The transcription blends personal anecdotes, comedic observations, and social commentary into a reflective narrative. The speaker recounts their lifelong affection for Chihuahua dogs, starting from childhood, and shares a humorous moment during a live performance where a dog’s behavior disrupts the show. Central to the discussion is the idea that overcompensation in relationships—such as through extravagant gifts—is often a sign of insecurity, with the speaker emphasizing that genuine connection comes from presence and time, not material offerings. They observe how public declarations of love can backfire, especially when they occur in toxic or unstable relationships, and note that such displays often increase tension rather than resolve it. The conversation also touches on humor in performance culture, including the challenges of performing in large venues like Dodger Stadium, where the speaker shares a story of being heckled by a service dog and the surreal experience of a dog-filled audience. These moments highlight the performer's appreciation for authentic, unscripted comedy and real audience reactions. The speaker also reflects on comedy’s evolution, criticizing the trend of short, viral jokes performed on phones rather than full, improvised bits. They emphasize their unique approach to stand-up—developing material through live storytelling, memory, and instinct rather than written scripts—believing that improvisation and emotional authenticity create more engaging, human performances. The piece ends with a thoughtful observation about audience dynamics, noting that different cities foster distinct comedic atmospheres, from the calm of Hawaii to the intensity of Chicago or the raw energy of Buffalo, underscoring how cultural context shapes comedy and connection.
(upbeat music) - How cute. - How cute. - This, yeah. - Holy shit. - So this is Roka. This right here's Roka. If you can just start petting her for the back. - I know about the back. - Oh yeah. - Get up, let's see. - Snip. - Snip. - She's scared. - Why a Chihuahua? - I've always had a Chihuahua. So like when I was 12 years old, my first dog ever was a Chihuahua, and then I got a couple, you know, after that. And I've just always, since I was 12 years old, I've always had a Chihuahua. - And you both love Taco Bell. (laughing) - Nice. (laughing) - Yeah, yeah, that's funny. You feel over 40, right? (laughing) - You're a Kiro. I'm over 40. - There you go. - But yeah, she's just looking after-- (groaning) - That's great. - That would be great if you actually ate her right now. - Nice. (laughing) - Here you go. - Just the most violent opening to the episode. - Yeah. - Thank you. - That is a cute dog. - Yeah, oh, you think she bites. You gotta see what the white girl does. (laughing) - Oh, shit. - That's my girlfriend. (laughing) I've never been able to publicly put that out there. Like any relationship I've never been and I've never been public. I've never posted photos of what I was waiting. I always kept it really private 'cause I figured, ah, if I put it out there, then people can start reaching out. - I get it. - I told her, get ready, 'cause, you know, I put it out there as well. - Wow. - Who's your first public? - First public. - Yay! - First public hockey. - Ever. - Well, white women love the public. They go, hey, you gotta post about me. Hey, you gotta put me out when it's our anniversary and you go, oh, you gotta ruin my feed, bitch. - Well, the worst one is when you're in the toxic relationship and they're still mad, you're not posting, and you're like, we're gonna break up any day. - Oh, yeah. - And you still post, and then you're fucking your misery. You know who you are. You know those groups, those friends who are like-- - Yes. - The bad marriage, they're like, my fucking, my honey bear, and you're like, you cheated on her. But the more you post, the worse the relationship is. I've noticed, you know the guys, like I love her so much that a week later, they're done. - You know what, yeah. - Overcompensation. - I got some friends that are doing that right now. - Yeah. - Oh, I gotta roses. Oh, this and that. Oh, me, I'm more of my love, and I'm just like, oh, God, this is so just gross. - Are you crazy with gifts? - No! - I think that's a good sign. - That is. - I think too many gifts is scary. - Yeah, I feel like you're trying to overcompensate for something. - Yes, my time is the biggest gift. - Here, here, here. - My time is the biggest gift. - Your presence is, I could be doing some, you know, other things, but from there, I care. - There you go. - Make it rhyme, it rhymes is good, right? - I don't buy my wife shit, we're a hit. - There you go. - There you go. - I got an interesting stat here based on people professing their love. Best actress winners are 63% more likely to have their marriage end within four years. - Really? - Oh, man. - 'Cause you're moving on up. - Yeah, sacrifice, drop that dead weight. - Well, maybe also you're probably just working a lot too. - Oh, that's true. - Yeah, things are different. - But I think they're thinking, hey, I'm hot shit now. - Please hit best actress, that's actress winners. - I believe it. - Maybe the dude can't handle it. - He's trying to upgrade, right? - He's always trying to upgrade. - That's why women get hotter, and then they dump their fat piece of shit, and then they go get some hot, hunky guy. - All right. - Yeah, there we go. - I have some other two girls. - I almost do, like you ever feel a break up coming on, and you're like, I better hit the gym. - No, no. - You know, I get right, who the dog does. - Yeah, right. - The dog's like, preach, preach. - No, sometimes you feel it coming on, and you're like, I gotta get ready to be single again. - Right. - So I did a gig, and you ever done Mark Ridley's comedy castle in a Royal Oak Michigan? - No. - Oh, it's a great club. But I couldn't sell tickets back then, so it was like, they'd give away like a charity would come in and do it. So you'd have like, there would be women's, women's battered women nights. - Yeah, or whatever. - Black drought. - Yeah, they were good. - You guys better laugh. - Yeah, right? - I won't give you a taste of the back of my hand. But one night I had a service dog graduation night, so it was just a bunch of people with their dogs at the show. - You had an entire audience with people with dogs. - Full of dogs. - Oh, I've never had that before. - Two hundred dogs. - And so I'd be like, I'd bombing. You know, so I'd be like, so, uh, I was at the grocery store the other day. And, uh, you know, I was getting some great and cheese for my pizza. Hey, and I was like, God damn it. 'Cause you can't, you can't tell the dog to shut the fuck up. - You take your keys out, you're like, come on. Give me something. - Oh, a treat's out at some point. - That happened to me one so back, way back in the day, Comedy Zone in Warwick, Rhode Island. In a movie, The Pieceshit Club. But the whole crowd was breast cancer survivors. Best crowd in my life. - Oh, okay. - They've been through hell. - They've seen. - So they wanted to laugh. So I was like, I've never killed this hard in my life. - That's a good point. - I think people who have been through real shit, like no one's right in the fucking, no one's gonna care and comment card you in that crowd. - Yeah. - I have my tits off. (laughing) But no, I'm with you. I did, you do those benefits show, like for addicts, drug addicts and whatnot, they're the best crowds. 'Cause they've just been through it all. And it's like, how are you gonna offend some, like the things I used to do for, to get high? Like really, like really? I'm gonna offend you. - Exactly. - You know, and I think that's awesome though, you did a show like that for breast cancer survival. - It was awesome. - You know, once you go through chemo and stuff like that, it's like nothing's gonna phase you. - Exactly. - Nothing's gonna, you're just happy to be alive. - Right. - And I think more people need to appreciate life. - And I know. - Cop audiences are pretty good too, 'cause they see dead bodies, they go to shootouts and all this shit. - All the things they say, come on. - Yeah, that too. (laughing) - You get some PBA cards that night. - Oh, you always wanna be like, give me one of these, I'm just like, all right, I got a few of them. - Yeah. - You're gonna look at that jail free card. - Yeah, what is that? - Show this to me, if you get stopped, just show this to-- - Yeah. - I think I got one. - I don't know, let's do this. - There's some work. - Hey, man, I got one. - Paulin over here, look at that. - Oh, it's spot-pig. - I love that. - Yeah, I'm a hooker. (laughing) - Hold on. - I think I got a PBA. - If I wasn't a comic, I'd never have cash on me, ever. - It's all comedy. - Yeah, it's just those seller spots. - Yeah, I'm impressed with the amount of cards you carry. - Yeah, stop carrying a wallet a long time ago. I just used my little tiny wallet that goes in the back of the magnetic that goes in the back of the wallet. - I did that too. - So three cards, that's all I got. - There it is, PBA, 23, do they expire? I think after a year, after a year? - Yeah. - That's fucking brutal. - You gotta get mine every year, you gotta read it. - 10, good old Tim, all right. - All right, yeah, you got the wallet on the phone. - That guy, oh that's good stuff. - The one where it's just, it's on the back of the phone. - Oh man, but no cash. - No, well, you know, I keep cash on me. - I see. - No, I don't have any cash on me right now, but. - You need some? - Usually, nice. - Okay. (laughing) - But you're like, you gotta be a trillionaire at this point. - Oh, stop it. - Stop it. - I mean, you did it. - Who shows the Dodger Stadium? - I'm doing all right for myself. - How crazy, so you did a show at Dodger Stadium and then you added a second show? - Yes. - That's got a feeling saying. - It was very much insane. So, I was selling more tickets than the Dodgers at the time. And now they're killing it. So, you know, now they're killing it with Otoni and the rest of the team back-to-back champion. So, yeah, I feel like I was the catalyst for that. - Yeah. - I kicked it off. - Damn, wow. - That was cool, man. - So, where do you stand, like at home plate? How do you, how's that work? - You know, I've seen many concerts at Dodger Stadium and they're all, the stage is set up in the outfield. It's set up over by the bleachers. And so, you're roughly, you're sitting probably right around, what, second base? - Oh, okay. - So, the seats come all the way out and stuff like that. - Wow. - They try not to have seats actually on the bases and stuff like that 'cause I don't want to mess up the mount. - Sure. - They have like a thing they put on the floor. - There it is. - They put a thing on the floor so it kind of, it protects the grass. - Oh my God. - That was a show though, 'cause I feel like comedy outdoors always kind of sucks. - You know, as somebody who does a lot of fairs, you're always dealing with the elements. You're always dealing with all you got planes and helicopters, you got bugs, you got the weather, sometimes it's humid, sometimes it's raining, sometimes, you know, and I've had to perform through all of that. The scary one is when it's raining. And I'm like, I probably shouldn't be out here. - Yeah. - And they're like, okay, get her to buzz it back. And I'm like, now I'm out there freaking kicking water like Tay Tay, right? But luckily, yeah, that's a real picture. I know it looks fake, but I was mad. - That is unbelievable. - Yeah. - If I had a tender, that'd be my picture, right? - Oh yeah. - That'd be it. This guy. - Damn, imagine that, all those people laughing, coming back here, that's a beautiful picture. - Incredible feeling, you know? And I thought that I was gonna have to adjust the show 'cause anytime you perform for a big crowd, you always, you know, you slow down a little bit to allow for the timing and everything. But in a situation like that, it was almost like a comedy club because the sound was so good. They had, I think they called them delayed towers out in the crowd. So they were, everybody was getting it immediately. - Yeah, it wasn't like a thing. - That's incredible. And did they do any baseball? Did it offend you? - No. - I'm okay. - And I was terrified at first because it's like, I've done the intro at Dodger Stadium. I've done the, you know, and now it's time for Dodger Baseball and you would hear it and it would sound, now, now, time, time, time, time, time, time, time, time. And I'm like, oh God, I hope it doesn't sound like that. - Were you the first comic to do a ballpark? I know Bird did Fenway, right? - Yes, I was the first one to do Dodger Stadium. Bill Bird did his a few months later. - All right, you beat him. I mean, hey, no, yeah, yeah, that's a, that's a, that's a, right there, you know? - Totally, totally. - And that's your team, too, the Dodgers. - Dodgers, yes. - That's crazy. - That's amazing. - So to do a show that size at home was freaking awesome. - Did they give you any cool swag? Is like a little gift? - I get perks. I get perks. - I get perks. - Any of the swag, I, you know, I make my own merch so I can make whatever I want. - Right.
