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MB:210 with Ricky Novella Cracking Up Inside the World of Comedy
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Ricky Novella is a comedian. Follow him on Instagram / thicccyricardo
Ever wondered what fuels the fire of a stand-up comedian? Picture this: you’re on stage, the spotlight's on you, and the crowd is just waiting for a chance to erupt into laughter. That's where Ricky Novella, our gut-bustingly hilarious guest, comes in. He takes us on a whirlwind tour of the comedy landscape, from the raw intensity of open mics to the sweet victory of a well-received joke. Ricky doesn't hold back, offering a glimpse into the trials and tribulations that come with the quest for the perfect punchline.
Comedy isn't just about the laughs; it's a mirror reflecting our culture, beliefs, and personal journeys. Ricky and I dissect the craft, sharing tales of family support that range from skeptical raised eyebrows to unexpected cheerleading. We reveal the gritty advice from comedy vets like Joey Diaz and the influences of comedy legends that shape the punchlines we deliver. Laugh along with us as we recount stories that prove life's twists make the best material, and how resilience is the key to finding your unique comedic voice amidst the noise.
Join us as we pull back the curtain on the often unseen aspects of the comedy world. From the etiquette of chuckling (or cringing) in the audience to the camaraderie that bonds comics behind the scenes, we cover it all. We even venture into the realm of podcasting, giving shoutouts to the up-and-comers in the comedy scene who are as relentless in their pursuit of the next great laugh as we are. So, if your life could use a sprinkle of humor or if you're simply curious to hear what happens when comedians get real about their craft, this episode with Ricky Novella is your ticket to the show.
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Speaker 3The MindBuzz Take it away.
Speaker 2What is up? Mindbuzz? People of the galaxy. How are you? What's up? Everybody is doing well. I am your host, Gil GI, Double L and working the ones twos and threes, Amber. How are you?
Speaker 1How are you tonight? I'm good, you're doing good. Yeah, I am.
Speaker 2Yeah, you sure.
Speaker 1I'm positive.
Speaker 2All right, that's what I like to hear I had my water.
Speaker 1I'm hydrated.
Speaker 2You're hydrated. You got some water.
Speaker 1I had dinner.
Speaker 2Yeah, dinner. What did you have for dinner?
Speaker 1I put it on the spot like that. I made tuna salad.
Speaker 2It was good. Huh, it was good. It was really delicious.
Speaker 1It was fast easy.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1Like you, just kidding Wow.
Speaker 2That's how we're going to start up. Okay, guns blazing, okay.
Speaker 1It's the week of comedy.
Speaker 2It's the week of comedy this week it is. It is because we have a very special guest that we're going to get into 100. 100% week of comedy. I like that because today we have Ricky Novia and later this week we're going to have Johnny Gold. So I'm completely excited for that. But before we get into today's episode, I believe we do have a migrito weekly, which Amber is going to go ahead and take over. So what do we got in the world of migrito.
Speaker 1All right. So ear ringers will be performing at the Haven in Pomona on January 19. 3lh will be at the Tiki bar in the OC on January 26. La Rosa Noir will be at the empty bottle in Chicago on January 28. The paranoias and Professor Galactico will be performing at the Paramount on January 26.
Speaker 2I love that venue.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a good venue. Rundown Creeps recently released this new music video. You can find on their YouTube or on the link in their Instagram file, and the paranoias will be releasing their new music video shortly, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2I cannot wait for that music video. They do such an awesome job.
Speaker 1Let's see what it looks like.
Speaker 2Are you following them on Instagram?
Speaker 1I think so yeah.
Speaker 2So it's them, and then also 3LH, that are getting ready for a drop on their music video. Also, and all those bands are part of the migrito music. Are they a network too? I think so. Music label, let's just say that, like the mind buzz, we are part of the migrito podcast network, along with emo brown Chicano shuffle let's see what a West Coast Pop Block podcast and Thalagos Amagos I hope I'm not forgetting anybody, right, I think?
Speaker 1you said everybody.
Speaker 2Everybody right.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Other than that, let's get into our guest today. He's a very good friend of mine. We've done a couple of comedy shows together, we've done comedy competition together and he's out there. He's doing this thing. Very funny guy. I think he's funny and you guys are going to love him too. Ricky Novia. What is up, man? Thanks for being here. I appreciate it, dude.
Speaker 3What's up, what's up, thank you.
Speaker 2Thanks, man, for coming out and doing this.
Speaker 3Dude, it's my pleasure the fact that you said that I'm funny to you. That beats everybody's compliment right there.
Speaker 1I don't know what that means a lot.
Speaker 2Thank you, appreciate it. Yeah, dude, like I said, we did a few comedy shows together. We've done open mics together. That's pretty much how we started being around each other, rubbing shoulders together, rubbing our comedy shoulders together, it's kind of hot, though you put it on yourself, I know, trying to sexualize everything.
Speaker 3It's nice. It's fine. Don't threaten me with a good time.
Speaker 2Holding each other's comedy shoulders, belly to belly, yeah, but I mean there's that. That's where I got my start at the Beertug open mic. That's where I remember seeing you for the first. I was going through my pictures the other day and I was going through all the open mic pictures and I was like oh shit, that's Ricky. I don't remember taking that picture, but I guess I was there for that day. We did the West Coast Pop-Lock podcast together.
Speaker 3Yeah, that was fun, too, that was fun.
Speaker 2For the Soy Funny competition One that you did right? I think so. I don't know how Me and all my Indian bots that I paid for for that night.
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Speaker 1MindBuzz, it was just me with all my accounts.
Speaker 2You pan the video to a place in India and everybody just has MindBuzz merch on.
Speaker 3They have a shaved head with glasses on.
Speaker 2Yeah, like a little colt. So we did that, we did the podcast, the competition, we did a show at the secret, this private suite. Yeah, private suite and Pico Rivera Shout out to Sergio and from there dude, we just been talking, invited you on the podcast. We recently did a show in Pasadena. That was really good.
Speaker 3You murder, dude, Like you Pasadena, you mean on Tom Fullerton.
Speaker 2Fullerton, whatever Pasadena, fullerton, it's all the same thing, it's pretty far.
Speaker 3I said Pasadena, yeah, you just sit down, it's cool. It's cool, it's your podcast.
Speaker 2I am. What am I? What's manifesting the Ice House? I think that's what you said Pasadena.
Speaker 3Yeah, we should definitely manifest it.
Speaker 2We did that show in Fullerton with Sharkisha. I can't I. What's your name?
Speaker 3What's your real name, stephanie, it's Stephanie right, yeah, but Sharkisha just fits it just fits.
Speaker 2Have you seen that video? You know where that's from? Yeah, sharkisha, don't. No, sharkisha don't kick it Kick it Sharkisha.
Speaker 3Oh, the good old days.
Speaker 2Yeah, the vine days, but we did that show and it was awesome. You fucking you murdered bro. Like it was the crowd was awesome, but you fucking murdered. Thank you, man.
Speaker 3Thank you. Honestly. I think that was probably my best since I've done comedy, and it's just. I was just having fun up there. Honestly, it just felt really nice, especially the crowd. The crowd was loving some of the crowd work that I did that night and I usually don't do crowd work. I didn't stick to my material. That's it. But it was just that that girl's titties that were almost popping out. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I had to point it out, you know.
Speaker 1And then the guy too right, he told them about his shorts.
Speaker 3Oh my God, that was towards the end. Yeah, but that guy honestly pointing him out, shout out to the gay community, pointing him out killed the show though, like if it wasn't for him, I don't know, I don't even think that Joko would have hit as well, but he killed it for me, so yeah.
Speaker 1You did a really good job. We went home that night and we were talking about it and we're like man, you did really good, because I've seen you a couple of times and you do a good job. You did a really good job, but I think that night you did like really good job. Everyone was cracking up you know, you included the people in the crowd and then they were having a good time. You did honestly. You were the best one that night.
Speaker 3Thank you Appreciate that. I don't know if you guys saw, but I almost fell back with the mic. No, I was on the court, but I played it off pretty well when dancing on the stage. That was a good night, dude.
Speaker 2It was really good.
Speaker 3The thing about. I think the thing that helped me the most is because I've been there. So, I've gotten like that story that I told about my friend hooking me up with her friend, like it was true, like I got fucked up. Then I was like freshly single, was ready to mingle or whatever the fuck, but it was just I fell at home so I felt like I had to give a good show, you know got you.
Speaker 2I've only been there once and that was to see a band, but it wasn't on that stage, it was on the room on the other side. Have you been to that room? It's just like a dance.
Speaker 3I've seen it, but I don't think I've been in there. I've been just in the main room where the show happened.
Speaker 2I didn't even know that there was a stage right there, because they usually have the curtain like over. I didn't know there was a stage right there. I thought we were going to be performing in the other room.
Speaker 3I thought so too. Yeah, I really did. It was a good night. Yeah, it was really fun. That was a great way to end the year. To be honest, was it a Friday?
Speaker 2night or a Thursday night.
Speaker 3Thursday night.
Speaker 2It was a Thursday night, and that was when most people were off too, during the holidays.
Speaker 3Was? I think it was like a week before it was after Christmas. Yeah, it was New Year's. Like weekend leading up to New Year's.
Speaker 1Yeah, I forgot, but Stephanie had good support because she knew a lot of the people that were there and that she brought out. And I think, like when people and I think I've said it a lot of times that when people know that they're going to a comedy show, they're more excited and they're more focused on the comedy and laughing and things like that, versus it being like oh surprise, there's a comedy show happening.
Speaker 3Yeah, no, that's true, she did. Yeah, she did bring out a lot of people. One of my old managers was fucking there. I was like what the fuck?
Speaker 2are you doing Really?
Speaker 3Yeah, I was like what the fuck I think that might have. She might have been cousins with him, I don't know.
Speaker 1I think you're like surprised at the company.
Speaker 3Yeah, he was like my fucking comedian. I was like yeah, you know shit.
Speaker 2Damn dude. Did you see the three gentlemen that were in the corner talking? So okay, I was going to point it out at that time, but I was just like I'll just let it go because it's going to. I'm not very good at crowd work, so I don't yet. So I don't think I should say anything, but I was waiting at the bar. I don't even think I told you, amber, I was waiting at the bar when.
Speaker 2Why it took me such a long time is because I was just standing there and I wasn't like. You know, like some bars are like LA traffic, you have to like throw yourself at the bartender. I wasn't. I wasn't doing that. I was just standing there waiting in line. But those three guys that interrupted, that were talking during maybe like the first three minutes, first five minutes of my set, were on the corner and they were talking. But there was those three guys that like cut in front of me at the bar and didn't say shit. They didn't say anything. So they cut in front of me at the bar, which was like all right, I'm going to let it go. I got to go on right now, so I'm just going to let it go.
Speaker 2And then during what joke was it? It was during the first joke, first joke, that I was on stage telling they were talking and they met like it wasn't their fault. They were talking. I mean, I shouldn't have let that bother me, but I don't know. They were just talking in front of my set. I was going to, I was going to say something, but I was just like you know what I'm going to. Let it go.
Speaker 1But I was sitting on their side in front of them.
Speaker 2They're really loud.
Speaker 1The entire time. Jose right, Is the guy the UPS or the mailman?
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, hatchman Jose.
Speaker 1Yeah, Shout out. I was like throughout his entire set and I kept turning, like maybe if I turn and I look at them that they're like, oh, shoot, you know. And then someone else turned around and looked at them too and they were having a full on conversation or something about traveling, about this, about that.
Speaker 1It wasn't like, oh, let me communicate to you what I want for my drink, or oh, let me tell you, you know, like something quick. It was like full on conversation, so I thought that was really rude. But what would I say?
