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Welcome back to Whiskey Ginger, a wave series presented by FanDuel. Hey, Whiskey Ginger fans, I'm out here jumping around. May 8th, Bobby Lee and I, my favorite little dumpling, are going to be at the YouTube Theater here in Los Angeles, California. May 8th, doing a Bad Friends Live. Maybe our only one of the year. Then June 28th at The Sound in Del Mar, San Diego. I'm doing two shows. San Diego, come out and see me. Del Mar at The Sound. June 28th, two shows. Then July 24th at the Ameristar Casino in St. Charles, Missouri. Basically St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, St. Charles. Come out and see me. Go to AndrewSantino.com for those tickets. AndrewSantino.com. In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey. You were that creature in the gingerbread. Ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Gingers are beautiful. You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Gingers are hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger. I like gingers. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I mean him once again today. It's Rene Waka. Or should I say Rene Waka, man? Rene Waka, man. What are you doing? Everybody thinks you're Indian, man. You do give a little bit of Indian vibe. I'm not going to lie. That's a funny finger. Rene Waka, man. Because they point to God. God bless God, man. Everyone on the internet does think you're Indian for a hot minute. Dude, everybody, bro. At one point, I really thought I was Indian, man. I didn't do that 23 and me shit, bro. It's getting ridiculous out here, man. No, you're a Mexican kid from LA. Dude, when I first started going viral, people were commenting. Indians were commenting on myself. I don't care what Mexicans say. We own. Damn. He is ours for the taking. He is ours. No one will. You could compete with you. It'd be you and Russell Peters going head to head to sell more arenas in India. Have you played over there? No. You've got to go over there. I'm so scared. Why? Go over there. People say it's dangerous. India? Is India dangerous? Google that. There's no way. Probably. Come on, really? We have a high rape percentage out there. No one's catching you like that, brother. You're good. But for women, not for men. Yeah, you stay strapped in that bag. What's in there? A little.22? No. Hell no, dude. There's a mess in there. My passport's in there. All right. Well, cheers. You're on the road. You're on the move. Cheers, brother. Cheers, my man. Thank you for coming. I appreciate you having me. Thank you for having me. A little sip. Tastes good. That's nice. You and I are about to play Vegas. This will be out after we're already gone, but we're about to play Vegas this weekend. You're going early. I'm playing the win. I play the win all the time because I'm a white guy. I play golf. Yeah. I love golf. Golf is out the back door. Is there a top golf there? No, no, no. Well, there is a top golf in Vegas, but out the back of the win, like literally, if you walk outside the back door, there's a golf course right there. Damn. That's why I like it. That's my, I'm in my early 40s white guy. See, it's like every year I do Hawaii. I do the Blue Note. The Blue Note, yeah. I've never done it. It's just to, I mean, it's not a big venue. It's for vacation. Yeah, it's just to go out there for two, three days. You like Hawaiian girls? I just like Hawaii, man. Is there Hawaii? I mean. Hawaiian girls? Beautiful. Beautiful. Every time I go there, they're just white and. Well, you're probably at the resorts and shit. A lot of tourists where you are. A bunch of tourists around. You got to go off the beaten path. And a bunch of people that move there from over here and just like. It's a lot of California people, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but you got to go off the beaten path. Go where the locals go. Go get some local fish. They're big, aren't they? The girls? Bro. We were talking before we started the show a little bit about. About your chain and about your boy that you brought out here. Yeah, rest in peace, Ken Flores. And then we were talking about Ken Flores, a phenomenal comedian who still to this day is very present online. People still circulate his clips, which is. Yeah. He was about to explode, I think, into the atmosphere. Yeah. So, crazy story here. The day before. The day before you passed, we had just gotten a call from our agent saying that the tour is going to happen. Me, Robert Bosa, and Ken Flores, the three beaners. That was the name of the tour. No, it was the name of the tour. Tres Pinarios. So, it was like life changing. We were going to make our first time making seven figures all together, you know. Wow. And it was like, you know, and I remember like, it was like, damn, this is going to change our life. And the next day I was going to call him to be like, bro, are we excited? Are you excited? And he wouldn't answer. And that was the day he passed. God. Did he die here in LA? Yeah. Yeah. Sherman Oaks, man. We both got our apartments near each other at the time. Because you guys started together, yeah? Yeah. He was in Chicago. He opened for me and I just saw how funny he was and like, I was like, dude, and we just clicked. It wasn't even like that he was funny. It was like, I want to be around this guy. Yeah. You know, and I was like, come with me to Detroit. Yeah. Yeah. We went to Detroit and then we went to do a show there. And from there, I was just like, bro, let's just keep