But, you know, whether it's a bat or something signed, it's stuff like that. You know, I show up on a special day. It's like, ooh, but I haven't really asked for anything. You know, I think if you asked for it, they'll give you more, but there was no like, we're not, we wanna present you with this and present you with that. - But you don't get tickets for life and shit. I mean, you should be able to just walk in the stadium. - I'm pretty sure if I asked to go that, you know, again, I think it's just for make a call, but I haven't. - Okay. - That's not a wanna be that guy either. Hey, you know who I am, right? - Yeah, that's true. - You know what I did here. - Right, no. - Right, right. - So, yeah. - I'm just happy that it happened and I can talk about it. And it's, you know, they're forever. It'll be on my tombstone. So when I'm, you know, you know, born this day, died this day and on the bottom of the Dodger Stadium. - Hell yeah. - That's your number one, do you think so far? - The biggest show, yeah. - It's pretty good. - You know, I mean, just achievement. - Just achievement, yeah. - I love this Hollywood. What's that Hollywood cemetery? - The Hollywood cemetery, yeah. - You know what I'm talking about? We have like a Mel Blanc. - Moves. - They'll have movie 9 stuff like that. - Yeah, but they have like Mel Blanc who voiced Bugs Bunny and on his tombstone, it says, that's all folks. - Hey, that is the best, that is the best. - You can't talk to a tombstone. - That's great. - And it wasn't, it's either Carlin or Dangerfield. I gotta look it up, but it was, he was here just a minute ago. - Oh. - That's a great tombstone. - Cameroon was, it was like Jack Parr might be, he won't be right back. - Hey, I like the, maybe mine'll be a, you're dead to me. - Okay. Sorry. - Those should be the dog. - Yeah, there you go. - They're rough. - Yeah, that was a hell of a show. That was really bad, that dog show. Brutal. And then a lady heckled me and I said, "Mam, you're less well-behaved than a dog." And that did well. - You, ma'am, are the true bitch. - Yes. - Silence. - So if it was a graduation for dogs that, you know, like it was at like, obedient school or more so. - Sure dogs. - Well, shouldn't they have not barked them? - I know. - That's part of the deal, you know? - You'd think, but I think I was bombing so bad that they were like, you were being heckled out of the dog. - Yeah, exactly. - The dog's like, "I'm on the clock, but this is ridiculous." - Yeah. - This is horrible. - Nothing worse of getting heckled by a dog with a vest. - Right. - Yeah, and I can't pet it either. - The work and dog. - Yeah, nowadays all dogs are service dogs, I feel. Like everybody's, you know? - It's a scam. - Look, if you have a note, you can get your deal. - Yeah. - The blind guy, all right, go nuts. But this guy's got a fucking doxin on a plane. Like, get out of here. The dogs, you happier than everyone here. The dogs, you would be anxiety. I don't buy it. - I've heard about people having different animals too. Like a peacock. - Yes. - A peacock. - And I'm like, "Okay, that's different." - There's a wool in my neighborhood. She's got a bird on her shoulder and you can tell she's doing it for attention. 'Cause there's like, it'll be at the coffee shop outside. You're trying to work, just zone out. And she's got this bird screaming. And looking at her like, "You know what you're doing." - Yeah, yeah. - But she just does it. - You know, it's fun, you walk past her, you don't even say anything. 'Cause she was dying for you to say something and you just go, nope. - I got up and that's what she wanted. - That's what she wanted. - Right. - That's what icebreaker. - Exactly. (laughing) - I want to play for an audience full of birds. - And. - Look at that. This is an ostrich, a horse, a peacock. This is ridiculous. It's kind of like a weed card. If you let somebody, a pig, if you let somebody, that's me and my wife. If you let somebody bring a, or if you let somebody cut corners, they're gonna do it. Basically, if you give someone a loophole, they're gonna abuse it. - Give them an excuse. - Thanks, that's always gonna be the case. - That's the term. - There you go. - Now we're getting somewhere. So now what do you do from, where do you go from Dodger Stadium? Are you back in the arenas? - So after Dodger Stadium happened, I actually contemplated retiring because I'm like, I just jumped a shark. What am I supposed to do now? - Exactly. - Like this is the craziest goal. And after you do it, it's like, okay, like what am I supposed to do now? So it's like, all right, I still had an obligation to do another special. So I'm like, all right, well, I'm gonna go back on the road and just, you know, go back to the routine. - Yeah, what's your process for that? - Do you go smaller venues to build back up? Or what do you do? - A lot of times I do like going back to clubs, and that's what I did. These last couple of months that I was getting ready for SoFi, I just wanna get getting as many, that was the new goal by the way. - That's amazing. - In order for me to get excited about wanting to go out and tour and just build up a new set, I needed to set a goal. And so that's when I approached Joe Koi about the idea about teaming up and said, "Oh man, come on man, look, this is what we're at in our career," and I did the math. I said, okay, you sell out these many shows. This is how many tickets you sell. This is how many tickets I sell. This is the biggest market we have. You know, all the boxes were just like, if we do this, it can't fail. Just based on the math alone, it cannot fail. And, you know, I was right. - And you're doing it? - And we're doing it. So we're doing it next week, next Saturday, SoFi Stadium. So that is, then on Sunday, I'm gonna find myself in that same situation. - Wow. - It's like, now what are we supposed to do? - Yeah, and you just wanna achieve your goal and then you're just like, do I just kill myself? What do I do now? - My thing is that I just always, I never wanna be a shell of myself. I never wanna fade. That is my biggest fear. I do not wanna fade. If anything, I'd rather end on a high note. - Of course. - And then that's the way you should go out. Go out on a high note. Go out, sign fell style. - But what would you do if you were tired? Like, what's your days looking like if I was tired? - I would find other things to get into that I might not be as passionate about it, whether it's voice acting or acting, or, you know, maybe radio. Maybe I'll start my own podcast. There's so many different veins I can go into. And so it's just, you know, believe it or not, I've been approached. - Really? - Oh yeah, I've been approached. - I've been approached. - Yes. - Who's talking to you? - What, you know, I've been, it's not a matter of a company, but I've been offered money to do things. - Whoa. - From fluffy to fluffer. - Well, you know, that'll be the name of the book. - Yeah. - I can write a book. So, I definitely wanna be involved in comedy, some, in some fashion. I thought about buying a club multiple times. - Yeah. - I came close to buying the ice house. - Oh, cool. - Recently, great club, very close. Came really close to it. And unfortunately, it just, it did not pan out. The owner, Johnny Bus, from the bus family, the leakers. - Yep. - We had worked something out where it's like, okay, this is the, you know, this is what they want. I agreed to it. I came up in the conversation because it was two people or companies in the running. It was this company. I wanna say, it's a standup, something in New York. Out here, there's a club. There's a club, it's got a chain. - New York comedy club. - Something standup. - Oh, they have multiple locations. - I think it's New York comedy. They bought standup New York. - I think that's, so there's three of them and there's one in Connecticut now. - So, there was a club out here that was in the running for it, and then they approached me because they knew I had a history with the club. - Yeah. - And they figured with, you know, where I'm at right now, this, it might make sense. 'Cause they know I'll take care of it. I'll continue the legacy. I'll make sure that I cherish it and take good care of it 'cause that's where I started. - Yes. - And once we agreed on it, everything was all set. We're supposed to take a meeting and what happens? They sell the Lakers for nine billion dollars. And all of a sudden, my phone stops ringing. Stop ringing, no more emails, no more replies. That's it. It went away. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's a lot of money. - Yeah. - If I become a billionaire, there's a lot of people I'm gonna stop talking to. Just FYI, I think they know who they are. But, yeah, so that was the last one. So I think either I'm gonna get into owning a club or mentoring, man, there's a lot of comics up there that, hey man, I could help you. I'm not gonna do it for the money. It's just to stay in the game, but at a certain point, I'm like, man, how much longer can I do this at this level without falling off? - But the fact that you're conscious of it is a good sign. A lot of guys are like, I'll be huge forever. - No, that's not, no, that's unrealistic, man. I'm very much, all it takes is one bad tweet and you're deuces, you know what I mean? So, yeah. But your crowd's, what, pretty Hispanic? - Yeah, it's a little bit more than that. I mean, you know, I'm not sure. - That's a majority. - That's, if we're talking LA, California, absolutely will. Texas, same thing. But, you got to figure, I go to freaking 30 plus countries where they don't even know what a Mexican is until I get there. - So, well, if you got Joe Koi with the Filipino crowd, you got a Mexican crowd. That's the hardest working crowd in America. - Right, it's, yeah, it's Jolly Bee meets King Taco. One night only man, he got it, come see that show. - Jolly Bee. - I figured I'd beat you to it because I knew you were warming up to it. - I didn't do it. - I see it coming. - I didn't know it was Filipino. That's great. But yeah, that's incredible. But yeah, you got to stay in the game. I used to open for Seinfeld and he was like, hey, could be using cars. I love that show. He goes, thank God for that show or I wouldn't be relevant. And I'm like, your TV show is on forever. - Your show is on forever. - And he, but that's how he thinks. He's like, I got a new show, thank God. I'm back in the, the zeitgeist. - People don't know Seinfeld, I mean, sometimes these shows come on Netflix and are like, oh, what, I don't know this. - Or they don't know that he's a comic because it, you know, the show is big. - Right. - And he's an actor in the situation. - Right, right. - It's crazy how clueless people are now to new, to old stuff. - And it's insane considering that information is right at your fingers. - I know. - You could find out anything in two seconds. - And we know it's back in the days like, you know, the Soros or Freakin' Cyclopedia, you had a really recent newspaper? - Yeah. - You had to really work for the info. - Right. - Yeah. - That's true. We watch an HBO special that would come up every six, seven months. - Yeah. I know. - They felt actually special. - Yeah. - Because it was, you know, once or twice a year, where it was like, now it's like, man, all right. Every Tuesday, here's a new comic. - There's probably, do you think over under five?
