MB:282 with Nessa Vasquez

Nessa Vasquez is a standup comedian. Follow her here https://www.instagram.com/dammit_nessa/

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SPEAKER_00 0:02

Let's go. What is up, Mind Buzz Universe? Welcome back to another podcast episode of The Mind Buzz. I am your host, Gil, and working the board this evening, this morning, whenever you're listening to this podcast, is a lovely Amber. How are you?

SPEAKER_03 0:35

I'm good.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

What's up?

SPEAKER_03 0:37

Nothing. I did it again.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

What what?

SPEAKER_03 0:40

I took a premature nap.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

A premature nap?

SPEAKER_03 0:43

That's what I'm calling it. Yeah. Then I woke up 9 o'clock in the movie.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

I yelled at you right the first thing. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

It's okay. But I'm good. I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

I'm good. I'm uh we're here. We're queer. We're ready to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Uh I'm not that. I'm not that, but uh I I'm here ready to have uh just kidding. Nice podcast, had a great week. Uh did I did I get through the 30-day challenge? No, I did not. It's okay. I got four days in and my ass hurt. Okay? I it was uh uh very sore from uh going to the gym for four days consecutively and I just can't do it. I just couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:35

It's okay. I'm proud of you for um for saying it.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

For admitting it that you're you're uh I had to it's been eating at me for the past four days.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

Why you feel like ashamed? Like no, not not ashamed, but it's just like well I'm but just for context, for context, he's done it already. Yeah. And he legit. For 75 days.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

But they probably found out when I posted the McDonald's on Friday.

SPEAKER_03 2:07

So you posted McDonald's?

SPEAKER_00 2:09

I think I did.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

No, I didn't see it because my closed friends. Oh, I'm not your close friend then?

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Hey, you gotta subscribe. You gotta sub to that. There's a paywall.

SPEAKER_03 2:20

There's a paywall. It's called making you dinner every day. All right.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

Except for that Friday, because I had to get McDonald's that day.

SPEAKER_03 2:28

Oh yeah. Oh, it's when you came home early.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:31

Yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

For lunch, actually. You weren't there. What do you what do you what do you want me to do?

SPEAKER_03 2:36

Nothing. I'm not saying anything. I'm just appalled that I'm not your close friend.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

Even though I live with you and I see you and we breathe the same air.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

It's like those, uh, like when when MySpace had the like top eight friends, the top five friends, and you're like your cousin or your mom or your brother got up, got mad because they weren't part of your your top five.

SPEAKER_03 2:59

I blocked my mom for like five years when I moved back home. Because I had left home and then I came back, and then when I lived there, I blocked her for like five years, and then one day she was like, Am I blocked from social media? And then I was like, No, what are you talking about? And then my aunt was like, Oh, I saw you were at la la la the other day. And mom was like, She was? And I was like, I had to block her. I lived with her. Come on.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

You didn't have to block her.

SPEAKER_03 3:27

Yeah, I did have to block her.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

Why?

SPEAKER_03 3:29

Because then she would have called me and she would have been like, Where are you? What are you doing? Put that down, don't say that.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

And I was like, the the okay, this is the best part about your mom following me. Is that well, it's not the best part, but I thought it was pretty hilarious. When okay, so we were doing we were hired to do a job for a restaurant to do their social media. And you remember we we told her we were busy that afternoon because we were making videos for the restaurant. And you told her we were busy making videos for the restaurant, and she goes, uh oh yeah, like the the the suck it videos. Because uh earlier that day I posted like a uh Degeneration X WWE video, but that wasn't for the restaurant. I mean, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 4:23

Well, one time she called me because I unblocked her finally when I moved out and I went to go move with in with you, and then uh I was like, Alright, you know what? I don't see her daily anymore. I'll let her in a little, and then like a month later, she calls and she's like, Why did you put that? All your family from Mexico is gonna see that. And I was like, I don't care. I'm gonna block you again, lady.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Just block Mexico.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

No, no, we're good, we're good. She doesn't tell me anything anymore. No, nothing, not even about you, which I was more concerned.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

No, I I'm pretty lax now. I'm pretty lax, it's just all like comedy stuff, and I do even write anything remotely offensive or anything that has to do with that.

SPEAKER_03 5:07

Or when we found out my dad listened to the podcast, that was like yeah. No, we're tamed, and then they toned it down a little.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Yeah, we're tamed. We're good, we're good. We're good, we're here. We're on the podcast. I like how that's like the the ultimate thing that we go to when uh we get nervous. We're here, we're uh let's bring into let's bring in today's guest. Um she's a stand-up comic, she's been doing it for a very long time. Very funny woman. Uh, please give it for Nessa Vasquez. Woo! Ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_05 5:45

Hey.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

What's up?

SPEAKER_05 5:47

What's up, dude?

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Thanks for uh for doing this and being here.

SPEAKER_05 5:50

I'm happy to do a podcast. It's been forever since I've done one, so I'm excited.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

When's the last time you you're gonna do it?

SPEAKER_05 5:57

Oh, dude, it's been like maybe maybe two years ago.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Oh, it's fun.

SPEAKER_05 6:03

Do you block your family from social media? I was gonna I was gonna say, I don't block my family. Like I let them follow me, but I'm just very careful with what I post. But I I restrict them from viewing my stories because that's where I get to like post my like stuff for like my friends and just no like filter on that still story. So yeah, because you could block people from viewing your story.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

Yeah, you can you can give them like limited access.

SPEAKER_05 6:31

I'm just like, you can follow me, but you're not gonna see what I post in my stories.

SPEAKER_03 6:35

I wonder if it's everybody or it's just like a like a Latino thing or something.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

It could be because my my aunt she sends me like all these different like memes and stuff on on Instagram, which is fine, and I like them and oh, this is a good one. But the other day she sent me she kept on like sending me and sending me and sending me. And then I told her, I was like, I was like, Yeah, uh, how about you invite me over to your house?

SPEAKER_05 7:07

When you want to talk, like come over, not to send me a thousand memes a day.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

And then she left me on red. She didn't even respond to me. And then she kept on just sending me videos.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

Oh, like no, I don't I don't like you in person. How old is she?

SPEAKER_00 7:21

She's she's older. Oh, okay. She's old, probably in her.

SPEAKER_05 7:24

Always the old ones that keep sending you stuff and they don't like pick up on the that you're just like, okay.

SPEAKER_03 7:29

Today my mom was like, look at this blanket. Right? She was we were at the doctor's and she's like, Look at this blanket. I hope she doesn't listen to this. She's like, look at this blanket. And then I right away, like, my brain, and I need to remember, like, okay, you need to be gentle with people and like, oh, that's a nice blanket. But my instinct was, I was like, Mom, it's AI. And she was like, No, it's not.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

The blanket?

SPEAKER_03 7:53

Oh yeah, because you know how now AI does, um, like on Instagram or Facebook, they do ads now. And a lot of the ads are like AI ads. Damn, AI is everywhere. Yeah, and then I was like, it's AI. And then after I was like, ah, like, I don't know what to believe anymore. Yeah, it's it's got a lot of people. She got mad more. She got mad because I told her it was AI, and she's like, No, look at what why would they do a blanket AI and then? That's what I say. Like her and I were going back and forth, and I then after some point, I was like, Yeah, mom, you maybe you're right. Like, I just was like, but I could tell, like I could see it, and she couldn't, I guess she couldn't see it. But they're getting crazy.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Yeah, they're getting wild.

SPEAKER_05 8:32

Yeah, they're getting have you some videos that look like real life, and I'm just like, I don't know what to believe. You know, like did that monkey really do that? What like what's happening? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Have you been dued by by any of them? Have you been sucked in? I I think the the first like ri when it started getting like momentum on on just crazy things, it was like a bear, it was like a lady with like a sent me, huh?

SPEAKER_02 8:58

And then I told you it's AI.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

That one I was just like, okay. All right.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

The lady was like feeding a bear. And he's like, Oh my god, and I was like, Are you my mom?

SPEAKER_05 9:11

You didn't believe it. That shit's fake.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

Yeah. But my look, if my aunt listens to this part, it keeps sending me stuff. Okay, it's fine. Just invite me over. I told her, just like invite me over.

SPEAKER_05 9:23

Dude, my dad watches my Instagram and he doesn't even have Instagram. He'll like Google me on Google. And then I guess you could like look at people's Instagram through Google. Like it pops up pictures and like posts, even though you don't have like an account. And he's just like, Hey, nice post. And I was like, Oh my god, just stop, stop looking at me from afar. It's weird, you know. But does he tell you something like don't do this or don't do that? Or it's just more just the fact that he's like watching me sometimes and he'll randomly Google me. I'm like, Why are you being creepy?

SPEAKER_03 9:55

Maybe it's his proud parent.

SPEAKER_05 9:57

Yeah, he's probably being like so proud and everything, and I'm over here just like, stop, you're embarrassing me.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Where did you go to uh recently?

SPEAKER_05 10:06

Oh, dude, I was in Jersey, and that's when we got hit with the blizzard. It was supposed to be a three-day little trip of like stand-up, seven days. We were stuck there, seven days. Our flight got canceled twice because they were just like, Oh, it's probably gonna die down, and then it didn't. And then they're just like, Okay, should be fine this day, and it wasn't. And then we had to wait for the airport to be like cleared out, you know, like the planes had to be like clean from like all the the snow falling and everything, like the runway had to be cleared. So that took a minute, and um and then on the day where things were clear, like those tickets were already like gone, you know, because everyone was trying to fly out, and then when we finally were able to get tickets, it was like seventh, seventh day. And it was just it was crazy because we were like doing this show and then we found out that this blizzard was hitting because we didn't know if we would have known this whole time we wouldn't have gone to Jersey, you know. Like we were just like, oh, it's gonna snow, it's gonna be cold. That's that's it, that's all we knew. I apparently nobody saw this thing coming. So when we caught wind of it, we had booked this gig and this like location stocked up the green route with like snacks and waters, and I was just like, Oh, we're about to be hit with a blizzard. I started shoving like waters in like a backpack. I start cleaning out the fridge. I'm like, fuck this, I'm taking all this back to my hotel. We're surviving somehow, somehow, in case we like can't go get in case we can't get food, which was smart because roads were blocked in at the hotel. Like we got like 16 inches of snow and like the parking lot was like completely filled, like the cars, people were having to like shovel their cars, the streets were like super icy, no one wanted to drive, and we're just like no one's gonna want to come pick us up an Uber, no one's gonna want to do Uber Eats. So we were basically fucked. So I'm just glad that we like stocked up on stacks, but yeah, that was crazy. What an experience. That was my first time ever experiencing like crazy snow like that.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

So it was supposed to be three days and it turned to seven.

SPEAKER_05 12:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 12:11

I mean, like the trip itself turned to seven, but like it wasn't like a seven-day blizzard. Right. Oh, okay. I understand.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

Got it. Damn, dude.

