Johnny C. is a Comic and Podcaster. Co-Host of The West Coast Poplock Podcast.
https://www.instagram.com/thatdudejohnnyc/
https://lnk.bio/wcpp
Ever been sideswiped by the unexpected detonation of nostalgia? That's what happened when Johnny C joined us, sending us on a roaring trip through holiday misadventures and the echoes of childhood snacks, from the sizzle of Hot Pockets to the chill of Otter Pops. Our feast of memories takes you on a firsthand journey from relishing first-class wonders to connecting over the shared and sometimes hilarious confusion of ice cream sampling etiquette – because let's face it, we've all calculated the perfect number of free tastes before picking a scoop.
But wait, there's more than just food on this menu. We're serving up a slice of the vibrant tapestry that is American culture, from the eye-catching threads of themed restaurant staff to the high-stakes hilarity of unsolicited "artistic" communications. Take a road trip with us to Vegas, where friendships are forged in the neon lights, and learn the peculiar dance of navigating loud chats and rage rooms – America's own unique symphony of breaking things to find peace.
Get ready to split your sides as we dissect the evolving scene of modern comedy, meet the challenge of hecklers head-on, and share the all-too-real sagas from dark corners of tattoo shops. Through the lens of laughter, we probe into the complexities of self-expression, the often overlooked emotional labor in the service and art industries, and the unexpected journeys of those around us. It's all about the journey – join us, and Johnny C, as we peel back the curtain on these vibrant escapades.
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"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
King without a Throne Official Music Video
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King without a Throne
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Johnny C. is a Comic and Podcaster. Co-Host of The West Coast Poplock Podcast.
https://www.instagram.com/thatdudejohnnyc/
https://lnk.bio/wcpp
Ever been sideswiped by the unexpected detonation of nostalgia? That's what happened when Johnny C joined us, sending us on a roaring trip through holiday misadventures and the echoes of childhood snacks, from the sizzle of Hot Pockets to the chill of Otter Pops. Our feast of memories takes you on a firsthand journey from relishing first-class wonders to connecting over the shared and sometimes hilarious confusion of ice cream sampling etiquette – because let's face it, we've all calculated the perfect number of free tastes before picking a scoop.
But wait, there's more than just food on this menu. We're serving up a slice of the vibrant tapestry that is American culture, from the eye-catching threads of themed restaurant staff to the high-stakes hilarity of unsolicited "artistic" communications. Take a road trip with us to Vegas, where friendships are forged in the neon lights, and learn the peculiar dance of navigating loud chats and rage rooms – America's own unique symphony of breaking things to find peace.
Get ready to split your sides as we dissect the evolving scene of modern comedy, meet the challenge of hecklers head-on, and share the all-too-real sagas from dark corners of tattoo shops. Through the lens of laughter, we probe into the complexities of self-expression, the often overlooked emotional labor in the service and art industries, and the unexpected journeys of those around us. It's all about the journey – join us, and Johnny C, as we peel back the curtain on these vibrant escapades.
My Grito Industries
mygrito.net
Subscribe to The Mindbuzz Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYj7eDCsV3YPzxv7VRKZKg
Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @themindbuzz https://www.instagram.com/themindbuzz/ to keep up with our hosts, guests, and upcoming events!
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"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
King without a Throne Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNhxTYU8kUs
King without a Throne
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tdoz0W9gr3ubetdW4ThZ8?si=9a95947f58bf416e
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Speaker 1:What is up?
Speaker 3:MindBuzz Podcast Universe. What?
Speaker 1:happened.
Speaker 3:You cut me off at the beginning. I know I got excited.
Speaker 1:I haven't done this in like a month.
Speaker 3:It's been a good while, but how are your holidays, amber, good?
Speaker 1:Good, the same as yours.
Speaker 2:You were there. We asked for more.
Speaker 1:Or do we pretend that we had different holidays?
Speaker 3:I think we should pretend that each of your parents take one of us to the subsequent family members' house on holidays. We have split holidays. I want two Christmases again. Give me two Christmases again. I'm used to two Christmases.
Speaker 1:Dang. I don't think I could handle two Christmases.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want less Christmases.
Speaker 3:Well, welcome back to the podcast episode. Before we get into today's guest, Johnny C, we have the first Migrito Weekly of 2024. Amber what is the lowdown on that? Do people still say that Lowdown or highdown?
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Speaker 3:What else do we got? That's it right.
Speaker 1:That's all I got. And then he put Happy Mew Year. He spelled it M-E-W.
Speaker 3:Happy Mew Year.
Speaker 1:Mew.
Speaker 3:Mew. Is that even a word? I?
Speaker 1:don't know, maybe he's a cat Happy.
Speaker 3:Mew Year.
Speaker 1:Mew.
Speaker 3:Oh man, Johnny C is in the podcast studio. Ladies and gentlemen, hey, there I am. What's up, Johnny? Thanks for coming out and doing the podcast, man.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3:How you been.
Speaker 2:I'm wonderful. How are you? I'm doing good In the two days since I've seen you.
Speaker 3:In the two days.
Speaker 2:you look good you look the same, perfect, excellent.
Speaker 3:You look the same, so how was your New Year's man?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was all right. I didn't really do much. I was probably asleep by 11.45, you know, like on purpose, like I don't want to hear other than the San Fernando Valley now. So I'm from the South Bay and on New Year's we would get so many fireworks starting from like 5pm until 3am. It would be a barrage of fireworks. And there's not. There's a little bit, but there's not. It's not. I just went to sleep, I didn't have to deal with it.
Speaker 3:I feel like they start every year like an hour every year before midnight.
Speaker 2:At least an hour.
Speaker 3:Like.
Speaker 2:I want to start getting them off at 10 o'clock.
Speaker 1:But I feel like people do fireworks now, fucking all year round.
Speaker 2:I mean it is yeah.
Speaker 1:I want to know how do they have money to just do fireworks Like who is it? Fireworks are cheap, man, they're cheap.
Speaker 2:I mean they're not that expensive.
Speaker 1:But I remember the ones that blow up like that.
Speaker 2:When I had a factory job.
Speaker 1:I mean so?
Speaker 2:this is fucking 20 years ago, more than that. But when I had, there would always be somebody who just came back from TGA or just came back from where who? Had somebody right, somebody had somebody had, if you had fireworks this is more, not more than two conversations away all year round, Like it's. Like I want some fireworks. Oh, I got a guy. Hold on.
Speaker 1:He'll be here at lunch, I think. Last year or the year before that, did you guys see the house that like blew up? Yeah, the cops blew them up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cause it had pull it up, pull the video. Dude. Those people are still living in hotels. Wait, wait, hold on. So what happened so?
Speaker 2:the local law enforcement, sheriffs, LAPD, all these, all those kinds of people find out that there's a dude that has basically a garage full of fireworks.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 2:They take his garage full of fireworks and they load it inside of like a bomb truck and they're going to blow it up. You know so, but they don't seal it right. So when it blows up, it just blows up the fucking neighborhood.
Speaker 3:So basically, they took these fireworks, they put them in one place and they set them on fire. Correct, that's I got.
Speaker 2:Blast America. They didn't do it right. Yeah, they didn't do it right, and so it's like destroyed these people's homes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and like where's the logic in that, though?
Speaker 2:It's like how when they burn fuels, of weed or it's, you know the same thing.
Speaker 1:Or when they detonate a bomb, they put something over it.
Speaker 2:That way it blows in there. Yeah, this is apparently not supposed to be that big of a deal. I don't know if that's the one, but that's hilarious.
Speaker 1:I think that one's it.
Speaker 3:Is it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then it's so. It caught other houses on fire, yeah Cause this one's a seven news.
Speaker 2:And just you know, trying to solve a problem, when you make a way bigger problem, it's the best yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't, I don't get that logic Like if you find you have to do it like right here. Right.
Speaker 2:Like I just have to like, couldn't you just pack them up?
Speaker 3:and go to the desert, go to Apple Valley or somewhere. Take them someplace else. What?
Speaker 2:city was this? That's Ontario. See, that's an explosion at somebody's house.
Speaker 1:Oh this is not the one that they from From commercial grade, so that those are like commercial grade. Are the fireworks that are at games and under stadiums, the ones that go up in the air right.
Speaker 2:So when I was living in right when I was living in Minnesota.
Speaker 3:Not basketball games, because they're in a arena, but they do fireworks.
Speaker 2:It's different, but they'll do it. Cause they do it at wrestling and stuff too oh yeah, that's true, okay, that's right. So in Minnesota you can't have fireworks at all, but in Wisconsin, which is the next state over, everything's legal, everything what? So as soon as you go from the board, as soon as you pass from Minnesota into Wisconsin, there's giant like best buy size stores that are just fireworks, and when you look so it's like here's a pile of fireworks.
Speaker 3:It's not this trailer that Californians put on the side of the road.
Speaker 2:This is a best buy sized warehouse store that just and not just one multiple like there's all over the.
Speaker 3:They're like Walmart's, but for fireworks.
Speaker 2:And then there's a pile of fireworks and then, above that, a flat screen TV that shows you what the fireworks do. Cause this is like in the air explosions, mortars like fucking wild shit, and so it's super common in Wisconsin to wear like a graduation party or a wedding or fucking whatever there's full fireworks displays. Like my fucking kid graduated eighth grade.
Speaker 3:Like for sure I wonder if the cone heads was set in Wisconsin, because it's pretty lame cone head.
Speaker 2:That's the. That's the best part of that fucking movie. Man, Even battling the Garth now, he's not as good as the way.
Speaker 3:Have you seen that, amber? Yeah, yeah, oh, my God, it is such you see her eat that sandwich.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen a woman put away a subway sandwich like that since mom.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, dude. Chris Farley was awesome Killing. It In that movie.
Speaker 2:Killing it with his cone head girlfriend.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God, you know what I just realized. A few months ago, a lot of my favorite films were they were extensions of Saturday Night Live. Sure, I didn't know that Like maybe within a year, I don't know. Like what I didn't really think about it Like it's Pat.
Speaker 2:It's sure.
Speaker 3:Let's see.
Speaker 2:Night at the Roxbury Night at the Roxbury Coneheads. That was an early screen Night at the Roxbury is a way better movie than people give you credit for it is. It's terrible and if you watch it now, there's some solid laughs Even today at Night at the Roxbury.
Speaker 3:Let's see what else. Superstar with Molly Shannon oh yeah she humps that tree. Wayne's World.
Speaker 2:Wayne's World, yeah.
Speaker 3:Is there any more? Am I missing?
Speaker 2:anymore. I'm sure there's more.
Speaker 3:Right, but to have a powerful sketch show like that and then to have Hollywood make films out of your sketch ideas is fucking amazing.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's why you see B Upright Citizens Brigade, the improv school troupe, whatever, not became oh like right here Became, like you had. Oh, there's all of them that.
Speaker 3:Happy you, but was Happy Gilmore a-.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think they did Happy Gilmore on the show. Oh right, but that's just all the dudes from Happy Gilmore, Like Ladies man was on the show. Ladies man, that was a fucking hilarious movie.
Speaker 1:The wedding singer was it.
Speaker 2:No, that's just Sam and the Movies.
Speaker 1:So it's just movies that had.
Speaker 3:That's what that is yeah Like an affiliation with?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like Ghostbusters is a bunch of dudes from Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1:But they were.
Speaker 2:That makes sense it didn't start there.
Speaker 3:Wait, what is that? What was Bob Roberts? What is that? Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2:Is that the?
Speaker 3:Well, he's sharing. What about that? He's probably just Is that an?
Speaker 2:agent? Oh no political politics.
Speaker 3:The wedding singer that's a good one. Have you seen that one?
Speaker 1:That's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's wild to see like movies get old and people are like what are you? I've never seen that that's like well you've never seen that. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1:It's crazy.
Speaker 3:That happens all the time with me and Amber right Mm-hmm. You know certain foods, certain movies like you haven't had this yet. What's your problem? Like hot pockets, hot pockets.
Speaker 2:Who has one Hot pocket?
Speaker 3:Amber has an hat. I had a hot pocket. Well, now she has, I have to put her up on game.
Speaker 2:You got robbed of experience in life. You never had a hot. What about an uncrustable? Have you ever?
Speaker 3:had an uncrustable.
Speaker 2:You never had an uncrustable.
Speaker 1:Oh man, uncrustable is the most delicious snack ever invented, it's because I have my mom was a stay at home mom.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:My mom was like sure, you asked for me. Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 2:Which is obviously better, you know what I mean Like that's obviously the better way to grow up and you never had an uncrustable Like get out of here the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but just by all that goes frozen.