Speaker 3you know that he was just like yeah, I mean when he started his set it sucked because remember like the mic went out on him.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3But like he would when he switched the mics, like he was able to save the show. I think like if he, if they would have kept that same mic and Jose couldn't like save us, it would have been hard for us. Yeah, because you know, especially being the first one going up, like it's tough. It's tough opening up.
Speaker 2Yeah, I probably would have hung myself in front of everybody.
Speaker 3I would have been there with you. But no, but the thing is like, like you're right, like if you're going to go see comedy, like I tell my people, like whenever I have to bring people to shows and stuff, I always tell them keep the chatter to a minimum, be respectful. If you guys don't like his, like a comics, like like material and stuff, just stay quiet.
Speaker 3You know, you don't have to laugh, you don't have to fake life, just stay quiet. But be respectful, because it's hard to be up there doing like it takes balls to be a comic and talking in front of all those people. That's why, like when people start like starting off and stuff like, I always try to give them the respect because like they might not be good at that moment but you never know down the line like they could start killing. But you got to appreciate that. The fact that they're up there, true, yeah.
Speaker 2I guess you can. You can see it that way. I mean, for a comedy show that you're going to go see, like you, there's different expectations for that versus going to an open mic.
Speaker 1Yeah, like, like. Look at the but even an open mic. Look at like the time we went to the one in Long Beach and the girls were sitting. So there was a group of girls and they were. They were sitting like, like, pretty much like in the main, oh you got to go there, dude.
Speaker 2You got to go to that place.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a good place Everyone's there.
Speaker 1It's, it's really respectful, it's nice. We've been there before. So then there's these girls and they're they're in a group and they're like in the biggest table inside the establishment. So the first act goes up and it's like a musical act and the girl is talking and she's talking louder and louder and louder because she can't hear herself over the music and then her friends can't hear her over the music, so her only solution is to talk louder. And she's talking about like Amazon and oh, my Amazon package didn't get here.
Speaker 2Something dumb. It was just something that's really.
Speaker 1Again, it was something that that you, you know at that moment take time between, maybe, when the acts are coming up, if you need to say something or whatever like you already know? You know what? Maybe they were here eating and they didn't know there was a comedy show happening and they're trying to have a good time. They haven't seen each other, whatever, I try to give it the benefit of the doubt. Well, come to realize she was going to be in the open mic.
Speaker 3Oh my God, that's the worst she was performing.
Speaker 1That's the worst it was her first performance, so maybe she doesn't know. Like etiquette, like proper etiquette, but I was like you're going to perform and you you can't even give the other performers respect. Like to me. I thought it was overly like no respect.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think that's very disrespectful. I don't know, even if you don't want to listen to it.
Speaker 2It was like Ronnie Danger filled no respect Like in no respect at all.
Speaker 3They could have stepped out. I think that's like a one thing too, If you don't want to be there for other people's stuff just step out or just shut up. You don't have to ruin everybody else's set. Especially, those are the hard ones too. When it's like an open mic, where it's like, literally, where it's a mix of poetry, music and then comedy, the energy of the room can be different at any moment.
Speaker 2Yeah, I guess that's true. I mean I've hosted them. I've never really gone to any of those myself.
Speaker 3I'm going to give you your flowers on that too, because you give a different format, especially like the interview at the end. But I think you kind of make it clear people are here to practice their art, whether it be that one guy that was doing his tricks and stuff, oh, yeah. Wildcat Jackson.
Speaker 2Coming back to you, live Paramount California.
Speaker 1About where we have it, and the fact that we've established it like that is that the people coming out to watch the show are not just open micers. They're people coming out to actually watch a show To see art. And they also know that it's a lot of people's first time, that it's some people's hobbies. It's exciting and people are very respectful and we always try to open the show with hey. You know, please be as respectful as possible. This is a safe space. Just enjoy and have an open mind.
Speaker 3Yeah, because, like the first open mic that I did, it was at the Copper House Blues, that's in Brea, and I got to give a shout out to Gage Johnson. He was the one that was hosting it. He was there for my first open mic and he did that If people were talking stuff he would like, I guess, keep it down or you guys go outside. He was very good at making sure that whoever's performing up there was able to feel comfortable up there. Because that's for my first open mic. He really made it easier for me to perform. I wasn't as nervous, you know.
Speaker 2Because of that extra comments and trying to make you feel comfortable to go up there.
Speaker 3Yeah, I had told him hey, I don't even know what I'm doing here, this is my first open mic and he was just like do you have material? I was like no, I just have some stuff I want to talk about. He was like okay, just go up there and have fun, don't worry about anything else, I got it under control and stuff. I still remember that. His words from that day is always have fun up there.
Speaker 1That's good, I like that. I like that type of vibe.
Speaker 3Because that second open mic I fucking bombed right up Bag of dicks in that fucking open mic. Hell yeah, that's the time I was telling you that I had smoked a little bit before going I was like, oh, you took a hit, bro, it probably relaxes you, hell. No, my anxiety was fucking through the roof on that night, dude, it was fucking horrible.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't understand that. I mean, we've talked about it before, about how obliterated some people get before going on stage. I'm going to say, yeah, I used to get really buzzed before going up, but now it's just like I don't. I want to be sharp.
Speaker 3Yeah, you got to have a balance to it, because there was one time where I almost got fucked up too and I was like you know what? I should just slow it down. I started drinking water Because if you're really fucked, I mean, it works for some people, but me personally, I try to be, like you said, coherent when it comes to it, the private sweet spots that we.
Speaker 2I was buzzed, I was drunk on that day. I'm going to just be totally honest and I think I was honest a few weeks ago. I think that was the last time. I ever drank before going on stage. But you learned though.
Speaker 3You needed that. You need to do this different experience. That's why I don't smoke weed before, and if I do it, maybe one or two hits, I usually have just one whisk or two whiskies, but nothing to get me fucked up. I don't want to be that guy that gets known like he bombed because he was too fucked up. So yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2It gives you a perspective of like ah, he has to do better now because he's sober. If he doesn't do sober, then he can't blame it on the drink, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's true, that's true, so there's a balance. You pretend like you're drunk. I would just say, if you bombed, you're like ah, I'm drunk.
Speaker 3I think if you acknowledge that you, the crowd, when you say a bad joke or like saying like a joke that you're working on and doesn't get a laugh, and if you acknowledge that, okay, it wasn't funny, like you know, it was a shit joke, Like the crowd will kind of like, alright, you know he's a human, he makes mistakes. They'll be more on your side than ignoring it or being like fuck you guys, like it's you guys that are making me not understanding the jokes, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah, the last time I went to Noble was last Saturday. I think it was last Saturday that they had to open mic and it was all new material, dude. And I think I was telling Jay this that I was just, it was just bad, it was all new material. I got a couple laughs that I was like okay, let me move on to the next open mic to see if these are pretty funny. But that one was challenging dude.
Speaker 3Yeah, Noble Hills is a pretty cool spot. I like doing all my new material there because it's either like a room full of comics and sometimes random people, but like I don't know, I feel more comfortable doing my new stuff there, Even though you should be doing your new stuff like every open mic, trying to like figure it out and stuff. But for sure, Noble Hills is like a place uncomfortable to do it.
Speaker 2Yeah, have you ever gotten to where, like, you've done the mics and now you're like, okay, like I've done these different mics, now with the same material, now I have to bring out new material?
Speaker 3Yeah, I've gotten to that point For me, because it's kind of hard to like come up with new stuff, Like when I try to sit down and write things like I sometimes just like blank out and I can't think of anything. Sometimes new material comes up on the fly or I have just an idea.
Speaker 3Right, I don't know, just talk about on stage. But there was one point where I did feel like I need to come up with new stuff. But I ended up branching out two different open mics. So I started traveling more to LA doing the mics out in LA and it kind of made me get my jokes a little bit better. But I would suggest that, like because someone feels like they're doing their same jokes over and over again at the same mic, branch out to a different one. Yeah, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2That's what I did with with Noble, and it was awesome because I was like, okay, like they're still funny. Yeah yeah, but it's just. I needed a change of location.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's because, like like okay, I'm, I'm still freshly new, you know, I'm only like a year and five months in but like I kept hearing everybody's same jokes, like people were hearing my same jokes again. So I was just kind of like I need to go to a different place, or have it been to, because you kind of validate if your jokes are funny or not, because people hear your same jokes like there's, they're not going to laugh, you know because there's an element of surprise in every joke.
Speaker 2whether you just think about any joke that you've ever heard in your life, there's an element of surprise in that. And once that element of surprise is wasted or not wasted, but gone like it's not funny anymore because you already know where the joke is going to- go yeah, especially if you like say it the same way. Yeah, oh, they're like okay, I'm no way for this. Yeah, this guy.
Speaker 3I mean, you can have a chance at people laughing if you kind of like, try to find a different approach to it, but that's tough.
Speaker 2That happened at the private suite, which was pretty cool. I'm just going to say that what?
Speaker 3joke was it.
Speaker 2I think it was the I'm trying to remember, oh, the the only fans joke that I have and I set it up and I heard somebody in the audience say the punchline and or mumbled it, and I I heard them and I seen them mouth the punchline. I was like okay, that's cool, but also like not cool at the same time, it was kind of cool because oh, somebody, they remembered it.
Speaker 2So that's awesome. For me that's awesome. They probably seen the West Coast Pop Lock podcast and they probably heard it on there and they're like, oh cool, like I'm going to hear this guy say it again. Yeah, most likely, but for them to remember the punchline, that was an awesome moment because they remembered it and you become rememberable because of that.
Speaker 3Yeah, people remember me a lot from my BYOB joke. That's one of my personal favorites.
Speaker 2I'm going to be honest.
Speaker 3Thicky. Everybody calls me thick. A lot of people call me thick, thicky, and it's just I know. I think, like I said, it is cool that they remember you by that but. I mean, sometimes I don't want to be remembered by my buttplug joke, but it happens.
Speaker 1You said that. One out for yourself.
Speaker 3I know, but I love it though.
Speaker 2But the cool thing is about this is that you have a wide range of what you're going to do next. Right, yeah, there's going to be a joke that you're going to write that's going to replace the buttplug one.
Speaker 3Yeah, no, that's true. The buttplug one that's my moneymaker.
Speaker 2No, but I totally get what you're saying, because I don't want to be doing the Selena joke for the next 10 years. I want something. I want to write something that's way better than that and it's going to happen over experience and doing it, and doing it, and doing it.
Speaker 3Yeah, that joke, like the new tag that you put on it. When I heard I was like, oh, a fucking gilly dude. It's funny. But I'm like either one superfan is going to be so fucking pissed that you said a joke. It's cool to be able to push those buttons.
Speaker 2That tag was the first time I used it.
Speaker 3And it was good, it was really good.
Speaker 2That was the first time I practiced it in my head. On the way over there I'm like, okay, I'm going to try this.
Speaker 1I already cringe off the Selena one, Because I'm already like all right.
Speaker 2No, I did.
Speaker 1Here are the booze coming, and then he, freaking, did it and I was like no I even looked at you and I went like that.
Speaker 2I told you. You remember, because Amber is my joke filter. You remember you telling me. Yeah, I told you, Amber, I have a new tag for this.
Speaker 1Oh, but you didn't tell me you were going to do it that night.
Speaker 2I didn't tell her I wasn't doing it.
Speaker 1That's right.
Speaker 3Sometimes you got to throw it in there.
Speaker 2You got to throw it in there and then I like it because when I hear her she says no, don't do it. In my mind.
Speaker 3Do it. Do it cocksucker? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1You know why I'm hesitant towards some of his jokes or whatever, like pushing the envelope. It's not because I don't believe in them. It's not because I'm like, all right, you're going to piss someone off, because I feel like I'm going to be sitting in the audience one day and someone's going to say like, oh, this jackass, or something that's it. And I'm going to turn around and I'm going to, I'm going to react, I've been called worse on the internet.
