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Mikey Barajas is a stand up comedian, Red Rüm Comedy Show producer, host of the Cool Mike Podcast, and professional Critter. Checkout his stuff here https://www.instagram.com/mrmikeybarajas/
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"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
What is up, Mind Buzz Universe? Welcome back to another podcast episode of The Mind Buzz. I'm your host, Gil, and working the board tonight. Today, whenever you're listening to this podcast, is a lovely Amber.
SPEAKER_02Hi. Podcasting?
SPEAKER_03Podcast. How do you say podcast in Spanish?
SPEAKER_02I think they just say podcast.
SPEAKER_03No, no porcast. Podcast.
SPEAKER_02Where my aunt used to come from, Mexico. And then anything I didn't know how to translate, I would just make it into like a Spanish accent, but in but like I would be like tía quieres ir al mole. And she'll be like, sí, quiero ir al mol. So anything I didn't know how to translate, I just made it sound like I did.
SPEAKER_03Mole, mole, mole, mole. Did you say that to her?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_03No?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_03She didn't watch uh Austin Power's Gold Member?
SPEAKER_02No, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_03Oh, should have.
SPEAKER_02Maybe. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Today, me and Amber are Mexican. We are also uh Mexican every day.
SPEAKER_01What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_03We are also uh members of uh the Knicks fan club. We are New Yorkers also. Um what else? We're Mexican New Yorkans.
SPEAKER_02Mexican New Yorkans.
SPEAKER_03New Yorkons.
SPEAKER_02We're always Mexican.
SPEAKER_03That's true.
SPEAKER_02And we always root for the underdog, and the Knicks have not won. Yeah, since what? 1967? 1973. 1973.
SPEAKER_03It was a good year.
SPEAKER_02I don't even know what's what was going on, but I turned that thing on. No, I actually turned on the game on Monday. I watched it by myself because I was asleep. But I was like, okay, I'm gonna go into the living room and he's like, what are you gonna watch? And I'm like, I'm gonna watch basketball. That was kind of weird.
SPEAKER_03That was kind of weird.
SPEAKER_02He's like, You're gonna what? And I'm like, I'm gonna watch basketball. And he's like, why? And then I was like, why not? You know, my girlfriend just uh But then I really told him the truth, and he's like, Okay, that that uh what did you say? That uh That makes sense. That makes sense. I just wanted to see uh Donald Trump get booed.
SPEAKER_03Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of the jury.
SPEAKER_02But then now I watched it because we watched it last night too.
SPEAKER_03Is that what happened? We gotta watch some clips because I haven't seen it. So hopefully we can they only booed him once. Pull that up today.
SPEAKER_02But he swore they fucking were they loved me.
SPEAKER_03He did, he said I went to the New York what are they the Madison Square Garden? Medicine Square Garden. Loved every man out of me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he said that everybody was cheering for him. Yeah. Shut the fuck up.
SPEAKER_03They didn't? No. Not even a few. Well, New York is a predominantly uh democratic state. Yeah. I am assuming.
unknownIt is.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Alright, well, I'm excited to get into that. I'm excited to pull up that video because I want to listen to it. And I'm also excited to talk to our uh next guest. Uh I recently did his podcast uh last week and uh it was very fun. And I also we also produce his podcast here in the studio in the Mind Mind Buzz Studio. Um very excited to talk to this next guest. He I've known him for a very long time, a couple of years. Uh very funny. I remember the first time seeing him, uh, he blew me away. And I think I'm in love with him. Uh very funny stand-up comedian, uh, stand-up show producer, uh produces the Red Room, the Red Room comedy shows all over Orange County. Um he's also the host of the Cool Mike podcast. Please put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen. For the one and only Mikey Barras. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm happy to be here. Thank you, Gil. I love you, Gil. The yeah man himself. The yeah guy is here.
SPEAKER_02Where did that come from, Mikey?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. It just spawned. Honestly, uh, the you honestly originated low-key in the her, you know, her chateria. That's when I started getting wild. Remember, that's when you guys first started noticing it on me, you know, was in the open mics.
SPEAKER_02I remember I was like, We literally say it at home.
SPEAKER_03It was like, yeah, yeah, like that's my it's my battle cry.
SPEAKER_02We well, everybody I think a lot of people say it now because Gil throughout the day he'll be like, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, bringing back uh catchphrase comedy, dude. You uh that's what I'm talking about, dude. Look, I think it was Seinfeld, or I think it was Seinfeld who said it, or I think it was uh Steve Martin who said it that if uh there's one thing for you to talk to your audience, but if your audience can talk to you like you talk to them, meaning catchphrases, uh repeating what you've said, then you've won them. And I think that if if people talk to you how you like just uh rephrasing what you say, right? Or doing catchphrases, it's it's awesome. Oh yeah, I'll have people at the hospital where I work, they'll be like, yeah. I'll be like, oh shit, you know. Like, oh damn, I'm the I'm the yeah guy. You're the yeah, man. Oh yeah, just happy to be here. Thanks for having me, Gil. You know, I appreciate you guys helping me produce my podcast too. I love doing it, I love doing the podcast. I love collaborating with you guys. You guys are you know awesome. It's fun, you know, yeah, it's super fun. I love doing stand-up, love being, you know, all vulnerable up in the mix, especially on the microphone. My dad be he be listens to my podcast and he's like he listens to it? Yeah, he listens to all the episodes. Dude, this last one, if you guys haven't listened to it already, go. I'm gonna put it down in the show description. Go watch that thing because Mike gets buck wild.
SPEAKER_00Are you gonna let him listen to that one?
SPEAKER_03I don't which which were we talking about? Episode eight? No, eight, uh ten. Oh, yeah, episode ten. Yeah, yeah. You haven't you haven't told me to delete anything yet. No, no, yeah. Well, by the time this comes out, it's gonna be out. Was it but was that really that Buck Wild?
SPEAKER_02No, you weren't Buck Wild.
SPEAKER_03You're pretty tamed from our conversation.
SPEAKER_02Like, if I were to tell my parents that I printed porn and had it in uh Yeah, they remember that.
SPEAKER_03My dad be telling my my dad tells me he's like, What the heck is going on? You know?
SPEAKER_02Let's get some technical so we can hear you real good, Mikey.
SPEAKER_03Mike check, Mike check. Yeah, there we go.
SPEAKER_00Perfect. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03No, yeah. My dad, he's like gets a flash in the past when he hears my podcast. I'm like, dad, it's you're not my genographic audience. It's not for you. You're not my demographic. Yeah, you're not my demographic audience, Papa. You know?
SPEAKER_02Do you have siblings?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm uh the oldest out of my siblings. Oh, okay. Yeah, I got like all my siblings are real cool. They're all supportive of my comedy. We all love each other. I'm grateful.
SPEAKER_02Are you the only one uh printing porn though?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay, got it. The only maniac.
SPEAKER_02It's it's one of those things like that you I think like I like as a child, right? Whenever you do something that's like really cringe or embarrassing that you think about when you're older, like sometimes I wanna ask my mom about scenarios or things that I did, but I'm like way too embarrassed to even bring it back up because in that moment it's like she turned a blind eye, I turned a blind eye, and it's like okay, it didn't exist.
SPEAKER_03Okay, we we shouldn't we shouldn't talk about this anymore. Uh it happened.