4,000 comedy specials a year. What do you think there's yeah you figure between Netflix Hulu Amazon and yeah, oh Special on YouTube you to change the game Anyways, don't gatekeeper. You just throw something up there. Mm-hmm. I called a special Which is great, but then now it's like there's so much shit They were like oh my god. It's just like more and more and more. It's like where do you land? And I get annoyed when there's like I got to download like peacock for like fucking for one sports event I know there's so many different things, you know, but that's true. That's that's where we're at now Yeah, that is annoying, but how many specials you got now This next one will be number 10 where else have you been in the world where you're just like this is crazy Like what other parts of the world? Let me see you've been everywhere all over the Middle East definitely was always an experience and I'm just like wow, okay Like my first time in the Middle East was in Jordan. I did a mon Jordan I went there with Russell Peters Russell. I credit him a lot because he's one of the guys that inspired me to start traveling more outside of the US him and Dunham they were the first ones to really start going and doing that, but As far as culture shock for me, I think maybe Japan Japan was very like oh, okay, it's different here Now that was Familitary. I did a USO tour there, but I was there for a week and I got to just see how people live there and I'm like wow It's a culture shock, you know when you're loud. That's a form of disrespect. There's a silence is literally golden in Japan Good place to break up with a woman. Nice right? Just a real quiet and super clean country. Yeah incredibly clean I thought Singapore was really clean. Japan is spotless. Like they don't even have homeless people. Whoa I talked about how I said I think they killed them there. I think I think if you're unemployed for a week is like No, there's no ways there. I believe in Many places I'm actually trying to think the one that really stood out to me definitely Saudi Arabia was just one for you know for the books But you go and I ran still I have not been to Iran. All right. It's the cheap right now right now. You could probably get a good deal Yeah, I have a lot of friends that went to South Africa. I want to go to South Africa It's one of the countries that I haven't been to yet, but I've been to over 25 I did my honeymoon in South Africa. It was amazing, but I've never been to Japan. That's that's next Japan has been on my bucket list for a very long time, and so that happened recently was a lot of fun. Damn I you know they got a birth problem over there. What do you mean? Like they're another birth rate is through the floor No one's fucking and China through the roof. Is that right? Oh, China. They got a big population in China. 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Oh, sorry. You definitely didn't do that act out That's pretty good. What happened? I spelled it tequila by the way. I was hoping it tasted tequila. Oh, I know. Joe, did we get that tequila? I guess. Oh, he's got it. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. It didn't mean to call you out Just I want to try it. Just give me an old neat. Just a little shot splash. Oh, you already had it. There we go. What do you call it? Bocho Fino. Bocho. This is your ticket. This is my ticket. We have a whiskey and you have a ticket. I've been uh I've been approached. This is the bottle There you go. Since you guys are all about it. Let's look at check it out right here. I'll show the different cameras right here So um on the bottle Bocho Fino's the name I came up with the name. I designed the uh the label on a napkin and then a real artist took over and did that These two dogs were dogs that I had before and they're no longer with us So I wanted to honor them on the bottle because they were there when I drink a lot. So Basically, I was approached multiple times over the years to do it the key lot because I do drink But it just didn't feel right because you know, you like what you like You like what you like and white DV8 from that and plus you know fans are gonna know and man he's full of shit He doesn't really drink that and so it was kind of like, yeah, I'm good But in this case, I was involved from day one So it wasn't like someone just said here's the bottle you want a freaking you know put your name behind it Yeah, I was literally involved with the entire creation of it So the name the the design the tasting all the tasting was so much fun Yeah, because I told them what I what I liked and they're like wow We I guess we could try to make something like that and they showed up to my place with like 30 bottles And the whole day was just dedicated Testing and tasting that the key lot that's exactly one of those after on an old episode I guess no whiskey and it turned into like March Madness style. All right. You two now have to go head to head You know, it's fun. We got after it. So that was a good time and you know Totally involved with the with the company next century spirits. They've they've taken exceptional care of me Really really good people to work with and so we feel really good about it. This is damn good tequila I like what do you mean? So sorry, they said Well Gabriel, you know, we think that you know all these different people with the kilos out there We got the rock heaven heart and multiple people with their tequila's but they're like Culturally we think there should be a Mexican that has his own tequila. That's fair And I'm like, you know, I agree and they're like well, you're from Mexico. You should have one I said I'm not from Mexico. I said I was born in the US my families from Mexico and so
That's the story where it's like it's up Mexican American together. So it's like the best of both worlds. I like it's leaving That's the story right there. It's like it's it's both nice. I heard that I like it goes good with ice Damn good They pulled up to your shows outside ice or no, you know what to my knowledge. I don't I don't know Mm-hmm. I don't know how those calls didn't look really good. It sucks. What's going on, man? But yeah, it's great. I try not to be too vocal. You don't want no matter what you say someone's going to disagree with it That's true I hear here. So we do this thing and I got turrets. Sorry. What's gonna say we do this thing on the show called working on any bits Where you like test out or talk about? Bitch you're working on with these guys and see if There you go. I think it was they fuck fast. Well, come on. Yeah, I literally have a tape of you telling me that is that right anyway So you're working on any bits. I mean, I don't know. Let me check you got a prep us Yeah, you don't fucking well. When did you become the the setup guy the hell's happening here? We're never ready for this shit Wait, I had a question now. I know what I went black. You threw him off. Oh Do you still have your VW collection? Oh, yeah, yeah 30 30 buses 30 buses. Wait. What yeah, he collects the old VW the cool 70s ones Mm-hmm. Where do you what do you stock all these I have a building in Long Beach? Oh, there's him with Lennon Yeah, I go 30 Lennon's been in my place a few times He's actually the one that inspired the car collecting. I did an episode there. He goes Jesus. It just keeps going Mm-hmm Wow Wow, yeah, that was a fish tank the TV show tank to came over and they they built a fish tank out of a Volkswagen was pretty cool So the goal is to just make an entire Volkswagen museum there and it's already set up So when I'm when I'm dead and gone that's that'll be a place where people can visit and wow Because anytime I do tours there people are like, oh my god all these Volkswagen's I didn't know I don't drive them all Yeah, from time to time. I'll take one out But at the end of the day that there's still 50-year-old cars So, you know you're not very reliable sure. Yeah, and if you scuffle rim It's like it's not like a hubcap. Yeah, you gotta remember it really. It's it's expensive So what what is it about this car that hits you? It was my first car Oh When I was hanging out with Lennon from one of the episodes his guys that are the ones responsible for getting him his cars They said well if there's anything you're you're looking for let us know we're good at finding cars Yeah, and at the time I had gotten my ex-girlfriend back her first car not the actual car But her first car was like a trans app and they found one that looked just like it I got her the car and they're like if you think of anything else you want to go well Maybe I want to get my first car. I go and then I give him the year model of a Volkswagen bus and Like that they found it they brought it and I'm like, oh wow and they're like well if you want anything else Let us know and I said well if you come across anything else you think I might like you let me know And we played that game for two years and next thing you know the building was full of cars whoa And I wound up making friends with the gentleman who does restorations and his his You know his his thing is Volkswagen buses and so he's done the restorations on all the buses. All those buses are pristine They're beautiful. They're beautiful. So do you ever drive them out or now? Rare because man I'm telling you as soon as you scrape one or something you just you feel it It's it's so painful like oh, it's just because you know how long it took to get them that way So it's like more of like a museum if that's exactly what that's exactly what it is Which is why you see the artwork on the walls? Mm-hmm. I commissioned an artist to come in and paint these you know really nice beautiful paintings and It's nice. It really is. What do you think? I mean like I'm going into my accounting brain, but what do you think that total? Worth is on all these puppies You don't have to tell me if you don't want to know I'll tell you um, you know my accountant told me she says you can keep buying these cars They're only gonna go up in value. Okay. She goes you don't do cocaine so go for it. Yeah, that was that was the direct quote You don't do cocaine so go for it. There you go. She said Volkswagen's and Rolexes you can buy as many Okay, what uh, yeah, what about five million? Oh mama See if you have that one tweet come out then you can uh sell a few of these. So yeah, it should ever hit the fan It'll be a sale Oh, yeah, that's a lot of he's getting triggered as a Jewish guy. That's a lot of VW here, but uh, oh, sorry about that We got over we got over my pizza and one seafood. Yeah, but yeah, that is that's beautiful You and Leno sign fell do you always have a hanger of cars? Yeah, so uh Leno's not really the biggest fan of the bus Yeah, um, and then sign fell he's more of the Porsche guy sure the Porsche guy and you know I'm the bus guy. So that's that's my thing. That's cool and that kind of fits all your vibes, you know It's in his chill. So if I do take one out. It's you know, it's not like oh my god, you know a lot of people Whenever you know putting gas in one of those people come up and they'll tell a story. Oh my