MB:291 with Travis Smith

Travis Smith is a standup comedian and comedy show producer and host of No Question Comedy Show. Check out his stuff here https://www.instagram.com/swagafoo/?hl=en

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"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:01

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 tonight, today, this afternoon, whenever you listen to this podcast, is a lovely Amber.

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Did you say this staff?

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This afternoon.

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It sounded like you said this stafftered.

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This staffed?

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Oh, excuse me.

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What's that?

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I'm a little drunk.

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No, I'm not. Amber went out last night, ladies and gentlemen.

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Oh my god.

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She's hung over.

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No, I'm not.

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She's tired.

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I'm tired.

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She had pasta for breakfast.

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No, I had a croissant.

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It's basically pasta.

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That took me out. That's not a good sign. When carbs put you to sleep. That's like diabetes. No, it's not.

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I like to think of it as oh my god, this was so good that I gotta take a little nap.

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Okay.

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I gotta it's it was so delicious that I wanna eat it again, so that's why I wanna go in my dreams and eat it again.

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Okay.

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Sure. You know what I'm saying?

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I know what you're saying. But I am tired. Yeah. Yeah. I can't party anymore. Not that I did, but you know, I can go out. And we wake up early on Saturdays. Well, today's Saturday.

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Which is good.

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In real life it's Saturday, but if you're listening to it, it's Monday. When you're listening to this, this is Monday.

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This is a podcast to get you through the week.

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This is the past talking to you.

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This is a podcast to share lovable moments. This is a podcast that we don't have questions this week.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

So oh yeah, you forgot about your questions.

SPEAKER_04 2:06

Uh send us questions. Uh you can put them down in the comments if you're watching this on YouTube or if you're listening to this on Spotify. You can also go down to the comments on Spotify, follow us, and rate and review on Apple Podcasts. You know, I haven't been on Apple Podcasts in a very long time. So uh we may or may not have uh new reviews on there. Remember that was the whole uh highlight of like 2020? I remember just listening to different podcasts and just putting in like reviews and stuff.

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Uh no, I didn't know. That was a highlight.

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That was a highlight for your It was a highlight of my pandemic.

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I don't review unless no, I I just don't review.

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Why? Why not?

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I don't know.

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Those are free. Anything, look at it. We we l we have a lot of creators on the podcast, and we also have a lot of uh creative people. Did I say that already?

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Creators and creatives, yeah.

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They're the same thing. We got a lot of creatives on the podcast, ladies and gentlemen, and creatives that listen to the podcast, and that's free. I don't understand why.

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What's free?

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It's free to rate and review.

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Oh, okay, got it.

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It's free to rate and review, it's free to share your person's uh if you have a friend. Listen, if you have a friend that's doing anything creative, share one of their posts. It's free. That's all I have to say about that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 3:45

For$1.99, you can sponsor. That's what it sounded like. You were gonna go and check it out.

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But it's free. I'm doing the free stuff. I'm all like telling people about free stuff, but then when they say, Oh, I'm taking pictures for this person for free, I was like, No, you gotta charge.

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You gotta pick and choose. It's okay.

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Yeah, that's right. All right. Don't do anything for free. If you're really good at it, don't do anything for free, ladies and gentlemen. Okay.

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Alright.

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All right.

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I'm done.

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I'm done too. Okay. Let's get into today's uh episode. I am very excited to talk to this gentleman. Uh we've known each other for a few years. Uh, very funny. Runs a great room out in uh Riverside and Corona. Uh please give it up for stand-up comic and producer Travis Smith. Ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

Hey, thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't that's alright.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

What's your title?

SPEAKER_03 4:44

That's my title. Okay. That's well, I I steal from so many comics, to be honest, when I when I do my title, uh, but I keep telling people that I'm a locally recognized drunk comedian. Or that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

I could have I could have wrote that. Yeah, that one that's easy. Yeah. Yeah. I should ask on the so when you do the podcasters questionnaires, I should ask, like, how do you want to be presented? Presented. That should be a question.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

I honestly I would have wrote, I don't know. You would have had to read your own thing anyway. I mean, how do you do that too? How do you tell someone like hey, this is the cool intro I want? Tell them I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Or I guess your credits?

SPEAKER_04 5:22

Yeah, but it doesn't okay, that it doesn't matter, and I just ran into this uh conundrum. Yes, I know that word. Conundrum yesterday. So I'm doing this uh Psychabilly show uh in October, and they want me to do uh an impersonation of Elvis. So I'm I'm gonna be late Elvis, right? Early Elvis.

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Early Elvis. You're gonna have a ukulele in here.

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He's gonna be skinny by then.

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Yeah, you're gonna be in shape. No, so they want me to do uh an Elvis thing, but still So they want me to MC it as Elvis, but still do crowd work, do still do some jokes. I'm gonna write like a whole new set for that hosting gig. But they asked me, like, how do you want to be like how does your name go on the flyer? Elvis. Right?

SPEAKER_03 6:19

Not an Elvis impersonator. Just Elvis. In the flesh. I should text him and tell him that. Bro, if I'm going as Elvis, I'm going as Elvis.

SPEAKER_02 6:28

Wait, I have a question. Like, did they directly tell you we want you to impersonate him, or we just want you to dress up as him? No, they want an impersonation.

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How good's your impersonation?

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I know. How did they know that you impersonated Elvis? Do you have a good one? Because you said something, huh? You probably were like, I could do impersonation.

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Oh, there it is. There it is.

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I'm already anxious, it's not even October.

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Jacob Alordi, eat your heart out. I do it. That's who played him, right? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. It was um the other guy. Oh, the other guy, yeah. Mixing on my white guys. Yeah. Um I don't know. I can't remember. He was Yeah, he's another white guy. He was in the the new the new movie, the catch me if you or look, my favorite.

SPEAKER_04 7:12

Yes. I'm gonna look him up. Austin Butler. Austin Butler. There we go. That was that's the one. My personal favorite uh Elvis is Will Sasso.

SPEAKER_03 7:21

Really? Yeah. My personal favorite was uh Jack White's. I haven't seen him. He was in he's in Walk Hard. There's only is that him? That's him. That's him? Is it right? It's Jack White. He goes, he goes, There's only one uh only one king, and it's me. Okay. I didn't know that was Jack White. And he does his karate, he's like, I know karate.

SPEAKER_04 7:43

That's why I want to do karate too. Yeah, Elvis was he's one of the main guys. Oh, okay. You know what?

SPEAKER_03 7:49

You know what? Now that I think about it, Elvis was a DEA agent too, right?

SPEAKER_04 7:54

That's what the only one king. There's only one king. Come on, dude.

SPEAKER_03 7:58

Yeah. Okay. That's pretty good. Yeah. I was gonna make a joke about how it makes sense how Dr. Oz is also now one. It's look at that. Jack White as Elvis Presley and Walk Hard. Yeah, that's my favorite one.

SPEAKER_04 8:13

Wait, but that's a picture of Walk the Line. Walk the Line, that's different. That's Joaquin Phoenix.

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Well, Google's not God. It doesn't know everything. That's true.

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Yeah, they just put pictures.

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Yeah, yeah. Hilarious though. It was that one's my favorite. To be honest, I don't really have a favorite. I just thought that was the funniest one to see.

SPEAKER_04 8:33

Will Will Sasso Will Sasso's Alvis and the sketches that he used to do on Mad TV are genius. Dude, I can't remember. Pull them up. Dude, there are they are so funny. He does this one where he's like, uh-uh, he's presenting.

SPEAKER_03 8:51

It's already it's fat Sasso?

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Yeah. Oh, this is great. No, this is this is what I'm probably gonna go for. Right here. Right here.

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Sweaty, fat. Yeah. Let's see this one. It sounds like stone cold as well.

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Yeah, this is perfect.

SPEAKER_04 9:38

Yeah. I got the boots. I'm I'm uh actively looking for like a legit costume. I got a budget for the costume.

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If you need sleeping pills, I got I mean got a guy? Got a guy.

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Yeah, the whole the whole bit, everything.

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Okay, we'll not be attending this.

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Amber will be there. She's like, I get enough of his antics. Everyone is invited.

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It's not even that. It's like I get really, really like nervous and anxious for him. I don't know if it's like, I don't know, we're connected and I take all the anxiety and nervousness, but I'm literally like a hot mess. Like if he does anything new that's out of you don't want to be there to support him. No, no, no. I get too like have you been talking to her mom?

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All right. I know everyone tells me that. Oh, you got the mom on your side.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Oh, that's a great, that's a great move to have. Yeah. It's an amazing move to have.

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Yeah, my mom's like, you're not gonna go with him, you're not gonna support him. You don't see what he's like. But I do, I go to a lot of things, but it's whenever he does something like new that I don't know how it's gonna go.

SPEAKER_04 10:47

It's like I'm like, Yeah, it's gonna go fine. It's gonna I know. It's gonna be psychobilly dues. It's gonna be, I don't know. Yeah, like when he first starts kind of scary.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

It's not even like you're doing it to like old people, you're doing it to like young psychobilly.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

Are there young ones? There's no young ones, there's no wild. Yeah, there's no new psychobilly dudes.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Well, you know what I mean. I'm young.

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It's gonna be fun.

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We're gonna have fun, it's gonna be a good time. Everybody's invited. Uh, once the flyer gets out, I'll post that. It's gonna be on my uh Do you know who the books do you know who the bands are? On the Yeah, it's gonna be the Hammerheads and um To Be Announced also.

SPEAKER_03 11:31

I also I love I love for psychability bands. If you don't know the you while you're looking up, you can always just go the because you know it's gonna be the yeah with the or Los. Or Los, yeah, Los. Or L. Yeah, yeah. Those are yeah. Speaking of nerves, dude, I was nervous about doing doing the mind buzz. Yeah. The mind buzz has, I was like, you know, I'm doing my research. Uh huh. You know, I'm always following you guys. I'm like, God damn, people are actually watching this.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

I'm like, this is Yeah, it's uh it's grown in the past year and a half, two years.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

Yeah, it's great, dude. Good job.

SPEAKER_04 12:04

Yeah, thanks, man.

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But don't be nervous.

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I'm very nervous. So nervous. I I I fought with my girlfriend before I got here. I was just I was down talking myself, and she was like trying to hype me up. I was like, you don't know anything about me. I'm gonna ruin this podcast.

SPEAKER_02 12:22

And that's all right. Okay, seguing. Yes, we had this conversation, and then we asked Travis to bring it up again.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

Was it natural? Did I did I work? It's pretty natural. That was good, and the number broke the fourth wall.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't lie, I couldn't lie. Why?

SPEAKER_03 12:35

But that was fine. She's a good lady, dude. She's like, I cannot do this to the people. I couldn't lie, I couldn't lie. Producers have to be genuine, all right? She has to keep the the tone of this thing genuine.

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I just can't. I don't know why I can't lie. That wasn't a lie.

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That was a show.

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That this is a show. That's why I can't be in show business.

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That's true. That's one of the that's one of the things you have to overstep is you gotta be like, all right, I guess I'm gonna be a bad person to get ahead.

SPEAKER_02 13:00

But it's okay because I stopped the conversation so that we can bring it up and it can continue to be genuine.

SPEAKER_04 13:07

But you guys said you fought, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_04 13:10

First of all, you uh I it's good, right? It's good that you you broke the fourth wall, but also you as like Elvis' manager.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

I'm not Elvis' manager, you know.

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You as well now you you as Elvis' manager. No, I can't do that. So you as Elvis' manager could have saved him because you could have been so he would have been at a show, right, in Las Vegas, completely annihilated the crowd after, and then at you can hear Amber just going backstage. He's on pills, everybody!

SPEAKER_03 13:44

He's on pills, just outing him. Yeah, yeah, would yeah, he's really high right now, so but you would have saved his life. He kills the show, he kills the show. She still goes out there and apologizes for it. Sorry, sorry, he was on, he could have been better.

SPEAKER_02 13:58

Yeah, no, well, and maybe it's what we were saying, like nervousness brings out this, like yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

Well, it's I think it's uh something about me whenever I'm like in my little like oh like I suck hole, you know. My girlfriend would be like, Oh, you you're doing great, and I get angry at her not being in the hole with me. I'm like, don't try to pull me up.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

But there there is something because there recently I I'll go back to what what went from that conversation, but I was gonna say the other day, um Gil was like, Oh, let's just walk to this place, and I was like, It's kind of far, like I'm gonna get tired, and he's like, Come on, you can do it. And I was like, You fucking bitch. So the whole way we're walking, he's like, You got this, you got this, you're doing good. And I was like, Don't talk to me. I didn't say it like that. No, you no, you're like, You got this, you know. He's all clapping, yeah. So he's like like affirm, like you know, like he's like positive, yeah. And and then when I tell him, I was like, Don't tell me anything. And he's like, Why? Like, I'm not telling you anything bad, and then I didn't know how to tell him, like, yeah, the feelings are night and day.