Speaker 3:But you sometimes that's my favorite part of the relationship is showing her something that she's never had before, and just to look at the joy in her face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why I'm like the same thing. I've always thought that if I ever had the money to do like travel first class, like fly first class, and I go someplace to say I'm not taking any person that's ever done that before, no, no, like you, I feel you're going to be amazed when you come with me Like there. This needs to be an experience for both of us.
Speaker 1:It is, I think it's. It's such a cool For me, and I guess for girl as well, but like, like for me taking him places, traveling, for me I like to travel, so taking him places, or oh, you know, we used to go here when we were kids and and that like that's cool, like just giving people that, and it's not even an opportunity, but it's giving them those things that brought you joy To them and hoping that it brings them joy as well. Right, and if it doesn't, that's okay too, but I think that that's a cool.
Speaker 2:I know what you will like.
Speaker 3:And then you take them to do that Right.
Speaker 2:That's the best.
Speaker 3:I don't know what I would have done if you didn't. I mean, I guess there's a there's a positive to if she didn't like hot pockets, because then I can have the whole box to myself, but like you, could laugh about her being wrong forever.
Speaker 2:It's like everyone. You said you didn't like hot pockets. I've never had like. Oh my gosh. The chef boy, the world's greatest chef.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's the world's greatest chef.
Speaker 3:What else? What else, having you had dude.
Speaker 2:You still have never had chef boy I still know. Oh man, just some raviolis or some beef. Errone man, God damn.
Speaker 1:I don't know, name something. Name something that is like a staple top ramen. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I've had top ramen. Let's see the it's. It's in the the same, I guess, category as hot pockets, but the, the tostino ones.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 3:The small pizza rolls, the pizza rolls. Sure. What about bagel? Pizza, bagels.
Speaker 1:I've had pizza bagels Okay, but the pizza rolls when I bought those for myself, when I was older, the pizza rolls or the bagels? Yeah, the first time I moved out on my parents' house.
Speaker 2:I'll show you I can. I was like what about frozen corn dogs?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like those frozen burritos, the green ones I could put down pizza rolls, for sure, dude.
Speaker 2:Like a whole bag. Like a whole bag, that's it, yeah.
Speaker 3:With the. What are the? The air fried, oh my God, I love those. They're so delicious. And air fries Geez, I can, we can put a whole bag down.
Speaker 2:I might not buy french fries at the store, because I will for sure make a whole bag of French fries.
Speaker 3:It's like who are all?
Speaker 2:these fries for Like what do you mean? It's for me. It's like what else do you have? Nothing, man. French fries are the meal. We get a whole bag of french fries.
Speaker 3:What about, like stover TV dinners, amber, you ever have TV dinners.
Speaker 1:I think I had one of those kid cuisine ones.
Speaker 2:Oh shit Kids cuisine In the blue box.
Speaker 3:The blue box with the brownie on the side that doesn't cook right, like every time for some reason.
Speaker 2:What about, like Campbell's soup?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've had a Campbell's soup.
Speaker 2:I'll try to think of like more Otter pops yeah.
Speaker 1:Otter pops. Someone said pot pie.
Speaker 2:What about a pot pie and a pot tart too? What about pot tarts?
Speaker 1:I think I've had a pot tart once and not the whole thing.
Speaker 2:I had a pot tart once too, once today. Twice yesterday I had a pot tart, but you know what it was?
Speaker 1:One, yes, my mom, and two, my dad's. Always he's always liked food right, like going out to restaurants and things like that. So he would take us and, yeah, we could order from the kids meal, like kids section, whatever. But my dad was like, no, I want you to try this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you were busy not eating garbage. Yeah, I'm sorry, I spent my life eating trash, you know, like a fucking raccoon.
Speaker 1:But I know I missed out. I wish I would have tasted them Absolutely. And now, because now, as an adult, when I taste them I'm like this is fucking disgusting.
Speaker 2:What about a chocolate dial? It's a chocolate dial. A chocolate dial is a Twinkie like dipped in chocolate.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's like a cancito oh okay.
Speaker 2:Basically Is it stuff too yeah like a Twinkie, exactly like exactly a Twinkie dipped in chocolate.
Speaker 3:Okay, it's basically like a cancito, but a cancito has a raspberry filling. Is it raspberry or strawberry?
Speaker 1:Strawberry.
Speaker 3:Strawberry filling in it. Have you had one of those? Those are delicious. That sounds delicious, those are great.
Speaker 2:You can't have like more than one, though Like fruit in my desserts is not my jam no no, no like any kind of like fruits filling or any other.
Speaker 3:No, jelly donut.
Speaker 2:I don't like jelly donuts no. Like a donut with cream in it or like whatever Really Custard, or I'd much rather have that.
Speaker 3:What about both? Like the jelly and the cream. Okay.
Speaker 2:That's a cancito. It's like an egg, and fruit inside.
Speaker 3:No fruit.
Speaker 2:I'll do it, don't worry about that Don't get me wrong, I'll eat whatever you got. I didn't say it.
Speaker 3:What about those Vandy Camp pies? In like the Love them.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you I wasn't allowed to have those because that was for my dad. Like any, like the fruit pies, or like the, the chocolate ones, the best, or the lemon, but those were my dad had, those were. We weren't allowed to have those. That was like if I was feeling like reckless, like I didn't care about my life anymore, I would steal one of those. I hope my dad didn't notice, but those were not for me and my brother, those were for my dad.
Speaker 3:Oh, I wonder how much calories that thing is.
Speaker 2:Even now I'm at the store and I look out like I'm not allowed to have that. I can't have that. My dad's going to pop up and fuck it. Sock me if I eat that Rocky Road ice cream. That's not for you, that's for your dad. Oh man. That's like me and my brother do the exact so if you get like a, so let's just, if you get a gallon of ice cream or whatever, is it important to you that the top stays smooth.
Speaker 3:Okay, I see what you're saying To me. Yeah, I'm super anal about that. This is the most important conversation we could possibly have right now.
Speaker 2:Smooth, it has to be you just leave it all chaos inside there just choke. It looks like the surface of Mars. Unacceptable man. But I know the reason that started doing it is. I would do that because that would make it less obvious.
Speaker 3:Oh, like that dove into it that I'd take any of this ice cream out of here.
Speaker 2:You just gotta be smooth, take it off the top, smooth.
Speaker 3:But that also challenges you to eat every flavor of the Napoleon.
Speaker 2:Say if it was a Napoleon.
Speaker 3:Neapolitan ice cream Napoleon Neapolitan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was gonna let you do it. Ice cream. No, correct me, dude.
Speaker 3:This is what this is about, dude.
Speaker 1:Call me out on Neapolitan versus.
Speaker 3:You want a little ice cream. Yeah, you want a little ice cream.
Speaker 2:A little French ice cream. A little French ice cream.
Speaker 3:But it challenges you to eat every chocolate of vanilla and strawberry, Absolutely 100%. There's a certain place for hell for people that just take one flavor of the Neapolitan ice cream Animals, Animals.
Speaker 2:It has to be. Come on, smooth it out, let's go.
Speaker 1:My mom would buy flavors. She knew that we didn't like but she did and we wouldn't eat it. She would get like butter pecan. At that time I didn't like it.
Speaker 2:Have a pistachio. I didn't like butter pecan when I was younger either, and now I love it. Yeah, I like it now.
Speaker 1:It's wild, she's got like pistachio or what was the other one? It was one that had like coconut and pineapple. That sounds maybe delicious I don't remember what it was, so every time I would open it I was like damn it, and I wouldn't get it because I didn't like it.
Speaker 3:Smart move.
Speaker 2:That was pretty smart.
Speaker 3:Pistachio is good too.
Speaker 2:You've got to punish yourself. I'm going to learn to like this, so my kids can't have it.
Speaker 3:I like pistachio when I was eight, though, like very early on, I don't think I've ever had pistachio ice cream. I love pistachios too.
Speaker 2:I love pistachios.
Speaker 3:The ice cream? No, but I don't think I've ever had the ice cream Really yeah. So I think I've had pistachio or that like Superman flavor thing, which is probably terrible for you, like on the stick it's like rainbow cut. It's weird, like it'll turn your poop purple or something like that. Watch, look it up, superman ice cream. It's an act. I think it's an actual flavor.
Speaker 2:Is it like a sherbet From, like the ice cream truck Kinda.
Speaker 3:I don't know how to explain it. It was just like a weird flavor of ice cream. Yeah, I remember that one. Yeah, there it is, but look for it at. What's that thrifties?
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:Dude, did you know, in Sonata they have an actual thrifties ice cream location.
Speaker 1:Is it still there? Yeah, in all of Mexico they have thrifties.
Speaker 3:That is crazy Like standalone thrifties. Yeah.
Speaker 1:The shit.
Speaker 3:Did they use to have shops like that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Thrifties used to be all right. Right age used to be thrifty, but now right age is out of business. But that's where it used to be thrifty ice cream and now where you get chocolate multi crunch.
Speaker 1:We still have a right age and paramount what's the thrifties.
Speaker 3:Oh, there's no right aids everywhere. They're closing down.
Speaker 2:They didn't close all of them, but they closed a bunch of them. They closed thousands of stores. They closed the one closest to me.
Speaker 1:This is what I want in my life, if anybody wants to gift me anything.
Speaker 2:Ice cream with faces on them.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. I want the thrifty scooper.
Speaker 2:Oh, so at right age they sell those scoopers. Oh really, yeah, you could get the little circle ones.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, any thrifty, any right aid that still has the ice cream thing. Behind the ice cream they have the scooper.
Speaker 1:I had no idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me either, till like six months ago, and I screamed at the dude. You saw the scoopers. And he looked at me like he was like yeah, I was like, oh my God, because I thought the exact same thing. That, that is, this is a perfect tool. There's not a lot of tools like a hammer perfect tool. Like you had it and you pull it out on the other side, it's perfect. It's incredible. And there's not a lot of tools that are perfect like that. That thrifty circle ice cream scooper is a perfect tool.
Speaker 1:But do you think, if you got it, did you get one? No, of course not. I can't admit that.
Speaker 2:I'm that much of a fat turd. I need a thrifty ice cream scooper because that's how much ice cream I eat, even though I could probably, I probably deserve it.
Speaker 1:So you think, if you got the chance to have one, you think you could do the scoop like them. I mean It'd be, flawless like that.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm not a 16 year old that work in summers at thrifty, but I think I could eventually figure it out with enough practice.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'd suck the first time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, of course, look up who invented that thing. It has to be like some rocket scientist or something.
Speaker 2:No, it was Dr Thrifty.
Speaker 3:It was thrifty, yeah, thrifty, thrifty.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they made that scooper. Don't ask how I know this, but they made that scooper just for them because there's some science behind why they wanted it. That shade what? Yeah, there's another.
Speaker 2:It's like a one of a kind. You don't see that anywhere else.
Speaker 3:No, you don't see a squared circle, like a little weird cylinder scoop Like yeah there's another, another ice cream place that did like.
Speaker 1:There they got like, engineered their own scoop so that it could be like enough scoop, like I don't know how to take it.
Speaker 3:Well, 30. I think that's 31 flavors place.
Speaker 2:Basket Robbins yeah there's.
Speaker 3:There's a science to scooping ice cream. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2:I remember watching a video about it.
Speaker 3:Look at that magnificent piece of art.
Speaker 2:Look at that. It's a perfect tool, man. It's like the caveman is discovering fire right there. Yeah, 50 school.
Speaker 3:What year did this come out? Amber, Can you look down at?
Speaker 2:1922? I have no idea.
Speaker 3:You're throwing it out there, there you go.
Speaker 2:I'm guessing 100 years ago.
Speaker 3:It has to be now, but I want to say like 1952. 1952.
Speaker 2:And that looks like a very 1940, 1940.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, no no, no batch of ice cream.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's an ice cream, but what was the scooper 1950. So you were right on Bang. That looks like a very 1950s invention.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the dynamic of it, the way that they built it.
Speaker 2:They put it in videos about like the future. The future is coming in the future. You have ice cream scooper Drifties ice cream.
Speaker 3:The house of the future. This is some fat piece of shit.
Speaker 2:We have ice cream scooper here. You got chocolate, monster crunch, marble fudge and Superman flavor.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, oh yeah, they sell it right there. Drifty is finally selling it at Signage, so they didn't sell it before 2019. Oh, my gosh, I wonder if they have a patent on this, because you don't see that anywhere else. I'm pretty sure that they have a patent.
Speaker 2:Whoever was like. You know what we do, you guys, Right? We?
Speaker 3:sell, we sell it.
Speaker 2:Like give that guy a raise.