SPEAKER_02Let's not Did I talk about it on here about the whole phone call?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I did, right? Yeah, yeah, that's embarrassing.
SPEAKER_03And I've never give Mikey the synopsis of the phone.
SPEAKER_02Mikey, I got catfished. Remember yesterday or the day we were podcasting talking about catfishing. I got catfished. This was like I was young, I was like 18, I think. And I was, you know, the internet was interneting and everything. So I got catfished by someone on Facebook, and I swore that it was him, which not in hindsight, I'm like, oh my god, he wasn't it was fucking not him. He was like supposedly an underwear model, and he was all like hot and like everything, right?
SPEAKER_03It happens.
SPEAKER_02So he would like call me, and then he was like, Yeah, I live in um in Utah, and so we would just like talk and text and stuff like that, right? So one night I didn't have a cell phone, so I would do I would text from like my um iPod, and you know how sometimes the iPods had like those like numbers, the texting numbers. So then um I would text him from there, and then occasionally I would call him from my home phone, so he had my home number. Damn well, one night I didn't know this, I didn't know this, he didn't disclose this, never met him, anything. It was just like one of those like internet things. Um apparently he had a wife and children, and he was not the one from the phone. Yeah, so he called his wife found out that he was talking to me, and that was a number he had saved, which is my house number.
SPEAKER_03Aye, Karumba.
SPEAKER_02While the house phone is in my mom's room. So this lady, this lady called at three o'clock in the morning, yelling over the phone, wanting to talk to me, and my mom was like, Who are you? Yeah. So then my mom found out that I was like talking to this like man that was married. I didn't know he was married. Your mom's yeah, so the next morning she's just like, Do you know? Uh I'm not gonna say the name, but do you know a so-and-so? And I was like, Yeah, why? What happened? And I was all nervous, and he's like, Well, he's married, and you can't talk to him ever again.
SPEAKER_03Oh, your mom broke it off.
SPEAKER_02So that's how I knew. Well, no, I would have broken I it wasn't a relationship, but you know.
SPEAKER_03But hold on, wait a minute. What? Hold up, wait a minute. Let's scoop back a little bit. So your mom found all this out and broke the news to you, or you knew before that?
SPEAKER_02No, I didn't know. My mom was the one that broke the news to you.
SPEAKER_03She was like, okay, so-and-so, he's married. You can't talk to him anymore.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, his wife called last night. And then that was the last time we ever talked about it. Like again. And it was just done. But now I think about that scenario multiple times.
SPEAKER_03So you haven't talked, you haven't brought it up.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna bring it up. No, you better not fucking.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna bring it up during Thanksgiving dinner.
SPEAKER_00You better.
SPEAKER_03They're gonna say, all right, Gilbert, it's your turn, it's your turn. You let us know what you're thankful for, and I'm gonna say, I'm thankful for for God, I'm thankful for stand-up comedy, I'm thankful for the podcast. And I'm also thankful for Amber not talking to that married, that 40-old married dude from Utah.
SPEAKER_00From Utah.
SPEAKER_03I'm glad he wasn't real, you know. The model. He was real model.
SPEAKER_00I don't know what he looked like, but he was real.
SPEAKER_02He I just think like he was probably this like grimy fucking older man. That's what I think.
SPEAKER_03What a douche. Yeah. Wow. Thinking he was a player.
SPEAKER_02But I was 18.
SPEAKER_03I got a player, got caught up.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and I was dumb. And you it was so easy to get catfished.
SPEAKER_03No, yeah, that's why it's it happens. It happens to the best of us. Remember the show Cheaters? Oh, yeah. They should bring that back. Yeah, that's dude. That's what I'm saying. Look at I'm proposing they we bring all that all that cool stuff back. That would be hilarious. That'd be hilarious to watch some, you know, they them's get caught up. Like, what the heck? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Do you guys remember um what was the other one? The one that they used to call Blind Date?
SPEAKER_03Oh, Blind Date. Blind Date was chill. Yeah. Yeah, I like that one. I like the one was risque. I like the taxi confessions. Taxi Cab Confessions. Yeah. No, those shows changed my life. Like Real Sex. Yep. Cat House. I was a little those were on HBO. On HBO. Oh, they were HBO? HBO. Okay. HBO shows. I was a little perv. I used to watch them. I used to like sneak and watch them on that.
SPEAKER_02My mom had um uh passcodes for all those channels. Yeah, love it. So when, yeah, like at the beginning when we first got cable, it wasn't. So then I was like, all right, I want to watch these things. And then after they came out with passcodes, and then she fucking started putting passcodes on a bunch of fucking channels. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Luckily, my parents never uh figured it out. Never never hip to that. Yeah. Or shit, you know, never had passcodes. I was just buying it, you know. And I was book wild, bro. I used to buy uh pay-per-views and just like risk, you know, like hopefully they don't see the bill. Uh-huh. You know. Did they ever see it? They never said anything, bro. I bought a bunch of shit all the time. Or is it one of those things like with Amber's? Like they they seen it on the bill, but they they're like, you know what?
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03We're gonna let Mike, we're gonna let Mike. They never brought it up to me. I used to buy like UFC pay-per-views. I used to buy like porn pay-per-views. Sorry, Daddy. How much were they? Were they expensive? Yeah, it was a little douche I used to just buy, you know. Like, but were they expensive? Yeah, they're pretty pricey. Like how much? I don't know. Like, you know, the pay-per-views were like 60 bucks. Oh my god. I was a little deviant. I owe my mama some money for all the pornography. I wonder, I wonder what it said. She has like a running she has like a running bill for you before I have a tab.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you have a tab. I wonder what it said on like the like the bill.
SPEAKER_03I know.
SPEAKER_02Like did it say pay-per-view, and then I wonder if it ever said like the title or what it was.
SPEAKER_03My dad's looking at it.
SPEAKER_02I gotta look it up right now.
SPEAKER_03The rock time machine part two. What the hell?
SPEAKER_02I ran up the phone bill one time too, calling to Mexico.
SPEAKER_03Who bought this on Tuesday at 11 30 p.m.? I mean, because it was still in the time that people looked over bills. I get it now. Now there's there's You don't look at shit. You don't really look over things because uh I at least, you know, my experience, people are just I mean, there's subscriptions for everything, right? For every little thing, and you're gonna go and but it's not I don't know. It's I don't know. I'm just making excuses.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we don't our gener I feel like our generation doesn't go line by line.
SPEAKER_03Like right. Until until you're like, what the fuck is Until like you're like, what the heck? I have four dollars in my bank account. Like, what did I spend on it? I gotta audit my fucking my account.
SPEAKER_02And before everybody used to balance their checks or their like okay, maybe not that far. Yeah, my parents used to balance like their checkbook and stuff, and then that's why they would my mom would make sure that the bills matched whatever they were balancing. Not us. I the thing I we've been paying a freaking $25 a month for gym membership that has not been used in the past year.
SPEAKER_03I know that's in your card, homie. I'm trying to get healthier, I'm trying to hit the you know didn't you do Muay Thai for a for a bit? I'm trying to get back into it, but like I would my first year of comedy, I was training at the same time and I fought. Like I just wanted to prove to myself once that I could like have my Mortal Kombat moment. I could fight shirtless around, you know, like around people and have them chanting my name. Hold on, I'm gonna put this down a little bit. I'm blocking you. Um keep talking. But yeah, I used to train Muay Thai. You know, I'm thinking about getting back into it. There we go. You know, I used to I used to throw kicks.
