ONLY BOMBS! 34: Yoel Rodriguez | Born in Cuba, Raised in Miami, Chasing Comedy in Austin

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Only bombs Like if you want some water got you
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some water there. Thank you, sir Yeah, no drinks
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on this side though. Um, well just not on this
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side. Oh over here on this I see yeah, maybe
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I need to wear that better because I always because
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that does happen like, you know question like
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people see it and they're like, oh, okay, I can't
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put Drinks on like I think it's good side. It
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gives people a little like that gives them something
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to like look at and Ponder on for a second when
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you sit down here. You're like, oh damn like
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I got us I got a entertain now. Yeah, maybe I
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can make it like a haiku. That's a good idea.
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Yeah, make it kind of like poetic. No drinks
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this side table. Oh, fuck. This side table drinks
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forbidden. Yep, there you go. Forever. I think
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was it five, seven, five, I guess is a haiku.
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Five, seven, five. Yeah, I wasn't trying. Do
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you have any like kind of talents or like any
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kind of any kind of hobbies or anything that
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you like to do? I don't know, build Legos, I
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guess. You like to build Legos? Yeah, I'm big
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into Legos. Dude, I'm just getting into that.
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Yeah, yeah. So much fun. Did you have like a,
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what's like your most challenging set of Legos?
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Probably from when I was younger. Cause when
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I was younger, like I would, you know, as a kid,
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I would like ask my mom to like get me like expensive
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sets as like, you know, like I don't want, I
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don't want nice clothes. I don't want like a
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new phone. I want Legos. Now as an adult, like
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I can't justify spending that kind of money.
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So I don't, I don't like build cool stuff anymore,
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but it's like, I also don't want to spend an
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entire day building Legos as an adult. I just
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want to like do it for like a couple of hours
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in an afternoon. You got like little, like a
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flower pot set or like a picture frame set, you
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know, just something a little more mature. Yeah.
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I didn't realize the, I guess like how intricate
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they've gotten. Nowadays with Legos, until my
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son, he wanted like the Bronco, the Lego Bronco.
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That's an adult Lego set. Yeah, I didn't know
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that. So he's seven. So I get this Lego set for
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him and I'm thinking that, you know, okay, we'll
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have it done, you know, and quickly like in a
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few hours, that kind of thing. No, dude, like
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it would take four hours and I think all we got
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was like a little part of like the engine Yeah,
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I did I had no freaking clue and then I told
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Paul Paul's a dude we work with They don't pull
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shout out Paul. Hell. Yeah, and I told Paul I
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was like, dude, uh, I You know, I told him kind
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of the same thing and he goes he's like, well
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how many pieces are in it? And I was like, oh,
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I didn't even look The box is pretty big Yeah,
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the box is pretty big and stuff. There you go.
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That tells you everything. You got a big Lego
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box. That's an entire day's worth. I'm sure that
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was like $100. They're pretty expensive. Yeah,
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it was on sale, I think. But it was very expensive,
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though. I think it was like $70 or $80, you know?
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I like the Shoplift Lego minifigures. You ever,
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you know about those? No, what's that? So Lego,
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they make these like collectibles where it's
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like there's like different lines of them. They're
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like themed. And then it's just like, you know,
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the little guys that come with the sets. Yeah.
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So you could like for like three or four bucks,
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buy like a little one. And it's like a mystery.
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You don't know which one it's going to be. And,
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you know, like every time you see when you buy
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one, you're like, oh, damn, I got the dinosaur
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again. I already have two of them. It's like
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a happy meal. Yeah. It's like a little toy you
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get yourself. And that's exactly it. You know,
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go to Wal -Mart, get myself a little happy meal
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toy. Yeah. Lego can afford it. They can survive
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a couple of missing minifigures. Yeah. Especially
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if it's from Walmart or something. They don't
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need money. I would never steal it from a B &O.
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Superman comics. Like a comic book store that
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sells Lego. I wouldn't do it from there. Sure,
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yeah. But like, but yeah, we got to heist Wal
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-Mart, you know? Yeah, there was actually the
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last time that I did it, I was on Wal -Mart and
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there was like a there was like a new guy that
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you could tell it was like clearly like he just
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started working there. And he like he like ran
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into me like when I was like looking for something,
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he's like, oh, I'm so sorry, sir. And I like
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for a second, I was like, what the hell's wrong
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with that guy? And then I'm like, whatever, he's
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probably he's probably got something going on,
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you know. Right. And then I like, I just overhear
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like what it seems like one of the Walmart managers
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just like talking to the walkie talkie, just
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like, yeah, he's just walking around. We need
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to make him do something. He's literally just
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walking around. Hey, Bill's not, he's starting
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to color again. He's like, he's in the sketch
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aisle just sketching again. Well, Walmart's very
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inclusive. They'll hire anyone. They really,
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really will, dude. And it's like, I wonder what
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the stalkers are like. I wonder if the stalkers
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are like the people who are just completely not
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social at all. Do you ever find that? You would
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think, but I feel like usually when you see a
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stalker, they look like the most... They look
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pretty competent, right? Because you see them
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moving fast, they know where everything's going.
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Yeah, they're the big dogs. Like, they... Every
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time I need something, I'll go to those guys
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and they'll be like... Yeah, it's on aisle three.
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Yeah, because they put everything down and then
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you go to like the lady in the bakery and she's
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gonna be like, I'm a bakery girl. I don't know.
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I'm a bakery girl. I never go to the TVs. How
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big is 50 inches? 50, right? Yeah, just say when.
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50 slides. Yeah, exactly. Dude, when when I was
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in France, me and my girlfriend went into this
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Lego. It was a grand opening of this, like, French
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Lego store. And she wanted to get some, like,
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souvenirs for her family. And it was literally,
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like, this guy, it was his first day setting
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it up, dude. And I went in there, and I guess
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we'd just eaten. And, like, you know how you
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think you're gonna have, like, a silent fart?
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Dude, I fucking farted. The grand opening? The
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grand opening, dude. Of a French Lego store.
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Of a French Lego store. And I farted fucking
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loud. And my girlfriend, like, shot those eyes
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at me. She was like, are you fucking kidding
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me? There was like, so. Right, because you're,
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oh no, you're the one that likes Legos. Does
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your girlfriend like Legos? No. Okay, okay. No.
