So I'm going back to the end of the line. 00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:25.199 And right now, I honestly feel like I'm halfway back up. 00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:25.519 Yeah. 00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:26.159 That's the same thing. 00:57:26.239 --> 00:57:27.599 And you never know what's gonna happen in front of you. 00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:29.519 Some people are gonna leave the line, some people are gonna stay there. 00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:30.960 Some people it's a marathon. 00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:32.320 Some people are gonna miss their shots. 00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:32.559 Yes. 00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:33.119 All of that. 00:57:33.360 --> 00:57:33.920 It's a marathon. 00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:36.480 I'm halfway back up to take the shot. 00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:38.960 And man, you put me back in the pitching room. 00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:39.519 I got it. 00:57:39.679 --> 00:57:44.000 When I saw my my TV show, um, it was in the room. 00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:46.639 At the end of my pitch, I was like, hey, let's get the lawyers. 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:48.480 Everybody used that line, by the way. 00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:50.639 Let's hey, let's get the lawyers involved. 00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:50.960 Yeah. 00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:54.800 And the lady at Fox was like, Yeah. 00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:59.920 And then my manager and Chris Turner

and uh everybody kind of looked at each other. 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:01.599 Did we just saw this in the room? 00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:02.079 Yeah, yeah. 00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:02.800 Bring the lawyers in. 00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:03.920 And then I just walked out. 00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:04.800 I was just like, yeah, yeah. 00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:06.320 What was the process of that, man? 00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:07.039 Of pitching. 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:08.079 Get the lawyers. 00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:08.559 It's great. 00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:09.760 I love get the lawyer. 00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:10.400 Yeah, all right. 00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:11.760 So before you get it. 00:58:11.840 --> 00:58:13.199 Yeah, yeah, and you did a round them up. 00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:15.440 And they start coming inside the paperwork and you walk out. 00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:16.480 All right, man, well, you know, yeah. 00:58:18.559 --> 00:58:25.599 Before that, before the line of get the lawyers, um, which reminds me of I just saw a movie recently. 00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:26.480 Uh oh. 00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:28.079 Pretty woman. 00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:35.199 At the end of Pretty Woman, when uh I've I've I've got the the lead male actor, but he said something on the same line, which is he worked at a deal. 00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:35.599 Right. 00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:38.480 Richard Getty, and he kind of said the same thing, which was get the lawyers. 00:58:38.719 --> 00:58:40.320 What was the process before get the lawyers? 00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:40.960 What was that? 00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:45.039 Just you had an idea one day of your story. 00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:45.599 What was that? 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:50.639 John Cryer's company from Two and a Half Men, Discount Sushi, saw me. 00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:56.960 They saw me on TV off of the Tonight Show and off of everything that is starting to happen. 00:58:57.119 --> 00:58:58.719 Man, I'm so grateful for the Tonight Show. 00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:02.079 I'm having a moment of gratitude because I I hadn't zoomed out in a while. 00:59:02.239 --> 00:59:05.440 Sometimes we're too zoomed in and we don't see the whole picture. 00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.320 Now I zoom out and they say, oh, this added to this, this added to this. 00:59:09.360 --> 00:59:12.239 And then John Cry, they brought me in, him and his wife, Joy. 00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:15.519 And then they were like, and they brought in Chris Turner. 00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:21.440 And uh Chris, I I would just I was I was going to generals and I would go to generals and pitch other comics. 00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:23.280 I'd be like, man, you don't want to mess with me. 00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:26.159 You need Sammy OB as hello crap, dog. 00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:26.719 I think. 00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:44.400 But that's the way I I was in uh I was in I I I read the room really fast, so I was you know I sat at Comedy Central and a general and they were all around, and I was pitching uh other

comics to them right there in Santa Monica, I think, when their office were. 00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:49.280 Anyway, so they bring me up, they bring in uh Chris Turner, legendary writer. 00:59:49.360 --> 00:59:50.719 She wrote on the Cosby show. 00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:54.880 She wrote uh every show that you can imagine she's been a part of. 00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:56.400 Me and her got together. 00:59:56.639 --> 01:00:03.119 We offer one of my bits, we came up with the concept, did wrote the whole thing out, did it at the house. 01:00:03.199 --> 01:00:07.280 It was the first time that I was having, oh, this is how it's when you do it like really cool. 01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:11.119 It's when you have when you're heh, this is the best part. 01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:12.079 I'm giving you game. 01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:13.840 Come on, this is killing it. 01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:15.760 This so far. 01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:23.920 We were writing the script, and uh uh Chris wrote most of the script, and now it's time to touch up the script and put it in my voice. 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:31.760 So now she brings me over to the crib and she has a writer's assistant, and me and Chris are just sitting next to each other looking at the big screen like this. 01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:35.920 And I'm like, no, I will say this, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. 01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:42.000 And I would see just the words appear, and I'll be like, I'm not worrying about spelling or punctuation. 01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:43.599 Yeah, that's what the fuck I was saying. 01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:55.280 Being creative, yeah, and then shout out to the homie Jim Jeffries also when he his show legit, his two seasons, he had a court stenographica or whatever it is, the one of those people. 01:00:56.480 --> 01:01:04.480 And he would just be on the couch like this, writing the script, and and she would be off to the side just and then he would get the number. 01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:13.519 And there's a there's a flow pattern to that where you can fall quicker into the flow. 01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:21.519 But wait a minute, when you was in the room pitching the show, did y'all have a pitch deck, or did you just kind of like, yo, this is what the show is? 01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:27.440 Yeah, we have a pitch deck, this is what the show is, but we didn't even well shout out to Chris Turner. 01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:45.119 We rehearsed this pitch so much, and then we would go to like friends, and like so by the time and then we went, we went CBS MBC, everybody passed on it, we end up at Fox, and as soon as I walked into Fox, I was like, Oh, this is it, and then that was it. 01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:46.320 But I was dialed in. 01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:48.400 I was being quiet. 01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:51.679 I think it was Rail who's who mentioned going over somebody. 01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:57.039 I think it was Rail would talk about just going over your picture, making sure that flow and just letting