SPEAKER_05 12:18

Like the blizzard itself was like maybe two days.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

When did you talk to any of the locals about the blizzard?

SPEAKER_05 12:26

Yeah, they were just like trying to downplay it. Like a lot of people were just like, Don't believe the news. The news always hypes it up. This, this, and that. And then some were just like, and some were the entire opposite, where they were just like, get your supplies and stock up and get told paper. Like, we went to Walmart, and it seemed like people were like stocking up like that. We're like, what the fuck? What's happening? You know, like this was like the day before it hit, before we even knew it was gonna like really hit hard. And we're like, why is it so packed? That's why I think people were just paranoid in case it did hit hard.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

So how was Jersey besides the blizzard? Or did you did you have any chance to go to Jersey before?

SPEAKER_05 13:02

I think that was like maybe my third time, so I'm still like exploring it, and it's an interesting city. Is it it's interesting, yeah. Like a lot of places close early, you know. Like we did a show on Friday night, and we're like, let's go on, let's go out after the show, let's go get some food, let's go have some drinks. Dude, by 10 o'clock, businesses start closing and everything. We're like, Really? Like even the bars, I guess they make it hard for people to like be out partying and drinking because they want to crack down on people.

SPEAKER_04 13:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:32

And um interesting thing over there is grocery stores don't sell booze. Oh, yeah, like you know how they have to go to like stores, right? Yeah, they only have liquor stores. So, like, if you want to go buy like drinks, you have to go specifically to a liquor store. You can't be like, I'm gonna go to Albertons and pick up groceries and a bottle of wine. Like, no, there's not.

SPEAKER_03 13:53

That's why like the bodegas exist and like globals, like liquor stores because they don't sell it at the market.

SPEAKER_05 14:00

Dude, the bodegas over there, slap. Like they're I want to say underrated, but I feel like people that know them know that they have like good stuff. They're like because some are like little hidden gems. Like I got in really good coffee from like a little tiny store that had like a damn cat in it.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

I was like, oh, yeah, a lot of people live like above it's it's yeah, it's it's cool. I've been to New York, not New Jersey. Yeah, so that's how I knew about the whole liquor thing too. But then uh friend of ours, uh Chris, Chris and Jerry, she's from New Jersey, and she's the one that told me she's like, Yeah, she's like it, she's like, when I moved here to California and that I went to the market and they were stocked up with like alcohol, so that she was like, What the heck? Like you're like and I was like, What do you mean? I was like, You didn't get alcohol at the market. She's like, No, she's like, not over there. So it's that's crazy. To me, what's crazy, it's like just people living with freaking intense conditions like snow. Like you were saying, like a lot of people downplay because I've been, I remember I went to where did I go? I went to Chicago, and when I got there, I was like freezing, like frozen, frozen. And it was in November when I went. And then uh our Uber driver was like, Oh no, it's like really nice. He's like, Yeah, he's like, if I want to come out with like a light jacket, he's like, That this is the time to do it. And I was like, Are you serious? And I had like a jacket, I had a thermo, I had gloves, I had like a beanie, yeah, and I'm just like, oh looking like an Eskimo or something.

SPEAKER_05 15:35

Yeah, we're just like, What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 15:39

No, we're just Californians are not we're not built for the cold, no little spoiled babies.

SPEAKER_05 15:46

We have like nice little sunny days, and we got a lot of things. We're not even built for the rain.

SPEAKER_03 15:51

When was it a couple weeks ago when it rained really hard?

SPEAKER_05 15:53

People lost their mind, and everybody was like, That usually happens.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

So, how was the the stand-up?

SPEAKER_05 16:02

It was good, it was good. I think that was my first time performing at like a big ass sold-out like theater. Like it was a really old one. I forgot what it's called. It started with like a W, but um it wasn't my show. I got like a drop-in spot because I was rolling with this way bigger comic, Jack Jr., shout out to him. Um, very funny. So he invited my boyfriend to come open for him, and then I went with my boyfriend to tag along for the trip. And he's just like, Hey, you want to do time? And I was like, Yes. So I did seven minutes and I did really good. And it was it was interesting. I was nervous because it was for like a bunch of Armenians because that because he's half Armenian, half Mexican, so he has like a big Armenian following, especially out there in Jersey, that's why he went out there. And it was like a fundraiser too for like the school out there. So I'm glad that he gave me some time and I'm I'm glad that they were like rocking with me because they're a tough crowd. Pretty tough.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

Is your is your comedy like geared towards like Latinos or it's just just in general?

SPEAKER_05 17:12

But I feel like I'm very, I'm very like Los Angeles and LA where like you have to know it to like get it, kind of like my reference, my references, like Jersey people, I feel like they're not gonna understand some of my like some of my jokes. So I'm like, okay, hopefully they like me. And then on top of that, they're like Armenian, so they're just like uh it's it's it's just culturally, it's a different yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

Another filter to to get through after uh after a couple of uh lines but that's cool. That's really cool. Doing uh doing stand-up in in another state, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:51

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

You uh what's the what's the best place you can think of that you've done stand-up in?

SPEAKER_05 18:01

For stand-up, like the funnest place, probably.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

Yeah. Funnest place, most exciting.

SPEAKER_05 18:09

There's something about Arizona. There's something about the Arizona comments that I really like because they're so chill and they're just like when they hear that there's comedy from LA, they're just like, yay, they're just like happy about it. Of course, the other comics hate on us, but you know, like they like love us, and they're just like, you guys are so funny because they find us hilarious for some reason. It's like a different flow of comedy. I feel like they're slower out there, like with like the jokes and how they tell it, like they're very like lengthy, and I feel like the stand up here in LA, it's very like kind of fast. It's not like New York fast, but it's like it's right there, right? So I don't know. Like, I just like the vibes in Arizona.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

Somewhere in the middle, right? I got it. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

Yeah. That's kind of crazy to think like there, I guess there is, right, depending on the state or region or whatever you want to say, like how comedy changes and how I mean, I guess I get it because not everybody thinks that the same things are funny, right? Like not everyone would laugh at this, but like this and that, but still it's just like from state to state, like you're saying, like some people are a little more um, you know, they're like I got a whole whole lot of back there. Um but yeah, I I think that's that's crazy. I I never thought of that. Like I know I know like maybe uh like a Latino joke or something to take it to you know somewhere else and then they not know the reference, but just comedy in general, I didn't think about that. It's just like oh yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

That was my initial thought when you said uh Jersey. I was like, how is it gonna like how would it translate?

SPEAKER_05 19:53

Yeah, it's it's kind of hard. Yeah. I feel like if you have like universal jokes, I feel like you're like set, you know, like you're golden. But if you have like very like niche, very particular like jokes, then I feel like it's a bit harder. Like even though they'll like kill here, they're not gonna land you know, like the same because they're just like it's not because it's not funny, it's just that they don't get it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

So yeah, like if you make a reference, like oh the 405 or which isn't which which isn't bad because then it gives you the chance to work on something that's more generalized or more universal that other people can I think so too. Can get. You know, I was just talking about this the other day. I was at a I did a venue that was it was two shows. The the first show uh was predominantly uh like a a Latino crowd, which was great, great show. Um did really good. Second time, same venue, different crowd, predominantly uh Caucasian crowd, white crowd, and it was like so so. I was like it same set, yeah, by the way, same set. I changed it up a little bit, but uh again, I was just like, oh okay, you know, it's it's different. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 21:16

It is, you gotta like, I don't know, like you have to cater to your crowd.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

So but then I think of like um I don't know, I'm just throwing the name out there. Don't don't don't take it with the grain of salt, but like Fluffy, right? Yeah, like he he's a Latino comedian, he has some Latino jokes in there and things like that, but they take him everywhere. I mean he's performed in all different countries, like in different countries too, where I'm just like like I I guess it was one of those the controversial ones where they went to the Middle East, right? That they took comedians out to the Middle East, and to me, it's not to say like oh Middle Eastern people can't laugh, but I thought like there. There must be a big like culture shock within some of the jokes that these American comedians are doing versus like you know out there, and that that was something that I thought like because they had they have a big following in a lot of countries, and I'm just like okay, so I guess they they're translating somehow. It's not as difficult or not as difficult, but it's not as lost in translation as I think that it is. That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah, from what I heard from from that uh that festival that they did in the the Middle East, like they loved it. They were even re they received like contracts, like from what I heard. The contracts, there were like certain like subjects that they weren't like allowed allowed to allow to talk about.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_05 22:49

That's expected, but um he's like universally loved, and that's like hard to do because not many comics could do that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

So and I think uh was it uh I think it was Bill Burr. No, I think it was Dave Chappelle got a lot of I think it was Dave Chappelle. No, or Bill Burr. I don't know. One of them. It was one of the comics on the lineup that I guess they made the comment that, or Andrew Schultz, anybody. Yeah, I it was one it was one of them that said that like they felt freer, which was completely outrageous that they felt freer doing stand-up in that that's weird, that's a weird comment. In in that country versus the United States, which which is a weird comment.

SPEAKER_05 23:38

Very weird.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

I forgot who say it who said it, but um I'd be like, you want to expand on that, buddy? It was it was a wild one.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

The only thing I can think of with that comment is maybe like because here in the US for everything they they people have something to say, right? Social media, or well, I mean I guess it doesn't matter because they still had something to say about everyone going up there. So yeah, never mind. I retract what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

What were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_03 24:04

I retract my comment. I was just gonna say that maybe he he meant like freer in the sense of like maybe he didn't feel that much pressure to perform or to perform you know better here because here you're always being seen or scrutinized, or maybe you know, a venue place or things like that.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

He was more talking about like the subject matter of of writing, I guess. Oh, okay. Which is completely odd. Never mind. That's why I said I retracted.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

You should have let me retract it.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

You made me explain myself or nothing.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Did you follow that? That thing was wild. That uh that festival can you pull it up? Uh it's it's escaping my mind.

SPEAKER_05 24:50

I might have heard about it, but I don't think I like explored it.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

The only reason I know is because of him. Yeah. Other than that, I wouldn't have.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

I was uh if I didn't watch it in the past like 48 hours, like my mind is is it's I don't know what's going on with my memory. I don't know if it's my age or what, but if it's if I haven't heard it or listened to it in the past 48 hours, it's gone.

SPEAKER_05 25:16

It's forgotten. That's not good.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

The Riyadh Comedy Festival.

SPEAKER_00 25:23

The Riyadh.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

Oh, Riyadh.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

The Riyadh Comedy Festival. It was in yeah, September and October. It was Saudi Arabia.

SPEAKER_05 25:32

And who performed on this?

SPEAKER_00 25:34

Uh pull up the the flyer there. It was like uh lineup looking like a bunch of big heads up there.