Speaker 3:And it took them like more than 70 years to figure that out.
Speaker 2:I like to think there's some guy who's been working at that corporation for like 50 years who the whole time has been like we got to sell the scooper. They're like Jim, where I saw the fucking scooper Shut the fuck up Every year is like yeah who, anybody has any ideas?
Speaker 3:Jim, put your goddamn hand down. We're not going to sell the scooper.
Speaker 2:And then finally, like a new boss came and it was like how come no one's listening to Jim? Let's get this scooper out there. What are you guys doing? Or he comes in and he's like I've been looking through the records and just to have a question Like how come we don't sell those scoopers? Thank you, I haven't told these guys for fucking 30 years. You guys sell the scooper.
Speaker 1:He's all old to the limit.
Speaker 2:He's not selling the scooper On his way out the door or like he gets finally retired. He's all sad to load and he goes to fucking right in. He sees him. I was like no Bro's butt.
Speaker 1:That was my idea, you dicks. Do you think that there's like ice cream shop etiquette as far as, like, you know when you go and you're like, can I taste this flavor? Yeah, you think is it like two or more one or you, just I think I think this is that there's not.
Speaker 2:This is not set in stone, because I think it depends on how busy they are at that time. You know, if like, if you, because if you're in there and there there's nobody else in there, you have at least one more. Whatever that line is, you got one more like fine, there's nobody in here, but if there's a bunch of people there, one, two tops and then like two flavors, two flavors to try, sampling One is being generous.
Speaker 2:I can't believe they just let you eat a flavor Like let me try that. Like we're not here experimenting, like just pick one and bounce. What are you talking about? But two is the very maximum. If you go, three years, psychopath, you're like only child. You never had anybody around that you need to share anything with just you trying to run the world.
Speaker 3:That's a gender, okay, three is okay Three is okay Three is okay.
Speaker 1:Three is okay Three is okay, three is okay. Three is okay.
Speaker 3:Three is okay.
Speaker 1:Three is okay. Three is okay.
Speaker 2:But if it's like a signature, ice cream place Sure. Where they have special flavor, where they have special, it's not just regular bullshit, right. I'm not going to go in an ice cream shop and say, hey, let me try your chocolate. I'm going to get out of here.
Speaker 3:Right, let me try out your Superman.
Speaker 2:Right, but if they have something wild, it's like look, I might need a minute, exactly which I appreciate having the confidence as a consumer to be like fuck off, it's my turn right now.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to try some flavors, like if anybody's got a problem with that, bounce, get out of here, see, but you know, like at an ice cream shop, right, you know that you have the access to be able to taste right before you purchase. Sure, it's just kind of like a no brainer, it's an unwritten rule, but with us, like at the coffee shop, I've had people that are like kind of tasted churros before.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I like that yeah.
Speaker 1:Like I just kind of like look around and I'm like, oh sure you remember that one guy that was coming in like every other day asking to taste coffee. Yeah, he wanted to taste coffee.
Speaker 3:Every everything on the coffee.
Speaker 2:What's the etiquette behind that?
Speaker 3:I don't know, I mean I don't know.
Speaker 1:That's why I just kind of gave in. But I mean, we don't. I don't think we give off a.
Speaker 2:It's fucking samples. Okay, like this is in Costco, like we're not giving out free samples. Get out of here Chattas.
Speaker 1:Sometimes people ask and we're like, okay, because you can pour it into like a little tasting cup, yeah, but I think when it comes to like a churro, I'm like I'm going to give you a whole ass churro, and what am I? Going to do Like rip off a piece for you. Like you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Unacceptable.
Speaker 3:I feel like ice cream is the only thing that you can taste it before you buy it.
Speaker 2:Sure, let me go, let me go.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:There was. So I was working this community event. I wish that couture lemonade is. This is the company. So this guy, what he does by trade is he's a fashion designer, but during COVID, like his passion, for whatever reason, is lemonade. So right?
Speaker 3:No, it's awesome.
Speaker 2:Okay, you know, and so. But he envisioned how do these things mix, like how do I take my dude, norma? And so he made this super high end lemonade with all these flavors and it was like, all right, cause it's I don't remember what it was for the bottle 14, 15 bucks for like a bottle, like expensive, right. But he's like hey, I have all these. Do you want to just a little sample and not even a whole mouthful.
Speaker 3:Just a little taste.
Speaker 1:He has a dropper and he's dropping.
Speaker 3:Like little cups.
Speaker 2:Oh, they're a little like just little, half, like half a mouthful and it they were all incredible. The flavors of this lemon it was it's, the best lemon I've ever tasted to where I bought two bottles, Was it?
Speaker 1:really, or was it like a placebo effect?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Because you knew it was couture and it was so little.
Speaker 2:It was incredible to where I was like, what, what I discovered with the other end of the side of the coin is I was thirsty and I was like, let me take a pull out of this and drinking it like that, it just tastes like regular ass lemonade. It's not meant for guzzling Like. This is meant. It's like a sipping lemonade. This is meant like it is meant to be tasted and appreciated. It is wild.
Speaker 3:Hands down. The best lemonade is hot dog and a stick.
Speaker 2:It's hard to defeat hot dog on a stick for anything.
Speaker 3:You can't beat a hot dog on a stick Best meat on a stick also. Right.
Speaker 2:Hot dog on a stick. The three hottest girls in my high school used to work at hot dog on a stick and that was like that was pretty cool. You see them with their pump and that lemonade.
Speaker 3:That outfit is wild. I almost got one, almost.
Speaker 1:I've always wanted to be that for hot dogs Almost got a hat yeah.
Speaker 2:And they would. They would wear that hot, they would wear that to the high schools or all the week. Austin was there work uniform Really, yeah, oh shit. No, there was no like a shame. They were like stoked that they worked a hot dog on a stick, Like they were proud of it.
Speaker 1:It's a pretty cool outfit.
Speaker 2:It is a cool outfit and then dudes forced their way in there and they had to give them like the shirt, and yeah, yeah. When I was a kid, dudes didn't work there and then bitch Whoever. Whoever the first dude was, that was like I want to work for all the hot girls. Work like that guy's a genius.
Speaker 2:He was like I want to work a hot dog on a stick. It would be me and 10 super hot girls like sign me up. And they're like you can't work here. He's like I'll see you in court.
Speaker 3:Right. I wonder if the same thing happened with Hooters.
Speaker 2:I was the exact yes.
Speaker 1:Why there's men that work at Hooters. Now there is Now there is.
Speaker 2:You can't just have women in here, yeah. We don't have dudes, men with titties no, no, like dudes, like, no, like, just dudes.
Speaker 3:Do they have like short shorts? I don't think so. I think they have a design, but are there a server, a man outfit? They're servers, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I imagine there are. They can't just have managers, they can't just be the manager.
Speaker 3:Look up the male version of a Hooter place, if there is some, I feel like there is no.
Speaker 2:It's called tallywhackers.
Speaker 3:Is it? Yeah this one. There you go, luchbecher 989.
Speaker 1:Oh, but it's for gay men.
Speaker 3:Hooters for gay men.
Speaker 2:There was a spot in the South Bay called Texas Losers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2:What is it called Texas Lucies? And the uniforms there were wild like wild. It just burned down.
Speaker 3:So if, who wait hold on. If this is a Hooters for gay men, so the Hooters for straight men is Hooters. Okay, all right, I just have to say that out loud. I don't know, it probably made sense.
Speaker 1:I just can't. I can't imagine maybe because I've worked like in food industry. I can't imagine being like freaking, half clothed and working in the kitchen.
Speaker 3:Sure, well, you're not going to be in the kitchen, like these girls aren't in the kitchen, but they're running food Close enough.
Speaker 2:They can get burned.
Speaker 1:They can get like it, just I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they probably have like a huge like insurance policy.
Speaker 2:I'll bet.
Speaker 3:Like the probably the best insurance policy that they can get. We need serious insurance. They pay extra money for the sexual harassment portion of the policy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I wonder if you can't like sue them.
Speaker 3:I wonder if HR has that outfit, can you?
Speaker 1:imagine.
Speaker 3:I want to see their corporate office.
Speaker 1:I do HR and I can't imagine doing HR for them, Because it's a.
Speaker 2:I mean it got started by like four dudes. So I know a little bit more than I even want to a guy, a good friend of mine his ex girlfriend, was like involved. She worked at Hooters for years but was also involved in the corporate world of Hooters. Behind the scenes. She told me about the four guys that started it and what happened and blah, blah, blah. But it was just like four dudes open a restaurant. I thought it would be funny and it like it just got bigger and bigger and became like a thing.
Speaker 1:They opened this restaurant in Downey called like what is it called? It's called like Ohho or something like that, like something with the eye and, oh, I don't know, I give a mental with the oh. I don't know why I said that, because with Ohho.
Speaker 2:Ohho is the eye yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like and the city of Downey, like, not the city of Downey, but the people that live in Downey. Right, patrons of Downey were boycotting them putting it into the city. Why? Because they were saying that it was like borderline, like a strip joint, and I don't think. Downey has any like because it okay, hooters, at least they're wearing like short shorts and like a tank top. At this place they're wearing like string bikinis.
Speaker 2:Sure, like there's a bunch of places like that, like bikini bars, yeah.
Speaker 1:Like a bikini, but it's a bar slash restaurant, yeah, so they were trying to boycott for a long time.
Speaker 2:Now they let me know about it. I'm going to go.
Speaker 1:I didn't even know it existed.
Speaker 2:Now I know it's there.
Speaker 1:I'll let you know.
Speaker 3:They usually. Years ago they had a Scottish or Irish version of that and they used to have one right here down the street in Chino.
Speaker 2:A Scottish version of what.
Speaker 3:Of Hooters.
Speaker 2:Oh, really yeah, I remember.
Speaker 3:Can you look see if you can find it? Look it up, Scottish Hooters. What am? I going to look at, because I had a server that worked at that place and then also worked for me and she came to pick up her check and she was in like a long. She was in, yeah, scottish Hooters Chino. She was in like a big, long trench like weird tilted kill.
Speaker 2:That's what it's called Currently closed.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So they had a few of these around the IE. And back to the story of when she was picking up her check. So she had this weird big long trench coat and I asked her. I was like, dude, are you everything okay? Like are you good? She was like yeah, I'm just coming from my other job and I'm thinking like what's her other job? Like she's an inspector gadget or something Like what's wrong?
Speaker 1:with her.
Speaker 3:Like, what are you doing? And she goes like this and she's in her uniform. See, if you can pull up a.
Speaker 1:I seen the uniforms. You've seen it.
Speaker 3:No well, we got to show everybody at home what these things look like.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's such a oh yeah, that's like a schoolgirl outfit.
Speaker 3:She opened it up and I was like, okay, that's enough.
Speaker 2:That's why I appreciate it.
Speaker 3:Thanks for closing that. Here's your check Shut up. Here's your check. Get out of here.
Speaker 1:I was offended, not like you were offended, I was offended.
Speaker 3:Get out of here. Here's your check, but are they even still in? No, a lot of these are now closed, so they just moved it. They didn't.
Speaker 2:No, they closed it down. They didn't move it. The dudes were like I want to work here too. They were like fuck, you got to close. Every time dudes start showing up and demanding to get jobs here, you got to close.
Speaker 1:That's funny. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's like a very, it's like a specific time when that was like allowed and like thriving. Yeah, I feel like and now people are like what the fuck Like get out of here?
Speaker 1:That's why I'm kind of astonished of that whole place in Downey, because it's like new and I'm just like what You're opening that now Like at this time, just some creepy dude that's trying to relive the past.
Speaker 2:But Steve is trying. He keeps telling me that we should do-.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's called Ojo's Locals, crazy eyes.
Speaker 2:That we should have mud wrestling and oil wrestling, stuff like Bikini oil wrestling, and I'm like this is not the 90s, the Tropicana, yeah, like what are you talking about?
Speaker 3:Yeah, back then you can get away with that. Is that what it-?
Speaker 2:Or like wet t-shirt contest. There used to be wet t-shirt contest at all kinds of bars and stuff and that should-.
Speaker 3:MTV would like build their whole thing on stuff like that. That should.
Speaker 1:Don't really fly anymore. And you know what's crazy too about these places, because, wait, I know another place just because I know someone that works there.
Speaker 3:It's like I was looking for jobs. No, no.
Speaker 1:No, I'd fucking slap someone. No, so the Not the Sushi Loco, what is it called?
Speaker 3:Ojo's Locals.
Speaker 1:No, is it Sushi Locals?