it be a little bit more than that. 01:01:58.000 --> 01:01:58.480 Like a stand-up. 01:01:58.800 --> 01:01:59.119 That's what it is. 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:05.119 Yeah, we were just talking, we were just having this conversation, and uh, the homie was there. 01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:12.800 I remember so vividly, I'm walking through Fox, and he's also walking through like that courtyard area uh that you did ballers with. 01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:14.480 Big dude Sinners. 01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:15.920 Uh uh Omar Miller, yeah. 01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:16.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:16.960 Omar. 01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:20.159 And I was like, man, what why did you move to I started complaining? 01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:22.239 Why did you move to Los Angeles? 01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:23.519 You should have stayed in Miami. 01:02:23.599 --> 01:02:24.480 That was a better vibe. 01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:26.079 You didn't even touch on cocaine. 01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:31.760 I was just I was just having my geeked out moment about ballers because I'm a big fan. 01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:33.519 It was with the little Wayne intro. 01:02:33.679 --> 01:02:34.880 It was an amazing show. 01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:36.880 Someone overthought that show. 01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:38.719 Man, keep it simple, smart, bro. 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:39.920 Yeah, I thought it too. 01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:41.039 That does it too. 01:02:41.119 --> 01:02:41.440 Yeah, yeah. 01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:52.159 And um saw him, went in, pitched, and and just it was just like, man, you could really, if you just stay quiet, I swear to you, you can hear it, man. 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.079 You can hear it, you can feel it. 01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:56.400 You could be like, oh, this is it. 01:02:56.559 --> 01:02:56.960 Yeah. 01:02:57.840 --> 01:02:59.519 Every time I bomb, I felt it. 01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:03.599 Every time I go on stage, I said, Oh, there's gonna be a hot one right here. 01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:04.639 Like that. 01:03:04.719 --> 01:03:08.400 And I've gone on stage and bombed, and I just like, could I saved it? 01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:08.960 I tried. 01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:09.199 Yeah. 01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:10.400 But there was some the room. 01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:11.679 Sometimes you gotta sit in it, bro. 01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:15.599 Yeah, you walk and boy, I saw a comic eat it the other day and he left. 01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:16.719 I said, You can't leave. 01:03:17.039 --> 01:03:18.639 You gotta sit down and stay. 01:03:18.719 --> 01:03:19.280 What you run up? 01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:21.440 What you run up in it? 01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:22.559 You gotta sit in it. 01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:23.760 Well, he's early comic. 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:26.400 Like, he's that like, all right, now I can I can go home. 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:30.639 You know, I I know I've messed up or I I need to go fix something, or I could go get another stage. 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:32.320 He just a newer comic.

01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:33.119 No, no, no, no, no. 01:03:33.199 --> 01:03:33.599 You sit here. 01:03:33.679 --> 01:03:34.239 Yeah, you gotta do that. 01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:36.000 You sit here and you let us ridicule you. 01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:39.679 If you can stay there for them for them hugs, yeah. 01:03:41.519 --> 01:03:41.760 Yeah, yeah. 01:03:42.559 --> 01:03:44.079 I can't wait till I I haven't seen him since. 01:03:44.639 --> 01:03:46.000 Okay, I can't wait till I see him again. 01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:47.360 If he jumped off something. 01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:49.920 Um everybody, stop what you're doing right now. 01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:52.079 Make sure you subscribe to Killin' It Pie. 01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:52.960 Boom. 01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:55.920 The you guys can both speak to this. 01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:57.840 But hold up, so we wrap it up. 01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:01.760 When you're in that room and you pitch, have that pitch down. 01:04:02.079 --> 01:04:02.400 Yeah. 01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:04.480 But also be present. 01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:07.039 So don't just follow the script. 01:04:07.119 --> 01:04:07.280 Yeah. 01:04:07.599 --> 01:04:08.000 Be present. 01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:11.280 You know where the script, you know what you want to say, you know where you want to go. 01:04:12.079 --> 01:04:12.960 Be present. 01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:17.760 If you wrote something that's good, if you wrote something that's really gonna touch them, it's gonna touch them. 01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:23.599 Yeah, because a part a high level part of it gotta be how much they want to work with the person that they're being. 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:24.320 A hundred percent. 01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:29.519 Yeah, because look, if they're meeting you, it's because they already like the idea. 01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:31.920 So now they're just it's literally that. 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:33.760 It's like, do I get a good vibe with this person? 01:04:34.079 --> 01:04:35.599 And do you know it because you do it? 01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:36.480 It's a lot of investment. 01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:41.599 So it's like if I'm gonna give this money, is it's gonna be uh drunk guy that's gonna come here or is he gonna miss the stuff? 01:04:41.679 --> 01:04:42.800 Is it gonna be cool to the crew? 01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:44.480 It's gonna be easy is he gonna take notes? 01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:45.920 Is he gonna not take notes? 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:46.719 It's all that stuff. 01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:51.119 So it's like it's all the the the at that point it's not it's an interview. 01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:57.119 It's like when you go to an interview, you see the resume, they already like you because they qualify. 01:04:57.280 --> 01:05:00.320 So now it's like I might do I get a sense of this person. 01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:00.960 That's it. 01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:15.760 And so all my and and to and to all my uh and to all my minorities, people of color, uh Latinos, black people, everybody, our time is coming again, and it's gonna run we're gonna run the table for a while. 01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:23.760 So um I come from that era where I saw Moesha, I come from that era living single, I come from that era there. 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:32.960 We're about cause they can't I they always go back to the same thing when they when they can't save it, and they can't save it. 01:05:33.199 --> 01:05:34.719 So they need us to save it. 01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:35.440 That's what we're doing. 