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I was like, oh, you ruined it for her. She was
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probably looking forward to that. No, she was
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trying to get her dad, her dad, you know, like
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a Lego set kind of thing. Like just a little
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something from, you know, from France, because
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it's cool. And the owner was actually helping
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out somebody. And, uh, and they were speaking
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in French. I don't know what they were saying,
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but he was, I guess, explaining, you know, what
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the Legos were. And then all of a sudden. And
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dude, it was bad. That's crazy. You could probably
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smell it through the cigarette smoke inside of
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the Lego store. They're smoking inside of the
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Lego store in France, right? I mean, they weren't
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there, but, you know, that's what I imagine.
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There's like a little smoker section that's like
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it's like made out of Legos inside the Lego store.
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Lego ashtray, like a French Lego ashtray. Little
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Lego art of like a cigarette on the wall. Right.
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Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah, that's it. I love like
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I love how we just piece that all together and
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everything But so dude just to get everybody
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familiar with who you are like what uh, so where
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you from man? I'm from Miami. I was born in Cuba,
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but uh, whoa, no shit. Yeah, so I'm like zero
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I'm not even first generation. I'm like generation
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zero Really? Right cuz first generation is like
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your parents were born in that country, right?
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Mm -hmm. So that's me. So my kids are gonna be
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first generation. Oh I my family moved to Miami
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when I was really, really young, like before
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I even started school. So, you know, I was raised
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pretty much American. But yeah, I I've always
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been into entertainment. You know, when I was
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like in high school, I got into acting. I thought
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that's what I was going to do. You know, I like
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I used to do extra work. I've like, you know,
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just been like on the background, like TV shows
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and movies and stuff like that. Oh, nice. I thought
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that's what I was going to pursue. Then I just
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kind of like, you know, fell to the wayside with
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that, completely like lost the love for that.
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And I just got sick of like working like, you
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know, just shitty jobs. I worked in hotels for
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a few years in Miami. So it's just like, you
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know, kissing ass customer service, like the
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the most like disingenuous, like, yes, sir, step
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all over me type of customer service that you
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can do for like three years straight. Yeah. And
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one day I finally got frustrated and my mom would
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always tell me, like to inspire me, she would
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always tell me, like, you got to knock on doors.
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That's like what this person did, what that person
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did that's famous. You got to knock on doors.
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That's the only way you're going to make it.
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And I would always be like, as I work, I can't
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knock on someone's door and be like, hey, hire
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me for something. Right. But then I actually
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thought about it and I was like, you know what,
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there's a comedy club in Miami. That'd be pretty
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fun. You know, I've always thought about doing
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comedy, but you know, maybe that's an easier
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entry than like something like acting. And I
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got a job there, became friends with like the
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comics there. They took me out to the open mics
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and, you know, it was obvious like comedy is
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a way more appealing thing to pursue than something
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like acting. Wow, there's more art behind it
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and it feels like you know, it's a solo sport
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so it's like you can kind of be responsible for
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your success somehow instead of like Waiting
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to be picked by someone, you know, right, right.
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So when you when you did comedy in Miami Like
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when you first got up there, what was kind of
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something that you noticed? Was there something
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different, obviously, from being an extra in
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movies and stuff? Definitely, more camaraderie
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for sure. When you go to any production, you
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might become friends with the other extras and
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stuff like that, but you're not going to become
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friends with the actors that are casted on the
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show. There isn't an energy that's being shared
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by the people working there. We're like, hey,
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we're all doing this together and we're having
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fun. Acting is kind of, um, I don't know. You
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just, you don't really make friends. You make
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associates and then like, you kind of benefit
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from being associates with each other. You might
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be friends, but you're, you don't, you don't
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really hang out or anything. You know what I
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mean? Right. And then I got into comedy and it
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was like, you know, I went out there because
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some friends took me out there. But then like
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from my first night going to an open mic, it's
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like, oh, there's all these people that I'm meeting
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and I'm going to become friends with. And I did
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become friends with, and it's like. There's just,
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you know, there's community in comedy. That's
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something that doesn't exist in acting. Acting
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is like, even though comedy is more of a solo
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sport, like boxing, I think acting feels like
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you have a solo career, where like, with comedy,
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you can almost feel like there's a team that
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you came up with, which is like the guys that
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you started with, you know what I mean? Yeah,
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yeah. Did you have any movies that were like
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notable that you were in, or was it like kind
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of smaller productions? For like a split second,
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I'm in this movie called... Critical Thinking,
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it's a John Leguizamo movie. Oh, no shit. He's
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he's just like I think it's a remake from like
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the 80s or 70s, but it's a it's about just like
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a troubled group of teens and like a like a school
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that's like, you know, less privileged and he
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just like takes them and like tries to inspire
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them to like be better and shit. Oh, cool. That's
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like the whole general plot. I was in there for
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like a split second. I actually. accidentally
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got booked on that because they were only supposed
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to book people who are over 18 and I was still
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a minor. And there was only me and one other
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girl that were minors that were booked for that.
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And we were supposed to get paid like, I think
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it was like 400 bucks a day and it was going
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to be like 15 days of filming. So that was going
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to be like the best money I had made for acting.
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And I only got to do one shoot one day because
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they were like, oh, yeah, like, like we can't
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have minors. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that sucks.
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So I'm only here for like a split second. I know
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what that's like. I was in Final Destination
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4. Oh, that's so cool. Hell yeah. Yeah. I mean,
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I haven't seen it, but what part of the movie,
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because, you know, Final Destination, everyone
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kind of knows what that's like. Yeah. Yeah. I
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was in two different scenes. I was in one scene
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that I was in was the, I guess, like the scene
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where the racetrack, where, you know, the tires,
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I guess, fly into the... the thing I was like
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one of the extras in on the racetrack. And then,
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um, ironically, I was also in the scene, the
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funeral scene for the people who died at the
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racetrack. Yeah. At the racetrack. So it was
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a, it was kind of funny. That's funny. So like,
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canonically, your character is probably related
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to someone that passed away. Probably. Like you're
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some way involved. You're in an in -law or something.
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Yeah. You did, you can't even see me. And I actually
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went to makeup and everything and you can't even
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see me. Isn't it crazy how, yeah, because like
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when I did extra work too, like, dude, it's they'll
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pay you like a hundred dollars. So it's like,
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you know, it's not like a lot of money either,
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but like, you'll be getting paid only a hundred
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bucks and they'll still like fucking dedicate
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like an entire half an hour to making you look
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good in a little trailer. Isn't that nuts? Yeah.