SPEAKER_05 25:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 25:47

But it was really controversial.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:51

Damn. I mean, that's a killer lineup.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

They were even saving because Pete Da uh Pete Davidson was on there. They're like, how's that guy doing it? You know, and his father like died uh because of the uh 9-11 uh terrorist attacks. Yeah, his dad was actually his his dad was working in in one of the towers.

SPEAKER_05 26:15

Oh, so that was a real story. Yeah, that's a real story. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Yeah. Yeah, he he even has a couple of bits about it.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

Hey, but money talks. Um dude.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

Yeah, I heard that these guys were getting paid like millions. Thousands, and like I think Fluffy got like over like at least a million. Oh, at least. At least. At least. But hey, you're right, money talks.

SPEAKER_03 26:40

I mean, I think it's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_05 26:46

Krista Stefano.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 26:49

There you go. Oh, you know for sure they had to have like strict restrictions on what they could talk about because half of those comics are raunchy as hell.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Andrew Scholes.

SPEAKER_05 26:59

That's what I'm saying. That's why I was like, okay. Yeah. They were like, remember audio material? None of that. Don't do anything like that now on stage.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Honestly, I would have loved to see.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

Jimmy Fly in the wall.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

Yeah. At least Jimmy Carr. Very private.

SPEAKER_05 27:26

A lot of it had to be clean. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

So yeah, I know, excuse me. I know one like one subject matter, of course, was like religion. They weren't able to talk about religion.

SPEAKER_05 27:39

Yeah, let's not start a riot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:42

Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. I would have been a little a little scared. I would have been hella nervous.

SPEAKER_05 27:50

You kidding me?

SPEAKER_03 27:51

I've been to I've been to the Middle East. I went to Dubai in 2016. 2016? 2017. Um, no, I went on a budget and I did everything that was cheap. Um, but even like me going there, I was really nervous. It wasn't until I got there that I was like, oh, like I'm in the Middle East that I was like kind of scared.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

I feel like I'm a teacher with what you're playing with. Like, what are you crinkling? Oh, I'm sorry. I could hear that.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

I'm so sorry. Yeah. I'm all nervous. I'm like, I've been to the Middle East. It's like a stress ball.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Yeah, I got like VCSV.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

I was like, oh give her that red thing right there.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

I don't even know what I was saying anymore because I was looking at you.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

What was I saying? I mumbled nothing.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

No, it's because I was talking like five minutes ago and I was like, what I was like, I thought it was uh like a cable, like you know what, might because I I had a cold and I can't hear, and I can't really hear on the headphones, so I couldn't hear myself. I'm sorry, you should have threw something at me.

unknown 29:00

Shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

I felt like a teacher. Okay, give me give me what you have in your hand, Amber.

SPEAKER_03 29:05

Check them out. Sorry, sorry guys.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

So Dubai?

SPEAKER_03 29:09

I forgot what I was gonna say. It's over. Passed. It passed.

SPEAKER_05 29:14

Dubai on a budget. Okay. I mean it's doable then, right?

SPEAKER_03 29:17

Oh yeah, yeah. You you don't have to have you don't have to be like wealthy to go. I mean, I went in a group, I was a fourth person in the group. So I mean, our state, which we stayed in a really nice um, like Airbnb, it was like a condo. Um, but between all four of us, I think it was like five hundred dollars for the for ten days that we were there.

SPEAKER_05 29:41

Yeah, that's really good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

And then I mean we ate like at restaurants that were mid, nothing too fancy. We did a couple of like excursions. I mean, I probably spent, I don't know, maybe like four thousand dollars. Not too bad. Maybe less. I mean, that's including like my flight. Yeah. So I don't know. I I thought it was shabby. I didn't have any any bills at that time. Now, maybe not.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

You don't think you can go now?

SPEAKER_03 30:14

No, I can go now, but I'm saying that before I didn't, I was like, eh, let's go.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

You like traveling?

SPEAKER_05 30:21

I do like traveling, but I hate flying.

SPEAKER_04 30:23

Really?

SPEAKER_05 30:24

Like, I just don't like the experience. Like you're in the little seats, they're not comfortable. Some of these airlines suck. You know, it's just what's the longest flight? The longest was probably to England was about maybe I want to say six hours, maybe a little bit more. Oh, okay. Right? I don't know. I don't remember. But it was long, and I just like slept the entire flight. I was like, put a blanket over my head and I knocked out. And luckily there was movies to watch because there's some flights where they don't even give you that.

SPEAKER_03 30:56

No, they won't even give you like and those are but those are the ones that are gonna be like two hours or something like that, where they have no freaking TV.

SPEAKER_05 31:02

I've been on a four-hour flight with no TVs. Oh, hell no. And I was like, it's a good thing I packed a shit ton of sacks because I had to like entertain myself somewhere. I was just eating.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Stress eating for four hours.

SPEAKER_05 31:13

Okay, not even stressed, you like bored eating.

SPEAKER_03 31:16

Yeah, I'm bored. My longest flight has been 15 hours, which was to Dubai. God so 15 hours there and then 15 hours back.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

Imagine that.

SPEAKER_03 31:25

I'd be like, I don't want to go anymore.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

Just a 15-hour flight.

SPEAKER_03 31:30

Yeah, I slept on the way 15 hours on the way over, not all 15, but on the way over there, the plane wasn't filled, so we each lit legit got a whole road to ourselves. Wow. So I got to lay down the entire flight. The way back, it was packed, so I had to sit, but that was alright.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

What was the time difference between that?

SPEAKER_03 31:54

A lot.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

You remember?

SPEAKER_03 31:55

I think it was like 12 hours. Yeah. Yeah. Shh. Because when I was waking up over there, they were going to sleep here. And when I got back, it took me like a whole week to go.

SPEAKER_05 32:05

Oh, dude, the jet lag, that's something I hate too. Like in England, we were like forcing ourselves to like stay up just so we could be on their time. Cause it's not just like, oh, a few hours ahead of time, you know, like East Coast, they're just like maybe three hours ahead. No, you're like maybe six hour gap.

SPEAKER_03 32:23

Yeah. I want to go to sleep, but you have to that's why I always try to whenever I would book, I would try to leave here at a time where we'd arrive over there at night. So that's smart. So that I got there and directly to the hotel and slept. And some people are like, oh, you lose a day. But in my eyes, I was like, no, I'm yeah, like I'm gaining sleep. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:49

So you just kind of ever had like a bad experience on a plane, like a scary experience on a plane? Mm-hmm. You did? What happened to you?

SPEAKER_03 32:58

Well, two times out. I have two. No, one time I was coming back from Cancun and I fell asleep, and I fell asleep with like my neck down. Oh yeah, my neck pillow didn't come through for me. And I my blood pressure went down. And they say that that could happen like when you're on the airplane, and especially if you fall asleep. And I just remember like wanting to wake up and I couldn't physically like like get my head up. Oh shit. And then I was like, oh my god. I might have been having like a some form of like sleep paralysis at the same time. I was gonna say that sounds like lucid dreaming type thing. But I just remember my chest feeling really like compressed, and then I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna die in my sleep. New fear unlocked. Yeah. And then the lady next to me, she said that I was like twitching.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Oh my god, you're because we were sharing a blanket.

SPEAKER_03 33:51

They didn't have any more blankets, and then she was cold up.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

You had to share one?

SPEAKER_03 33:55

Yeah, we were all the way in the back, and they didn't have enough blankets by the time they got to us, and I told the lady I was like, You want to share one? And she was like, sure. So then I fell asleep, and then she said I was twitching. Yeah, that was scary. And then the second time was when we went to Jimmy.

SPEAKER_00 34:09

Your sleep, your sleep paralysis demon went with me. He was like, Yeah, I guess. Talk about spirit airline. All right. All right, all right.

SPEAKER_03 34:19

But that was that was scary because I was sitting by myself. I was coming back with friends, and everybody was sitting like in different areas of the planes. So right there I was like, I'm gonna die.

SPEAKER_00 34:30

That's helma.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 34:32

Have you? Yeah, we were flying to um, I think we were flying to New York for the first time, and our plane had to do like an emergency landing in like Dallas or something. Cause we were flying at night, and then we heard the captain announcer, like, hey, we lost all radio transmission. We're just like, What? So he couldn't contact like any other planes, or like planes couldn't like talk to each other. We're just like, bro, that's that sounds dangerous. That sounds super dangerous. Yeah, yeah. So we have to land the plane, and flying at night is so scary because I'm just like, how do they even like see each other? And it was at night, and now you can't communicate, like, yeah, this was at night. Yeah, I don't know how they see in general. I was like praying.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

Wait, so how long was it until so they made the announcement, right? They lost all communication, and like how long it was, how long was it to where like they told you guys they made the announcement and then to you guys landed?

SPEAKER_05 35:35

Like 45 minutes, probably that must have been like the 45 minutes was so long because I'm just like a lot could happen in 45 minutes, dude.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

It's because if you think about it, not to scare anybody, but it's like you're in this giant thing that's flying in the sky.

SPEAKER_05 35:51

This heavy thing that's just flying in the sky.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

And your your hands are with two people, you don't even see the captain.

SPEAKER_00 35:59

Did you even know? There's so much fuel, there's all this electricity, it's how how many tons that's going through the air?

SPEAKER_03 36:11

It's scary at the time. Well, that's why they that's why something raw. We're all telling you the worst case scenario, and you're like, I'm actually getting on a plane tomorrow. Well, we went to Japan two years ago, and we're all like on time. I like to be on time to the airport. I like to be there actually before on time. Like super early. Yeah, I'm a super early person. I like to sit there, and uh if I have to wait two hours, I'll sit there and wait 12 hours. But I'm not rushing, you know, that's like my worst thing is to rush. That's how my boyfriend is. Yeah, we gotta get there. I'm like, we have two hours. Yeah, no, I cannot like do things on like flying on the seat of my pants. That's my sister. My sister's like, oh, we have two hours.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

We got time, let's get to the house.