Speaker 3:El Pollo Loco.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. It's something over here, right? Some kind of like Sinaloense Mexican place out here. So I know someone that works there, oh, a Kulichitown, but it's like Kulichitown slash, like bar kind of thing. So she literally didn't have the job there but wanted that job, right. So she went and redid her body to get that job. Well, that's a serious sensation. I can't wait to see what it's like here. I'm quarters pregnant. So she went and she got breasts, she did liposuction, she put fake butt, everything, and now she works there and her purpose, like her sole purpose, was to go and get that job there.
Speaker 1:Because they all look like that, and that's where the money is.
Speaker 2:Some people invest in a college education. People invest in making themselves physically attractive for a short amount of time.
Speaker 1:There's nothing wrong with that right Absolutely not.
Speaker 2:You have to use what you have, whatever it is that you have.
Speaker 3:you can't, Even if you buy it.
Speaker 2:You have the money, use that to be 100%.
Speaker 1:There's nothing wrong, but it just blew my mind that that was the objective was to work there and get the body to work there. Like I don't know, maybe I'm just hating, maybe I'm hating because I don't have a size, zero weight, gotta get it. Get it. Get it, but it was interesting, but hey.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, you gotta dress for the job you want right, you're right you were right, she was all in the, but I wonder if she made her like is it ROI on changing your whole body?
Speaker 2:image Is the juice worth a squeeze? Is it, was it worth it? If you come out with $500 more than you would, you know it's like. This is not that wasn't worth it. But if you make has to be worth like that Girls that don't hate everybody.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Hain.
Speaker 2:Hain, don't be a.
Speaker 1:Hain, I'm hating a little bit.
Speaker 3:Just a little bit.
Speaker 1:It's all right, just a little.
Speaker 3:I mean what would be the male version of that? Of what Of changing your body for a job? I mean, of course, there's the main one, to be a male, you know, prostitute.
Speaker 2:I mean yeah, all these.
Speaker 1:A male prostitute. Whatever Like a film, a male film.
Speaker 2:Director, Whatever is available for women as far as like selling your body or you know selling, making money off your image or making money off your sexuality or making money off it All. That shit's available for dudes. It's just gay you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:You're right, it's all. It's all there.
Speaker 2:It's just gay, you know, like only fans and stuff like that. But there's no dude, only fans. There's all kinds of dudes, only fans. It's gay guys Like.
Speaker 3:No dude, only fans. I think, because you can do it, for straight women Are straight women paying for that. Straight women are not gonna pay.
Speaker 1:No, let me talk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, let me represent straight women here. No, let us tell you what women think. I know, I'm like. Let us too, tell you I know, I know.
Speaker 1:I know no because I think that women women don't sexualize men the way that men sexualize women. So we're not like looking at a man and be like, oh yeah, like you know, like I don't know. Like no.
Speaker 3:I am misinformed.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna say that, never that you're not just like, oh, that man's handsome or whatever.
Speaker 3:But, I don't think there's a market for it to be You're lusting or anything like that right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think there's a market for men to tantalize women, the way that there is for women to tantalize men, Like it's just not there, like it's not like. Like I mean, I've talked to plenty. You know where they say like explicit photos is not it Like? Men think that that's like, yeah, like.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna send her a picture of you know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, check out my dick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's not. It's just not like you know. I'm gonna be really honest Like it's more like funny.
Speaker 3:It's funny. And that's why I became a comic dude.
Speaker 1:Because I have friends and all they do is they share it.
Speaker 2:I have been.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say I've been a part of so many conversations and it sucks to say that, but it's true, it's true.
Speaker 2:I've been a part of so many conversations with girls where they're laughing and showing each other pictures or texts and like, oh man, I can't believe you did that. And even if they're like even kind of into it, they're also like, ha ha ha, this dumb fuck, yeah, Like it's, which I will. If you do that to a woman, that's so fucked up. But it's like that just happens every day.
Speaker 1:I have a funny story. I'm like my dad listens to it, so he's gonna hear it, but nothing to do with me.
Speaker 2:But so your friend quote, no, my friend, someone that.
Speaker 1:I know no it was back when, like smartphones still weren't like the thing. Right, you didn't have like the screen or anything. I had like a little like wanna be like sidekick phone. But anyways, one morning I woke up and it said hey, it was great meeting you last night, was just wondering if you were serious about the modeling gig.
Speaker 3:Whoa.
Speaker 1:What the hell.
Speaker 3:Hey now.
Speaker 1:And then, me being the cheese muscle that I am, I was like, oh yeah, I am, ha ha, ha ha, I was 18, right. And then I was like, oh yeah, I am like-.
Speaker 3:I hope so.
Speaker 1:And he's like all right, do you want me to go ahead and send you pictures, send over the pictures? And then at some point I was like you know what. I kind of felt bad because I was like, great, I'm messing with this guy's like you know, like he's thinking he's gonna get booked or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this is work.
Speaker 1:So then I was like you know what? I'm sorry, you have the wrong number and then he texts me back and he's like but do you still wanna see?
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:And then I was like, yeah, sure, and I'm at school, right, I'm at school and I'm sitting next to my friend and then I tell her the story about how kind of the conversation started. So then this guy sends me and you know, again, it's like pixelated, like you could see it, but it's old school, you know.
Speaker 1:So he sends a picture of himself and he's like you guys can't see me, but his hands like behind his head and he's like he's kind of like you know, I know the exact pose you're talking about and I busted out laughing Like not because I was making fun of him, but I think because I was like in shock, right, and there was more things shown. And we started like we started cracking up. And then he's like would you like me to show you more?
Speaker 3:Whoa.
Speaker 1:And then my friend took the phone away. These were solicited and then she was like yes, and then he said more and then after that I was like no, I'm scared. You know I was like 17, 18.
Speaker 3:You want me to send you more?
Speaker 1:And then I said no, you know what? Please don't message this phone anymore. Thank you, and I'm sorry that A port mission.
Speaker 3:a port mission that.
Speaker 1:I strung you on, but please just don't. And then he messaged oh, I guess you didn't like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like that.
Speaker 3:It broke his dreams.
Speaker 2:And dudes are so stupid that he'll really think like man, she didn't like my dick, like everything else was good. Like man, I was hitting all the moves. If my dick was good she would have loved me, but fuck, my dick sucks man. Like he really thinks that was the problem.
Speaker 1:So I don't know. I don't know if he's going. You know living his life now and he's all self-conscious. I love that that fool was out there.
Speaker 2:I love that. That fool was out there fishing. You still serious about that modeling Over and over again. They're just different phone numbers.
Speaker 1:Still serious about that modeling. He said he was a male stripper.
Speaker 2:I don't remember. That's why.
Speaker 1:I was like yeah, let me see your pictures. Got one.
Speaker 3:Imagine him just having like the phone book open and just texting every number on there. Hey, you serious about this modeling gig?
Speaker 2:And this is before. You could like make a computer program and just do that for you. He had to do this by hand.
Speaker 3:Manually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is not quite analog but not digital. You know this, he's out yeah.
Speaker 3:He was doing that manually.
Speaker 2:Manual labor of fishing to say and not even to get pictures. Fishing to send pictures, to send them. Like he didn't even ask, like yo, let me see them too. Right no, he's like he's trying to get to. Let me show you my dick, which is such like a wild dude thing to do, you know.
Speaker 3:Were these pictures like at least. Well, back then it was all pixelated, right. I was gonna ask it were they black and white? Were they colored? Did they have good sepia ratio?
Speaker 1:They're black and white. No, it was color.
Speaker 3:No, I'm just asking because you know, like during modeling pictures are black and white, or some headshots are black and white.
Speaker 1:They were like stock photo, like they're there.
Speaker 2:Were these like professional pictures? No, that's why he was just a pervert. Yeah, it was just him taking the picture of his guy so that's why I'm saying I got scared too where I was like watch what I can make my tongue do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get this just like. So after I got really scared then I was like don't ever take this so they weren't professional pictures?
Speaker 3:No, they weren't professional pictures Okay. So that's why too I think.
Speaker 1:That's why, too, I think that he was just like you know how before you could do kind of like the like the boost mobile thing, where you could put like different numbers or at the end and then whoever hits you know kind of thing. I think that that's what he was like Wait what?
Speaker 3:What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:Like you could change the sequence in a phone number.
Speaker 2:Oh, just over and over again. Yeah, yeah, Honestly.
Speaker 1:that's why I think he was like oh, you can't do that anymore, no, I'm sure you can, but I'm saying like he didn't have social media to be considered by yeah, this is before social media, Like he probably had the fricking time to do it, because it was just really weird.
Speaker 2:It was a really weird like the lengths that men will go to yes exactly To like try to show someone their dick, let alone like if they're trying to get pictures, but just Just to send them, Just to send them there, Finding the opportunity of I have a great picture for this occasion- and it's like an eye as much as I've never done that and all these things are true. Well, one, because I wasn't young when there was like, I was old by the time any of this shit came.
Speaker 3:You have to mail them.
Speaker 2:To write it down you have to you sent a telegram. You have to tie the chiseled in stone and fucking.
Speaker 3:You gotta get the pony express at the right day to send that out, but like I understand the compulsion to wanna do that.
Speaker 1:To be like I know what I should do.
Speaker 2:But you know what you feel like and it's like I, the poisoned, when the poison of, like testosterone and fucking whatever nut juice is in your mind, Like this is it's poison.
Speaker 2:It's poison in there. Could try to convince you to do ridiculous things and that dumb things are fine. Like that's not stupid, man. Go ahead and send that pic. You're good that big deal. Go show up at her house, man. It's not that big deal. Go on, she wants you to come over and you know she's at that bar. Like go on, you know it's Friday night. She's at that fucking bar with the freak. Go ahead, man.
Speaker 3:Imagine how they did it, like back in the like the 1500s or something right. And you're a king and you wanna send a dick pic to somebody in the next village.
Speaker 1:You have oil painting.
Speaker 3:You have to have somebody do a whole oil painting. Yeah, commission an artist to come and do it. Oh yeah, this is gonna be great.
Speaker 1:Hold on man, let me get it hard before you start.
Speaker 3:This is gonna be great.
Speaker 1:Like a sculpture yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh yeah, that's Sure, that's the ultimate. That's probably where dick pics originated from.
Speaker 2:From the stature I mean here is the naked form, sure, the naked form, which is what is the intent is.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about not making it like most of the statues are like oh, check out Adam and he's talking, or David, check out David he's talking or Buff, but that is completely different than check out my dick. You know what I mean Like for like sexual purposes.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Like all this is like.
Speaker 3:We don't know.
Speaker 2:But I'm just none. Of it is overtly foul.
Speaker 3:Just the casual. Just the casual penis. It's very casual nudity, not that big.
Speaker 2:They're not hard, you know, they're little Cause, like that was back then. It was like it was like it was uncouth to have a big dick.
Speaker 2:If you had big dick meant you were stupid. So that's why all those statues, what? That's why all those statues have little dick dudes? Because if you had a big dick, this is all male propaganda. Really you know what I mean? Yeah, but if you had a big dick you were stupid. So that's why the statues have little dicks, you know. As opposed like a marble statue was just like a fucking 10 inch hard ass cock, like seven inches thick around, like god damn Pringles.
Speaker 3:There was somebody in the King's court that was like, ah, motherfuckers, like he's around, all these guys but freaking hung things and he's just like motherfuckers. You know what I'm gonna make. This a new thing. Big dicks are stupid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, little dicks are cool man, you guys don't know. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:They're all dumb. All the blood is going to that and it's not going to your brain. They have to be dumb.
Speaker 2:The winners write history.
Speaker 3:All right, they have to be dumb.
Speaker 2:There was some little dick king that was like, nah, this big dick thing is ending right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is over, it's kind of like how they say that in Spain. So you know how Spain, like Spanish people, have like the list right, so they speak with the list. So they say that the list, kind of within that Spanish, originated from one of their queens having an actual list.
Speaker 2:Sure, and then people started doing it to be like her. So yeah.
Speaker 1:so they started doing it so that she wouldn't feel bad in pronouncing certain words, things like that, and then it just kind of took a win and then everyone pronounced the words that the way that she did. So it originated within her having the list and that's probably wild. Language is wild. That's probably the same concept.
Speaker 2:People are wild, that's nuts.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's probably all these crazy things in history that just were slightly changed that made a huge like language. I mean look at how crazy that is Changing a whole language because of one person.
Speaker 2:Cause some asshole's got a lisp that you'll cut your fucking, cut your head off if you don't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, stuff like that. It's crazy. Like what other things, like maybe shoes, I don't know, sure all the places.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I don't know Everything anything, everything and anything had to do because this person who invented it, or the need for it, or something that one person did to tailor to themselves?