01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:43.199 So they need a living color again, they need living single, they need they need uh New York undercover, they need all those shit. 01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:45.199 We were running the table, bro. 01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:51.840 He talks about that with Tubi as far as like how they make Yeah, how how we push those numbers. 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:53.599 We move those we move the new like that. 01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:55.039 And Tubi's nothing but Fox. 01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:55.920 That's it is Fox. 01:05:56.239 --> 01:05:57.920 And who what put Fox on the mat? 01:05:58.079 --> 01:05:59.760 Look at Fox early when they were trying to 01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:03.199 Crack through and saying that's always and Fox just bought Roku. 01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:05.280 Yeah, and Fox bought Roku. 01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:06.800 And they're in the process of buying Roku. 01:06:07.039 --> 01:06:07.119 Yeah. 01:06:07.519 --> 01:06:16.239 I mean, uh that that was a great segue for um I like to speak of us in legacy in full. 01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:16.480 Yeah. 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:30.320 Um you guys are on the forefront of like leading the next like generation of like comics, especially Latino, like you know, Latin comics, is like what does that do you feel that? 01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:34.320 Do you feel being on the forefront like you guys are the headliners now? 01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:40.000 The we know the things that are lining up, it's like everything's already moving in that way. 01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:43.679 Do you you we've seen the people before you and what they've done? 01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:44.639 Do you feel that? 01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:45.760 Do you feel that pressure? 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.559 Like, do you feel what's coming next or what's behind you? 01:06:49.039 --> 01:06:50.559 I mean, it's not pressure. 01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:54.400 I feel like it's more like it's it's uh it's excitement. 01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:57.599 You know, I feel like it's that was crazy. 01:06:58.320 --> 01:06:59.119 It was behind you, it's crazy. 01:06:59.280 --> 01:06:59.679 It was behind you. 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:00.239 I let it go. 01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:00.800 Well, go ahead. 01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:06.159 No, I feel like it's more excitement than than than anything else. 01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:22.159 Not pr it's more like using uh because now I feel like uh now the whole like when I started it's more about you were just one type of comic or one type of

character, one thing, like people would see you very now. 01:07:22.239 --> 01:07:24.559 You're like, no, you don't have you can be a lot of things. 01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:29.039 You or you can or you can do sh uh talk about stuff that's not necessarily Latino. 01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:35.119 So more about the story and then being Latino, you're just it's just one of the uh ingredients of it. 01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:36.000 You know what I mean? 01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:38.719 So now people are more open to that stuff. 01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:41.840 Like I see it with like Bad Bunny, for example. 01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:46.159 Like it's crazy to me how like him, like the music. 01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:56.400 I I remember being to in Austin and like going to this like bar that's like very like cowboy, cowgirls bar, and like you listen to Bad Bunny and in Spanish. 01:07:56.639 --> 01:07:57.360 And it's like what? 01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:58.480 It's like so. 01:07:58.559 --> 01:08:29.039 I think the ing the culture is getting more you know acceptable and people are more open to it, so which is great because now you don't have to explain much more stuff, which is gonna make make it more easier to for people to actually like the story for what it is and not because sometimes I think people will be like, Oh, it's uh like I think sometimes me and and uh I think Chris Estrada, we have this stuff where we're like clubs sometimes or people they think like we're like uh we're just doing comedy for Latino audiences. 01:08:29.119 --> 01:08:30.960 It's like no, I'm doing comedy for everybody. 01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:33.039 Yeah, like I'm just my perspective. 01:08:33.359 --> 01:08:33.680 Exactly. 01:08:33.760 --> 01:09:08.720 It's just but I'm talking about you know, relationships and and family and everyday stuff and work and you know observation, so it's like nothing to do with like being like and and I think now people are more acceptance of that, and I feel like that's great because I feel like it's gonna open more doors for for projects, for shows, for movies, for stories to be told that are not just uh the same things that we've heard before, but more elevator, and I feel like that's a cool thing with stand-up and anything else, is like you uh you're uh uh you're always uh evolutionized, you know. 01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:13.840 Like you're not the stuff that was done 20 years ago was great, but now you don't now do something else. 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:16.560 I love it, man. 01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:17.359 I love it. 01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:20.079 And uh because I I love giving game. 01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:23.439 I don't like to gossip, I love giving game though. 01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:24.319 I love it. 01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:27.439 So um uh I'm excited about it. 01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:31.439 If anybody's coming up and I know them, uh reach out to me. 01:09:31.600 --> 01:09:36.880 I get I get a lot of like calls, the texts, and I also go above and beyond. 01:09:36.960

--> 01:09:48.159 If if any of the homies is doing the tonight show, um I s and they don't know me, and then you know, through Ida, I found out that like, oh Orlando, they look at you like a big bro. 01:09:48.319 --> 01:09:52.319 They look at you like and like an uncle and stuff, the newer generation. 01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:52.720 Right. 01:09:52.880 --> 01:09:55.680 So that's why because they get weird when I'm like calling them. 01:09:55.840 --> 01:09:57.600 Hey, I get their number from somebody. 01:09:57.760 --> 01:09:59.600 Hey, listen, you're about to do the tonight show. 01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:00.720 This is what it's gonna be like. 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:03.199 You're gonna wake up, you're gonna have a little bit of anxiety. 01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:09.760 If you're staying in the hotel, go down to the gym, go run for 30 minutes on the treadmill or walk, whatever you can do. 01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:10.800 Don't worry about your clothes. 01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:12.239 They're gonna press them when you get there. 01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:13.760 They're gonna also do your hair. 01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:15.359 Okay, your makeup is done. 01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:20.560 15 minutes before it's your call time to go on stage, get everybody out of the dressing room. 01:10:20.720 --> 01:10:22.399 Michael Cox will take care of that for you. 01:10:22.479 --> 01:10:26.000 Tell him, hey, I need 15 minutes, and then go over your set with your bullet points. 01:10:26.079 --> 01:10:27.359 I have a whole spiel that I do. 01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:30.560 Uh the homie Chris Sosa, I just walked through. 01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:32.479 Yeah, uh, he he hit me up. 01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:34.560 Hey, Lando, you did America's Got Talent. 