James Jablonski is a stand-up comic. https://linktr.ee/jamesjablonski
Ever found yourself in stitches over a domestic squabble about an unattended sock, or pondered the cultural implications of Bitcoin in El Salvador? That's exactly the rollercoaster we're on this episode, where the trivial meets the transformative. Gil, Amber, and I, along with James Jabonsky, traverse the spectrum from household hilarity to international intrigue, and you're invited to the party that promises to tickle your funny bone and challenge your perspectives.
Philosophy buffs and comedy enthusiasts, unite! We're cracking open the books on ancient wisdom and relating it to the modern world of stand-up and satire. Explore with us the stoic insights of Marcus Aurelius and the strategic genius of Sun Tzu, and find out how Nietzsche's challenging philosophy shakes up our moral compass. Then, watch the tightrope walk of comedians as they straddle the line between pushing boundaries and respecting sensitivities, all while being dubbed the philosophers of our day.
To cap off this eclectic mix, I get personal about the ups and downs on the mic and the challenges of balancing a day job with the creative pull of stand-up. Meanwhile, we shed light on the road to recovery from serious leg injuries with humor as a surprising ally, and tease the excitement brewing for the "Spring into Action" event with Amber. So buckle up for an episode that promises to be as enlightening as it is entertaining, and don't forget to join us for the next round of engaging discussions and infectious laughter.
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"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
King without a Throne Official Music Video
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King without a Throne
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James Jablonski is a stand-up comic. https://linktr.ee/jamesjablonski
Ever found yourself in stitches over a domestic squabble about an unattended sock, or pondered the cultural implications of Bitcoin in El Salvador? That's exactly the rollercoaster we're on this episode, where the trivial meets the transformative. Gil, Amber, and I, along with James Jabonsky, traverse the spectrum from household hilarity to international intrigue, and you're invited to the party that promises to tickle your funny bone and challenge your perspectives.
Philosophy buffs and comedy enthusiasts, unite! We're cracking open the books on ancient wisdom and relating it to the modern world of stand-up and satire. Explore with us the stoic insights of Marcus Aurelius and the strategic genius of Sun Tzu, and find out how Nietzsche's challenging philosophy shakes up our moral compass. Then, watch the tightrope walk of comedians as they straddle the line between pushing boundaries and respecting sensitivities, all while being dubbed the philosophers of our day.
To cap off this eclectic mix, I get personal about the ups and downs on the mic and the challenges of balancing a day job with the creative pull of stand-up. Meanwhile, we shed light on the road to recovery from serious leg injuries with humor as a surprising ally, and tease the excitement brewing for the "Spring into Action" event with Amber. So buckle up for an episode that promises to be as enlightening as it is entertaining, and don't forget to join us for the next round of engaging discussions and infectious laughter.
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"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
King without a Throne Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNhxTYU8kUs
King without a Throne
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tdoz0W9gr3ubetdW4ThZ8?si=9a95947f58bf416e
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Speaker 1:Hey.
Speaker 2:How are you?
Speaker 1:I'm good.
Speaker 2:You're good, yeah, how you been.
Speaker 1:I've been good had allergies the past couple days.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Not fun.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:But I'm good.
Speaker 2:It's never fun. I like not sick. Yeah, you know what's not fun that wasp nest coming back underneath that thing.
Speaker 1:I know, yeah, you better take it out now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm one of those people that wait for things to go on too long. I live with you. I noticed it. It was very small and then I was like I'll get it. I'll get it next time that ended up like I. What took me? What did you do? What actually had me take it down was I got stung by a wasp and it sucked dude, like it was really bad.
Speaker 1:I wish your sock could sting you so you could pick it up.
Speaker 2:My what.
Speaker 1:Your sock.
Speaker 2:My sock.
Speaker 1:The other day.
Speaker 2:I did an experiment, the crunchy one.
Speaker 1:I dropped a sock. No, you dropped a sock.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:One of the things we have are our hamper in the restroom. I dropped a sock and I seen it and I said he's going to pick it up. You didn't pick it up and then I walked past it, you walked past it and then we both walked past it like a hundred times and I was like you're going to pick it up, he's going to pick it up, he's going to pick it up. And then at some point you walked over it.
Speaker 2:Okay, so what was the? You wanted me to pick it up?
Speaker 1:I wanted you to pick up the sock.
Speaker 2:Why don't you just tell me hey, can you pick up the sock? I?
Speaker 1:want you to see it. So, as I'm saying, maybe they should make stinging socks so that you can pick it up.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:I'm just venting on here.
Speaker 2:I like it Venting in front of our guests of the evening Did you walk over our sock to the? Yeah, we're going to test everybody that comes into the studio, Any guests in the future, if you see a sock on the floor don't pick it up. Pick it up so I don't have to Let me. Let's introduce our guests so we can get into this. Wait, do we have anything?
Speaker 1:coming up.
Speaker 2:What's today?
Speaker 1:This right here on the screen.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we have Mind Buzz, media and Delet Comedy Presents Puro Laughs Open Mic, march. Oh, I need to fix that. So, on the corner, just squeeze it in a little bit. Got it Right there. There we go, and then just move it around. You got it, there we go. Well, at least we can get full screen stuff. Oh, okay, no, or not? Oh, you want to have a full screen? No, that's fine. So we got Mind Buzz, media and Delet Comedy Presents Puro Laughs Open Mic, Wednesday, march 13th. Guest host Ricky Novella. Signups at 7.30 and 8.00 PM Start time. I had a minimum five-minute sets. We had a little soft opening last week. It was pretty good, so we're going to try it again for this week Coming up Come out, it's not going to be raining.
Speaker 2:It won't be raining. So this is a Wednesday, march 13th, and tomorrow Delet Comedy, the live podcast, premieres tomorrow, episode one, and we have one of our open mic comics comedians. He does comedy all over Southern California, james Jabonsky. What is up, sir? Thank?
Speaker 3:you, thank you. I like how you stammered with. He does comedy, he mikes. By the way, I love sitting in the middle of your lover, like your lover's quarrel, just in it. Just, and I know exactly what you're talking about, because I did see the sock, but it was you know. It's like when you see somebody in public on their phone and they have it on speakerphone and they're clearly arguing with their husband and you're like I'm going to tell all my friends about this.
Speaker 1:We wait till guests get here to argue.
Speaker 3:I think that's smart. That way, if he does try to get crazy or she gets crazy, you guys have like a witness for when the police arrive Exactly.
Speaker 2:We have a witness and then we have everybody on the live chat right now that can see everything.
Speaker 1:They were like hand. Yo got stabbed over a sock.
Speaker 3:What a weird thing. That's a terrible. That's like getting stabbed over a cigarette, you know, it's just such a little thing to get stabbed over.
Speaker 2:It's all prison rules in the studio.
Speaker 3:That's how it works here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like, I don't pick up a sock, you get stabbed.
Speaker 3:I have to eat with my head down and constantly looking over my shoulder. If somebody, if somebody tries to come up to me, I have to fight them, Otherwise I'm now the prison bitch.
Speaker 2:Exactly, dude, I know what it is. I don't bud, but that sock, yeah, she uses that to put all the batteries inside and she beats me with it later.
Speaker 3:I'm glad that's where that was going, because if not, I had a lot more questions. Because if she just put socks inside of batteries inside of a sock, it's very confusing. Yeah, At least she hits you with it, At least she's making the. Are they dead batteries? No, they work Well. That's just fucking a waste of batteries. What are you doing, dude? Get the dead batteries hidden with those, throw them away or put them in the freezer. I guess some people do that. There was uh what?
Speaker 2:I think there was like a poem of something like that of how somebody murdered somebody and with a like a turkey, with like a frozen turkey, or something like that and then they ate. They ate the turkey or the chicken after.
Speaker 3:Genius, get rid of the evidence, right. The issue now is are you eating that other person's blood and can they find that in your fecal matter when you, when you, duty that out? I think, it would be in your duty.
Speaker 2:When they cook, when they cook it, it should be like yeah, I'm not a forensic scientist.
Speaker 3:I'm not, I thought you knew. Do I look like an intelligent man? I'm wearing a hoodie.
Speaker 1:I think the lady that killed her neighbor and made tamales out of it, and then some of the neighbors and it didn't show.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry she did what.
Speaker 1:She killed her neighbor. Okay, she had like a quarrel with the neighbor.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Right, they were like beefing it to say you're us yeah. And then she killed the neighbor and then she brought her home, dismembered her, made her red tamales.
Speaker 3:I would. I would love to hear the reviews from her neighbors on how those tamales were.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and people ate them.
Speaker 3:Were they like damn dude. These things are fucking great. What is this? Yeah, it's pig, it's pork, long pork.
Speaker 1:Like nobody got sick, nobody anything. They caught her because I think her husband like gave her up, he ratted her out, yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, what's interesting is you can eat human flesh as long as you don't eat, I believe, the brain, and that's kind of what causes a lot of the diseases when it comes to cannibalism, because flesh like used to be a big commodity back on, like the high seas and stuff. That's where the term long pig came from, if you've ever heard that.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:They used to call human flesh long pig Wow, Because apparently it tastes like pork, so you can actually eat it and consume it kind of pretty pretty decently and prepare it. The brain is where you get the issue, because when you eat it it has specific enzymes that cause the decay of cells and stuff like that because of the way it works. I'm not a full scientist about it, but I've watched enough stuff on cannibalism. Are you a cannibal? I wish I feel like you're a cannibal. If I was a cannibal I wouldn't be funny. I would be much more like I'm sketchy now. But like, imagine me as a person eater. I would be way sketchier.
Speaker 2:So the cannibalism you're talking about, amber, that there's like some weird cannibalism, people that took over Haiti or something like that Sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Right. So Haiti is like right now, like going through some like I don't know. You call it turmoil, maybe.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I would call it that, I think that's what you would call cannibalism.