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They put like, they put all this like makeup
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on me and everything. And I didn't know like
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what the hell they were doing. And I was like,
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you know, and dude, you don't even see me. Like
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you see the back of my head. Yeah. Did anyone
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recognize the back of your head? Did you get
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anyone being like, Hey, I think that if you saw
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me, you'd be like, okay, I can believe that it's
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you. You can kind of see, I believe that it's
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you. Have you gotten to do anything where someone's
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been like, yo, I saw you on this? So this show
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called K -Ville. K -Ville? Yeah. And K -Ville,
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so very short -lived show, but the premise of
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that show was it was after Katrina. Right. And
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it was these cops that it was like a cop, like
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a buddy cop kind of drama kind of thing. Like
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a sitcom or like a drama comedy? No, not even
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a comedy, which is funny because it had Anthony
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Anderson in it. It had no funny? Yeah, and it
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wasn't really funny. It was more like Bad Boys,
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right? And it had Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser
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in it, the guy who plays as Rip from Yellowstone.
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Okay. Yeah, so he was he was in it and so I did
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I did a lot I did like that is an interesting
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pairing them too. Yeah, it really is, you know
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Cuz cuz Cole Hauser is Cole Hauser, you know,
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and then Anthony Anderson is Anthony Anderson.
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It's kangaroo Jack. It's kangaroo Jack And I
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love this dude, but there's a scene like where
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you ever seen like a hospital scene where like
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like the EMTs Oh, look, and I'm an EMT now. But
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yeah, the EMTs like bust through the doors and
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the doors like fly open and stuff. I did one
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of those scenes. Oh, cool. And so you see me
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very well. As an EMT? Well, EMT on the show.
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Right, you weren't an EMT. No, I wasn't an EMT
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then. But that's what you were like when you
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busted through the door. Yeah, yeah. But we had
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to do that scene and I had to push the gurney.
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through with one of the other actors from the
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show he was on it and I had to push the gurney
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through with another guy and so we go to push
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the gurney and the gurney doesn't move and At
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the time I was like, I don't know anything about
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stretchers. I don't know anything about that
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shit, right? And so I try to push it it wasn't
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moving and so the director yelled cut and they
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opened up the doors all the cameras and everything
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and then and the director was like what the hell
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is going on and Anthony Anderson starts laughing
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and I look and his hand is like this He was holding
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the fucking gurney. I didn't catch it. And I
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was like, bro, they're going to fire one of us,
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and it's not you. But that was cool. And so we
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did that a few times and stuff. But oddly enough,
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I don't think it ever made the episode, but it
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made the intro. Oh, of the show? Of the show.
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That's cool. Yeah. Like the theme song of the
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show? Oh, I see. I see how that is confusing.
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Or you mean the intro of that episode, like the
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cold opening? Like, when they went, like, previously
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on K -Ville. Oh, okay. Dude, I've watched the
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episode, and it was never on there, but it was
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on the previously on K -Ville. That's not that
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crazy. You see that all the time. Yeah. When
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they recap it, they'll use, like, a different
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shot that's more concise or something like that.
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Or, you know, when they'll, like, they'll play,
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like, a clip for the next episode, you'll see
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the clip on the episode, and it's like... The
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one from the episode is way different because
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they didn't want to spoil it. So they played
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like a different cut. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it was
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kind of strange, but that was like, that was
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my thing. And then after that, you know, I went
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to radio really, and then just did radio for
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a while. Classic face for radio. Sorry. Oh yeah.
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I thought about getting into radio for a while.
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Uh, but the, the bet, the bet, the biggest thing
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that I've been able to do where like people recognize
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me was a Sunny D commercial. A Sunny D commercial?
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Yeah. No way. In high school I did like the Sunny
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D commercial. I think they were trying to do
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like a big like a ad campaign that's like, hey
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kids don't really drink Sunny D anymore, let's
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make it popular again. And they like put it all
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over Nickelodeon. They put it like all over Instagram
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and shit. No way. It's like, you know, I show
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up in the commercial for like a second. but it's
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like I'm a bully in the commercial and it's like
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I have two other bullies with me like my little
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henchmen bullies and I'm like the main bully.
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No way. I'm like bullying this kid but then he
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like dances so cool that I'm like damn Sonny
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D like makes nerds cool. That was like my role
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in the commercial. That's like the only thing
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I've done. We're like, you know, it was all over
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history I'm so just like everyone in my school.
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I was in high school Everyone in my yeah started
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sending it to me. They're like what the fuck
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Did you tell anybody Like, no. I mean, I never
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expected it to be like a thing like that. You
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know, I figured like, oh, maybe I could search
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it up after it comes out. But I didn't think
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it would be like out in place. You know what
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I mean? And it was literally like everybody had
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it on their Instagrams for like two months. Like
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it was, they pushed it so hard. Really? Yeah.
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That is, dude, that is so wild. I can't imagine
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just like sitting there and just like flipping
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through the channels and it'd be like, dude,
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that's UL, bro. Like, what the fuck? He's a bully
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on a fucking Sunday. I was like, dude, drink
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Sunny D. Dude, he's going to kick my ass, dude.
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It was funny. I also got like kind of, you know,
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just because it was like the coolest thing I
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had gotten to do, I was like, oh, I'm like part
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of Sunny D now. I'm like a Sunny. I'm a Sunny
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D guy now. As if I was a brand ambassador. I
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just got into it. I started looking at old Sunny
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D commercials, and there's that super popular
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one where the dude just opens the fridge and
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is like, we got, I see we got purple stuff. Yeah,
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dude. I remember Chappelle talking about that.
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He's like, oh, we got that Sunny D, yeah. I thought
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that shit was, this was before I was into comedy,
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but it was just like. Whenever I talked about
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the commercial I found the way to like bring
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that up dude. I have you ever seen the original
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Yeah, I remade this commercial Dude, yeah, that
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is fucking cool though, man. Like for real something
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there now if I ever like when I'm in the grocery
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store and I see something he did I'll grab it
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just like call my government babe. Look Right?
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Hey, remember this? Like, you know, what's up,
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babe? Look, the Sonny D guy's holding the Sonny
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D ball. Dude, that is awesome. I need to find
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that commercial, dude. I need to buy some Sonny
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D clothing. Yeah, right? Just start repping it.
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Dude, I want to get Arizona green tea. Yeah,
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yeah. Oh, dude, there was a meme or something
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about an old dude wearing an Arizona green tea
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track suit. Dude! No, I don't, but I want to
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get one. I'm like so mad. I've been trying to
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find one, but they never have it in my size.
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You want that because it attracts it? That is
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cool. I look like an Arizona can? I don't know
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what the fuck it is, dude, but I love Arizona
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green tea. Like, bad. I've literally thrown it
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into some of my intros, and I know people are
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like, what the fuck is that about? What, you
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just throw that you love it into the intro? Dude,
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I'll just throw a random can. Oh, your can's
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just there? Kansas there. You're right, setting
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the vibe like, welcome to the podcast. We drink
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Arizona. Yeah, right? Dude, yeah. There's been
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a lot of Arizona green tea product placement
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in my episodes. That's good, dude. They deserve
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product placement. The CEO for Arizona is one
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of those cool CEOs that's like, no, I'm not changing
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the price. I'm keeping it at 99 cents. Right,
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and then they upcharge it all the time. Right,
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that's not fair. The sons of bitches. But it's
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not, yeah, you're right. I don't know. Corporations.