SPEAKER_03 36:55

Let's get coffee, let's get breakfast. Yeah, and then she's like learning the language. She makes it to everything, but yeah, she's like all like no. So we we got there on time, everything, you know, whatever. They start boarding us, and then um I already well we had a ate breakfast actually before, and in that little restaurant in Seattle, um, there was like um people from like uh what is it called? What are they called? Servicemen, right? People from like the army, yeah. Because in Japan they have uh a base. Um, so mind you, it's like seven in the morning. No, it's probably like eight in the morning at that time, and they were in a table in their uniform and everything, and they were taking shots and shots and shots. And I remember telling Gilbert, like, dang, like they're throwing them back like early. And then he was like chilling, dude. Yeah, he was like, they're chilling. He's like, Maybe they just want to like get on the plane and knock out because it was 10 hours. Yeah. And I said, Oh, okay, yeah, I guess you're right. So then we get in line, you know, they start boarding us, and we get in line, and then I can hear them like being like rowdy, and it in my head, I'm already like, this isn't gonna turn out good, you know. But they let him on the plane, everything, and then all of them sit again like separately, and then this guy he sits a couple rows in front of us, and we get in, get all the luggage on top, everybody's like strapped in, ready to go, babies, everything, and it's this like huge aircraft, you know, it's it's a big airplane. Yeah, it's a one of those big ones, and everybody's like, All right, we're leaving. And then uh the stewardess come by and they're they start checking everyone's seatbelt, you know, and they start checking like your seatbelt. And then they get to that guy, and then they're like, Excuse me, excuse me. And he's not like responding, and he's just like kind of like like he's like this, like with his head like sideways. He's not slumped over, he just has his head over, and they're like, Excuse me. And they're trying to wake him up, and he doesn't wake up, and then finally he wakes up and then he's like, I have my seatbelt on. Like he had he buckled himself in, but he was like he was gone, and the lady's like, No, no, we can't take you on this flight. She was like, No, and we're like, Oh, you fucking kidding me. So then, you know, they make an announcement, and then they're like, Okay, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna wait for this gentleman to get up, and everybody's like, get up, get up. This world does not want to get up, so then they have to bring security to escort him off, and then somebody else from his like you know, little group gets up and they start like, why just leave him? He's just gonna fall asleep, and the lady's like, No, we can't, you know, have a drunk person on a 12-hour flight. What if he throws up? And then after I was like, Yeah, right, maybe she's right. Yeah, it took an hour to get him off the plane. Jeez, okay, a little over an hour actually, to get him off the plane, and then we're like, Oh, everybody's clapping. Ah, you know, they do clapping. And then we're sitting there and we're like, okay, we're ready. And then they leave us on there for like another 30 minutes. So we're sitting on this plane for like an hour and 45 minutes at this point, only for the captain to announce that the that they're not going to depart, that they need everybody to get up, grab their things, and get off. That because they were already like two hours off schedule, that they can't fly. I guess because they're like in a union or something, so they can't fly over the hours that are like made for them because they were gonna get there later. So they legitimately got us all off. The pilots went home, the whole crew went home. All because of that, dude. All because of that dude. And then they talked about they told us and they were like, We're trying to get we're trying to get other pilots and another crew, like they have to, we have to get a whole new crew to come and do this. Well, it took them like five hours, kill something like that. Yeah, five hours to get a whole new crew, two more captains, and to get us back on the plane.

SPEAKER_00 41:06

It was like that was the layover, wasn't it? Or no?

SPEAKER_05 41:10

They already had done the layovers, yeah. We're already getting idiot, man. I would have been like, I remember my first beer. Yeah, just mess with people were really trashed and be on the airplane.

SPEAKER_03 41:20

People were really upset. Uh huh. I made a friend though. She was a single mom going back to Japan, she was Japanese, and she was like, This is my first time flying with both of my kids, and they were little, and she was all nervous, and then for that shit to happen, so we helped her out. Sucks, dude. Yeah, it sucked. That was that was bad, huh?

SPEAKER_00 41:42

That yeah, that was the that was the worst, but it was fun.

SPEAKER_03 41:47

Once we got there, it was fun. Yeah, but then I got there and I was sick.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

But yeah, getting there was was terrible because we weren't expecting to get to Japan that late. You know what I mean? Like we had to get a whole new hotel.

SPEAKER_05 42:03

Well, like it set you back like a whole ass like a day and a half. Pretty much a day.

SPEAKER_03 42:07

Like half a day, yeah. Yeah. We got there like at three in the morning. Oh, and we were supposed to arrive there like in the afternoon, like at six.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

We were legit traveling for like 20 hours, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 42:18

Yeah, you see, almost like 24 hours. I love going to a new place, but it's the getting there that like makes me want to pull my hair out. It's such a pain in the ass.

SPEAKER_03 42:27

I think that getting there doesn't bother me, it's the getting back, you know when you're like coming back and you're like, I just want to go home. That's where it gets me. Yeah. That too. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 42:38

I just want to get home.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

But if it's something like that with like something so inconvenient. And it's not even like I get it. If it's you, if it's you're the problem and you're it's your problem that's uh messing it up for everybody, right? Making the trip long enough, yeah. I mean, for you, then it whatever, it's your problem. But if it's somebody else that's out of your control, it's kind of like irritating.

SPEAKER_05 43:05

I wonder who I wonder if people like that are on like a special like no fly list. Like, you know how some people like if you like like do stupid things on an airplane, like they like cancel you.

SPEAKER_00 43:15

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_05 43:16

They're not allowed to like fly anymore for like a certain amount of time. Can you look at time out?

SPEAKER_00 43:20

Can you see what yeah, they they do do that? It's like a blacklist, right?

SPEAKER_03 43:25

And they were saying that on the service for the servicemen, it was gonna be even worse. Like he he might have gotten discharged because of disorderly conduct, like court-martialed because he's supposed to go back to his base and they weren't gonna let him fly at all. Because he was like, Can I just get another flight? And they were like, No, like you're done flying.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

You gotta cut off. Yeah, they cut off.

SPEAKER_03 43:50

What am I looking for?

SPEAKER_00 43:51

You gotta take a ferry.

SPEAKER_03 43:52

Uh look up what happens if you get kicked off?

SPEAKER_00 43:56

No, look up a list of things that will get you on like A blacklist for the hairline. Yeah. I'm excited to see this.

SPEAKER_05 44:12

Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 44:13

Is that what it's like legitimately called? I think that's a good idea. A no flight list?

SPEAKER_03 44:18

Yeah, no fly list. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 44:22

Security threats, violent, unruling behavior, or serious criminal oh, serious criminal history.

SPEAKER_05 44:29

Violent, unruly behavior. Okay. So he was unruly, but he wasn't violent, right? Uh-uh. No. At least not yet.

SPEAKER_00 44:35

Right.

SPEAKER_03 44:36

Yeah. Interfering with the crew, disobeying the city.

SPEAKER_00 44:40

Oh yeah, it could be that. You see? Interfering with the crew because he didn't want to put on his um his thing. His uh what is it, seatbelt.

SPEAKER_03 44:50

No, he had it on.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

Oh, he had it on?

SPEAKER_03 44:52

He had it on. Like he put it on, he was ready to go. He just like, I want to knock out. And this lady was like, no. Oh, well then she um No, but I but I get it because he could have he could have gotten sick on the way over there. He could have been throwing up. He could have woken up and been belligerent. Like, it's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 45:10

Wait, what is this? Declining to act as an informant, refusing to spy on community members for federal agencies like the FBI. What is that even? What is that?

SPEAKER_05 45:23

What? That sounds so shady. Well, like, what do you want us to do?

SPEAKER_02 45:28

It's like he declined.

SPEAKER_00 45:30

What is that?

SPEAKER_05 45:32

Dude, what's skip lagging?

SPEAKER_00 45:34

Skip lagging. Yeah. Purposely booking a flight with a stopover to get a cheaper fare and not taking the final leg, which can lead to airline bans.

SPEAKER_05 45:46

I don't get it. What? I know.

SPEAKER_00 45:48

Skiplagging. So I think, okay, so say you're going to New York, right? And you take two flights, one flight to, I don't know, let's just say North Dakota, right? And then you go, you take North Dakota to New York, but you don't take your final airplane to North Carolina. You just stay in North Dakota. And you get it cheaper because that's the layover.

SPEAKER_03 46:17

Yeah, because sometimes layover flights are cheaper than direct flights.

SPEAKER_05 46:21

Oh, I see what you're saying. Oh, that had never been where they like play in favor of the layover, where they're just like, oh, the layover's gonna be where? That's where I get to go. I'm staying there. That's that's smart. That's what I'm saying. Never thought of that until right now.

SPEAKER_03 46:35

What genius thought of that? So I guess doing that several times can get you better.

SPEAKER_05 46:40

Yeah, that's a no-no. No flay list.

SPEAKER_00 46:42

Safety violations, of course, refusal to comply, name similarities. Having a similar name or spelling to someone already on terrorist screening center watch list. Oh. So if your name is similar to somebody that's already on the I'm not Osama bin Laden, I'm Osama bin Laden. Call me Ben.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

Well, that happened to Steph and then when they crossed the border.

SPEAKER_00 47:12

Oh my god, that is right. Well, it was her. So I didn't know that her name was similar to somebody's.

SPEAKER_03 47:18

No, I think it was Johnny's name.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 47:21

Her husband. My cousins, we had gone to Entenada and they were crossing back. I crossed in a car in front of her. I crossed good, and then we waited like a little bit up ahead so that we wouldn't be there, and then she wouldn't get here, and she wouldn't get here. And then I'm like, this is taking a long time. And I called her, her phone was off, everything. And then I told because I was with my best friend, and I was like, ah, just go, they'll catch up to us. Well, like an hour and a half later, my cousin calls, and then she's like, We got stopped. And I said, What happened? And she's like, They put us into secondary. She said they put the car into secondary, and then she said that they told them, Don't get off the car, and that they were in the car laughing and talking, ha ha ha ha. And then that her husband's like, Oh shit. And then she's like, What? And then she says she looked and there was four agents and they were with like like guns at their window, and they were like, You're gonna get off, and you're gonna put your hands behind your back, and la la la. And then they got them off, and then they put um handcuffs on them, and then they put them in this like cage. She said, There's a cage right there when you cross the border and they put them in the cage and they held them there and they didn't tell them why. And then who did they think she was? So her husband had the same name as someone that they had been looking for. But it's I mean, like I guess I get it, but also that's dumb. Like he showed him his passport, like the picture.

SPEAKER_05 48:48

Like, don't you think that that person that you're looking for would be on the run and be smart enough to at the least change his damn name on the on a driver's license?

SPEAKER_03 48:56

So they held him for like an hour and a half and then they were like, Oh, we're sorry. That's so crazy. Yeah, and she was all traumatized. I don't think she's had she hasn't gone back since.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

Have they uh how did they find out that they weren't the same person?

SPEAKER_03 49:10

Because the they told them. They were like, Oh, sorry, we were looking for somebody else, and you just your name is the same as them.

SPEAKER_00 49:17

Oh, okay. They didn't like do fingerprints or anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 49:20

No, it's wild. Probably somebody came in and was like, You fucking idiots, that's not him, or something.

SPEAKER_01 49:25

That's what I think. But I'm like, oh no, oh, that sucks.

SPEAKER_05 49:29

What a terrible experience.

SPEAKER_00 49:30

Yeah, wasn't the punch monkey from Japan? Or punch the monkey order? Yeah, it's Japan. Whatever.