01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:37.199 I go, This is your America's Got Talent vibe. 01:10:37.279 --> 01:10:38.000 You're gonna go there. 01:10:38.079 --> 01:10:39.520 They're gonna put a microphone on you. 01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:42.800 As soon as they put that microphone on you, watch everything that you say. 01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:45.279 Okay, don't make fun of anybody else. 01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:49.439 Don't, don't, don't, don't shit on another act and whatnot. 01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:52.159 Also, that crew is called the B-Story crew. 01:10:52.319 --> 01:10:54.720 They're not gonna leave you alone till the last second. 01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:58.479 I made a great mistake on um uh hilarious. 01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:01.680 I think it was hilarious, it was me, Matt Rifa, Ali Sadiq. 01:11:01.760 --> 01:11:06.720 Yeah, uh I it was Josh on the Vall produced that show. 01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:11.760 And before I was getting on stage, I got upset with the B-Story people. 01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:14.000 And I, hey, yo, I need to concentrate. 01:11:14.079 --> 01:11:17.119 And I took off the mic, and they're just trying to do their job. 01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:18.399 Lesson learned. 01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:19.199 You know? 01:11:19.359 --> 01:11:29.199 So I told them, yo,

all the way, Chris, all the way to right before you grab that microphone to go on stage, B story producers gonna be asking you the same question. 01:11:29.279 --> 01:11:30.319 You how do you feel? 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:31.119 How do you do that? 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:33.600 And it's like you're just trying to lock in. 01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:36.000 Don't worry, you just block that out, play the game. 01:11:36.319 --> 01:11:37.199 Give them something, yeah. 01:11:37.439 --> 01:11:49.039 I just I give everybody like I I love giving game, and I get excited, and and you know, Renee Vaca and uh and uh uh Ralph Barbosa, hey man, you're making money right now. 01:11:49.119 --> 01:11:50.479 Hey, buy a laundromat. 01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:52.159 You're making money, buy a laundromat. 01:11:52.800 --> 01:12:01.520 You're staying in Texas, buy a laundromat or buy a barber shop, something that is just a drop that's gonna in the bucket, four thousand dollars a month, it's always gonna drop. 01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:07.840 You know that four grand is gonna come from the barber shop, or if you have a laundromat, you know the same thing. 01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:10.239 Passive income, passive income. 01:12:10.399 --> 01:12:13.199 I'm not an investor guy, I'm a simple man with a simple plan. 01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:16.000 My uncles own barbershops and bodegas. 01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:17.119 That's all that I know. 01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:19.039 I can't tell you about the stock market. 01:12:19.199 --> 01:12:20.720 You could hire someone to do that. 01:12:20.800 --> 01:12:20.960 Right. 01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:29.359 But I could tell you right now that if you just went out on that road and you came back home with 50 G's, you can buy a barber shop with 50 G's in Texas. 01:12:29.760 --> 01:12:30.079 All right. 01:12:30.319 --> 01:12:31.520 We gotta we we gotta go. 01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:32.239 You gotta go. 01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:32.880 We have to go. 01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:35.520 Unless you got something very I I didn't know. 01:12:36.479 --> 01:12:37.680 I think we touched on AGT. 01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:42.560 I just wanted to make sure I we didn't um I just wanted to know about the decision about doing it. 01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:44.720 Uh I did America's Got Talent. 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:46.000 I'm a touring stand-up. 01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:50.319 I I'm already working cruise ships, I'm working corporate gigs, and I'm working clubs. 01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:54.560 I I I make a living as a stand-up, I'm proud of it. 01:12:55.039 --> 01:12:57.840 But I do a lot of stuff that other comics don't want to do. 01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:06.720 There's comics that don't want to do cruise ships, there's comics that don't want to do uh corporate gig, there's comics that don't want to be at a club Thursday through Sunday. 01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:06.880 Right. 01:13:07.279 --> 01:13:07.600 You know? 01:13:07.840 --> 01:13:09.680 They want to be there Friday and Saturday. 01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:10.239 So do I. 01:13:10.319 --> 01:13:15.600 I only want to be there Friday and Saturday and go home on Sunday and be back home with my with my wife. 01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:20.319 But listen, America's Got Talent, just amplified. 01:13:20.880 --> 01:13:23.359 The bookings got bigger, the price went up. 01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:25.520 Yesterday's price is not today's price. 01:13:27.680 --> 01:13:28.000 Yeah. 01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:28.640 All right, man. 01:13:28.720 --> 01:13:32.319 We got a game on this show called Kill It or Let Live. 01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:33.439 Okay, kill it. 01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:35.279 I know you've seen the show, he's never seen it. 01:13:35.359 --> 01:13:36.399 So I see it. 01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:39.199 So I'm gonna say something, I'm gonna throw out a topic. 01:13:39.439 --> 01:13:41.680 If you're not messing with it, you're gonna say uh kill it. 01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:44.000 But if you like it, you're gonna say let it live. 01:13:44.720 --> 01:13:45.520 It's for both of y'all. 01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:47.840 Kill it or let live. 01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:51.920 The universal language is now Spanish. 01:13:52.399 --> 01:13:55.760 Everybody in the entire world now speaks Spanish. 01:13:56.239 --> 01:13:57.520 First and only language. 01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:02.560 But in order for this to happen, you gotta hook up with your first favorite cousin. 01:14:05.119 --> 01:14:05.680 Kill it. 01:14:05.760 --> 01:14:06.159 Kill it. 01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:07.520 Yeah, kill it. 01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:08.399 Well, I mean, I don't know. 01:14:08.560 --> 01:14:11.039 I don't want the whole and I don't want everything to be Spanish. 01:14:11.279 --> 01:14:11.760 Okay, that's cool. 01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:15.119 You need to have another language so you can talk shit. 01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:16.399 That's hilarious. 01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:20.159 Why wouldn't that's how you let the air out of the bag, bro? 01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:21.760 That's hilarious. 01:14:22.079 --> 01:14:23.760 We don't we don't know other languages. 01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:25.119 Do y'all know other languages? 01:14:28.479 --> 01:14:34.159 No, but you know, you know, you know, you know some, you know, you know some St. 01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:35.199 Pete language. 01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:42.960 Right, right, you know some content, and and you know some Bay Area in Houston. 01:14:43.039 --> 01:14:48.079 You got a lot of stuff you got a lot of stuff that you could say on the slide that you're like, oh, okay. 01:14:48.560 --> 01:14:49.039 Right, absolutely. 01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:49.840 All right, all right. 01:14:50.479 --> 01:14:52.079 Kill it or let live. 01:14:52.640 --> 01:14:55.199 You never argue with the I did have it on this one. 01:14:55.359 --> 01:14:56.399 Kill it or let live. 01:14:56.479 --> 01:15:00.079 You never argue with your wife for the rest of your life. 01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:02.560 You don't have no arguments, it's just peace, love, and harmony.