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No, I was trying to remember that fucking country
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in Asia that's having a civil war right now.
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There's a, is it Nepal? Is Nepal having a civil
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war right now? I have no idea. There's a, there's
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this country in Asia that's like, they're going
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through a civil war right now. And like every
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single gas station here in Austin has one of
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them working on it in the gas station. Wait,
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wait, wait. They have everybody, somebody working
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in the gas station from the Civil War? From this
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country that's having the Civil War. Really?
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I think it's Nepal. Nepal? Nepalese? The Nepalese
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people? Dang. They're kind of like darker looking
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Asians and every time I see them, when I first
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got here, I would think they're Hispanic. So
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I would talk to them in Spanish and be like,
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hey, where are you from? And they would just
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be like, oh, okay. Dude. Oh my God. That's also
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freaking hilarious, man. I saw the, so. my girlfriend
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and I, we had like an 11 mile hike, right? And
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we finished the 11 mile hike. And this is in
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Europe. Yeah. And then they had, I guess, like
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some Nepalese guys who were working at this refuge
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that we were going to be stopping at and everything.
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And, you know, I just started talking to them,
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asking them about, you know, like, you know,
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hiking and, I told one of the dudes, basically,
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I was like, oh yeah, man, I really want to coke.
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And he's like, oh, you want to coke? It's probably
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because you're fat, huh? And then he walked off.
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And then I was just like, I just walked 11 fucking
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miles, dude. Like, fuck you if I want to coke.
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Was that, that was definitely like the, the type
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of Finnish thing where people from Finland don't
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know how to make jokes or like they don't know
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that they sound rude type of thing, right? Dude,
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I think so. I think, I don't think he, what I
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think it was is I don't think he realized What
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fat man is like, that's the way that I've decided
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to cope with it. Yeah. I thought that maybe he,
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he like. Maybe thought like, you know big and
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he was trying to say big is what I'm trying to
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maybe maybe cuz cuz look Hispanic women and older
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Hispanic ladies like aunties don't like oh gained
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weight fat fuck Now but they mean it like from
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a place of like you look like you're healthy
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like you're eating Well, this makes me happy
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as your relative that you're not skinny, you
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know what I mean? Okay, they do mean it as like
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it's it's nice. I'm happy that you're getting
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fat No, he meant fat. He meant fat as fuck. What
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country was it? I think it was Italy. Yeah, Italy
00:24:08.630 --> 00:24:11.970
has Coke, right? Coca -Cola. Yeah. And that's
00:24:11.970 --> 00:24:13.329
exactly... Because there's countries that don't
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sell Coke, like Cuba, where it's like if you
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ask for a Coke, they're going to be like, yeah,
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where the hell do you want me to get that from?
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Oh, really? When was the last time you've been
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back to Cuba? I was like 13. 13? Yeah. It's been
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like 14 years. 14, 15, yeah. How would you describe
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Cuba to somebody who doesn't really know anything
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about it? Just a third world. I think most people
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think Cuba is like, you know, just like a country
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somewhat similar to America, but they speak Spanish.
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Or maybe even if they don't think it's similar,
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they don't think it's like that far off. If you
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think there's AC in Cuba or medicine or like
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enough food for people to eat or toilet seats.
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Wow. Like in Cuba, there is no beef. There's
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no food in general. There's no medicine. And
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just like, you know, nobody has AC. Most houses
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are like huts, like not like made out of straw,
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but they're made out of like cement. And then
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the roofs are made out of like what we use to
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put over windows when we get a hurricane, like
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hurricane shutters. Yeah, that's what the roofs
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are made out of. You know what I mean? Oh, wow.
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And it's it's communism. So it's like apart from
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it just being not to make this super serious
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or anything or political, but. I'm very, very
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against communism. It's not a crazy thing for
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me to say. I'm not taking a political stance.
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I'm from Cuba. Sure. You're from a communist
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country. You're against communism. There seems
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to be a misconception for people that don't know
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what it is on the Internet. And it's insane.
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Well, what is a common misconception with? So
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I think people think that communism can be good
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and that people can live such simple lives where
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like your life is easy and enjoyable because
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you don't have to worry about things that in
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a more advanced country you have to worry about.
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And I'll say this, a simple life can be nice
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and it can be beautiful and it can be nicer than
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like, you know, a complicated life here in America,
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but it doesn't mean that it's good. Like I really
00:26:07.690 --> 00:26:08.990
shouldn't be arguing with people online, but
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I just went back and forth with some guy on a
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comment section the other day and he said that
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his mom would tell him stories about living in
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a communist country and how they would just eat
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fish and hang out and laugh. And it's like, yeah.
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In communist countries, you can't do anything.
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Like you can't just decide, hey, I have this
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goal for my life. I want to pursue that. Nobody
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has that freedom in a communist country. You
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get assigned roles. Like you can't just decide
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to pursue whatever career you want. They will
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tell you this is what your career will be. You
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can want to be a doctor and they'll make you
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be an engineer. You know what I mean? Oh, I mean,
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I don't have any kind of experience with that.
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So this is kind of interesting to hear. Right.
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So just like. Cause you have an idea of what
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communism is, but just so you can have an understanding
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of like how it actually is to live in communism
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is just simply lack of freedom. That's all it
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is. And I'm not saying that from a perspective
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is like America is great because capitalism is
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just simply communism means that. We don't all
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get to decide what we want to do individually.
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Somebody decides that for us because it's for
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the greater good. Sorry about that. Oh no, you're
00:27:12.450 --> 00:27:16.259
good. But. Usually, those decisions that get
00:27:16.259 --> 00:27:18.279
made for the greater good aren't actually for
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the greater good. They're for the greater good
00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:22.539
of the group that's in control. Right. The elite
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of the country. Because everything is supposed
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to be like the same, right? Like everybody's...
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That's the idea, right? Yeah. So, if you want
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to buy groceries in Cuba, you have a ration card.
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Like the same way that we had it in World War
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II, you know, when we didn't have enough food.