SPEAKER_04 49:38

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:40

I had so look at uh like when I go in when I go into work and I have a coworker that just he's like, Hey, have you talked about this on your podcast? Yeah, and I'm just like, What are you talking about? He was like, uh the monkey oh, he told you? Yeah, and I was just like, What? And then uh he was like, Yeah, it's it's everywhere. And then I look it up and I'm like, what the heck? This is the saddest thing I've ever heard in my life.

SPEAKER_05 50:06

I was trying to show my boyfriend because he had never heard of it. I was like, babe, have you heard of Punch the Monkey? He's like, What kind of fucked up weird game is that? And I was just like, No, it's not called Punch the Monkey, it's not a game, it's a monkey named Punch. And he's just like, No, what is it? And I showed him, he's like, Oh, that's so sad.

SPEAKER_03 50:24

They try to um people have already gone to try to adopt him. Like, like a lot of people. But they they said that the the zoo was like, no, we're not.

SPEAKER_05 50:38

They're like, he's fine.

SPEAKER_03 50:40

He's getting beat up every day, bro. But it's so sad.

SPEAKER_00 50:43

Wait, hold on. She's so he's getting beat up, yeah, by the other monkeys.

SPEAKER_05 50:47

Yeah, apparently because his mom, his birth mom had like abandoned him, and that's why they gave him the little stuffed toy, because he didn't really have like someone to raise him. So he got the stuffed toy for like comfort, so he saw it as like a mom. And but because he wasn't raised by like a monkey, he didn't know like the social like norms of like little little monkey habitat, you know. What's the word? But um, yeah, because he didn't know how to properly socialize with other monkeys because he was never taught. I guess they like were mean to him because of that, and they would like beat him up and be aggressive towards him, and they would like cast him out and be like, Well, like, you know, like he's weird.

SPEAKER_00 51:24

I mean, what a bunch of bullies, assholes.

SPEAKER_03 51:27

They were like this weirdo with the stuff animal mom. Yeah, yeah, it's so sad.

SPEAKER_00 51:32

I know I I was I seen even before uh I heard about it, uh I seen like those memes and stuff of like people saying, Oh, like me on my way to Japan Oh to rescue punch? Yeah, to go rescue punch.

SPEAKER_03 51:48

Yeah, there was there's been like a lot of people, like millionaires trying to go and like purchase him, and the zoo does they said no. That because he's an endangered, so he's an endangered species. So I guess I guess he pertains to like Japan and to to that like conservation, and they can't sell an endangered species.

SPEAKER_05 52:12

He's endangered they should be taking better care of him, like murdered in that damn enclosure.

SPEAKER_03 52:16

So that's what people were saying, like, okay, well, if you're not gonna let someone adopt them, then can we donate to make a better like situation or something like that?

SPEAKER_05 52:25

They're not gonna do shit, they're gonna take that money and they're gonna buy them like a blanket and be like, oh, we helped them.

SPEAKER_03 52:31

Well, I had heard that that one guy, Andrew Tate. Oh, he wanted to adopt him? He he was one of the first ones to go and like adopt him or want to adopt him.

SPEAKER_00 52:42

Andrew Tate?

SPEAKER_03 52:43

Yeah, that's he hates women, but he loves monkeys. Like, oh, so he does have a heart, okay.

SPEAKER_01 52:50

For animals.

SPEAKER_05 52:51

For animals.

SPEAKER_00 52:52

What is PETA saying about all this? Did PETA get involved?

SPEAKER_05 52:55

Yeah. Oh, they did, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

Did they really?

SPEAKER_05 52:58

I saw that they were like trying to like fight for him, saying that it's like uh I forgot what they said, but they were like pissed off about it pretty much. It's PETA, of course they're gonna be mad about him. Baby monkey's being bullied.

SPEAKER_03 53:14

Yeah, they're mad about him.

SPEAKER_02 53:16

Oh, look at you go on Google and you put his name and all these little hearts come out. Yeah, I didn't do it. Like, I didn't do it, I promise.

SPEAKER_05 53:26

Yeah, it's so confusing to keep up with this damn monkey because every time I open Instagram, it's like a new headline every time, right? It's just like, oh, he made friends. Like, never mind, they turned on him and just like, oh, wait, go back. Oh, never mind. He was hugging him just so you could like choke him out. It's just so sad.

SPEAKER_00 53:48

What was the what was the headline uh the about PETA? It's like PETA was outraged for people posting about him.

SPEAKER_03 53:57

Oh, is that what it said?

SPEAKER_00 53:58

That's what that's what it looked like. Why? That's weird.

SPEAKER_05 54:05

I know, right?

SPEAKER_03 54:06

Maybe because they're getting the place notoriety. Maybe it says Punch the viral baby monkey abandoned by his mother, continues to make headlines around the world. The young Japanese I can't pronounce that maqua. That's a bird. Yeah, the macaw's a burn. I don't know, but the monkey.

SPEAKER_00 54:30

Makuo Punch.

SPEAKER_03 54:33

Of course clinging to a stuffed orangutan toy has captivated audience online. Videos of him returning to his plushie after other monkeys push him away or aggressively drag him around are being shared extensively on social media on a daily basis. But why are they saying however, PETA, the world's largest animal rights or organization, is urging people to stop sharing such footage. It's also calling on the public to avoid liking the videos or visiting the zoo in person. Still, the viral mania has clearly drawn crowds. About 8,000 tickets were sold from that zoo each.

SPEAKER_00 55:15

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 55:16

So maybe that's why there's no yeah, someone posted the video and they were just like, I want to go see. I guess you were at the zoo and someone posted like a video of what the line looks like just to see punch, and it's like wrapped around the damn zoo. It's like hundreds of people are like in line to see this monkey.

SPEAKER_03 55:33

Oh, see, look, it says there's nothing heartwarming about a baby growing up behind bars, says PETA. Asia President Jason Baker earlier this week. Zoos are not sanctuaries, there are places where animals are confined, deprived of autonomy, and denied the complex environments and social lives they would have in the wild. So I guess he's more upset because he's in a zoo.

SPEAKER_05 55:56

I'm like agreed, but we're also posting footage to try to like get this monkey out, you know, like to show the world that he's being mistreated so that we could try to do something for this damn monkey.

SPEAKER_03 56:06

Where would you want to see Punch? Because that's what I thought too. It's like, okay, I'm where would I want to see him? Like, what what would be the best case scenario, I guess?

SPEAKER_05 56:16

Like a sanctuary, like a sanctuary, like a nicer, like a free roaming like piece of land where animals could just be.

SPEAKER_00 56:24

Because he's in a zoo, right? He's in a zoo in in in Japan. Yeah. Yeah, I think uh uh a private sanctuary with other endangered species. Well, but I see those obviously he can't survive in the wild. No. Because that's it.

SPEAKER_05 56:43

I mean he's still little too, so he doesn't know how to act around monkeys. Where's his mom though? They're saying that they're gonna take his toy away, though. Why? Are you serious? Yeah, because he's getting older, and in some in some videos he was humping the toy, so he's not seeing it as a mom now. That's like his little girlfriend. Uh yeah, so they want to take his toy away because they're like, oh, he's getting older, and he's not gonna learn to like socialize with other monkeys if he keeps clinging to his toy. So he's using that as a crutch. Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_03 57:19

Ah, but it's I know, like, don't take it from him. That's all he has all he has. But maybe it's true.

SPEAKER_05 57:26

Maybe it's maybe it might like force him to like socialize. Poor baby.

SPEAKER_00 57:35

Let's go get him.

SPEAKER_03 57:36

Let's go get him. I think I think that this, like, yes, it's it's very, it's heartwarming, it's heart wrenching, like all these things. But I also feel like with the climate right now, this is something that everybody's like on the same page about, and everybody's like, oh, you know, like it's something that's like, I guess it's bad news, but it's also like heartwarming. Like you want you want to see something good come out of it. Like you want to do that.

SPEAKER_00 58:03

We need more, we need more uh endangered monkeys getting beaten up.

SPEAKER_03 58:08

I know what it's a little bit. I need to watch more uh suegra videos. Remember I was telling you guys earlier? So here's the here's the thing, what's the thing? So people are doing uh gender reveals, like always, right? But uh somebody did a video where the suegra, which is the mother-in-law, runs up, right? So they the couple Show me one of these. Okay, so the couple is is you know waiting for the reveal. Okay, the explosion happens, and instead of like the couple hugging each other, the mom runs up and she like like gets in the middle. She gets in the middle of the son and the daughter in law, and people are saying, like, what the hell? Yeah. So then people started posting like their videos of like, oh, my suegra did the same thing. That's intrusive as fuck. Yeah. And then so last night, because I I watch them and I get all pissed, like, I pinch senora, you know? Yeah, and last night I saw one where I guess people are catching on now, uh-huh, and the suegra try to run, and somebody in the crowd grabbed her, and she's like, like, you can't hear her, but she's saying, like, leave me alone, leave me alone, and she's all like that, and then she frees herself from that person, and then somebody else grabs her. So she gave they gave enough time for like pictures and things like that, but she was going like she's trying to ruin their moment.

SPEAKER_05 59:30

Yeah, that's what that's what they're doing.

SPEAKER_03 59:32

That's exactly what I see.

SPEAKER_05 59:34

I would see it that way too. I'd be like, Why?

SPEAKER_03 59:36

I mean, I can't. You can love them after, but but do you think that it is like uh do you think it it is like the suegrap being like jealous?

SPEAKER_05 59:46

Or is it she's overstepping boundaries? Yeah, because I'd be like, bitch, it's not your baby, it's ours.