Speaker 3:You definitely wouldn't call it a good time. What's going on over in Haiti?
Speaker 1:Just cool stuff.
Speaker 3:I'm like, you know, I'm in a party out there, it's just a long pig roasting over a fire Seems like a good time to have a luau. They're chilling over there.
Speaker 1:The neighbors are roasting each other. So yeah, I guess they're being like overrun by like the mafia and it's been happening for a while. So the government can't really take control because there's so many people that are like kind of multiplying and joining the mafia and their prime minister, which is like the president, pretty much fled and everyone in Congress fled because they're scared of them.
Speaker 1:So then pretty much it just like willy-nilly, like there's nobody in charge. So then, this mafia boss and all the mafia are the ones in charge right now and taking over, and the mafia boss's name or his nickname is barbecue.
Speaker 2:That is perfect.
Speaker 1:They're accountable, eating like crew and they're killing people out on the streets. And like eating them.
Speaker 3:A crew is such a soft name for people who eat other people but also watch it.
Speaker 1:It's a group. Okay Sorry, it's posse, my bad A posse, yeah Well, she was.
Speaker 3:Can I just say, while you were describing that, you kept saying the word mafia and I just pictured Italians inside of Haiti like, oh man, these guys are fucking pretty good.
Speaker 1:I can't think of the name in like English because I'm used to saying like narcos, right, like in Spanish like the cartel and things like. So I don't know if they're like a cartel or whatever.
Speaker 2:The strombole James, the strombole is good.
Speaker 3:They're just dudes cooking people into pasta.
Speaker 1:What are they like it would be? I think mafia would be the proper term, like a mafia right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, mafia would be like the proper term A cartel right Mafia cartel it's the same thing, the same difference.
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean Look, can you pull it up to see what the proper name that we can call these cannibals? We don't want to get it wrong because, god forbid, they see this podcast and I God forbid they come from Haiti to get us.
Speaker 3:I'm scared of anybody from a foreign country. That's right, I said it.
Speaker 2:They said well, ricky says that I look like a frozen turkey.
Speaker 3:Well, he also said I do look like a cannibal, and that's okay. I don't take advice from anybody whose name officially is Thicky Ricky. If your name rhymes, I don't respect you.
Speaker 1:I said it here first, ricky would be the first one to eat him, because he does have a lot of good meat on him.
Speaker 3:He looks good. He looks like a juicy fella.
Speaker 2:He looks good. I'd eat him first too. I'm not even a cannibal, and he looks really delicious, he does it would go Ricky, and then you. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh fuck, Thank you for having me. By the way, I just want to say that I didn't get to say it in the beginning because we were having too much fun, but this is a fucking sick place. You guys got here.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. I laughed Because there's a picture of barbecue here and then there's a picture of barbecue here.
Speaker 3:All system barbecue or this other fella Hell yeah. The feared gang boss known as barbecue. Do they have the name of the gang, haiti barbecue? Also, barbecue looks like he could stand to lose a few pounds. I don't know what there is in people, but it's obviously high in calories.
Speaker 2:Imagine you're in Haiti and you Google search good food near me and there's pins everywhere.
Speaker 3:What is this?
Speaker 2:guy. There's just pins dropped at everybody's house.
Speaker 1:Look here's my A gang leader.
Speaker 3:Oh they're a gang Gang posse mafia. Locos Anostro. It's all the same to me. See, here's my thing Is that in a country like Haiti they got hit with an earthquake there's constantly bad shit happening there. Why hasn't everybody just left? Just go somewhere else. It's like the same thing with the Middle East. There's constantly bad shit happening there, and I get that. That's your land where you want to stay, but just go somewhere else. There's a bunch of other places to go.
Speaker 1:There was a big after the earthquake happened. There was a huge influx of Haitian immigrants and they came to Mexico. So, there's actually like a huge population of Haitians in Mexico, and specifically in Mexicali, which is like a border town. Interesting and they kind of all stayed there and now they're adopting the culture. They speak Spanish, things like that.
Speaker 3:Dude. Imagine a Haitian in a sombrero. That's a fun time they're partying.
Speaker 2:So where are these people from? They're from Haiti. It's an actual gang in Haiti and that they're taking over.
Speaker 1:I guess the US went in now, like these past couple days, to try to gain control. You know, there's always the drug noses where we're out there, dude.
Speaker 3:See the thing, is?
Speaker 3:is we like to say, as the United States, we don't got a police to world, we don't got to do this, we don't got to do that, but there is overwhelming evidence of us being on every continent on the planet. At what point do you stop and go? Yeah, we're kind of doing that. Yeah, see, okay, I'm going to get into something. This is my issue with politics. If they would just be honest with me, I would be much happier, like if the person running for president went look, dude, I'm a little bit racist and I'm gonna probably kill some people at the border and I'm also going to invade a bunch of countries because I like their resources, and the fact of the matter is I'm gonna make the economy better. I would probably go. I don't like some of the things you said, but at least you were honest with me. Yeah, I would vote for that guy.
Speaker 2:I would try. A lot of people gravitated towards Donald Trump because he was like that.
Speaker 3:But see, he was like that in the way where he said a lot of things, that he said a lot of shit talking things, but he didn't necessarily lay it down in the sense of, like, exactly, this is what I'm about. He still kind of had some veiled things in there. But all politicians do.
Speaker 3:it's the game they're playing, you know they have that veiled speech and they're really good at playing it. For Trump, for example, he went we're gonna build a wall and we're gonna make Mexico pay for it, which is very clearly a thing based around the ideals of immigration. But he didn't straight up go. I don't like immigrants, that's what I mean.
Speaker 2:Okay. Just be upfront and direct with me and I will like you a lot more. Just say you don't like immigrants, and James will like you a lot more.
Speaker 3:I respect, and it doesn't mean I like you, it means I respect. I respect a lot more somebody who sticks to their guns than a flip-flopper. You know what I mean. Like I don't like Nazis, but if you tell me you're a Nazi and then you go, I'm not a Nazi anymore. I would be like you should have stuck with a guy. You should have like I'm a flip-flopper, I'm a pussy. I understand why people don't like me, but I respect people when they aren't.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, I gotcha. No, that's a really good point because I feel that, like you said, that it's the gift of gab. Right, they're just saying things for the sake of saying them, to have people.
Speaker 3:And I think in the entertainment business that's a positive thing. Like we are supposed to gab, that's our thing. We're supposed to yab and we're supposed to say outrageous things. I don't believe half things I've said so far, but this is our thing we're supposed to entertain. When you're a politician, I feel like your role should be less to entertain and more to evaluate and assist society. And when you just have the gift of gab, that doesn't necessarily mean you're qualified to do that job. You know what I mean? That's my whole thing with it.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 3:Sorry, I didn't mean to get heavy. We got into some deep shit. Okay, someone, ricky, said James Jablonsky for president, I would run, but I unfortunately don't understand why you can't point at people. I'm not allowed to point. I can't go this. This is bad I don't like it. That's the reason I won't run.
Speaker 2:Don't point.
Speaker 3:It's also because I can't read, but that's beside the point, it's definitely not, because I'm a literate person.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, there's teleprompter, so you're gonna know. You need to know how to read.
Speaker 3:It is pretty astonishing that almost anybody can become the president, as long as you have a basic set of things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to be born here too. Right, like, what are the top things that you need to have or to qualify for?
Speaker 3:I believe it's you have to be over 40. You have to be over 40? Something like that.
Speaker 2:What's the thing with that that? Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1:Because you're well-seasoned.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they don't want. Imagine a guy like me who's 24 years old and just hops up in there and I start making all sorts of ridiculous policies. I'm like pugs are people? Now what's up? You know it. Just they want the idea, but there should be a cap too. I agree, I agree, that's fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 1:They're 80 years old, like they were, and I get it. We're not all from the same generation. They can say that about me oh, you were in the 90s. 90s was different, or you grew up in the early 2000s, but still it's like. 80 years is like a big jump to where we're at now, like so much has happened even in the past 30 years.
Speaker 3:No, and I completely agree. And the thing is I honestly I think maybe lower the age limit a little bit to like maybe like 35 and put a cap of like 65. I think that's a good. What is that? Like 30 year period, something like that. If you can't make it in that time period, you're not gonna make it at all.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Can you look it up why they have to be 40? I just, I don't believe in that.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's kind of one of those things like why do you have to be 21 to drink, Cause they think that by 21 you're in your better right.
Speaker 2:So they think that by 40 years old somebody has the qualifications or the brain capacity to run a country.
Speaker 3:Yeah. But I'll be honest at any moment in time someone could break down mentally Like it doesn't make a little bit of sense, but at the same time it has some. You know there's some flaws there.
Speaker 2:How old are you, gil? I am 32.
Speaker 3:Man, how do you look better than me? Yeah.
Speaker 2:I can't believe you're 24, dude, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:That's wild to me. I take that as a compliment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought you were around the same age as me, dude.
Speaker 3:Thanks, man, it's all about how you carry yourself it is a little bad, but only if you think it's only bad if you think that because of how I look, not how I act.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3:Well, this is the longest I've talked to you, so We've had a couple little short conversations, but every time I see you you're doing something you're a busy fellow.
Speaker 2:I'm walking around doing something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I'm 24,. I just look bad I. I I well, you don't look that bad dude, I look it's the beard for sure, like if you look at oh, 30,.
Speaker 2:Okay, there we go. 35 is fine with me. I am okay with 35.
Speaker 1:I'm the president of the United States for at least 14 years. Oh, a resident.
Speaker 3:So you don't have to be born here, yeah, a resident, okay. Do you have any foreign person that you would like to see as president as?
Speaker 2:somebody foreign. Yeah, who's foreign right now that I'm? I'm into at the moment? Somebody foreign.