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Right. So that's just how you live in Cuba. You
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have a ration card when you want to go to the
00:27:40.750 --> 00:27:42.569
grocery store and it's like, you're allowed to
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have this much of everything that you need to
00:27:45.089 --> 00:27:47.369
have in the house. Wow. The thing is you go to
00:27:47.369 --> 00:27:48.950
the grocery store and grocery stores in Cuba
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aren't like, they're not like, you know, you
00:27:51.130 --> 00:27:53.130
have like a selection of things to choose from.
00:27:53.289 --> 00:27:54.910
Like literally you'll go to the can section.
00:27:55.190 --> 00:27:57.609
It's like, there might be a couple cans of corn.
00:27:57.769 --> 00:28:00.490
There might be one can of like some chef bought
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these shit and there might be a pack of hot dogs
00:28:02.950 --> 00:28:04.690
or something. And that's about it. You know what
00:28:04.690 --> 00:28:07.049
I mean? Really? Like it's just whatever's available.
00:28:07.289 --> 00:28:08.849
It's just whatever's available. Whatever Russia
00:28:08.849 --> 00:28:13.349
sent us like this last period or whatever. No
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shit. So when you like when you came back or
00:28:15.450 --> 00:28:18.190
when you came to America, it must have been like
00:28:18.190 --> 00:28:20.410
a massive culture shock for you, huh? Well, I
00:28:20.410 --> 00:28:23.130
was I was like a baby, basically. Oh, OK. Super,
00:28:23.190 --> 00:28:25.890
super young. So I grew up as American. I grew
00:28:25.890 --> 00:28:28.390
up as like a Latino American. You know what I
00:28:28.390 --> 00:28:30.569
mean? Sure. Just like I'm from another country
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and I speak Spanish, but I grew up here. Wow.
00:28:32.690 --> 00:28:34.710
You know, like Like people from New York and
00:28:34.710 --> 00:28:36.309
shit like that. That's how most people in Miami
00:28:36.309 --> 00:28:39.890
grow up. But for my family, most definitely,
00:28:40.029 --> 00:28:42.170
like if you ever go to Miami, Miami is almost
00:28:42.170 --> 00:28:44.650
like going to a different country. Like in most
00:28:44.650 --> 00:28:46.849
places they won't speak English. You know what
00:28:46.849 --> 00:28:48.950
I mean? You'll have to like, it'll have to be
00:28:48.950 --> 00:28:50.309
like a younger person that's like probably in
00:28:50.309 --> 00:28:51.529
high school, they'll speak English. But if it's
00:28:51.529 --> 00:28:53.769
like an older, if it's like a 40 something year
00:28:53.769 --> 00:28:55.609
old lady, like she's probably only going to speak
00:28:55.609 --> 00:28:58.529
Spanish. You know what I mean? So it's like,
00:28:59.979 --> 00:29:02.299
It's a culture shock, of course, because it's
00:29:02.299 --> 00:29:05.279
a whole different country, but it's like, you
00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:07.660
grow up in Cuba from the time that you're born
00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:10.240
with the goal. Every single person in Cuba has
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:12.980
the shared goal of leaving Cuba. Oh, gotcha.
00:29:12.980 --> 00:29:14.839
That's like every single person in Cuba, that's
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.240
their dream, getting out of Cuba. Same way like
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:18.640
everyone in the hood wants to get out of the
00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:20.240
hood, like it's the same thing. You know what
00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:22.119
I mean? Yeah. So it's like, it's a culture shock,
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:25.099
but it's like, I'm finally getting to experience
00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:26.740
that thing that I've always wanted, you know?
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:31.869
Yeah. Yeah, man, that kind of like, I think that
00:29:31.869 --> 00:29:34.069
Americans have a tendency to think the grass
00:29:34.069 --> 00:29:37.430
is always greener, you know? And they romanticize
00:29:37.430 --> 00:29:39.470
other places without realizing that. It's not
00:29:39.470 --> 00:29:42.450
just Americans, it's a human being. Yeah, yeah,
00:29:42.450 --> 00:29:45.630
yeah, I think you're right. And, you know, by
00:29:45.630 --> 00:29:47.170
just like looking at something and just like
00:29:47.170 --> 00:29:49.230
looking at a culture and, you know, just being
00:29:49.230 --> 00:29:52.190
like, oh, okay, maybe that, I think that might
00:29:52.190 --> 00:29:55.880
be like a lot better and everything. But to hear
00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:58.259
about, you know, the realities of it, it kind
00:29:58.259 --> 00:30:01.380
of puts things into a good perspective, you know.
00:30:01.619 --> 00:30:03.039
Yeah, it's like when I think about Australia,
00:30:03.099 --> 00:30:04.519
like you hear about Australia and it's like,
00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:06.859
it sounds like America and like things are cheap.
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:08.740
It sounds like a really dope place and Australians
00:30:08.740 --> 00:30:12.039
have like cool culture. It's like fucking animals,
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:16.400
you know. Crazy. I'll never get used to like
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:18.559
having to check a toilet, you know what I mean?
00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:21.420
Oh, for like snakes and shit? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:24.289
I had a big ass moth outside my window. I mean,
00:30:24.349 --> 00:30:26.750
I was at my door today. Me too. Like not outside
00:30:26.750 --> 00:30:29.069
my door, but like it was like in the hallway
00:30:29.069 --> 00:30:31.569
when I left. Was it like fucking this big? No,
00:30:31.630 --> 00:30:33.329
no, it was pretty big, though. It was a I'll
00:30:33.329 --> 00:30:35.170
show you a picture. I took it. But you saw a
00:30:35.170 --> 00:30:38.730
moth that big. It was huge. It was a I think
00:30:38.730 --> 00:30:41.809
it's called the Luna Moth. Really? Yeah. Whoa,
00:30:41.890 --> 00:30:44.250
holy shit. I saw one like this one is almost
00:30:44.250 --> 00:30:47.309
actual size. Like, yeah. Yeah, it was bigger
00:30:47.309 --> 00:30:50.980
than that for sure. Like the wings were. Much
00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:52.799
much bigger than the body like you can barely
00:30:52.799 --> 00:31:02.180
see the thorax damn son vocabulary boy. Man,
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:05.619
so you coming from Miami and like all, you know,
00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:07.359
this performance kind of art and stuff like that,
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:09.440
it was natural for you to hop up on stage and
00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:12.380
do like comedy and stuff. For sure. Yeah. I was
00:31:12.380 --> 00:31:13.920
nervous as fuck about it. Like everyone, when
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:15.740
they started doing standup, but like being on
00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:17.960
stage, didn't feel crazy. It was like the idea
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.680
of like, I'm going to, I'm going to like be able
00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:22.220
to say something to make them laugh, you know,
00:31:22.500 --> 00:31:25.380
like that way. Yeah. Do you, uh, do you ever
00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:28.920
feel like, uh, like you, you do get nervous before
00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:32.349
you get on stage? Yeah, definitely not as much
00:31:32.349 --> 00:31:35.430
as I used to yeah sure I think when I first got
00:31:35.430 --> 00:31:37.190
to Austin was probably the most nervous I've
00:31:37.190 --> 00:31:38.829
ever been because this is being a new place.