going, bro. Like, what are you doing in Chicago? And he's like, I've got to work. I was like, bro, fuck that, bro. Let's go. Let's go do a weekend at the Ha Ha. Here in LA. Yeah. Shout out to Terry, man. That's like my, that's where I started at the Ha Ha. And I was just like, bro, they'll give us any day we want. And like, we'll run the whole weekend, me and you. Have you been in LA? Like, no, I haven't performed in LA yet. I'm like, bro, they love you. He was already popping online. So I was like, bro, they love you. They want you. Like, let's go. We sold out. I don't know how many shows. And I gave him a fucking, we split the, we split the check. I went to go get a cash. Went to go split it. Gave him a fucking fat wad of cash. And I was like, here you go, bro. Moved to LA. Yeah. That's great, man. Come to LA, brother. And then once he came here, it was, it's over, bro. CA wanted him really bad. All the management companies wanted him. Every comedian that saw him live was like, who the fuck is this guy? Well, it's so funny because it was like, you guys kind of all started this re-revolution of Mexican comedians because there, you know, there have been little pops of people that have come and gone and there's a lot of internal beef within. I don't know what it is about you guys, man. White guys don't like each other, but you guys really don't like each other, man. But you guys were the first young crew of guys who was kind of holding each other up instead of pushing each other down, which I thought was great, man. Yeah. Before it was like, you know, the George Lopez's, the Fluffies. Yeah. And Paul Rodriguez. It was like all these guys that kind of like, they made it in their own terms at their own time. And the industry was, it was different back then, but you guys. And there could only be one. Right. You guys were the first crew of young Mexican kids that were like, you know, we'll all do it together. And that was really cool to see. I mean, it's still happening now, but it is, it was kind of nice to watch online. Finally, I was like, oh, this is, this is what comedy groups, you know, like you talk about Kings of Comedy and all that stuff. That's how all those guys started. They all bonded because they popped at like the same time. Yeah. So all those guys were like, we're all going to go do it. Yeah. That's exactly what Ralph and I were talking about. And just like, you know, it was just, it was just cool to see because you can tell the world needed it. Oh yeah. At least, at least the Latino part of the world, they needed it. And you can tell by the way, by the people coming out to the shows, a lot of these people have never been to a comedy show. Right. A lot of these people have never, they don't like anybody else. Right. They're just like, we're just here for you, bro. It's just for you, dog. It's for you, dog. Fucking don't even like comedy, homie. We fucking hate comedians, bro. You know, I like the Indian one is the best, dog. That little Punjabi guy is good, dude. Hey, hey, hey. Rest in peace to your homie, Kevin, bro. Kevin. Yeah, it was good, bro. Kevin? Kevin died? Kevin died? Our manager? Little white Kevin? Kevin's dead? So what's the deal now in your career now? You're cruising around and you're, are you going to, you did Netflix already, right? You did that Netflix up. Yeah. And then what are you going to put out a special now? Yeah, we're putting a special out, hopefully on Netflix. It should be, if they know better. Well, Netflix, Netflix, you know, they told me what to do. what do you mean they let you know what they wanted yeah yeah that's funny so now i'm just here like should i do i mean here it's interesting right it's like uh netflix is like it's like the hot girl at the party where you're everybody wants her and she's like here's what you got to do to to lay me down and you either got to play the game and i'm only gonna pay you this much or you gotta go right you either gotta you either gotta do what she wants or you gotta go get the fat chick and and have more fun but you know you want to be with the hot chick of the fat chick who's a fat chick youtube yeah because it's a fat chick fat chick fat chick no i mean i mean obviously you know and shout out to big girls by the way we are not making fun of you my god shout out to the big girls man bbw's bro you guys did you date bbw ever did you have that there was a moment in my life where that's the only porn i would watch really i think i was like 16 15 15 16 years old no i was fucking 12. i was 12 years old and i was just like bbw's are nice i loved it and then you get older you're like i don't think i want to no i do in college i was all about it in college is at college in college at one point i wanted girls that were taller and thicker than me i wanted girls that were tall i wanted you wanted the volleyball i want yeah big girl yeah i loved it i was obsessed i hung out with a big girl at university of colorado in boulder and she was a like a pro athlete she was just imagine putting those legs up well no i jumped in her arms she carried me through the hallway i loved it dude i was all about it but no you're gonna maybe do what they want you to do and it's a good move if you know put your stuff back i mean i mean i'm gonna do it my agents and my manager were making sure of that now renee you've got to do what they want you to do be a good boy it was my agent's birthday yesterday shout out to my agent you don't even know his name fidel that's my castro fidel castro's your agent man barajas yeah