Speaker 3:He's just. He looked at me like please give me a person Barbecue sounds, I would vote for barbecue Somebody would vote for barbecue. Yeah, people voted for Harambe. They'll vote for whatever. You could put a grilled cheese on that ballot. Somebody's like I could go. I could go for a grilled cheese today.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:I honestly would love Gordon Ramsay as president. Ooh, okay, watch that. If he's that harsh in the kitchen, imagine him on the floor of Congress In the Oval Office. He's going to be cooking up some hot bills, hell yeah.
Speaker 1:This might be a little controversial, but the president of El Salvador, I don't know, just saying.
Speaker 3:I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1:So he's, he's this younger president that came to El Salvador, right El.
Speaker 2:Salvador.
Speaker 1:And pretty much El Salvador was like, riddled with gangs right Like Mara, salvatrucha and they were.
Speaker 3:Yeah, barbecue they were at barbecue.
Speaker 1:So they were taking over pretty much Like like it was just like really bad, Like a lot of people were seeking asylum, things like that. So this guy went in and said I don't give a fuck Like I'm going to reform our country, I don't care.
Speaker 2:But say it in Spanish no, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I'm just Can I see his cute little face.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's actually pretty handsome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, let me see his cute little face. I judge everybody based on strictly looks, because I'm a shallow, vapid piece of shit.
Speaker 1:Let me see his cute little face. And he, he reformed El Salvador and it's one of right now one of the like safest countries. Because he in prison, like I want to say, like 90% of all gang members.
Speaker 2:Whoa, and where is?
Speaker 3:this Like bad.
Speaker 1:Like like he's not putting them in a cell and you can send money to them. No, like it's like we're going to treat you the way you treat it?
Speaker 3:It's prison prison. Yeah, he put them in the gulag. Yeah, they're torturing them like he's making them pick up socks.
Speaker 2:Dude in the hallway Beatin' with batteries oh, was that him. Yeah, whoa, he's a really good looking guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he does look like he own nightclubs, but he's a good looking guy.
Speaker 2:Whoa.
Speaker 3:That's the president. What's his name?
Speaker 2:Look at him with a backwards hat.
Speaker 3:I cannot pronounce his name. Backwards hat, oh, backwards hat, oh my God. Backwards hat president, yeah, a president that just gets up there and rips he's hitting his vape. He's like let me tell you something, guys. We're about to pass so many sick policies All of you guys know this but we're going to make surfboarding mandatory. If you live on the coast, all right, look at that drip dude. He's got his top button unbuttoned.
Speaker 2:How unprofessional, oh my God.
Speaker 1:They're also the first country to accept 100% Bitcoin, so the country is ran on Bitcoin.
Speaker 3:Ooh, that's risky.
Speaker 1:I know, but he's taking the risk, Dude one.
Speaker 3:EMP your whole economy's done.
Speaker 2:Wow, Look at this guy. And how old is this guy?
Speaker 3:It's a good Jesus Also let me see his wife also.
Speaker 2:You straight out of like Vice City dude. Like he's like one of the bosses in Vice City that you get to play for.
Speaker 3:Like one level. Pretty they're. They're an attractive power couple.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to show you guys El Salvador.
Speaker 3:I've never, even I'm not familiar with any of the political structure about El Salvador. Are they? Are they like a democratic nation? Are they? How do they roll?
Speaker 2:They're a drip nation now, yeah, now they're all about that trip.
Speaker 1:Look at all the prisoners they were, they have and they were getting like they were getting like Bus loads of them. Dang imagine sitting them like that for days.
Speaker 3:Dude, imagine being a hardened criminal, and then they make you kiss your friends back.
Speaker 2:Basically, that's what they're doing. They're frogs. Now they do look like frogs.
Speaker 3:They look like. They look like they're about to get ushered into some sort of showers, if you will yeah, yeah, look at that.
Speaker 3:El Salvador cracks down on gangs see my question is how long does this go before the gangs Retaliate in some way? Because if the gangs were that Flourishing for such a long time, they have to have some sort of power in the country or some sort of wealth or some sort of you know. So is there a? Is there a? Is there a limit to how long he can do this before they retaliate, or has he Substantialized his government?
Speaker 1:No, I mean he hasn't been there for like years and years. It's been in the past. Maybe I want to say three years, two years, three years man, he is just a handsome dude.
Speaker 3:Though I'm not trying to some my girlfriend's watching this, just know that I still love you. But, dude, if the president of El Salvador went, come run this country with me, I'd be like.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'll talk about it?
Speaker 3:Well, let's just talk about it.
Speaker 2:John Blaski, come help me with this blouse.
Speaker 3:It's crazy, and El Salvador is that that's not a place where they, that's Columbia, where they manufacture cocaine, right, it's not.
Speaker 1:El Salvador.
Speaker 3:What do the what, what are? Does a Salvador have any major economic, like output resources, like things that they?
Speaker 1:Well, who said my skin?
Speaker 3:oh, my girlfriend just said El Salvadorian threesome. Well, I'm a jealous person. How dare you say that? Actually he's coming. One, he's coming for me, okay, and two, we'll talk about it later. Flat white.
Speaker 2:What was that? Sorry, we're learning how to make a different cappuccinos.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:I got Google search as of lately cannibals El Salvador flat white, flat white people like out there looking at our stuff, our FBI agent.
Speaker 3:My Google searches are pretty wild. Hold up. Let me read them to you. Pull them out, because I I've been. So I have like two hours in the beginning of my day to just sit at a diner, so I've been. Oh, there's a bunch of shit here about philosophy, but that's just dorky. Let's see, I have something. I have all the MCU movies in order, followed by, followed by India's tallest elephant, followed by what happens if you set a piece of metal on fire.
Speaker 2:Are these all for bits or absolutely.
Speaker 3:I'm just really looking up shit Okay cuz I mean I write. I write like 20 minutes a day now, like in the morning and stuff, but I have two hours to kill it at Denny's, so I'm just sitting there just watching shit.
Speaker 2:What was the first Google search? I picked my inch something about philosophy, Okay that's all I'm getting really into it.
Speaker 3:I'm it's super, not funny, but I've been really, especially because the stuff going on in the community there was a death recently and such so it's kind of made Me become introspective, hmm. And so I've been looking up stuff about philosophy, like this gentleman, nietzsche and Marcus Aurelius and those sort of characters, and just kind of getting interested in what made them tick and what their opinions were on society and kind of how that kind of plays into the modern age.
Speaker 2:And where? Where were these guys? Like what, what decade, like, what year did Marcus?
Speaker 3:Aurelius was one of the rulers of.
Speaker 2:Rome so he was.
Speaker 3:I think he was a Roman Emperor and his whole thing was he believed in Making yourself the best person you could be through sheer, like willpower, like. He believed that like, so say, somebody in your life got stabbed and is in the hospital and that's really trying on you as a person, right? He believed that those trials were there to test a person, to see if they can rise to the occasion, and that life was all about overcoming triumph to become your greatest version of yourself. And and he was a he was a Roman Emperor. So think about this he had, like, all of the stuff you could ever want in the world, like he could snap his fingers and he would have Women or men or lions, or like the biggest feast you could imagine. He could literally just kill people if he wanted. He had all this power. He could do this most, the most Anything you wanted like. And he was still not that person. He's still like kind of reigned it in.
Speaker 3:He maintained a lot of his, his morality, and he believed that part of being a good person is doing what, what goes on behind the scenes. And he actually wrote about it and the thing called the Marcus Aurelius I think it's like reflections or something like that, which was actually just his journal that wasn't supposed to be read, and Then they found it and they published. Could you imagine that? Could you imagine your journal just getting published? You're just writing about all your dark, dark, emotional stuff and then, 2,000 years later, a bunch of white dudes are discussing it in a philosophy class. That is pretty wild.
Speaker 2:It is pretty wild but to have somebody's diary as like some form of like Philosophy, philosophy down like two, two thousand years later yes, yeah, that was just this guy's diary. Imagine the dialogue that people were having two thousand years ago.
Speaker 3:It's completely very different, the way they're different road and spoke oh, it's called meditation. Right, that's what it's called, but it's very, it's very different. And the way he speaks on society and people is very interesting. And then and Then he kind of just goes into like how to be a good person, what he believes that is. You know, the trials of self and arising to the occasion and all these things and I find it very Motivational, you know, especially when you have two hours to kill it at Denny's, you want to feel good about yourself.
Speaker 2:So what pushed you to to start reading that?
Speaker 3:Well, I've always been interested in philosophy, like a couple years ago I read beyond not beyond good and evil the art of war by Sun Tzu and I I know I have a constant or I have a current argument he, she said art of war is about to be war. So she, she knows what's coming. My girlfriend she knows. We talked about it earlier. I think that if you take the word war in art of war and you just switch that word to life, the whole book applies to reality. But she doesn't. She thinks some of it is very situational. But this is obviously just my opinion.
Speaker 3:But I found it really fascinating because in there he talks about a lot of stuff like one of my favorite quotes that I like to bring up in this super unfunny conversation is I Believe it's, if you know your enemy and yourself, you will never have to worry about the outcome of a battle or something like that. Can you? Can you actually look it up, the art of war if you know your enemy? And then the full quote should pop up and it just it applies to so much in Life and I find that it helps me when I'm trying to get through something. Sorry, I didn't mean to get real deep right now, dude.
Speaker 2:No, this is when it's about man. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:So it says if you know your enemy and yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. And if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. And I think In his context he's very much in his reality this is you know China back in the day, there's constant war, they're fighting off the Mongols, they're boning the Great Wall. In his reality this strictly applies to war, but in the modern day I think this can also apply to a lot of us as people Like just that fact of if you know your enemy and yourself, you need not worry about the outcome of a battle.