Speaker 1But it's not you, yeah, but not in my. I haven't been in the vicinity, so what? My thing is not what you say or what you're, but my reaction towards someone saying and I shouldn't manifest that, I shouldn't, you know, go there thinking awesome is going to talk crap and I'm going to have to react like I shouldn't, but that's, I don't know. Maybe it's just my fight or flight mode.
Speaker 3Well, the good thing is they have a bodyguard each time you go out to church. She's not exactly I'm going to need one.
Speaker 2I'm going to need one by the end of this year. So if anybody out there is looking for a cool job that doesn't pay well, volunteer security I'm your guy. Well, pay you in food and pay you on food and jokes Food is, food is fucking great Food and jokes, dude.
Speaker 2I remember the first time we did an event for the podcast and we needed a security guard and I booked my cousin that he's an X Marine, oh shit, and I booked them cool guy. But he was the drunkest out of everybody in that place, dude. Like he was really drunk, he had a bigger cut. I don't even know where he got. It was like an A&PM cup of beer.
Speaker 3I have no clue where he got this. He was about to escort him to the hotel.
Speaker 1Yeah, he's all kicking himself out.
Speaker 3You're too drunk, sir.
Speaker 2He's like, hey, you gotta go, you're too drunk. We had to drive him home, we had to escort him home, making sure he got home okay.
Speaker 3That's crazy. That's a great story though.
Speaker 2Should we?
Speaker 3talk about what do a joke on that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I guess he is my cousin. I do a lot of family stuff. Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 1Wait, so can I tell you the. Jackson, or what was it.
Speaker 2Jackson, Flax and Caxon.
Speaker 1The Wildcat? Well, not you, you know it but. Ricky Myour finding of the night of him. Can I tell you, yeah, yeah, because I've been dying to tell you. So, just to give our listeners context, we had an open mic in December.
Speaker 2December December.
Speaker 1We had an open mic. We really never know who's gonna show up. People sign up, but we really don't know what it's about. So this man comes in and he is dressed like what do you guys say?
Speaker 3Like A farm, not Spare Farm.
Speaker 1Yeah that's a good one You're right Like a gold rush, not Spare Farm. He walks in and the show's not started.
Speaker 2We're just like sitting there and he walks in and I was like Just imagine, doc, from Back to the Future.
Speaker 1Part 3.
Speaker 2But inOh is he ininin that type of In the western.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, like unhinged, like, very like, he was pointing out like people's food. What are you eating? He asked me.
Speaker 2He was great.
Speaker 1He told my aunt like oh, you're very beautiful.
Speaker 1And my uncle was like sitting next to her, like we're like okay. And then I guess I didn't know this, but he had told Gil beforehand hey, can I take my replica gun? Right, I didn't know this. So then, gilat the day of the show, gil comes up to me and I'm behind the counter and I'm helping some customers and he's like, hey, the guy has a replica gun and he wants to know if he can take it out. And I'm like, no like, because I already had seen how he was acting, like.
Speaker 1He was like pacing back and forth, back and forth and talking to people and I was like, man, this is going to be crazy. So I I saw the gun and then I saw my dad look at the gun and my dad was like, oh, this is cool. So I said, okay, if my dad looks at the gun, it must not be a real gun, right? Because in my head I was like this man's going to shoot us with this fake gun quotations. So, anyways, to make a long story short, he goes on, right, performs he did. He was so cool, right? Am I the only one that thought he was cool?
Speaker 3He was great. Yeah, he was pretty impressive. I'm not going to lie Like I definitely see why you were worried like a little bit.
Speaker 2He was unhinged. He didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 1Yeah. So anyways, he does his set, everything. The show ends and then he leaves because he had like a bag. So he had like a bag. You know where he had all his stuff. So we seen the bag on the on the seat and we're like wait, did this guy leave? And then I'm like I didn't see him walk out and everyone's like, well, I didn't see him walk out either. And then somebody went to the restroom and they're like, well, we didn't see him in the restroom either. So I'm like that's fucking weird. So then I see the mayor of Paramount come. She had come in like a mid show. So we know the mayor, like you know he comes to our events and stuff.
Speaker 1So she was there, she was at the open mic and I'm like, okay, the mayor's there. And then I'm like, oh, her boyfriend's there with her right. I'm like wait where should we be? Not her boyfriend, her friend, sorry.
Speaker 3Well, I can't edit it out now.
Speaker 1Her friend, her acquaintance. But then I said wait, how did that guy get in here? I was like I didn't see him walk in with her Welcome. To know it was the Wildcat Jackson man.
Speaker 3What the fuck.
Speaker 4That's crazy.
Speaker 1So he it was him the whole time and we didn't know. So he came out after in without his costume and then he's like, yeah, it was me, didn't you know? And we're like, no, we didn't know, we didn't know. A beard, everything he even put like a pillow to make himself have like a panza. He didn't have a panza.
Speaker 2Really yeah. And then to know that he's with the mayor.
Speaker 1I was like what the heck? And then I told the mayor I was like you know he does this. And she's like yeah.
Speaker 2It's gonna be a good show, dude, it's gonna be I think that's why you know it's gonna be a while the mayor was attracted to Wildcat Jackson. She's into dangerous stuff, she's into comedy or danger.
Speaker 1I don't know, but that was it that we, we were all shocked at the end of the night that it was him.
Speaker 3Yeah, like you have to. You have to see him like he's a very good entertainer and just very quick with jokes Like he. Like I was surprised on how quick he was with the crowd work that he was doing almost just like them taking notes.
Speaker 2We'll find out a little bit more about him because he's going to be doing something for all of us in February. He's been in comedy, he's done comedy clubs. I've had the chance to talk to him after the show and he's he's well versed in and comedy.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4He's done clubs, yeah he was really sharp.
Speaker 2Yeah, he was really sharp. He got me really good. But, yeah, I'm excited to have him again. Dude, it's going to be awesome. I mean Wildcat freaking Jackson. Dude, it's going to be telling you. Man, this show is going to be wild.
Speaker 3I can't wait. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2It's going to be a lot of fun, and that's what we hope for it to be fun, a great time it's going to be. It's going to be wild dude, wildcat Jackson, but happy M, okay dude.
Speaker 3Yeah, I had a fucking work.
Speaker 2Yeah, what kind of company do you work for? You don't have to say the name.
Speaker 3It's a medical company. Oh, okay, oh then yeah, you have to work. I mean, there's some people that did fucking did it. I don't understand.
Speaker 2Oh, really yeah, oh, you're needed in the company.
Speaker 3That's good Needed in the company.
Speaker 2What is it called? When you're essential, you're an essential worker.
Speaker 3I'm just that guy that just knows how to like pretend he's doing a lot of work, that's good, and then just goes hide in the bathroom for so long. And then that's when the ladies started talking to me, you know.
Speaker 1So it's true that you work with a lot of senoras.
Speaker 3Yeah, okay, I had a co-worker because she heard that joke and she was just like you're making your team sound a lot older than they are, but I'm like they are a little older than me, you know.
Speaker 1What are they like? Late 30s, early 40s?
Speaker 3There's some, I don't know. There's some that are probably like in their in their 50s and up. Okay, so there's a different variety, but there's a lot of senoras there.
Speaker 2You know A variety of senoras.
Speaker 3Yeah, I just don't know what you're gonna pick, you know?
Speaker 2It's a variety show.
Speaker 1I strike you, strike me as a senora guy, someone that would date an older woman.
Speaker 3Honestly at this point, whoever loves me, that's it, you know.
Speaker 2What's the oldest you dated before or hooked up with?
Speaker 3Um, I think I would say like four to five years older than me. Oh it's not that bad. Okay, hold on, but I'm open to you know senoras.
Speaker 2What is that?
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Speaker 3You asked me. I'm being honest. Okay, four to five, but like I would definitely take down a senora.
Speaker 1He's open ladies and gentlemen, You're what? 20, 20, 28.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, he's open ladies and gentlemen, yeah, he needs a cougar in his life.
Speaker 3I need to sling some snail. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2Sling some snail.
Speaker 3Some upside down snail.
Speaker 2Bro, I barely like the day of Fulerton. I imagined that and I was like it looks like a snow, like I can see that now. Yeah, I really thought about it. I thought about that like me, and I was just like, oh yeah, it does look like a snow.
Speaker 3Yeah, it takes some people a while. You know, it's that when we're just kind of like you had to think about it and then you picture it. Dude, that's always the best.
Speaker 2That's the best, where you're just like there's a laugh here and there and then you give the room a little bit to get it and they're like, oh, this is what he's talking about. I gotta run something by you before you leave. I wrote it like two days ago. I think it's fucking amazing, but I'll let you judge that Alright.
Speaker 3for sure, count me in.
Speaker 2It's really fucking fun. I was gonna talk to Johnny about it too, before you left, but no, it hasn't happened yet. Yeah, johnny wasn't here. Man, what are you talking about? Hasn't happened yet In the future, you mean yeah.
Speaker 3Are you from the?
Speaker 2future bro. What the fuck you didn't?
Speaker 1know that you just teleport from.
Speaker 2I'm back to the future.
Speaker 3You're like the Spider-Man, Spider-Man's friend.
Speaker 1Dude, you know who called me that. Did you hear it?
Speaker 2Were you there when somebody called me that? Oh, you were.
Speaker 3I think I was.
Speaker 2You were. It was Diego from Noble.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, fucking Diego.
Speaker 2Yeah, he was like give it up for Peter Parker's friend. He's just like you motherfucker.
Speaker 3Yeah, dude, fucking Jesus.
Speaker 1So what is your family think of? Comedy Of you doing stand-up.
Speaker 2Have you done it in front of your family before?
Speaker 3Okay, so my dad. I'm so blessed to have him. I'm blessed to have both parents, but my dad, actually, when he was in Mexico when he was a kid, he's always wanted to be a host or like a comic. So when I told him that I wanted to do this, he was just like do it, oh, that's cool Like his words that stick to me.
Speaker 3He's like mueren el intento, like die trying at least because I wasn't sure if I wanted to do this or not. He's like just try it, just try it. And he's seen me perform. He's been to a lot more of my shows than my mom and he's been very supportive. My mom, on the other hand, was just like I don't know what you're doing, this is kind of a waste of time. And then I get it. You know, I get it. I thought it was a waste of time at one point too, but it just makes me happy.
Speaker 3Comedy, doing stand-up makes me so fucking happy, man, and I understand the way she grew up. She didn't have the freedom to express herself like an art form, so I get it. So, but I just kind of like ended up dealing with it. She's been to one of my shows and the funny part is that she got fucked up that night at that show and I was like waiting for her at the end of the show to be like let's take a picture. She wanted to take a picture with two other comics and I was like fuck my son. I was just like thanks for all my full of love, you know, but yeah, it's all good. You know, and you know my siblings I don't know.
Speaker 2How many siblings do you have?
Speaker 3I got four. Oh sorry, three.
Speaker 2Three.
Speaker 3It's four, four of you guys.
Speaker 2Yeah, four of us, okay.
Speaker 3So they're all supportive with it. My group of friends, two men, fuck man Like I'm 10. I have blessed friends that just really believe in me and I don't know. Sometimes I'm like fuck man, like when I don't want to do this, like they always talk me into. Like no dude, like this is what you should be doing.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, I can see it, dude, because you're constantly writing, you're constantly going to mics, like you're doing everything that you hear that a comic should be doing when they first start right, yeah. Writing, a lot writing and writing and writing and doing open mics.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean still, like I said, writing is kind of the hard part for me, but like I'm always going over what I have and trying to see if I can switch it up. Sometimes, like I said, like ideas just pop right in the head. I'm just like, okay, I got to work this. I think it's funny.
Speaker 2I'm going to give you a gem and I'm going to give everybody else a gem. Look up Scott Dickers. Scott Dickers, Scott Dickers. S-c-o-t-t-d-i-k-k-e-r-s. I think he's the chief editor, or used to be the chief editor, in On the Onion. Have you heard of the Onion?