uncle my dad had one of these Oh, I remember we drove the cool there's always a cool fun story attached to listening to one of their stories That's a dog there - Oh dog made it. He's leaving - oh Yeah, you can see it That's Joe Corey going well. I'm an open You don't do 20. Oh, yeah, how do you figure that out? Who opens and who? Who closes that one? Well, and yeah, absolutely so in that situation was so fine Talking about okay, who's gonna open who's gonna close? I have no no issue with with being the opener And I think it's a responsibility that I I should take on because when I did Dr. Stadium I broke curfew I went way over shit, so I know what that's like so I fear I think they cost they cost you money quarter million Because you wanted to go long Because I did go long not because I wanted to I didn't know that that's what they were gonna find me I think if somebody would have been on the side of the stage and be like Gabe You're the reason they can afford Otani I've done shows before it's like three VWs, dude, what exactly hmm. So I've done shows here in New York at Radio City and there's another venue. I forget the name of it, but I remember they It was a thing where if you hit Curfew at midnight the I think it was like 25k every like 30 minutes or something like that and Union one Here in New York does not mess Chappelle Osama eight million dollars. Yeah, I've I remember I was on stage in my tour manager at the time runs out and he yells Gabe you got less than a minute to get off the stage Or they're gonna find you $25,000 and I had a clock on the floor And I just remember looking and I'm like I'm seeing the dial and I'm like holy shit lady in the whole crowd heard it So I said thank you good night, and I just run he goes run off the stage because you legally have to be off the stage By midnight or they tax your ass. Yeah, this this happened to me in Philly I think the guy screwed me because he's like you got to be off stage by 11 if you're on a stage at 11.01 That's your ass. You're gonna find you have 500 bucks every 30 seconds or whatever So I was like all right no problem. We wrap the show up. I say bye. Thank you everybody I'm leaving and the guy goes can you do a photo with all the staff and all the grips and I said What sure yeah 1056 1058 whatever it was But I was like he has to do the photo so if you want to do a photo We can do a photo and we did the photo with all the guys in you know get get the guys in the front low the guys the back Tall here. We go. We got it and he goes. Oh 1102 Gotta find you swearing away. I know we got you got stuck her into that and I told it sounds like I told a guy And it was in the union. He's like that's the oldest trick in the book. You fell for that. I go. Yes That's not real. There true story. He was there. Oh my god. How much they find you 500 bucks? Oh But it for like a minute and a half, but yeah, he screwed me Philly that was at the Miller Theater. I still remember it Glad no one asked me for a picture at that time. Don't do it. Keep your eye on the clock I remember Mark told his manager. He was like and his manager was like it's just 500 bucks and he was like then you fucking pay it Yeah, that's true. Oh So to answer your question I'm I'm gonna go first on this one. Okay. I'm gonna go first on this one and you know what? You have another opener is it just you too? We plan on having some special guests and then you know We're gonna do like a pre show. So let's say the show starts at seven the pre show started six and that's where we put in the homies You don't even yeah his normal openers mind normal openers to give him a chance to just you know warm up the crowd and We're gonna encourage the audience to get there sooner than later because it's not like a club where you could fill it and you know 30 minutes right it takes a long time for people to park walk from the car to the door check in Scan your ticket go through security. Oh, yeah find your seat right and get us out of go to the bathroom I mean it takes a while so let the old encouraging them to get there super early Because there's also gonna be another concert happening right up the road into it dome. Mm-hmm and at The forum next door. So who are you going against? Ah, I think it's a peso pluma. Oh, no, yeah Somebody it's it's somebody that's gonna sell out for sure. Yeah Some of your people. Yeah, nice Poso pluma. Yeah, so So I again, I got no problem going first on this one. It's not an ego thing the two of us are good friends
and we just feel like a man a show like this is something that has never been done, needs to be done. And, you know, I agree. And go first, it's like a little more-- - Someone's just more fun, yeah, I can chill. - You come up there, you're having a cocktail, you're like, enjoy. - Exactly, enjoy. - But in my situation, I either gotta deal with people still coming in and sunlight. - Ooh, you know. So there's pros and cons to both slots. - Look, can you have the openers eat that sunlight, eat that, people coming in. You know, that's what an opener is. - And originally the plan was, we were each gonna do 90 minutes. So to make a three out of seven. - And you definitely want to go first. - Well, that probably would have been a, you know, we would have been cutting it really close on that one. So we had a conversation and he's like, dude, we should really keep it closer to an hour, this way that we keep the people still excited, more engaged and I'm like, I get it, let's do it. - Yeah, I think that's fair. - So that gives us a little bit of an extra buffer, just in case, you know, I go a little bit over or Joe goes a little bit over. - Right. - But I already know, if I do go over, I'll own it and I'll cover whatever that is. - Yeah. - If I do that. - But I don't wanna do that 'cause I just, you know, I've been working on my set for the last couple months and I've only been doing clubs. So I went back to just straight up improvs and letting me and freaking, you know. - Funny bones, Heliums, it's great. - That's a good, though, man. - It gets you tight, it cuts the fat. - It does, 'cause on average, what the regular shows, I'm doing three shows a week. When the arena is going back to the clubs, that can do six shows. - Exactly. - You get the reps and it's hard to work out in arena. - Obviously, you know, the clubs, you can tweak the jokes a little better, I think. - Yeah, the arena, there's a certain expectation and if you're trying out shit at the arena, they're like, I don't know. - Yeah. - I'm a club they're forgiving. - Yes. - Yeah, they're more buzzed. - Right. - So, there's, there's a-- - I do wanna see a hip-circomic in a arena. Like, what else? - Oh, I hate that. - Notes. - I hate that. - Yeah. - Are you seeing that thing? Like, a lot of comedy shows are going viral. The guys that are just pull out their phone and read their jokes on the phone. - Oh, no. - And I'm just like, oh. - I don't love that either. - That better be a new material night. - Yeah. - We do new material night at the cellar. - But I feel like those jokes aren't even like, it's not real bits, it's more like, joky joke. - Oh, like tweets or something? - Yeah, like yeah, it's a real package shit. - Right. - Now, how the hell'd you come up with a 25 minute story? That, I've never had a 25 minute bit in my life. - Yeah, when you do a bit that is that long, do you write it out or do you just keep talking and you do know the beats and where it's gonna end? - So, I've never written anything out. I cannot just sit and it's too structured for me. You don't have like emails or word docs or anything? - No. - So what I do is all my shows are recorded, audio, audio, every single show. And one of my openers who's really good at structuring and he helps me out whenever I do specials, he'll break down the sets, time codes so that when we go into editing, we present the editor with, these are how long the bits are. These are the time codes we want to take time off of, so that he's really structured and I appreciate that, but me, I can't do it. - Yeah. - You can't sit and write up, okay, here's the premise. And you know, they teach the whole and you do the circle and then you do the line and then you're building on this premise. I just can't do it because it's work and I fucking ain't work. I hate work, I want to have fun. I'd rather go out on stage and just start venting and telling stories and whatever gets the laugh, cool. I keep, whatever doesn't get the laugh, that's where I start trimming. I'll go back and listen, all right. There's this a minute gap where there's no laughter. That's too long, we gotta shorten that. So cut to the chase. - Right. - And so I've done that over the years. You will not find a single notebook, a single thing where I wrote anything else. - That's wild to me. - That is fucking crazy. - I have a really good memory on stage, off stage, I can't find my fucking keys. And so it's crazy that I can work like that. I will use bullet points. So let's end doing the tonight show. All right, there's Q-Card or whatever. I appreciate the bullet points. - Yeah. - You know what I mean? And also too, when you're doing a set like that, you're not doing your normal routine that you do every night. So you already know it, you flow. You're doing a tonight show. You gotta, okay, we're taking this four minute piece right here. And here we go, this is this long, this is this long, this is this long, and go. And then you gotta hope that the audience either is with you or not too much with you where they give you too much applause where you're like, you're taking away my couch time. Stop plepic, you know? - Yeah, yeah. - You just want to do your thing. - Damn. - But I cannot sit and write stuff out. So when I have comedy friends that go, "Hey man, it's sitting right." I go, yeah, no, I don't, I don't do that. When I was in high school, I was on the speech team. Same thing. Like I would just go up and talk. That was my thing. I go up and talk and whatever, whatever work work and whatever didn't work, all right, we'll just scrap that. - Yeah, yeah, I just-- - But that's where I got my bones was in school on the speech team. Just getting up, be comfortable talking in front of people, comfortable with silence, comfortable with just people staring at you. And once I started doing stand-up, it was just like, okay. - Yeah, we're good. - I just can't, I can't remember everything. I have to look at my paper before I go on. Just to be like, okay, I don't forget the dog joke. Don't forget the shoe joke, don't forget the couch joke. But if I go up there-- - I'm still ready to sit. - Yeah, for sure. - Well, whatever I miss. - Also, too, the stories that I'm telling, I tell stories that things that happen. So it's a memory thing, I'm like, and then I did this, and then I did this, and then I did this. So it's like, it's based on a true story what I do. - But I pulled my mind that you can't, but even if it's a true story, it blows my mind that you don't like, there's like a beat that I would have to write out. Just saying how I would do it, I was like, I would need to write out a beat, you