01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:05.359 Y'all laugh, y'all eat, everything is great. 01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:08.079 The best relationship in the world, right? 01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:11.840 But in order for you to accomplish it, to never argue with your wife. 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:12.319 Never. 01:15:12.720 --> 01:15:13.439 You know what I'm saying? 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.960 It is the best relationship ever of all time. 01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:17.359 Yeah. 01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:24.720 But in order for you to accomplish this, you have to bomb on stage every night for 45 minutes for one year. 01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:26.800 Every night for 45 minutes? 01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:29.359 Uh uh kill it. 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:34.159 Well, also, I'm not uh I'm not married anymore. 01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:37.920 But in this scenario, you're married, but I can't. 01:15:38.159 --> 01:15:41.199 No, but it's it's I mean that's that's first of all. 01:15:41.279 --> 01:15:47.119 I re I even if that happens, it's always gonna be, and also it would get boring if you're not arguing with your wife. 01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:49.279 I feel like that's the perfect thing. 01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:52.560 I feel like it's gonna be if it's too nice, everything there's gotta be a little bit. 01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:55.680 I would be saying no to two of my favorite things. 01:15:55.760 --> 01:15:56.079 Yeah. 01:15:56.319 --> 01:16:01.520 Being of service on stage and making people laugh, and arguing with my wife every once in a while. 01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:02.159 I love it. 01:16:03.359 --> 01:16:04.079 One year, I love it. 01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:04.560 I love it. 01:16:04.960 --> 01:16:06.880 A little bombing, like then you're done. 01:16:07.039 --> 01:16:08.560 Like, you don't have a career after that. 01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:10.479 Like every three years. 01:16:10.640 --> 01:16:17.439 Like, I was gonna say, like, we'll give you a year where we like yo Francisco's, he's gonna think amazing's coming. 01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:21.359 People know, and then uh, I think I know the answer to this next one then. 01:16:22.159 --> 01:16:23.920 They're so goddamn practical. 01:16:24.239 --> 01:16:25.680 Kill it or let live. 01:16:25.840 --> 01:16:26.720 This is the last one. 01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:28.000 Kill it or let live. 01:16:28.079 --> 01:16:31.840 You get to perform at the Super Bowl in the World Cup. 01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:34.720 Whenever you want to. 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:35.279 Okay. 01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:40.239 And they pay you a hundred million dollars every time you perform. 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:40.560 Uh-huh. 01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:45.359 Super Bowl, World Cups, anytime you want to, a hundred million dollars every time you perform. 01:16:46.159 --> 01:16:52.720 But in order for this to happen, Latin music has to cease to exist. 01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:17.279 A lot of people are sick. 01:17:18.720 --> 01:17:21.680 I don't want to bring that up within the Latin community, but whatever, whatever. 01:17:22.640 --> 01:17:25.039 No, no, I mean I mean Latin music is is great. 01:17:25.119 --> 01:17:26.399 Well, so which kind all of them? 01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:27.119 All Latin music. 01:17:27.359 --> 01:17:28.079 All Latin music. 01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:31.680 That makes your mouth memories, everything. 01:17:33.359 --> 01:17:34.239 Nah, I can't do that. 01:17:34.479 --> 01:17:35.119 I couldn't do that. 01:17:35.199 --> 01:17:35.279 Yeah. 01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:42.000 That's a great lead-off into uh Okay, so uh Kill Three, Cut Five. 01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:43.680 Uh Lando go you first. 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:45.119 Kill three, cut five? 01:17:45.199 --> 01:17:48.239 Is is is so I'm sorry, keep three, kill five. 01:17:48.560 --> 01:17:49.520 So you don't know what's coming next. 01:17:49.680 --> 01:17:50.319 The blind list. 01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:51.119 Ready? 01:17:51.359 --> 01:17:52.000 Kill three. 01:17:52.239 --> 01:17:52.960 No, you keep three. 01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:54.479 You keep three and you're kill five. 01:17:55.039 --> 01:17:55.760 But you don't know what's coming next. 01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:56.800 You don't know what's coming next. 01:17:57.039 --> 01:17:57.279 Okay. 01:17:57.439 --> 01:17:57.840 All right. 01:17:57.920 --> 01:18:02.000 Uh this is uh superstars, uh Latin superstars. 01:18:02.720 --> 01:18:04.000 I ain't gonna say genre, nothing. 01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:04.479 It's just super. 01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:05.840 But why am I killing them? 01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:06.720 You only you get to kill. 01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:07.920 Oh, I can only keep three. 01:18:08.720 --> 01:18:08.960 Oh, okay. 01:18:09.279 --> 01:18:09.760 You're not killing them. 01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:11.199 Bad Bonnie. 01:18:12.239 --> 01:18:13.920 Bad Bonnie, we start Bad Bonnie. 