Speaker 3Yeah, it's like the priority of the news, like the news thing, right yeah.
Speaker 2So he was a chief editor of that and he has books out called how to Write Funnier, how to Write Funnier and how to Write Funniest Get on his sub-stack. It's free and he's amazing dude. Like his concept are real. I've used them. He has this whole thread with different comics. It's just, it's great dude. It's such good stuff. I've read his books like twice already.
Speaker 2Oh shit and it's just. They're just tips on how to write. You know how to write stand-up. It's not really stand-up. It's not how to write stand-up, but it's how to write prose, which is long form of comedy.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Like if you're going to write a script, if we're going to write a like a newsletter, like something like the Onion, but you can use those concepts in writing and it's helped fucking a lot, dude, yeah because I took a stand-up class, bro.
Speaker 3It was fucking crazy.
Speaker 3I was randomly like looking on Facebook and they had like a workshop, what I thought it was. It would be like what, like Sergio does at his private suite, where, just like you can kind of like talk to other comics and like go back and forth with ideas and stuff, but they were like literally breaking down the format of how to write a joke and then class. So it was like a four class, like four classes, and for me the price was like not bad, but it was all the way in fucking Temecula, whoa. So I'm driving from Whittier to Temecula like for four Sundays. It was worth it because, like the teacher for that was really great, he broke it down, you know, but and then at the end, like you're able to showcase your material, oh nice. So it was worth it. You know, I think it was a smart investment because at the same time, like you got to think yourself as a business, like you got to take classes or whatever or certain things to, like you know, build your skills up, and it did help me a lot.
Speaker 3It just is still like I still have some trouble spending, but it was. It was fucking awesome though.
Speaker 2Yeah, of course I mean you're, you're throwing yourself out there, you're being vulnerable to new information.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2You're not jumping into something. Oh, I know everything like nobody does.
Speaker 3I don't think I think in comedy you're just you'll never know everything. It's always going to be a learning experience.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3No matter how many years of experience you have. I think it was with anything.
Speaker 2Dude with anything. Starting anything new is always tough.
Speaker 3Either way, I think like you just have to have that mindset to like you can always get better.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 3If you have, if you have the mindset we're like no I'm, I fucking kill all the time Like you're not going to be able to grow.
Speaker 2Or you have to have the ability to say I fucking suck and I need to work on it. Work on stuff. You know that too, that, but that takes like guts, like you have to have so much self-awareness of you not being good at something.
Speaker 4And that's OK.
Speaker 3Yeah, that definitely does help too.
Speaker 2Right, like I, I bomb all the time and I enjoy it. Yeah, I really do.
Speaker 3I think once you, I think, I think once you're OK with bombing.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3OK, a little bit easier to get better.
Speaker 2I think the the site I hold on. Let me take that back. I am OK with bombing on new material.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2I think that's just one thing is you have to be comfortable with not everybody's gonna not everybody's gonna get it.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, because it like I remember like the first couple, like still being new into it, I would bomb. Sometimes I'm like fuck dude, like why am I doing this? Yeah but something just kept telling me just go for it, just keep going for it?
Speaker 1Yeah, of course, what's your? What's your like ideal goal? Like what? What do you? What do you want out of comedy? Do you want to just have it as a hobby or do you want to, like, make it like a career?
Speaker 3I would love to just quit my nine to five and do comedy. I love it so much but I know it's like a long process to do it, you know, and I also think it's like your will power of how far you want to go. But, like, if I can actually get paid to do comedy, I would definitely like that would be my dream job right there, because I've always liked to entertain people, like when my friends have like parted your stuff at their house. Like I'm always trying to host, I'm always trying to like make sure we're having a good time fucking, cracking jokes, doing stupid shit to make them laugh. You know, I think it's just being an attention whore satisfies me.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, that works. I like that for you. I like you being an attention whore. Thank you, you should keep doing it.
Speaker 1You should keep doing it, no but I think you have you're easy to connect with, like You're likable. Yeah, you're likable.
Speaker 2You have to be likable. A comedian has to be likable.
Speaker 1But not everyone. You could still do comedy and not know how to socialize in real life.
Speaker 2Right, that's me.
Speaker 3No, I think you're socialable. It's kind of like with me too when I'm drunk I don't talk to everybody. I kind of don't want to bother people. So like, if I feel like I talk to somebody, I'll talk to somebody, but like it's not because I think I'm the shit or whatever, but it's just I don't want to bother people when they're mingling around with other people. Like it takes, I guess, a certain energy from people that I can go up to and just start talking to them and just chat it up, but like, for the most part I'll stay quiet, just so I won't bother people, unless they talk to me, and it might be bad, but like that's how I just am.
Speaker 2I remember, I remember the first time I talked to you Like really first talked to you is I interrupted you and your coach and his wife on the top of the secret suite.
Speaker 3Yeah, that was funny, that was all good.
Speaker 2They were just talking, having a very like it looked like a very serious conversation, and I walked up and I don't know what I said, but I was just like interrupted.
Speaker 3I don't remember either, but I remember you're talking to us too.
Speaker 2I was like all right, I'm going to leave now.
Speaker 3I got to be over here, so yeah, who are some comics that, like you, look up to this?
Speaker 2is like the fifth. Quite, this is the fifth time I've asked this question.
Speaker 3But I'm asking you though Okay, the difference.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1You're getting interviewed.
Speaker 2Let's see. Let's see Mitch Hedberg, okay, steven Wright and Ronnie Dangerfield.
Speaker 3Oh nice.
Speaker 2Those are my top three all time. And Maria Bradford oh my gosh, she's so fucking amazing dude. She's a great entertainer.
Speaker 4Really yeah, is it?
Speaker 2weird that the comics that I look up to aren't Latino or Chicano. Is it weird?
Speaker 3You're Mexican. Yeah, I know I don't look it, but so like the comics, like okay, so I have to put one on the very top, but like I feel like that's his own category is Freddy Soto. I don't know if you've ever heard of him. He passed away Like.
Speaker 2Freddy, like prints the senior.
Speaker 1No, he said.
Speaker 2Soto, soto, oh, okay.
Speaker 3Yeah, he's fucking hilarious, bro. That's like the first.
Speaker 2Can you look at my bonus scene?
Speaker 3Bro, he's fucking great dude. Like that was the first special I seen. It was called the three amigos. It was Freddy Soto, pablo Francisco and then Carlos Mancia.
Speaker 2Dude, pablo Francisco fucking kills dude Little tortilla boy.
Speaker 4Yeah, but Freddy Soto is awesome yeah, oh man.
Speaker 3Look up, let's see if they have the one that's like regardless.
Speaker 2So, okay, so Freddy Soto, pablo Francisco, and who was it? Carlos Montilla, carlos Montilla.
Speaker 3That was the three of me was the first special I've ever seen. I was a kid watching it with my dad actually.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, was this before or after the Lion King's Accomedy?
Speaker 3Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 2Have you seen it?
Speaker 3before. Maybe I don't Really. I was a kid, I don't know. Lion.
Speaker 2King's Accomedy, George Lopez.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, it was Wave, it was Paul.
Speaker 2Rodriguez, joey Medina, who else? You have to look that one up too.
Speaker 3Honestly, I don't want to give like false information, but I'm pretty sure it was like around that time.
Speaker 2Who else Cheech Marine hosted that? Cheech Marine Fucking Cheech? I don't okay. I always bring up those three comedians, mitch Hadberg, stephen Wright and Ronnie Gingel, because I like their style being relatable. I can relate a little bit more to George Lopez and Paul Rodriguez, joey Medina, because they're Mexican and they talk about the stuff that my family is doing.
Speaker 3Yeah, okay. So, if you put it that way, freddy Soto is someone that I can relate to, like of his jokes and stuff, but like the three comics that, like I've seen live, that made me really want to do comedy, is Joey Diaz, adam Ray and Krista Stefano. And I mean Joey Diaz is Cuban but like the rest, of the foods are, you know, they're white.
Speaker 2Have you read his book yet?
Speaker 3I'm not done, Dude it is, it's good though, but what I read is good though.
Speaker 1So, good dude, wait, have you read it like paperback or audio?
Speaker 3No, I have the hardcover. You need to do audio. Audio is fucking dope.
Speaker 1He's narrating that. He's narrating.
Speaker 3Get up cocksucker, because it's all over.
Speaker 1Yes, it was one of those books that we were reading as we were commuting, because we had a commute all the way to Paramount, so it was about an hour there, an hour back, so we would do two hours a day of it Just fucking hear it.
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Speaker 2And it was like amazing. Yeah, yeah, it's one of those that it's. I want to listen to it again. It's classic because we always bring it up if you're going to, honestly, if we're we're talking about comedy books. Within the past year, two years, Tom Segura and Joey Diaz. Joey Diaz's books. Joey Diaz fucking killed it Like Tom Segura is great, but yeah. I won't discredit him as an author.
Speaker 3But Joey Diaz, his book is tremendous, dude Tremendous cocksucker.
Speaker 1It's so good. Yeah, really good.
Speaker 2So who do we have right here regardless? So this is his Freddy Soto, his Soto.
Speaker 3Maybe I just Just in peace.
Speaker 4Because my dad comes up with some shit. Man, he's got like his favorite English word. He says for everything, hey, regardless. He doesn't know what it means, he just likes to say it hey in the whole regard, and he'll just stick it into a word. Man, whether it belongs there or not. Hey, freddy, come over here, listen to me. Hey, on the barrel, on the side. We need to wax it on the side regardless. And on the bottom too, we. What did you say, man? Did you just throw it over regardless in there, for no reason? No for no reason regardless.
Speaker 4It means it. Come on, he's been doing it since I was a kid. He would ask me how to spell things for him. Hey, come over here. How many S's are there in the word shitkin? That's like an awesome rope. Shitkin. What the fuck are you talking?
Speaker 2about.
Speaker 4Shitkin, he gets pissed. I don't know, s8. Shitkin, how many I got that. What the fuck is man for? Oh?
Speaker 2that's amazing. Hell, yeah, hell yeah, dude. So look up at Lion King's Accomony. I want to see who else was on there, because I'm missing two other comics at least, or one. I don't remember if I seen that one, though it's really good. It came out in like 2000,. I want to say Again, like I was young, watching it, we were watching it. My mom was telling me to go to bed because of the shit that Joey Medina was saying. There it is, yes.
Speaker 3I remember George's special. There we go, paul.
Speaker 2Rodriguez, joey Medina, george Lopez, cheechmare, alex Raimundo that's who it was, alex Raimundo. Joey Medina is still around. He's still doing shows.
Speaker 3I think most of them aren't they? Paul Rodriguez, I think I've seen him on a few ads still.
Speaker 2We've seen him and we were able to take a picture with him. We're hanging out with him in the backstage area.
Speaker 3That's freaking dope.
Speaker 2They did a Chicano comedy at the Peacrow Comedy Fest. Chicano Comedy Fest at the Peacrow River Arena. Okay, it was Paul Rodriguez. Alfred Robles Martin Rizzo was hosting it. It was a great event. Martin Rizzo got us backstage passes to go hang out in the VIP area. It was awesome. We were able to hang out with and stand next to Paul Rodriguez. It was really cool.
Speaker 3That's dope. That's really cool.
Speaker 2Yeah, I met Joey Medina not too long ago. How many months ago was that?
Speaker 1I don't know, maybe like in August I asked them because they're at a panel.
Speaker 2It was Alfred Robles, joey Medina, what's the guy that you're going to open up for Jerry Garcia, jerry Garcia, he's on the label too, anyways, but they're at a panel and the host was like, okay, any more questions? I was like yeah.
Speaker 4I've been raising my hand.