Speaker 2:Right. So a powerful did something and everybody else is like, whoa, this is great, that guy's doing it.
Speaker 3:He has a small dick. Yeah, we should do it right, Should come mine in half To somebody.
Speaker 2:Just don't tell anybody. Don't tell anybody that it's big.
Speaker 1:So we're about an hour in and, johnny, we know you, we know what you do, but for some of our listeners, who are you? What do you do? Ah, other than Centipede?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I want to talk about tattooing and comedy and podcasting.
Speaker 1:Yeah there's all that stuff. How has your? You're a jack of many trades.
Speaker 2:Yeah, johnny, see, I'm a stand up comedian, I guess by trade, I mean, you know if I had to pick one An hour in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure, if I had to pick one thing that I do, I guess stand up would be it. And we do a podcast, the West Coast Pop Lock Podcast, with Super Steve Flores and Mario 81, who's our producer, who I've known Steve for a long, long time before when he used to work at K-Rock and us having a podcast together or something that the foundation of that was laid a long time ago. So it's kind of wild to see it all come to fruition.
Speaker 3:I don't think I asked Steve when he was here. But how did you guys band together to create the West Coast Pop Lock? Did I ask Steve? No, no, okay.
Speaker 2:So when I met Steve, I met Steve as a listener to the K-Rocks, oh, and I had won. I had won tickets to a singles weekend in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're all going on a bus and we're going to Las Vegas. And I told my friend Nick, and I was like yo, here's what's happening, we're going on this trip and we're gonna make friends with all these people, like we are, we're getting in, you know, like that's just that's how it's gonna be. And that's exactly what happened. We went there and just partied with these dudes, and just not obnoxiously, but we just, you know, we partied, Like sorry, I partied, and we had a good ass time when we met all these dudes. And then after that we just became super tight and I became friends with and that was almost 20 years ago, and that was probably 20 years ago I became friends with Steve, for sure.
Speaker 1:So it was like a groupie moment, not really like, kind of a little bit.
Speaker 2:But like it was, like I know full fun stuff is gonna like if we get in with these dudes. Fun stuff is gonna happen. And then my friend Nick ended up on the Kevin and Beecho tattooing some the Angels logo on some of when the Angels were in the World Series. They did a thing for a giveaway whoever would get the wildest Angels tattoo they would get tickets to the World Series. And this guy got it like right, basically where the hair on my face covers, you got the Angels logo going down onto his chin.
Speaker 3:Which logo was it?
Speaker 2:The A and the halo.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:And he did that in the studio, so we did, but we did a lot of super has that changed, yet the logo that A with the holo.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean it's changed. I think the official logo has changed. Yeah, but they still rocked it in the halo, different style. Yeah, if it was like back in the day when they were called the California.
Speaker 2:Angels, they're still the California Angels.
Speaker 3:Have they moved.
Speaker 2:No, they're not, they're anhyzer.
Speaker 1:I love how you got the Angels thing out of that whole story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's so much more substance. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then I'm sorry, that's good and I've been doing stand-up like seven years. We'll stop. Fuck what we were talking about. Sorry, I were good.
Speaker 1:It's no big deal, it's fine.
Speaker 3:Isn't that crazy to be a fan of somebody and then just hang out with them on a weekly basis? And do events with them, and that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:The funnest. My funnest version of that Is I got to be friends with my favorite dude from my favorite band, which is fucking, and my favorite dude my favorite band Rance is my favorite band. My favorite dude from Rance is Lars Fredrickson, and so he used to be roommates with a tattooer named Scott Sylvia. Scott Sylvia is my favorite tattooer. He tattooed my head, tattooed my neck, tattooed his bunch of stuff, and my friend, nick same dude, went to go work at that shop and, through happenstance, I was set up with tickets and got to go like hang out backstage and like talk to him, and we talked about wrestling and cars and all this stuff and it went. It's like one of those things where you think I know how this conversation is going to go and it's going to be awesome, we're going to be friends, and it went exactly like that and it was the best.
Speaker 2:And then so like a little while after that, you know whatever, I don't know how long after that, lars is hanging out at the tattoo shop and Nick messages me and he's like, hey, lars wants to know if he can have your phone number. I go, yeah, of course, and I go well, I told him I go, dude, don't fuck with me. He goes, I'm not fucking with you. Like he was just here and he asked me to have your phone number. Can I give it to him? And I was like yeah, of course you know. Like are you out of your mind?
Speaker 3:Would you have been prepared if it was one of those times where you guys met and it didn't click? What a bummer has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 2:I don't, I mean.
Speaker 3:You don't have to say their name. You met somebody and they're like ah, they're not really cool. Besides me, like who else?
Speaker 2:But it's not even that. I the bummer is. When you meet somebody and they're like I, can be a little much sometimes, especially like if I get excited, I get a little loud, you know get a little loud, a little screamy, for sure, especially when I was younger. And there's for sure I've been around people where, especially at first, it's like yo man, what the fuck's this guy's from?
Speaker 3:What? And my other?
Speaker 2:friends have to be like no man, he's cool man, don't worry about it. But I was like, ah, you know they're like.
Speaker 3:Why is that?
Speaker 2:dude screaming, that's so.
Speaker 3:Why is he screaming? We're in church.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why is that dude fucking screaming?
Speaker 3:man, we're at my goddaughter's christening. What is? Why is Johnny screaming?
Speaker 1:He's just like why are you screaming? I'm like I don't know Right. Isn't it like this? Like like I just did it right now? But isn't it like this? Just it just comes out.
Speaker 2:This is how I talk.
Speaker 1:Like, yeah, I'm just like I'm excited.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I get it, but I was at a level four and she responded with like a 12. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:He wants to know, like yes.
Speaker 3:No, she you caught. I think it's because he caught me off guard. Yes, master, I was asking. What was I asking? I asked something like, something dumb. It was like the most insignificant thing out of our entire day and she hits me with a 12. Yeah, you, just you. Just, you just scared me, Like you, just scared me.
Speaker 1:I was like no, I didn't Like.
Speaker 3:you're screaming right now.
Speaker 2:I'm running spurts Like I'm either going. I'm either completely standing still or screaming and yelling like a crazy person. And then I'm like all right, I'm done screaming.
Speaker 3:But it's fine, because some what I reciprocate to her is I give her like answers with no context or I start a conversation with no context. The other day he was like what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 1:What did you say? Oh, we were just like laying down. And then he's like, he's just like, yeah, he said that. Like he said like that's what he led off with. He said and I'm like who said what? What's going on? And he's like sorry, he's like it's cause I already in my brain, like you know, talked about the conversation and I'm like no, you gotta give me context.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what are we talking about right now?
Speaker 1:Like I can just start, we off in the middle he starts like in the middle, I'm starting you Right in the middle.
Speaker 3:I'm like a Quentin Tarantino movie. Sure, that's how I start my conversations. Yeah, that's why I have a podcast, so you can, so I can go back and listen to my conversation and try to make sense.
Speaker 2:I like to go back and listen to it. It's like oh man, you know what I was gonna talk about. Let me talk about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, sometimes you forget it, but yeah, that's how I start my conversations. You scream I'm sorry, you just startled me. I think that's what I was so embarrassed that I was startled and I attacked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's how you do it, man, like an animal, like, if you start a way, I'm just gonna start, ah, like I don't wanna. I understand completely.
Speaker 3:But like she was at 12 and I asked her calmly at four why are you yelling? Like concerned, because I was asking like why do you yell?
Speaker 1:But I mean it's not all the time.
Speaker 3:And then she went to 20. I was like whoa, Don't tell me not to yell.
Speaker 2:No, I'm gonna yell. Why are you yelling? Is something that I've heard a lot of times. Why are you yelling? And I was like, ah, was I yelling? I'm just fucking.
Speaker 1:But you know, I feel like it's cause I have like I don't wanna say I have like a hearing problem, cause I don't think I do, but I kinda do so I don't measure like where my like voice is and my whole family is like that Cause Gila has been like why is your cousin yelling at her mom?
Speaker 1:She's not yelling at her mom Like she was talking like. So I think that we have very strong voices and we all have this like where we start out really low and then it's like, especially if we're all together, like you think we're like fighting each other and we're not. It's just the way we're. We're passionate, it's passion.
Speaker 2:We have passionate people screaming. Ask people what's your favorite things to do? Screaming and yelling. I love screaming and yelling. Like, give me some place where I go screaming and yelling, that's the best.
Speaker 3:Oh man, that honestly, that really helps If you're in a, even if you're in traffic and just driving and just screaming to yourself even though you might look like a maniac to the next car.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:By you, but it feels really good.
Speaker 2:One of the best things I've. When I went to Peru, we were in the house in the Amazon jungle and we ate mushrooms, whoa. And then we're taking on a boat onto the river in the middle of like there's nothing anywhere and the guys like scream what? They scream as loud as you can. So others like dah like screaming, and there's something Like how, where and when can you scream like that with nobody around?
Speaker 2:and nothing's gonna happen and also, so I screamed until my voice was hoarse. It was, it was the best Screaming out there, like On mushrooms, yeah, ah.
Speaker 3:I've heard like sit in a lotus position or don't even talk. Yeah, I don't do a screaming or do do five dried grams In complete silence.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yelling.
Speaker 2:But yelling. Yeah, these are like fresh jungle mushrooms too. We'd lemon-tacked them too in the lemon juice. It was fucking that was a good time.
Speaker 1:I felt like yelling at any point is just like it's good to let it out. I like to let it out. I want to go to one of those like rage places. Have you ever seen that?
Speaker 2:I was just talking about that the other day. I was supposed to take a friend of mine there for her birthday. For it's like break stuff and I have a printer that doesn't work. It Cause you can, it's like a flat fee and then for that flat fee you get like so much stuff to break. But there's a list of stuff that you can bring there to break too.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:I have a printer that doesn't work anymore, so I'm gonna fucking we're gonna take this printer down there and fucking up good.
Speaker 3:Are you able to record video? I have no idea. I hope so.
Speaker 2:Because my point I would like to get dressed up in the Walter White suits. So they put you like yeah, oh they do. Well, like cause, you're in there breaking glass and breaking.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Yeah, you have glasses on, so you have like goggles and do all that shit.
Speaker 3:Where's this? What is this place called? There's a bunch of them. It's called Look them up. I wanna see if there's anything Rage breaking place stuff Rage room.
Speaker 2:That's what they're called Rage rooms. I knew I would come up with that eventually.
Speaker 3:There's also like an axe Rage room, Chino Hills Axe throwing too, yeah.
Speaker 1:LA.
Speaker 3:Oh, there we go. Rage room, break room LA.
Speaker 1:Looks like it's just in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, they're also far away, man.
Speaker 3:Let's scroll up. Well, there's one in Pomona. What is that? Where it's an escape room. Yeah, they're escape room. Oh, that's an actual house. Imagine it's just some dude in his house.
Speaker 2:You're a good luck man.
Speaker 3:Hey, come break stuff here. It's cool. Come break stuff here. What scroll up? Because I think we're still stuck in LA.
Speaker 1:Well, keep on scrolling up In the show's Pomona. I'm all the way up.
Speaker 3:You are yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:It's all right, chino Hills doesn't have one, but you see, what it is you just go in there and break stuff.
Speaker 2:what a great idea. And there's so much stuff because we live in this disposable civilization. There's cheap stuff that you could buy all around to break. For this company that brings stuff you think about all good wills or people are like, oh, this shit doesn't work Because I don't need it to work, give it to me. I just need it to be structurally sound enough to be interesting.
Speaker 3:to break A printer would be a good one.
Speaker 2:Printer would be a good. There's glass and plastic and all kinds of like Computer TV.
Speaker 3:I would take a TV and break it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have TVs in there.
Speaker 2:I would like to throw glasses, and mugs too, I would like to throw a mug. Like a coffee mug, like throwing a coffee mug against the wall would be very cool.
Speaker 3:Vinyls. Would you throw a vinyl? No, no.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I either want to throw heavy stuff or break big stuff, and vinyl is like neither one of those.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wouldn't it just be satisfying just to throw a disc A frisbee? Yeah, throw like a frisbee.
Speaker 2:Maybe if there was like a soft wall where you could throw it into it.
Speaker 1:It's, like you know, maybe like a pillow fight or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, should I put you like in a jumpsuit?
Speaker 1:See.
Speaker 3:A pillow fight Wow.
Speaker 1:It's because you're like weenie shit, like I'd love to throw a cassette or something I would love to throw a pack of Q-tips at the wall, yeah glass. I'm not gonna throw my back out, though, oh I'd like it.