Speaker 3:I think about that a lot when I'm having issues with somebody or I'm having issues in my life and I try to go but why am I feeling like I don't understand their side? Maybe I should get to know how they're feeling and understand how they're kind of processing these things, and that kind of helps you Get to that point of solidifying understanding. And once you understand something, I think it's a lot easier to move on from it and accept it in your life. The rest of it, I feel like, is just facts. If you don't know your enemy, you're gonna lose, probably. But if you know yourself and not your enemy, that victory feels good, but it ultimately isn't fully sustainable. You know what I mean, yeah, so, yeah, I've been.
Speaker 3:I've been pretty into the philosophy stuff. It's very fascinating to me. There's also another guy named Nietzsche that I just figured out, some German dude which, by the way, the Germans are doing some great stuff when they're not, when they're not killing Jews. The Germans have some great stuff going on. But he talks about something that I find very interesting, which he kind of says all the other philosophers are like Whatever, they're, kind of just talking about morality and defining it. And he goes have you ever heard of the book beyond good and evil? No, okay, basically, it's just like when you get past the point of Taking good and evil as these things that exist and you just throw those out the window, better, yourself and Sir pass good and evil. I can't explain it. I just started reading about him.
Speaker 2:He's a very fascinating fellow and this is Nietzsche, he's, he's a German a German gentleman from, I think, the 1940s or something like that. Okay, this is post post war.
Speaker 3:Pre-war look up. Look up when good and evil came out, because I would like to know whether or not I'm supporting a that's always.
Speaker 2:That's always good to know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he says some interesting time yeah on this. Are we talking red-arm bands, or are we talking? Are we talking the Geneva Convention? What are we talking? Is this Octoberfest?
Speaker 2:Germany, or is this a third Reich Germany? Yeah, that's at one point.
Speaker 3:They were the same Germany 1886. So this is way before World War II the arm bands and the yeah, before the fellas attic stuff yeah the little attics you know
Speaker 2:gotcha a little addicts that it yeah yeah, he's stuff like that 1886 1886 beyond good and evil, I.
Speaker 3:Find it fascinating. My thing is is do you hear this thing where comics go? Oh, we're the modern-day philosophers, man.
Speaker 2:I've heard just recently and I've heard it on On a podcast, but also I heard it last night about comics being like the last form of Last form of freedom of speech shut the fuck that is. So that is that is one of the things that I've heard. It's last, last form of freedom of speech my main issue with that?
Speaker 3:because we do have a. We do have a pretty large Ability to portray our freedom of speech in our form of comedy. You know, we can get a lot away with lot and we can say a lot, but my issue with that is when comedians go where the philosophers of the modern age, I go. No, philosophers are the modern age. You can still get a degree in philosophy. You can still write philosophy, right? The issue with philosophy is, just like Nietzsche, just like all these other gentlemen yeah, the philosophy doesn't blow up until years later right.
Speaker 3:So you can write a philosophy book now and people will go, whatever. But then 200, 300 years from now, someone's gonna pick it up and go. This guy's making some great points. So when comedians go where the modern-day philosophers I go, I mean some of us make some great points, sure, but you're not writing philosophy, you're writing jokes. Your job is to be silly. You're a jester with a cooler name and more freedom. Right now we're the gestures, but we can say whatever we want. Back in the day you were the jester and if you said something the king didn't like, he cut off one of your balls and dangled it in front of you. But do you?
Speaker 2:think we can say whatever we want.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I mean to an extent, john, john Stewart, I believe it was. He said a great thing. Where someone asked him a question, they go when it comes to comedy, what do you think the line should be? And he said well, in comedy there should be no line, because in life there is no line mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Oh, I like that in re like I loved it because in reality we don't have like a limit. It's not like. It's not like a, it's not like a dad goes to hit his kid and he go and life goes. No, no, you're not gonna do that because there's limits. That's not how the world works and comedy is just like you know. Art reflects life, blah, blah, blah. It is supposed to be, because in any other art form you can say whatever you want. No one gets upset, like that's the thing. You say that we're the last line of freedom of speech. But you look at, you know, quentin Tarantino, you look at a bunch of different versions of music. You can say whatever you want. The thing is is, can you say it good enough and in a way that is artistic and well enough Accepted that people don't get upset about it?
Speaker 2:exactly, and I think that comes with experience right in writing comedy, instead of just Blantley saying you know whatever racist thing or whatever God-awful thing you have to, there's a level of knowledge. Yeah, you have to be clever about it.
Speaker 3:Yes, clever is everything. Like yeah, for me if I say some, because I'll say some stuff that's not funny, like I said some stuff that wasn't funny earlier. It's part of the process. You got to say shit to find out what's funny, yeah. But when people go, oh, that's not working because the audience didn't like it or it's not working because of this. But you know, this is funny and I hear what the thing is and it's just some edgy Bullshit, yeah I go. Have you tried writing it out better? Have you tried adjusting it? Have you tried making it to where it does work? Because With the writing and with the experience and with the stage time comes the grasp and the knowledge of what, what you can do. How long have you been doing comedy? Only three years, three years, yeah, I'm talking out of my ass.
Speaker 2:Well, you got two months and like snow, two years and six months on me. Okay, I'm like fairly new dang dude.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what made you want to kick it up? What made you want to go go smash around on stage with your vocal?
Speaker 2:cords. I have been talking about it for a very long time, just never did it. I've written for the past three years and just never performed any of it, and just at one point I thought about it and I was like you know what? I'm gonna go up and see if these are actually funny. I think they're funny, Mm-hmm, but is it actual comedy gonna be performed?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like that and I like that you were writing before you got up, because that means you have a little bit of a leg Up on just the habit of writing, right, because I, when I first started out for the first year, year and a half I didn't write. I would just take stories that happen in my real life and Try to put them out there. But after a certain point you started writing, so you have a leg up on people.
Speaker 2:I was scoping out the open mic scene for about a good year before actually getting on stage. Like just hanging out just going to open mics and just seeing, like, what the process is and can I ask you, because you did that for a year?
Speaker 3:That's a pretty long time about a year. Right Ember, yeah, yeah what did you get from that? Did you like, did you find it interesting? Did you see any comics where you're like that dude kills, or did it all kind of you know what is that?
Speaker 2:What was?
Speaker 3:that like for you that experience.
Speaker 2:Watching was just dreadful dude, because there was some it was. It was bad. Sometimes they'd be really good and then, but I, I, I tried to. I was, I was watching professionals and I was watching amateurs too, like you know. At the same time, and I Would pick, I would look at a professional Doing stand-up versus an amateur and just kind of like taking mental notes Okay, this is what an amateur is doing versus what a pro is doing, and it was just a little bit sharper. All the little details and nuances that you find out as you're doing. That came more clear, mm-hmm, as I started to do them.
Speaker 3:You know, the biggest thing for me that I've noticed in, like comics that are just starting out and stuff when they're on stage, like right now we're doing a podcast, we're having a conversation, so there's gonna be a lot of likes, there's gonna be. A lot of us were processing, we're thinking but a lot of comics when they go on stage and they perform, there is a million ums, there's a million us, there's a million likes and there's all these filler words that if you just cut those out, that whole set would be much cleaner. And if you look at a comic doing it professionally, they don't have all those different Stammers and those. And you look at a comic doing it just starting out, they're gonna have way more of those. And that's the big thing that I had to work on and I trained myself out of those patterns. And if you, I think comparing it to the, the pros to the, it's the greatest way to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cutting off the filler words. I Looked at that specific Mental training with podcasting because I try to do the same thing I try to take off all the filler words during a podcast. Yeah so there's a lot of like mental training and mental details that I used Doing this, doing this for three years and taking it on stage. Of course, completely different, completely different avenues. Mm-hmm on how to receive information very different, but it was, it was a good. It was a good transition transition.
Speaker 3:I think having the training of a Podcast where you understand the rhythm of talking and you understand the, the conjecture and you understand conjecture, is that the right word. You, anyways, you understand the way you're supposed to talk, any more professional setting, without all the ums, without all the likes and those sort of things, those Public speaking things, can also be honed on a podcast and then when you take those to the stage that you have a big benefit there, you definitely helps. Here's a, here's a solid question Do you have a, a particular style that you prefer to write in? Because I've noticed with a lot of people when they first start writing, it's a very big thing. You'll hear it everywhere blah, blah, blah. Everybody writes like somebody, everybody does somebody's performance. You know big J O'Crossan, or you do Steve Harvey, or you do Tom Seger or you know. But did you have a? Did you have that at all? Or do you have that at all where you feel like you're kind of Doing somebody else's rhythm and style and such?
Speaker 2:not not at the moment, but at the beginning, when I was, when I was writing, I was just writing ideas because I really didn't know how to formula. Like, like a joke, there's formula right, there's there's setup right, and then there's your punch lines Set up and then punch lines. Yeah, maybe that's just a dial down Version of what a joke can be, but when I was watching, like some of my biggest, my biggest comics that I've watched are Mitch Hedberg.
Speaker 3:Fantastic and.
Speaker 2:Ronnie, danger filled fantastic. And George Carlin and Bill Hicks fantastic, Okay so. So the first two comics are one-liner comics. I love one line comedy, like for me Most of what I the style that I write is just smaller, cutting out words, getting set up punch.
Speaker 3:You don't do any stories or anything. No.
Speaker 2:I don't, I try. I I been trying to, but it's just that's not how I write. That's not how my my comedy brain works.
Speaker 3:Got it caught it. Quick side note who is Jay the loner? Do we know this fellow? That's Jay. Oh you, jeremiah Is his full name, I think.
Speaker 2:I think so yeah, actually yeah, I just found that out the other day.
Speaker 3:I guessed it at an open mic the first time. Yeah he says a stick to the jokes. Neat, whatever that fucking word is me she. Can we pull up Jeremiah's Instagram? You want to tell me to stick?
Speaker 1:to the joke. Pull up, let's see what he got.