Speaker 2They're like, okay, nobody has questions. I was like god damn it. I had a really good question too. My question was to Joey Medina, and I was able to run to go catch him before the end of the night. It was in front of everybody. He literally told me in my face. I asked him hey, joey, been a huge fan since I was a little boy. How do you know when you find and I started with, I'm a big fan, I love comedy. I'm thinking about doing stand up. I don't even think I started stand up and I asked him how do you know when you find your comedic voice? He told me it's going to take you 10 years.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2I was just like oh, okay, Is there a cheat code.
Speaker 3Is there a?
Speaker 2way that I can get there faster than 10 years. But yeah, that was his answer. I was like okay, I'll accept that as an answer.
Speaker 1I wonder if his answer to 10 years is like that because 10 years ago or even more, when he first started, there were all these outlets that there is now, there wasn't social media, there wasn't all these comedy shows popping up everywhere. I wonder if he stayed with that thought of hey, it took me 10 years to get where I was, but that was given the circumstances of that time, or just it's his rule of thumb 10 years and year season.
Speaker 2Could be.
Speaker 3I think every comic will probably tell you that 10 years?
Speaker 2Yeah, 10 years.
Speaker 3It's a long investment Because if you think about it, that's why a lot of comics push you should be doing multiple mics in one night. Because let's think about it, how do you feel about that? Honestly, I think it's tough because I have a fucking day job. I know we can make sacrifices and stuff, but in reality we still have bills to do. So I think if you just be consistent because even on Hot Breath that's what they say I don't know if you heard that podcast, hot Breath, he's great yeah, they just say be consistent, because it can be tough. There's some days that you might not want to do and you still have to go, or you might not, because sometimes if you go half ass, do you feel like you learned something from that Doing a fucking open half ass?
Speaker 2I should have not went to. So I did a book show and I was coming down with a cold. I should have just told the booker that A dude, I'm not going to show up because I felt like shit. I should have went that route instead of bombing with a cold on stage. I think I might have had COVID too, just spreading it. God damn it, the super spreader. Yeah, I believe it, I'm the super spreader. At all the open mics you have an open mic, I'm the super spreader.
Speaker 1Don't say that Ta-da, ta-da.
Speaker 2I got COVID, and the next comic after me is probably going to have COVID too.
Speaker 1How many open mics do you do a week? What's your rule, or it's just depending on week to week? It?
Speaker 3depends week to week, but for sure it's at least three. If I can hit more then I will. I've done it where I've done multiple mics in a night and it is tiring but you got to do it.
Speaker 2It is right. I feel like quality over quantity.
Speaker 3I also think it's just you got to do your own fucking path. Yeah, you can do the same route that, let's say, jo and Medina did, and then you might not find success in it. So, if you do it the way you do, as long as you're happy and shit, you're not bothering anybody who cares. It's the same thing when people try to give you advice of comedy and stuff. You get a pick and choose. What you want to take in, what you don't.
Speaker 1Yeah. Yeah because you're right, because they're telling you this certain way, or they think that it works. It doesn't necessarily work for you or for everyone. So comedy and the road to comedy is not.
Speaker 2It's not very funny, it's not made for one person.
Speaker 1It's subjective for very many.
Speaker 2It's so funny. It's not fun. Joke writing is not fun. It's hard work and that's what most people don't get.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, I don't know. A lot of people say too, I wouldn't have the balls to go on stage. I think, as long as you're having fucking fun up there, you'd be a little bit vulnerable. Talk about some shit that not a lot of people will like. You'll be okay, you'll be, funny You'll be how you guys say like likeable and stuff. Be honest, Be honest yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2Talk about some real shit.
Speaker 1But I still think, like I don't know how you guys do it, because I couldn't. Yeah, I could be funny. I'm funny with my family. I'm funny with my friends, with my cousins. I'm the one that's always making people laugh. I can approach people. I'm social.
Speaker 2Amber's funny.
Speaker 1Amber's really funny.
Speaker 3Should she go on stage? No, she won't. I could never.
Speaker 1I could never go on stage.
Speaker 3Or sir.
Speaker 1No, Jesus, he's like ah push me out on the sleeve.
Speaker 1But I could never, because I haven't got to the point in my life and I don't know if maybe you guys are there or you act like you're there, but I'm not to the point where I could take criticism. I mean I can't, I can't. I can take criticism I'm not gonna lie, but not 100% and I can't take someone not laughing at my joke or you know, like like that's a skill in itself, like yeah, you can go up there, you can write jokes, you can do everything, but also your reaction and the way that you and yourself internally take all of that, that's a skill too, because I couldn't.
Speaker 3Yeah, it can be tough, a little bit of thick skinning for comedy, especially because there's some people that try to give you advice but it's not like honest advice, like they're trying to be dicks about it. So that's why I just say, like you got to pick and choose what the fuck like you know whatever, and just have thick skin. Just If you're happy doing this shit, just keep doing it. That's it. And anything if you're happy doing it where there just be like this, just drawing, fucking do it. Life's too short.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah. If you have the ability to do something, the why not do it Right?
Speaker 3Yeah, a shot on yourself because like, literally, like, and I say Joey Diaz is one of the Like inspirations of doing comedy, but he really like helped me figure myself out, even in his fucking, like those videos that he does. You know like, oh, wake up, cocksucker. And you know like, yeah, all those stuff like it made me take a shot of myself. And taking shot myself was Doing comedy. I've always want, I've always wanted to do it. I just didn't know, like I didn't know I was trying to do different things, that I go into school, like that's the school route, like you have to go to college to get a good job and stuff like. But school wasn't for me. It was fucking hard and it was stressful. So, you know, and comedy is like literally the only thing I look forward into doing, like we can, week in, week out.
Speaker 1Isn't it, isn't it crazy, like, like you right your first generation here, because you said your parents or were born in Mexico or were they born here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, well yeah.
Speaker 1Well, my mom was born.
Speaker 3I'm almost born here, but she was raised in Mexico City. Okay and then my dad was born in Mexico City. But you know, but you can't, yeah.
Speaker 1But your first generation you know, which is what I'm trying to get and I think that, like a lot of times, being first-gen and I always say this, I feel like I am repeating myself, but I always says I think for first-generation Generations like it's tough.
Speaker 1No, I think it's tough to I don't want to say pave the way for yourself, but the expectations of like knowing that your parents came to this country to give you a better life, and quote better life in in a Latino or any minority household of like immigrants, a better life is like working right.
Speaker 1Like be a doctor or go to work, make a lot of money, even if you're not a doctor, but something right, whether it's working, making money or maybe even your education, like that. That's what paving your way and being successful looks like but the arts are never, are never, put in front of anything like that, like being artistic or doing any type of art, whether it's comedy, painting, writing, anything that that's like playing guitar. Yeah, anything it, that's a hobby. Yeah that's seen as a hobby.
Speaker 3I just think it's literally like you got to think about it. You got to think about a bullseye. Basically that's how I kind of came to terms with it. Is that like their parents didn't teach him anything like that? You know, it was the same shit. I get you guddle it. You have to work. You're sick, go to work, doesn't fucking matter. You need to make money to pay bills. So like to find that artistic outlook or, you know, career choice, like it's very like Unheard of for them, you know, because they were never able to do that as kids.
Speaker 1Yeah, absolutely I guess.
Success and Life Choices Across Generations
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know. I'm third generation. I got a two decade advantage. Two generation Because, like, like, america is bad.
Speaker 1I can't speak for, like Americans or people that are here for for generations, right, but from what I see, like you know, like a lot of American culture, like you know, a lot of their kids are artists or or whatever. Whatever my kid does to be happy, you know, yeah, and and it sucks. But again, like you said, that that that's the mentality and it's been passed down from generation to generation to generation. Is your success is measured by monetary sense of of what you have, or is that good or bad?
Speaker 2I?
Speaker 1Mean, I guess I could go both ways right.
Speaker 2I don't know, because you can have a lot of money, yeah, and still do hobbies. But but you can be very like, you can be very Hating life because you've only chased the money and you necessarily didn't do anything that you want to do.
Speaker 3Yeah, I agree, I agree with that right.
Speaker 2Like there's people out there that are on their death bed. I wish I never worked so much or whatever. See, I wish I never. I wish I would have you know traveled more traveled more. Fuck this guy. In Finland I should have hung out more, you know. I mean I should have did more open mics or something like that.
Speaker 3You got to live life without regrets.
Speaker 2I should have got that tiger army tattoo.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I shot a tiger army right here look.
Speaker 2You have to to tiger army.
Speaker 3Oh, it's on this side, it's on this side.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, like like when you when girls started doing comedy and then he's like, yeah, bro, I want to do this to me.
Speaker 2It was like if he was like telling me that he was gay and leave me, no, not, not not not to be like you wait, hold on, she's like you want to go to open mics on Thursday night. No, not to me you want to tell jokes on stage. That is so homosexual.
Speaker 1No wait. What I meant was like it was the equivalent to that of me Thinking just the thought of that I had to tell my parents.
Speaker 2Hey.
Speaker 1Gilbert wants to become a comedian dude. Oh, I'll tell you it felt like I was the one telling them.
Speaker 4He's gay.
Speaker 2Now that there's anything wrong with that but, you know what I mean, what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I just.
Speaker 2I gave her dad a hint that I liked comedy and one of them was hey, you know the the guys cuz Ambers family has a coffee shop. There's a comedy show there once a month they've been doing it for over a year now and One of the night we always go, right, the guys are awesome, something coming shout out and we always go and I love it. And I told her dad hey, like jokingly, hey, they wanted me to go up tonight. But they took. They told I told them I'm gonna do it next month. I told them that joking and he knows I like to kid and he told me was like nah, you don't want to do that, like he told me.
Speaker 3I did. I feel like that's such a fucking like right, typical like.
Speaker 2I know, I know because we never talked about it after. But Throughout those months, like he started noticing right, like it was around the time where Amber kept the podcast, like she was gay, like she, we were closeted podcasters up until like two months ago, or how long how many like in September up? Until September, like we were Closeted podcasters. She didn't tell her dad that we had a full-on operation studio in here.
Supportive Family and Perseverance in Comedy
Speaker 1Like we had a full-on studio and we have guests, because I Made up a scenario in my brain that that again, I this is what. What I was making up in my brain was that these are, these aren't things that people do. You know, we have to work, we have to do this, and not that my parents have ever said that, but I just I don't know why. I don't know why I made that in my brain. So to me it was like the less you know about my life, the better, and you're not disappointed, if if it's anything to be disappointed about. So I kept it for them a long time, until one day that I was like, all right, we do a podcast. And he's like, oh really, that's cool. Oh, you should do this and this and this.
Speaker 2And I was like, dang it, I should have told you earlier, like I didn't know that was gonna be your reaction, that you really be so excited for us but now I will say this that her parents and her dad especially, is probably the most supportive people that I Mean that are the most supportive people in and what we do, especially comedy dude. Yeah, like they my first time that I did my comedy in front of them like it was nerve-wracking.
Speaker 2I'm telling you that's why, like, being on stage is one thing in front of strangers, but doing it in front of your family is totally different your girlfriend's family, how I haven't done my comedy in front of my family, which is gonna be totally crazy, because You've heard my stuff and it's like half of it is about like my, my immediate family, not really like my aunt and uncle's yeah well, the the new stuff has aunt and uncle stuff in there thrown in there, but it's just, it's crazy, it's, but it's.
Speaker 2It's good to know that you're, the, the people that are around you are very supportive of you and it makes it so much easier.
Speaker 3Yeah, no, that's, that's definitely true. Like I Think after that show that my mom went to, she doesn't really give me shit for it anymore. Right, I think she sees that I'm more consistent in like that night, like I didn't make people laugh and stuff, and I think just by her not saying anything negative, is her being like okay, I'm okay with this. Yeah, but it is nice when you have support of your family and friends where, like, when you feel like you're ready to give up on something, like they're the ones that talk you out, oh yeah.