Speaker 2:It was probably a good workout for you, right after I said I want to throw a mug at the wall, I was like man, my shoulder would explode if I threw a mug at the wall.
Speaker 3:It's exploding exactly like it's shattering, exactly like that glass mug there.
Speaker 2:Right, like they would hear that. They're like wow, we heard that sound. Did you re-smash it glass? It's like that was my shoulder, what's my shoulder dude that was my fucking, that was my fucking blue up.
Speaker 3:That was my rotor cuff. That was a rotor cuff. It's in your shoulder. I just know because a friend of mine had a surgery for it. But just like that, that's my anatomy, like how come.
Speaker 2:We live in a world where for relaxation you have to go break things because your life sucks. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, nobody happy is going to like this break stuff in this room. So I guess, like you're, like ah. Right, you have rage. It's called a rage room Like the. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't have any rage Americans are. I wonder if there's like a country out there and they're listening to this and they're like Americans have rage rooms.
Speaker 1:I mean look, we have shooting ranges, Right, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Ranges like how savage these pools are. So mad that they pay to go be angry Break stuff, so they don't get arrested.
Speaker 3:They pay to go break stuff and not to get arrested.
Speaker 2:Or shoot, or shoot or not, yeah, yeah, Dang, we're an angry country.
Speaker 3:No, we're a capitalistic country. If there's a, if you can buy something, we're going to have a shop for it. I wonder who the crazy or the genius mother effort that. He probably threw something on the ground. He was like this is a business. He saw dollar signs.
Speaker 2:Or they just broke and they were like you know how good that's like, how good did that feel. That felt really good.
Speaker 1:You know, well, you know.
Speaker 2:Right, you think people would pay to do that? Yeah, probably.
Speaker 3:That's how the meeting went. Yeah, it was very short yeah.
Speaker 2:That's right, I really go for a business man, let's break stuff Fucking sold.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dude, yeah, we got a head to one dude, one of those.
Speaker 2:I've been saying, I've been saying I'm going to go to one, for since I found out about them years ago, you know, and I still have never been but like in Hollywood, like going to mics and stuff, I'll pass by like oh, rage Room, and it's like a lot escape.
Speaker 3:And you could bring your own stuff.
Speaker 2:Some stuff there's a lot of times and there's like a list of like the place.
Speaker 3:Can you look? Look up the list of stuff there's like an acceptable thing I want to see this, before we get, before we get going the list of stuff that you can break.
Speaker 2:And this is just a Rage Room too. I don't know if they're all the same Right that you could bring them.
Speaker 1:Let's see, I think this is like the most.
Speaker 3:They have mobile units. Oh, that would Okay.
Speaker 2:yes, Smash to your heart's desire. Heck yeah.
Speaker 1:I like how they make it look like.
Speaker 2:Fun.
Speaker 1:And cool, and second yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:And a broken arm, yeah this guy's one armed.
Speaker 2:he's doing it, and a girl.
Speaker 3:Why is the girl on the floor? They hit her with that brand.
Speaker 1:You can't even see her. Look, Can they just cover her? They're like diversity we have diversity.
Speaker 2:No one will believe there's a girl here. Go, go right.
Speaker 1:But don't show her Mobile.
Speaker 2:Hilarious They'll bring it to you.
Speaker 1:What a good idea. Oh my God.
Speaker 3:I'm telling you. There's dollar signs everywhere For this book. Now mobile units contact about us. I wanna see what you're allowed to bring and what are the benefits. I'm sure it's going to be good, besides feeling like an amazing.
Speaker 1:What can you break?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I Wonder if people bring like sentimental stuff in there to break electronics galore TV's, computers and phones, flat-screen TVs, oh yeah, laptops boards, they got talent, dishes and glassware.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would break all that stuff and a printer. Look at title type right. Oh, look at Amber. Hell yeah, look at that. The satisfaction of all the keys flying everywhere.
Speaker 3:Please like if you hit with the hammer all your favorite stuff in one picture, destroying it.
Speaker 2:You can cut up a couch. I don't want to, I don't want to hit it with you know what I would want to do?
Speaker 3:I would want to stab like a bed.
Speaker 2:You're so violent, I want to stab a bed along came Polly.
Speaker 3:Oh, have you seen that movie? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When they stab the pillows or he's like like he's making the bed and his wife is not even there anymore and For some reason the girl he's dating brings out the knife and says Stab it. How good that felt.
Speaker 2:It probably feels pretty good.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Maybe you, once you're done you just had to be quiet for a second. That's just tell the truth. Oh, I never thought about stabbing anything except you. Every night I'm laying in bed after you've already gone to sleep. I think about rolling over, stabbing you 27 times exactly and then I call the police. But other than that I've never, I'm tiny.
Speaker 1:And then I could be like it was self-defense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you mean? I came in here and killed him. It was absolutely not me.
Speaker 3:I just be like I asked her why she was screaming.
Speaker 2:Said she was screaming.
Speaker 3:She said she was it, but she clearly was. I was at four and she came at me at 12.
Speaker 2:Right. Let the record show the record she was screaming.
Speaker 3:Read that in the court. Read it for the jury. We find the defendant Whatever, whatever. Do you have any shows coming up? What's going on? I don't have shit booked right now. Do?
Speaker 2:I know. Oh, next Tuesday at Ty Angel bar and Korea town, I do have a show Korea.
Speaker 3:Korea. What is the?
Speaker 2:place called Ty Angel. Ty Angel is called yeah, in Western I Be wanted to do this. Mario Caballero is a guy who puts the show together and I've been wanting to do it and then I didn't. And now I am, because it's so hard to do, because Because of our podcast on Tuesdays- oh yeah, tuesdays I have to move stuff around, like January we're going to go to the angel bar.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm Korea town next Tuesday at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3:That's what's up. Do you do a lot of crowd work? Do you do crowd work, or is it just?
Speaker 2:try to not do cry. I'm up there, I'm doing my shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll talk to like I will.
Speaker 3:Knowledge. Right for sure, I'm pretending nobody's there.
Speaker 2:But it's not part of my shit to go talk to people. I'm not like out there.
Speaker 3:I feel like that's the.
Speaker 2:The new thing right now is capturing crowd work and Clipping it and throwing it out so you don't burn a material like so you can have new clips out, but you're not burning any of your jokes Like that's for sure what it is like. So you it's it's. That makes sense. Yeah, so you don't have to put out like your real jokes, but you're putting up shows something right.
Speaker 3:You're putting something up right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that makes, but it's fucked up, because then People who've never been to stand up think this is what a comedy show is they? They want that, I feel like.
Speaker 3:I've been going to a few comedy shows and I like the people that are killing it in the in the indie comedy shows are people that do crowd work sure because they're, I Mean that's. I feel like that's like the trend trending right now is is comics doing crowd work, especially with Matt rife. Yep, he has his. His clips are viral. They, they, they get over a million views and that's crazy.
Speaker 2:And it's all I mean. At crowd work, I even get at that. That's cool at your thing, but it's a magic trick, like it's one of those things you're making it look like. This just happened when most of the time, these are all these were. I have these lines loaded. You know, like I, I look at it like I get the tattoo shop. When I was working there, there was no conversation that you could start with me, that I didn't know where it was gonna go, cuz I've had these exact conversations a million times, so there's nothing that you could do. That surprised me. I got little jokes I could work in. Yeah, oh, I know he's gonna say that then I can say this and ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. And in their mind, this is a conversation they're like.
Speaker 2:I can't believe this motherfucker's the wittiest motherfucker on earth. It's like I've just had this conversation right a million fucking times. And so much of crowd work is that where you know you're leading them down? You're leading them down a line to try to get where you're trying to go, you know? And not that there isn't spontaneous crowd work, but especially like at its highest level. These are, these are just as much bits yeah there as your regular jokes are. These are bits that you're getting into.
Speaker 3:They're professionals. They do it day in, day out. They plan for it. I'm pretty sure it's like that goddamn thrifty scooper.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You're planning for each, for each open-ended question, right?
Speaker 2:I could choose your own adventure book that, but there's only. It can only go so many places like it. It's the illusion of endless choices, but there's really not an endless choice.
Speaker 1:There's three or four choices, I guess it makes sense because, like some of the questions that I always like kind of see, that they do with crowd work is like oh, is anyone in a relationship, right? Has anyone?
Speaker 2:like this are you married?
Speaker 1:Yeah, are you married?
Speaker 2:three questions. Three questions, you should be able to get to something interesting, or?
Speaker 3:What do you do for a living?
Speaker 2:right, and it's always the same joke, like we're gonna get there, it's gonna be, then you get there. Yeah or you don't you move on? And it's like another thing where no one remembers the swings in the misses. No, I remember saying that she leaves, like man at one thing. That's like a talk to 12 people and two of them were funny and the rest of it was just whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah how long have you been doing comedy for like?
Speaker 2:seven years, I think seven, seven.
Speaker 1:Have you seen Like a change or a shift in comedy since you started?
Speaker 2:a lot more comedians complaining about comedy.
Speaker 3:What do you mean complaining?
Speaker 2:about what crowds are like and you can't talk about this and you can't do oh, just like. Complaining about stuff. It's like, it's like, it's fine, but um, and obviously social media like that is that is a giant one where pro a con. It's another thing like I'd like it. It's a thing like any other thing, but, like I, it's wild that you can get booked on shows or booked like get opportunities, because you have X amount of followers on Whatever platform that it is, you have those followers on without going to see you perform sure, and like, and does that translate?
Speaker 2:And because I think at the top for sure, those trip, that translates to ticket sales, but Because some random dickhead comic has, however many followed it around the world, like you've got, okay, you got 50,000 followers, that's on earth. That doesn't you know how many? How many tickets that mean in each city? Two, you know, three, I mean, how many does that actually translate to? Yeah, but I'm speaking completely out of school.
Speaker 3:I have no idea on any of this work and especially when you can buy Followers, you can buy the verified, there was sticker.
Speaker 2:There was a podcast where they were talking about. They said on the podcast that they were excited that they were doing so well. They had run the numbers and they were excited they were doing so well in Jakarta or whatever. Some like random, like what the fuck it turns out that's where the, the, but the bot followers were. Often they bought the followers and that's where the and they set it out right, but didn't, didn't realize what they were saying when, oh, that's like, yeah, well, that's where your fucking followers you bought are all idea.
Speaker 3:Oh, wait, so they can download.
Speaker 2:wait, hold, so whatever they bought, wait a minute you can track your Like diagnostics or where all your followers and listeners and all that stuff are from well, the ones that they bought were coming up All was this on YouTube, or yeah, on a YouTube? Okay, so their data was from the YouTube right, and so they're like oh, we're doing so good here.
Speaker 3:It's like oh, okay. So it's basically like looking at your safe you bought followers for Instagram.
Speaker 2:You look at your insights and the Instagram Okay, that makes sense I have no idea what any of that stuff you just I'm so not. You're talking about something I don't know.
Speaker 3:It's basically. It's basically that, like the insights on Instagram or you're the analytics that analytics that's the word that I was looking for. Diagnostics Analytics is for sure no that was it you know, I think diagnostic means something different, but yeah, I was dancing around it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the same family of words.
Speaker 3:Yeah, same family, third cousin of analytics, but you're fine.
Speaker 1:Do you think the crowd has changed?
Speaker 2:I'm like we were talking about expecting crowd work. I think that's a little different. Yeah and yes and no. Yeah, I mean social media is kind of really it changed. I mean changed the world, you know.
Speaker 3:I changed it.
Speaker 2:So for sure, it's changed comedy because it changed everything. But I Person up there with a microphone and a stool, I just talking shit like that. Still, it still works. It's still a thing that can happen, you know.
Speaker 1:I just getting up there and being that vulnerable is Especially would it's like crazy to me, like that, that sure guys can do that and that. You just go up there and you're just like hey, listen to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hey, stop everything that you're doing, especially when you go, like into a bar and there's already things going on like this bar is already a bar, there's all kinds of action going on and people are drinking, trying to get laid and all that stuff, and then you're like, oh, excuse me, everybody, stop the good time that you're having and Pay attention to me right now what I have to say. I'm way more interesting that whatever you guys are talking about right now, I'm gonna make you laugh like the, the audacity Audacity, yeah and the delusion to think that like, yeah, that's what we should do.
Speaker 3:Are you gonna use that one cuz? I need a opening line.
Speaker 2:That's perfect.