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He's trying to help, and you're like, I want to, I would like to.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

And it wasn't that I didn't that I don't appreciate him, like, but I think because you get like nervous, stressed out, or all these emotions that you're just like, let them simmer in my brain and don't tell me anything. And then I told him, I was like, I had to be like, I'm sorry. It's just I'm used to like this. Is like my trauma as growing up, like my dad being like, or my mom, oh yeah, you do this.

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And I'm like, because I'll sit in negativity with someone. They'll be like, I suck. I'm like, yeah, we both suck.

SPEAKER_04 15:35

Look, I think you just need to find a balance of I suck and I'm doing okay, and I need to get better.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

Yeah, well, that yeah, that I have a saying that it's uh if you're happy with yourself, you never get much done. I don't know why I did it in a Boston accent. You're never getting much done.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

You're like, I gotta change my accent.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Yeah, no, but I I say that a lot. It's like if I'm happy with myself, I'm not getting much done.

SPEAKER_04 16:00

Because it sounds like somebody from Massachusetts would say.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

I don't know where that's from, but it's not definitely from where I'm from. I think it's from the departed. Yeah, I code switch. I'll I'll I'll admit that, especially when I drink. Dude, I've I feel like I've lost friends because I went from the beginning of the night talking like this to the end of the night, be like, fool, fool, I swear, fool. And they're like, who the fuck is this guy?

SPEAKER_02 16:26

I think you have a the ability to like, I don't want to say shape shift. It's code switch, but it's like code switch?

SPEAKER_03 16:33

Yeah, code switching.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

It's like your ethnicity is like if I didn't know you, I would be like, What?

SPEAKER_03 16:39

Yeah, right. What ethnicity are you? Yeah, and then I tell the and then they go, What's your name? And I go, Travis Smith, and they're like, All right, get out of here. Yeah. Sounds like a fake name. It does, dude.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

I I But is it your real name?

SPEAKER_03 16:49

It's my real name. I have I have a bit about how my mom wanted me to look good on paper.

SPEAKER_02 16:54

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 16:54

Yeah. I wish she would have named me something cool, like Bonifacio. I'm I'm obsessed with that name. Bonifacio. Bonifacio is my favorite, my favorite, like the.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Because you're Mexican, right?

SPEAKER_03 17:04

Yeah, I'm Mexican.

SPEAKER_04 17:04

So your mom's Mexican, your dad's Mexican? What's my dad's as white?

SPEAKER_03 17:09

My dad's as white as they come. Okay, that's why it's Smith. Yeah, my dad's as white as they come. My mom is like as Mexican as you can get, like born in Mexico. But um We're at in Mexico. Uh place called Yahualica. It's like two hours above Guadalajara in uh in Jalisco, close to Zacatecas. I go uh almost every year. Almost almost almost every year.

SPEAKER_02 17:29

And they're like Travis.

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Travis, Travieso. My favorite is uh I grew up with my nickname as Chavez. Chavez. It was so much so much easier to tell people, oh, like they're like, Oh, my name's Chavez, and they go, just Chavez. And I go, easy, thank you. Chavez, Chavez. I like that. Yeah, I like that for you. Yeah. So they go, uh, what was it at? Si Chavez or No Chavez? That was the running game.

SPEAKER_04 17:54

But so at the open mic, I wanted this is it's been a while, I don't know if you remember, but I think I don't know, either you were you hosting, or you just had come off the stage, just had come off the stage, and there was a these two there was this couple that walked up to you and asked you where you were from in Mexico, and I think they were from like the same region or the same thing, but the you guys started talking for like the rest of the night. Do you remember that? Do you remember something like that? No.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

No, where did that happen? Here at Puro Lake.

SPEAKER_03 18:33

Yeah, yeah. I I remember I remember definitely coming here all the time for the open mics, and that's sounding like exactly what happens. Every time I meet someone from my mom's town, I'm like best friends with them. We're gonna we always make I was in a I have like three trips planned with strangers just because just because we're from the same area. Um I don't remember that, um, which is bad considering because well, I talked to them all night.

SPEAKER_04 18:58

Yeah, you talked to them for for a good uh good time, and I was just like, what is Travis talking to those people about?

SPEAKER_03 19:05

And I never asked you about it. It's if they're from the same town, it's just Mexico stuff. Yeah. Yeah, just talking about the I'll even get into specifics. I know the town sell well enough, they'll be like, oh, where do you get menudo from? And I'll be like, oh, it's a house with the green door. And they're like, us too. It's not uh a restaurant, it's just a house with the green door. And you the first time I had to look for it, I was just walking down the street with a pot, just asking people, hey, you know where there's a house with the green door that sells menudo. It's like, yeah, just keep walking. You fucking you'll see it.

SPEAKER_02 19:34

Is the menudo you eat red?

SPEAKER_03 19:37

Yeah.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

Yeah, the menudo in the town is red.

SPEAKER_02 19:40

Um I'm just asking because Where's it?

SPEAKER_03 19:44

What kind of thing?

SPEAKER_02 19:44

My dad, my dad's from Sinaloa.

SPEAKER_03 19:46

Uh-huh. Is it white? And it's white. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

And I don't think I've ever had red menudo. Never?

SPEAKER_03 19:53

No. You've never had it even here?

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Even here.

SPEAKER_03 19:55

Do you like menudo? Because I don't.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Yes, I I love menudo.

SPEAKER_03 19:59

I I don't like menudo.

SPEAKER_02 20:00

But I don't um my dad makes menudo like often enough to like feed my menudo ones.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

Yeah, yeah, I get you.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

So I don't really go anywhere to like get it.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

Get it. I get you, yeah. Yeah what I mean? It's like a special, it's like um, yeah, it's like you're not gonna unless we go to Mr.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Rosewood. That's right. There's a place on Rosewood. It's Mr. Rosewood. Whatever. And they have a thing called uh 50-50.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Dude. Right?

SPEAKER_02 20:28

A plate, it's 50-50. Can you get a soup and something else? So it's half menudo and half posole in one bowl. Ooh. So you get both like the puerco from the pozole.

SPEAKER_03 20:41

You want the pata?

SPEAKER_02 20:42

The menudo, you know. Yeah, it's really good.

SPEAKER_03 20:45

But if you don't like menudo, then maybe I don't like menudo, it's just pozole with worse meat. But you so no, not at all. No, not at all, not a fan. Also, nopales.

SPEAKER_02 20:55

You know what? I just acquired a taste for nopales now as an adult.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

My mom, whenever there's a like a stray one growing in the backyard, she's like, yes, and she cuts it down.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

My mom just did that yesterday. We were walking and she's like, Oh, look at the nopales, they look so good.

SPEAKER_03 21:08

And I was like, Did she start cutting them? No, no, no. My mom will. My mom will cut your nopales and then I won't eat them. I always tell her, Mom, we're How do you make them? Like, what do you do with them? Whatever you can them? No, you boil them with fucking with sabor or whatever the of chicken, the the chicken bouillon, and then all whatever they cook everything else in, uh nopales in, it soaks it up. They're supposed to be good, but I'm always like, it was there like a meat substitute? Yeah, it can be it well, because the my mom told me the stories of when she used to eat nopales, it was always because they were too poor to afford like the food, so they would just wait for this nopal to grow one leaf, and whenever they would grow, she would get excited and go and cut it, and they would eat it as a family. And I was like, Mom, you're not poor anymore. We can we could eat, we could eat, you know.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

If you think about it, like we could eat pizza hut.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

Yeah, we could eat pizza hut. But a lot of um well at least my mom my mom grew up really poor too and the majority of like not the majority but a good chunk of dishes that like are like signature dishes that my grandma made the struggle meals are one well yeah I mean like yeah they're struggle they're delicious they're delicious don't get me wrong yes they don't contain meat yeah so they're just like vegetarian by not default but I'm sure it's because they couldn't afford to buy like meat my my mom her her birthday and the day we celebrate her birthday are two totally different days okay because for where she was born she was born at the at the ranch right and uh it took a day for my grandpa to take the donkey into town to register her to register her so he put the date that he got there not the date that the actual birthday that she was born what that was that's what happened to David my brother-in-law he's not even I mean he's only like four years older than me and he has two total different yeah but that's not a it's not a day right it's like a significant amount of time between birth and yeah his his mom took like a month to register him yeah it's stuff like that we just got a road to the house that my mom was born in they barely built a road like last year yeah that's uh we still don't have road we have like a dirt road in Dav in David's case uh his parents were kind of filling him out for a month to see if they see if they wanted to see if they actually legally wanted to have like no legal name they used to do that too like people would be like I don't know what to name him I'm gonna sit on like no name yeah you don't want to get there and then be like what's his name you're like oh uh Bonnie Facio yeah yeah who named you Travis uh my mom my mom my mom named me and then my dad gave me his his middle name and you have a middle name yeah Andrew the the whole thing is just white it's loaded yeah it's as white as it gets it's as white I want to clear my name I don't know my white side of the family all right Travis Andrew Smith dude my mom was had a heart my mom would call me Travis like growing up like she didn't she couldn't say she couldn't say the name that she gave me she can now she's she's come around she's got it her accent she's losing it I see that video the other day that I was saying like ladies it was in Spanish it was like why are we naming our kids things we can't um pronounce and it was like Ethan like Ethan Matthew like all these like other names and they that like the own moms can't my brother's name is Christopher not one person knows that in my family I'll call him Christian we're not saying Christopher the girl is there even a Spanish translation to Christopher no you just gotta say it with an accent Christopher Christopher that's Cristopher crazy yeah like Christopher Columbus well Christopher Columbus was Spanish Christopher oh you know what it's Cristóbal Cristóbal I know a couple of Cristobal Cristobal but that sounds like Cristobal because it's uh Christopher Columbus is Cristóbal Colón oh okay so that's where that name comes from and that's his real name Cristóbal Colón because he's from uh Spain and then we did so Cristopher Columbus is not his real name yeah then we colonized his name yes got him back so Cristopher is Cristóbal okay we'll go Cristobal no not Cristobal Cristóbal Cristóbal Cristobal Cristobal Cristóbal there you go how many times has it come up that you don't speak Spanish that well every episode 290 something episodes it has come uh Cristobal Cristobal but yeah they wouldn't do that they call him Cristian they were like I don't know what it is about Mexican people but they're like you know what that's your name not anymore you know what Mexican people like nicknames they do they like you it's just easier yeah you don't have a you're not a a Mexican person or Latino person doesn't call you by your first name you have you have a uh you have a nickname or it's your real name but they make their own twist on it.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

Yeah well well my little brother his his family name is clown he's not he's not a cholo he's not like he's not and they call him clown they call him clown because he was afraid of it when he was a kid so they used to play the they used to play it whenever the commercial would come on they'd be like they'd be like Chris come here and then they would turn the TV on and it would be it and he would run away screaming crying and sometimes the nicknames are like specific to one person because like me my name is Amber and a lot of my family couldn't say like Amber so they would say like Ambar and I'm like no not Ambar. But my great grandfather couldn't say my name and then so he would call me Ambre.

SPEAKER_03 26:58

Oh literally like he'd be like Ambre and I'm like okay grandpa like and then my Nina calls me pumpkin and then my uh another one of my dad my mom's brother calls me Uva like it's like I have three different names that you know people call me and I'm like okay yeah my my grandpa was he didn't speak English so he wouldn't even say my name I was well it's you know I would go in Spanish and talk to him he'd be like eh he was so old he was 104 when I when he died like in like in 2020 so I'm 33 years old he was already 70 when I was born yeah so by the time I was able to talk to him he was just like an old guy like eh yeah part of my family yep that's the it's one of them one of them it's the white one that's the white one yeah that's crazy how how they lived my grandfather passed away too like two years ago and he was 101.