Speaker 3:Let's see what he got. I'm gonna roast this fellow. No, I'm kidding, um no, but yes, gills shirt, the Halloween safety shirt. Yeah, I mean, if you're gonna stab somebody, do it with a mask on, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I can't watch horror movies, so I don't get it, you don't? You've been going to the movies a lot. Yeah, I like going to movies, me and my girl. We got the AMC movie pass, so we've been going pretty frequently and I'm thinking about starting like a little podcast with her where we review movies.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, shit on them because.
Speaker 3:I like to talk, it. I like. Even if I like a movie, I will shit on it.
Speaker 2:Somebody asked me about dune to. The other note, last night. Somebody asked me cuz I was wearing a blue velvet shirt, which is a David Lynch movie, and he asked me have you seen dune to? I was like bro, I haven't even seen dune one or the original, so you're asking the wrong guy, man.
Speaker 3:I mean, are you a fantasy? I do like space people doing space stuff. I do actually. I love space people doing space stuff. You'll enjoy dune Basically. If I could sum it up and this doesn't give away any of the plot, you could watch the trailers. It's white dude Saves Middle Eastern space planet from other white people.
Speaker 3:It's the whole thing really it's basic, but that's kind of like the the core thing and that's kind of how the books were written and it's a whole thing. I like it. I like the movie it's. It's got some parts in it Like. I liked him, if you shall me, but sometimes he'll do this thing in the movie where he's acting and I'm just like, oh, you make you look like a. You know when a teenager does like cheesy teenager shit and you just want to like put their face down in the sandbox.
Speaker 2:Okay, lizzie McGuire, for sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just I can't stand certain types of acting. It's like the young adult acting. They kind of did it in the Hunger Games, where I'm just like have you seen the new Hunger Games?
Speaker 2:that was one that's coming out, the one that just came out.
Speaker 3:Oh, the one that's like a was it last year?
Speaker 2:like a prequel or whatever it was. Well, oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:It was the Like the life of snow.
Speaker 2:I have not that shit was cool.
Speaker 3:Was it good?
Speaker 2:I never.
Speaker 3:I I've never seen any of the Hunger Games, but to see that one first hand, pretty awesome the thing, the thing with the Hunger Games that I really like, because I read some of the books when I was younger, because that's like when I when I read the most. I don't really read much anymore. Mostly, I just read that philosophy shit like a dork, but that's just just philosophy and mind-com.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, you know what it is, brother Just. But so I read a little bit of it and in the books it was way more brutal, like the scene where she gets attacked by those yellow jacket things, that In the book her face starts like exploding and you can like see her bones and shit and it's like popping off where it's Well, it's gnarly and the movie I really enjoyed the movie. But I have that same issue of like. I have a weird thing where where if the acting isn't good and the conversation isn't good, I just can't Get into it.
Speaker 3:You know, it kind of breaks the immersion like a like. Game of Thrones is a great example. I could watch the first five seasons of Game of Thrones all day long. Get to season six and seven, I go. What is the acting? What is the storyline? He doesn't know how to read, but don't believe his lies. Shut up, ashley. Why the fuck are you telling people this shit?
Speaker 1:This is live, you know this is live right now.
Speaker 3:Everybody can hear you. If I hadn't read it, nobody could hear. But she's right, I don't know how to read. Did you see me try to read that quote earlier?
Speaker 2:fumbled, she's really, she just reads all the books to you. Yeah, she's my audio book.
Speaker 3:I just lay in bed like speak to me, darling.
Speaker 2:I would love that. I would love an app to choose who what celebrity reads your books to you. That would be a great.
Speaker 3:That would be a great use of AI you might be on yes exactly bad, this is live and you can't edit it out.
Speaker 2:Someone's gonna steal something's gonna steal it, that's fine. Just give me the. Just give you the credit. Just give me the credit. At least I have some type of credit credit is nothing without money. Imagine just coming up to the stage. He. He has no good credits at a comedy club, but he did come up with the idea of AI audio books, dude.
Speaker 3:That is a really good idea, though, to have AI. Excuse me to have AI use the voice of a famous actor, actress, to read audio books for you. If they could get that down, I'm sure that would be a killer market.
Speaker 2:What was the book that? What's the book that you're reading right now? I remember, or did you finish that one already with what's his name? The Brettman Rock? You finished it already. Yeah, what a fucking name, this guy.
Speaker 3:You know who this is? No, but I hate his name, bretman Rock. Bretman Rock, really, pull up the book. What a name, huh.
Speaker 1:He was named after.
Speaker 2:Brett, the hitman heart and the rock and the rock doing the rock, johnson.
Speaker 3:He just took their names and smushed them together. The dad was a big.
Speaker 1:They're from the Philippines and the dad was a big fan of wrestling.
Speaker 2:That was his real name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's his name Bretman Rock. Geez, that's rough.
Speaker 3:I mean awesome, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 2:I think it's awesome if I was gonna be named, if I had the choice between Bretman the hitman Rock or Gilbert, it probably be Bretman Rock, dude.
Speaker 3:That's fair, but you know why I don't like Bretman Rock. It sounds like a town there is there he is.
Speaker 2:You don't know who this guy is no he. I know his face. He has like 13 million followers. Yeah, I've seen his face. Put him on the screen.
Speaker 3:You know why I don't like him. I don't like his attitude, dude, look at the way he has the same eyes in almost every photo. That dude stinks.
Speaker 2:Look at him.
Speaker 1:He's pretty humble guy actually.
Speaker 2:The reason why I brought him up is because I don't mean to shit on the dude you like. Well, the reason why I brought him up was because him reading his but basically it was his biography right, this guy it. You would think he was a natural. I Don't like a natural reading books. Him reading his story was just super natural, like in the audiobook.
Speaker 1:In the audiobook it wasn't like once upon a time.
Speaker 2:No, it was like he was telling you a story. That's pretty great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was like yeah, I kicked my aunt's ass.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you, bitch.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Social phony thing you're right about is a dude in your audiobook. You go, I beat that bitch's ass and I pull her hair out and she died basically that's how he sounded.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, the one that did that was Joey Diaz in his own audiobook that book was great, dude.
Speaker 2:Did you have you read or listen to his?
Speaker 3:book. No, I hear it's great I if I'm gonna read a comedy book, the one I want to read is Sam Talant's running the light.
Speaker 2:I haven't, I haven't. I think that's on my, my little list.
Speaker 3:And I was gonna read it. I would listen to it or have Ashley read it to me.
Speaker 2:Sam Talant. He's a great comic.
Speaker 3:Love Sam Talant. I like his. Uh, he's got silly energy up there. Yeah, try to be. I just see. I see people sometimes where I go. I think you're trying to be too serious, yeah, or you're not having enough like fun up there, like I have that problem sometimes. Sam is just having a good time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know what I'm, since we're talking about pet peeves, right, comedy is not cool.
Speaker 3:I feel like when, when somebody goes on stage and tries to be cool like Comedy is not cool, it's theatrical yeah the only person who ever got away with it in the slightest, I guess would be dice clay, but it's also. That was a Hyperbolic character meant to portray this thing. But if you have, you think you're a cool comedian. You're a fucking dork like.
Speaker 3:I made a comic one time and he, he walked up to me and I won't say his name, but we're doing a show out in Justin Justin Fox. He does shows out in Hemet at this place called Derby's and he booked me on the show there and one of the comics. He comes up to me and he goes man, we in Hemet, can you believe we in Hemet? And I went yep, it's a place. And he goes, we in Hemet. And then he looked at me and he looked at my shirt and I was wearing like I forget what I was wearing. It was like a Star Wars shirt or something. And he goes that shirt ain't very funny. And I looked at him and I went you're wearing a weed shirt. You basic bitch like, stop trying to be cool. This isn't a cool thing we do. We go up there and we tell jokes about our sad and embarrassing life, like it's not supposed to be a cool thing right.
Speaker 3:We're supposed to be like. Even you know who big J O'Crossin is yeah.
Speaker 3:He is. He wears fingerless gloves and a wallet chain. That's not a cool look, but he like it, like it works for him, but it's not a cool look. We're not cool. People like I I bet I used to do like punk rock shows and stuff and I would go to them all the time and there's all these people. They're dressed up like, with their mohawks and their all this shit, and I feel the same way, kind of, about them. I feel like a lot of people who are trying to be this cool, edgy, crazy thing are fucking dorks Because we're all just trying to find a thing that we like fit in with. Right, we're there. The only people that I will say are cool are our Really successful businessmen, people who ride motorcycles, but only because my girlfriend's dad rides a motorcycle and I and I respect him and, yeah, that's about it. I don't really. I don't really think most people are cool. I think most people are pretty dorky but they just try to put on this thing. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, cuz it's hard because it's it's an act. It's an act up there and it You're acting, and it's hard to be funny and try to be cool at the same time. Yeah unless it becomes it, unless it's natural to you. Yeah unless it's natural to that's who you are and you can be funny that way and you can be funny that way.
Speaker 1:I can't sorry. I was gonna ask question is smooth and cool? Totally different things. I was someone be smooth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was actually just about to bring that up. Hanna. Hanna Bo Burris is a person who some people would describe him as cool. I would describe him as smooth in the way he delivers his jokes and he's calm, he's collected, he's kind of smooth. It's a little slower, more calm, rhythmic thing right. That's a gentleman who you could describe as cool, but would more likely be smooth in a way, I guess what I'm saying is like a cool person per se, is like one of the Popular kids in high school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there like if you're, if you're a popular, if you were a popular kid and in High school and you're doing comedy and I just I don't know, I just it may be rubbed me the wrong way because, of all, I never liked cool people. No, I agree in school.
Speaker 3:It's the same way I feel about hot comics.
Speaker 2:I don't if you're a hot, oh dude, don't even get me shut started.
Speaker 3:Dude, get a little like. Johnny. Gold is the only hot comic. I, like you know, just get uglier or something. That's why I can't stand like Matt Reif used to be a little bit oh my god. And then he got hot and now I can't stand stand stand, if he was ugly and doing the exact same jokes, I'd probably be like that's just pretty cool.