00:31:39.069 --> 00:31:44.150
Yeah, but um now I'd say like You know if I if
00:31:44.150 --> 00:31:47.289
for some reason like the spot has like weight
00:31:47.289 --> 00:31:49.609
behind it then yeah I'm gonna be nervous for
00:31:49.609 --> 00:31:51.809
sure like roast battle and stuff like that. Oh,
00:31:51.809 --> 00:31:54.210
yeah. Yeah, but um, you know just for going up
00:31:54.210 --> 00:31:56.849
at the creek Thank God that that's that is like
00:31:56.849 --> 00:32:00.400
a that few that feels that feels normal now That
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.200
is something that just feels good. It's like
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.920
your home stage. It is my home stage, yeah. And
00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:07.380
if I spend like two weeks without going up, it
00:32:07.380 --> 00:32:10.539
like eats at me. Right, yeah. Yeah, I know how
00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:14.099
you feel with that one, man. How do you prepare
00:32:14.099 --> 00:32:16.799
differently for like roast battles versus just
00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:20.119
going up on stage? I'm, I'm really bad at writing.
00:32:20.339 --> 00:32:22.660
I like don't write as much as I should at all.
00:32:22.779 --> 00:32:24.819
I need to like get better at that. You know,
00:32:24.940 --> 00:32:27.160
I slag a lot. So that's one of the reasons I
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:28.839
wanted to do roast battle because it's like,
00:32:28.980 --> 00:32:31.299
there's no excuse. I can't just use old jokes
00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:34.140
or like half big premises. I have to like write
00:32:34.140 --> 00:32:36.740
five jokes that I'm going to do in the round.
00:32:37.539 --> 00:32:40.460
And, um, I've, I've surprised myself by how I've
00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:43.609
been able to do it, but also. It's not like you're
00:32:43.609 --> 00:32:45.390
not allowed to have help when you're writing
00:32:45.390 --> 00:32:47.410
jokes in general, but like it's encouraged with
00:32:47.410 --> 00:32:49.890
Roast Battle. Everyone tells you like, hey, get
00:32:49.890 --> 00:32:51.789
your comics that are good writers to help you,
00:32:52.430 --> 00:32:54.390
your friends that have been on Roast Battle to
00:32:54.390 --> 00:32:57.809
help you. So I've had help coming up with jokes,
00:32:58.190 --> 00:33:00.430
and I've been able to show myself that I can
00:33:00.430 --> 00:33:02.970
write when I decide to, so I'm just going to
00:33:02.970 --> 00:33:04.970
start applying that a little bit more just in
00:33:04.970 --> 00:33:09.509
general. Yeah, yeah. Have you watched anybody
00:33:09.509 --> 00:33:12.059
do anything and kind of learned? you know, from
00:33:12.059 --> 00:33:15.480
their kind of style or writing or anything? Yeah,
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.759
most recently, I would probably say Javi. Javi
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:21.039
Ramirez. Oh, yeah. Yeah, dude. I fucking love
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:24.099
Javi. Yeah, dude. He's amazing. I watched him
00:33:24.099 --> 00:33:26.500
just like in the last few months, just like become
00:33:26.500 --> 00:33:28.619
so much better. He was already good at comedy,
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:30.940
but he becomes so much better. He's just like
00:33:30.940 --> 00:33:33.940
sharpened up all of his skills and he's done
00:33:33.940 --> 00:33:36.420
roast battle and like fucking become one of the
00:33:36.420 --> 00:33:40.839
better roasters here in Austin. Yeah. I think
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:44.480
from him, I'm just kind of learning to just,
00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:47.660
like, enjoy it a little bit more. You know what
00:33:47.660 --> 00:33:50.079
I mean? Yeah, he seems very, like, free -spirited.
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:54.160
Yes, dude. You just see how much he's grateful
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:57.180
for, like, the opportunity and, like, how happy
00:33:57.180 --> 00:33:59.200
he is to be doing it all the time. You know what
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:01.359
I mean? Right, yeah. His optimism is infectious.
00:34:01.619 --> 00:34:03.980
Like, it really is. And there was a roast battle
00:34:03.980 --> 00:34:05.859
he had, not the last one, which was against Nick
00:34:05.859 --> 00:34:08.480
V this last week, but before... He went against
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:10.960
Eli Halpert, who was a really good battle, too.
00:34:11.380 --> 00:34:13.440
Eli gave him a good fight. But, dude, he had
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:15.840
such great energy for that fight. The whole time,
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:18.179
he was just, like, after a joke would land, he
00:34:18.179 --> 00:34:19.920
would, like, be bouncing and, like, fucking flicking
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.199
his tongue. I was like, ah! He's just ready to
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.719
go. And that inspired me so much. Like, it's
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:28.360
like, yeah, just fucking, just, like, enjoy it.
00:34:28.420 --> 00:34:30.699
Have fun. Feel, like, feel yourself if you're
00:34:30.699 --> 00:34:32.280
feeling yourself, you know what I mean? The crowd
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:36.539
likes that. Hell yeah. That is a good lesson,
00:34:36.739 --> 00:34:42.639
man. Just to make yourself looser. Just feeling
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:45.159
yourself, just having fun, pulling that part
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:48.619
of you that goes like, oh yeah, just the surreal
00:34:48.619 --> 00:34:50.400
you and putting it out on stage. Yeah, because
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:54.260
we, our whole, I feel like we, as comics, almost
00:34:54.260 --> 00:34:58.159
live in negative space. Yeah. Where we're always
00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.579
thinking about being on stage, but most of the
00:35:00.579 --> 00:35:03.079
time we're not. Right. Right. So then when we
00:35:03.079 --> 00:35:06.039
get on stage, it's like we value that time so
00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:10.699
much and we we like we view that time as like
00:35:10.699 --> 00:35:13.059
such a valuable expense that we got to like we
00:35:13.059 --> 00:35:15.579
got to like use it wisely with the jokes we want
00:35:15.579 --> 00:35:18.440
to try out and shit. But sometimes like I really
00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:20.099
feel like you need to be snapped into like a
00:35:20.099 --> 00:35:22.039
hey, dude, you're a funny guy that likes to have
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:25.000
fun and just eat shit. Right. Do that on stage
00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:28.980
sometimes. Sure. Like, don't just. Try to like,
00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:31.179
uh, take the shot and hit the target every single
00:35:31.179 --> 00:35:33.179
time. Like sometimes it's just fuck around, you
00:35:33.179 --> 00:35:36.940
know? Right. Yeah. Yeah. I, um, that's, you know,
00:35:37.219 --> 00:35:39.239
all of these are valuable lessons to learn with
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:42.460
within standup because when, um, like when I
00:35:42.460 --> 00:35:44.340
get up there or when I did get up there a long
00:35:44.340 --> 00:35:46.300
time ago, it would be like very, I'd be very
00:35:46.300 --> 00:35:49.820
rigid almost or, or I'd over perform, you know?