who's his birthday yesterday i fucking was drunk and i door dashed him uh orchids from uh gelson's and mcdonald's i'm serious you door dashed him orchids and mcdonald's yeah look it's a brilliant combination what was the order for mcdonald's uh big mac with extra cheese and a kid's meal because i had a toy that is beautiful actually that's very nice of you that was very sweet at the pink orchids yeah it's very nice fucking beautiful you got to send me that photo we'll have to show the audience at home yeah i got you bro no you know what uh thoughtful you seem like a thoughtful dude i don't even know you well enough to know you but i seem you seem like a really good dude yeah man you're funny but you're thoughtful i pay a lot of my family's rents and you do they need to fucking step it up right you guys uh renee baka can be paying your rents forever i know i'm the first in my family to make money but you guys need to step it up bro my account my accountant said so your accountant called you was like you can't you can't pay your cousin you can't keep paying these people's rents bro but you know what you're the first one you're the you're leading the charge you gotta lead the charge you're from you're from the valley aren't you a valley boy uh a18 man until we die your valley boy well i'm not from here but i've been living here for a long time i don't understand the hype i don't understand the hype down the freeway over there bro i don't fucking you ever gone to like la la like downtown like it's disgusting it's crowded traffic oh my god no i like the valley i stay in the burbs mexicans i like it out here blacks out there scary in here we pour whiskey oh it's the playoffs god i love the playoffs you can predict the playoff action all the way to the finals with fan duel predicts all you have to do is sign up to get your 25 bonus 25 smackaroo bonuses all you got to do is sign up follow all the 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mom he was also selling coke so when my mom introduced my dad my grandma already knew him she's like oh you're bringing the home the competition what the wrong with you did they bond forces together oh yeah now she visits him in jail to this day he's in jail right now yeah your pop 40 years yeah 40 years yeah good god just got transferred to the same job as r kelly i'm certain it's not the same crime hope not your dad's doing 40. yeah so when's he going to get out when did he go in uh 2012. good god so 52 he'll get out i think they were reduced like five years so it's probably 20 48 you're gonna come out damn um i just paid some lawyers hopefully they do their job yeah was it drugs no yeah drug trafficking drug trafficking gives you 40 years you can kill someone and get like six yeah i don't know that what's that they made him seem like he was el chapo right like oh he's the leader of his organization oh my god look at this guy he's running whole crew it's like dude you caught my dad driving with the drugs that's it oh chapel's not driving with the drugs right chapo didn't drive yeah yeah yeah like yeah like stop treating him like that you know and they gave him and he didn't snitch so he went down by him self hard yeah and he they're trying to put my brother in jail so he was taking all the blame at that point he took everything on your dad took it all yeah he's like bro i made him do that so you're not taking my son in jail you're sending him money oh yeah my dad's living good bro yeah my dad's living good and hopefully i mean he's living he's in prison he's living as good as he can he's living as good as he can damn that's wild 40 years yeah my dad was in my dad was in jail when i was a kid in and out for drugs never never like never that scale you know yeah but he was in and out a lot when i was a kid which sucked you know i didn't understand that at all here in chicago oh when when when did your dad go away how old were you i was a junior in high school oh man that's that's tough he got sentenced though when i was a senior i remember i was in piano class and uh i got him again i got the text you were in piano class yeah you got fingers huh you can roll no no i was elected that you take in high school we didn't have piano i don't we didn't have it was uh the teacher was nice she just passed all of us um so i get the text and i get the same my mom my mom sends me she's like your dad's just got sentenced to 480 months and i'm just like yeah that doesn't sound that bad though i thought we were gonna do years yeah and then and then uh i do them i'm like 40 years like no way i didn't want to be in the class so i use this excuse when i'm like man my dad just got sentenced to 40 years oh my god do you need to go to the prince talk to the principal yeah i'm like i do yeah oh my god renee renee what you must be going through i'm like i don't know i don't i'm gonna go home no my mom's not home your mom's not home no she's not home do you need food maybe in and out double cheeseburger please someone's gotta have a come up hey bro i just right but i my dad going to joe 40 years it was around senior year so i didn't have nothing to write for my college essay and then he got locked up yes got it got it and then got me into a four-year university it got me my um my My story in stand-up Some of my biggest jokes Are about my father Going to jail And I think without my dad Going to jail I wouldn't have never won Stand-up NBC Which is that competition They do The diversity competition Looking for the next brown Or gay guy Looking for