know, in a word doc or in a notepad. And you're like, this is where I say the joke this way. This is this laugh, this is-- - When I do a set list, it's almost, at first it's like every laugh. And then it kind of, I'm like, I got it, and then it becomes more like every, like topic. It kind of becomes smaller, but it starts with like, this is every laugh when I'm building, you know. - Yeah, yeah. - But maybe that's fucking insane. - And don't build burst, same way. Don't write anything down. He just goes out. - I think Jim Jeffery's same way, too. - There you go. - Because he would tell me it's like, he said it's like, oh, my story's 25 minutes. How can I write it down? I was like, man. - Yeah. - I would at least start with it. But you know where you're going. Like when you tell a long story, you know what the ending is usually right. - If I were to write something down, if for me, it almost feels like it's a script. And whenever I act and I gotta follow a script, I have a real tough time memorizing my lines. It's just it's like, oh, because I'm not enjoying it. - Yeah. - I'm not enjoying it. And so I sit down with someone and then we just go over the lines over and over and over. And I'm like, I fucking hate this. - I hate those. - So the idea of having to do that with my set, with my material, it's like, I don't feel like it's gonna come out the same way. It's gonna be very mechanical with the delivery. Like, you know, every show, I've listened to multiple shows. And the wording changes. The delivery does change every single time I do it. There's a high, there's a low. I forget to do a minute in there somewhere. And I was like, oh shit, I forgot to do it. Like I missed this part right here. - Yeah. - 'Cause I'll have my guy who goes, hey, by the way, you forgot this whole chunk. I was like, how's it? Hey, it still worked. - But isn't the part of your missed chunk? I think that's why I'm shocking already down. 'Cause I think I'd be like, oh fuck, I forgot. There's someone who's one word I forget. I'm like, fuck, I should have said this word instead of that word. - The only time I get stressed out about it is when I'm doing a special. That's why I refuse to do a special live. I will never do a special live. Because I don't need that stress. - No. - And if you mess up, it's like, oh really? So always do two. For me, I always do two. And the first one, I'll fluff a few things. That's second one. I'm always down. - Yeah, yeah, totally. - Always down then on that second one. And then for any reason, like one time, I was, when I did that special, I was telling you about Aloha Fluffy, where I talked about the story about the Middle East. I was, I was going through like a bad cold. And you can hear it. You can hear my nasal, like I was just messed up. I probably had like, forget what my temperature was, but I was struggling. And I did forget a big piece. And that's the only time I had to go back and pull from the first show. - Oh, wow. - And then insert it. And then when you watch the whole thing, you're like, you could, you could hear it. You don't see it because the editor was so good. But you can hear the difference in my voice, where the, where I'm good. But then it cut back to the night before, and all of a sudden you hear the, there, you know, the voice and shame, you could hear it. - Yeah, yeah. Anything like that, like if I have a couple of too many drinks, I feel that slur coming. I'm like, oh, I'm stuck. - Yeah, it's like, it gets in my head. Or if I'm stuffed up, I get to my head. Anything that fucks with my voice kills me. - Yeah, but as far as notes go, only during specials, that's why I feel the need. Okay, let's go over some stuff and just kind of like, all right. - Yeah. - Feels good right now to set list before specials, 'cause you're like, that's the last time I have to do with this shit. - Yeah. - I definitely, once it's out there, then it's just like, let it fade. - Yeah, and then I start incorporating new material on top of that old stuff, and then you just kind of fade out. - Yeah, it's exactly, that's a great feeling. Especially that one joke, I never really even liked that joke. I'm so glad I could drop that one. - It helps to support whatever the next bit. Like there's bits that I hate, but it sets something - Yes, yes. - So that I can call back later and slam it. - Exactly, exactly. - So you need that. - Totally, it's like a little boost for the new bit. - Yeah. - But the movies have that too. You're like, what the hell is this scene? Then you're like, oh, all right, I mean. Sometimes you gotta do that. - Man, I find, this was I guess in Hawaii. - Oh yeah, yeah, obviously. - Oh, there we go. - Hello, Fuffy, I do not do well in Hawaii. 'Cause I think they're, I feel like the crowd's like, I live in Hawaii, and I don't need to laugh at your bullshit. I already got it made. - I do think there's something truth about when your life is too easy. Like there's something about like laughing and like a city like this, everyone's just like in a fucking mood and pissed.
And like, I need a laugh. I'm like, there's built up tension in Hawaii when you're that, like, you don't laugh your hardest on vacation. - Yes, yes. - Like, their life is like peaceful, I feel like. I don't know. Maybe there's, this is crazy. - It is such a chill vibe there. - Yes. - But I think of it. Chicago, great crowd. There's like a fucking intensity, that's it. - But there's drama there. - Yeah. - You can address. - Boston, SF, the city of the fucking mess. They laugh. - Yeah, Buffalo. - Yeah, Buffalo, Seattle. There's a fucking needle on a foot. But you go in that room, there's gonna be fucking laughing. - Yeah. - So the fact you killed here is a testament to your standout. - It is a good time, and they have their own issues and problems, and you just have to do the research to find out, like. - I saw the descendants with Clooney. - Nice. (laughing) - I did one joke there that got a huge laugh and a huge groan at the same time. - Ooh, I love that. - And basically I was talking about how. - Maui fires? - No, not even that, not even that. Or why are we laughing at this? (laughing) - No, I guess there was, at the time that had just been at Earthquake, here in California. And so I was talking about the Earthquake and I was on the news and stuff like that. And I said, "Yeah." So I'm talking to my friend about the Earthquake in California, go, "Did you hear about it?" And he goes, "No, I brought out, I didn't hear about it." I go, "You didn't hear about our natural disaster?" He goes, "No, I brought out, we have a own natural disaster, he'll in the island." I go, "Well, you have earthquakes." He goes, "No, I brought out worse." Micronesians. (laughing) And I guess there was a thing where the government was blowing up Micronesia and getting a bunch of money. It said, "Go ahead and move to Hawaii." And so they got, that was their version of Hurricane Katrina where all the people from Louisiana came into Texas. And so it's kind of like the same thing. People were displaced and they came in. - Got it. - You know, crime and all kinds of other stuff. - Sure. - So it was a huge laugh because they're like, "Ah!" But the people were like, "Oh, you're saying bad things about the people." - That was our life. - So it was, you know. - What the hell's a Micronesian? I've ever heard of that. - Yeah, Google that one right there. - Is that out of country? - Yeah. - Oh, Micronesia. - Geez. - It's pretty, but yeah, America kind of went in there and started messing it up. - Oh, shit. - So that's why they gave him a bunch of like, "Hey, here's some money. Move to Hawaii, forget about this." - Got it. - Okay. - Oh, it's off by Australia, all right. Damn. - But yeah, so that joke got a big thing. - That's it. - And then you could hear the groans in there too. And I'm like, "Ooh." - A couple of Micronesia in the crowd. - It is possible to offend Hawaiians. - Yes. - Yeah. - Although suicide rate is quite high in Hawaii. - Is it? - Yeah, believe it or not. - No kidding. - Yeah, you know why? 'Cause if you live in Hawaii and you depress, you're like, "Well, I got nowhere to go from here." You know what I mean? Like, "This is it. "This is the happiest place on earth." And I can't be happy here. I'm fucked. - I had a friend who just went to Hawaii like fell in love instantly. - It's beautiful. - It's, yeah. It's a special place. - I think you need perspective in life. And if all you've ever known as Hawaii, then you don't look at it the same way where somebody that like lived in, I don't know, Albuquerque. And you're like, "Wow." You go from Albuquerque to, you know, to, oh, you know. - Yeah. - Maui and you're like, "Oh, my God." - Yes. - If all you've ever known is the ocean and the palm trees and the beautiful sand and the beaches. - Exactly. There's no way for you to do the-- - Where'd you go from there? It's only down. Yeah, I went to Maui, did some shows. Unbelievable beautiful. The air, it's not hot, it's not cold. It's just perfect. The air tastes good. It's wet, but the locals there are the toughest people I've ever met in my life. I saw a fist fight between a white guy and a Hawaiian guy. Best fight I've ever seen. Throwing each other through fucking windows and shit, crazy. And we all jumped off a cliff just, you know, a couple of honks. - To get away? - Yeah, just being silly and jumping to the water. And then you walk out and the sand go back up the mountain and jump off the cliff again. The local guys would climb the cliff. I'm talking wet, rock climbing. And then they would do like eight back flips off. And we were like, ah, good to meet ya. You know, and I was like scared to jump off. I had floaties on. - Yeah, I'm not about that. - Oh, really? - No. - Oh yeah, it's crazy. - That's not like something my manager who's in the room right now would do. He would jump off of some shit like that. - Oh, it was like that. Like another crazy guy. - Yeah, it sounds like a fucking ass gonna be paralyzed right there. - A seer-jump? That's a great, what was the great reality show? - It was a seer-jump, right? - A seer-jump. - A seer-jump on NBC. - Damn. - The thing was like that long and it broke off in his flip. - Oh! - He's a gangster dude. He left it and he didn't even go to the doctor. Okay, so I don't know if you want to call that being tough or just like, dude. - Avoiding? - Yeah. So he still went out and partied and we hung out and I think a week later he had it pulled out of his foot. - Hell yeah. - Yeah. - But he stepped on one of those right there. - Ooh, we, ah, yikes, that's long. That's more than a micro-nesia. - Yeah. - That is a little bit long. - Look at that vagina though, Jesus. That's a quite a bush. - But, yeah, my God. - But that seems like hell. I would not want to step on one of those. - Yeah. - But he ain't jumping off a cliff or a rock or not, man. - Oh, okay. - I'm not much for the sand. - Are you an outdoorsy guy? - No, I mean, if I'm in a car or some Polaris or something fun, like, you know what I mean? But I don't like going to the beach. I just don't-- - What on the road is like your thing. If you're traveling, how do you do it? Boos? - Yeah. My kind of guy. - What's your besides the kilo, what do you drink? - Whatever it is that somebody's handing me, I'll drink anything. - So you're like, what kind of bar guy are you? - As far as-- - You're like a tavern, you're like a dive, you're like a lounge. - I love a dive, yeah. - Me too. - When the wood floor has that layer of film on it, you're like, oh, this, yeah, yeah, some stuff happen here. They have a jukebox or one of those pull tables with the quarters. - Oh yeah. - If you see that pull table with the quarters, I love it. - Small the balls come out. - Yeah, that's great. There's money like cat dollar bills on the wall or panties or something. - Pictures or something. That's a small little hole in the wall. - I love a wall fake ideas on it too. - Oh, that's a good one too. Don't let this guy in. - Yeah. - Yeah. With stickers everywhere, that's a big one. - I don't like clubs anymore. Like the night club, the music's too loud. You can't talk. I'm just like, oh my god. - They're taking away our only ability as comedians. - Yeah, just right. - Yeah, that's a guy. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, that's the worst. You lose your voice in there. - I prefer a nice white bar. - I like a bartender that looks like that. - Ah, like a January sixer. - Yeah. - Yeah. (laughing) - I guys name is C. Urchin. (laughing) - This is some good tequila. It's going down easy there. - Something a place that plays like a 70s classic rock music. - Ooh, yes. - Oh, yes. - Early 80s. - Yeah. That's what I like. - So where'd you grow up? Did I miss that? - Long Beach. - Long Beach, okay. Wow, long beach is cool. - Yeah, but I mean, for the last, God, what, 20 years now I've lived everywhere. So it's like, yeah. Done all 50 states and then just always on the road. So now I spend time between California and Texas. That's where I have two houses. I have one there. - Where in Texas? - New Bronfels. So it's in between Austin and San Antonio. - Oh, no. - So if I want to go Mother Ship, I go North. If I want to go LL, I go South. - There you go. I just did LL, it's a great room. Great time. San Diego is underrated comedy town. - Oh, yeah. I was just saying. - San Antonio. - San Antonio. - It is. - They just added a new color. - Underrated Mexicans. I want to say it's called a mic drop. They just added a club called a mic drop. - Oh, really? - And they built the club in the old comedy condo building. - What? - 'Cause I remember I used to perform at the River Center comedy club and then-- - Yes. - They wouldn't put you at a hotel. They put you at the comedy condo. And the comedy condo was-- - God, how bad were the condos? - It wasn't that bad. - This one was good. Most of them were bad. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. With the first-- - Different colors. - I know, it smells like Kirk Fox in here. - Love how specific you were with those names. But yeah, they built the comedy club in the basement. And it's called a mic drop. It's a sick club. The room holds maybe 150 people. They got a sick little bar and it's really, really cool. - Oh, nice. - They just opened it maybe two months ago. - Wait, is it in a hotel? - Yeah, it's inside the old building. - Yes. - That's the comedy condo. - I think I popped in there after L.O.L. shows. And it was-- - Yeah. - It was great. - It's a low ceiling. - Yes. - Yeah, that was killer. - Yeah. - I thought it was called the riot. Maybe I'll think of something. - No, no, no, no, you're right. You're right. - The riot. Sorry, I haven't played the mic drop. But a big shout out to the mic drop. You know why I thought mic drop? Because I have a mic drop in San Diego. - Then I said San Diego. I fucked you up. - All right, there you go. The riot. - That's another one. - I'm going to hit it up on a quartet. - And they have one in Houston there. - Right. - And I think there's another place they have a riot. - I like that you still pop into the little rooms, man. - Right, you know what? I think once you feel like you're too good for those rooms, that's when you're going downhill. So always stay hungry if you can and try to work yourself out. - Right, I mean, you got to eat it with the new shit somewhere. - Yeah, you got it. And also it feels good to get the small room like that. It's the most real honest room because if your material is good, you're going to know. And if it's not, it's one of those. It's a reality check because in an arena, it's always going to sound good. It's always going to sound like that. At a comedy club in front of freaking 80 people, you're going to know that joke is good. - Ain't that true? - Yeah. So it feels good to pop in like that. And you know, I'm excited to still do it. - Yeah, yeah. - And it's so funny because the manager after it comes up to me goes, listen, we only got a, I could pay like $200 and like, like, bro, don't try to fucking pay me. - Keep it. - He's trying to pay me money. I go, dude, I'll just drink more of rock-a-ha, than what you're about to give me, right? - Totally. I took the money, but yeah, I appreciate that. - You know what they'll try to break me off. I'm like, I'm doing okay. - You know what those rooms feel like? You ever hear those stories about the sorority girls where they make you take your clothes?
and they highlight all your wrong areas. - Whoa, I didn't know that. - I've never played that game. - It feels like they're doing that with your act. - Oh, oh, this malchrist. - Yeah, you're like, that sucks, this sucks, and you're like, oh shit, I feel like, okay. - Right, right. - I was at New Jokes the other night at the seller, and you're just like, it's great. You get a couple of new things going, but it's funny, you know when you're like, gearing up for a special, and you're killing, and you feel like, you're like, who gives a shit? - Right. - I don't fucking like this anymore, who cares? I'm sick of this, and then you go on the first few times with a new shit, and you get like two new jokes to hit, the rest of the sets of wash, and you actually feel good. - You feel great. - Because you know that those bits, you got two new ones. - I got two new ones. - Yes. - That was yeah. - 'Cause the win is that you can still write. You know, it's killing with old shit. You already proved it, you know? When you write a new one, you're like, all right, I still got-- - And you know, you're in editing mode, so you're like, I know this works. - Right. - You just gotta cut out the weak parts, but the new shit you're rebuilding, yes. - The hardest thing to do is to sacrifice your ego for the sake of trying something new. - Yes. - 'Cause most of the time you just want to go in, and you want the high of the laugh and the kill. - Ugh. - Yes. - But to take that, you know, like pull back, and then go, all right, we're just gonna try this new thing and see how it goes. - Yeah. - And not intentionally kill. - Right. - That's a hard one, because you're risking it to try to build this new thing. - Exactly. - You know, a lot of times guys don't want to break away, they want to stay comfortable. - Exactly. - And by the way, the seller, I finally got to perform there. I've only performed there one time, and that was very recently. I had always wanted to perform at the seller, but I could never get in. - What? - I swear to you, I could never get in. - Is it clear? (laughing) - I was waiting. - Anyway. (laughing) - I could never-- - I couldn't believe it. - It was. - I could get up on that stage, because for some reason, I had no issues getting up at Caroline's, no issues getting up at Gotham. - When was this? - And they wouldn't put you up. - Stand up New York. I could just never get into the club. - What? - It was just like 20 years ago? - It's been, not 20 years ago. It's been forever that I've tried going up, and I could never get in. - Wow. - And so I did a set at Gotham, it was a few months back, and my tour manager made a phone, I found out that one of the guys on my show was gonna go over there, and I go, "Oh, really?" You're going over there, so I had asked my tour manager to reach out to the club to see if maybe there was a possibility of hanging out, or even getting up for a spot. And they said, "Yes." And I guess when I got there, it was so clustered with comics in the hallway, and somebody got bumped. - All right. - Somebody got bumped, and then I went up there and I did my 10 minutes, and I heard somebody talking about, "Why is he here taking away sets?" - No. - On the comics. And when I went up there, I was a few in, and so I said, "For all the comics in the back, talking shit about what is this guy doing here, taking sets away from these comics." I said, "Understand now." I had to bust my ass for over a frickin' 20 years to finally get this opportunity to perform here once. So right now, no now, that I'm marking my one-time appearance here at the seller. I go, "So like it or not, bitches, I had to work for this." - I go, "I'm gonna be honest with you." - What is he talking about? - No, we didn't get to come. - So I understand it's a fight I was having with myself. - Right, right. - And it was one dude who probably just like, "I should have said that before." - But then afterwards the staff invited us upstairs to the restaurant and they took care of us like kings and we just had such a great time. - Yeah, that should be real. - It felt awesome. And I was very happy to finally - You got it. - We set up the seller. - Hell yeah. - I think you always feel that there's always like one club that's kind of your blind area. Like we always felt that way about the comedy store - Yeah. - But it's like, you know, it's a foreign thing to you. - Everything is up there. - We didn't come up that place through its phases. So it's like it's sometimes it's toxic. Sometimes it's like, "All right, it's more corporate." And right now I feel like it's in a place where it's really good. I wanna say, is it Rose who runs the comedy store? - Yes. - Yeah, she's incredibly awesome. She's just been nothing but like any time you wanna come by just, you know, you just very welcoming. - And just had a baby. - And yes, oh, she finally did. - She had a baby girl. - And I started a couple months ago. - Mazita, Rose. - Congratulations, Rose. - There you go. - But yeah. - But yeah, she's cool. - The comedy store was not a place that I ever enjoyed going until recently. - There you go. Look at that. So were you a Lafactory improv guy? - No, I was on the road. - Oh, okay, there you go. - So you didn't work on the road. - You were just burnt out for a road. - I'm gone. Once I started getting work, I'm gone. I'm going anywhere. I'm going to Dayton, oh hi, I'm going to freaking, you know, Mississippi. I'm going anywhere. - No, I love it. Are you a tour bus guy? Are you a flight guy? - I'm both. - So I'll fly, let's say, if I'm in Long Beach, I'll fly out of Long Beach to wherever the bus is at. And then for the next three days, we're on the bus. And on the last day, we fly either to Texas or to-- - Do you sleep on the bus or now? - Yes, I prefer the bus. I had the bus customized