SPEAKER_04 27:49

Yeah dude great genes dude my dad's family my the my white side yeah dead by 45 dude most of them yeah that's so weird I feel I would feel like the that side right would would have longevity I don't I don't know I don't I don't want to get into the science of it but I hear statistics on on Instagram quote I mean don't quote me but supposedly I think uh Mexicans uh are as close as you can get to indigenous roots DNA wise uh they're the most out of all countries I think supposedly that's what I heard so I mean if you I mean you keep the DNA pure dude yeah that's true you you know see that's why I uh flaky flaky earwax earwax yeah you're right is that true yeah is that a thing it's a thing so Gilbert's pretty uh indigenous you know what blood I'm I'm like like he did his ancestors I'm very very indigenous what's what's your percentage eighty percent eighty it's it's it fluctuates from seventy to eighty percent that's good that's good we're Mexican indigenous yeah we did uh we did our 23andme 43 yeah that's pretty good yeah 43 percent indigenous highly sentenced Mexican I was like oh that's pretty good like score but I was mad because I'm like you fucking what we're heard I'm like you don't speak Spanish yeah yeah you gotta you gotta speak span well I heard in Mexico they don't really care really yeah it's here that's a here it's a thing yeah which is kind of it it's strange because so we'll get the the the ear thing right so um Amber's like oh like you have like a whole bunch of crap in your ear and I'm like okay like I'm I'm cleaning it and I was like she was like why is it flaky so I googled it and it says that uh most like people that are indigenous have uh flaky earwax okay yeah I don't I didn't really into it but it probably I mean if you go back into like evolution there was probably a reason why indigenous people had flaky earwax maybe the flakiness of it had to do with climate or it protected something in your body so you that you're still like you still have a good percentage of indigenous it's like it still lives on you where like myself I'm not gonna get into detail but it's not flaky but I'm more European than I am is it like a goop indigenous I mean it's like not yeah I like goopy I guess you got you got a goopy you got a goopy like Vaselini you know like that kind of nice velvety nice yeah like smooth like peanut butter yeah describing it like it's a like it's a food product velvety silky uh which is which is crazy because I didn't I'm like even down to the earwaxes like there's this like yeah difference probably more stuff too yeah there's there's some and I by the way GED holder here I don't so nothing I say is ever really right you know what it is I think indigenous people uh we're very close to the earth we're very close to the universe and our flaky earwax kind of like probably doubled as like a spice yeah just just like in Dune in our food yeah you were you guys are the Fremen yeah Fremen what's that from Dune?

SPEAKER_03 31:10

I the indigenous oh the indigenous people from Dune I gotta watch it it's on my list of movies watch I've actually I don't read I read the book sort of I listened to it on audiobook there is a book that's right yeah I wow I'm I'm feeling good that I read a book that Gail hasn't good I've never I've never been in a room where I was like I read this and no one else has read it I was like oh really because otherwise it's Dr.

SPEAKER_04 31:38

Seuss because that's such a signific what I'm finding out now is a lot of great great movies were books first.

SPEAKER_03 31:51

Yeah actually I just a lot of them I just watched Wuthering Heights like last night I haven't watched it I want to watch it it's have you read the book no so good that's good because I guess the book and the movie don't really don't really correspond but I watched it with my girlfriend being like let's go watch this hot movie it was so sad it was just sad yeah it wasn't sexy I was like this is just a sad very very sad story we're sitting there in our underwear going all right let's just by the end of it both let's put pants on let's put pants on we're we're crying going like this is awful uh what do you got right here?

SPEAKER_04 32:30

Why did indigenous people have flaky earwax indigenous people in America in the Americas frequently have dry flaky earwax because they carry a specific recessive genetic mutation in the A B C C11 gene. This genetic trait is highly prevalent among population of East Asia and Native American descent distinguishing them from people of European or African ancestry who typically have the dominant wet earwax type. Damn now they have another reason to check me they're gonna they're gonna be like let's see your earwax to prove and look into your ear that's why doctors look into your ear not to see what kind of coverage they can give you. Exactly without these lipids or oils to blind the mixture the earwax becomes gray brittle okay that gets into now how can we figure out how to use this to make slurs yeah that's why they're checking it. Yeah you flaky earwax you oh you're one of those flakers huh I think it's pronounced flaka flake that's true yeah hard R's are bad to take the high frequency of flaky earwax in indigenous Americans serves as genetic evidence of their ancestors' migration from Siberia across the Beringland bridge into North America so it's technically not from uh Mexico it actually goes further than that well yeah because no one's really um we're all from Africa we're all from Africa yeah that's so there's always a migration what's that lady called Lucy was her name right the first yeah the link yeah first link yeah so even people from Mexico are not yeah no one is really from where they're at unless I'm I'm from Riverside I mean yeah you unless you're from Riverside the first first like human is or link is from Africa.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

Yeah see so it says climate adaptation one leading theory suggests that the dry earwax was an evolutionary advantage in cold climates reduced bodily secretions may have helped prevent moisture from freezing or heat loss in sub arctic that's why I don't sweat oh I don't sweat too because it it helps me not freeze to death there you go yeah yeah yeah there's a lot of things in him that I'm like it's they're kind of weird but I guess not because there's a lot of things in him I'm like hairier than he is he has like almost no hair I like that unless I mean on his head in his face is he has a hairless buttons okay okay the buttons hairy all the hair all the hair that should be on my body is just directed on my butt one piece of body that's indigenous right there I'm the same way I'm the exact same way I'm I'm almost hairless everywhere else and then like your chest your back all that all of it's good and then just you get to the butt and it's just a problem it's just a problem I wonder why people have hairy butts I want to see Ricky's ass because his chest is like very hairy.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

I'm to be honest I'm very surprised you haven't seen Ricky's ass. Have I seen Ricky's ass?

SPEAKER_02 35:51

You have there's gotta be no I don't think so no he with underwear on he's still like shy he's still shy who's Ricky's butt yeah like he'll show his chest but I don't you said Ricky's butt like it's a separate entity from his butt is shy Ricky's trying to show it and his butt keeps going no I know another another trait I'm all I'm all pinpointing all the like things like indigenous traits what no you have flat feet ah yeah used for walking right yes yes absolutely yes yes feet can be used for walk and they walk I have feet and I do walk now you you want to know something weird like not weird but it's pretty weird like um my grandmother on my my dad's side she we did her um her ancestry before she passed right we were like okay like you know we already had that was the time that was yeah and she came out like really really high percentage um uh from Spain like oh really Spanish like I don't know like 70% you know Spanish yeah and I mean she was born and raised in Mexico but my grandma had a lisp like oh like they speak English like Spanish lisp.

SPEAKER_03 37:15

Well supposedly they say that genes pick up or genes carry memories now. Yeah that's crazy yeah jeans there's they're trying to I think it's like I don't know who the who's studying it but I've heard a lot about how like they're like looking into jeans they're like why does this person inherit like a trait from like two generations ago that's that's crazy. And we it's it's nice you know the Spaniard now keeping captive another one of us you can't leave like I'm colonizing you.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

You've been colonized by camera I'm let's get that earwax loopy.

SPEAKER_03 37:53

No she's like she's holding up blankets going like you don't want you know what this is for if anything I'm jealous I want I want like earwax yeah goopy earwax is a problem yeah I check on women's ears as soon as I meet them.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

Do you no oh I was like oh as you should hi how you doing can I check your ears real quick I clean my ears let me see the side of your head let me see the side I have this thing with like cleaning my ears daily yeah yeah so do I actually yeah I just have to do you wash your ears in the shower why because I'm white you don't think I do no no no I'm just asking no yeah uh what do you mean like uh the inside or the outside I seen I seen one time a video and they were asking they were asking like white people right now that not that I'm asking you this but I thought of it right now where they were asking you're the only white person I know I'm just kidding no I'm just kidding Travis um they were asking people like how do you shower right and it wasn't just white people they had like black people um Latinos and like white people and they were like you know when you shower how do you wash your body and then white people were saying like oh well I just rub like a bar of soap on me or I just let the shampoo and then kind of rub it in and then like black people and and Latinos were like no I use loofahs and scrubs and I scrub my body and everything. Yeah and then I was like oh shoot so then I got thinking and I'm like do I wash my ears like in when I shower or do I just let the water and I let the water run from them. Like are there body parts that you just let the water run?

SPEAKER_04 39:25

Yeah on or do you the entire body I am uh um I'm in there taking at least a least amount of time as I can in the shower there are times where I'm just like just let the water run all over me dude sometimes I forget to wash my body yeah because I'm I'm probably the opposite of you I like to just hang out in the shower. He is wasting water I just like to just hang out in the shower and just like daydream like just like look around I'm not even like washing anything I just have the hot water blasted on my back dude and I'm just like what am I doing with my life and then you go like oh I've been in here for 40 minutes and then the last five minutes you're like so sometimes I I forget like I'll turn off the water I'm like drying myself and I'm like yo shit I've got I forgot wash myself your ass is still all looking to you turned back on you're like what the hell I thought you were gonna ask me this happened like two days ago like the last time I showered you returned it on I returned it on and I'm like I'm an idiot that's good at least you do that at least you do this I mean he's turning up the money right now I'm 100% going like well I guess I ruined that shower I'll try again tomorrow but you know what else I hate he's not stinky yeah that I'm not I well I I haven't told both I've been told both I've been told you don't smell that much and I've been told like dude you're fucking yeah you're not doing well right now who tells you who who says hey bro like you're kind of stinky dude notable the most notable notable one was at a roast someone's roast for me was I don't know he just smells that was the whole roast and I felt that it he like didn't have anything to write he didn't have a joke or anything he was like I'm just gonna write something that I know is real so it hurt more just to me I was like oh man I since then I I I bought cologne I I take uh yeah I want I want that person to know Ziggy Frito uh thank you thank you for that I have become a much cleaner person since then I want to say that this was a lot longer ago than a year and a half but what did you buy to like body spray?

SPEAKER_03 41:41

Well just like like I used to be like really like he probably sells cologne him? Yeah that'd be so smart yeah that'd be really like hey bro you stink how about this yeah but in such a subtle way of being like I didn't tell him like directly oh you did actually you did tell me directly I stink I think it was just a cop out because we've known you what for two years and I don't stink? I have never smelled you thank well hold on come here no no no and I'm in like the what what do we call it Gilbert the the dangers the triangle of of stink yeah like because I'm so short that when I go to hug people I can smell like your armpits your crotch yeah like everything yeah yeah okay cool that's good to know I I can tell you I have not smelled either way I've been just I used to be kind of like my dad once told me that I smelled like a French whore that's that's a white oh my god he told me that one time when I put on a little bit of cologne for the first time as like a teenager and I was like he like he steered me away from it from doing it forever and then after that I was like just so you thought you were gonna be like it was too much the cologne made me I just I hung on to every word my dad told me I don't I don't stink like my body doesn't stink but my clothes will smell.

SPEAKER_04 42:56

My clothes will have like a a stench to them.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

Because there's that there's this there's the stinky monster that wears them at night when you're not wearing them.

SPEAKER_04 43:02

Yeah yeah well I so maybe there's a okay there's probably a correlation between it because when I was growing up I I didn't I don't know I think because I was so afraid of being stinky guy growing up that I tried to like wash my clothes as as much as possible uh and and showering and and doing all that like at a very young age and I and I it only took this one kid and that he was he wasn't a bully he was just like some kid that just said outrageous stuff.

SPEAKER_03 43:42

This is like this is like when when your grandma tells you that your grandpa wasn't an abuser. Like that's just how things were back then how we were yeah he's all trying to cover for this he wasn't a bully but man that every day he would tell me I was a big fat idiot he just told everybody the truth

SPEAKER_04 44:01

He I don't know. He was, I guess he was a bully. It's okay.

SPEAKER_02 44:04

You could say he was a bully.

SPEAKER_04 44:05

I don't know. But anyways, yeah, he was because he was the he always talked about it. About him uh I used to wear band tees all the time and he would like oh uh name three songs.

SPEAKER_03 44:17

He was that guy, that's a bully.

SPEAKER_04 44:19

He was that guy. Name three songs, who's the uh name three songs, who's uh who's the drummer of like I don't know, uh a Black Sabbath. And then I I think that really got me into like thinking about like mus musicians.

SPEAKER_03 44:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:34

I mean I thank him now. That's smart. He he pushed you in a direction of being like, I'm gonna research what I'm gonna do this.

SPEAKER_02 44:39

That's great.

SPEAKER_04 44:40

And and it was cool. I I think I think about that now.

SPEAKER_02 44:43

No, fuck him. Just gonna I love how Ryder did.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

Andrew.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

Andrew, oh Andrew, I'm gonna kick your ass.

SPEAKER_04 44:52

What do you think he's doing now?

SPEAKER_02 44:54

Probably a fucking loser.

SPEAKER_03 44:55

He's at work, name three bands.

SPEAKER_04 44:58

He's still doing the same shit.

SPEAKER_03 45:01

You stink, bro. He's balding.

SPEAKER_02 45:03

Yeah, yeah. He has a big old beer belly.

SPEAKER_03 45:06

Yeah, that's what we say. He's probably successful. Like he probably has a six pack. I can't remember. We're gonna dox him. It's it starts with the C.

SPEAKER_02 45:16

We're gonna make it my life mission to find danger.

SPEAKER_03 45:18

We're gonna stick the mind buzz fans on you.