the next brown On NBC Are you brown and gay? Right to the top So I was a Mexican Indian And my dad was in prison And I remember when I was Walking into those meetings They're like So is your dad really in jail? I'm like Yeah Yeah they thought That was all bullshit They're like Oh my god it's gold We thought you made it up We thought you were A good storyteller But like I said bro Without my dad Doing that I don't think I'd be where I'm at right now Well I tell my dad that all the time I'm like don't feel bad About yourself I know it's hard That you're not able To provide for the family anymore And you're not able To be here to do anything But But now it's on you to provide Yeah Without you I wouldn't have my life So Yeah Don't feel so guilty About what you did And you know We got on some good lawyers I asked Chad JVT For the best lawyers And that's what I got Really? Is that what you did? I'm like I need the best This is what I asked Chad JVT I'm like I need the best lawyers No cheap shit Wagyu of lawyers Grass fed lawyers Populating now You know what's so funny though That it is true It's like you turn Something so shit Into something so good And hopefully When he gets out You still get a life together Yeah You know? Yeah I mean Cause he'll be How old will your father be When he's out? He's gonna get deported As soon as he gets out But it's like another thing We have to go through But God damn I'm you know I wanted to buy property In Mexico for a long time so Would you? Where'd you where? Where would you go? I mean obviously Somewhere close to me I mean he's gotta Like right over the border? Yeah like somewhere Like in Baja, Mexico Somewhere nice Yeah Baja's great By the beach Yeah it'll be right on the water Yeah Would you live down there Full time? No He's gonna be all bored He's like I'm gonna go sell drugs again man Fuck this shit The cartel's here I need to call them I gotta check in I gotta check in man I'm checking in real fast Where's your family from? Michoacan Michoacan, Mexico Michoacan Michoacan man Some of the best food Yeah Best carnitas bro Best carnitas Avocados come from Michoacan man Yeah they do right? That's what the commercial When they go Avocados from Mexico No Michoacan They should plug that in there They didn't They don't do that No they should They fucking should They should let them know You got Do you have a spot in LA That you love That you loved as a kid That blew up That you hate That blew up Like a taco spot That you were like We used to go all the time And then it became Like a popular spot My dad owned a Mexican restaurant bro So we just ate at my dad's spot Where was it? It was on Right next to La Jaja On On Lancashire? On Chandler and Vineland Oh really? Yeah What was it called? It was called Super Tacos Michoacan Super Tacos Michoacan Yeah Yeah Yeah my dad You know he lost He lost it after like 10 years Because he was just Going to jail Yeah but the business Those businesses They're hard to run Would you ever reopen it? In like In memory? Hell yeah Like to shout out to your dad? Hell yeah I'm a franchise at McDonald's first But yeah Is that what you want to do? You love McDonald's huh? You've talked about it three times Even before the interview Fucking love McDonald's What what Are you a Every day or every other day? There's moments where I'll fast Until like 9pm You won't eat all day? Just eat McDonald's Shut up Sorry guys What's your order? So I'm a ghetto kid So I still order off the dollar menu Like It's not even a dollar Menu anymore But I still act like it is It's a two dollar menu now Yeah Double cheeseburger Value menu It's a value menu Is what they call it Yeah Double cheeseburger McChicken with cheese Fries and a Diet Coke Or Big Mac with extra cheese Fries God I love a Big Mac That's still my favorite The new burger The Big Arch ain't bad either I've heard it's okay Although the CEO didn't sell it well Because he was eating it like This is delicious It was good Yeah I've heard it's okay I'm going to try it When I was When I was coming up in comedy And I was Rubbing nickels Together And I didn't have a lot of money There used to be On the way from my house Because I live down by Culver City Off National and the Freeway Not so nice And I would Used to go up There used to be a Burger King Up there And now it's at Starbucks Now it's like a Starbucks Or something And I used to go to the Burger King And they would have Those dollar burgers And I would just get Five of those And put them in my fridge And that's what I would eat Every single day Yeah that or Wendy's Because Wendy Burger King used to We would have been good friends man I know Bro they had a great They had a great value menu So I would eat a burger Go do a show You know In the morning I would get food at my job Because they had a kitchen So I could eat breakfast Then I would get home And eat a burger Out of the fridge I did it every day For a long time I mean I lived across From McDonald's for a while And like That's probably why I'm fat But It was It was like When I was a kid I remember just like Finding quarters in the sofa And like Oh that's enough For a double cheeseburger And like I'd go across the street And my whole family started I'm like I'm gonna go eat guys Yeah You guys figure it out On your own I got it Oh yeah No I mean I mean it was It was one of those things Where you know Just McDonald's I don't know I do believe When they say They put something in it It's a big thing Sure Because it is It's sugar and carbs And it's everything we like