00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:52.079
Yeah, that happens to me. Yeah. I would bring
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.699
like this. stupid animated thing that was nonsensical.
00:35:56.159 --> 00:35:59.420
It's better to commit than to half -ass commit.
00:35:59.659 --> 00:36:01.940
Right. I think over -performing is better than
00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:04.320
under -performing for sure. Sure. Do you have
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:09.559
a favorite, just normal professional comedian?
00:36:09.860 --> 00:36:11.599
Do you have like... Yeah, probably Nick Mullen.
00:36:11.980 --> 00:36:14.179
Nick Mullen? Love Nick Mullen. You know, Come
00:36:14.179 --> 00:36:19.840
Town? Come town No, I've never heard of come
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:24.059
town But it's a good podcast it was like it was
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really popular like before Matt and Shane's blew
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up Okay Wow, like around 2016 around there. It's
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a it's Nick Mullins Stavros, you know Stavros,
00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:37.210
right? Yeah and Adam Friedland You know? Okay,
00:36:37.429 --> 00:36:39.610
yeah. So it's them three, they're just like boys
00:36:39.610 --> 00:36:41.590
on a podcast just eating shit. But dude, Nick
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Mullin is like one of the funniest guys ever.
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Oh, hell yeah. I've been dying to see him for
00:36:45.510 --> 00:36:47.570
so long and every year Rebecca will ask us like,
00:36:47.610 --> 00:36:49.829
hey, who do you guys want me to like try to get
00:36:49.829 --> 00:36:52.090
booked this year so that we can see people that
00:36:52.090 --> 00:36:54.469
we like? Every year I ask for Nick Mullin and
00:36:54.469 --> 00:36:56.150
it's always like, oh, I can't really ask him
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to come. Like he decides to do stand up whenever
00:36:58.389 --> 00:37:01.289
he wants to. Right, wow. And he's going to be
00:37:01.289 --> 00:37:04.050
at Cap City in October. No shit. Which I'm like,
00:37:04.329 --> 00:37:06.849
I'm honestly kind of glad he's going there instead
00:37:06.849 --> 00:37:08.610
of Crete because I want to watch it. I don't
00:37:08.610 --> 00:37:10.230
want to be working. You know what I mean? Right.
00:37:10.230 --> 00:37:12.429
I want to like really enjoy it as a fan of his,
00:37:12.429 --> 00:37:14.949
you know? Yeah. I'm going with my girlfriend
00:37:14.949 --> 00:37:17.030
to see him in October. Oh, that's badass, dude.
00:37:17.369 --> 00:37:20.469
That's badass, man. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Man,
00:37:20.949 --> 00:37:22.849
if I had to see like one comedian right now,
00:37:22.929 --> 00:37:25.070
I think it would probably be Rory Scoville. Rory
00:37:25.070 --> 00:37:27.869
Scoville? Yeah, I love Rory Scoville. I think
00:37:27.869 --> 00:37:30.030
you've talked to me about him. I don't know his
00:37:30.030 --> 00:37:32.570
face. I'll send you some clips of him, but he
00:37:32.570 --> 00:37:35.710
has a Netflix special out right now that's really
00:37:35.710 --> 00:37:41.010
good. So his dad passed away, and he gets up
00:37:41.010 --> 00:37:44.750
on stage, and he starts crying about it. Legitimately
00:37:44.750 --> 00:37:46.869
crying? Legitimately crying on his special, right?
00:37:47.170 --> 00:37:49.170
And I remember just being like, whoa, this is
00:37:49.170 --> 00:37:52.369
really fucking tense. Marlon Waynes did that
00:37:52.369 --> 00:37:54.389
once. Oh, really? Yeah, he cried on a special
00:37:54.389 --> 00:37:57.570
about his mom dying. Oh, wow. Man. Not that crazy,
00:37:57.590 --> 00:37:59.610
I guess. Yeah, I guess it's not that crazy. Maybe
00:37:59.610 --> 00:38:01.750
I'm just like so inexperienced with just life,
00:38:01.750 --> 00:38:04.349
I guess. I don't know. Right. We haven't died
00:38:04.349 --> 00:38:07.469
and we don't have specials. Right. I'm like,
00:38:07.610 --> 00:38:10.489
I need to stay away from the coke. But yeah,
00:38:10.510 --> 00:38:12.610
no, he gets up there and he broke it. Broke it
00:38:12.610 --> 00:38:15.130
good, man. He broke it. He just he fucking when
00:38:15.130 --> 00:38:18.389
he finally hit that punch, it was like, dude,
00:38:18.510 --> 00:38:21.269
that was perfect. Hmm, that's interesting. Yeah,
00:38:21.309 --> 00:38:23.150
so I'll send you some I'll send you some stuff
00:38:23.150 --> 00:38:26.190
about it, man But so I hate that we got to wrap
00:38:26.190 --> 00:38:28.590
this up already, but it's time. Yeah, it's already
00:38:28.590 --> 00:38:30.710
time Yeah, yeah, I'm so sorry about that But
00:38:30.710 --> 00:38:32.909
uh, but yeah Is there anything that you you want
00:38:32.909 --> 00:38:35.010
to put out or like anything that like is going
00:38:35.010 --> 00:38:36.690
on with you or like anything? Anybody can catch
00:38:36.690 --> 00:38:39.949
this is your camera banana phone every fucking
00:38:39.949 --> 00:38:44.510
Sunday banana phone 10 p .m Yeah, Michael Ridley
00:38:44.510 --> 00:38:47.889
is Asian Michael Ridley Candice Smith, you know,
00:38:47.909 --> 00:38:51.980
lets me watch child porn Oh my god, are you allowed
00:38:51.980 --> 00:38:54.440
to put that in there? I might need to believe
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:57.659
that one, dude Just make sure she knows like
00:38:57.659 --> 00:39:00.420
you could tell that that's what I said Like yeah,
00:39:00.420 --> 00:39:05.739
I don't say it but you could hear like Yeah,
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:07.480
like they're like, all right, hold on I gotta
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:11.400
make a note for that Like I don't know how I
00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:14.300
don't know how that one is received You should
00:39:14.300 --> 00:39:15.860
try to get a down here. I think agent would be
00:39:15.860 --> 00:39:18.519
so much for a hobby too. Yeah, dude. I would
00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:20.320
love to do it I'm thinking about reaching out
00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:22.159
to Javi. I haven't done it so far. You work with
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.000
him now. He's co -workers with you. That's wonderful
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:26.219
too, man. Yeah, I think I'm going to shoot him
00:39:26.219 --> 00:39:28.219
a text. Oh, we're all going to be together tomorrow.