SPEAKER_04 45:21

But he he I remember this one time, it it sucked. It it was really I like I I never cried. I never cried at school.

SPEAKER_03 45:30

That's important for everybody to know.

SPEAKER_04 45:33

Never cry. But I wore this jean jacket. Okay, so it was you know those jean jackets with like the fuzz on it? Yeah. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, man. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I was a rocker. Was it leopard print? No, it was just the white, the white, like the Levi.

SPEAKER_02 45:52

Like the Sherpa?

SPEAKER_03 45:53

No, it's called the the rancher's jacket.

SPEAKER_02 45:54

Yeah, it's a lot of people. Yeah, it's a rancher's jacket. And now it's like all the rage. Yeah, it's cool.

SPEAKER_04 45:59

Yeah, I I wore that to school. Fuck Andrew. Yeah. Wait, hold on, wait, let me finish my story. So I wore that and my dad, my dad gave it to me, and he was like, oh, and I was like, my dad never got me any cool stuff. Yeah. But when and he gave me this, and I was like, oh, okay, finally he understands like my what I'm going for. Yeah. You know, and I put it on, I wear it, and so it was a rainy day, it had rained all over the jacket, and I get to the cafeteria because you know, when it was rainy, everybody hung out in the cafeteria. Was it Twin Burger Day? Yes, it was Twin Burger Day, Burger Buddies, also pizza. Ooh. I sat down like in the the group, and I Andrew goes, he was like, Where did you get that jacket from the trash? Ooh. Yeah, fuck Andrew. And he was like, It stinks. And he was like, You smell like wet, like you called this guy not a bully? He smelled like wet dog. You smell like a wet dog, but he so he was he said all that stuff, and I was just like, and everybody was like they thought it was like the the funniest thing ever.

SPEAKER_03 47:13

Yeah, he got you.

SPEAKER_04 47:14

He got me, he got you good, he got me, and I was just like, there was like this ball in my throat. I was just like, okay, I'm getting out of here. But that has always like stuck with me. I was just like, I'm never gonna stink again. And like I don't know, it took me years until I wore another jean jacket. Well, you don't stink. Okay. You don't stink, and your your style is impeccable. Thank you. I know back then I was just like, it was just that whole interaction was just like it traumatized me. You're millennial, right? You're like 30, 35, 35.

SPEAKER_03 47:51

I'll be 35 this year in August. We used to get bullied for like I remember um tall socks I used to get bullied for. I remember when like ankle socks became a thing, and like I would have to fold my socks down so they didn't look as long. Yeah, yeah. I was like, then that became cool. Uh flannels. I remember when flannels weren't cool, just the cheapest shirt my mama could buy, and then those became cool. Uh skinny jeans, I used to get beat up all the time. Really? Yeah, skinny jeans. Well, yeah, well, that you know, chased a lot of people chased a lot for skinny jeans, and then Lil Wayne made it cool, and everybody's like, Yeah, skinny jeans are back. But uh all the trends that we like it was it was tough growing up. Dude, they were mean, dude.

SPEAKER_02 48:34

Yeah, I think kids were meaning. I I don't know. Cause I can't like I can't really say that I got bullied. There was a couple people that maybe tried, but then I'd be like, your mom's a fucking whore. And then they'd like, well, you know, so I wasn't like smart tactics. I used like and I and I didn't mean it because I was never like a mean kid. I always had a lot of friends. I I I used other things to like befriend people, and then the friends that I did have would like stick up for me. Like I have a a a friend that she's still my friend now, and she was the bully. Do you you know what I mean? Like like she was she wasn't gonna befriend the bully. That's smart. She was an avid, like, she wasn't like walking around telling people, but if somebody said something, she taught me how to like, hey, you need to defend yourself. So then I would say something like that, and then they'd be like, oh. And then later I'd feel bad, and then I'd go and I'm like, I'm sorry, your mom's not a whore. But that was mean, and then they'd be like, Okay. They're crying, like, no, she is except for this one girl, and I'll never forget her because I still see her. What's her name? No, I'm not gonna say her name because I still see her.

SPEAKER_04 49:38

Outer.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

And your sister.

SPEAKER_04 49:41

Where do you see her specifically?

SPEAKER_02 49:44

So well, it's because if I say it, then I'll be like, No, I'm kidding. No, no, no, please, don't please.

SPEAKER_03 49:47

Don't you know?

SPEAKER_02 49:48

Okay, well, I just in uh I'll take it as after, but I still see her and now she approaches me and she's like, Hi, oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 49:58

She apologized.

SPEAKER_02 49:59

No, she never has.

SPEAKER_04 50:00

No.

SPEAKER_02 50:00

Um, and she's just like, oh my god, everything that you do is so amazing. How are you? We should hang out. And in my head, I was like, bitch, like I didn't even like you. That's right. You're mean. You hold on to that hate. But I don't. I haven't hung out with her, but I just choose not to. Oh, you know what I forgot to tell you? What? What?

SPEAKER_04 50:18

So, um your theory is crazy. No, at the before we'll get into that because I'm kind of interested in what that is. No. So remember the the person that made a video of us?

SPEAKER_02 50:33

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 50:36

I seen him this week. Oh, I didn't know. Was it a good video or a bad video? It was a bad video. No, bad video. I seen him this week. He walked up to us, and the other guy that was I was next to was there, and he walked he walked away. He walked away, and he was like, dude, why why did you stay there? I stood there because I was like, no, dude, I'm gonna confront him. What was the video? I want to I'll tell you after. Okay. No, I I don't want to. Yeah, yeah, we'll do it after. We'll do it after.

SPEAKER_03 51:11

We'll do it after you. Now you guys now you guys see why I didn't get voted. Yeah, we woke we awoke in the bear. He's here now.

SPEAKER_04 51:18

Look, he does not he he's not he's not worth saying his name on this podcast. I get you. That's good.

SPEAKER_02 51:27

I agree.

SPEAKER_04 51:28

That's good. Yeah, I just want to know what the video was not worth it. What the context of the video. So he took a podcast that me and Andy were on and Ricky and me and and Amber, uh all the four of us, and he did like this comedy podcast review about our podcast, and just started talking all this shit and started uh talking about Amber on how her her voice and how she talked, was talking shit about me and Ricky saying like we're in like a gay relationship. Which so it was like a reaction, not true, it was like a reaction, like a real reaction.

SPEAKER_03 52:09

Yeah, of course. Yeah, I get I I get the context. But you're just shitting on your guests.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

But the entire time it wasn't like, oh, uh, that's cool. It was like, I'm going to go and I'm gonna say everything that could possibly hurt.

SPEAKER_04 52:21

I don't think we've ever talked about this on the no, we we never have.

SPEAKER_02 52:24

Because we don't, we're not the type of people to give like that reaction. And even when when we seen it, because we seen it and we were at a at a party, and at that moment I was like, what the like I was mad, but then I said, You're a fucking sad little piece of shit. Like if you need to do that to get attention, and it his the video got like fucking 10 views, and I'm like, Yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_04 52:46

No, I gotta, it was his most viewed video on his channel.

SPEAKER_02 52:51

Well, whatever. Even if it got a million views, like I don't care. I don't care because if you have to do that, if you need to do that to hurt somebody, then that's your prerogative, and you're probably at home fucking sad as shit. Like it doesn't not bother me at all.

SPEAKER_03 53:04

I will say a million views, I will be like, do another one.

SPEAKER_04 53:08

Look see, here's the thing. So if you're gonna do that, whatever, right? Right, fine. May make it make it entertaining at least. But this was completely total speech. Yeah, he sounds mean.

SPEAKER_02 53:22

No, and the thing that pisses me off the most is that he knows us like personally, we know him personally, like, hey, what's up? Hi, how are you? And then it's like And I've helped him.

SPEAKER_04 53:34

Yeah, and I've helped him when I lived out in Chino. I helped with his open mic, I helped bring my speaker, I helped bring my equipment. Oh, yeah, that's the open mic, the original guy, he was gonna give me the venue. I said, No, I don't want the venue, give it to this person. Yeah, and he got the venue. Good. And from okay, so the video happened right in all this masa happened. Um, never seen him, never talked to him until this week. We were there, everybody went out to go see Kill Tony. Yeah, went to try to go on try to get on uh Kill Tony. I was out there. So he walked up to us, we're standing around, he walked up to us, and he walks away. And I'm there with with another guy, and he goes, like nothing happened. Hey, what's up?

SPEAKER_01 54:32

Really?

SPEAKER_04 54:34

I'm like, what? I was like, what do you mean what's up? He's like, hey, what's up? And I was just like, no. Like you I was like, don't don't play that. Like really you told him? Yeah, I told him. I was like, what do you if he was like, yeah, why you're not dabbing me up, pretty much is what his face was. And I was like, dude, why did you do that? Like, why did you pull up the put the video up? And I can't remember, uh, I'll just get footnotes because I don't can't rem really remember the the full story, but or the interaction. And he goes, he was like, Well, uh, he was like, Oh, he was like, What are you talking about? I was like, the video. Like, what's up with that? Why'd you do that? He's like, Oh, oh, like I don't he was like, Oh, that? And I was like, Yeah, that. He's like, Oh, I deleted it. And I was like, Okay, so but you still did it.

SPEAKER_03 55:26

And he goes, um it's like an hour of editing of him being like, Yes, yes, yeah, yeah. It's not, it's not like oh, I you know, I know that I thought of you had time to think about it before you post it.

SPEAKER_04 55:38

He's like, Oh, that one, you know, I deleted it, whatever. He was like, Was it accurate? And I was like, No, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 55:43

Was it accurate? Right, like you're gonna finish.

SPEAKER_04 55:46

And I was like, No, it wasn't. He was like, Okay, well, then I it should make me look bad, not you. And I was like, Yeah, but that wasn't the point. And he goes, uh, well, if it wasn't accurate, then everything's on me, then you have nothing to worry about. And I was like, Yeah, but you still did it. Master manipulator, by the way. You you still did it. And he he's like, Oh, well, um, he's like, Well, we're all adults, we can uh we can squash. And I was like, Yeah, I can squash it. I'm fine. Whatever, I'm fine. But you were talking about me and my friends and Amber. Yeah. So that on me, whatever you said about me, fine, whatever, right? Whatever he said about me, yeah, I can squash it. I don't care. But you you did that to them using this thing that I do, which is not fair. No, no, it's not, which is not fair to them.

SPEAKER_03 56:46

But I mean it's good, I mean silver lining and all of this. If you don't got haters, you're not doing something right.

SPEAKER_04 56:54

Yeah, and see, typically I don't I don't confront stuff that happens like that. Because this is not the Travis, this is not the first time that this sort of thing happens to me. Yeah. I'm you I'm used to it. When the video came out, everybody started sending it to me. I'm just like, oh okay. It's another Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 57:14

No, I like the what was uh you guys had like a uh take on Trump that took off for a little bit. Yeah. That was a good one.

SPEAKER_04 57:20

Uh uh I was like, okay, this is another thing. But Amber's reaction to it, Andy's reaction to it, Ricky's reaction to it was just like they were really upset. I think I was kind of grounded to the point where I was just like, you know what? This it's gonna happen. I'm putting myself out there. But just I don't know, it just whatever, whatever you do, anything like this, whenever you do anything like this, you're always open to any criticism or critiques or anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 57:53

I mean, as lame as it might sound, but yeah, you when when we do these things, it's kind of like you are vulnerable. Yeah. You are putting you're like, okay, you're open to attack, and it kind of sucks when it actually happens. Yeah. On a lighter note, though, you are a great comedian. Thank you. And that guy is totally wrong. This broadcast rules, it's one of the only ones I don't have trouble like listening to. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 58:15

It's just it it's things that's gonna that are gonna happen. Like, I wasn't upset because of what they said. Like, I can give two fucking shits what you think about me. Like, I I don't go to sleep and think of you, so it doesn't matter. To me, what I I've and this is just me being like this person that always needs to protect the people around me. Yeah, to me, it's like fuck you, because he did so much for you, like all of this, and then you're gonna go and use because you think he's an easy target, you're gonna go use it at your and you're and you did the podcast too.

SPEAKER_04 58:49

Oh, he's on the podcast too. Yeah, oh that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 58:53

It wasn't like someone that maybe slightly knows us, like we fucking knew him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:59

Yeah, and also wait for the mind buds to get just a little bit bigger before you use them to burn you. Yeah, no, like I would have waited at least like a couple years when you guys are like really big. I'm like, now I'll strike to try to get some fame. Yeah, I was like, why yeah? I mean, you guys have a great podcast. I mean, don't get me wrong, but but using being like a reaction video to a podcast that's you know up and coming.

SPEAKER_02 59:20

Yeah, and and that's the thing, and that's what what bullies it's all good, what bullies are, and and I wouldn't even say bullies, but just people that are hurt.