Speaker 1:Like the craziness of that is is Interesting to look at, you know, but I even think like the crowd like me going to some of like gill shows, like that he's, you know, starting to do like my anxiety level for them are not always I'm, and not every show I want to go, because I'm always like somewhere different right within the day or within the week and I think for me I'm very protective, that when I sit in the crowd I'm like hoping more than anything that no one's gonna like talk shit, sure, right, cuz then I feel like I'm gonna turn around and be like yeah, right, and I shouldn't be like that because it it, you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 1:But I do see that there's more like like you, what you were saying, like, and I think we know this overall with anything, with social Media, things like that. But there's more people that are like oh, that was messed up, oh, that was like that, take, take these jokes a little more, they take a little more personal, right, or they like but I think that's just basically the, the comic and what they're they are talking about, because certain it could be, certain topics are Can be off the table or not off the table you kind of sign yourself up for that going to comedy show, right, you know that, especially like a Late-night comedy show, you know it's gonna be raunchy, you know it's gonna be out of pocket.
Speaker 1:Like like, I feel like that's what. Like me as a person, I know that that's gonna happen. And then going to a comedy show and getting upset or getting offended or Things like that, to me that's wild, like the. Then why are you here? Like like that lady when you were making that joke about like your girlfriend.
Speaker 3:And then that lady, the girlfriend ones were awesome.
Speaker 1:And then the lady in the crowd was like, oh, that's messed up. And then someone had to tell her like it's a joke.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fuck up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then she's like no, I know it's a joke.
Speaker 2:That's messed up. That's why I said it.
Speaker 1:It's hilarious yeah that's why it was funny right right, but what I'm saying is like it's crazy to me that you know, like I don't know, people you know say things like that within the show, like it's oh, to do it live.
Speaker 2:Right, there is it's. What are you doing it? Yeah, what are you doing right now? Like what are they like? What do you, what do you? And but there's people that for sure will do shit like that and then afterwards Come up and talk about I helped, right, remember, I did that. It's like no, you ruined the whole thing. What are you talking about? They're like I didn't ruin it. I'm fucking, I was, I was the best part. It's like nah, nah, you weren't, I promise.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I had a whole thing I was gonna do up there, but instead I spent all my time talking to you like that's not what I was trying to do at all. Have you been a?
Speaker 2:heckled like that before no, I Don't even like talking about it out loud. For the most part People just let me do my thing right there, like occasionally there's been like I do a bit about my parents might cuz my dad, my parents met, my dad was 19 and my mom was 12, so I mean there's like right, right, right, you know they're still together now, so that's so, it's not bad.
Speaker 2:So I was doing that. I have a bit where I make fun of. You know that's fucking right. And a lady in the audience was like that's how it was in the 70s and like whatever she like took this very personally when, I was talking about.
Speaker 2:It's like this Joe, these are my parents. Like I'm not, like I'm not, it's fine, did you? Did you hear me like say fuck them? Or like my dad? You know what I was like? This is just facts. And it's fine like stop me, stop being a fish. She's like being offended for my parents.
Speaker 2:It's like don't like they're fine, it's cool. Don't worry about it, you know, but I'm sure she had some kind of a thing. It sounded like she had something in her past that she was trying to make like it was fine. It wasn't bad For the most part people. Just let me do my thing.
Speaker 3:Have you seen anything?
Speaker 2:crazy, sure, with hecklers, I mean.
Speaker 2:Just people ruining it and it's I don't understand. Cuz, even if you think like, oh, I'm, I'm gonna say stuff and I'm helping, you know you really think you are, even if you're not, but you really think you're participating and I do it like that's fine, as, as opposed to somebody who really is sitting in the crowd arms crossed, ready to throw a turd in there like for no, you know, I'm like just ready to be not even Like offended, just negative, like in a like man. It's not funny, it's like what do you? What are we doing here, man? Yeah, we're doing here right now.
Speaker 1:I think the worst one I seen and it wasn't even like a heckle, I think it was throwing the comedians off was at time that the kid was in the crowd, remember, go oh yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there, there was but he was like right, it wasn't in the back, he wasn't in the middle.
Speaker 2:Right in front of the comic there to kid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it threw everyone off and you know usually that the show is at night, so you know it kind of deters people from bringing children and you know the comedy show, but I don't think this person really grasped the concept of what it was and things like that. I'm gonna comedy show us and they were sitting right in front with their kid and then their kid was like, like he was like playing on he was on a switch.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he was like on a Nintendo with no headphones.
Speaker 1:So it was like loud and then he would, like you know, burst out like laughing or something. And then at some point one of the comedians was like alright, let me Play on this and bring attention to what's happening, cuz let me acknowledge the room, the elephant in the room right, cuz everybody was like so he did, and I mean he the kid is a kid, right the kid, but the kid after that like he ran on stage, sure now he thinks he's the funny cuz people are laughing.
Speaker 1:We were laughing, so now he thought he was running around and His mom was just kind of like just sitting there with the mask on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was terrible, it was weird, it was. It wasn't a weird or tear, I'm, it was just it was kind of scary too, because he was running around.
Speaker 2:There's cables everywhere, there's lights, there's ziety inducing exactly, and it's every comic off right sure every comic off after that coming back from COVID, all the mics were outside at the beginning, like every one of first started back up that everything was outside and we were doing. There was one in Venice Beach that was in a park like on the side of a baseball field, and you sat in the bleachers like to be and Fucking kidding his parents and they just plopped down and like a little like he was maybe ten. It's just like are you kidding me, man? And I went up there first and I was like you have bad parents. Parents just started laughing and he was like oh oh, he's added that. I was like you should not be here listening to any of this. Like this is go away. Yeah, they stayed, it sucked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but shit like that is wound there was another time in the same not the same time, but it was around that time and there was a family that went to buy something. And then they happened to you know, like Be there when the comedy show and one of the comedians was saying the same thing, like hey, aren't your kids supposed to be in bed? Like blah, blah, blah. And this man is cracking up and he's talking. The guy is like talking like major shit to him, like he's what he was 12 years.
Speaker 3:I remember that one I think that was a 12 year old kid that was in there and the comic asked him If he knew what a blowjob was, or something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like he was like, like they were like heckling, you know, like the parents, and the parent was laughing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he was going along with it and recording it.
Speaker 1:The whole thing and he thought it was like funny and and you know the comic was doing it like hey, get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2:Right, but they don't hear that. They don't. They don't hear it. No, like, unless you're like I'm being seen, even if then it's like, they're like haha, I was like no, motherfucker, I'm not laughing. Yeah, you're ruining this. Leave. I made the whole thing better. Yeah, I can't believe how much better I made it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, wild stuff, dude.
Speaker 2:Wild stuff comedy yeah, so that's like the worst part of the tattoo shop is customers and the worst part and the worst part of stand-up comedy is the audience.
Speaker 1:What's the worst, like what's your biggest pet peeve, when someone walks into, like the tattoo shop.
Speaker 2:I have to ask a question or something sure, okay. Well, just so I know.
Speaker 1:Or what's your biggest pet peeve with clients?
Speaker 2:For full disclosure, I haven't worked in a tattoo shop in like a decade, so. But so, like, the biggest problem now is, for sure, phones and like social media and like where, because people don't want like it's used to get stuff the flash. You know, wall, here's a big wall flash and you pick whatever you want, like, oh, I don't want anything off the wall, I would never get flash off the wall. But here's a picture off the second page of Google search. You know, it's like you think that, like how is that? Do you not see? Get the fuck out of here right so that's a that's a problem.
Speaker 3:That's like number one, amber of what after. Let's hear it and then we'll give you our story. Sure that, because we were on the other end. Okay asking questions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah yeah. It's like I don't know. It's just the amount of bad information that's out there, mm-hmm or like I don't know. I was had customers and did a lifeblood of everything good you know, there's no one's making any money without customers right, everybody's like good for fucking customers, and it's. It's either it's not not knowing anything that's bad. It's thinking you do something that's bad.
Speaker 2:So if you walk in there like, oh man, I know what's up and I know how long this works and I understand the process and I know this and I know, and they don't know anything.
Speaker 3:They don't know anything.
Speaker 2:Like that is a difficult process to walk through, but I was a body piercer and so for me the reason I had to stop is when your piercer, all your clients, tell 90 plus percent is women between the ages of 16 and 24. Like, right in there, that's who's getting the vast majority of piercings. Or was what I was getting when I was a piercer? Women that age are fucking annoying.
Speaker 3:You know what I?
Speaker 2:mean Like that and dealing with their moms too. Like a 17 year old girl and her mom coming in to get a piercings that the mom really doesn't want her to get, but the daughter's kind of like and the tension in there and like the weird awkward anxiety that goes on and like it's a lot, there's a lot of heavy lifting mentally, like to like cause you're dealing with people that are scared all day, like everybody's fucking scared, everybody's fucking scared, and I gotta hold your hand and make it feel safe and make you not scared.
Speaker 2:Make you not scared and make you not feel like this is just my job and I'm trying to get you out of here as fast as possible, which is the reality, but I have to be like, oh no, fucking, you know. Yeah, so I'm gonna finish my time and I gotta wanna do any of that. You know? Tell me your story, what happened. Go ahead and answer questions.
Speaker 3:So Amber and I were literally we were going in for the idea that we're gonna get a tattoo right and we had it all planned out. We had it.
Speaker 1:We didn't make an appointment. We didn't make an appointment.
Speaker 2:We were just walking. We were just walking in.
Speaker 3:We were just walking in hey who's got time?
Speaker 2:Let's do a test.
Speaker 3:Exactly, and we show it wasn't even. Was he a tattoo artist? Yeah, he was. So we walked up to him and he was like oh, what are you looking to get?
Speaker 1:First of all, he was sitting on his couch outside. Like in the lounge area. Just sitting there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not like he was, so we walked in Doing anything we walked in and we didn't see anybody in the front.
Speaker 1:I mean, we thought he was A customer, a customer. So we're like okay, like you know, like somebody gonna come talk to us what. And then he kind of finally was like probably like all right, like let me talk to you guys and then go for it.
Speaker 3:And then you tell the story better. No it, I disassociated.
Speaker 1:It was. Just it wasn't, and I get it. I get the whole like like pulling up your phone and things are photoshopped or things are not real, they're AI, whatever right, whatever the thing is Okay, okay, sure. So, whatever it is and honestly we're like, I'm very like, go for it, do your thing. This is what I want, but this is not exactly what.
Speaker 2:I want.
Speaker 1:This is a general idea of what I want.
Speaker 2:This is the start of this conversation. Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 1:So I knew what I wanted, and then Gil knew what he wanted and around the size and things like that, right. So we go in there and we're like, well, do we know what we wanted? Yeah yeah, we kind of knew what we wanted.
Speaker 3:I wanted a Ferris wheel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he wanted a Ferris wheel. And then the guy's like all right, like like, what do you want, or what style? And we're like well, we don't.
Speaker 3:Something similar to the, and I show him the picture on Google.
Speaker 1:No, but first I asked like well, we're not too sure, like you know, and then he's like well, can you show me something?
Speaker 3:And we're like oh yeah, there we go, he asked for it. Yeah, he asked for it.
Speaker 1:So then we're kind of like, well, we don't really have a picture of what it was, but we just wanted like a Ferris wheel.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:I know that that's probably.
Speaker 2:That's completely reasonable. Everything that's got, everything that you're telling me. So far, you are being completely reasonable. So then we just and not even like close to not being reasonable, Like super in the green. We're completely in the green Okay.
Speaker 1:So we pull up a picture of a fucking Ferris wheel, like a black and white, just like stock photo, something, just anything right To show him what a Ferris wheel looks like.
Speaker 1:And he's like well, I can't do this. And we're like okay, but we want you to do a Ferris wheel, any style that you can or within your interpretation. And he's like no, but look at this picture. And then he like zooms in. And he's like no, look, it's grainy, the lines are not straight. And I'm like in my head like this is you asked me to pull up a?
Speaker 2:picture to show that a general sense of what we wanted. This is the other side.
Speaker 3:And he was like oh, we can't use this because this is too small, like there's. No, I'm like dude, like in my head I'm thinking he's taking this thing so literal.
Speaker 2:Right, this is the effect of because before, because so much of the at the end of we're in the shop, so much of it became people walking and going. I want this. Give me this. This is what I want. I don't want to hear shit about anything else. You have to say give me this. And the result of that happening is tattooers looking at, going we got that you know of.
Speaker 2:No, you can't have that. And it's like no, motherfucker. I'm trying to start a conversation. I'm not saying I want this. I'm saying I want a Ferris wheel, something similar. Right, you said pull the picture. This is the picture, like not. So that is a shitty result of people bringing the picture of cameras.
Speaker 1:That makes sense. I'd be like I want this, so what would be like proper? You did it completely right.