SPEAKER_02Dang, I could see you like I got little mighty kicks.
SPEAKER_03Did you see those uh videos of those robots throwing kicks at the Asian kids?
SPEAKER_02I seen that.
SPEAKER_03I feel like that's gonna be the death of me. Yeah, let me fix this shit real quick.
SPEAKER_02I seen that. They were like showing the the robot like dancing and like doing like karate, and that some of the kids are like way too close to like the line, I guess. Probably the robot does like a barrier. Uh-huh. And the little boy was way too close, and he gotta show me this.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's hilarious. Low-key, like I watched it like 10 times. It looked like it was planned, like the kid the robot was fed up. He just fucking chopped him right in the gut, and the kid was like, like, timbered over, bro. It was low-key. Serious? Yeah, it's kind of funny. It's kind of crazy because those like there was no like safety, I guess, chip in the robot's head. You know what I mean? Like it was in his programming, it was okay to kick a child.
SPEAKER_00Here it is, like.
SPEAKER_03How wild is that? Oh, oh, with the blue. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02But see how he was like really close.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah, he was definitely in the sternum. Yeah, he was.
SPEAKER_02I think the kick is nearly killed, broke him in half, King.
SPEAKER_03He's dead now.
SPEAKER_02I think the kick was supposed to happen. Like it's like in the the robot's programming, but it got too close or the kid got too close.
SPEAKER_03Right. But what I'm saying is, like, there was no like area of where he shouldn't kick. The robot knew what it was doing. Yeah. The way he shuffled back. He's like, ah, fuck the Yeah, he did. He's like, damn, I'm gonna get fired. He's like, fuck them kids. I'm not gonna get paid. They're gonna take my new fro away from me. The way he shuffled back, brother.
SPEAKER_02I think there's another video where Cardi B it. Oh yeah, there's one where uh she either trips or it's she like falls backwards.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she's like giving the robot a lab dance and then she falls backwards. Oh my god. Yeah, it's a lot of things.
SPEAKER_02And it's like uh like a hundred thousand dollar robot, and she fucking drops it. Have you seen it?
SPEAKER_03Grinding it her booty on him. Are you serious? Yeah, I watched. She fell. I like the video that where she was in um Fibulo.
SPEAKER_00Oh, right here. Oh yeah, recently.
SPEAKER_03She was at Fibulo. Oh, dang! Oh my god. What happened? She looks like that Kim Possible villain. She look yeah. Or from like Kill Bill. She looks like Uma Thurman from Kill Bill. Oh, like a robot. She like pulled a oh my but what happened? She just lost her balance and she pulled the robot towards her. He had a circuit malfunction. He died.
SPEAKER_02The robot like hell yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the yeah. Proto 69. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He stops. Protocol. Let's see.
SPEAKER_02Robots kissing.
SPEAKER_03Pull it up. Hell yeah. I told my dad I was gonna bring home a robot woman. Oh, they have those. He's like, I don't know about that, Mike. Yeah. Just to mess with them. Yeah. But would you bring one that looks like this? Like all robotic or the one with like the silicone skin on it? Trying to get one as realistic as possible. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not into the you know, the cyborg fetish and one like a woman that looks, you know, somewhat like with like skin and stuff? A little skin would be nice.
SPEAKER_02Like uh the mom, what was her name? The one from uh Smart House?
SPEAKER_03I love that movie. Do you remember that? Uh Peggy uh Peggy Bundy. Yeah. That was like one of the movies that gave me uh sexual awakening as a child.
SPEAKER_02I hate the sexual thing.
SPEAKER_03Every movie too.
SPEAKER_02Like that was my sexual awakening.
SPEAKER_03I was like, I was like, Mikey, have you ever seen Robocop? He was like, oh bro, that sexual awakening. Shot him in the dick, yeah. Oh, dude, honestly, the girl, she they kind of made her look like uh Marilyn Monroe. Yeah. With wearing that uh white dress. She did.
SPEAKER_02Why did you oh yesterday you say uh Lita was there?
SPEAKER_00Sexual awakening. Yeah, Lita, shout out Lita, Amy Duman's thing.
SPEAKER_03That was my my you know, that was my first my first crush, one of my you know, first, you know, you know No, but definitely uh what turn From um Smart House. Oh, yeah. I remember that movie. I was like, that's when my imagination was running wild. I was like, what the hell if I had a cyborg? I would like to tell her naughty things. So for sure, like Molly Ringwald is on there for me. You know who Molly Ringwald is? Yeah, yeah. From uh Sixteen Candles. Yeah. Also Really? She was in the show The Secret Life of American Teenager. Yeah. Um also the I forget her, I always forget her name, but I Breakfast Club. Right. Um, the blonde from Lucas. Have you seen that movie? It's an old like late 80s. Is it uh is it Winona Ryder? No. By no Renona's up there. Lucas. Like uh Yeah, I don't really remember Lucas the movie that much. No, it's like uh yeah, he was like a nerdy kid, right? Yeah. I know see Winona Ryder's in it. She is oh shit. She is. She is. She put she's in it. Yeah, she was in it.
SPEAKER_01Oh, are you talking about her?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Who is that? Yes.
SPEAKER_02Uh she's in the Goonies, too.
SPEAKER_03Yes. She's in like all these coming of age movies from the 1980s. Charlie Sheen's in it. Shout out Charlie Sheen. Is it Charlie Sheen? Yeah. Yeah, Charlie. Corey Hain. Oh, Cory Hain, Charlie Sheen. R.I.P. Corey Shane. Carrie Green. I think it's Carrie Green. Carrie Green. Shout out Car Carrie Green. I remember her though. But the ending's basically like uh like Rudy. Yeah, yeah. Like they put him in the game and like Rudy? He like literally like is paralyzed after the touchdown. Damn, that'd be that's uh your time to shine and then you almost nearly lose your life. Yeah. I can't walk.
SPEAKER_02I gotta watch it again because I don't remember this one? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I remember the the first time I seen it, I was just like, okay, this is a weird movie. Yeah, I don't really I don't really remember it that much. Yeah. Like that's not like one of my uh 80s movies, you know.
SPEAKER_02That like what's your 80s movie?
SPEAKER_03I really like the Karate Kid, that's a good one. I'm a big Cinephile, so I used to watch like the Terminator. T1 was another one of my sexual awakenings. I swear to God. No, look, I kid you not. Uh shout out James Cameron. It was the first pair of boobies I ever seen with Sarah Connors boobs and T1. You know, I feel like you always have like a first pair of boobs. Changed my life, bro. I was a little kid. I was like, what the hell? Because I remember my uncle, I would watch movies with him and he wouldn't let me watch that part. And I remember I was curious. I was like, Why is he not wanting me to watch this part? And I was all mischievous, and I went and watched it when I was so lodolo one night, and I was like, What the hell?
SPEAKER_02You're like, now what the hell my mom covered our eyes when she took us to watch um Titanic. Oh yeah, and I was like, What's happening? Oh yeah, that was and it took years for me to see that scene, and I was like, Oh, that's what's happening.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I was a I was a bad kid, you know, they wouldn't let me watch like certain flicks, you know. Uh huh. You know, like American Pie.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, that's that's for sure.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So did your parents like kind of like monitor what you watched for a while?