SPEAKER_00 59:53

I think you didn't make this kid, yeah. I I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 59:58

Cause I do think like I would want to hug my mom, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:02

Yeah, but after.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:03

But after, yeah. So that's how I'm like, where am I on this?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:07

Maybe the excitement like overtakes the woman to where she's like, oh, you know, I'm I'm gonna go hug my son, but sometimes it's like uh I think after watching all the videos, you're like, oh I wanna do this because I wanna be that mom that interferes with uh the pictures.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:27

Let me see.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:29

But uh gender refills.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:32

I don't know. I fell in a in a rabbit hole watching these last night. Let me see. Oh, okay. So this is the one that I seen last night, okay? Oh, where they stopped the lady.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:49

Oh, they stopped her?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:50

Yeah. And the girl that was like like the pregnant girl, she's the one that posted it. So now I'm like, I wonder what the Sarah thinks about that.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:02

Probably mad about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:05

Oh, there it is.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:07

Okay, can you see?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:09

Oh my okay, like I'll put it again.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:13

They're like holding her.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:14

Her belt or something.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:24

Oh, well, she's hugging both of them. That's nice. But but what bothered me is because right there they cut it, but she she hugs them both, but then she starts pulling the girl down. Oh, hell no. Like she's like hanging on specifically to the girl, and the girl's like losing her balance, and I'm like, lady, she's freaking pregnant. Oh, that's not cool. Well, that was it. That was my rabbit hole-in-law's of last night.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:48

Are you are you good on water? Do you need water? I think I'm okay. Yeah, I'm gonna go grab some water.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:53

What else do they have besides coffee here? Is it just coffee? Because I didn't want to do just caffeine, that's why.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:58

Uh there's decaf if you want a decaf. Oh, fresca. What else? Morchata. I don't know. I'm not getting coffee.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:10

Morchata would be nice. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:13

We're getting uh a a drink, drink break in.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:17

I don't know. I guess that's crazy though, because there is like some mother-in-laws that do overstep boundaries. I'm like, that's not cool, dude. Yeah. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:28

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:29

I like you've had him since he was a baby. Like, it's my turn to have him now. I shouldn't say I can't say him. Yeah, no, I get I get it.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:37

I'm like, I'm so glad I get along with him. He's not here to defend no, he can't even defend anything. Uh Gil's um parents have passed. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:48

So that's what I was gonna say, I'm lucky I don't have to deal with that, but then I'm like, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:52

I shouldn't say it like that. I'm lucky that I get along with mine. She's the sweetest thing ever. Yeah, I love her. That's good. The second mama to me. So I think I think it's hard. Oh, yeah. Because I've had some some mean ones. Yeah. Yeah. Where she was like openly mean to me in front of her son, and he did absolutely nothing about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:12

So I'm like, I think it's hard because it's I think it's like a different dynamic because my parents are pretty like my parents don't overstep, they're not in our business. Like unless I call them or I need something, then they kind of like are oh okay. Okay, but like my mom is not like, oh, where are you guys going? What are you doing? Like never that's good. They've never been like that. Not even with my sister, because we're we're two sisters. Um, but I think that I see it more when it's um a mom and her son.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:46

I think that that's when it's crazy about their boys, huh? Yeah. I think I think that's where it like I think it's like a Latino thing where like the moms are just like crazy about their sons.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:57

And I also feel like there's some moms that think that there's no one that could be good enough. Yeah. Which is it's crazy to me because I think like, yeah, maybe there are some, you know, relationships that don't make it, or maybe there are some girls that maybe are not as good to, you know, their sons. Yeah. But I think overall, like, it's not your it's not your place to make that decision for the other person.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:29

I agree.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:30

So it definitely is like dude.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:33

I was with a guy where like his mom, she was she was nice, but she babied the hell out of him. Where like he wouldn't wash his dishes, she would cook for him, she would pack a lunch, she'd be like, You could just take my car, like you need money, I'll pay room. It's like be a man, dude. Like, you know, but he he loved it. And if I if I told him to do something, she'd be like, Why are you so why are you being so mean to my baby?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

I'm like, okay, yeah, people like that or men like that. I mean, how nice that you get to have uh I'll grab that, thank you. How nice that you get to have a mom that's there for you and that cares for you, but it's like at some point, when do you cut the umbilical cord and make them self-sufficient?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:20

Because I feel like she's not doing him any favors, like doing everything for him, you know, like you think you're helping, but you're like kind of hurting him in the long run. Which is very true.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:32

Because I can attest to like my parents babying me and kind of giving everything that I needed. And when I moved out, it was like, oh, oh, wait, like, who does this for me? And what how do I do this? How do I uh I don't know, even like the dumbest thing where I was like, Oh, I don't own scissors. That was a first realization of like I swear, when I first moved out, like on my own, like before. It's a big adjustment. I was like looking for I was gonna cut something and then I was like, I I don't scissors. I was like, I don't own scissors. And I was like, uh like I I don't know. I had this like freak out of me not owning scissors, and it's like the dumbest thing and maybe the most simplest thing, but it was then when I realized, like, oh shoot, like dude, that makes you self-aware, that's crazy. Yeah, it's it's an odd thing to say, but I think that's the moment where I was like, Oh. But I'm very, very, very lucky with with Gil. Like, I everybody says it whenever I tell people, they're like, Oh, because Gil is Gil's always been like on his own, so he there's nothing that he kind of like uh punch the monkey.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:47

Oh punch the monkey.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:49

It made you stronger.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:50

Made me stronger, yeah. You'll be fine, just throw him out in the wild.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:56

So now like there's nothing that he doesn't know how to do that that he doesn't like he can't do for himself.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:03

And if not, it's just like you gotta you gotta figure it out.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:06

Figure it out. Ask people, Google it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:08

Yeah, Google, YouTube.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:10

So many people are so scared to like ask for help. It's just like, dude, just ask for help. I'm well there's a few things you don't ask for help.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:19

No, yeah, of course. There's a few things, right? There, there's a there are a few things, but it's just like I guess my ego gets in the way of it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:30

And for me, it was like a big thing because for me it was always dad, dad, dad, can you do this? Dad can you do this? Oh, I remember this.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:38

Let me tell you this. I remember this one time where we went to okay, so we we you know we pay a little bit extra. It's a new car, so I'm gonna take I'm gonna take it to the dealership. I'm not gonna even mess with it because I've had used cars all my life. This is my first new car, so I'm not gonna take it any. I'm not gonna take it to the homie down the street. I'm not gonna have somebody, my neighbor, work on it, whatever, right? So I'm just gonna take it to the dealership. If it's gonna have an added cost because of the dealership, whatever. Okay, I I will I will do that. That's that's the cost that I'm gonna take on for having a new car. So took it, and then uh what what was it? What was the problem? It was like the you didn't even know what the problem was. I and I told her, I was like, oh, uh, they're they want to do this, this, and this with the car. And it was just like, hey, you you there's something going on with the tire. What it was something the the most simplest thing. Okay. And then I told Amber, I was like, hey, uh, they want to do this with the tire. And she was like, she like freaked out. She because I think she just didn't understand what was happening.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:57

I didn't understand what was happening, and to me, I was like, It's your car. We're coming in for your thing. Why are you asking me?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:06

I was just telling you.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:07

Yeah, but then now I know that, but at that moment I felt like she was looking for two.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:12

Let's call my dad. Let's call my dad. And I was just like, What? And then I did. I I I told her no. No, I told I was like, I was like, what is your dad gonna do? Is he gonna drive over here and change the tire for us in in the dealership? Like he's it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:29

We have to You didn't say it that nice. He was mad that was a nice version. He was mad, and I was like, Don't get snippy with me. Like I, you know, like I like But I get it, but now I get it because we had another incident, and then we then it was like, Okay, this is like I'm not understanding you, and you're not understanding me in this situation, and we need to understand each other before this happens again. Yeah, and then that's when we opened up about like and I told him I was like, you need to understand, like I'm 35 years old, and I've only been living with him for maybe like three years, and prior to that, I always lived at home, and it was almost like I was the only child because my sister moved out. Like I was really young when my sister moved out, so to me, it was like at home, I didn't need to think about anything, like everything was done for me if I needed something, if if something happened, dad, where are you? Dad, what about this, dad, this, and dad that. So then when I moved in with him, to me, like something needs to get fixed. I think of my dad, like and it's not because I don't think he he can do it or he can't, it's just that's it's like subconsciously, it's already in there, like programmed.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:45

Yeah, it's like programmed in your dad.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:46

And then that's when I realized, like, oh, oh, oh, uh maybe it's a problem.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:52

You can still reach out to your dad. I still ask my dad for stuff sometimes, yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:57

But I get it, I yeah, I get where he was coming from, where he was just like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:02

Well, it it didn't make sense to me because I never had anybody to to ask, hey, can you have well I did at a certain point, but then you know it changed. So it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:17

Yeah, it it was one of those, but just we communicated enough. Wait, why did this conversation come up? Oh, because we were saying that he does everything on his own. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:28

Who does?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:28

You you yeah, he's like, it's because when you left, we were talking about like swag ass, and then she was saying that she had an ex that like his mom, like beat the hell out of her. Oh, really? They did everything, and I was just like, ugh. See, and those are the men that when they go to look for a partner, they're not looking for a partner, they're looking for another mom.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:47

Dude, when I moved in with him, I felt like I was forcing him to like move out of his mom's house. I was like, let's get a place. So we moved in together and we lasted like a year in the in the apartment, but I felt like I was his mom, dude. Because one time I I wasn't able to cook dinner one night. I was just like, hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna be out. He's like, Okay, what's for dinner? I was just like, I don't know. I didn't have time to make anything. He's like, he's like, what the hell? So what am I gonna eat? I'm like, dude, figure it out. You're an adult. Like, I had to do the grocery shopping, I had to cook dinner. If I didn't cook dinner, he would act like he was gonna starve. I'm like, dude, make something.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:23

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about all that.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:25

No, C didn't have a car, he borrowed mine. Oh no, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:29

Red flag, red flag, red flag.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:31

That was a red flag. There was a lot of red flags with that. It's okay. We live and we learn.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:36

Yeah, yeah. No, see go will like he does our laundry, he folds my clothes, he puts it away. Oh, it's so nice. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the perk of that. Yeah, yeah. But then I cook dinner, I do the grocery shopping, I make sure our restrooms clean up. So balance, yeah. There's yeah, there's a balance, and that's what I like about and you know what?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:58

I I do I do a little bit extra so that way I can go out and do my thing, you know, a couple nights a week.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:04

Yeah, here you go.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:05

You know, he does, he makes sure that he does extract some some Fridays I'm not gonna be home, some Saturday nights I'm not gonna be home. So I gotta do. I think that's the the beauty of it is just like balancing everyone just balancing everything, especially with this, yeah, and then uh doing gigs on the weekends, weeknights, going out.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:28

Especially like for comedy, dude. Like my boyfriend does comedy like almost full time, and he's on the road half the time too, so it's hard because I'm at the house sometimes where I I can't go with them, I can't afford to go and travel with them, but um, so I'm there at the house with the cat, but it's hard, it gets lonely, so like I feel like that's not for everybody, you know. Like when girls want to date like a stand-up comic, I'm just like, girl, it's hard. It is hard, and it's hard with me too, because I also do it too. Like sometimes we want to be there for each other's shows, you know. Like if I have a big show that I'm excited about, I want him to be there to support me, and vice versa. But sometimes we get booked on the same day and we're just like, damn, you're not gonna be there, like have you my back? And he's like, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:13

Yeah, that's definitely that's definitely a a thing. I think like he says, like on the days that he's not, he makes sure that you know, we spend ample time with each other, quality time with each other. And then I'm a person that I do enjoy being alone because I was alone for you know, like my sister again, my sister's a little older than I am. So to me, I'm like, oh hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:37

I like it, but then I get bored, and I'm just like, Yeah, and a lot of my friends, they're like married or they have kids and they're not just like hey, come over, like uh, I can't have a baby. I'm like, oh bring the baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:50

My friends, my best friend's daughter's already gonna be 18, so she's like done. And then my cousin, the one that's also like you know, in my friend group, she doesn't have children, so it's it's a little easier, I guess, to get them together. But even then, I'm like, just bring me snacks, Gilbert. And yeah, he like stocks me up with snacks and stuff, and then I'm like, all right, bye.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:11

That's good.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:12

Yeah, that's usually the the late night text if I'm out. Like I was out doing a gig on Friday night, and she texts me, she's like, Hey, just bring me a bag of chips or something. I'm like, okay, all right, I can do that.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:28

But the only time that it is like a I guess a non-negotiable, which I it ha I don't think it's like happened often, is like if I really don't want him to go, um, like if I'm feeling really sick or something like that, and if I ask him like like can you say like can you just stay? Like I want him to be like okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:48

I think well that's why uh I've talked about on the podcast too that I have a uh I'm like very detailed when it comes to like my calendar and everything is booked. It's booked, it's planned. Amber knows at least four to three weeks in advance when I do something. Oh, that's great. Even when when there's pop-up things that that somebody asks me to do, hey, can you go do this? Can you, you know, yeah, you know, can you do a drop-in or whatever? It's it kind of throws me off a little bit, but as long as like she's but then also too there there's times where it's like, is it worth you know that you know you just have to uh weigh out the options? Is it worth your time?