00:39:28.900 --> 00:39:31.840
Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, this is going
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:35.139
to be good, man. But hell yeah, dude. No, I appreciate
00:39:35.139 --> 00:39:36.739
you coming on, man. Thank you. And I'm sorry
00:39:36.739 --> 00:39:38.820
that it was so short. It's OK. No, I'm sorry
00:39:38.820 --> 00:39:41.059
I showed up late, dude. No, no, it's not your
00:39:41.059 --> 00:39:45.820
fault. Yeah, I was sitting there trying to think,
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:49.400
I'm like, what the fuck? No, it's all good, man.
00:39:50.340 --> 00:39:53.260
If it wasn't for me, if it wasn't for the damn
00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:57.000
thing that I have going on, there's always something.
00:39:57.340 --> 00:40:00.780
Hey, never complain about good prospects. Yeah,
00:40:00.900 --> 00:40:03.380
I'm hoping it works out because I do not want
00:40:03.380 --> 00:40:04.900
to have to work. If it does, you'll get to do
00:40:04.900 --> 00:40:07.880
this more. Yeah, yeah. And I could work at the
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:12.769
creek more. Get you more guests. Yeah. That's
00:40:12.769 --> 00:40:16.710
not why he works there. No, no. If anything,
00:40:16.789 --> 00:40:19.449
I work there just to watch and learn, man. Yeah,
00:40:19.449 --> 00:40:22.510
no, 100%. My mom tells people all the time when
00:40:22.510 --> 00:40:24.230
I'm on FaceTime with her, like when she's just
00:40:24.230 --> 00:40:27.170
talking to her friends in Miami, he's going to
00:40:27.170 --> 00:40:30.329
a university for stand -up comedy in Texas. Yeah.
00:40:30.530 --> 00:40:32.929
Yeah. That's what it feels like. Whenever I work,
00:40:33.050 --> 00:40:34.510
dude, and I'm just, you know, like last night,
00:40:34.610 --> 00:40:35.829
for example, when I was done, I was just sitting
00:40:35.829 --> 00:40:39.110
down watching Banana Phone and just listening
00:40:39.110 --> 00:40:42.230
to how they do the show. And, you know, Bananaphone
00:40:42.230 --> 00:40:45.010
is really great despite some of the hate that
00:40:45.010 --> 00:40:47.769
it gets, you know, like I think it's really awesome
00:40:47.769 --> 00:40:50.389
and I think it's a really fun, like fun thing.
00:40:50.590 --> 00:40:52.530
But I really just kind of just take it in and
00:40:52.530 --> 00:40:54.230
just kind of learn and just sort of be like,
00:40:54.329 --> 00:40:57.630
OK, this is what I need to do within my own act,
00:40:57.670 --> 00:41:00.610
you know, to try to help me. And then. Of course,
00:41:00.670 --> 00:41:02.130
I think to myself, I'm like, could I ever do
00:41:02.130 --> 00:41:05.190
that? Like, you know, like... Yeah, no, I mean,
00:41:05.409 --> 00:41:08.409
but you know, just to end it off, I know you
00:41:08.409 --> 00:41:10.670
got to go, but a great piece of advice for any
00:41:10.670 --> 00:41:14.050
comic that my girlfriend gave me is if you're
00:41:14.050 --> 00:41:17.389
ever having doubts about comedy, just think to
00:41:17.389 --> 00:41:19.630
yourself that that is a good sign because that
00:41:19.630 --> 00:41:22.110
means you're not delusional. Because if you're
00:41:22.110 --> 00:41:24.809
100 % confident in you making it, you're a little
00:41:24.809 --> 00:41:27.639
delusional, which is... necessary for something
00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:29.739
like entertainment, but you don't want to rely
00:41:29.739 --> 00:41:32.320
on delusion, you know? Yeah. So it's a good thing
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:33.860
that you have doubts. That means that you're
00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:35.739
like a normal person and you got to figure that
00:41:35.739 --> 00:41:38.179
stuff out. Oh, cool. Well, good. That's good
00:41:38.179 --> 00:41:41.420
to be reassured about, you know? Yeah, there
00:41:41.420 --> 00:41:44.400
is a lot of times when I'm just like, oh, man,
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:46.460
I'm not good at this, you know, but I want to
00:41:46.460 --> 00:41:49.559
be. It happens. It's a practice. It's a good
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:51.400
thing that comedy is the thing where it's like
00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:53.559
they tell you like from the start, like, hey,
00:41:53.579 --> 00:41:54.900
you're going to feel like that all the time.
00:41:54.940 --> 00:41:57.219
Like, I'm not good at this. That's true. That
00:41:57.219 --> 00:42:00.900
is true. They warned us a lot. Yeah, it is fucking
00:42:00.900 --> 00:42:03.119
true, dude, for sure. But thank you so much for
00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:04.199
coming in, man. Thank you, bro. Thank you so
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:05.920
much for having me. Yeah, dude. I'm so happy
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.760
to have you, man. Bye, Sonny D. Yeah, bye, Sonny
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:11.820
D. Buy some AGT, you know, Arizona green tea,
00:42:12.019 --> 00:42:14.019
baby. Arizona green tea tracksuits on the next
00:42:14.019 --> 00:42:17.019
episode. If I come back on, we got to have a
00:42:17.019 --> 00:42:18.840
month. When you come back on, I'm definitely
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:20.159
going to have you back on. We're going to do
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.300
what I like to call these redemption episodes.
00:42:22.579 --> 00:42:24.199
Because it's too short? Yeah, because it's too
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:25.880
short. So when people, when this happens, I'm
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:27.760
like, next one, we'll come on and we'll do it.
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:29.820
We'll do it good. This is going to be great.
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:31.460
So, and that's it. That's the end of the show.
00:42:31.539 --> 00:42:33.480
That's a wrap. Thank you for tuning in. Adios.
00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:34.440
Thank you.