SPEAKER_03They were like a little strict, but I used to be uh, I wouldn't say shady, but I used to like, you know, I used to watch stuff, you know, I used to find my way around it.
SPEAKER_02And I think that that's what happens when like parents are very like, don't watch this, don't do that. And I get it, there's some things that are not age appropriate, and I understand that sometimes it's okay like not to let your kids watch that because they think that they don't like understand certain things. But my parents were kind of like that too, and then I wanted to be like, Well, what is it that I can't watch it?
SPEAKER_03You're you're curious about like what they don't want you to see. Okay, well, what why then you think about it? Like, why don't you want me to see this? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Or I would go to school and everybody'd be like, Did you watch you know the Simpsons episode? And I was like, Oh no, I'm not allowed. I never told them, but in my head, I was like, oh The Simpsons.
SPEAKER_03Well, my my dad let me watch everything. Like any movie that I wanted to see, he'd get it for me. Like he would get like we used to get these burned DVDs from we used to buy them from a guy in the parking lot from Food for Last. Oh yeah. He used to he's the burn DVDs. Yeah, that's when back in the day they That's back in the day stuff, dude. And we didn't have cable, so whatever was available on um on regular TV, he'd just let me watch. Like I remember I dude when South Park, South Park used to come on, I think around like 11 or midnight at on channel 5. Like back in the day, like back in like the early 2000s. Used to watch South Park. I was sneaky, bro. I had a portable DVD that was just for uh porno DVDs that my homie would burn me. Like, you know, the small ones, like uh like shout out portable DVDs, but like I didn't have access to the internet, so my homie he would burn me DVDs and stuff, and one time he uh he tricked me and uh put like uh I requested like One Night in Paris, you know, like the Kardashian, you know, some of the old school stuff. Did you ever see the uh Pam Anderson? Yeah, yeah. You seen that one? Yeah, and then this fool he puts on two girls one cup in my DVD.
SPEAKER_02I was like, what the hell, bro? I was like, I can still remember the exact place.
SPEAKER_03Almost so do I even like the like pull it up no sorry for bringing that up.
SPEAKER_02I can I can I know where I was. I almost changed my life, not in the good one. I'm not even joking. And the reason look, I'll tell you why. So I was in high school when I when I seen a pie. I didn't see the whole thing, I only seen a piece. And I used to take this class called Tech Core, right? And the teacher didn't it was supposed to be like wood class and like metal making and like all screen printing, all these different stations in one. Okay, this fool would go up because it was like a two-story type of like big like warehouse. He would go upstairs to his freaking office and be like, okay, go like do what you have to do. Yeah, so then there was a computer lab that was like had a door. So the guys always wanted to be in the computer lab, right? And I used to be like, Man, why are they always in there? One day I realized why they were always in there because they were watching porn.
SPEAKER_03What the hell together in a group at school?
SPEAKER_02In a group at school, it was freaky. So then one day I was like, What are you guys watching? What are you guys doing in there? And then they were like, You want to see? And I was like, Well, yeah, I want to see what you're watching. So I went in there and they were watching that. That's a w and I was like, Oh, and I and the reason that I remember even the date was because that was that was the same day that I was leaving. We would leave to Mexico in December.
SPEAKER_03It was a core memory, yeah.
SPEAKER_02We would leave to Sinaloa in December, and it was always triggered.
SPEAKER_03It just triggered some flashbacks. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02We would leave between the 15th and the 17th.
SPEAKER_03How many hours did it take you to get to Sinaloa?
SPEAKER_02Uh, it it was uh used to take us like 28 hours.
SPEAKER_03And then you were thinking about that for 28 hours.
SPEAKER_02I mean, look at how many years later, and I can still vividly see it in my brain. And I only seen like a snit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was only like Yeah, why traumatizing that shit?
SPEAKER_02It's so traumatizing.
SPEAKER_03It's all the shit, you know. That's crazy, dude. It's no good.
SPEAKER_02The other thing that traumatized me is uh human centipede.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, shout out Human Centipede. Oh, dude, that one was wild.
SPEAKER_02A movie that sits in my brain rent-free.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that movie's freaky. Yeah, yeah, I wasn't into that one. That uh like body horror, you know. I might have seen like 75% of it. I don't think I watched it all the way through because I couldn't stomach it. It was a little too freak. I maybe watched it all, but it's like not a movie I go back to, you know. Have you seen uh the house that Jack built? No. Dude. That's good. It's so good. Pull it up, Amber. I gotta show this guy. The house that Jack built. The house that Jack built. Who's in it? Um his name is once I see his face, it's escaping me. I always bring this up. Remember, I I try to Oh yeah, I seen this movie. That's the homie that uh uh he was in uh something about Mary. Yeah. What's the actor's name? Uh Dylan who is it? Pull up the cast? Yeah, yeah. I seen this movie. He's like a serial killer. Dude, I don't know what it uh what it is about serial killers, but just the way that he Yeah, I seen this movie. It's freaking amazing. You watch it all the way to the end? Yeah, Matt Dylan. Matt Dylan. Yeah, I seen it. Yeah, it's a it's a ch it was a good movie. Yeah, I like it. Matt Dylan, Uma Thurman Uma Thurman, yeah. Uma Thurman. I remember that movie had uh like not controversy, but I remember when it came out, it had Buzz. So that was like one movie I saw. What year did it did it come out? Uh like 2018. Oh, 2018. 2018. I seen it during the pandemic, dude, and it freaked me out. Damn. Well, at the the first and it's a long ass movie. Yes. How many hours is it? It's like two hours and something. Yeah, 235, that is long. But it's a slow burn too. That yeah, the the ending was just the ending was wild. The reason why I like the ending was because it was up to an interpretation of and I like films that end up that way because you like first of all, after you're done watching it, you're like, okay, it was a slow burn, but it was worth it. It was worth me sitting here and you know, waiting for the ending. And this one, dude, was just okay, this is this is what happened. Like that's what happened, and it was up to like my interpretation of what I think the ending is, and somebody else's gonna be different too from watching it. So this bro, oh yeah, brother. I'll check it. No, yeah, I seen it. Yeah, you've seen it? Yeah, I haven't seen it since uh like 2018, though. I remember I watched it. It was just freaking wild. I was like, okay, why, but why is it called the house that Jack felt? Like this the whole thing, and then at the end, I'm like, no, he's not gonna do it, he's not gonna do it, and then he fucking does it, dude. And I'm just like, oh my god. Shout out Uma Thurman. Do you remember what happens at the end? Oh my god, it's so cool. If I had the ability to replicate what he made and keep it in the studio, ew. That would be awesome. Did you see it? Well, pull it up. I want to see it again. Yeah, it looked crazy. That thing is zoom in a little bit. Hold on. Ladies and gentlemen, the jury, if you're listening to this podcast, I uh well, don't give it away because what if they watch it?
SPEAKER_02Spoiler.
SPEAKER_03It came out in 2018. It's almost, you know.