Speaker 3:Everything you did was right.
Speaker 2:This is a lazy fuck sitting out there on the couch.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he did not get up, he didn't want to do anything he didn't want to do nothing.
Speaker 2:He was pitching problems. This is exactly he did like problem after problem after problem.
Speaker 1:And I was just like.
Speaker 3:It was like the reverse tattoo. I felt like he was going to take out his gun and like take a tattoo to off of me, dude.
Speaker 2:And like a writer's room, like writing television, writing movies, all that kind of stuff. If there's a problem, you do not pitch the problem, Like no one wants to hear oh, this doesn't work, fucking blah, blah, blah. You pitch solutions. You pitch solutions and like that's how? So, like that, that's a bummer that you guys had that. That is 100% not on you guys. You guys did nothing wrong in that conversation.
Speaker 3:The solution for him was don't even get a tattoo. It's basically what he was telling me, and he left with, like, those people didn't want to get nothing.
Speaker 2:They didn't fucking tell you know, like that's all.
Speaker 3:We wanted to, of course you did. We wanted to.
Speaker 2:And like and if you work.
Speaker 3:Why would we? We weren't even walking in. It wasn't even like a tattoo shop, that was like in a busy street nothing like that.
Speaker 2:Right, you were not a foot traffic, you were not foot traffic.
Speaker 3:We specifically went to that shop because we wanted to get this tattoo there.
Speaker 2:My old boss, the guy who brought me in to the business, would always say like no one just walks in that door by accident. True, like if they're here, they want to spend money. Like sell them a fucking tattoo, like get the fuck out of here. However, it has to work. However, you have to massage this conversation. Let's make this fucking tattoo. Exactly what I thought.
Speaker 1:Like we were there.
Speaker 3:He doesn't want money, he doesn't like money.
Speaker 1:We didn't ask him, like how much is it gonna be Like? We were like we knew. You were still at the beginning, we knew, but even then we knew what our price point is, because we both have tattoos. We know it's gonna be in this range, so we were willing to drop whatever it was. Like you know, like to me, I was so mad when I walked out of there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, every right to be.
Speaker 1:Kill is more like well, you know, I'm like I'm gonna burn this place down.
Speaker 3:I was at four, she was at a 378.5.
Speaker 2:Like I said, the biggest problem at the tattoo shop is customers, but the second biggest problem is asshole tattooers Like the bad attitudes, lazy, entitled, like all of these.
Speaker 2:Like there's so many of them out there that think this is a craft, this is a trade. You know, like, ultimately, like you were there, you were like a plumber, you are a carpenter, like you are skilled labor. That is what you're doing there and that's how it should be treated. You don't? You don't pitch problems. You don't pitch fucking problems. Like there's like there's wanting to do the tattoo, like that conversation, if you want to do that tattoo goes so fucking different, you know, or if you're, or maybe you did want to, but he doesn't have any cause. There's a there's plenty of tattooers out there that have no social skills either and you think that would be like a big part of it, but these are dudes that spent their childhood in their room alone drawing and fucking. Like. These are not like allies. These are not like big, that makes sense.
Speaker 3:You know what I?
Speaker 2:mean they're not like big social? Hey, no, these dudes are like putting their dark thoughts in the fucking, whatever sketches they're doing.
Speaker 1:Which I totally. I feel like I always respect that, because I'm like I don't think they want to hear me yapping you know for X amount of time, and then, when you're in pain too, you're not like let me talk about everything. They're just like all right, you do you, I do me and it is what it is. But what's your like cause? I'm going to speak off of my experience, but one of the tattoos that I have, I went and it. I mean, obviously I'm not a tattoo artist. I don't know how long it should have taken, but it wasn't as intricate for it to take the amount of time I knew that much right.
Speaker 1:And I get it. You get tired, you're hunched over, you're you know this and that, but this person was taking like a break, like not even lying to you, maybe like every 30 minutes. I pride drugs, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, I knew that he was like going out to smoke and it was like-.
Speaker 2:Like real drugs.
Speaker 1:I oh maybe, oh, maybe I didn't Real drugs, not California drugs.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know, I smoke a cigarette, I smoke a weed. Federal drugs.
Speaker 1:I was like the faster you're done, the quicker I'm gonna. I wanna hear, but it took like I don't know, maybe it, maybe it could have took in maybe a cool three hours at most, I would think, even like with like breaks, like I'm telling you it was nothing intricate, it was nothing huge.
Speaker 2:It really sounds like drugs. Yeah, it took like eight to nine hours. Oh yeah, this is drugs. That I was there, that I was just like ugh. This is like tweaker shit, man. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And then I was like at a shop and it was like all men, and then at some point they started putting like changing the TV cause it got later where there wasn't that many clients, and then they were putting, like you know, like dirty videos on and I was just like come on. Like why are you making? Why?
Speaker 2:are you going out of your way to make me feel uncomfortable?
Speaker 3:Yes, You're not going to have fed me. It's supposed to make you do things faster.
Speaker 2:No, it may just like fuck it. Think that things are never done. Really, it's never done, right you?
Speaker 3:know I mean because, like people, you hear stories of people having sex on cocaine or something and they can't. They can't get hard, they can't do a lot, like you can't do a lot of things on cocaine On speed you could do anything. The whole the world is your oyster.
Speaker 2:If you're on meth, the world is your oyster.
Speaker 3:You're a king.
Speaker 2:You could do eight hour tattoos, fuck for three days. You could do whatever you want to on meth. It's a magical creation. That's the problem with it. That's why it's so dangerous Cause it's so magical. I've never done meth, but I've known a bunch of fucking tweakers and while they are being tweakers they think this is like. Maybe afterwards they look back and they're like yeah, I fucked up, but in the pocket they're like this is the best life I've ever lived. Are you kidding me? I used to. I had a friend who he came up with us at the tattoo shop and then he eventually got hooked on drugs.
Speaker 2:He was living under the freeway less than a mile from the shop and he would push his shopping cart past the shop. You know what I mean? It's CS like in there and it's like man. And then he got clean and I asked him. I was like what did you think when you would like put your cart past us and CS in there? So he goes.
Speaker 2:Man, I thought you guys were idiots. He's like I was fucking, I was living the right life, like living going crazy. He's like if I needed some money, I'd get a hotel room and tattoo out of a hotel for two or three days, make some money, go back to fucking party. And he was like man. I was like because I thought you guys were idiots and it's like that's weaker life will get you and start loving it. Like there's so many people think that like those people are all miserable. Well, miserable man Like the party is fucking. It's good for a while. And then you just wake up and you're like fuck, I've been doing this for five years. Like how do you? How do you go back? Like I'm in that's. I think that's a big part. That becomes a big problem too. It's like this is your life now. Like how do you? You're dead center in this, in this life, and you want to stop and go. Start doing something, go back to real life, like oh man that's a long way to go.
Speaker 3:We're the suckers Sometimes.
Speaker 2:look, if it wasn't, if I wasn't trying to get good and stand up, I would have burned my passport and I'd be living in the jungle right now somewhere for sure, if it wasn't for standing like I'm not. I don't need any of this civilization stuff except for except for trying to get good and stand up.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's the only thing keeping me here.
Speaker 3:So there's a that makes total sense because they're right there. I think I won't burn the spot, but some in a specific spot in Long Beach close to Paramount, they're like on the center divider. Somebody pitched a tent. They pitched a tent right there on the center divider. I think like 10 feet down of that. They was like an empty car on blocks. We recently went by and they actually put the tires back.
Speaker 3:Oh shit, man, they must have had the lottery, so that was yeah that was their parking lot right there, but it was so crazy because we passed by it and it was a tent, a little chair set up outside their little porch and then on the center divider was an ADT systems sign, security sign, right in front of the tent. Hell yeah, there was no, like he put, like whoever they were put that there. For that reason, like I wonder if they really think that. Security man, because you have that sign.
Speaker 2:It was like oh man, don't go in that tent, man Don't go near it, they're gonna call the cops.
Speaker 3:Don't go near it, but I used to have a family member that was deep into that and he would like post pictures of him blowing smoke coming out of the pipe blowing smoke and like posting it on Instagram they think they're there and Facebook and I think he had, like, a LinkedIn account connected to his Facebook too. Why would they be?
Speaker 2:embarrassed or ashamed of. This is the best activity you could possibly be doing. This is like being ashamed of dancing under a rainbow Like why would you be ashamed of?
Speaker 3:that and clearly it was in his tent, because you can see the tarp.
Speaker 2:You can see the blue tarp. You can see all the tent.
Speaker 3:You can see the tent I'm like bro, are you gonna go to this year's Thanksgiving? Because it was a family member and I've seen that shit online. It's wild and me and my cousins will send each other that video. Hey, bro, look at what's going on with him today.
Speaker 2:Serious business is going on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like, why post that? That's just, that's terrible. Look at what they're saying.
Speaker 2:That's like the same thing we were talking about earlier with dudes like Sandy Dick pics and all that stuff, where you think it's a good idea, like when you're tweaking you're fucking on a good one, like all these things become great. You know what I should do? I should post a fucking video, like of course. And maybe even when you wave, you're like fuck.
Speaker 3:But dude, yeah, you know those viral videos of people like blowing like all these different designs, that's what he was doing with like crystal meth and he was blowing those huge drinks, huge drinks. I don't like that's actually really cool, like despite the circumstances on how he got that smoke, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2:When you watching a tweaker, hit that fucking pookie. They're like oh yeah, he's like holy shit. All that was inside of you, right, yeah, yeah. Johnny, it was awesome Hell yeah, I'm gonna be on the podcast Do appreciate it.
Speaker 3:Tell us where we can find you and what you have coming up.
Speaker 2:I am one third of the West Coast Pop Block podcast. You can find us anywhere where you find podcasts. Also my personal social media that dude Johnny C. Over. Wherever If I'm on it, it's that dude Johnny C. You fuck catch me doing. Stand up all around the world and thank you for the mind buzz podcast, for having me on Woo.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, amber, do we have anything or do you have anything? We have a lot of cool things brewing up for February. Oh my God, we got two events coming back in the city of Paramount, and then we also have two events that are gonna be brand new. That are gonna be awesome. And they are all podcasts related too, so I'm fucking super excited which one.
Speaker 1:This month I have a clothing swap in Paramount. The idea behind it is clean your closet out, bring stuff that you don't want. We set it up. You can take clothes or you don't take anything. It's kind of just swapping and then after whatever is left over, we donate to like a housing place that we know. We know. So yeah, so all your stuff gets donated after. It's a nice way to kind of clean out your closet. Do a good in the world.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, doing the Lord's work.
Speaker 1:Right, and then I'm also hosting a vision board party. That we're doing there too, can I?
Speaker 2:ask you a question about this. Yeah, so I will have been in the process of making a vision board when, the last time I did this, I cut magazines, but there's no magazines in here.
Speaker 3:Oh dude, I remember you asking like where's the magazines at?
Speaker 2:Where am I supposed to get magazines from?
Speaker 1:So magazines still do exist, it's just they're not everywhere. So a lot of these magazines are donated from like doctor's offices yeah, where do I have to?
Speaker 2:Or like old people that still get a subscription, yeah, or barbershop, I'd be like you know, let me get some of these magazines.
Speaker 1:A lot of them are also just printed from online. Oh, I guess.
Speaker 3:It's gonna be online.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Oh yeah, sorry, liddo over the time.
Speaker 3:No, you're good. There's like a, there's stuff online. What other places can have them?
Speaker 1:Anything, I'm gonna go to Goodwill tomorrow. Yeah, go to Goodwill, you'll find them Well if you wanna come on the 17th, we'll provide everything so you don't have to go hunting.
Speaker 2:Oh shit, it'll be better.
Speaker 1:That'd be cool. And then in February, for anyone that's single and ready to mingle, I'm going to host a speed dating event. Oh shit.
Speaker 2:So we're gonna do math. We're gonna do math and date. Is that what's going on? We're gonna show your true colors. Oh man, if I can date, that'll be the best.
Speaker 3:It's actually a secret contest for who can blow the better smoke. I think that's what it's for.
Speaker 2:Ah, it's a great idea Secretly. I support this completely.
Speaker 3:If you're in the city of Paramount or surrounding cities, Friday, which is, is that tomorrow already? Tomorrow Friday, I will be doing a show at Santo Comedy in at Warchaw Thediya, so come by. I got a spot, yeah. So what else do we got? That's it right. That's it All right. We'll see you guys on the next one.
Speaker 1:Thanks for all the. I appreciate it. Goodbye, Bye.
Speaker 3:That was a.