Speaker 2:He got too caught. He got too hot from soft, too hot to handle.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, like, but that's the thing. Wait, hey, did you? You brought up theater earlier. Did you have you ever done anything else besides podcasting and comedy like I ever performed in any other capacity?
Speaker 2:I did theater in Sixth grade, sixth, seventh and eighth grade to a middle school. Actually I was in the plays in church when I when I went to church that counts. I was the, the, the kid that shook in front of Jesus Right the kid that shook like trembled. Yeah, he like trembled, I trembled I.
Speaker 3:Like when Jesus was blowing you or the kid was like that kid no, there.
Speaker 2:So in the Bible, right and so.
Speaker 1:Elvis and the.
Speaker 2:No, so in the Bible that there's this like during, like all his miracles yeah right, he's performing all these miracles, turning the blind so they can see the Lady with like leprosy, he cures her with leprosy. And then there's this child that has these uncontrollable, uncontrollable tremors, uncontrollable seizures, and you were so. He sees, so he's seizing in front of Jesus, and that was my big role was to have a seizure. Thanks in front of the Son of God.
Speaker 3:So you played Michael J Fox in a church. That's crazy how that's great. That's a great role.
Speaker 2:That's right, dude.
Speaker 3:What'd you play in, what'd you do in sixth grade, like what were the plays you remember?
Speaker 2:They were mostly so. It was like a big, big producer back then that like went to our middle school and kind of like directed this summer thing.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:They were just like small skits. I had one skit, one good song that year was Youth of the Nation by POD.
Speaker 3:We, yeah, we, yeah, yeah you know the nation.
Speaker 2:So there was this. So at the end of the we had this big theater show and at the end of it I lip sync the whole song of Youth of the Nation, pod. That's rough. Yeah, I had a Roste farion wig I Asked. Him was like hey, can I?
Speaker 3:can I take this off? I?
Speaker 2:asked my mom. No, I asked my mom like, can I need a wig? Like, oh okay. The guy in POD has. He has dreads. Back then he had dreads. Yeah, I was like love of wigs came from yeah, I was like mom, I need a wig for my, for my production.
Speaker 3:I'm just gonna casually skim over your love of wigs, are we no?
Speaker 2:you love wigs? Wigs are cool dude, I have a lot. I have like more wigs than the average man should have if I come back, we're playing dress-up.
Speaker 3:I was in theater a little bit. That's why I brought it up, because I, but my relationship was different with theater. So I told somebody a couple days ago they go, you were in theater and they go, yeah, and they're like, that doesn't like seem like something you would do. But I wanted to perform in some capacity, but I was also ditching school a lot, so I would go to the park and get like smoke, some weed and like maybe do a Little, like whatever my friends had on them, some pills or whatever and then I would go back and be in the little mermaid, like have you ever been Grimsby? But also been drunk, like it's just forgetting all my lines. And the theater teacher liked me so she let me keep doing it.
Speaker 2:But there was a there was a I like that kid drunk. Yeah, I. There's something about a theater teacher just had leaving. Were you okay like back then?
Speaker 3:you okay. She allowed you to be drunk and I mean, she didn't like allow me to be drunk. She was like, if you're gonna do that stuff, come in here.
Speaker 3:Coherent, okay do your lines and stuff, but there were a couple of times when I got a little, she gave you coke lines too. Yeah Well, she was a cool teacher. She's a rad lady, all right. No, she was really nice. She mostly just didn't want me being out on the streets, because I grew up in San Bernardino and that's a terrible place to wander around it. You know you'll get some sketch. I've seen a couple dead bodies.
Speaker 2:What high school did you go to?
Speaker 3:You know a Royal Valley? No, so it's just this high school in San Bernardino, like right next to this big place called the wash, which is just like a dirt wash out, and then San Bernardino City to the left of it.
Speaker 2:So you did grow. You grew up in San San Bernardino.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, I went to school there. I grew up technically in a place called Muscov. If you've ever heard of that, I've heard of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's like that's. You talk about the IE and San Bernardino, you ask Muscov. It's like that's like little Mexico.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dude, I mean that's in in Lin Empire.
Speaker 3:That's why I speak a little bit of Spanish and I've been told a lot of the times that my accent is pretty good. Like I was at work the other day and I do like loading stuff and they go, they have like these things, and I go, pongo in la atras a lotruca and the guy did like a double take like you, like you can say those words. By the way, I don't know if I said the sentence right. I googled it. Did I say anything right now?
Speaker 1:No. She goes, you didn't? You just said so. You said troco and it's troca. Okay, you can say lo pongo atras in la troca.
Speaker 3:There we go. See, I broke it Spanish.
Speaker 1:But, but I could tell what you're saying. Okay, cool.
Speaker 3:But yeah, just that. So I grew up there and there's all like immigrants and stuff like that. We're separated by, we have sidewalks and official San Bernardino City doesn't? So on one street there's a side where it's dirt and it's like very small Amber.
Speaker 2:Look up like a map of Muscov.
Speaker 3:It's pretty small.
Speaker 2:It's a really small, I feel like it's just like Street like it's.
Speaker 3:It's super small it's maybe like a two mile radius, if that, and and Like almost everybody, there is an immigrant from Central America or Mexico of some sort. So they all speak Spanish. There was one Russian dude and they it was crazy. I remember one time there was a group of individuals who caught a dude being terrible with a child and they Left him on the flagpole in front of the elementary school to send a message to anybody else who might want to do such activities. So it was. It's a pretty gnarly. I wish.
Speaker 2:No, that's muscovy Canada.
Speaker 1:Canada.
Speaker 3:Canada and California. That's more like it.
Speaker 2:Yep, yeah there, I know that liquor store and the old Jeep.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's, that's where I grew up. See, all that, that's where I went. I took my girl from there one time mostly dirt, yeah, lots of dirt, lots of lots of horses. The people next to us had bowls and chickens and geese and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I took my girl from there one time and she goes, she. We were driving down the street. There was a liquor store and it was nighttime and they had like the big metal roll-up doors and there was only one light bulb and it was flickering and there was a cat under it and she looked at me and she goes that cat's trying to sell me drugs. So yeah, that's where I grew up. It's a pretty crazy place, wow.
Speaker 2:James from muscovy. Yeah, that's where I'm from.
Speaker 1:Where you from.
Speaker 2:I'm from Whittier dude. I'm from Whittier Whittier and then I moved out to Pomona. In 2000 2011, I came to Pomona and then I went to Rialto, and then I went to San Bernardino, and then I'm slowly trying to make my way back to to Whittier.
Speaker 3:Why you don't like it here.
Speaker 2:I most of the stuff that we work on and our clients and our business stuff is starting to. You know grow in North Long Beach and Paramount area interesting, interesting. I like that area I mean I just recently moved to Norwalk and not by choice, but you know it's nice to be there. No, norwalk is nice to yeah, yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 3:It's a nice area. I thought there was gonna be a lot more availability for walking because it's in the name, but you probably shouldn't walk around that place. It's probably not the best place to walk around it.
Speaker 1:Are you like by like Norwalk Square.
Speaker 3:I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2:What I do want to talk about is the difference in the comic scenes between the IE and Southeast Los Angeles different way, I want to throw one thing completely different.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Norwalk used to have a $2 theater in the Norwalk Square. Uh-huh and it was. You'd pay $2 and you can watch any movie. And they had a $1 hot dogs.
Speaker 3:That sounds. That does sound great. It also sounds like you might be on the restroom for a while after it. No, that sounds great.
Speaker 1:No, my son Michael Demin, you got a strong stuff.
Speaker 2:That had a Chuck E Cheese right next to it, right?
Speaker 1:Like around the corner.
Speaker 2:Okay, my friends used to hot box their Honda with like smoking meth, so they used to like smoke meth. You've got some cool friends, go to Chuck E Cheese and Go watch a $2 movie.
Speaker 3:All right, it's starting to make sense why you do comedy now.
Speaker 2:There's a little something in there, that's broken.
Speaker 1:That's not right. It's fun. Ashley said it's gone, that was all them, it's gone Is she Norwalk.
Speaker 3:She's originally from Pico.
Speaker 1:Okay, but she knows that area.
Speaker 3:But yeah, she knows that area, she's, she's pretty. Yeah, but the difference in comedy scenes, like you were asking, it's pretty vast. So typically in the Inland Empire there's only there's a very small handful of places you can do open mics. Typically you're gonna go with the buddy system or Some sort of mix mic you know they have around there. Patrick Mahoney runs a great mix mic in that area but over here it's there's a vast plethora, like I see, and I see so many faces that I probably won't see again for another Couple of weeks. That's how it feels and I've only been here like a month, if that, maybe two oh, like in in that area.
Speaker 2:Oh, that makes sense why you were. Do you're in bellflower? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I just I just got out there.
Speaker 3:So it's pretty different. I mean no offense to the buddy system guys. I love you guys, but they are very much the big fish in the small pond over there. They keep that comedy scene going. They keep it alive. They do stuff at the Ontario improv. But other than the buddy system and their kind of comedy community that they've, that they've gathered out there, there's not a lot that you can find, at least not from my experience. So so coming out here is very different. I like having these, this plethora of opportunity like coming out.
Speaker 3:I was, I was supposed to take a break from doing comedy because I'm poor and I need a car and all that stuff, and About a weekend I started going I'm giving up, I'm quitting, I'm a loser and I started like falling apart as a person. And then I went back and I went. This is crazy there's I can do a mic every day if I wanted to. So now I have to limit myself because I'm an addict and I will just go do it every day, you know yeah, it's very different, it's very it's.
Speaker 3:It's better for sure out there, but only because the, the opportunity is more, more plentiful. You know what I mean right. It's like being on a farm where all you have is strawberries, and then you get to an orchard where there's like Millions of different things and then there's pigs over there and you can go kill and eat a pig if you want. I like that way better than I just like strawberries, you know so when? Because Wait where were you before I? I lived in Colton, but I did you're in Colton.