for me. And-- - What are guys and fluffy cups? - For the guys that get it. - For the guys that get it, they're bunts. But I got the big room in the back. - Hell yeah. - But what did you soup up that are like, that's like, totally you? - Let me see, I have a, on the tour bus, I have a full-sized toilet. So I don't have one of those RV toilets with a foot pump where the thing comes. - So you can take a shit on this tour bus? - I do. - Good for you. - I do. - That is crazy, that's the number one rule. - That is the most luxurious part of the toilet. - That is the number one rule is you don't shit on the bus. - Totally. - Tell him that. - But when you own it, it's shit on the bus. - Oh, no Hitler. - No, that was the greener, that was the greener. - That was the greener. - Sorry, my bad. - When I did the tour bus, my camera guy pounding hot chicken in Nashville, I was like, "Be careful on the tour bus tonight." And he's like, "I got this, he have three hot chickens." I was like, "All right, dude." Fucking hotboxes, I'm like, "Dude, the guy's got to throw it away. You've got to tell him to pull over." - So right now they've said that. - I know what you mean. Tell everybody what hotboxing is. - That means you put it in a hot bag. - Hot bag, sorry. - Hotboxes when you get hot and hot bag. - Hot bag that was usually-- - Hot bag. - When you shit on the toilet bit in a garbage bag. And you wrap it up. - Yeah, so it was disgusting. - You lined the toilet, you put a trash bag in the toilet and then just line it and you sit on the-- - I remember that. - Oh, my drive rides it. I said, "Anyone else ever hot bagging?" And he's like, "Don't get me started on Segura." - Oh, shit. - He was like, "Tom!" - Yeah. - So I had a few guys hot bag out on the bus, but I do not hot bag my bus. - It's nasty. - So my bus-- - See, where does the shit go? It just goes to the end of the-- Where's it going? - It goes on, there's a whole tank and everything. And so my bus driver, Dave, whenever we hit a truck stop or something, you know, fill up the bus with water, with the tank and then drain whatever's in it. - Here's the siphon out, poop. - No, well, you know what I mean? It's a whole system. You just block it and it sucks it out and puts in the new stuff. So it's pretty easy. As far as customizing my bathroom on the tour bus is like a full-sized bathroom. I have a massive bathroom on my bus. My shower is huge. You can extend your arms all the way out. I have a shower of bench and everything. It's badass. Yeah, so I basically took out space from the closet 'cause I don't have a huge wardrobe. I just got all my shirts. I just have, you know, and I only need three shirts for the weekend, so I don't really need that much closet. So I use the closet space to build out my big shower. And then I have the bathroom, the toilet, and a huge sink, mirrors and stuff, so yeah, it's pretty pimped. - Damn. - Axel Rose had my bus before I did. - Whoa. - Damn. - Yeah, so every time I get on the bus, I'm like, yeah, some evil shit happened. - Yeah, I'll put a flashlight up to that for you. - There used to be a pole in the front lounge from the bus. The ceiling would slide to the side and then a pole would come down and then you'd lock the pole down into this little pole. And it was like an acrylic pole that had water in it and glitter. - Oh, fun. - And yeah. - Like a stripper pole. - Yeah, basically there's a stripper pole. And then there was, there's mirrors in the corners where it would reflect a laser beam. So the line would just create this laser show on the front lounge. - Now here's the question. What has more jizz in it? That bus or a comedy condo? Comedy condo. - Yeah, you're probably right. - Comedy condo. - And it's sadder just to say, yeah, it's solo jizz. - It's solo jizz. - It's solo jizz, it's party jizz. - Yeah, it's cool, but that's cool. - It's sad jizz. - Yeah, sad jizz. - When you're cross the street at that sad condo in Cleveland. - Yeah, oh. - Every single one dude, so many memories. Even the happy ones, it was a sadness to them. I don't like when there's no one, you can be like, "Hey dude, the fucking thermostat's broken." They're like, "Yeah, I'm a fucking, I'm a waiter." I don't give a shit. - Right. - That's like your contact at the club. They're like, "Yeah, I don't know how it works." - Yeah, and he don't even sadder when I was broke. I would eat the comedy club condo food, 'cause they always have a guy left food in there, and I would eat all of it. - Bro. - 'Cause I was so broke. I was like, "Oh, it's a free." - That, that, there's the pure for COVID. (laughs) - You get that in your system. Get that up in you. - Well, there'd be like a box of powdered mashed potatoes. I was like, "I'm making that." And it was from like, you know, Bill Mar. You know, an 88 or something. (laughs) And I would eat it. 'Cause I was like, "Oh, I don't think I'll buy a food." This is great. Old waffles, there'd be like a bag of like, Chequitos or something, I'd eat all that. - There'd always be something left over. - Always nasty. - Big enough butter. - That's true gambling, there's, you know. - I mean, if it was like, "Bake is in there," and there's like, "Do we do this?" Or, "Oh, yeah, there's come hot pockets in there." All that stuff. - You look at the schedule, like, "What fucking asshole got this?" - Yeah. - You didn't even start the fridge. - Right. Right. - Yeah, I was telling you never touch the mayonnaise.
Yeah, never touch the mayonnaise. Oh, no. That's that said jizz right there Man is like a polyshore was just here You never want to follow the polyshore weekend. No ever what do I do the improv Miami? They're like don't sit on that couch seat and I was like what why not they're like he jizzed on that one So sit on that too, and I'm like you can't get a new he bushes. He jizzed on the couch I only sure just a aiming for some money. I think he was getting blown It was like, or something and they were like don't sit on that cushion. So I was like, all right So every every show I had to sit off on the edge of the couch like this God just looking at it. Yeah Well, he's in the juice you're pointing at Exactly that is fucking nasty. Yeah, he had a run that that poly God damn you got a nice jizz on a cushion and how about get a new cushion yet? Yeah, that's really the truth Yeah, you got to get a new coach back the couch So yeah, so the bus is pimped out hell yeah, that's pretty sick So I sleep on the bus. I prefer to stay on that plus I got my girl. I got my dog So it's just it makes it easier. We don't got to worry about the hotel because staying at the hotel with with the dog is Yeah, that's okay. Here's everything and everything is a oh But she's okay with the motion she's on the bus. It's different because it's just it's consistent noise right have consistent noise She's all good, but if it's a new sound or any little, you know, like what let's see I'm surprised she didn't know right now. Yeah, usually they think it would just lead or okay, okay Okay, there you go. That's really that would that would be a that would be a thing right there not a good slam for the episode We're not good dogs out here Oh, yeah That's a good idea. All right, so in the front lounge the bus had a toilet seat with the pump like the RV Yeah, I had it taken out and I figured there's no girls on the bus So I said let's put in a urinal and they're like the bus company was like that's no one's ever done that And I'm like well, it's about to be done So let's put one in make it a waterless one because I have a waterless urinal at my building And so I break in records at stadiums and with urinal in urinal Yeah, dude, you know how cool it is every time a guy sees the urinal that like does a fucking urinal right here go Yeah, whoa it's a dude bus and so you know and then my girl should use my bathroom in the bathroom and there's a glory old dude all dudes all the time Before he's to put glory hole in the door Look why do you do this You get a low one for Brad Williams Oh God, but yeah, so I had a urinal put in and now they're they put I got a second bus and they put one in that urinal They put a urinal in that bus to and I heard that other people found out about the urinal and now that's becoming a thing Oh good, so I feel like I've pioneered the urinal tour bus thing. That's bread. So it's more efficient than a toilet by far It's easier to clean. Yeah, exactly. It's easier to clean so much easier to aim to when you're going for like every miles an hour So it's a nice in there. Yeah, that's the best you zap it out. It's fun. I melted nothing like you're in the smell That's not the smell but that the sound of the ice just Yes, you feel like super skaters or something. Yeah, I'm killing Isis Well, where are you gonna be you back on tour? What's the story? Well, let's see next week. Well this week and I'm going to tomorrow. I'm going to Canada I got two dates in Canada. Uh-huh. Then off to Montana. I think I'm doing a fair. Whoa and then next week I got two days in Bakersfield then Sofi Stadium tell you and then after that a tick off a week and then we're back on tour. I love it and then does a fair pay? Well not fairs pay incredibly well and We can't do an affair for the love of the game. I'm so I was confused. What's it toothless yokels? You think? You're not gonna make any money, but you're you're a big fairs and casinos They yes, they pay very very well. I don't think a lot of comedians are able to do fairs Which is why I think there's also a better pay for that because you got to be very family friendly There's kids in the crowd. There's there's old you know old people in the crowd So they want you to have a show that's friendly to all right, and yeah, you know, well We'll have 10,000 to 15,000 people out of fair Wow, and yeah, they the pay is really really good. Okay good to know for a while I wanted to just be the king of the fairs because it was just there's so many. Yeah, there's every state's got their you know You could stay busy all year just doing fairs. Damn. That's that's cool. I had no a neighborhood Yeah, but you know, it's it's a thing where you're outside you got to deal with the elements right sometimes There's people running around there's kids running around sometimes you got to start during the day Right than trying to be funny during the I don't feel like you're as funny when their son out Definitely not when it's in your face. You're like outdoors and day is it is a tough combo. Yes That's too strikes against you. Yeah, but when you're out there and you're just you're doing this one Oh, and with you sweating you start off your set starts off with sunlight and you finish and it's nighttime weird Yeah, that's crazy, but they they take really good care Oh, but you know, you just got to be flexible with it because it's not gonna be a comfortable gig Mm-hmm Casinos are a lot more comfortable. Yes, you're inside, you know everyone there's over 21 right fair You got kids you got kids you're gonna follow the goat race You know, it's always some weird bobbin for whatever. Yeah. Yeah, they hate right had to be squeaky clean at