SPEAKER_04 59:30

Like I know it sounds cheesy, but the thing is You know what other thing he said, he was like, Oh man, I was going through a couple of things. Well, that's a good great excuse, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 59:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:39

I was like, Yeah, but you don't do that, dude. What if he was like, it was drugs? I was on math, dude. You'd be like, oh, all right, yeah. Yeah, but no, I had a crazy opiate addiction. Uh my bad.

SPEAKER_04 59:50

Yeah, okay, but still, like, I'm not even you should do more of that because if if you're high enough, you wouldn't be able to work any cameras or any microphones. So you're you you should have done enough to capacitate you to do anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:06

OD.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:09

Do more of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:10

Do more drugs, so you're not mean to everybody. Exactly. That's the approach you're supposed to take. That's what they're doing with therapy now, right? You do so much ketamine, you fix yourself. Yeah, ketamine therapy. Ketamine therapy. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:22

Look, this is gonna happen. It's gonna continue to happen. And it's not the first one out. I'm the first one, it's not gonna be the last one.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:28

I'm gonna be the last. And the only thing about my wait, it's not it's not my first or my last.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:32

But the only, the only wait, let me say.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:34

Go to TikTok. Go to TikTok and hear what people are writing.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:38

The only the only thing that you can control, and maybe that's what made me like not hold on to things growing up as a kid of like, you know, possibly somebody saying something to me, or because I even if I wasn't bullied by people at school, I have random people come up to me, like, what's wrong with you? Who are like you know, things like that. And it's like it's one of those things, like you can either really hold on to them and and think, like, am I really that person? Do I really, is this really who I am, or like kind of in Gil's case, like, do I really stink like the kid said? Or is it just somebody trying to hurt somebody that they feel that is vulnerable, you know? And at the end of the day, it's like, who the fuck cares? Like, yeah, you know who you are, you know what you do, you know what you bring to the table, you know who your real friends are, and that's all that matters because at the end of the day, that person, I guarantee you, he probably burned so many bridges already with people and things that he's just fucking miserable at home, doesn't even know what to do. So to me, that brings satisfaction is I don't have to do anything, you're doing it all to yourself, and that's the grand majority of bullies is they fuck themselves at some point in their life.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:52

I should have learned that skill because I'll let horrible people hurt me. They'll go home and I'll be like, That guy sucks. They'll be like that guy sucks. I'm like, no, maybe he's right, ruined like three weeks of my life.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:03

Yeah, no, it it's hard, and it's it's a skill that like is very hard, but I think like for me personally, it was something that either I learned quickly or it or it destroyed me. Yeah, you know, and and it was like, well, what do I do? Do I sit and I cry and I, you know, why me? Why me? Why do people say this? Why does why did this happen to me? Or do I just say fuck them, fuck it, and continue your life. And that's continue it. That's something that I learned really, really early on. And now I think about it, I'm like, how sad. Like I was a kid and I had to learn things that adults learn later, but then now I'm like, you know what, I'm grateful for it because I'm able to live my life, you know, a little bit more.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:48

I'm telling you, it hurts, it hurts me when anybody says anything. There could be like a a can like just the worst person like ever and be like, hey, that set sucked. I'm like, it did, didn't it? Somebody says that somebody does that. No, no one does it. Well, he's just giving an example. If they would, I'd be like, I would I I take a I'm a what do you call a people pleaser? I want I want everybody to like me.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:11

You know what, dude? I it sucks, but the it does happen is that like nobody does that to anybody, right? You or at least they so say you have a rough set and somebody says, Oh, good set. Like, what what would you rather have? Would you rather have somebody tell you, hey bro, like that wasn't that wasn't it? Or would you say, great set, dude, keep doing what you're doing? What would you what would you want?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:38

Okay, what I would want, yeah, um, well, every time I thought I did great, I um I would get like one or two, but it never not really from comics, maybe like someone in the crowd. That's what I went for. If if someone that I don't know in the crowd comes up to me and was like, that was a great set, I like that. Okay, yeah. From a comic, I would I mean, tell me if I sucked. You're like, come off, that was rough, wasn't it? I'd much rather you acknowledge the fact that that was a rough set than you go, great set, dude. Yeah, okay. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:10

Yeah. But also that doesn't doesn't matter, right? I I I think you uh and since we're in the the the realm of uh opinions or other people's opinions of you in the in the great in the scam of right in the scheme of scheme scheme scam the scheme scams the scheme scams of of that I would much rather have an audience tell me the audience will tell you regardless. And I think that in something like stand-up, the audience tells you whether you are good or you're having a not you, the person is having uh you are good or bad, but your set at that moment in time, they will tell you whether it's going good or it's going bad or it's falling flat.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:06

Yeah, I've had a whole audience just walk past me through the front, make eye contact, and then dart dart their eyes back down and try to avoid me, you know? Like, oh, that's when you know you had a really bad set, and the the entire audience is like not making eye contact with you and they see you in the front.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:21

And plus there would be a uh there would be or will be or there is a comics that won't acknowledge your good set. Knowingly, knowingly, oh, I don't want to puff this person up because you know, I because I'm so insecure about myself.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:41

Which you know what? I've let's so I get jealous. I do. Like if you have a great set, I'll be like, you know? Hey, you're honest. I get I'll get jealous, but I'll tell you, I'll be like, I'll be, I'll be, hey man, you know, I know that was a good set, so why is it? Because I don't want to talk to you for the next two days. I gotta go. Home, I gotta work on myself. I I you put something in me that was like I'm not good enough yet. And then make, you know, but I think that's a that's a perfectly healthy thing to be like, I want what that what they just did. I want yeah, of course, but to let that to internalize that and then be like, I don't like them now because of it, that's weird. But you can acknowledge be like, damn, that was man, I gotta, I gotta look, look inward now because I gotta be more what more of what that is.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:27

I think that's the cool thing about hanging out with funny people is that they like there's this weird unwritten thing about hanging out with funny people that crush all the time, and it makes you want to do better.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:48

Yeah, dude, I had um I had Saul Trujillo do the the no question show, and I have I've had some like pr like pretty good comedians on there, you know, uh a lot of them from the chatter box, a lot of them uh or a couple from the the comedy store, and they've all been great. But Saul Trujillo did my show and I was like, oh crap, that's that's right. That's what comedy is supposed to supposed to be. I feel like sometimes they get stuck in a bubble of like like local comedians who are trying to sharpen their their their their tools that when you see someone who has their tool sharpened, you know, uh it's you're like whoa, all right all right, let's let's let's get back in the uh let's get back in the saddle, start writing better.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:27

Exactly. And going to going to local, like f going to local shows is great. Keep doing it. Go go to any free comedy show with new comics or uh but going to an actual show to see a professional that has been doing it longer than you've been on this earth is that's another another thing to do it. Like a couple weeks ago I went to go see I've always wanted to see Aerie Spears. Okay. And this dude, he makes me laugh with just scrolling through his his Facebook or his Instagram. Yeah, yeah. Brother, I was crying. My stomach hurt, I was crying, I couldn't stop laughing, and I was just like, man, I wanna I want to do that to somebody.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:24

Yeah, I want to kill. Like, yeah, that that's another thing too. As I've had people tell me, like, oh, you killed, and I'm like, I'm like, no, dude. Because when you go to like a like a like a real show for like you said, someone who's been doing it, you're like, oh, this is how loud a room can actually get. And you're like, I've never killed in my life. Because yeah, this room was just off the chain. And like I said, uh, like I've like uh also another person that I love seeing at my shows that does it a lot is uh Rafael Soto Bebos. Dude murders dude, he's he's really funny. He murders I'm he's he's like my eighth. Every time I see him in the crowd, I'm like, dude, I don't care if you're on the bill or not. Get up here. I need you up here. You guy murders the stage every time. The uh thank you for the spot, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:07

Oh, no worries. Um I was on the show with with Sawu. Dude, that was such it was such a good night. Like you had really good comics on the show. It was amazing. But also when I I don't know if it's like people's perception or like I don't know, because sometimes you'll be at the same show, right? And the show's really not going that good, and you see like pictures of the show, of the show, or no, of the stage, uh-huh, and you see somebody's like story or whatever, they're like, oh, I like crushed, but then you were at the show too, and you're just like, Were we at the same place?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:53

Are you like I've I've I've I'm like a I'm like a drug-sniffing dog when it comes out to like pictures of oh yeah set same here. I'll be like, if they show pictures and it's like three heads, and those like those are the only three heads that were at the show. So they got all the pictures with those with those with those same people. Or if like um I was like, if you don't post like a clip at all, like even like maybe four seconds of the crowd laughing, I'm like, you can't, you know. Yeah, I there's just so many things to it, man. And but also, why would you go up there and post a picture and be like, yeah, I sucked. That'd be insane. But yeah, the show sucked. I sucked. Uh, here's a picture of me bombing.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:38

Yeah. No, you're you're 100% right. That's true.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:48

That would be so fun.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:48

Just you go through or you're like, I did really bad.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:51

I did really bad, but here's a picture of me doing that. It's all you happy.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:57

That's coming. I would love that actually. That but that's just I guess that's just the internet, right? Yeah, you don't post the bad parts. No, you don't post the bad parts. In fact, I think you don't post you bombing, you don't post you not having a good time.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:09

I think for uh for the show that I had, I think it was last night. I think my show was last night. Uh-huh. No, Thursday, sorry. I got bad memory, but it was on Thursday, and before the show started, I took a picture of me pointing holding a microphone. Like I was, like there was no crowd. It was before the show, but I took a picture like I was performing, and then be like, we got two shows tonight, please come out. But that's one of those things like it's a picture of me on stage, technically, but it's a staged picture with no crowd. Because I mean I took it before the show started, right? Yeah, and then the show started and it was pretty decent. It was a good, good turnout free show. We turned Riverside and downtown Riverside into a barkable city. It's like uh when I do the show in downtown Riverside, I'll have me and the comics will be up there before the show, just be like, hey, come in. Hey, come check it out. Hey, come in.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:55

Dude, so what happened to that? So you posted a video like a couple weeks ago, I think, promoting the show that the one where they're you put me on, and they were fighting in downtown Riverside, and you caught the whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:06

So yeah. What happened with that? So I don't know why they were fighting. I have no idea why they were fighting, but I had I had called my girlfriend and I was like, hey, I'm gonna go downtown, I'm gonna do some like live flyering, you know, just hand out flyers, get get the name out, make a presence in my city. And then I go, I go, I go, I guarantee you I'm gonna see a fight tonight. And then she goes, No, no, I was like, I'm gonna see a fight tonight for sure. I set up next to the hot dog man within 15 minutes. The people I had given them flyers, and I was like, Yeah, come back. And they came back and they got into a fight, like right next to me. I was like, Oh, this is this is great. I love this. And I'm I'm taking a video, like handing out flyers, and a group of people can't cross the street anymore because of the fight, and they have to stop right in front of me. So in the middle of the fight, I also go, Oh, hey, by the way, come to my comedy show. It's happening at the end of the month. Um, but downtown Riverside is a fun, safe area for everybody to come enjoy comedy on Sunday nights. No fights, no, no fights at the no question show. Uh no fights breaking out. It's a beautiful venue, dude. Dude, the hideaway is it's so lovely. I like it. It was, yeah, that's I was so excited to get the room, especially in downtown Riverside where it's it's walkable. Like I said, like there's people are walking around and stuff and stuff like that. So, and I mean that's part of the producer like jobs when you get there, you also have to set it up like a comedy. I hate comedy shows where you get there, none of the chairs are set up, it's just a regular layout. It feels like nobody really put the effort in to really make it look like a club because honestly, it's a bar, but I want it to look as close to a comedy club every time I do a show that I can get it. Yeah, so you don't feel like it's just a bar show.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:48

It's really nice, dude. The setup is good, the lighting, just everything is I will say the hideaway does all the that's my favorite venue to do because I don't have to bring anything.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:02

Yeah, like I just show up with the mic, maybe one or two. They have the sound system, they have the lights.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:08

It's yeah, it's it's really nice. It came out really good on video. I gotta show you the video before you get out of here. That'd be awesome. It's nice. Uh but dude, it's just it's really nice. You gotta get more people to get out there.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:21

I know. I just like I said uh I'm running on a zero dollar budget um as most indie comedy producers are. I don't it's starting to make to make a little bit of of money, but not enough to where it's like, you know, covering marketing. Yeah, but keep doing it, dude. Oh, dude. Keep doing it. I love being a comedian more than a producer, but I do like producing really, really good shows.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:47