Speaker 3Because sometimes you know you're your own enemy. Sometimes, oh yeah, your, your mind can tell you a lot of shit until, like, you hear it from someone else and then you just remind yourself, like no, I keep doing this.
Speaker 2What do you what? What's usually the, the, the saying or the, the reference, that like when you're ready to quit something, like, do you ever get that like Times where you're ready to throw in the towel and you hear this phrase, or you look at a picture, or you watch this movie, or you read this book, or you watch this podcast? Like what? What keeps you going every day?
Speaker 3damn. Um, I, I gotta give it up to Joey Diaz a lot, dude, like, yeah, joey Diaz, I'm telling you like he helped me, like it's just, it's just, you know how he talks to he's in those like motivational videos. I'm like just like like talking hard to himself. Like that's what I remember, like always remember when I'm ready to quit, like no, like you, like come on, cocks, look like you got to keep on going. Like you got to put your fucking. Like get up, you're a fucking Marine, you know.
Speaker 3And I also think about what my dad says like dude, you got to die trying. Yeah, like only you can take yourself as far as you want to take yourself. So that's what I kind of just remember and like I just remember that I love doing this. Like it's it's so much fucking fun being able to Experience the good and the bad of comedy, like bombing on stage, and like kind of coming back the next week and being like that didn't work last week but this week it's gonna work. Or when you fucking kill. When you kill, it's just that adrenaline that you get in here like, oh, dude, I, I can fucking.
Speaker 3I can't sleep sometimes I just I can't sleep me, neither I'm.
Speaker 2I rewatch my fucking set even when I'm, when I bomb, I can't sleep because I'm, I'm. I Sit down and I rewrite stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah or or I listen to the audio like over and over, and I was like, no, I should have Emphasize this, I should have done this movement, I should have you know. I mean, like the wheels start turning. Yeah, you're just like fuck, okay, all right. All right, I fucked this up this time. But you know what? It's fine, because there's gonna be another open mic, there's gonna be another day, there's gonna be another opportunity for me To bomb again, but that's fine, that's fine. You just keep going, dude, and that's the way. The way it works. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3Yeah, I can definitely Relate to that. Yeah, cuz there's nights where either have a good set and I'll just watch the video or bats, and it's like fuck, what can I do. Or I'll start thinking in my head like on the way back home, like this didn't work, what, what can I do differently, you know? And then you can stay up fucking all night trying to figure this shit out. It's a puzzle. Yeah, it's a puzzle. That's how Josh Wolf had said it one time in a fucking podcast.
Speaker 3Like comedy is a puzzle, you just gonna figure out how you're gonna you know solve that puzzle.
Speaker 2What are your favorite comics right now?
Speaker 3Well, like I said, it's you said.
Speaker 2Andrew Santino, earlier today with Bobby Lee.
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Speaker 3I can, I'd help out this. Like, the podcast that I like listen to is like Bad friends, like so that's Andrew Santino and fucking Bobby Lee right, your mom's house. Fucking Tom Segura and Christina Pizzitski Anything fucking comedic wise I'll listen to, but like Favorite comics it just has to be Joe Ideas, adam Ray and Krista Stefano. Like those are the guys that I don't get tired of hearing and there's other great ones, it's just those are ones that I relate to the most.
Speaker 2I'm trying to remember. I think I brought him brought him up the last time, but the? Do you remember his name? He was on mark Norman's podcast with comedy. Yeah, dude, he's fucking amazing.
Speaker 3Oh, I gotta give a get, a, give a shout out to Mikey. Mikey, he's gonna be on guys night with me and he he's really tight with the mark Norman. I don't know what type, but like he's like that's one of his idols and I I see him and I'm like dude, like he's so fucking funny. It reminds me of Mark Norman, like he's really funny.
Speaker 2Oh, mark Norman's funny. Yeah, steve, I'm trying to remember the the dude that like jerked off a trans person At skankfest. Do you remember the name of the comic?
Speaker 3are you severe no.
Speaker 2No, can you look it up, joe de Rosa? Yeah, dude, he's great, he's great.
Speaker 3He did jerk off a fucking tranny. Oh my god.
Speaker 2At skankfest. I think it was last year, but I was re. No, it was in December.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think it was somewhere on that time.
Speaker 2Yeah, because he was, he did, we are, we are drunk with Mark Norman and I forgot the other guy's name. Sorry, dude, but he he was talking about it. I was like what the fuck is going on in this thing.
Speaker 3It's crazy how a podcasting has taken over like Like during the pandemic dude.
Speaker 4I love all podcasting.
Speaker 3That's all I fucking heard during work, dude, and that fucking like saved me from boredom, bro, when I was working during the fucking. Why don't you?
Speaker 2start a podcast. I think I'm, I'm doing, I'm doing Whatever it might be. Oh, there we go. We might be drunk with Sam morrow. Oh, okay, there we go. Thanks, Jay.
Speaker 3Let me stop you there. So I've always so I wanted to start a podcast before doing stand-up. Mm-hmm, I just didn't know how the fuck to start. Okay that's the thing, and I've had ideas of names like and the only thing that stuck with me is ominous with Ricky November Omnos podcast with Ricky November.
Speaker 2I think you you posted something. I thought you already had one for some reason.
Speaker 3I like did two episodes, one with my buddy Willie and then one with my buddy Andres. One wasn't the fucking Jim Brown, like you can't hear anything, you know like, because I don't know. I just was like fuck it, we'll just have a conversation like I could talk about. But I just I tried doing it myself and I just felt stressed out because I was. I was like trying to do open mics, writing, and then trying to do the Whoa we'll do it.
Speaker 2Yeah, we'll do it, we're gonna. We're gonna do it. Comedy podcast it is do you want it to be comedy, or?
Speaker 3I just want to do it with fucking whatever, like just have conversations like this, it'll be fun. Make it fun, that's it.
Speaker 2I'm doing. I'm doing this thing where I'm making other people start podcasts.
Speaker 3Yeah, dude fucking down.
Speaker 2You down for that, amber.
Speaker 1I'm down, I just like doing this dude.
Speaker 2It's just really fun for me, like if we me and Amber used to have a podcast, like last year. We called it on our way and we did it in the car. You know, it's fucking fun, like we got the most views that this channel has ever gotten really because of that, because of that Podcast? What is Sergio saying?
Speaker 1He said I'll start with one with you, ricky, we'll have it at the private suite.
Speaker 3There you go, I think, first guest. I think he just wants to sleep with me at the private suite. He wants to see your sweet private he wants to show me the shower babies. Why is he? Why does?
Speaker 2he call it the private suite because of that Like he wants to see your private steam and it's not, and not even spelled like like hotel suite.
Speaker 3It's sweet, like isn't sweetness. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and there's like a big hole in the wall. I don't know what the fuck sir Joe does on his time.
Speaker 2I don't want to know what he does. Actually, I do want to know what he does.
Speaker 1Through me off when he said a big hole.
Speaker 2Oh my god. He said that I'm, I'm the. What did he say that?
Speaker 1Hey, sir Joe, we, we, you said we were gonna do it. He's over here promoting his services.
Speaker 2What do you say? He has all the equipment. No, you don't fool, don't lie, we're over here saying we'll produce it for him.
Speaker 1I.
Speaker 3Don't know, mind buzz productions and sweet productions, I don't know.
Speaker 2What do you say, gil? You've never not bombed. Well, you're, well, you're, hold on, you're, you're the, you're the bombing expert. Have you seen your act?
Speaker 3I want to give a shout out to a J J the loner. That's one of my homies right there. He just started doing comedy and I think he has a lot of potential and I just hope that he continues. I want to see his stuff. Dude, he's funny dude, I think he just it. Just he just needs experience, that's it. He just needs to go keep doing open mics and do podcasts. Yeah, I told all the do pot. He's like dude talking for an hour. I don't know if I could do that.
Speaker 2Anybody can do it. Yeah, anybody. Do you think anybody can do it, or is it just a skill that you have to?
Speaker 1I don't think anybody can do it.
Speaker 2I'm sucked.
Speaker 3I think anybody can do it until they go up there, and if they feel like they can't do it, then don't do it.
Speaker 2No, I'm talking about like a podcast. Oh, podcast, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4I mean yeah, I thought you're talking about podcasting, I think.
Speaker 2Or is it just talking?
Speaker 3I think it's just talking. I think it just depends. It depends because there's an audience for everybody, you know, yeah, so it's like you gotta find your own audience. What is the footstep? The podcast would be the mad bombers. The mad bombers, charlie.
Speaker 2I don't know about that. What else do you got on your list?
Speaker 3I got my dates coming up for. Oh, we don't need that not yet.
Speaker 4Not yet.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, that's all I have disregard that oh my god, what, what.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, do what? Keep doing comedy. He just started, he just needs to keep doing it.
Speaker 1I don't even know who he is, but you go, you got a cheerleader right here.
Speaker 3You go girl, let's go girl.
Speaker 1I'm everyone's cheerleader.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I like to see people succeed me to. I really do, at least try.
Speaker 3You know, a lot of people like there's shit that I tell people at times are like oh, you know, like fucking school, whatever right, it's like okay, but like experience other shit. Like I, when I was going to fucking Cyprus College, I Was going to try to be a fucking athletic trainer, but I'm horrible at math and I needed a fucking certain math level to get to the science. So I switched to become a PE teacher and during that PE teacher fucking studies, whatever. I took a Beatmaking class.
Speaker 2Do you have PE teacher energy? For sure?
Speaker 3Yeah, I got the fucking body for it too, Do you dress?
Speaker 2you dress like a PE teacher, a slutty PE teacher. You know what I thought the other day when I had like even now I feel like I'm one of those. I'm dressing now like one of those uncles that dress like athletic but are not very athletic Because you're making me grow my hair. That's why, if I was bald, I wouldn't we wouldn't have that problem, I think gilly gives me the vibes like a fool.
Speaker 3The Smiths are playing this weekend or the Smiths Cover band is playing this week in a way to go. You gave me rock ability vibes for sure, dude. Yeah, even when I was bald.
Speaker 2Yeah, really skinhead, true, yeah, oh yeah, we talked about it, cuz there there's something about Whittier dude, that is just rock ability, psycho, billy infuse, because you're from Whittier, I'm from Whittier. I think that's why we hit it off at the beginning.
Speaker 3Yeah, dude, I know we were fucking Alumni, or. Lancers or Lancers, bro, yeah, you know what's so fucking crazy about Lucerna dude.
Speaker 3So a lot of those fucking like people that I fucking grew up with like they hated being Mexican. If you would call it Mexican, like, don't fucking call me Mexican, I'm no beater. And now a lot of them are all into the fucking Corridos. Don't buy. Was on this shit. All the Latino fucking her Did. The fucking came out. I don't understand it. You know how many times I got told go back to your country. Like oh, fucking 10, like 10 times a week, bro, and I'm like I was born here. Did you get the fuck?
Speaker 2Lucerna would do that for you. You know Lucerna has this energy. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't get, I didn't like it at all, dude, when I got listen here. Let me tell you something, joe listen here, joe organ wasn't when I went. When I went to a certain I Was down there.
Speaker 3I think it's in the this you know Joe organ when I was a Lucerna Lancer. Those women, you know, those teenagers, this blonde bitches you ever seen a blonde bitch in short shorts with their monkey hanging out?
Speaker 2The monkey. That's not bad. Do you know what? What episode is? My all-time favorite is between Joe Rogan, tom Segura and and that fucker Joe ideas, joe Diaz, dude, yeah, I think you know which one. I'm talking about when he talks about the story of him in the bus and he farts or something Like that, and they're like, oh no, he's changing flavors changing flavors Joe. Rogan's dying. Yeah, tom Segura is fucking dying. Dude, that's like the all-time best. Yeah podcast episode in the world I.