01:18:14.079 --> 01:18:16.640 Oh do I kill him or if you want to? 01:18:16.720 --> 01:18:17.199 You get to keep it. 01:18:17.279 --> 01:18:18.000 Yeah, you only get to kill it. 01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:19.279 I'll keep it. 01:18:19.359 --> 01:18:19.680 I'll keep it. 01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:20.159 He's done so. 01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:21.760 All right, it's gonna be some good shit. 01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:24.399 All right, cool. 01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:25.600 Fat Joe. 01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:27.760 Kill it. 01:18:27.920 --> 01:18:28.560 Oh damn. 01:18:28.880 --> 01:18:29.680 Caddibi. 01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:30.640 Kill it. 01:18:31.119 --> 01:18:33.760 Oh Juan Carlo Espanzito. 01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:34.479 Oh. 01:18:34.880 --> 01:18:35.439 Juan Carlo. 01:18:35.680 --> 01:18:37.680 Juan Carlo Esposito from uh Breaking Bad. 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:38.399 He's amazing. 01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:39.439 The bad guy. 01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:41.359 Breaking Bad. 01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:42.239 He's also in Spider Man. 01:18:42.479 --> 01:18:42.960 School days. 01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:43.680 Yeah, everything. 01:18:44.319 --> 01:18:45.039 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:46.000 Oh, with

the good hair. 01:18:47.119 --> 01:18:47.760 With the Italian. 01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:49.359 Yeah, yeah, with the hair. 01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:50.479 He's Italian. 01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:51.039 Is he? 01:18:53.279 --> 01:18:54.239 Yeah, he's Italian, dude. 01:18:54.479 --> 01:18:54.720 Is he? 01:18:54.800 --> 01:18:55.359 Yes, Posito? 01:18:55.600 --> 01:18:56.560 Giancarlo Esposito? 01:18:56.720 --> 01:18:56.800 Yeah. 01:18:59.119 --> 01:18:59.760 He's got an Italian. 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:02.960 All right, I'll replace him. 01:19:03.039 --> 01:19:03.520 Don't worry about it. 01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:04.000 I'll be back. 01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:05.359 I'll take Carly B then. 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:06.399 No, no, no. 01:19:06.479 --> 01:19:06.720 I'm not. 01:19:08.960 --> 01:19:11.600 So Giancarlo Esposito's a uh Giancarlo. 01:19:12.079 --> 01:19:12.399 Giancarlo. 01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:13.359 Giancarlo. 01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:16.479 Uh Rico Suave. 01:19:20.399 --> 01:19:21.920 Suave La Rico. 01:19:22.239 --> 01:19:23.119 Damn, you're right. 01:19:23.199 --> 01:19:23.600 You're right. 01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:25.439 He's Italian and African American. 01:19:25.680 --> 01:19:27.680 Yeah, because we've been trying to claim him for years. 01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:27.920 Right. 01:19:29.359 --> 01:19:31.279 He just plays, he's just his like his very big. 01:19:31.359 --> 01:19:32.720 That's like Oscar Isaac. 01:19:33.039 --> 01:19:36.239 Yeah, that's like Richie's brother in La Bamba Ridge. 01:19:37.359 --> 01:19:38.319 He's not Mexican. 01:19:38.880 --> 01:19:40.479 But his black. 01:19:40.880 --> 01:19:42.319 Yeah, everybody thinks he's Mexican. 01:19:43.039 --> 01:19:44.079 Yeah, but he's Puerto Rican. 01:19:44.239 --> 01:19:45.119 What's Oscar Isaac? 01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:45.439 What? 01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:46.239 What's Oscar Isaac? 01:19:46.479 --> 01:19:47.520 He's from Guatemala. 01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:48.319 Oh, okay. 01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:49.039 All right, cool. 01:19:49.199 --> 01:19:54.560 Guatemala in in I mean uh Oscar Isaac's in in uh in John Carlos Parties. 01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:55.119 Yeah. 01:19:55.439 --> 01:19:55.760 What? 01:19:55.920 --> 01:19:56.720 John Isaac? 01:19:57.680 --> 01:19:58.079 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:19:58.239 --> 01:19:59.199 You keep or kill? 01:19:59.359 --> 01:20:00.479 Kip, keep, keep, keep. 01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:01.359 Oh, okay. 01:20:01.439 --> 01:20:04.399 So you kept Bad Bunny and Oscar? 01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:05.199 Oscar Isaac. 01:20:05.359 --> 01:20:07.119 Suave, I was serious about Rico Suave. 01:20:07.439 --> 01:20:07.680 No. 01:20:07.840 --> 01:20:09.279 Yeah, keep him, keep him, keep him. 01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:09.520 Wow. 01:20:09.840 --> 01:20:10.239 Keep Rico. 01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:11.520 Rico's like. 01:20:11.680 --> 01:20:12.880 No, because that was a big deal for us. 01:20:13.520 --> 01:20:14.079 For Latinos. 01:20:14.479 --> 01:20:15.680 Alright, so you kept it. 01:20:16.079 --> 01:20:16.399 That's a three. 01:20:17.039 --> 01:20:20.239 And that launched, like Rico Suave, I think launched. 01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:22.239 Their senensis. 01:20:23.039 --> 01:20:24.720 That might have gave us ice Q. 01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:25.600 Hey, listen. 01:20:26.560 --> 01:20:28.399 That might have gave us priority records. 01:20:29.119 --> 01:20:29.920 No argument for me. 01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:40.800 So you got Bad Bunny, you got Oscar Isaac, you got uh Rico Suave, you killed Fat Joe and Cardi B, uh Minuto, Ricky Martin, and Eva Legoria. 01:20:41.039 --> 01:20:41.439 All gone. 01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:43.920 Damn, Eva Longoria done did a lot for y'all people, man. 01:20:44.319 --> 01:20:47.119 Yeah, Lee, y'all don't fucking did that, but Eva Langoria, man. 01:20:48.800 --> 01:20:55.840 Eva Longoria gave us uh gave us, she was the last bit of money that pushed it over the edge so we could see John Wick. 01:20:56.319 --> 01:20:56.560 That's right. 