Have you seen that lady Who opened that burger After 20 years It's the same It's the same Yeah nothing changed Nothing changed I know they sell that As a bad thing RFK is like That's terrible That's too many Preserve it But I gotta tell you I think it's good It lasted You're gonna shit it out Yeah you're gonna shit it out McDonald's You're gonna shit it out Yeah like You're gonna shit it out Like it's not gonna be In your body for 10 years What are you worried about What it looks like 20 years from now Right right You'll take what you need from it Yeah And then it'll get out of you Yeah I'm sure Look I'm sure Everything else is killing us anyway I don't think I like what you said earlier man That's why I like white people man You guys fucking come up With some cool fucking sayings What Rubbing two nickels together I was rubbing two nickels together Yeah That If you're 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it's just like Growing up you're just like Always like I used to go out And my daddy had like A landscaping job for a while And he worked in houses In Calabasas And I was like damn bro This is the dream Living here one day bro And just I'm not there yet But I'm like five minutes away I'm next door I'm next door Does that ever hit you though? Do you ever think about that? That you're like Look at where Look I did it Hell yeah bro When I wake up in my house bro Like you know It's a You know I think I'm the only Mexican In my block It's great It's a good feeling man Hello Rene Rene Can you Chill with the smoking Of the marijuana please? My daughter has practiced Do they rat on you? Because people not like it No they're good Everyone's good I don't know I haven't even seen my neighbors bro They're all just so chill And the only one I've seen Is the one across the street And she's cool man She seems like a She seems like one of those That will Can be your best friend Or your worst enemy Oh yeah yeah Karen Yeah Karen Karen she lurks But she hasn't been a Karen to me Yeah but it's there It's inside But it's there It's one little Rene Do you have to park on that side? Oh yeah Yeah it's that kind of shit Yes Oh no The first day I went When I went to go look at the house That was the first thing she said You have to park on that side On that side Oh dude 100% It's inside It's always ruminated It's like a small street So it's like You're just like Go And she even sent her Construction guy to tell me Hey man you gotta park on that side You speak the same language as him Right? Can you go talk to him about this? Dude I live That's the But that's a symptom of LA We grew up in the Midwest I'm from Chicago He's from Minnesota Back where we come from You know your neighbors Yeah You know your neighbors Yeah Like it's not like LA Like I lived in an old place For almost six years It's like the movies right? Like Oh you know everybody Yeah Well And it's not that everyone's like You know Hey what Everyone's sweet But you know them Like you have a relationship That's either like We don't really talk to them But I know that guy Yeah That guy's You know he was You know he was in the army For a while His wife works as a nurse You just know everyone's story I lived at You know in this neighborhood For five years We knew two people I mean you know Yeah dude It just LA is different like that Yeah Well LA is more like You got a house So you didn't have to talk to people Yeah Dude I got a house So I don't have to worry about Fucking being loud or Like stomping, and the neighbor's like, shut the fuck up. With the broom on the ceiling? Yeah, dude. Did you grow up in an apartment in the Valley? Yeah, that's all we grew up with. Your whole life? Yeah, my whole life. We never had a house. That's why it's a big deal for me. Does your mom live with you? No. No. Does she still live in the same spot? I try to move her out. She's like, I like it when I'm at it. It's cheap. I'm like, oh, okay. Isn't that funny? Parents are like that. That's why I don't go to your house. The fans will recognize me at the apartment we live at. Actually, there's people that know, like, that's where this mom's from. I don't like that. Yeah, it's a little weird. Yeah, and she wanted it. I got her a Lexus for her birthday, and she was like, I'm not trying to show off, by the way, guys. I sound like a fucking asshole. No, that's a proud moment. Buy your mom a car. Yeah, I got my mom a car, and she's like, a couple days later, like, you know I wanted the Cadillac. I'm like, mom, you live in the fucking hood. You don't even have a parking spot. That's insane. Like, what are you talking about? I'm not going to get you an Escalade. You're going to have the nicest car on the block. The Lexus is a nice car. Escalade is pretty expensive. It's a very nice car. Dude, Escalade is like $100,000 now. Yeah, dude. I remember when they didn't used to be like that. I remember when Escalade was kind of like the same level as a Suburban or one of these big SUVs, you know, the Tahoes and stuff. Now they're like, what, they start at $80,000? Dude, it's crazy. I walked into Mercedes, and I was just like, I want to buy this car. And they were like, okay, okay, just put the $10,000 on payment. I was just like, let me call my accountant. And my accountant was like, bro, get the fuck out of there right now. Leave. Get the fuck out now. And I was like, what do you mean? Tell them, thank you. And you talk to your accountant. Just walk out. And I walked out. And he's like, and I'm like, okay, I walked out. He's like, give it a