SPEAKER_02Go look it up.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, go look it up or watch the movie. 2018 was a good year for horror, honestly. Uh Hereditary came out in 2018. Susperia came out in 2018. Like that was a good year, definitely.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's the one you chose to watch, huh?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's one of my spirit. It's on Amazon. You guys will love it. Tom York did the music from Radiohead. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. Yeah. One of my prized possessions that I have at my house, I have like a signed Susperia poster, and it's like has the whole cast and like the director, and they you know, like have it put up. Yeah. Yeah, it's uh we gotta catch it. Yeah, I want to watch that one for sure. Definitely check it out. You guys would love it. There's some scenes in there that are like totally like mind-blowing where it's just like how the hell do they capture this on the film? You know, like it feels like you're witnessing a real life ritual on like one side. Oh, yeah, it's like it's like it's fucking crazy. Like it's beautiful though, too. It's not just horrific, it's beautiful, it's sad, it's tragic, it's like you know, it's cinema. What did you think about uh Backrooms? Did you watch Backrooms? I've seen Backrooms. I thought it was pretty cool. I thought it was uh a great uh you know, shout out that director. I forgot his name, but he he killed it. I like that, you know, it was it was freaky. Have you seen it? Yeah, yeah, I like that it was like you know, whim. Yeah, the story was really good. Yeah. I I I like the story, the the way it was like shot was really cool. It was like very trippy and very like, I don't know, like it was uh it was makes you want to like explore them. Yeah, I wanted I wanted to jump into the the wall, you know what I'm saying? Like I I wanna experience that. Shit spooky shoutouts to Spirit 2018, that's the movie right there.
SPEAKER_02We're in back rooms right here because it's downstairs.
SPEAKER_03That's how I feel. No, yeah. No, literally I do it because it because I don't know where's like I think when we were watching when we were watching the movie, I was in the back of my mind I was thinking, oh like this is like I recognize this the studio. Yeah. I because that's how when we started moving stuff around down here, I didn't know where like the layout was upstairs because it doesn't make it doesn't make sense. We still I still don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. That's how Nicole Tran felt it when she came down here, remember she was like scary. Who knows, dude? Maybe once we walk through that door, we go into like a different reality or something.
SPEAKER_02And then we don't know where light switches are.
SPEAKER_03Yes from the There's no light switches. How do you make a building with no light switches?
SPEAKER_02Like we're not joking. We cannot find the light switch to the main room to turn off the lights. We leave them on because we can't find the switch.
SPEAKER_03And they flicker just like that. It's it's weird. Damn, that's wild. It's it's weird.
SPEAKER_02Maybe we have to touch all the walls to see if there's one that oh secret.
SPEAKER_03That'd be wild, dude. That'd be crazy, bro. That's wild. Yeah. I love the backrooms, though. It was a good movie. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It was pretty good.
SPEAKER_03What is cool right now, what's going on right now in in cinema, is uh the so obsession and backrooms, right? Yeah, both those directors are YouTubers. YouTubers. Yeah, they're killing it. How freaking wild is that? Yeah. They're young. In our time, and they're like taking chances. I like that they're like, you know, it's like kind of just right. You know, you haven't seen Obsession yet, right? Not yet. You guys gotta check it out. Those are those are on my list. Yeah, definitely check it out while it's still in theaters.
SPEAKER_02Is it a movie we have to watch?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, definitely. Yeah, that's like one of the movies, it's like a theater experience. And what's crazy, and like uh it was supposed to come out on digital already, but Universal, then you know, they like extended the theatrical release because people keep going back. So it's like smarter for them to like you know, keep it in theaters, keep it limited, and you know, because you know, but obsession was good. I was a big fan of it. Yeah, definitely I recommend it. It's been a good year, uh horror. Did you see 28 years later, Bone Temple? I haven't seen it. Bro, you gotta check that out. See rewatch uh the new Bone Temple. It's no, it's called Twenty Eight Years Later, and then Twenty this the sequel, it's called Twenty Eight Years Later Bone Temple. Last year, that was my favorite movie, and then this year it this far, Bone Temple is my favorite movie. I'm catching up, I'm catching up with uh with the new films coming out this year. Yeah. I think I I've I've said it on the pod, and I don't know if I told you, but uh I'm doing this like I'm doing this Bill Hater list. And then aside from the Bill Hater list that I'm doing, I'm kind of just like going back and trying to watch catch up, watch older stuff. Yeah, you know what I mean? But um yeah, I'm I'm catching up right now. I feel ya. There's just so many things to watch, dude. No, yeah, I feel you. You know what I mean? Like now you've we've talked about two movies that I need to go watch. You know what I uh is a guilty pleasure of mine? I like to watch body cam footage.
SPEAKER_02Like police body cam?
SPEAKER_03Police body cam. You know, I I watch it. It kind of like deteriorates me from committing crimes. It's like I don't want to end up on YouTube.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I've watched it on TikTok.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they have tick they have long videos too on TikTok. Some of the videos are outrageous. It's like, what are you thinking, homie? Like, what are you what's going through your noggin, my guy? Think about it. Think about what other occupation there is in America where a body cam would be that much that entertaining. Like what? A chef? You think a chef? Would you would you watch a chef have a body cam? Yeah, a bouncer. A bouncer would be a good one. A bartender? Yeah, I'd want to see.
SPEAKER_02I feel like that's the equivalent of people now, which we are seeing, people wearing the meta glasses.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, the meta glass. I've been watching a lot of the meta fights. The meta fights are crazy. That's uh my algorithm is kind of fights? Yeah, people wear uh the the glasses and they get into you know they'll be. Oh, dude, that's genius. Yeah, they'd be yeah, it gets crazy. In the fights I've been seeing, the dudes be like messing people up.
SPEAKER_02Damn. Yeah. So they're like probably actually looking for fights to create. People are crazy, yeah.
SPEAKER_03People are wild. I see, I don't know. I seen one where this guy he was at 7-Eleven and uh the worker threw a drink at him, so the guy hopped over and just started beating them up. And who was wearing the meta glasses? The guy that was beating him up and he threw him in the freezer. So threw him in the freezer? Yeah, it was crazy. I felt bad. I was like, I can't be watching this shit.
SPEAKER_02Well, there's a uh TikToker that I seen recently, I just seen it like at the beginning of the week, I think. She got her ass whooped because she's those like she creates content, but she goes up to people like, hey, she's a rage baiter.
SPEAKER_03What are you doing?
SPEAKER_02She's a rage baiter, yeah. And then she always like either runs away or she's like, Oh, it's for content. We're just recording, and then people were like, and this girl was like, I don't give a fuck if we're recording, and she was like, Bob.
SPEAKER_03Oh, and you can see her like from her point of view, hit her with a knuckle sandwich.
SPEAKER_02And I guess they ended up figuring out that the girl was having like a fucking horrible day, like she had gone like evicted from her place, and so she just took it. Somebody had like passed away, yeah. And it was like, fuck you, like damn, girls. So I was like, Well good. Well, like the guy, fucking the guy that's in jail now. Chud the builder.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so what's going on? Who who is that? What what's the backstory? Who is he? Gage what happened. Gage Johnson's uh doppelganger, yeah. Does he really look like Gage Johnson? Pull it up, does he? Pull it up.
SPEAKER_00I am not saying yes or no.
SPEAKER_03Gage even said it. I'll let Mikey say it. He posted about it, so like he posted a video, so it's like I'm not the one saying it.