01:20:56.800 --> 01:20:57.279 Yeah, right. 01:20:57.439 --> 01:20:57.680 That's right. 01:20:58.000 --> 01:20:58.880 All right, uh, and I mean. 01:20:59.520 --> 01:21:04.399 But she's also best friends with uh uh the villain's wife, that Faiso's wife. 01:21:04.560 --> 01:21:05.199 That's good to know. 01:21:06.479 --> 01:21:09.359 Yeah, me and Francisco talk basketball all the time. 01:21:09.439 --> 01:21:09.920 Oh, yeah. 01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:13.279 So he's gonna fucking take this and he's gonna like it. 01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:14.000 Pause. 01:21:14.720 --> 01:21:18.000 Top keep three kill five wizards players. 01:21:18.159 --> 01:21:20.000 I don't even think it works even with the pause. 01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:20.640 All right, too. 01:21:21.119 --> 01:21:22.159 That was too seductive. 01:21:22.479 --> 01:21:22.880 John Wall. 01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:24.319 He said pause. 01:21:27.199 --> 01:21:27.520 Hello. 01:21:28.399 --> 01:21:29.520 You stand at me too. 01:21:30.640 --> 01:21:31.039 Pause. 01:21:31.359 --> 01:21:32.800 Yeah, but it was. 01:21:33.039 --> 01:21:36.159 Yeah, keep three kill five uh Wizards players. 01:21:36.319 --> 01:21:36.560 Okay. 01:21:36.720 --> 01:21:37.520 John Wall. 01:21:37.680 --> 01:21:38.239 Hmm. 01:21:40.800 --> 01:21:43.119 I'm telling you right now, it's a little bit keeping. 01:21:43.359 --> 01:21:43.920 All right, cool. 01:21:44.159 --> 01:21:45.439 Uh keeping John Wall. 01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:46.239 Michael Jordan. 01:21:46.720 --> 01:21:48.079 Oh, yeah, he did play. 01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:50.640 But we're talking Jordan. 01:21:52.000 --> 01:21:53.199 Michael Jordan for the Wizards. 01:21:53.439 --> 01:21:54.159 Wizards Jordan. 01:21:54.319 --> 01:21:54.720 Yep. 01:21:54.880 --> 01:21:56.239 Nah, I gotta let him go. 01:21:56.479 --> 01:21:58.239 Why kill Michael Jordan? 01:21:59.199 --> 01:22:00.000 Nick Young. 01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:01.439 Nah, nah. 01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:02.000 Gone. 01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:02.640 Oh, wow. 01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:03.600 Bradley Bill.

01:22:04.239 --> 01:22:05.039 Oh, keep. 01:22:05.359 --> 01:22:06.399 Okay, okay, okay. 01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:08.079 Antoine Jameson. 01:22:10.399 --> 01:22:12.560 I'm waiting for somebody else to kill it. 01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:14.479 Damn, he killed Michael Jordan. 01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:15.600 Gilbert Arenas. 01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:16.319 Come on, man. 01:22:16.479 --> 01:22:17.279 Oh, man, Gilbert. 01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:18.239 Come on, man. 01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:18.720 Gil. 01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:19.359 Come on. 01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:20.159 With the pistol. 01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:21.359 Yeah, with the pistol. 01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:21.680 Come on. 01:22:22.079 --> 01:22:22.720 Come on, Gil. 01:22:23.199 --> 01:22:23.760 Yeah, yeah. 01:22:24.239 --> 01:22:27.039 But I'm uh But I'm waiting for C Webb. 01:22:27.119 --> 01:22:27.920 Yeah, go with your heart. 01:22:28.720 --> 01:22:29.680 He might not be on here. 01:22:29.760 --> 01:22:30.319 I don't know. 01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:32.159 Or Juwan Howard. 01:22:33.520 --> 01:22:34.479 Gilbert Arenas. 01:22:35.039 --> 01:22:36.479 I'm gonna, I already got two. 01:22:36.720 --> 01:22:38.239 I'm gonna, I'm I'm thinking teams. 01:22:39.119 --> 01:22:40.479 Okay, Kwame Brown. 01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:42.159 John, John. 01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:44.319 All right, so so then you gotta keep the last one. 01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:48.159 So you kept Ja Wall, you killed Michael Jordan, you killed Nick Young, you killed Bradley Bill. 01:22:48.399 --> 01:22:54.640 No, I kept you kept Bradley Bill, you killed Antoine Jameson, you killed Gilbert Arenas, and Kwame Brown, you kept Earl De Pearl Monroe. 01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:55.520 Alright, man. 01:22:57.119 --> 01:23:00.239 Let's see where I think Kwame Brown had to do. 01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:02.399 Who was the last dude? 01:23:02.640 --> 01:23:03.600 Earl De Pearl Monroe. 01:23:03.760 --> 01:23:05.359 He sounded like he wore shorts that came up to us. 01:23:05.680 --> 01:23:06.000 He did. 01:23:06.159 --> 01:23:06.640 He definitely did. 01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:09.920 Spin the ball up. 01:23:10.399 --> 01:23:15.359 So last but not least, man, for both of you guys, you're uh this is the manifested moment, man. 01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:17.680 You're killing it in every version career-wise. 01:23:17.840 --> 01:23:18.720 What does it look like? 01:23:18.880 --> 01:23:25.680 What is uh envisioning for the people behind the camera, in front of the camera, specials, uh, you know, what does it look like? 01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:30.399 The ultimate goal for me is Madison Square Garden. 01:23:30.560 --> 01:23:31.439 Sold-out shows. 01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:32.560 Two sold-out shows. 01:23:32.720 --> 01:23:32.880 Boom. 01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:34.239 Madison Square Garden. 01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:36.560 Not in the round regular concert. 01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:41.199 I want everybody, I don't want people to be looking at screens, just straight shot. 01:23:41.359 --> 01:23:43.199 I'm at the