day. They'll call you. Yeah. 20 minutes later, the manager calls me. Rene Vaca, oh my God, I'm a big fan. I'm so sorry we couldn't get a deal, man. Is there anything we can do? Anything we can do? I'm like, I don't know, man. You got to talk to my accountant, man. I'm like, what should I tell him? He's like, tell him you want zero down payment. You don't want this, this, this. And you only want the lease for 36 months. I'm just like, and I tell him, I don't think they're going to go for that. And I sent it to him. And he's just like, okay, we're going to see what we can do tomorrow. And I'm just like, damn, bro. Have we been getting ripped off from these fucking car salesmen forever? It's the only industry in the world where the price is dictated by the wind. Down payment? All that shit. It's all cash for them. That's what I heard. It's all bullshit. I heard it all goes to them. It's all bullshit. You know, the fucking car salesman was like, yeah, man, my girl's in labor right now, man. Oh, he's trying to hit you with it. Yeah, I'm just like, how long has your girl been in labor for? For years? Fucking liar. She's perpetually pregnant. We just can't have the kid. It's got to stay in there and cook. No, you can't. You know what? It is so funny. I don't give them any weight anymore because I like cars. And I've always, I learned as a young guy. My dad took me to get my first car. My first car I ever got in L.A. Was a Hyundai Sonata. I could afford a Hyundai Sonata. The payments on a Sonata were like $225. Yeah, they were fine. They were $225 a month. And I could just get by. And I remember listening to him talk to the car dealer. And I was like, oh, these motherfuckers are all full of shit. Yeah. Like, I was like, oh, this is all a scam. Because he was like, no, we don't want to do that. That's not what we want to do. I'm like, well, you just tell them what you want to do. He's like, yeah, up until a point, they're just trying to peel more money off of you. That's all it was. So we got it down to whatever. Whatever the original price was that I was supposed to pay on it. Because you walk out of there and you're like, I think I'm paying $80 more than I thought I was going to pay. A month. For what? Just going to them. What do you drive right now? What's your favorite car to drive? My favorite car. What's my favorite car to drive is probably the Kia Soul. That's the one we have. What? Or the Accord. Oh, the Accord. Yeah, the Accord or the Kia Soul. With Gatorade electrolytes, zero sugar, and vitamins. Propel hydrates better than water. To help you get the most out of your water. And get back to your best self. What propels you? idea, putton. he's like what is it Holmes I like that I like that that's what's up no but but I went up to him I was like look everyone's trying to come up to you with this badass idea they're not solving the real problem like what's that Rene boredom we're fucking bored okay the city needs something they need like a put a music studio put Disneyland we're two hours from San Francisco three hours we're in the middle of LA and San Francisco put a fucking amusement park in here so both can come something nice and I was just fucking going on like you need a fucking comedy club you need this I was just like you need entertainment in the city bro and he was like I like that I like that and he just gave me my own office bro fucking like was giving me support I was like his he was using me as examples as an example to other students and I was just like a fucking I'm selling shrooms yeah but you were his protege yeah and I and I started comedy shows there but like I said it was just like the whole Jerry Springer it brings me that same feeling it's like bro people just need something they need that thing they just need this you started a comedy club in college yeah it wasn't a comedy club I just found like three restaurants and used them to do shows yeah what year did you start when you were 19 19 years old what school was that at in Merced UC UC Merced oh UC Merced why'd you go there why up there I got accepted to UC Riverside UC Santa Barbara and UC Merced and I was like Santa Barbara was too white yeah Riverside's a little too Riverside-y close to home yeah and Merced was new far enough away the only thing I didn't like is that they were accepting everybody and they still I think they still have a 90% admission rate what's the acceptance rate of UC yeah what's the acceptance rate of UC Merced what's the acceptance rate right now but it was a UC dog I went to I went to Arizona State we you can I can go back now and start all over again do we want to play let's place bets oh yeah let's place bets alright let's make is it at 90% still let me no no what's your guess what's your guess I'm gonna say it's 82% what's yours I'm gonna say it's still around 90% wow what is it recently reported at approximately 95.1 oh my god 97.7 dude everybody getting in everyone's getting in hop in imagine if you're in the 5% I mean who wants to go to Merced bro but imagine if you're in the 5% that gets a no like I mean how bad does that stink oh that's so funny if you read that online oh UC is crazy for 95% well cause it's their fall 2025 acceptance rate was 97.7 they said come on in bro imagine a UC like you're talking a top notch yeah UC schools are great that's why I went there so I went there and you know it was it was a new school so they were handing out opportunities like they gave me a fucking office bro at my freshman year they give you a scholarship to go there no