That's another thing, too, is that you have to still make time for your own craft. Yeah. When me and Ricky were doing poodle laughs up here, and this is weekly. Yeah. We were doing this weekly, we were still promoting it, we were still doing the flowers, flowers, we were still doing the flyers. I'm thinking about Mother's Day. We were still doing uh flyers on our own, we like we have been. We were doing the podcast. No, we haven't done the podcast, but I was putting out uh video. I was putting out videos, making a one-minute video a week after using the same footage from the weeks prior, yeah, putting the video out the day of, which took time. Yeah. Um so it that producer role took so much out of me. Oh, and hosting it, it took so much out of me throughout the week that I kind of I I got this weird uh resentment towards it because I was like, I'm not even working on the stuff and I I'm I'm losing it. I'm losing the the com comedian aspect of right. I'm using I'm losing the comedian aspect of why I wanted to do this was to do comedy. And I started doing this thing, and I'm like, I'm not even doing comedy. Yeah. There were some nights where I didn't even want to host. I was just like, Ricky, you do it. I'm too tired from setting up, from uh tearing down. Exactly, dude. There was some I think the second to the last night that we did it, it was running so late because I was like, no, every I'm gonna give everybody five minutes. I'm not gonna cut down. This is not what we're about. We're about being running a late show and giving people the time because they they took the time out of their life to come and and be here. And plus, we had an audience.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:56

Yeah, you guys did.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:57

You guys people would always uh filter in from Warchat. We had an audience, we had a built-in audience, and so it was the second to last show, and I just I walked out and I was just like I just sat in the lobby of the coffee shop, and I was just like, I am it dude, it gets to be a lot. I think we're done, and that's when I made the decision. I was like, We gotta, I I got I I got to to take some time off from doing this.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:27

Dude, when I I I held like uh I did like four different jobs at my last at one of my last shows. Uh it was in Irvine. I was uh I was door guy, producer, busser, waiter. You were taking out for even last show, dude. Comedian, like I was because like you know, I'm like, all right, because sometimes you get to a venue, they don't yeah, they don't know how like comedy shows work where it's like the waiter has to come to the yeah to the to the audience and like ask their ask their drink order. So I would always try to be like, how do I get the audience to not move from their seats? So that's part of my other that's my other role. Like I'm running drinks, I'm bussing.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:06

So I I think to have a good to have like people help you do produce the show, I think that's it. You need a team.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:16

I'm building a team. Um build uh so uh Corey Baldwin, uh Davey the Don, uh Ant Junior, Javi, uh Javier, uh big Javi. They all come through. They do sound, they well they do time too. They do sound, uh Corey runs door. Like I'm building a team, which is great, but I'm like, I need it. I feel bad because we're not making I'm not handing out money left and right and stuff like that. But it is nice to have a team now. It's getting a little easier.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:43

Um yeah. So now you do you understand when I used to ask you to come do sound?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:49

And I but the thing is I still I love it still. I'm like I love like producing a really, really solid show. Yeah, really tight, yeah, solid. Yeah, and also producer is um like I have a lineup usually like ready to go, but I'm like, all right, maybe maybe the comedian didn't do the best. I'm like, alright, I gotta like pick this crowd up. Sorry, this guy's going up now. We're we're switching. And those are hard to I like the uh the producer brain versus the comedian brain. It's it's two two totally different people. Comedians are like, I want you to say whatever you want, do whatever you need to do to make the the the you know crowd laugh. This and that as a producer, I'm just where I was like, please don't ruin the show, please don't you know hit hot topics, like you know, it's it's too I want you to be free, but then the producer is like, how do we get butts in seeds?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:40

In a perfect world, dude, I would want one person doing one thing, that's it. Yeah, you know what I mean? When like literally, I gotta since uh the brewery is gonna open, or not the brewery, the um the brew house. The brewer tap house, the brew house, tap house, Mexican monk, brew house, yeah. Once that opens, I gotta sit down and really think logistics and how I'm gonna man this thing because I want to man the I want to produce something really well and I wanna do and uh honestly dude, I I I'm the type of person, bro, that if I'm gonna do something, it needs to be good. Because if it's not good, then why am I gonna do it? I'm not gonna show up with a speaker and a microphone and say, all right, I have comedians. Yeah, here's our show. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:36

Yeah, there's a it's a there's a lot more to that than just showing up with a microphone and a speaker. Yeah, and a few comics that you met at the open mic. Yeah, exactly. And what and also I gotta give a shout out to all the comics because I mean I might be a good or I'm blown smoke up my own ass. Uh I might be doing all the producing, but without comedians on the stage doing really well, my I mean, no one wants to come to see a producer be a waiter.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:59

Yeah. You can have you can have like a a great place. Yeah, you can have a great place, great sound, great music, uh all the vibes. Yeah. If you don't have the comics to back up that.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:10

And I also I want to try to make like a really inviting, like, uh like culture for for everybody. Where because I feel like a lot of times when you get on shows, you're like, do they want me to promote? Do they want this? I don't want to ruffle any feathers. I don't, you know, like certain things like that. I just I want any comic who does does my show. You do whatever you want. You can literally promote, don't promote. Um, and also I hate I hate bringer shows. I hate when they're like, hey, you have to bring these many people. You don't have to bring the anybody. My job as a producer is to produce the whole show, and that means the audience as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:42

But you know, if you want to bring some people, look, if you're gonna I try to I try to uh to to promote as much as I as most you know as much as I can. But since dude, since you are you're the homie, yeah, you we've known each other for for for a while now, I guess, in this comedy thing. And one of my first comedian friends, uh yeah, yeah. Exactly. You listened to the podcast early on, yeah, even before it started growing. Oh yeah. Uh and I don't know, I just I like I like to help and and promote the shows as much as possible. I I made my own flyer, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:27

My girlfriend loved it. She was like, This is a good flyer. I was like, why do you say it like that?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:33

It was I just because I was thinking, I'm like, oh, cool, like I'm going to Riverside. And I was like, uh, and I was listening to the descendants and I seen it, I was like, oh, Gilgos Riverside.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:42

Yes, I'm gonna do this. But it's so funny. She came over my shoulder and she goes, Oh, that's really good. Oh man, alright. Yeah, but yeah, that was um, I love that one. That was really good. That's cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:55

I I want to print it. I think what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna print all the the flyers that I've been on and like do like a flyer wall.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:03

That's what I hear something. That's what I'm doing. I also I want to do like more artsy stuff. Like I was gonna steal the the poster. You I have I have one if you want it. Okay. Yeah, I have one if you want it. I forgot. Yeah, but um remember Andy was gonna steal it. Yeah, he asked you, like, I'm gonna take it over right now. Yeah, um, I have it, you can you can have it. Um, but um yeah, I I don't know what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:25

You said you were gonna do art more artsy stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:27

Yeah, I want to do more artsy stuff, like um like uh like I have like maybe print out a flyer and then like do like a linoleum cut and do like you know, like old school like punk rock, like like a zine that I could like Oh yeah, you know, like stuff like that. Like uh I don't you know who Sam Talent is? Yes, oh yeah, of course I do. Yeah, uh Sam Talent, like I like his style of like he presses all of his shirts with like linoleum, and I'm like, oh that's right, that's like old punk rock shit. Like you can you don't need a a screen printer to do shirts, and like I was like, I want to do a comedy zine too, but like I said on top of producing comedy, dad, job, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:03

You sound like me, man. I want to do all these freaking different things, cool stuff. Um have you read his book, uh Running the Light?

SPEAKER_03 1:24:10

No, I oh so good. No, I I have it is so good, dude. I'm not by the way, not I'm not much of a reader. No, no, no, no. Like I said, that was why I was so happy that the only real book I had ever read, you didn't know it. And I was like, yes. I'll read it.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:27

Yeah, we'll see, we'll see each other in like two months, and I'll uh I'll download it and listen to it. Yeah. Uh so I'm I'm a reader, yeah. I'm a reader, but I mostly do a lot of audiobooks.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:37

Yeah, well, okay, so that's what I mean when I read Dune. I'm actually reading the second one, but I've gotten three pages in for the last two weeks. Is it a big like no? It's such it's a small book. Oh, it is? Well, the second I don't know what the second one is because like I said, I listened to it, but I or the first one, but how many hours was it? Like four hours? I don't know, was that work? It was two weeks of work.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:04

Or it's like uh a a week of back and forth driving.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:08

Yeah, a week of back and forth driving. That's how I don't I don't that's how time is for me. It's like how I never look at a watch. I mean, obviously, I don't have one, but um yeah, that was that was uh that's like the only book that I've ever really even listened to or cared about. Like really. What what is it nonfiction or fiction? Nonfiction is real. Well, we've never been to we've never been to the planets he's talking about, so we don't know if it's nonfiction. Yeah, it's like it could be. It could be. We could get to Dune and and find the spice.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:35

But yeah, it's fiction.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:36

It's fiction. David Lynch did the can you pull up who Oh the 1980s. It was it was David uh who wrote Dune? Oh, Frank Herbert.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:47

Is it?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:48

Yeah. Frank Herbert. I wonder what else he wrote. Dude, he's like responsible for Oh Frank Herbert. Yeah, he's he's responsible for like uh like the invention of like the microwave. Like he came up with a bunch of concepts that we hadn't invented yet. Oh, and he came like in the line. And they were in this book in the literature, yeah. They're in it they're in this book and stuff. Well, I don't know the microwave, but he's like the godfather of like sci-fi. So a lot of the things that they would write, like like oh, like uh like uh FaceTime. They had like FaceTime before, you know, like just something that you could do video call on, and he imagined that before.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:22

Well, even like if you see like the Jetsons, that Platoon, they invented they had a lot of things that we have now, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:29

Yeah, and that's it's uh it's wonderful what you can come up with when you lock yourself in a room and do cocaine for two months. Yeah. Is that what he did? That's what all of them that's except for flying cars, yeah. Except for that's what he did. He loved cocaine and he loved Islam. He loved cocaine and Islam, and he was like, I'm gonna write a book, it's gonna be mostly about Islam, but I'm gonna make it in space.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:52

How much of a better writer would we would be if like cocaine was pure, pure, and it was readily available like a pack of cigarettes.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:02

Yeah, Stephen King was a was a is a notable cocaine user.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:05

Well, he's I'm just finishing up his memoir called On Writing, and it is even during writing the book, he got hit by a car walking, and it completely like shifted his hip like over. I'm just reading through the part where he just got hit by a car after it was like him during writing his his memoir.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:33

The last like the last sentence of scribble.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:35

Yeah. No, he uh the one of the one of the notable things in the book is that Carrie, like he wrote Carrie. I didn't like even before listening, I didn't know it was a book. Yeah. I thought it was just a a a horror film. But again, a big big book. That book wasn't like Like it shouldn't have had even been made because he he initially he threw it away. Oh, really? Like literally, he started writing it. He had like the the synopsis of what he wanted this story to be, and he didn't like it because he didn't really believe in it as much. Because he had the story of you know, this girl getting bullied, uh getting the telekinesis, and to him it was just a story about a teenage girl, and he felt that he did not know enough about teenage girls, about teenage girls that nobody would want to read a book. And then he started hanging out with his rich friends and was like, I know everything about and then he started hanging out with uh Jeff Epstein. Yeah, Jeff Epstein's like, I know it all now. That's a bad joke. So he threw it away. He so he literally threw it away. His wife found uh the pages in the trash and she started reading it and she was like, Oh, this is this is good. And she was like, No, you need to you need to finish this book.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:02

She's all looking for another woman's number and finds the best the best novel ever. She's like, Carrie, she was like, Carrie, who is this bitch? Carrie, why do you know why do you know so much about her, huh?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:13

So she she helps them. She was like, Oh, I'll I'll help you.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:19

What it's like to be a woman. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that makes sense. That was actually what's one of the things that I love about being a girl dad, is there are some battles that I can't help her with. So I gotta be like, I gotta tag someone in. You know, but I I'm gonna ruin something if I if I handle this. What a ruin. I'm gonna ruin something. She's gonna have a bad idea. Uh, I don't know what it's like to be a woman, uh, mom, baby mama, girlfriend. Can someone like uh tag team me on this one? It's true. Like, I'm like, I know I'm out of my depth here, guys. So far it hasn't happened. She's five years old, she's not dealing with anything other than you know being a kid. But I know when she hits like 12, I'm gonna she's gonna be like I hate this boy. I'm gonna be like, yeah, boys suck sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:06

You're like, punch him.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:08

Yeah, punch him. Well, that's I think that's uh advice I I would totally give her. But yeah, go fucking hit him. Just hit him, just hit him. Give him a wedgie. The cops are gonna believe you anyway.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:17

Just hit him. Are kids still getting wedgies? Who got a wedgie anyways in in in school?