SPEAKER_01What is it? Ched the Chud the Builder, right?
SPEAKER_03Ched the Chud the Builder. And it was funny because uh Gage likes Legos, and he's like, does he even build Legos? Oh that looks like that motherfucker, right? Whoa! Like he served me drinks, uh the improv.
SPEAKER_02So this guy is uh like a streamer, right?
SPEAKER_03He was stream, yeah, rage baiter, racist guy, but really racist, super racist. He goes up to people and just like you know, pushes their buttons, but in like the most extreme racist ways, and like but dangerous, you know. He's like a psycho. Yeah, he's like a yeah, he's a he's a proud boy, really type of guy. He's wild.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and he says like like the N-word to people on their face.
SPEAKER_03Jesus like super racist. Yeah, he's serious, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And he's like, oh, what are you gonna do about it? And then he walks out.
SPEAKER_03He always threatens violence and he got into some shenanigans where he like got in a shootout and he got like charged with Oh my god, yeah. He got in a shootout.
SPEAKER_02So he got so the day before he went to a restaurant, and the restaurant was like, No, like because people are already knowing who he is, so they were like, No, we don't want you in here. So they kicked him out, and then he started like doing all these things, yeah. So they ended up arresting him because he didn't pay the check and stuff like that. So then the next day he was gonna go to court to like pay the fine or whatever. It was nothing like like crazy what he had to do, and then he's he stated that outside the court there was a guy waiting for him to start like shit with him. So then he took out his gun, supposedly in self-defense, and shot at the guy. Oh while they ended up figuring out that the guy was there at the court himself going to pay something else and didn't didn't even know him.
SPEAKER_03It's just and it was a real gun. Yeah, it was a real gun. Yeah, he's in jail right now.
SPEAKER_02So he's in jail, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Shout out Chud.
SPEAKER_02I think they did like two million dollar bail, yeah, and then this other like influencer guy went to the court and he's like, Hey, I'm here to um pay Chud's um uh his you know his bond. Nope. And then the the judge was like, Okay, you could pay it, but under the condition that they had to get ten different um uh bail bonds people to like to bring together the money. What? So you know how bail bonds? You know how bail bonds works? You go to the bail bond, that one bail bond then borrow the money. So the judge was saying that that the money had to come from ten different they had to tell ten different uh bail bonds to bring I don't know what is it like a hundred thousand dollars each?
SPEAKER_03Oh, two hundred thousand dollars if it was two two million dollar bit. Because he didn't want them to get to make it harder for them to despicable. Yeah. Despicable.
SPEAKER_02So he's in jail.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Throw away the key. They should send that motherfucker to the Phantom Zone. Yeah. General's odds style. Damn. Send him the space.
SPEAKER_02He's gonna get fucking pardoned to watch. Yeah. And get taken out of jail.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he's gonna be put in the the cabinet in the yeah, he's gonna freaking run some kind of department. Yeah, he's gonna be secretary of building. He's his secretary builder.
SPEAKER_00He's uh what is it, DEI? Oh yeah, DE Secretary of uh Justice.
SPEAKER_03Fucking Trump. I did this bit recently where I was like, imagine Trump ordering uh fucking uh Panda Express. Want some orange chicken? I love Chow Main. I love Chow Main. You kind of you know who uh Hunter Latiner is? Yeah, kind of looks like Hunter Latiner too. Shout out Hunter.
SPEAKER_00I was just all white men with uh with mustaches and semi-long hair.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Hunter is Hunter. Yeah, he's uh he's a sweetheart guy. He's like, yeah, man.
SPEAKER_02He's from the south, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he's got like from Alabama, yeah. He's got like, you know, he's he sounds like a yeah, he's he's a good dude. You bruh yeah, shout out Hunter. That's crazy, this guy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I'm glad yeah.
SPEAKER_03No, I'm glad that something happened to him. Um and but that's all it is. I I think after the whole um after the the Charlie Kirk incident, I think it left that type of content open for people to come out and do it. Yeah. Yeah, all the all the all the cuckoos. Yeah, just like the the whatever podcast. That guy, have you have you heard of the the whatever podcast?
SPEAKER_02Was it the one we were watching the other day? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03He even he has like some weird um like rhetoric, off-the-wall rhetorics about like relationships and women. He just has like a whole bunch of women on his podcast.
SPEAKER_02And those are those are what do they call them? Red red pill, red pill podcasts or red pill guys or something. That I was seeing a video the other day and how they were saying like how dangerous those fucking guys are making society for like women and people because they're now everybody watches podcasts or YouTube, so they're saying that a lot of young guys are watching these guys and being like, Yeah, he's right, he's right, he's right.
SPEAKER_03And yeah, misogynists, yeah, misogynists spreading those crazy views. I believe in quality, I'm a feminist. Good, Mikey. Oh, yeah. Happy Pride Month.
unknownWoo woo!
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm happy to be here. My dad, he doesn't his butthole clenches all through all through Pride Month. He's like, They're out, Mikey, they're out. Help me. Yeah, I'm like, Dad, they exist, let them be. Let them be. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Hey, Father's Father's Day and Pride Month.
SPEAKER_03Oh, they fall in the same one, too. All the daddies out there. All the bears. All the cubs.
SPEAKER_02I think hot take. I'm not saying your dad, Mikey, sorry, but excluding your dad, if that's what you're doing. Oh, but I think that when people are like homophobic, or even like people that are like extremely racist, it's it's very internalized. And I feel like the majority of people that are like extremely homophobic, especially like these guys on YouTube or streaming or shit like that, like like they're they're gay.
SPEAKER_03Like they're they're into it. Let me uh let me okay. Sorry. I'm like, Dad, you like your booty being put on?
SPEAKER_00Is that excluding your dad, Mikey? Don't worry.
SPEAKER_03With the exclusion of your father, Mikey. Okay, so by that okay, so look at you're saying that the more that they're homophobic, the more they are let it could be that they're they're right. I know, I know some crazy, like you know, I'm sure you know I don't know, that's wild, you know. But hold on, hold on. Before let me so with that, right? So if you're very, very racist, then what does that make you? Like it by what you're saying is like if you're the opposite of what you don't like.
SPEAKER_02I think when people are extremely racist, then what does that mean? They intern they hate themselves. They internally hate who they are and that they're whatever race that they are, that they are the way that they are, that they like so then they instead of seeing themselves, they're you know, picking at all the things that maybe they want to be or maybe they wish they would have, or you know, things like that. So they w they wish they were like Mexican and Well, yeah, that's why like have you ever seen those illustrations where it's like a white guy and he's all like angry, and then the bubble, the bubble up here is like either like a black person all happy or like a Mexican person, like like they live in their mind 24-7, and that's what like people that are extremely racist, like that's all they're fucking thinking about. And why are you so fixated on other people? It's because they're so unhappy with themselves. And I feel like men or even people that are extremely homophobic, and it's like that's all they can talk about is because they're gay.
SPEAKER_03Because they think about it all the time, they're thinking about it all the time. That's crazy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Mikey's like, I don't know. No, Mikey, not your dad. I don't know your dad.
SPEAKER_03Not your dad. No, I'm I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Your dad's old, I'm sure your dad's old school.
SPEAKER_03It's my dad's old school Catholic, you know. He's like old school Catholic, you know.