Speaker 2:But I did comedy in the.
Speaker 3:Inland Empire, so like Riverside okay, all that area.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Johnny Gold made it seem like you're from Riverside.
Speaker 3:Well, riverside is the comedy community that that's really developed. It's the Riverside comedy scene and that's the buddy system and all those guys. So I'm a Riverside comic technically. I still need to go out there, dude, I haven't there's some good rooms, man, if you want to hit up a good room. They got a room going on Thursdays at this place, called back to the grind, which has a great I've seen that I've been wanting to go very cool, if you like the like every week comedy feel where it's like the brick background and it's very tight and small close quarters.
Speaker 3:It's a great spot. If you have some material that you think is really hitting, bring that shit there. You'll see what it does, as long as there's people there, you know, comics or comics. They're not gonna laugh right away if they don't know you.
Speaker 2:Right, well, that's another thing too. If they don't know you, that's a good point.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cuz you know, comedy is Clicky, it's, it's a scene, for a reason. You know, if they don't know you, a lot of the time they're not gonna laugh. That's why I've just learned, like, when I go to a new place and it's just comics, I don't give a. Well, I don't give a fuck. Anyway, I got hit by a car, I don't give a fuck. But but like, definitely don't give a fuck if it's just comics, cuz you're not gonna get it. Either You'll get something out of them or you won't, but it doesn't matter either way, because you're there to do your jokes. So just fucking go for it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're there to work them out, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're there to do your shit. It's. It's a, it's a, it's a business, it's a. Kobe didn't get to be Kobe by just watching basketball. He went out and did basketball. You know what I mean right.
Speaker 2:So, what did you think of the Belfar?
Speaker 3:My flower, the one you guys did know the the stand-up comedy club.
Speaker 3:Oh, I like that place. I enjoy it I. I just like performing at a comedy club, even if it's a smaller one. You know, the stand-up comedy club is a smaller kind of, but it's really fun and the environment there is fun and they have audience members come in pretty frequently. So it was the past couple of times I've been there. It's been nice to get the reps in and get them in and then kind of meet those people. A couple of super funny dudes over there, like Mario Rodriguez. That dude went up last week and just yeah, he's really good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he didn't. He was just saying shit, just just having a good time. He was like let me try to get some jokes off and I go fuck you, dude, how do you? But?
Speaker 2:he's really funny he's. So, yeah, it's good over there. Angel Hernandez, the host is very cool. Do you know there is.
Speaker 3:I already knew Daisy rocks when I got out there, so she's really cool. It's a cool scene. It's a cool area. Long Beach is Different. I've seen more white dudes with mustaches than I will ever have ever seen, so that's cool. If you, if I, drive by one more pickup truck with a blue lives matter sticker on it and a dude with a mustache and a backwards hat, I'm gonna do something where over there kind of like in in Orange County.
Speaker 1:Oh, an orange County. Yeah, I was like that's where.
Speaker 3:I've been doing Mike's at got it. How long have we been going, by the way?
Speaker 1:I see. I will just keep talking an hour and I'm all right, I'm not cuz.
Speaker 3:You got to tell me when to stop, cuz I'll just keep going.
Speaker 2:I'm going okay good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it's different over there. I like, I like it, I like it a lot and I'm just kind of grateful to be able to keep doing it, you know yeah especially moving to a new place. It's always a little Nerve-racking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's not like a new state to where you don't know anybody, right? But?
Speaker 1:it's a, it's a jump right. It's like a change.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I grew up over there. I just moved over here a year ago and to me, yeah, we're not here all the time, we're mostly over there, but still when I'm here, it's like a change, like yeah, I'm just like, oh, whoa.
Speaker 3:I got into a. So I I got into a pretty crazy car accident and my girlfriend moved in with me and she had that same feeling in Colton in San Bernardino, where she was like this is way different than where I'm from. It's such a different thing and I don't really know anybody over there. So getting there it's kind of like all fresh new faces. Like I have to kind of re-network and re get to know everybody. I know a couple of people here and there. Like I'll see a couple people and go, hey, what's up, dude, good to see you, but for the most part I don't know nobody out there. So it's interesting.
Speaker 2:It is. It is pretty interesting. Are you still doing Mics out or shows out here in the IE?
Speaker 3:Yeah, actually, like almost every show I have booked is out here. Like, I'm doing a feature next week on the 14th with Maxwell farms at Kings Brewing. Come check that out, I'm gonna be featuring there. I have a couple of other things scheduled for April. If you want to know any of that, by the way, follow me on my Instagram. That's at James Jablonsky with two eyes. That's James J A BL O N SK. I, I and you can go follow me there. That's where I be and otherwise, otherwise, like, yeah, it's mostly out here. I have, like one thing maybe out there. If that, yeah, so, but that's because that you're getting new there, you're socializing, you're getting to know all those people, yeah, and unfortunately, part of our business is networking.
Speaker 2:I don't huge part. It's huge, it's so. I think that's why I like having this too, because this is an hour-long Networking yeah, right, yeah, exactly, it's a really good tool. Yeah, very, very great tool. I'm trying to open myself up to hit shows and hit mics, but when you're also? I was just complaining about this the other day, about how I need to stop producing shit and actually go out to other comedy shows instead of doing my own shit.
Speaker 3:It does help to get your face out there. Yeah, you want to. You want people. I heard this from somebody when I first started doing comedy. They said if I keep running into you, that's a good thing right.
Speaker 3:You want to see that face, you want to. You know, like when first started going to the stand-up comedy club and like the Belflower area and all those areas out there, the comics didn't really know me. And then, a by week too, they had seen me at that mic, they had seen me at this mic, they had seen me there, and they go, oh hey, good set man, and they shake your hand, they want to see that repetition because, right, nobody likes a comic. That just does it as a hobby for some reason. It's not the thing that. Comics are very nice too. If you go, I just like doing this for fun, like the fuck out here.
Speaker 2:Give me my five minutes instead of a bitch, are you doing right?
Speaker 3:so it's, it's different. Yeah, like, like, have you ever met anybody that does comedy for a hobby?
Speaker 2:I Try not to.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, try not to and it's not like I have anything against those people. I'll still be very nice to them and I'll still treat them with dignity and respect. But I do, in the back of my head, go like where are you here? You know, yeah, we're all trying, because we're all trying to do something with this. We all want to be something with this. So when you start getting to the point where you see those people in your you've pursued it for three years or like, for however long, like you've been doing it for months, six months six months, six months, you see somebody who's doing it as a hobby, but they've been doing it like two years and you go.
Speaker 3:Are you gonna take this seriously or not? Right, and I think a lot Of people don't understand that, because a lot of people, even though we do take this seriously, even though this is like the thing we want to pursue, a lot of people will go oh, that's a hobby. Yeah, some people, like in my life, still don't fully understand that this is a thing. This is like a career.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and then what also is interesting is that when I'm not doing podcast or podcasting or filming somebody else's podcast or Anything around a podcast, I'm in the Santa world, I'm hanging out with comics, I'm At Mike's, I'm trying to go to more shows, so it's it's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's definitely like this is another full-time gig, like having a podcast and producing something like it's a. It's like it's another job. Definitely, definitely, it's another job. That's why I was getting so frustrated the other the other day about producing so much shit that it's not allowing me to Pursue comedy as much as I want to, or that I need to, and I feel like that I don't want it to be a hobby. I want it to be something more. I was just being hard on myself.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I'm.
Speaker 2:Mexican-American.
Speaker 3:That's what we do. I don't think that has. I mean, I'm Devastatingly hard on myself, so I don't think that has anything to do with being Mexican-American. I think it's just a work mentality. You want to be something better. You got to be hard on yourself sometimes. Yeah, I mean like, like I'm, I work a day job and then I do comedy at night and I have a girlfriend and she has two kids and I have a girlfriend.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you have a kid, right, yeah. So you, you have to find that balance. Where you're, even though you're doing all these things and you're pursuing, you have to find a Balance to where everything feels good and equal, and it's a process you got to learn to. I'm not there yet. I still feel like I'm doing more of one thing or more of another thing.
Speaker 2:So well, you have to find balance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:So I mean the, the producing stuff and the creative events. That's that's my day job. Like creating events and putting on shows is half of what I do to for us to make some money, right, and it's it's. It's pretty fun, but also, at the same token, I'm not giving myself or I'm not pushing myself enough to to write material and perform it. Yeah, right now I'm performing my same five minutes that I've. It took me to write like six months and I'm like Changing jokes and moving them, moving them around, but I'm not allowing myself to work on new material.
Speaker 3:Sometimes that isn't bad. Sometimes you want to just hone those jokes and you want to get them down and you want to. You want to make sure that they're the best that they can be true. So I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. I do agree with the pushing thing like, like I said, my girlfriend has Two kids, so basically I have a step family, which I love, but I feel like I need to push myself more to Find time to do things with them as well as comedy. So you know, you can have that in all aspects of your life. I think, as long as you're enjoying what you're doing, that's the essential part. Have fun.
Speaker 2:I forgot who it was on the flagrant podcast, but they were saying something along the lines of that of Taking a break and actually living Poor material. Yeah like how, like road comics have got to have it tough If they're writing new material like all the time. What is? What is their material about? Traveling airplanes and.
Speaker 3:How many jokes have you heard about that from big comedians? You know, you hear that a lot. I think the living for material is a great thing. What I like to do is just Experience it like I like if there's a day where I'm not doing a mic, I'll go to the movies or I'll go With my girlfriend and we'll sit down and we'll talk or like just Enjoying life. For what life is is what makes you come up with shit like most of the jokes I'll.
Speaker 3:I can sit down and I can write jokes and I'll come up with nothing, but I'll be sitting there talking with my lady and then, boom yeah, something comes and sometimes that's the magic of it, yeah so beautiful.