I mean yeah yeah there was I mean I don't remember I think I paid those off I think you think well we hope call the accountant I definitely had some financial aid but yeah it was you know it was if I didn't go to Merced I would have never became a comedian bro it made me first of all I was bored yeah second of all it made me realize like oh my god all these kids are dumb first of all and two all these kids are dumb all of them and they don't know what they want to do until the day they die and I was listening to motivational speeches I wanted to be a motivational speaker I was listening to Jim Rohn I was into Eric Thomas you know I was into all of them bro and I was like they always said like you know find something you're passionate about find something that you know that that you'll never quit you know something that's easy for you hard for others and I'm just like damn bro I need to figure out what I'm going to do until the day I die because these kids are majoring in this they're majoring in that they're majoring in this but they really don't know if that's what they want to do until the day they die right they think it's what they want to do yeah right but that's what most people right most people most people are figuring my dad retired and he was like I wonder what I'm going to do for a living it's like a you know I think it's hard yeah it's very hard so when I found it at 19 I was doing acid I did shrooms I was really searching for myself yeah I was I'm a big Steve Jobs fan and watching the Ashton Kutcher movie he did fucking acid and was like I'm going to build Apple I really thought that's how it was going to be I'm going to build avocado I'm going to be checking in innovate on the avocado innovation I was just so when I did acid man I was really searching for myself I remember just doing shrooms and acid and just having my friends over and I performed for them thinking I was funny we're just all fucking high yeah but you're probably coming up with something you're probably finding your voice 100% bro I used to and then I told myself I'm going to be a comedian bro and I stopped going to class I stopped I just used I cheated on my test to get financial aid I dropped out 10th year my second year officially and I was just like 10th year still going to ask and then yeah bro I remember I would sneak into the auditorium and perform for some friends because at night the auditorium was open for cleaning and we stayed until the cleaning and he told us to get out and I would just fucking be there just fucking performing and just getting ready for my show and it was fun bro I would have never I did I did a year and a half in Merced and then came to LA I was like time to go home with this and you knew yeah and you started at the HaHa that's at your home club oh man Terry took me in it was like my mom bro did you ever go there when you were a kid like when you were a high school kid did you ever go watch a show no I passed by it I never knew what exactly it was but yeah bro Terry you know she changed she had me following hard acts bro like I mean I mean the hard acts that would come to HaHa people would come through yeah people would come through you know like Jesus Apuvaro was a big one when I started he's funny as shit and I remember just having to follow him was one of like fuck I would get nervous as shit shout out to Jesus and you know just following like Greg Wilson or you know guys that were seasoned yeah you know just you know and you know it was just cool man you know like when Joe Coy or Fluffy would pop in you know Terry would be like go up before them so they could see you yeah hopefully they'll see you and you know yeah I owe a lot to the HaHa bro cheers to them shout out to HaHa did you ever open for Fluffy or any of those guys did anyone ever take you yeah Fluffy gave me my first arena did he at the Toyota Arena and that's where I'm doing my first arena and you're gonna be at the Toyota Arena I know and God bless you thank you for asking me to come out there I can't do it because we're filming really wanted you there I know we too man I wanted to go down there we're shooting game we're shooting game that week yeah Ty Dolla $ign when I asked him do you know Anderson he said that yeah he was gonna bring for those that wanna know you know nobody knows but he was gonna bring Ty Dolla $ign he called me he said I'm gonna bring Ty Dolla $ign and I said bro we had a good one of my favorite jokes from the show Dave yeah he said yeah he was on a little dick show he called me Todd Dillerson yeah Todd Dillerson yeah yeah that was one of the best bits we ran on that show was and I think I don't know who wrote it I don't know if Love wrote it or Vanessa or Dave I don't remember who wrote it but it made me laugh so hard when I read it I remember reading that shit and they were like these are the worst coasters of all time yeah they're tiny don't worry about them you can drop it on the table it's all for style no but he I remember reading it and they were like and they were like you're you know you're at this rap party you don't know anybody in rap and when I read Todd Dillerson my instinct was like oh it's like one of the managers he's like no no no wait look and I was like oh right he doesn't know that that's Ty Dolla Signs so when we did the scene we were cracking up because I was like it's Todd Dillerson he's like who I'm like that's what he said his name was Todd Dillerson and then he was like you're saying Ty Dolla Signs and I was like that's what his name