SPEAKER_03 1:30:24

I had an older oh in school, no. But I had an older brother. Yeah, I was served wedgiees daily. Wedgies were on the menu. Yeah. Are they? I I think I think physical bullying is less of a thing in school and like like mental bullying is huge in school, and then like at home, just physical bullying by your older siblings.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:46

Yeah, I before I was like so I was so afraid to go from middle school. I was so afraid to go to high school because I thought that I was gonna get like swirlies, and I thought I was in you know what I mean. Like my perception of high school was like so Was Max Keeble? Cinematic. Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:05

I thought everything was gonna like that's what school's like, right? Yeah, you have big bullies, uh uh what's that guy? Orlando was uh Orlando Bloom? No, not Orlando Bloom, the guy from That's a Raven.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:19

Oh, uh Orlando Brown.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:20

Orlando Brown's gonna be your bully. Yeah. Yeah. What was high school?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:25

Did no swirlies? No, I just no. Actually, no.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:30

No swirlies, no. Did you grow up in a bad high school or a good high school? Because my my I wasn't worried about bullies, I was just more worried about getting stabbed. I went to a really bad high school.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:39

You went to high school in Riverside?

SPEAKER_03 1:31:41

Yeah. She was like, oh yeah, it was and it was the bad one. It was like the worst, it was the worst tested school in the state at one point. Whoa. Yeah, it was it wasn't the greatest place. So bullying was a little different there. You and so you were you born in Riverside or I was born in San Bernardino and I grew up in Riverside. So you've been out in the inland empire since my entire life, pretty much. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:04

I don't know why I always feel like people that live in the inland empire like they weren't born and raised there. Because I feel like it like the inland empire, or no, but I guess it's just my perception. I don't know why. I feel like it's very new still. Like it's still very that I'm like, there's no way people want to live out there? No, no, no. That I've been here like for that long. Because a lot of my family that lives in the inland empire were here and then made their way up there later on. Like, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:33

Here's a funny, here's a funny theory that I have, or that I've heard before too, but that I I thought I made up was um, I mean, like 50 years ago, uh, when they were doing like the the drug crackdowns, gang violence crackdown, like all the Ronald Reagan like just say no stuff. Um, a part of like uh being arrested for being in a gang was when you were released, you weren't allowed in your hood. And a lot of them, it was a 50-mile ban. You couldn't be within 50 miles of your hood. 50 miles away from LA is D IE. Oh the IE.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:04

I heard I heard the same exact and that they were even uh that makes sense.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:09

It makes so much sense.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:11

I heard a lot too of like Hisperia Um that they made uh affordable housing. Oh my god. They made affordable housing out there. So what what happens now is you can't afford to live here, right? Yep. So the government's helping you afford a place to live, which is out there.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:31

Yeah, yeah. I heard the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:34

Yeah, that's yeah, it was it's uh it's I mean, I I I could see it's true because everybody's dad is an old LA gangster. Yeah. Oh, that is crazy. Blows your mind.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:46

No, you but it makes sense because when you go there, when you go there, it's just like built in. Like for sure, the high desert. There was a lot of people moving from LA to the high desert in like the 90s. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:01

And majority of also the I'll I'll say the Inland Empire maybe came uh like like on to you guys uh recently because there was an exodus during the pandemic. A lot of people moved out of LA and they ended up, you know, ended up in Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, so that's like the most recent. That's the most recent move. Yeah, because I mean they were like, all right, I can't afford to and that's what too.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:26

They're starting to build like more shopping, more shops, more. They're making it more luxury, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:32

We have like apartments. We have like four apartment buildings that they started like four months ago, they're already built. Yeah, yeah. So they're they're building Riverside up. Um great.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:43

My my family moved I have family in the high desert in in uh felon. And they moved in the nineties, but to me, the re because they moved to like nothing. Like there was no houses around them, and they literally got there, they bought a trailer and they put it on there, and then now they have these like giant homes. But a lot of them um they grew up in the rancho. Yeah. So it was appealing to them to go and move out there with no one because it was like the rancho, you know. So then one brother went out there and he was like, It's beautiful, I can see the stars, and then the next sibling went, and then the next sibling went, and then the next sibling went, and all of them live like in within the not even a half a mile radius of each other, and they have huge properties, and now they built these like giant homes. And that was my first I I guess that that considered the IE, no, right? Uh I would consider it's like the high desert. It's the high desert.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:43

Yeah, it's still San Bernardino County, right? But there's too many counties to just lump it all into one as IE. That's what I would do.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:50

And then my friend, the f the first time that I actually went to the IE, my friend moved from here and her family went and they bought a home in um Fontana. And I remember going to Fontana in like this was like in 2000, 2001.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:05

And I was like, why do you want to live out here?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:07

Oh, that's when it was nothing. Yes, yeah, that's when it was it still smelled like cow poop. Yeah, they moved the cows.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:12

So they her parents bought like one of the model homes that they were the track homes, yeah. And I was like, Oh, it's beautiful. But then you looked out and there was like fields, nothing, just fields. And then we used to, I remember us walking to the fields and like playing in them because they were so close. And now I I I haven't gone in a while, but the last time I went, and they're just now they're all houses. And I'm like, oh shoot.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:35

But nothing to do. No, just homes, nothing to do, and and and warehouses. It's just warehouses and homes at this point. Amazon pretty much owns like the inland empires, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:46

And that's what we were we were talking about the other day. Like a lot of my family in the high desert. Yes, they have these beautiful homes, and you know, they they made this life for themselves, but they have no work up there. So they're they're literally driving, commuting from you know, from feeling hesperia, like Adelanto, all the way down to Anaheim daily to work. And I'm like, damn. Like what what's the I mean like what's the trade-off? What's the trade-off? Like you because you just get a nice house, that's it. Yeah, because I have a cousin that literally drives here every day from from up there, and he has to leave his house at three in the morning, yeah just to get to work. So he gets to work and then he has like an hour and he sleeps in his car, and then he starts work, and then he's off, and then he has a two-hour commute back up because there's traffic. Yeah, and then he doesn't get home till seven. If the traffic's really heavy, he doesn't get home till like eight.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:46

And then what do you do? You eat, you see your kids for like an hour, and then you go to sleep.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:51

And that's if you like them.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:54

So I was like, damn.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:56

Yeah. That's I mean, do you hit it hit yeah. And I have a theory that in order to create like a cool like city culture, people have to live on top of each other. You know? Yeah. Cause then the there's enough like uh if you live on top of each other, you don't have to go very far for like food, liquor, like I mean LA, uh especially when uh where it's more condensed in LA, you can just walk down the street, food, liquor store, uh something to do, this and that. And the IE, it's like everything's spread spread out. Spread out. Everything's 20 miles away, even your even your mailbox. Like that's that's what I tell people. It's like every time you leave your house, you have to take your car. I mean here too, but you're gonna be driving like just in town, yeah, forty forty minutes.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:38

Just like we were talking earlier about um liking the idea of LA. I think that's why I I like Paramount when I moved. So when I moved from Chino, I've always um I've always liked the idea of living in a place and walking to go get food, or like when the place that I lived in Chino, I kind of just like either stayed and like walked to like the liquor store. There was this great uh uh chicken place, boil uh donuts were amazing right there. The bar, there was so there was a bar, a donut shop, uh bargie barbecue place, and a chicken spot that was like walking distance. You can stumble to. And I loved going to those places like all four of them in a day.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:26

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:28

Get drunk, get drunk, get donuts, and I was like, okay, I'll do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:31

You donuts before chicken?

SPEAKER_04 1:39:32

Yeah, I'm donuts before chicken. Nice, nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:34

Yeah, you're either or you're an adult. I can do it. Whatever I want. I tell what do I tell? I tell people that my favorite part about being an adult is eating groceries before I get home. Oh, yeah. There's nothing that's beat it yet. Driving, I don't care. Any of all of it. Being able to open up a gallon of whatever I just bought. A gallon? Oh, you're psycho. Yeah, absolutely. This is mine. I bought it, I'll drink it before I get home. I'm oh most of my groceries are open before I get home.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:00

Do you ever open anything in the store and eat or drink while you're shopping? If I want to do it. Oh dude, that's my favorite. I love doing it. That's my favorite.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:09

Do you do this? Do you steal grapes? Of course. Do you walk by a bunch of grapes? You'd have to have four. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:16

I gotta try the produce before you take it.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:18

Or or put your hands in the beans.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:21

Oh, yeah. I've I've since stopped doing that. I've done that. I've since stopped doing that. Or putting your whole hand. Oh, it was just. I watch my daughter. I I watch my daughter have that experience for the first time. You know, we'll go to like Cardanas or something. Yeah. And then she'll see and she'll be like, yeah. I'm like, yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:36

Or spank, like, you know, like the big five-pound bags of rice. Oh, yeah. You just go and just give it like watermelons to you.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:43

See, I wasn't allowed to eat anything within the store. So to me, I'm like, something bad is happening.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:49

You got a proper family.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:50

I I she did. Yeah. She did.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:53

I did.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:54

So I what was I saying about um moving to Paramount, walking. Yeah. So now that I've moved, yeah, now that I moved. I like Paramount because it's it's it's like the in-between. It's not completely 100% LA, but it's LA-esque. Yeah. It's like it's still noisy. I still hear people arguing outside. There's still some homeless people, but not as much.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:22

By the way, I I absolutely love that. Like what you just said, like there's still people, there's still noise or some people outside. I love that. A lot of times in Riverside, it's like if you're outside, it's because you don't have an inside. That's true. Yeah, that's the like like I would tell people, like when I would come to LA, I was like, you guys ride bikes to be ergonomic. We ride bikes because we stole them. So like in in Riverside, it's like I mean in LA County, you could use the bus, and people be like, okay, yeah, you're using the bus. And then in Riverside, you're like, Oh, I use the bus today. Like, ooh, are you okay?

SPEAKER_00 1:41:59

Like, are you on drugs? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:01

Yeah, are you on drugs? Like, what's going on here? And I hate that about Riverside because it keeps everybody inside. No one's building community like they should.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:09

And I like too that there's like a mix of people walking. Like, there's a person like me, I have a car. Yeah, but I want to walk and and you know, get fresh air, go walk and get Chinese food. But there's also other people that are walking in the city of Paramount that they don't have a car, that they're I don't know, being shady walking around. I do, oh my god. I walk to go get, was it Chinese food last or was it? It's only Chinese food. I I only ever walked to get Chinese food. I only walk to ever get yeah, you're no, it's it's always just Chinese food.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:46

I was sometimes you walk to um Northgate, you've walked to the library.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:51

To the library one.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:53

The library right here in the corner.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:54

Let's do it to go get yogurt land. Yeah. See, that's that's great. That's stuff that I can't really do in Riverside. Shoes, I can go walk and go buy a pair of shoes if I want. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:06

I I think that is WSS around here.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:09

Is that right? Yeah, it's right across the street.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:11

Come on, bro. Where else am I gonna get it? Yeah, where else are we getting shoes from?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:14

I think I think like the Inland Empire is is cool, right? But it's still in its like baby stage.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:20

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:21

And I think from what we were talking about, like if it is true, what we're you know, the I don't want to say the theory because maybe it is something true, but but I think you're right, like all of that, like that shadiness and that scariness of of the part of the IE. Because when I think of the IE, that's what I especially like San Bernardino, I think of that like.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:40

Yeah, we're like we're like uh we're like Australia. Yeah, we're dangerous. Yeah, it was made with convicts and then they had kids, and now it's a thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:49

But but sometimes like when like when I I think that's same accent.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:55

Same accent.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:56

Oh, he's from San Bernardino.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:57

Oh, from San Bernardino, huh? Yeah, stop at a semi sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:01

Like when I went to move with him, I lived in Chino for like a year and a half.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:07

And it was that's not even but that's not even inland influence. No, I know, I know, don't that's still borderline IE.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:14

Oh, I know, but for me, for someone that grew up here, like Paramount is is this is where I grew up. This is where everything's still nice. You get past Chino and you're like, oh yeah, and we would we would drive like out there and then I was like, oh, like you know, but to me it was nice, but I also felt like maybe if I retire and I'm home, I'm gonna I maybe I'll go back. But right now that I'm still like wanting to do stuff, there was nothing for me to do other than eat or shop.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:46

Yeah, there's not a there's not as much life in the cities like there is over here. And not yet, and not yet, because I mean LA's been working on being LA since it started like what 200 years ago or something like that, almost 200. So that that makes total sense. And and we're getting there, but it's yeah, it's um some of the it's some of it's pretty bleak. Some of the some of our cities are pretty bleak.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:11

But I think it I think it'll get there. Will it get there in 10 years? Will it get there in 20 years? Who knows? But I do feel like like your generation and maybe even the generation under, you know, like ours, I think they will kind of try to pivot the cities into that.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:29

Our generation was like, I think I mean everybody has so much like inland empire pride now. Yeah, and it's good because I think I remember before you had to fight for it. You'd like I'm from the Inland Empire, and then LA would shit on you so hard. But I mean, I mean, we don't even have a comedy club in Riverside. I mean, the only one we have is the improv, but that's more like a comedy venue than it is.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:49

I heard, I don't know if this is true, that they're gonna build the improv in Corona. At Dos Lagos, yep. So it is true. It's true, 100% true. Where are they where are they building it at?