SPEAKER_05 1:16:41

And not seeing them at all, and just like yeah, I get that.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:43

But they're also too, there's some opportunities that just come up that are never gonna come up. And yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:50

You have to take it.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:51

And I think the cool thing about that is Amber knows when and she sees those opportunities as like uh uh opportunities, so it it that's that's the cool part. She knows how much this uh this thing that that I do is is important, very important.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:12

Well that's good, yeah. You know, like to have like a supportive partner that yeah gets you and sees that you find it important and well and like respects that that's very big, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:22

So at the beginning I used to like, I'm gonna go with you everywhere, and yeah, and then he'd be like, come on, come with me to the open mics and oh this and that, and then after I was like, Oh, I don't want to go to another open mic.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:34

Yeah, that's how I am now. Where I'm just like, I wanna go with you, but then I go and I'm like, I'm bored, I've heard these jokes a thousand times. I could have just sit home. So like now I kind of like sit home on purpose now. I'm just like, you're you're fine, just go, but it's so lonely, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:50

I get it, I get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:51

It definitely my uh my question is to you. So we we just talked about uh that like dynamic between me and Amber. Is that similar to like dating uh uh another stand-up comic?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:03

Yeah, you know, we get like not backlash, but everyone's just like, damn, how do you guys make it work? Because a bunch of comics are just like, I would never date another comic, you know, like that's like I guess frowned upon or whatever in like the comedy community. But I'm just like, uh I get it. Is it really? I don't know. There's so many dudes in like stand up that would be like, hell no, I would never be with another comedian. I'm like why do you think it's because like competition?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:28

I don't maybe that's something that I I've always I've always thought of is like I'm gonna I'm gonna reveal myself. What I always think because I I wouldn't, I wouldn't do stand-up, it's not it's not interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:41

You've been talking about this a lot more often.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:44

But I tell him, like, oh, that would be a really funny joke, or oh, I think something happened to me and it'd be a really funny joke. And then one time I was thinking and I was like, I wonder if like you know when you're when your mind just like wanders, and then I was like, what if I do stand-up and then I kill it, and then I get booked, and then I'm just like killing it, and then I'm better than him. Like, is he gonna resent me?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:05

I want to resent you, or just will.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:07

I think it's like and that's what I'm thinking wait when you said that when you're saying that guys are like, Oh, I would never date a comic. And I feel like it might be in the realm of them not wanting their partner to compete with them or be better than them at some point.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:23

But I don't know, maybe not.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:25

I feel like it's hard in both ways. Like it's hard for like a guy comic dating a girl comic, and I feel like it's hard for like a girl comic dating a guy comic, because it's just like okay, from the guy's perspective, I think it's like an ego thing, we're just like, fuck, is she funnier than me? Or and it's also just like I feel like stand-up's a man's world, let's be real, it's a bunch of dudes that run half of this shit. So I feel like if your girl's gonna be, she's gonna be out there late, she's probably gonna be around a bunch of males. Some of them are fucking creepy, some of them are like perverts. So it's just like, uh, and then she's probably gonna be talking about the relationship on stage, and some guys aren't cool with that, even though they do it. Some guys can't like hear it, they're just like, don't fucking talk about me, you know? But and then vice versa, you know, like with the girls, me dating a guy comic, it's like it's cool, I get it. I I understand it because I do it, but it's like fuck the late nights, the stupid girls they want to talk after the show. Oh my god, you're so funny. I'm like, bitch, shut up. Don't lie to him. Um just kidding, but like I get it, you know, it's just uh yeah, it's hard.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:34

It it is hard because it's one of those things that you again, you have to like self-regulate yourself and try to not like get your mind to to think that and to be in there, and I think it does it. I think dating anyone in any entertainment business has that the whole late nights, the people coming up to you, and you know, like sometimes people are excited and yeah, sometimes people are a little more excited, exactly. But I think um for me personally, I feel like have those thoughts come into my mind maybe once or twice, but I'm also a person that I don't want to be consumed by it, so I'm just like yeah, I try not to think about it, but just like it's there, and I'm like, What the fuck?

SPEAKER_05 1:21:19

Yeah, yeah, I I could see that, but it's um we've set up rules too, like both being comedians. We've um both like have said, okay, let's not take the relationship to the stage. Like if we're having a problem, if we're like in an argument, the next night I better not hear you cracking jokes about what we literally just got into and pissed me off a few nights ago, you know. Like I feel like that's not fair, like that's like a low blow, like that's gonna hurt me. And I feel like vice versa, like that would how much it would piss them off too. I feel like if it's like maybe in the past, maybe, but we've also discussed if you're going to talk about a relationship, like you have to tell me what the joke is and I have to approve it. Okay. Some jokes I'd be like, dude, that's fine. Like you want to make fun of me, like me sleeping with like rollers on and waking up with my hair all stupid, or like whatever. Some things I don't care if you make fun of me about. I have a sense of humor, obviously, but some things I'm just like, dude, that's too private. Don't yeah, don't talk like that, like it's gonna hurt my feelings. And him too, where I've cracked the joke and I made a joke, and he'll be like, I don't like that joke. I'm like, really? It's not even that mean. He's just like, still, I don't like it. I'm like, all right, all right, dude. I won't, yeah, I won't say it.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:36

So I guess just any it's like any relationship, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:42

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Gil, Gil runs like he has jokes about me, and he he you've told them to me right before. Yeah, I think he runs them a little before me, but they're nothing like like again, it's nothing that I would be embarrassed or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:58

No, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:59

But even then, I'm the type of person that's like you can't hurt me, yeah, you know? Yeah, so I mean it it just yeah, but I guess I wouldn't want him to say again like anything personal or anything that just happened.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:13

Some topics are like sensitive to you, and I think you should be able to tell your partner, like, hey dude, that's not cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:19

But we did go to a show one time and I was in the crowd and he was doing like girlfriend jokes, and this one's like, Oh, oh, how sad, oh, don't talk about her like that. Oh, like like she's like talking amongst her friends, and she was like, and then I she didn't know it was me, and I was sitting like a random person with a big thing. Yeah, she was just like, Oh, that's so mean. Oh, don't say that about your girlfriend. Like, you know, when people talk like when you're performing, yeah, and then I had to be like, Oh, it's okay, I'm okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:45

And she's like, Oh my god, but I I think so. After that happened, it she told me the the situation. Oh first of all, I don't I don't even use any of those any of that material anymore. And then also too, it it kind of made me think about like the targets of the actual joke. And I kind of rewrote the the promise was the same, but I kind of I rewrote the punchline to where she wasn't the target and then I turned the target back to me. So it's like okay, this works a little bit better. Uh most of my stuff is self-deprecating. Most of it. Yeah, you know, good chunk of it. Okay. But it gave me a good uh, I guess, uh uh like a good view on you know my writing and stuff. So I think that's are you guys a little bit better?

SPEAKER_03 1:24:42

Like funny 24-7 in the relationship? Because I know that that's what a lot of people think. Like in real life, like a lot of people think that he's just like like walking around just like cracking jokes, walking around like a little cracking jokes, a clown all the time.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:55

Absolutely not. Like I I can, like I could be like a funny person, like naturally, but I'm not it's not like scripted, I'm not like trying to write a joke and like say it out loud. Like if I just say something, it's just like boom, it's just a thought that popped up and it's just like kind of funny. But some some comics would be like trying to work their material into that conversation and be like, dude, I know what you're trying to do, like stop, you know, like turn it off. Oh, into like a normal conversation, into like a normal conversation, or like they're like writing out loud, I guess, you know, where I'm just like, I don't know, like I have to turn it off. Cause some people don't have a switch, some people are just always on, and I I just find them so exhausting. I've had a few comics where I'm like, girl, I can only listen to you for so much. It's just it's too much.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:43

Yeah. I agree.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:44

I'm not I'm not really like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:46

I think I think that people think like, oh, you do comedy, oh you must be funny 24-7. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:54

It it's so it's it's not funny, but it's interesting. It's interesting that I keep well, I keep I try to keep my my stand-up away from like my personal stuff. Like some of my family, they know I do stand-up, and but like when it comes to like my nine to five stuff, like I try to you don't like to tell like your coworkers? No.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:20

I was gonna ask, how do you like telling people that you're a stand-up comedian? Like, are you like proud? You're like, I'm a comedian. Like my boyfriend like loves to drop it on people where he's like, I'm a stand-up comedian. Hi, nice to meet you. I'm like, like I'm like low-key kind of embarrassed, like not for him, but like when I do it, I feel like I'm almost embarrassed to tell people on a stand up comedian. Because I feel like people are gonna look at me and be like, oh, that's that's not like serious, like you know, like she's just like fucking around or on stage or whatever. Like they're looking at her little jokes. Yeah, exactly. So I'm just like, uh, I don't like to tell people. Some people are like, oh my god, that's so cool. But then some people are just like, oh, yeah, cool. Whatever.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:02

I guess there's certain certain people that have certain stigmas about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:08

And I'm so like embarrassed to embarrass me, like I'm shy. No, I I I get that. Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:13

I get that because I feel that that way too. Because uh now that there's like an expectation. At least tell me a joke. At least that's my experience is okay, now I have an expectation uh now they have this this like view of you, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:27:30

Right? Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:32

So uh do I like telling them if it comes up in a in a like a natural way? But sometimes I I get myself in like in like predicaments where like just today, uh they're asking me like, oh, like you know, um you know, about Friday, I kind of l you know, left a little bit early because I had like a two hour drive.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:52

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:53

And um they're like, Oh, so what was going on and what what project was out in that? And I was just like, Um Oh, from where Yeah. I was like, uh it was a personal thing that I had to go do. They're like, oh, like uh you had family out there, and then they just kept on like digging deep. And I was like, oh I was just hanging out with friends, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:14