SPEAKER_02Like his religion plays a big part in the world.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he's a he's a he's a big uh he's a big faith man. Yeah, he speaks in tongues. Oh he's a Bible, he he runs Bible studies and does he really? Yeah, oh I didn't know that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he's very he's and then his son over here on a deviant. Yeah, social deviant.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, whoa.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so then he's he's very he prays for me.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. I pray for you. So Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_02But does he like um did it has he always have your parents always been supportive?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they've always been supportive of me, honestly. That's why I'm grateful for my family. They've always been supportive of whatever. I see them go to your shows. Yeah, yeah, they go to all like most of my shows. They've always been supportive of all the shit I've done my whole life. Like when I was younger, I was into DJing, and my daddy got me, you know, like speakers, and I used to scratch and that's where Cool Mike originated from, bro. Like I used to be a DJ and my DJ name was DJ Cool Mike, and I had like a show. D DJ. Like Cool Mike. My dad was the one who recommended to me too. He's like, You gotta bring back Cool Mike. Bring back DJ Cool Mike. Really? Yeah, he's like, You're a comedian. He's like, Why don't you have a podcast? I was like, fuck it, I'll do it, you know. Do it, you know, and that's when I started talking to Gil about it, and we like we're in the kitchen cooking it up.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so your family's pretty supportive.
SPEAKER_03They're really supportive. I love my family. I'm grateful for my family. They're like, you know, they they they support me, you know. Like they just like I'm like lucky that like they support my dreams and they've always supported, like, yeah, you know. That's good, dude. Yeah. How many people have that? No, yeah, I'm grateful. That's what I'm saying. Like, I'm grateful for them that they they're down with it.
SPEAKER_02I'm like, don't, don't let your dad listen to this one.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, I probably won't share this one with him.
SPEAKER_00Like, I just talked about homophobia and we always talk about it though.
SPEAKER_03Like, we always chat, and like my dad, he always likes I don't know, we'd be talking and like spirals into like some it always leads into trans. I'm like, dad, are you into trans women? I was like, I know they look good, but just leave them alone. Yeah. My dad's a little weird sometimes. Shout out, my papa.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03He probably just like asked you, right? Like, because I mean it's pretty, it's it's out there, right? It it's out there, it's in it's in the ether, it's in the universe. So he probably asked you, you're you're a younger guy, you're out in the you're out in the world, so he's he's asking questions about all the stuff that's going on in the world right now. So I mean, maybe you have something to say about it. I mean, I don't know. That's my only thing. I said, Dad, just let them be, you know, accept them, they're real, they've always been there. They're real. It's like not like they've just come out of the woodwork, you know, right now, you know, in 2026. They've always existed. Shout them out. You yeah. Like, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02We just gotta let everyone be and be happy for everybody.
SPEAKER_03That's what I'm like. As long as they're just you know, not bothering you, you know. I ain't got no issues with that.
SPEAKER_02You know what, Mikey? Last night, um, because Gil and I like before we go to bed, we always like talk about our day, or you know, just we we talk about our day throughout the day. And I was I literally, I was like almost falling asleep, and then I was like reflecting and I was thinking, and I and I told Gil, I was like, hey, one thing before I go to sleep. I was like, because so in context for people, um, I helped record Mikey's podcast yesterday, so I was here, so I I got to hear it. But something that I told Gil, I was like, you know what I really like about Mikey and what I really like I heard yesterday is that you talk things into existence. Like I always try to say, like, oh well, if it happens, right? And then I catch myself and I'm like, no, when it happens, and I noticed yesterday you did that. There was a few things that you said, like if, and then you corrected yourself, and you're like, when it happens, and then later on you were like talking like you already knew that things were going to happen, and then you also um what was the other thing that you oh, just kind of like the way that you talk about yourself is always like positive, or even anything that you said was very like, well, I'm really grateful, I'm very happy, I'm very this, I'm that. Like, and and you know what, it that takes a lot, Mikey. And I don't know if you notice that you do that, but I think like that's really cool because you because you have that mentality and because you're always so positive about things like that. Like, I think that that's why you get shit done and things happen because you're already calling them into existence and make yourself believe that it's happening, and that's cool.
SPEAKER_03Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, I believe in manifestation, you know, manifestation and just like working hard, you know, and like being positive and like, yeah, I believe it's real. Like I've accomplished a lot of wild things over the last like two years, like almost unbelievable things to me, where it's just like I can't believe like my heroes are aware of me, or you know, like I worked with a couple of my heroes this past year, and it's just like shit that like you know, like just you know, happened because of the hard work and the stuff that, you know, like I don't know. I just I got a lot of other good stuff happening, so it's just like you know, like I can't take my foot off the off the gas pedal, and it's just like so I just gotta continue to work harder because like I got a lot of other things to do that I'm you know I'm not done, you know. Like I'm barely like, you know, and I'm just trying to team up with other people too that like are you know like hungry. Like I want to give people opportunities and I wanna like would love to talk to other comedians who are like, you know, and I love what you're doing, Gil. You know, you're with your mind buzz, bro. You're you know, you're you're having a lot of dope guests and the conversations, and you know, it's like you're killing it, bro. You know, it's just like Thanks, dude. Oh yeah, you inspired me, bro. That's why like I remember you know, like your stuff is that's why I was like, I wanted to team up with you. I wanted you to produce my stuff because you're your stuff's pro, bro. And like it's like Mr. Beast down here, bro. You know, we got like a bunch of wires, and you know, it's the Batcave and Thanks, dude. You know, yeah. And my yeah, when my homie was down here, he was all impressed. He's like, What the hell, bro? He's like, This is crazy. I was like, Hell yeah, bro. It's and just like you, Mikey, this is like the the sc I'm scratching the surface of of what I want to do creatively. So uh yeah, this is just getting started. Yeah. Oh yeah, shout out Gil. I love Gil. Gil's my brother from another mother, you know. You know, I'm grateful to be up in the mix. We're we're making noise, both of us. I think we're making noise in in our you know, spaces in the spaces respectively. Well, hell yeah, in our orbits, bro. We're like people are gravitorial. You gotta make some noise, dude. You gotta make some noise. Oh hell yeah. I'm I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a little gremlin, just wow, just making it I forgot. Oh, I thought about saying that in the your intro. It was like my favorite critter. I'm a little critter. I'm making some merch right now, and it's gonna just say critter. Just say critter. Yeah, it's gonna say yeah. Yes, dude. Do it. Yeah, it's cool. I will sport that. Oh, yeah, critter. I will wear it. Yeah, critter mode. Critter mode. Yeah, I'm a little critter for sure. I'm a little la boo-boo. Oh I'm a little wild munchie. Do you know who uh Babu Frick is? No. From Star Wars? Oh yeah, maybe if I see his face, he looks like the the one that's like bad baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like the little he's like the little tech dude. I'm a little ewok. Oh yeah, we were talking about that last night. Ewok. Babu Frick. Babu Frick. Yeah. We've been we we've been big fans of Babu Frick the past couple days. Yeah, that guy's cool. He was in uh he first appeared in uh the the new one. Uh-huh. Yeah. The Force Awakens. Yep. Yeah, I know Babu Frick. Look at that guy.
SPEAKER_00They're so cute. Babu Frick.
SPEAKER_03He's chilling right there.