Speaker 2:That's weird how how that happens, dude. You could just be Sitting down for 30 minutes trying to write something. Nothing, it's all dog shit probably.
Speaker 3:You know what I've started doing? I actually learned this from my friend, a Hector Lara shout out, hector Lara. He, he told me he doesn't really write jokes, he just writes. And I went that's a great idea. So now I just write thoughts in my brain and then if I find something that I like in there, I take that I turn that into a joke. But I'm not trying to be funny, I'm just writing it.
Speaker 2:And then 2000 years later, a Philosophy class is talking about your. I got run over a Bly a black guy joke.
Speaker 3:Yeah, somebody's reading it and goes. Man James really has a lot of issues with minorities.
Speaker 2:So, dude, what happened? Tell me, can you talk about that? How? Oh, the accident busted leg and shit. Oh yeah, the first time I actually seen you on stage you were sitting down and you had a Cain with you I was like what the fuck is this guy's deal Like? Is this like part of his act? What is he doing? Is he fucking dying? Like yeah exactly, and you, you, you brought, you, took the chair.
Speaker 2:Oh, and this was that first amendment by the way this is still back, when Gibby was still doing the mic at first amendment you pulled the chair out and I was like, okay, this, what is this guy gonna do? And you sit down. I was like, okay, something's wrong with his leg.
Speaker 3:Yep, all right, okay yeah, that's a crazy thing. So I have a friend that I do a podcast with called tangent town. Shout out tangent town. You can find the links for that. We're gonna start that back up soon and we were doing an episode and we left and at the place I was living at the time where I no longer live the driveway was super steep. So it was like his car was parked here and my car was parked here and I was getting some tools out and he went to go reverse and either his transmission slipped or something happened and he hit the gas and Boom into me and kind of crushed me between both, oh my god, yeah, and he gets out and he's Freaking out like I see it in his eyes, like the the you know the eyes of like somebody who just fucked up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he knows it and he's freaking out and I go get, I let out two screams To just full screams and then I went get the car off of me and then I looked at my girlfriend and I went call 911. She was already doing it.
Speaker 3:I was like, yeah, she was standing to the oh my god, and I go call 911 and then he backs the car up and I fall, which actually I learned from medical professionals he shouldn't have done, because if I was bleeding, oh, let out luckily no blood. So I fall to the floor and they get me and they take me and it was a crazy accident. I was in the hospital for about two weeks. My left knee has three plates and 16 screws and it's mostly metal and my right leg has a bar in it and I had to. It took like six months to relearn how to walk and shit, yeah, and the whole time I was doing comedy like after about a month or two your leg has a bar in it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, my leg has a bar and my knee is all metal plates mostly.
Speaker 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I still have some pain and stuff.
Speaker 2:They got some good drink specials in the bar. In your leg those all right. Yeah, I was stupid.
Speaker 3:I know it's okay, we've been, we're all a little tired, but I have ADHD so I will keep going. But yeah, that's just, that's it. It's really it's. I've talked about it at nauseam, so at this point it feels normal. But then, seeing the reaction on your face when I describe it, I realize how unnormal it is.
Speaker 2:That is wild. It's a what. What was broken?
Speaker 3:So when I got so I had a couple of things broken, so my knee like just bent. Generally my knee on the left side was like shattered into a bunch of pieces and I also had a collapsed artery. So I had to get a stent put in behind my knee and then they went in and I, like a gnarly scar, they laid me down flat on my face and they did complete reconstruction of my knee, so like where my knee meets my knee cap and all that shit.
Speaker 3:I haven't ever seen the x-rays. I probably should, but it was pretty gnarly. And then on my right side it was, my femur was snapped in half. Jesus Christ, yeah, so they put a bar in that the femur is the largest bone in like a human body. Is that? I think so, I think so. Look at a top leg, that's a top leg bone. Yes.
Speaker 2:That's the biggest bone in somebody's body and yours Broke yeah, what is it?
Speaker 1:What was it? Oh, my was broken too in half.
Speaker 3:How'd you break yours?
Speaker 1:Well, mine was just surgery thing, hers was a voluntary break.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, that's crazy. Break my leg.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I was. It was pretty crazy I had that. I had complete reconstruction surgery on my knee. So like now, if you feel my knee you can kind of feel like how it's a little bit different. It still functions perfectly. I had to do like a bunch of physical therapy to get it back to normal and and yeah and you were still hitting bikes. Yeah, after about a month once my swelling went down and.
Speaker 3:I was at home taking medicine and stuff. I started I had my girlfriend Ashley. She would put me in a wheelchair and wheel me out of the house and then I would get. So my legs couldn't bend my knees, we're not allowed to bend while they were healing so I had Lego legs that were just like stiff.
Speaker 1:They didn't put like casts on you.
Speaker 3:I had two braces, but the braces were locked and I wasn't allowed to bend my knees.
Speaker 2:You're locking, you're walking like the grandpa from King of the Hill wasn't allowed to walk, had to sit down.
Speaker 1:I had a full body stand tall under my chest all the way down because I wasn't allowed to bend anything damn, that's pretty gnarly, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:so you kind of get, you kind of get. I understand someone had to wipe my ass, dude, and it was her whoa.
Speaker 1:Yeah, praise be to her.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:She's a keeper dude. She's seen things first. Would not wipe, she's seen you?
Speaker 3:can I tell you a story before we go, because I know we've been going?
Speaker 1:for a while.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so when we were in the hospital, I was taking a lot of pain medication, I was on dilaudid, I was tripping balls. It was awesome Hell.
Speaker 3:Yeah and they were like you need to shit because you haven't shit in like four or five days. And they they gave me a couple of rounds of just like oral laxatives and Then they were like this isn't working. So we're gonna have a nurse come in and she's gonna pop a suppository in your butt and that's gonna loosen you up and hopefully you can poop, because if not it's gonna be a real problem. Hello, and we can't let you go until you go to the bathroom. So they popped this a posatory in and about 20 minutes later, I mean, it looked like somebody broke a fire hydrant, but the fire hydrant was my poop. Oh, my god. So yeah, that's a pretty cool story. I'll leave you with that.
Speaker 2:Oh, my lord dude, you wouldn't change me if I had a diaper. Okay, let's love, I wouldn't change you, I would get a, I'll get somebody else. You would hire somebody to do I would go to Home Depot every morning and Find somebody and bring them back to the apartment Do?
Speaker 1:you know how to change me. Be quiet. He puts on my socks.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's super cute, hold up really quick. I just like the idea of you going to Home Depot and finding one of the work isn't being, like you do, concrete, and they're like, yeah, and you go close enough.
Speaker 2:Let's go, I went to the Home Depot in Paramount dude and there were these two people there. There's like a barber shop on the side of Home Depot. I'm telling you, this Home Depot had everything. It had a barb, like there were a guy sitting in the actual like Barber chair barber chair. He had like the the thing around him and he was straight up giving him a fade.
Speaker 3:I love there was orange selling.
Speaker 2:There was a guy selling Strawberries, cherries, like a whole market.
Speaker 3:They sure didn't walk into the swap me don't know, dude, it was Home Depot right there, I'm paramount crazy.
Speaker 2:Alondra Boulevard, is it? Oh my god. And there there's this guy that does like the. Yeah, what are those windshield wipers? Yeah, he's selling this windshield wipers, like who does that.
Speaker 3:We could use some new ones on our car. I might have to roll by there. Dude miners of my girlfriend doesn't like our windshield wipers right now because they're squeaky, and she, she'll, we'll be driving and she'll wait till the last minute to turn them on. And I go why don't you just leave them on? She goes I don't like when they squeak when there's no water on them and I go they're gonna squeak, we just turn them on safety.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway, and she's a bad driver, anyways, oh. My god dude James. Thanks for coming out, dude.
Speaker 3:Thank you. This has been a fuck ton of fun. Thank you for having me, and doing the podcast, bro.
Speaker 2:I really appreciate it. Thank you, man. Let's go ahead and tell us where we can find you and what you have coming up, man.
Speaker 3:I remember you can find me at James Jablonski on Instagram. That's James JAB LO NSK II, and if you go there that I have a link tree that'll take you to all my stuff. I got some shows coming up next week particularly. You can find me at Kings Brewing on the 14th. I'm gonna be featuring there at the open mic for my friend, maxwell farms. Be sure to follow him. He's a great fella. You can go to my YouTube. I have a 10-minute set out of jokes that I think were mediocre, but I put them out anyways and Make sure you to go subscribe to tangent town. We're gonna kick that back up and keep an eye out on my Instagram and my socials for that movie review podcast thing coming soon. You guys have been excellent and thank you, thank you for having me, man Cool man, thanks for Coming out.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow is the big premiere of Dalek comedy, episode one on this channel at Mind Buzz Media. Wednesday we have our Poodle laughs open mic in the city of Paramount follow at Dalek comedy For all your open mics from us here at Mind Buzz Media. Amber, do you have anything else? Yeah, nothing. This weekend we don't have an event.
Speaker 1:I have Spring into. No, what is it called? I think it's called all a spring. Pop up At our chapter. Yeah, in the city of Paramount.
Speaker 2:There you go. So you want to spring into action, come hang out with Amber at her event. So I Don't know anything else, no no for me.
Speaker 3:I mean, I'm on that episode tomorrow. Be sure to check that out. That was a whole lot of fun. I love kill a kill.
Speaker 2:It was fun. You like that? No, I think we got a change the name to it was really good.
Speaker 3:Guys, be sure to check it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I liked it. I'm gonna come back. Yeah if you'll have.
Speaker 2:March 29th. You want to do a feature spot.
Speaker 3:I'll do whatever you ask. Yeah, I'm yours, let's do it.
Speaker 2:All right, oh yeah, all right, guys peace. My god there you go, dude.
Speaker 3:That was fucking great yeah.