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Speaker 3Just love that food. That was that food. Something else that like the reason why I liked him, cuz I remember, like when I seen him at the brain improv, he was talking about how he liked seeing his wife in yoga pants and the way he was just talking about it I'm like dude, that's fucking me. He's like, oh, my wife when she wears yoga pants, oh, oh, oh, especially when she's also ready.
Speaker 3I just grab a right with the monkey and then sniff my fingers like a fucking savage. I'm just like that's fucking me if I had a wife bro.
Speaker 2Yeah, he talks about stuff that is so fucking off the one. He's such a great storyteller dude, yeah, oh my god, I wish he would come out and and do shows.
Speaker 3Yeah, I really wish I could see him again.
Speaker 2That'd be fucking awesome, you've seen him before.
Speaker 3Yeah, I've seen him, like I said, at the brain improv. It was probably like a few years ago. He had a George Perez feature firm and I think, fuck, I forgot the other comics name that opened up from, but he was funny too. He's a. He's a Muslim comic, I believe. Muslim yeah, I forgot his name.
Speaker 2Muslim. Are you allowed to call people Muslim? Yeah?
Speaker 3you are.
Speaker 2I don't know, I thought it was like he says it.
Speaker 3He says it. He says it, what's, but what's Muslim?
Speaker 1Religion.
Speaker 2Oh, I thought it was like a derogatory no no, no, I thought it was like. I thought it was like no, like a nationality. So when you're Muslim, it's like somebody saying oh, I'm Christian.
Speaker 1Yeah, like you're a Christian.
Speaker 2Yeah, sure.
Speaker 1Yeah, cuz you could be Muslim and be from other countries.
Speaker 3Mm-hmm. You can be Mexican and just become Muslim, if you want to If you wanted to.
Speaker 4You what?
Speaker 3is it? I'm trying to read what fucking uh Sergio saying.
Speaker 2If you want it.
Speaker 1I don't know you said kill your hair is derogatory.
Speaker 3Yeah, it is, it's growing, At least you don't put like fucking thousands of gallons of Moko the gorilla in your hair, dude.
Speaker 1Just look it back.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah Now. Yeah, it's coming. I'm going for the spiky look first, so I'm gonna go. I'm gonna do Five stages of lesbian here. So the first stage was me being bald, you know. And then the second part is like okay, I just got out of jail. I just I just met my girlfriend that I've been riding In prison for a very long time, right, and that that's where the stage I'm at right now. But I think in the next couple months I'm gonna be at the spiky stage where I'm gonna paint it red yeah.
Speaker 1I'm in my uh, mullet stage.
Speaker 3right now I'm trying to let the mullet grow.
Speaker 1You do? You have hair.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1I don't think I've ever seen you with that a hat.
Speaker 2He's, he does it all the time.
Speaker 3I mean, can I turn it back? Oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, my mom fucking hates his haircut. She thinks she she tries to like see, like, oh my god, you look like fucking best of blue mom over here, fucking Morgan Wallen and shit they.
Speaker 1Little George Washington tail on the back.
Speaker 3That's right. I'm fucking presidential in this bitch.
Speaker 1Gail. One time let his hair grow out like that, like I wish I could put up the picture. But I had the George Washington look, he let his hair grow out and then that's right at the ends.
Speaker 2It was like curly but it was like long if you find, if you find it, to share it to the I don't it's like three years ago, I know but if you share it to the Mac and then take the picture and drag it into, oh yes, and he thought he was cool and he looked like George Washington the whole time bro, you remember in high school oh, I don't know if it was, it was for sure my like high school years, when you had the fucking Full-hawk with the rat tail.
Speaker 3I used to fucking have had the haircut for such a long. Oh yeah, oh hell yeah and it's the fucking shuffle and shit Hell.
Speaker 2Yeah, dude, oh the. That's the spiky hair that I'm gonna go for it. You should do it, bring it back.
Speaker 4Fucking erase your head and shit yeah you should bring it back.
Speaker 3That was great.
Speaker 2Yeah, I well, I had a mohawk with the rat tail. I Can see it for like two days. But then I was like this is like really chunty. I don't think I should be Spanish, yeah, but it was a cool mohawk. I, yeah, I had a. I had a rat tail, I think it was like that one.
Speaker 3That's crazy. Mine was my curls, so it wasn't that long.
Speaker 2It's not bad.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's not the length, okay, so you rock it. Yeah.
Speaker 1I had like one side of my hair was like super short, like up to like my chin, and then the other side Was like long up to like my shoulder, so kind of like wrapped around. And then I did like blonde. And I remember because I would go Get my hair cut in and sonata my mom's from in Sena, so I would go like all the time and I would go with the ladies and I'd be like, alright, I want you to chop off all one side. And she was like I know, no, no, no. And I was like I'll cut all the way to the other one, I'll let go. And then she's like no, but come on, come on, no, no, no, no, no, this is a mama, and my mom wouldn't go with me because I would come, like you know, with my aunt and stuff and I like my mom is not here, just chop it off. And then she like consulted three other adults at the hair salon until they were like, well, that's what she wants, that's what she wants, and then she cut it dude.
Speaker 2That was always the conversation between me and the barber. Always dude, cuz that's a wild, crazy hair. I was always. You know what's crazy.
Speaker 3My mom fucking hated that I got piercings, but she was okay with me dying. Yep, piercings. Ice that plugs. Oh okay and then I remember when I had my mohawk or my foe Hawk, whatever. I remember dying one side.
Speaker 2Yeah, call it a foe Hawk Please, because that's that you don't have to. You don't have the right to call it right.
Speaker 3But yeah, she'd let me dye it fucking red and have no problem with that. But fucking piercings is horrible. You know how to shuffle. Not anymore, bro. The only thing I show was my tits.
Speaker 1There we go. Is your mama Rocker?
Speaker 3No, she's no cheese.
Speaker 1I don't know, I don't know how to scream mom because I feel like people from Mexico City are more in tune with the shillangos.
Speaker 3I lose my shillangos baby Like being rocker.
Speaker 1Oh, you know, I think that's cool.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean, no, I don't know it's she. She has her own style, let's put it that way. But I think maybe that's why, because she did like rocking his bunion and stuff.
Speaker 1So that's cool.
Speaker 2I had a friend that his dad picked me up and, well, like he picked both of us up from school, like after school, and and I had a leather jacket, it was painted, I had studs all over at my mohawk, my Doc Martins, my tight jeans. He picked me up and and I don't know Spanish and his they were Talking to each other and it was really intense and I was like a dude. Is is everything okay.
Speaker 2Like. He's like. He's like yeah, my dad just wants to make sure that you're not a gang member. And I was like, why? Like what are you talking like? I don't, I don't, I don't understand what you're talking about. He's like yeah, it's because. And then his dad like started like and Spanish to him, like talking to him like crazy, crazy. I was like, oh fuck, like this was gonna kick me out, like I I'm not gonna get it right home after walk, and it's because his dad knew English.
Speaker 2So his dad knew what I was asking and he was like it's, like it's because where I'm come, when I come from in Mexico, gang members don't look like the gang members here in the United States. They look like you. And he told me that I was like Bro, I'm just trying to get a ride home, dude.
Speaker 3So, About that ride. So I get home, bro. That's it. What is it?
Speaker 2with my friends, parents that were always this like weird.
Speaker 3I don't know. I don't think they know what you are. I think you have to self identify yourself.
Speaker 2Before. I'm a man, I'm a male.
Speaker 3Sometimes, sometimes, I want to be a lesbian, you know sometimes, dude, I'm a they them.
Speaker 2I think it's my they them joke.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2I'm that confuses them a little bit.
Speaker 1I think your friends didn't dress like you. Right so their parents were like yeah, they're like what the fuck?
Speaker 3What is that?
Speaker 2Probably. And then they're probably thinking like is this a boy or a girl? Like I'm, honestly. And then now, like that was early 2000, so you, it wasn't as open as it wasn't as open as now. So it was like okay, this kid, he's wearing tight everything, everything, just tight on him. He has colored hair. He. What else that I had like?
Speaker 1you had. There's a picture where you had like suspenders and they were rainbow.
Speaker 2But that was like in my early 20s but still I'm saying like that was my college.
Speaker 3Many days.
Speaker 1That was the no, but I think, cuz you've always worn what you want to wear, you don't care like you're not of stereotypes but people didn't understand that's. You see, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3I respect it cuz I remember used to fucking hop on every fucking trend that was that was in during the time, like remember, I don't remember the jerking movement, like, like jerk, like you know the reject.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3I used to do that shit too fucking Skinny jeans and then like the high-top Nike's and fucking bright colored shit, you know. Then I was like a fucking greaser at one point. I used to hop on the trends dude.
Speaker 1I went through my phases too.
Speaker 3Yeah, I.
Speaker 1Mean, we're just trying to figure out who we want to accept gilly.
Speaker 3Gilly knew who the fuck he was, yeah he stuck to his gun, damn it.
Speaker 2I'm still trying to figure out who I am right now.
Speaker 1I don't think you've ever said like oh, I've worn Jordans or I've worn this or that, like in.
Speaker 2Seventh grade I didn't wear Jordans cuz I couldn't afford them. I could afford, however, fat farms. You remember fat? Farms fat farms were the Sickest coming back. Are they really?
Speaker 1Yeah, I had a pair of shacks before.
Speaker 2Fat farm was that was. It was fat farm rock aware and dickies.
Speaker 3I remember the G unit brand echo the G unit brown. Yeah, I had G unit fucking.
Speaker 2Echo.
Speaker 1Echo was good the G unit belt and he's suspended.
Speaker 2It was like a dude, everything spin.
Speaker 3Like fucking John Cena's belt and shit championship belt dude.
Speaker 2Everything back in the early 2000s spinned like everything. Remember the rims, spinners, spinner rims, your belt spins oh the belt that I always wanted.
Speaker 1I'm kind of glad I didn't get it, but maybe, no, maybe I wanted it was. Do you guys remember when? Well, this is like party.
Speaker 2Spin class party crew days yeah no, it was like the belts.
Speaker 1You know how everybody wore like really big belts, but it was the belts that had the marquee I.
Speaker 3Gotta see it. Pull them up yeah pull them up.
Speaker 1So it was a bell. And then it had like a little screen and then it had like a marquee. You know like marquees.
Speaker 3Oh my god, I know what the fuck you're talking about now. Yes, well, you can put whatever you want on that, yeah, and it would come out. Yeah, like the LED lights, right, yeah?
Speaker 1So the guys in my, in my high school, because it was, you know, the Party crews or whatever, so they would put their party crew name on the belts.
Speaker 2I'll be back together.
Speaker 1Watch, let me show you I got a pee you good.
Speaker 2Do you want another water now? I'm good, right now.
Speaker 3Thank you, make sure you wipe Okay.
Speaker 1Try one of the what is it.
Speaker 3Yeah, fuck it, I'll try it.
Speaker 1I don't know what to type in. I don't know what. They're called Delta with.
Speaker 3LED lettering Screen there you go.
Speaker 1Yeah, those were like ever for that shit. Thank you. I Always wanted one of these. I.
Speaker 3Always wanted a fucking. I wanted a grill. Everyone as a kid, I wanted a grill. So fucking bad. Shout out to fucking Paul wall and fucking Nelly when the song came out Hell yeah.
Speaker 1Do you remember? I remember stuffing your shoes, oh, my god.
Speaker 3Yeah, I did it a couple times. But I didn't, I didn't, I didn't do, I didn't do it that much, but I remember I did it with like a couple per shoes ahead, but not as much when you should put socks right. So what?
Speaker 1what year did you graduate high school?
Speaker 32013?.
Nostalgia, Wrestling, and Fetishes
Speaker 1Oh, so you're a couple years After me. I got it, oh, eight. Okay, yeah you were still there, but I mean you. You remember some of those.