SPEAKER_03 1:46:00

At the Dos Lagos uh shopping center.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:02

Can you pull that up? I want to see where that is. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:06

It's actually right down the street from where I do my show. Really? Yeah, I do a show at a bar called Rockefellers right down the street, and I go there to bark, you know, right before the show, and uh I'll be like, oh, I'm doing a comedy show. They're like, at the improv, I go, no, at a bar down the street. There so I don't even know. What is it called? It's called Dos Lagos. Uh I don't think they have it posted yet. It's going up. They they they pushed back the opening. I think it was supposed to open sometime in January, but they've pushed it back.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:35

But they're building it.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:36

Like it's it's gonna be there. 100% going to be there. I wonder how I I'm not too familiar with it. It's outside of the city of Corona. Uh-huh. It's called New Corona. There's old Corona, that's an actual one. Yeah, and then this is like kind of in the in the boonie. But is Dos Lagos is that a city or is that no, that's just the shopping center shop. It's like the it's like the road that it's off of. It's off Dos Lagos Ave or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:03

Oh, so they're gonna make it kind of like the same concept of You know the Ontario Improv? Ontario, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:47:09

It's pretty much in a mall, like a mall shopping center. Got it. Huh. It's gonna be great. I can't wait. I hope I hope I can get into it considering I do a show right down the street in Ontario or uh Los Lagos Improv if you're listening. The no question show needs a place, needs a home.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:25

There you go.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:27

That is that's awesome. I just I just heard about this earlier this week. Yeah, yeah. No, no, I've the best part is everybody's coming up to me. It's like, hey, are you in with the Ontario? Are you in with are you in with the improv? And I'm like, I don't know anybody that runs. It's so funny how many people come up to me and ask me about it.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:46

But the thing about uh the comedy, like even the Ontario improv, they put up they put up shows that have that are ran by independent producers. Yes, they are yes, they do.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:02

They do a drag show at the Ontario um down, like it's like a drag brunch. Um I think they have a median that's gonna be there soon.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:10

No, what I'm saying is like they put up independent uh comedy producers to produce shows at the Ontario and Brock. They had the Dirty Show? The Dirty Show with Corey and Chad. Um The Buddy System.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:26

The Buddy System does one. Yeah, that's right. They have one, I think, in July.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:28

Yeah, which what are they called? The uh something I forgot what it's called, but yeah. Yeah, I don't remember either. George Furito's group that does a buddy system. Yeah, shout out to the buddy system. What is it called? I'm he so um George Ferrito, he does a show at the Ontario Improv. He some scene builders. That's what it's scene builders, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:52

That's what they're calling it.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:53

Yeah, scene builders. So he he gets uh I guess all these these people within the inland empire, and he gets them all together and he puts them on the show that are doing George Farrito, Carlos Petino, William Henderson, all of them. Yeah. Um yeah, dude. So I'm pretty excited about I'm I don't live in Corona, but I'm excited for you. I'm still excited for you guys. I'm still excited for you guys. There's no the closest comedy club that Paramount has is the stand-up right here in Belfire.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:27

I don't give me I I love the improv. The improv rules, but I want like a comedy club in the Inland Empire, like a club club, like like uh like like the comedy store where it's um it's like a bar that you hang out at during the day, and then the show starts at like six, seven, or whatever. You know what I mean? Because I mean the improv, you go and you leave. You go, you see the show. It's not really a club.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:52

Like back in the the seventies and and eighties how comedy clubs were. Mm hmm. There's there's not like that in the city.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:00

There for those times, but from what I can see in the interviews that I watch, I'm like, I want that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:04

Yeah, because you you called it a venue. That's what it is now, isn't it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:09

Yeah, it's a comedy venue and it's an amazing comedy venue, obviously. But I'm like, God, it would be so nice to just be like, all right, babe, I'm going to the comedy club. I'm gonna hang around, see if I can't snag a snag a spot, you know, that whole that whole spiel, which I think is um which I think is a staple of like a real comedy city. Like if you have like a club where comedy comedians hang out at and things like that. Yeah. Which is what I'm hoping happens, you know, in my city. Maybe I'll be the first owner, probably not, but you can say you will. Oh no, I can't. I told my sound bad with money. I'd I'd lose that, I'd lose that spot immediately.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:48

Yeah, I'll be your accountant.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:49

You know, I would love that.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:50

You know Michael, right? Michael Garcia? So he uh he long hair, he he was here religiously at the Chattery Open Mike. He got up at uh he got his name pulled for Kill Tony, Michael Garcia? Michael Garcia. Okay. Long hair, sandals.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:11

He was Oh, my yes, yes, I know. Toes done. Yeah, toes done. Yeah, I know Michael. He was wearing a shot.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:18

Yes, yes, yes. So the reason why there is truth to saying when you do something, because we were talking right before his name gets pulled at Kill Tony, and he was like, Oh, like if I get pulled up, you know, uh Oh, this is this last time. Yeah. That's awesome. I told him I was like, no, dude, when you get pulled up. He was like, Oh, yeah, you're right. When I get pulled up, and this motherfucker gets pulled, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:46

I'm standing right next to him. Shout out to the comedians that went because I would, I mean, I was like, it's fruitless. Why I was obviously being like, I also had a show that day. Uh-huh. Yeah, you did. Yeah, but I was like, Oh, I wouldn't have gone. Well, I was doing the whole thing. I wouldn't have went anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:59

Uh I know, I know.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:02

But but the people that caught up, I mean, Seven's uh Riverside comedian or Inland Empire comedian, his brother, I believe, went up as well, Michael Garcia, not an Inland Empire, but I know him, no one uh I think Joseph Garcia got up too. Joseph Garcia's great comic, he's done the show too, really, really good stuff. So I was like, oh shit, a lot of people that I know or recognize those actually got up. Yeah. That's great, it's awesome. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:25

It happens, man. Things happen, bro. You just gotta be open to the universe, ladies and gentlemen. And Travis.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:34

Just get struck by lightning.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:37

No, because before we we end this, yeah, I'll end with my my words of wisdom. Um I one did not grow up religious, and two, I'm not a believer of like Christ, like woo things, you know. Same. But but I will say that I do believe that when people say like, oh, open it up to the universe, or you know, already believe it in your mind. I think more it's not like God or the universe or whatever you want to call it, right? Everybody calls it different things.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:08

It's Mr. Burns.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:09

But Mr.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:09

Burns.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:10

But what I think what I think, and it and it is science and it's scientifically proven that your brain, like your brain doesn't know any better of what you are, what reality is. So if you really believe something and you tell yourself, I will and I am, your body is already preparing for that to happen. Right. So when that your body is preparing for things like that to happen, there's a shift within your thought process, within the way that you feel, within the thing. So that's why I say I I shouldn't I catch myself and I say, you know, if it happened, no, when it happens, because you're training your brain already to believe that it's happening, and and if your brain can believe it, then it will happen because some way or another you subconsciously, maybe, or even consciously, like you make it happen.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:03

Yeah, yeah. Okay, I I could see that. I also probably believe that I might delusional myself and just be a total tyrant and be like everything I do is good. I feel like I'll end up slipping into that. So I think that's why I do I have like a lot of bad, like was it the bad self-talk or whatever, where you're I'm always being like, no, you suck. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:24

And we talked about this about like what I I can't remember with who, but we were saying like how sometimes we think that um complimenting ourselves or thinking highly of ourselves, it it you're not humble anymore, right? And we all want to stay humble. But there's a oh, we were talking with Brad. I think there's a line of you can still be humble, but still believe in yourself, you know, like you don't have to be pompous and like, oh, I'm better than you. No, you can be like, what I've done and what I'm doing is great. I'm putting the effort, I'm putting the work, and this is why things are working out for me.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:02

But even then it takes time too, because if you were how many okay, even before you decide to, you know what? No, I'm gonna take some uh I'm gonna take some credit for myself because I have been working, uh I have been working at this for a very long time. Whatever it is, yeah writing, filmmaking, podcasts, uh doing stand-up, acting, whatever, uh working out. You can you still there's there's that time where you didn't give yourself credit, right? So you have to override your brain into giving yourself credit, and that takes time because look at how long you've you've been doing all this, not giving yourself credit, and then you there's a switch. Okay, maybe I should start giving myself credit. Right. I've done it it still takes time for you to find that balance.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:54

I guess. And yeah, I I think I get what you're trying to say too. It's like um, I've done my penance to myself. You've beat yourself up enough. You've done it. Yeah. Have some fun now.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:03

So you you have to give your you have to allow some time for your for you to unbeat yourself.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:10

I'll just I'll let them be like, you know, you're being kind of cocky, it'll be like, here's a note from myself 2022, you'll never be worth anything. Right. Oh yeah. Like, okay, never mind. You deserve to be happy now.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:20

Yeah, there's you just have to find the the time. And even then, too, like early on when you're giving yourself credit, you might sound pompous or you might sound like this. You just have to find the the the way to weave that into your life and your lifestyle.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:37

I'll tell you how traumatized I am. I my girlfriend puts up like notes, you know, like the like affirmations. One of them said, I deserve happiness, and I walk by it every day and I go, You got this, you got this. Yeah, thank you guys. You guys rule. I by the way, you guys absolutely rule this this podcast, it's one of my favorites, and I absolutely love your studio. Thanks, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:00

Yeah, and uh and then again, it took a very long time. I bet for for for even just everything. I just everything everything takes a a a while. And I think in our culture and in the internet culture and the in the social media culture, everything happens really fast. Yeah. And we expect something like almost immediately art related, we want to happen right away. Yeah. St being good at stand-up takes so much time. I think just being good at anything takes a very long time.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:40

Yeah, I'm almost two years in and everyone hates how much time I'm spending on it. So I think I'm doing something right, right? When everybody's going, like, oh my god, you're going out. I think uh camera, I think my mom was like, it's like you already did like four shows this month. And I'm like, in my head, I'm like, that's not enough, nearly. You know? You're like, and I have four more. And I got four more. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_04 1:58:04

Yeah, thank you guys. Yeah, of course, dude. Travis, thanks for coming out and doing the podcast, man. Yeah, no worries. I had so fun, so much fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:12

So it was so fun! It was so fun.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:15

Anyway, no, thank you guys. So fun. Alright, that was maybe I shouldn't do that. Um we could be races after the podcast, not.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:27

Hold on. The music stopped right there.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:31

Uh tell us where we can find you and what you got coming up.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:35

I got my name is Swaggafu S-W-A-G-A-F-O-O. Is that how you pronounce it? Yeah, Swagga Fo. Yes, I know Swagga Foo, whatever you want to call it, on all platforms, YouTube, uh, TikTok, and and Instagram. But come check out the no question show. We got one at the end of the month, uh the last Sunday. Uh I believe it's May 31st. That one's gonna be great. We got George Wing as the headliner. Um, it's gonna be a really good time. I would love to see every single one of the people that are listening there.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:59

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:04

My turn.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:05

Your turn.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:06

Earplugs. Dude, thanks for coming out and doing the podcast, man. Hey, no worries. Dude, definitely go check out no question uh shows. You have two, you have Riverside, you have Corona.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:18

Uh actually, Corona, I'm doing a I'm doing a game show. It's it's called Al Algorithmic, where we try to find out whose algorithm is the the out the videos we're watching. Uh it's a point system, it should be fun. We'll show you.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:31

Oh, so you see the videos that the watching and you guessed.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:34

And then, yeah, we do three videos? Yeah, three three videos on a certain subject, and then we go, alright, whose algorithm? Oh, dude. How's that whose algorithm is that? I like that. Yeah. Should be fun. I hope you know. I like that. Yeah. I like the categories. It's definitely not AI. My favorite one's gonna be other countries. Can't wait to see what people whoa intended for other countries. I'm not on the show, I gotta produce it. So I need comedians who are willing to be on stage. That's awesome, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:59

Nice. Hit them up. I will. Uh let's see. I got that show, of course, but that's in October. Come check me out being looking.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:10

Locke.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:12

Uh let's see. I got I think I'm doing uh something tomorrow in uh at the Berkeley. Uh come check that out in Pasadena and just check out the Instagram.