that's his name it sounded the same to me I mean who the fucking cares Todd Dillerson it is funny we had a bunch of rappers on the show and I love seeing you in black movies bro dude I stayed in black movies for a minute I want to go back black movies I just saw you at the house party house party yeah that was one of my favorites too they let me fly they literally let me answer the door and go off they were like do whatever you fucking go nuts dude I you know what's so funny because as a kid like Friday was maybe the most quoted movie out of my friends yeah I mean we watched that movie we burned that thing down we watched it so fucking much I love that and I thought I want to be one of the white nerds in one of these black movies yeah like next Friday who was it I love next Friday it was oh oh Michael Rapaport yeah Rap yeah I just love those movies because they were like so impactful on my youth and now no one's making fucking comedies anymore anyway I mean unless you're what's his name unless you're doing a Madea movie or whatever because he's the only one doing these kind of wacky comedies in the black world and by the way the Wayans brothers aren't they making Scary is Coming Back right yeah I was mad I didn't get a part in that fucking movie yeah man are you acting are you doing a bunch of acting or not yeah I mean I've been trying to get out of stand up comedy bro you want out you want out I don't want out I would never say that I don't want the comedy guys to be like oh you want out huh alright then yeah yeah cancelled yeah get out of here Rene but I I do want to find another avenue you want something different yeah you can still do both you can do it all but then you hear how much these guys make and you're like "Damn, I think I should just stick with stand-up." - I do. the world the acting world is not the same i mean you know you don't most people are kind of fighting to get by it's a job it's a you know they used to i remember in steve martin's book he called his father this stuck with me forever a plumber actor yeah where he was like i think it was steve that said that that's funny i'm either conflating it's either steve said that or no no no i know who it is i know who it is kurt russell he called his dad uh bing russell bing russell was like in 150 things he was in bonanza for like years yeah and he called him a plumber actor and he was like you know he just was a go day by day like he was like a blue collar worker because back then they weren't making a lot of money and then there was a lot of money in the business and now it's back to the old days where people aren't making no one's making money unless you're fucking the rock kevin hart you know what i mean unless you're like one of five guys i mean i like i don't want to say the company but they paid me for an idea that i had and give me this we wrote the script with the right person and i was like i don't want to say the company but they paid me for an idea that i had and pay me six figures but nothing happened yeah they go away they throw them away yeah i'm just like dude you just gave me money to have fun they pay you to throw it away yeah they don't want to do it and now someone has to buy the script from them and they want to do it and all these things and it's just like it's a grind it's it's it's i mean but hey man you're getting paid to write no it's a good life but it's a good life to be able to have the opportunities the rejection is what's hard i guess yeah because in stand-up we know how to navigate it with that stuff it's annoying because you're like what i thought i did the thing you wanted like in stand-up you know if it's a good enough joke they're gonna laugh yeah in that world it's like you know they said it was great still didn't like it i don't understand yeah you'll plug through it you know what we should do is we will we'll talk off camera about maybe uh having him come aboard the bad if he's you know when you're around we got a thing that we're doing that i want you to try to come along for the ride uh we're gonna wrap it up here because you've got to go uh to an appointment this guy he's got mr appointments all the time yeah i do have a two o'clock he's got an appointment so hey do this uh go see renee live uh he's sold out in vegas already and this episode's already out by the time the vegas happened go see him on tour uh i'll see you in vegas man i'll see you in vegas yeah i'll hit you when i get there what is it uh renee vaca renee vaca comedy on all platforms man and uh you know shout out to andrew for having me man you're the man renee vaca comedy.com look at that camera we end the episode the same way you say one word or one phrase to close out the episode a piece of advice a phrase or just one word i'm gonna say a piece of advice okay okay if you're in a relationship and you know it's about to end but it's not ending just end it you're saving yourself time you could die tomorrow man i had my best friend for two years rest in peace come flores and a year of that was i didn't for one of those years i didn't get to see him that much because i was with a toxic woman so leave that bitch in here we pour a whisk whisk whisk whisk you're that creature in the ginger beard sturdy and ginger like vampires the ginger gene is a curse gingers are beautiful you owe me five dollars for the whiskey and 75 dollars for the horse gingers oh hell no this whiskey is excellent ginger i like gingers endless summer escape start here 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