Speaker 3Yeah, I remember well, because I had over over something. I'm the baby of my family.
Speaker 1So so you saw your siblings yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, especially with fucking like those big-ass belt bookers. I remember had like a famous, I don't remember that and famous stars. Yeah, I had the big old F.
Speaker 1Yeah, people got that like tattooed.
Speaker 3Yeah. I almost did like. I Don't know. I you know how some people say like oh, they should have waited to get their tattoos. Like I have really no regrets with my tattoos. Yeah, I mean either like I have a fucking rubber duck in my inner arm, and that's my favorite. That's my favorite tattoo at the open mic.
Speaker 1Oh, you showed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3Whoever won that contest for the ugly sweater my dad.
Speaker 1Wow, rigged what the heck floating head back there. My dad won it. We don't want to say it was my dad. We don't want to say he was my dad, but well, what did he win? Um, we had like a little gift. Yeah, it was like a like a. No, it was like a comedy, like flash card thing and then like a gift card.
Speaker 3You guys should make him go up on stage reciting that flash card thing.
Speaker 1They were dad jokes.
Speaker 3It was called dad even better, it's your dad saying dad jokes, why not oh?
Speaker 1dad, they want to see you on stage. He's gonna hear this.
Speaker 2Okay, so what are we looking at?
Speaker 3The belt, the belt, the belt buckles that she was talking about that doesn't spin, but it was that.
Speaker 2It was that one the spinner one.
Speaker 1This is the one that had the lights, so people would wear them and then they would put their party crew Name on there.
Speaker 2What are yours finest, yep?
Speaker 1No, the on there that with the spinner.
Speaker 2I want to see that about the jury, to show it. Okay, I'm gonna say the spinner bow.
Speaker 1Wait, why is it showing?
Speaker 3It's cuz, that's the. That's the only spinner about you should be talking about when you see a spin.
Speaker 2Tom is up. My Tom is now. Did you ever?
Speaker 3watch wrestling Bro okay, who was? Your favorite wrestler as a kid.
Speaker 2I Aggression era or Ruthless. Okay, so there's two eras. My favorite in the attitude era was, I Guess you can say, mankind on the rock, or okay. When it came to the baby faces, but when it came to heels I love DX in the attitude area sick. Yeah, I mean, and then Ruthless aggression era Hands down Brock Lesnar dude. Yeah, brock Lesnar was pretty big Brock Lesnar with Paul Heyman back in those days where he used to just pummel Everybody I even though he was a heel, he was amazing.
Speaker 3Yeah, but he lost that a girl though. Yeah, he's not, he's not that dominant, I can take him.
Speaker 2Do this one, so remember that.
Speaker 3I remember just Walking everywhere singing that song dude, ready to give someone the five knuckle shuffle. You can't see me.
Speaker 4Do you remember that somebody?
Speaker 3Yeah, dude, the Mexicals were so fucking crazy, bro, like the crazy shit is. As a kid I seen them live, bro, and then I even had their t-shirt where it says like oh, your ass is grass and I'm the lawnmower, like such a fucking stereotypical fucking.
Speaker 2Mexican Amber. These guys used to come out to the ring on lawnmowers. Yeah, they're fucking sick dude, that's how like poor taste, stereotypical Guys these were there was, like so many. I watch Cultaholic wrestling on YouTube. It's a fucking great.
Speaker 3It's cool, it's cool, come on right.
Speaker 2No, it's cold, it's cultaholic.
Speaker 3Oh, cultaholic.
Speaker 2And they do all these top 10, this top 10, that, whatever and I usually watch those before going to sleep or wrestle. Lamia, that's another YouTube channel that I watch. That's all about wrestling and, like I, just Over the past months I've been fucking just super into wrestling. I don't know why. I think it's just me getting older and just like wanting Wrestling to come back.
Speaker 3How, I mean, it's pretty it's pretty big right now, dude, if you think about like I haven't seen it in a long time, but like, yeah, it got pretty big once like AEW came up, mm-hmm, and like a lot of like the WEE superstars would go to that one and then come back. So it's like I think it's pretty big right now. I just haven't seen in a minute because I've you seen Kurt angle. Kurt angle looks fucking tore up. Yeah, dude, just fucking. His neck is all fucked up. I'm pretty sure she has a lot of fucking injuries that he was talking about that on Joe Rogan's podcast, or he wants to get like stem cells.
Speaker 2I think honestly that's the only time that I watched Joe Rogan now is if he has a comic on there that I like watching or hearing, or A wrestler like he's had on the Undertaker he's had on. Kurt angle he had on Hulk Hogan. Yeah yeah, I didn't watch the Rock one. I couldn't, I could not, even though he's like my favorite wrestler of all time. I couldn't watch it because it was just so like they were talking about working out for like three hours.
Speaker 2And I was like I can't fucking relate to this, these guys dude.
Speaker 3Have you ever seen the the YMH podcast like oh yeah, oh my. Have you seen the live ones?
Speaker 3No, oh my god, I don't know how scoobish you guys are. I made my homies watch that shit one time with me. Mm-hmm, I was getting. I was dying of laughter seeing the reaction of my friends, like seeing what? What was like the reaction to shit, because that shit's pretty brutal. And some of those what were they doing? Man, like there was one where it's pretty graphic, this guy was putting fucking Christmas lights into his peahole Right and he still puts about. And my friends react Like what the fuck are you watching? Why are you laughing? I'm like, dude, this shit's funny. Like you know how many fucking crazy people are there, isn't this world that, like this is their fucking fetish?
Speaker 1like it's on YouTube or no?
Speaker 3No, you got you definitely got it. They have it on their website where you can rent it.
Speaker 1Oh, you guys should definitely watch. You Come on.
Speaker 2Do you remember? Do you remember gorecom? No, or dot com, it sounds like like two girls, two girls one cup would be on that.
Speaker 3Fucking two kids in a sandbox, oh it was never, it wasn't there.
Speaker 2There's gorecom, but there's also rottencom, I don't know, run Dot com and those are cool, like they're like. There's this though I will never forget it there is this time that some guy was trying to put a jar like a full jar, like sitting you can, it's like eye level and he's sitting and he's squatting and he's trying to open so, say, this is the glass right? And he's like spreading it right. And Guess what happens when he just goes over there, shatters dude in there and he's just the video is still going, he's as blood Drain, dude people, and he's picking, he's picking out glass out of his people have the weirdest fucking fetish.
Speaker 3Just, I don't keep shame, you know, because I'm into some shit that, like you know, like I fucking suck it on toes and shit right, but like people have some fucking weird-ass things around, just like to me is just fucking funny because it's like why I like smelling feet.
Speaker 2I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3Okay, no, I can't smell feet full.
Speaker 2You can suck them, but you can't smell them.
Speaker 3Okay, so like the whole thing for me. So what are?
Speaker 2you doing?
Speaker 3You're doing this, no, but I'm not like no, Like they got to be clean. You know when a woman gets her toes in it sexy.
Speaker 2Oh my god, what are you gonna do? You're gonna wash your feet for you. You're gonna wash your feet.
Speaker 3I would before. Yeah, I wouldn't, why not? You got a pepper. You know your chick from time to time. That's.
Speaker 2I can see that I can. I Can go for that I. If Amber would to lay me on the bed and start cleaning me with a sponge. Like give me a Before, like I okay, I'm not gonna Kink, shame anybody. If somebody wants to get a sponge and just clean me, just getting the crevices of your body, you got to wash them before.
Speaker 2And all that grosses sponge bath. You won't give me a bath. What about when we're old? You're not gonna bathe me, you're gonna hire somebody to do it. Gilly, don't worry, I got you sponge bath, I'll sponge bath you.
Speaker 3There you go, dude, and we can record it.
Speaker 2We can definitely record it perfect name for a podcast to sponge bath. Sponge bath with breaking away a sponge bath pod and sponge blood. Yeah dude, I'm telling you you should start a podcast. It's really fun. It's good to share your comedy. It's good to work on improv, like it's. It's good to work on your talking skills it's it's great.
Speaker 3I'll. I will definitely do it if you back me up on it. If mine buzz Media is down to help me out with that, I'm down to do it.
Speaker 2The only thing is we need a space and Sergio just he offered his space, so you can't take that back now.
Speaker 3So yeah, but I feel like he didn't want to use that hole in his fucking pants. We Don't know. We definitely. Whatever, I'm open to it.
Speaker 1We can create. We can create a little mini studio, something somewhere, somewhere.
Speaker 2The beauty of starting a podcast and with the stuff, that podcast.
Speaker 3Take, fine, you can use it to.
Speaker 2The beauty is that you can do it anywhere. Do like me and Amber pull up a video of On our way, just to show the viewers at home what they're missing.
Speaker 3I want to see it. I do want to see it honestly.
Speaker 1We're not gonna play it.
Speaker 2Okay, we won't play it. But, ladies and gentlemen, go to mind buzz media on YouTube. Check out on our way. There's full episodes. We should be getting back soon. Oh, we're in Japan.
Speaker 3Oh shit, you guys in Japan on that one.
Speaker 2That one was our pilot episode.
Speaker 3On our way.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh, that's how we spell way. Yeah, it's just, it's. Oh, that one is probably my all-time favorite I.
Speaker 3That's just how it looks.
Speaker 2We're in Japan and that one we went to cabazon on that one.
Speaker 3That's cool man, that's.
Speaker 2I'm telling you we can do. There's the world, is our comedy, oyster bro.
Speaker 3Yeah, no, like I said, I've been wanting to do a podcast. It's just, it was kind of a do it on me, but I'm down, if mind buzz media is definitely down, to back me up on it, let's do it.
Speaker 2You got some dates, ricky. Dude, you got to come back and do the skin. This was freaking fun, dude. I love talking to you. You're my brother in comedy. You have some dates.
Upcoming Comedy Shows and Podcast Updates
Speaker 3Yeah, I got a few dates up here. Okay, this Friday at funny funniest fuck, friday funniest fuck At the comedy of Boulevard Sorry, I'm gonna butcher all this shit. And then Sunday, january 21st, guys night at the ha ha comedy club. If you use promo code Ricky no, are I CnO you get 20% off. And then the 26 and 27 I'm gonna be doing the laugh out loud opening for Jerry Garcia. And then February 3rd I'll be at the fourth wall comedy cafe in Hollywood. And then February 15th, continental room again and Can I say the show that you're gonna have? Yep. And also February 23rd I'm gonna do a feature spot at Gillies open mic.
Speaker 2Hell yeah, and more on that in the future. It's gonna be an open mic. It's gonna be a showcase. It's gonna be a live freaking podcast. It's gonna be awesome. We got features. We're gonna have open mics. It's gonna be great. There's food, there's music, there's beer. There's everything that you need to have a good time and please subscribe to my Instagram.
Speaker 3Thank you, ricardo. That's with three C's. Please come out and see me. I'll be posting on my dates there too. That way, if you guys want to come see me, I'll post the links and stuff. So thank you, gilly. Thank you, amber.
Speaker 2There we go. All the links to Ricky's stuff We'll be down in the show description. If you're watching on YouTube, don't forget to like, subscribe and share and sub. Go down to the show notes show description. If you're listening to this podcast on Spotify, and follow Ricky and follow the mind buzz and that's it. Hope you had a good time. I had a fucking awesome blast.
Speaker 3I can't wait to come back. Honestly, this is great.
Speaker 1Thanks to everyone that watched us live and interacted with us, oh.
Speaker 2Yeah, shout out to Jay the loner, shout out to Sergio. Shout out to I'm back there. Well, we do a shout out to everybody else that's watching. I don't know, I'm just. I'm just saying that, um, what else, what else, anything else? Yeah, all right, cool, appreciate it, man, thanks, thank you.
Speaker 3Yes, he's ain't completely.