SPEAKER_02He's like, ah, he's they're Mexican, for sure.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah?
SPEAKER_02No, I don't know. I'm just saying. Donde está la Manelos. Uh-huh. They work on parts. They're little, they're brown.
SPEAKER_03They're little, they're brown, they're you can't understand shit they're saying. They're their mustaches. You know what's so fun? You guys were talking earlier about Spanish. When I talk to my grandpa, I don't talk to him like I don't know. For some reason I just switch in uh like I had like an accent, like I'm in a fucking novella. I'm like, hola granpa, donde está las comidas. He's like Las Papas, yo quiero poquito papas.
SPEAKER_01Are you fluent in Spanish?
SPEAKER_03Nah, not fluent. I know a little I know a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Well, do your parents speak English?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they both speak English and they're both fluent Spanish people. They came over uh legally, but they got their citizenship like when my youth. Okay. What part of Mexico are they from? They're Mexican, right? Yeah, Ala Bajada and Jalisco. Oh. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, my mom and dad, they're cool. Grateful for them.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_03You're zooming by. I can't believe it's already about to be July. You know, this is it's wild, dude. It's wild, you know, time's zooming. Yeah. You know, especially when we out here having fun. Yeah, we're chasing our dreams. Summer's out here, dude. I gotta make a announcement that the Poodle Laughs Comedy Open Mic is coming back in the next couple of weeks, dude. Hell yeah, that's gonna be cracking, bro. Yeah, I'm so stoked for you guys. It's gonna be like a a great hub again for the comedy, you know, especially in this, you know, Paramount, you know, it's gonna be cracking.
SPEAKER_02Southeast LA.
SPEAKER_03Southeast LA, dude. Yeah, yeah. I'm I'm super pumped. I'm super excited. I can't wait for us to come back, dude. Have you guys decided a night yet? Like uh July. Like, are you guys doing Wednesdays? Uh we're doing Wednesday nights. We gotta keep it, we gotta keep it old school with Wednesday nights and drum roll, please. We are coming back July 15th, ladies and gentlemen. July 15th. I should be here. Yeah. That's right before I go on tour. I'm going on a little tour next week. Are you really? Yeah. What are you doing? I'm going to Arizona. I'm doing a show with my homegirl Lisa Wallen. I'm featuring for her. Shout out Lisa Wallen. She's a homie. Uh big uh Twitch star. She's hilarious. Yeah, she's super funny. She's asked if I could feature for her because I know some people out there. So it's cool. She's putting me on. And then after that, I'm going to New York. Just to do. I have one show lined up. I'm in the process of trying to get some other shows booked. But I'm just going to go network. I'm glad, you know, like the chaos in New York should be settled, you know, like all the Knicks stuff. I'm not trying to get caught up in the mix. And the Knicks? The Knicks mix? Yeah, like the it looks hella fun, but it's like I wanted to tone down the streets. It looks like the fucking Warriors and shit, you know.
SPEAKER_02Saturday we'll know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he'll yeah. It'll be it'll be chill. Yeah. Yeah, we'll know, dude. I'm excited for you, dude. Dang, a whole tour out in A Z, right? Yeah, I'm doing a show in A Z, and then I'm gonna go to New York. And I'm gonna I'm in the process too. I'm gonna get some um uh Portland dates too. Have uh connect out there. I do want I want to go to Portland and do some comedy. Yeah, I was talking to uh the homegirls that are out there, um uh Selena. Uh-huh. Yeah, so oh Selena and Sabrina? Yeah, I messaged them and they're they put me on with some people. So nice. So yeah, for sure. Definitely want to go out there. They're like some people I'm gonna link up with. I want to do that uh that festival that they usually do every year. Yeah, I submitted, but uh they they didn't accept me. Still grinding. Are they so they're they're taking applications now for for this year or for next year? Yeah, uh I didn't submit this year, but I had submitted the last year. You know, I remember they had some. What do you do? How do you I sent him a message, bro? Honestly, like I found out who was running it, just sent him a message and uh you know, try to make it as profesh. Yeah, of course. And then, you know, and then I sent him a link and then you know, he got back to me eventually and told me that you know they they had all the submissions, but I said back. But you know, oh for for like a next year? Yeah, next year. Yeah, yeah. He was cool about it though. It's so crazy how people put these on, dude. That's it's it's uh still a whole nother grind. I mean hell yeah, bro. Producing is it's like an art of its own, bro. I think so. Put being able to put on a dope show, being able to, you know, you know get these people to commit and come to you and deliver, you know. It's crazy. It's like yeah, it's like it's a vibe, you know. It's it's like that's the one thing I'm proud of. It's like the shows that I produce are like cracking, and it's like an escape from all the, you know, like the world's crazy, so like for like that hour and a half, two hours that you're there at the venue, could escape the craziness and just have be crazy fun, you know. Yeah. Because laughter is you know, like healing. And you know, yeah, dude. After a good laugh, after after do after a good podcast, after a good comedy show, I feel optimistic, so relieved. Yeah, it feels good, it feels good. It's like I needed that shit. Like I've been purged. Yeah, it's like a good comedy show is like taking a good shit. I feel good. It's like you know, somebody is squeezing all the nasty stuff out of me, but it's laughter, yeah, it's fun. Yeah, get that out of me, you know. Yeah, dude. Mikey, dude. Thanks for coming on to the podcast, man. Thank you, Gil. Love you guys, appreciate you guys. Happy to be here. You, you uh tell us where we can find you and what you got coming up, man. Um, you can find me on Instagram. My Instagram is uh at and then Mr. Mikey Baraja. So M-R-M-I-K-E-Y-B-A-R-A-J-A-S. Yeah, uh, we got some shows coming up. The Red Room comedy, June 26th, and then uh July 10th. Uh Arthur Vaca is gonna be headlining the Red Room. Thank you. And then Mikey Brassa Brahas also ha he hosts a podcast. Oh yeah, cool mic podcast. Check it out, cool mic. Episode 10 is about to drop. Where is it at now? Uh, do you just predominantly play it on Spotify? It's on YouTube and Spotify. What else do you got? Uh that's it right now. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, I got Magic Meows uh July 18th in Echo Park. That one's gonna be popping. Yeah, it's gonna be it's 420 venue, real cool vibes, beautiful. Go check all of Mikey's stuff down in the show description, ladies and gentlemen. Uh you can find his stuff there. Thank you. Uh go follow him, go check out his shows. They're popping, they're dropping just like him right now. He's pop, locking, and dropping. Ladies and gentlemen, check out the cool Mike podcast. I am behind the ones and twos on that one. Really check it out because it's uh it's a it's a dope show. I enjoy it. I'm excited for all the cool things that Mike is gonna be doing in the next couple of years. Hell yeah. Thank you, Gil. You're gonna be right there with me, buddy. Love you, man. Doing it. Boodle laughs is coming back, ladies and gentlemen. Poodle laughs.
SPEAKER_02July 18th.
SPEAKER_03July 15th, ladies and gentlemen.
SPEAKER_02July 15th, July 15th. What time is sign up?
SPEAKER_03In the beautiful city of Paramount. Sign up, 7 30. Oh, hell yeah, that's cool. It's earlier. Show will start at 8. Let's go. I'm down with it. You run it back. I'm gonna use a restroom real quick. Yeah, go for a