Well, I accidentally disclosed to one of uh someone that works for the company that I didn't know I didn't know that he was keeping a secret. Like I know that like it's not a secret, there's a secret, but there's like two people it at his job that do know that they're the ones that work with him like daily in the office, and then uh this uh man, I seen him at a party, and then uh he was sitting in the table where I was and he didn't go to that party. Um I think he had a show that day or something. He did something, and I went to the baby shop myself.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:47

Oh, I was uh doing a podcast.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:48

That's right. You were recording someone's podcast, and uh the man was there and he's like, Oh, where's Gil? Like he didn't come, and I'm like, No, he had to work, you know, whatever. And then um and then I said, What did I say?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:01

Again, he but he also too is like working, like what there's nobody Yeah, yeah. Because usually when I tell people, I tell them, Oh, like I treat it as like a second job, right? Which it is to me, it's it's it's my second job, right? So good.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:18

But I said something like, Oh yeah, he did uh I don't know what I said.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:23

Yeah, you're he I I did a podcast. I was doing a podcast with somebody.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:27

Yeah, but that's not what that's not what led to it. I said something about him doing like stand-up or him performing. Oh, he's like, What do you mean performing? Like I was just performing tonight, you're like, oops. No, it wasn't that I I was talking to my cousin telling her that he had done a performance.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:40

No, her cousin your cousin ratted me out after the podcast, because you said she said, Oh, he does a podcast, and then he goes, Really? Gilbert? He he's so quiet.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:53

That's right, that's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:54

And then her cousin goes, Quiet, he does stand-up conversation.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:59

I was like, I'm trying to puzzle it together, but yeah, that's right. So the man was like, Oh, Gilbert does a podcast. He's like, he's so quiet, and I was like, Oh, and then my cousin's like, he's so quiet, he does stand up. And then he's like, What do you mean he does stand up?

SPEAKER_05 1:30:11

And I was like, What was his reaction?

SPEAKER_03 1:30:13

Was he just like no? His reaction was like, Oh, and he's like, But how? He's like, I go my mouth, he's like, I go into the office and try to joke with him, and he doesn't joke back with me. Like, oh, you're still working, he thinks like like you have to be this funny 24 like seven person.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:30

That's why I asked her, I was like, Do you do people expect you to be like but that just goes to show like his view of you, like based on his reaction? So his view of you is just like, oh fuck, he's normally like shy, he's probably like a serious dude, so he couldn't put it together, like, oh fuck, he does stand-up. Because that's how some of my coworkers were when they found out I did stand-up, they're just like, Oh my god, but you're so quiet. Like, you seem like a little introvert.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:53

I'm like, I kind of am, but you know, yeah, because when he's not on stage and around other people that don't know him, that's not me. Like, that's not me. No, okay, like he's very, he's very quiet, he's very to himself. He's just like, Oh, uh-huh. They ask him stuff and he'll conversate, but he's not like, but with me, he's looking at me, yeah, yeah, he's not. So then people trip out that he's that's interesting, and I'm the opposite. I'm like a people person.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:21

You're like, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:23

At the store, everybody talks to me, or like he'll leave me somewhere, and then he comes back and I'm like having a full-on conversation with someone. Like, oh sorry. But but then I won't, I don't like being in front of a camera. I don't like being on the stage, I don't like doing any of that.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:39

So to me, I'm like, no, my boyfriend's not shy, he loves to perform. Yeah, he's very like, look at me, a center of attention guy. So I'm like, oh, I don't know how we fit, but we do opposites attract, I guess. Yeah, we compliment each other.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:53

Yeah, it's true. Yeah, because sometimes I I like we go to a party and I reel in the conversation and then I like include him, like, all right, jump in now.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:03

She she lays me up and a slam dunk it's sets me up and I'm in there for uh for a one-liner or two. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:12

Which is which is I think um, I mean, at least for our relationship it works. It works because I know I know when he's like shy or maybe like feeling anxious or whatever, and then I use my strength to make him feel more comfortable to be able to join into you know I feel like you need that.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:31

Like you can't have like two shy people, you know, like nothing's gonna get done, you know. We're just like ask the waiter for napkins, we're like, okay. And they're both just staring at each other, you know, but then at the same time, like two loudmouth people. They're just like, ah, all crazy.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:45

So at the restaurant, you ask for like uh ask for no cheese. I know just staring at each other. No, it's fine. I'll just eat it with cheese. I'll just eat it with cheese.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:55

Like, excuse me. Yeah, so you see, it works out.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:00

It does work out. It really does. That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:03

I don't know that, but I don't I don't know about telling people. I really don't, even though the the vice president of the company knows that I do stand up.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:12

That's true on your interview.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:14

They googled him. They googled me. They googled that's so like embarrassing.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:19

So that this is why and I don't think other I don't think people under Let me let me run this by you. So I don't use my real name on stage because of that reason.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:34

And like when I do other people like to like look you up.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:37

Well, when I do other podcasts and stuff, um some of the content in there that I talk about, it's it's it I I just don't want it to be readily available for somebody that knows my full name.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:49

Is that yeah. I mean, I wouldn't want you know, like my work to easily pull me up or like a place that I'm gonna do it. I'm like, she doesn't want her dad to look her up. Or you know, like an interview person is like, let's see what this girl is and like boom, right? Like find me easily.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:04

But most most companies they will Google you.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:07

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:08

They will Google you.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:09

They're like, oh, so she's funny.

unknown 1:34:13

Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:14

Like, are you gonna give me the job or when they're not?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:16

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:16

And what did they tell you? What did they tell you?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:19

No, I found out from I guess there was like a supervisor uh that was helping me get the job. And um they told me they're like, hey, they uh you know, they googled you and this came up and it was uh uh I was on a podcast and I asked the dude to not put my full name. He put my full name. And it was a podcast about like mushrooms.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:43

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:44

About like psychedelics. Of all the topics, of all the topics, and I was like, dude, like I was like, yeah, that was me. Can you send me that? Because that's like actually a really good screenshot that you did. Can you send me that? Can you flip but you know, just stuff like that, and I'm just like, okay, I can't. I'm with you on that. I can't be going.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:05

I'm gonna Google myself now.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:07

And then other but other comics that I hear a lot. It's like nobody knows who you are. Like, yeah, why even have a stage name, just go by your real name? I don't know. I hear different things, but I have my own I have my own reasons and I'm gonna stick to it. I come out of what a little myself.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:28

How's your family seen you do stand-up?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:31

My my uncle has my my dad's youngest brother. Um and that's it.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:39

My whole family came to watch me perform at La Factory in Long Beach one time because I was on Spanglish. Uh-huh. And um Yeah, like you get like a guest list, right? So I I was like, fuck it, I'm bringing them all in. Cause my mom, she started like spreading the word in like this group chat. I was like, you told them. She was like, Oh, your theas are coming, and your theas are coming, and some of some of your cousins. I'm like, I guess I'm gonna pack this house out. Dude, I brought like 20 fucking people, yes, and they were all they sat them all in the front row. I was like, no. So I go up there and I swear they were looking at me like if it was like a high school graduation, they were just like so proud. They were like taking pictures, and my Theas is like, I still have the clip of you. I watch it every now. I'm like, delete it, delete that shit, please. That's so embarrassing, but it's so sweet that they were like, Yeah, I don't know, they're all proud of me. I'm like, You're proud of my jokes. It's like they're like, all right.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:39

That's cool. I mean, you you have your family at least goes out to to support you.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:45

I yeah, I love that I could do that because if like if if someone's just like, Well, can you bring people? Like, if I could bring like 20 people, dude, your whole family will pull up and support me. So that's I'm very lucky for that.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:58

I haven't had the that opportunity hasn't come up yet, but I know that when it that time comes when uh when it doesn't, yeah, I can like Amber's family says, Hey, when when you do when you do, you know, a a big show, let us know to come out. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's um nice we have that. But yeah, the only person that's ever seen me is just my uncle, and he went out to Costa Mesa to go see me. So that was cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:28

Damn, so he drove out there, huh?

SPEAKER_00 1:37:29

Yeah, he he drove out there, had steak dinner and everything. It was it was uh nice. It was a cool yeah, that was cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:36

Oh, I'm sure he was proud of you. Yeah, he was tearing up. Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:42

He uh he actually he texted me not too long ago. He was like, hey, when's your next you know, when's your next gig? And then him too, I was like, oh, you know, we don't have to it doesn't have to be a gig, we can go hang out and then he left me on red.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:55

Everybody leaves you on red.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:56

No, no, you didn't leave me on red, but for the sake of the podcast. Uh so funny. Uh Ness, thanks for coming out.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:06

Thank you for having me. This is fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:08

Doing the podcast. Gotta do it again.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:09

I'm done.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:11

Uh tell us where we can find you and if you have anything coming up.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:15

Um apparently you could just Google me, ask my dad, he'll tell you where to find me. Um okay. I am under damn it d e a m-i-t underscore Nessa on Instagram. And I do have a show coming up March 28th. It's at this place in downtown called Kito, K-I-S-O. Show. 7 30, you want to say? I'm excited, I'm closing out the show, so come see me.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:45

Yay!

SPEAKER_05 1:38:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:48

Heck yeah. Do I have anything? Have anything coming up?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:52

Friday?

SPEAKER_00 1:38:53

Uh Friday. Go just go check out my Instagram. Right. Go Instagram. Yeah, go flyers are up there. Yep. Flyers, all the dates. Uh, check out my link tree on my main page at Gilbilly Delic on Instagram. And don't forget to like and subscribe uh the YouTube channel on the Mind Buzz Podcast Network. Check it out. What else? Amber, do you got anything?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:19

No, you always ask me. Anything you want to plug?

SPEAKER_00 1:39:23

No?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:24

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:25

When are you gonna try stand up?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:27

I'm not. You should.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:28

Save punch the monkey.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:31

Oh yeah, there you go. Adopt, don't shop.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:35

Adopt and shop.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:38

You have a dog? I have a cat.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:40

You have a cat? I like cats. Amber's Amber's allergic to cats.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:45

No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:46

You're not?

SPEAKER_03 1:39:46

She's like, I just don't like them. I've never been allergic to cats.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:50

I thought you were allergic to cats.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:51

We've been together for seven years. I've never been allergic to cats. I'm scared of cats. Aww.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:56

Who was I t- I was talking to somebody. They're like, oh yeah, because she's allergic to cats, huh? And I'm like, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:02

What the hell? I totally my sister's allergic.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:05

Oh, it's your sister.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:07

She's sleeping with my sister too.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:10

What the? Your sister with three cats? Your sister would be the one to hoard things that she's allergic to. The mind.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:30

Okay, so you said that the should be of