Oh, you want back on the wall? 01:23:43.279 --> 01:23:43.439 Okay. 01:23:43.520 --> 01:23:43.760 Uh uh. 01:23:44.239 --> 01:23:44.560 Okay. 01:23:44.960 --> 01:23:53.359 Uh the uh I'm gonna have um, I'm gonna have um Jada Kiss is gonna come out and she he's gonna do the the New York giant. 01:23:53.600 --> 01:24:01.199 Uh Fernandito Villalona is gonna do the Dominican Festival, and then uh I'm gonna have like Angie Martine. 01:24:01.279 --> 01:24:03.359 And if I could go do that one. 01:24:05.279 --> 01:24:08.079 Um definitely Cyfus gonna be DJing. 01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:10.399 Um and it's just gonna be an event. 01:24:10.479 --> 01:24:13.920 I'm gonna have like traditional dancers from the Dominican Republic and everything. 01:24:14.159 --> 01:24:14.479 See it. 01:24:14.640 --> 01:24:15.520 I that's the goal. 01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:17.279 I see it, it's clear everything. 01:24:17.439 --> 01:24:24.479 I want more things, but that's but I figured if I can achieve that, then all this, these other things are just line up. 01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:27.840 So that that keeps my mind from being scattered. 01:24:28.239 --> 01:24:28.560 Got it? 01:24:29.760 --> 01:24:29.920 Love it. 01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:30.399 Love it, man. 01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:31.039 All right, come on. 01:24:32.239 --> 01:24:33.199 Francisco Ramos. 01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:38.399 Uh I think for me it's just uh, I mean, I do one not just one thing. 01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:57.680 I feel for me it's just like the the the epitome of not of success of like of when I don't have to worry about works anymore, I can just say no, and I just pick and choose what I want to do in terms of acting, shows, producing, writing, because I love that, directing, all that stuff. 01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:24.079 So I like I I like I wanna do a l a little bit of everything, but to me to get to the point of manifesting that success where I'm like, alright, I I can now pick and choose who I wanna work with, what I want to work with, who I wanna help, who I wanna produce, who I wanna and not just just me being the forum, but also behind the camera and pushing people out, uh, you know, also say that who's the new talent or somebody that I believe in that didn't get their shot either. 01:25:24.239 --> 01:25:25.520 Because people always go like the new one. 01:25:25.600 --> 01:25:29.119 It's like what about the people that are still doing it that haven't got their shots? 01:25:29.279 --> 01:25:30.720 So push that forward. 01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:33.760 And uh and that's what I wanna get to. 01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:44.640 That's kind of like my you know, not just one specific thing, but like that idea of being like, All right, now I made it in terms of like alright, I don't have to now worry about the next thing. 01:25:45.119 --> 01:25:47.520 Uh tell the people where to follow you, we get on out of here. 01:25:47.680 --> 01:25:55.119 Uh follow me, F Ramos Comedy on Instagram, uh, all social media's F Ramos Comedy, and also watch my special, still learning. 01:25:55.199 --> 01:25:56.560 Yes in all platforms. 01:25:56.720 --> 01:26:00.640 Uh you can watch on all platforms, also listen to it in Spotify, iTunes everywhere. 01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:01.439 So check it out. 01:26:01.600 --> 01:26:03.600 F Ramos Comedy, Francisco Ramos. 01:26:04.560 --> 01:26:05.600 Uh hey Lando. 01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:07.199 Uh hey Lando everywhere. 01:26:07.439 --> 01:26:08.960 My name is Orlando Labor. 01:26:09.119 --> 01:26:10.159 She's in Labor. 01:26:10.399 --> 01:26:13.039 And uh have a special on YouTube 30 minutes. 01:26:13.279 --> 01:26:14.560 Uh say yes to no. 01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:17.359 It's also streaming as an album and everything. 01:26:17.520 --> 01:26:19.199 Uh thank you for having us. 01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:25.119 And uh uh my last uh jewel that I want to drop is don't block other people's blessings. 01:26:25.600 --> 01:26:28.319 There's a lot of people out here blocking other people's blessings. 01:26:28.399 --> 01:26:31.039 They don't even know that they're doing it, they're just doing it. 01:26:31.279 --> 01:26:32.000 Just don't do it. 01:26:32.239 --> 01:26:32.720 Don't do it. 01:26:33.279 --> 01:26:33.680 Like that. 01:26:34.159 --> 01:26:34.720 Nice. 01:26:34.960 --> 01:26:38.239 Uh man, make sure y'all like, comment, subscribe. 01:26:38.319 --> 01:26:40.319 We appreciate y'all checking out the show. 01:26:40.560 --> 01:26:45.439 Um, and we've been your host, Justin Hyers at Justin Hyers on all social media platforms. 01:26:45.600 --> 01:26:47.520 Uh, at real Lendon Brown, Lendon Brown. 01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:49.199 Uh BT Kingsley, man. 01:26:49.279 --> 01:26:51.199 At BT Kingsley on everything, man. 01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:52.640 And London's here, baby. 01:26:52.720 --> 01:26:53.359 We told you he'd make it. 01:26:53.600 --> 01:26:54.479 Come on, somebody. 01:26:55.359 --> 01:26:57.359 And these have been our phenomenal guest. 01:26:57.520 --> 01:27:00.319 Yes, Francisco Ramos in Orlando Labor. 01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:01.359 Come on. 01:27:02.640 --> 01:27:04.079 Happy Juneteenth, everybody. 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:07.199 It's tomorrow, just in case this is all air before that. 01:27:07.359 --> 01:27:09.439 This this episode, this episode is airing. 01:27:11.600 --> 01:27:14.720 October 3rd, 2023. 01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:15.439 That's great. 01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:16.560 That makes you have a bank.