casinos And then they change that rule. Oh, yeah, who goes to a casino like you know who loses their ass and says all shucks Come on. You go on that one. So and you're still clean. That's impressive. I woke us Of an hour. I'll drop maybe three F bombs, but it's like that's impressive. It's it's you know Not even a tick because some comics do it as a tick. We're just every other word But you know, they're very specifically well placed Yeah, I don't you know, I'm very very selective with the cousin. Yeah, I remember Bill Cosby himself He says asshole once it gets like a three-minute applause break because it just it's so powerful Yeah, and it's even bigger when you don't do it So when you save it up and all of a sudden it comes out. It's like oh Exactly exactly like his roofies really All right, well, what else you gotta say where was the we got you? Yeah, I just got May seventh first I'm impressed you guys can read that Yeah, I know what I'm looking at, but I can't see the angle would read it. Raleigh. It's all my Reena's look at it. These are wild wow moody center in Austin. Geez Louise Corpus Christ. Oh, those are over. Sorry Beaumont, Texas. Wow. No, no, no, those have happened yet. Okay. It's me. Sorry Oakland Sacramento a couple nights in Vegas whoo Tucson. You ever think you'll ever do the sphere So I had that conversation already and it doesn't make sense The sphere is probably the most expensive place to perform just because of like you know You got to create the content to fill the screens. It's not like a regular thing. We just turn on a camera. It's a music place It's it's more definitely more music or or film like I went to go watch Wizard of Oz there It was insane. Was it awesome? They had to Format it and and and create you know around the original content and you can see it They digitally created to expand the the vision of whatever that is. So let's say you're looking at that. Wow they digitally Duplicated what you see on the screen to fill out. Yes. Oh, area. Oh my lord. And so it looks Awesome and what they add is like let's say during the tornado. There's giant fans that turn on Well, there's there's a Confetti that they blow into the crowd and when the trees are shaking apples actually fall like they have a thing where apples fall Wow, they're like the little like the little styrofoam. Yeah, yeah, it's cool when it says Wizard of Oz That's amazing. It was a lot of fun and they they shorten the film by a little bit But you know they cut to the chase on it was a good time. I've seen multiple shows there and For music it definitely makes sense. The Eagles and Backstreet Boys were my two favorite concerts there Joe Cohen I talked about doing the sphere and I go it doesn't make sense dude that visually You know talking and comedy just it's not gonna. It takes away from it takes away from me Minimalist is better for stand up true. So so no, so we will not be I will not be anyway doing it all right You can put the VW buses up there or something, you know I remember talking to AJ from Backstreet Boys. They had to do so many shows before they even broke even Oh, and then you're making money on it. So to do one or two shows would not make sense because it's just so expensive Yeah, like Dana White taking UFC in there. They didn't they didn't make money You know you really I mean maybe from the paper view and stuff but you're not gonna you're not gonna get that from from being in that building That's a bummer. It's it's not a good building for that. God definitely music I'm gonna go and see I already got the sweet for Metallica. I was there for Wizard of Oz and I was just so fucking sick I had to rest up for the show. I was I wanted to go so badly because I heard it's unreal I saw two girls one cup there. Here was well. Oh, I mean drop and shit on it. Yeah, it was crazy Don't look up. Yeah, just don't look up Hey, that show is the shit. All right. Yeah, so we're gonna be all over you know where if we're to find you know To get some bodega cash punch up dot live and slash Mark Norman punch up dot live slash sampler Boltoffino. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Look at these together. This looks good. See that movie Look at that. That's fun
- That's good stuff, that's a fun night right there. - Oh yeah, great to meet you, man. - Great to meet you, man. - I appreciate you guys. This is really nice to finally meet you both. - It's an honor, you're already an legend. - I honestly thought you guys lived out in LA. - No, no, no, no, we're funny. - Okay, really quick, really, really quick. Do you guys feel like there's been a thing over the years where it's like almost like rappers with contacts like Nascos, West Coast. - There's a lot of great weight. - I don't mean like the fighting as more of like a certain style. - Definitely a style. - LAG LA is bigger, you got like a Sebastian and guys like that where I think New York is more David Tell, you know, more Jokey, more written. - Mm. - That would be my assessment. But both, you know, they got, you got Jelsonek over there, you got Bill Burr over there, you got a lot of great comics. - But Bill Burr's from out here though. - That's Jelsonek. - You just throw your bow in there. - And Jelsonek has some Sebastian from Chicago. - All right, well, you got nothing out there, but now it, of course, you know, isn't a-- - So I've always felt, I've always felt like, who's actually from, you know, I know I'm from there, but-- - Yeah, you're from there. - Most LA people are not from there. - The Adam Corolla's from LA. - Yeah. - Yeah, who else? - See what I mean? - Yeah. - Yeah. - But we got George Carlin, Woody Allen, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld. - Everybody. - Yeah, they're all from New York. David Tell, Amy Schumer. - So I feel very special that you guys can't really name anybody, but, yeah. - Yeah. - Sorry, so you're the LA guy. You got a whole new guy. - You got to hold it down. - But the Dodger, the Dodger's guy solidifies you as that. - That's true. - Yeah, that's true. - Now let me ask you, when you pay taxes, I hope you're paying taxes, taxes. - Soon enough. - Soon enough. - Soon enough. - Don't let him take you fucking shirt off. - Yeah, no, no, no. - It's a lot of you, you W's, right there, VW's. - VW's. - Man, I really, I really don't know cars. - You don't? - I don't drive, I don't even drive. - Yeah, not this. - You W's, oh, I'm trying to stick the landing on me. - I'll put you in a bunch of unwanted, yeah. - That's you, W, I put you in a bunch of my daddies to comment. - There we go, there we go. - We might be drunk, we'll see you guys later. Thank you, Fluffy, thank you, to the dog. ♪ Sunday's the day for my next vendor ♪ ♪ I bet a peaver wreck you know the futures close ♪ ♪ I've had a little too much bourbon ♪ ♪ And Norman's talking shit about the fucking hope ♪ ♪ And I get down in the same way ♪ ♪ Up on the roof like a cop's comin' ♪ ♪ And they could send you well as feeling dangerous ♪ ♪ I'm out to lunch here in New Orleans ♪ ♪ This woman doesn't look like I remember her ♪ ♪ And I get down in the same way ♪ ♪ We might be drunk ♪ - Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all day comfy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plum, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. - Maybe it's Mavily.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The speaker shares a personal connection to Chihuahua dogs, tracing their love for them back to childhood, and jokes about their pet’s behavior during a live performance.
A recurring theme in the conversation is the overcompensation in relationships—especially through excessive gifts—compared to the value of time and presence, with the speaker advocating for authenticity over material displays.
The speaker reflects on the paradox of public expressions of love, noting that increased visibility in relationships often correlates with declining stability, and shares observations about how public displays of affection can backfire in toxic dynamics.
Summary:
The transcription blends personal anecdotes, comedic observations, and social commentary into a reflective narrative. The speaker recounts their lifelong affection for Chihuahua dogs, starting from childhood, and shares a humorous moment during a live performance where a dog’s behavior disrupts the show. Central to the discussion is the idea that overcompensation in relationships—such as through extravagant gifts—is often a sign of insecurity, with the speaker emphasizing that genuine connection comes from presence and time, not material offerings.
They observe how public declarations of love can backfire, especially when they occur in toxic or unstable relationships, and note that such displays often increase tension rather than resolve it. The conversation also touches on humor in performance culture, including the challenges of performing in large venues like Dodger Stadium, where the speaker shares a story of being heckled by a service dog and the surreal experience of a dog-filled audience. These moments highlight the performer's appreciation for authentic, unscripted comedy and real audience reactions.
The speaker also reflects on comedy’s evolution, criticizing the trend of short, viral jokes performed on phones rather than full, improvised bits. They emphasize their unique approach to stand-up—developing material through live storytelling, memory, and instinct rather than written scripts—believing that improvisation and emotional authenticity create more engaging, human performances. The piece ends with a thoughtful observation about audience dynamics, noting that different cities foster distinct comedic atmospheres, from the calm of Hawaii to the intensity of Chicago or the raw energy of Buffalo, underscoring how cultural context shapes comedy and connection.
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The tequila was created as a tribute to the speaker's late dogs, honoring their memory through the product. The name 'Bocho Fino' was inspired by the speaker and designed with a real artist, reflecting personal and emotional significance.
The speaker feels it's a responsibility and a fun experience to open, especially since they've experienced stage curfews before. It allows them to warm up the audience and sets a positive tone for the show.
The speaker relies on memory and live improvisation, listening to recordings of past shows to identify what works. They trim weak moments and only write bullet points for structure, not full scripts.
They feel the pressure and stress of live performance, especially during a special, and prefer to record multiple versions to ensure the final product is polished and natural.
The speaker dislikes such trends, calling them 'fake' and lacking authenticity. He believes real stand-up should come from lived experiences and not be delivered via phone or social media.
The speaker did a show at Dodger Stadium and found it exciting and successful, despite challenges like weather and loud stadium sounds. It was a major milestone and a highlight of his career.
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