Club Shay Shay - Ralph Barbosa Part 1 - Club Shay Shay

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You meet Chapelle. Did he give you any advice?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
He was like, man, I'm not like, no teaching, nothing
like that, but if there's anything you want to talk
about me. When I closed the deal with Netflix, I
asked him where the dudes and dons are, Like, what's
the general direction that's you're going now? And he sent
me like four or five mini paragraphs. It's like, this
is what I recommend you do. Thanks to that, I
have a good Netflix special.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
All my Life, Grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle, p Pricing,
one Slice, Got the Brother All my life. I've been
grinding all my life, all my life, grinning all my life, Sacrifice, hustle,
paed pricing, one Slice, Doctor Brother, Get all my life.
I've been grinding all my life.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Hello, Welcome to another episode of Club Sha Shay. I
am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriud of
Club Sha Shay, stopping by for conversation on the drink today.
He's a rising star, one of the best young comedians
working right now. He was nominated as one of the
Varieties ten Best Comics to Watch. People of all ages
love his down to earth humor. Some say he's the
funniest comedian in Texas, writer, entertainer, headliner across the country,

(01:10):
Internet sensation.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Here he is raph Barbosa.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
How woul that intro? You like that intro be? Did
I do you right?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Mister Shannon? That is a good intro?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Did I leave Did I leave out anything?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Nah? I think this may be a little overhyped.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I mess your question. When you hear me reading off
of the accolades that you've earned? What what? What goes
through your mind?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I need to I need to get to work.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
You need to do bore work.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, anytime somebody says something nice about me, it kind
of motivates me to just make sure I can live
up to it. Can I say something real clear?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
We're rolling like? Yeah? Were absolutely? Though.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I just want to say, yes, I'm wearing my girls
right now.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
But I'm doing it as a promotion for my buddy
Ken ken Flores was the first comedian to where grills
on stage and in his special and it's streaming on Hulu.
Make he Long Lives ken Flores. He passed away recently,
but he lives forever on YouTube on Hulu. Look him
up on Hulu.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Al Right, Ken Flores, that's what I was about to
ask you your Hulu special. Tell us a little bit
about it.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Uh. Yeah, Hulu made an offer and I liked it
a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
So Hulu made it always that how you got degrill
or you had Degriell first.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Nah, the africame first. We had to take the special.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
To get the grills special to get the Grill. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Now Hulu they you know, they had this this big
plan because they didn't produce it on comedy specials at first,
so they reached out to so many comedians to get
them like on board. And uh, this was the first
year they do it. So it's like one comedian releases
or special like each month. So August is my month.

(02:56):
My special release is August eighth. And uh, you excited promo. Yeah,
I'm excited, I'm nervous, I'm anxious, I'm everything.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
So when Hulu said, you know what they reached out to,
your representative is like, man, we really want raft to
do a special. When you got the call from your agent,
what's going through your mind? And you're like, did you
have an idea of kind of where you wanted to go?
So I just want to know when he picks up
the cars to a raft. I got a call from Hulu.
Hulu wants you to do a special. They're doing this
thing where they're gonna have a comedian do a special
each month. In one of the month they want raft

(03:26):
to do it.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, at first, I'm like, Hulu, they don't do no
specials then, right, But I mean it seemed what there is.
I had had an appearance on HBO already, I had
I had, you know, YouTube set to go viral. I
had my Netflix appearance already. I was like, we might
as well go for another, you know. So yeah, and

(03:49):
I mean they they had like a good plan, Like
they told us what their plan was, and I didn't
feel like we could go wrong. Then they showed me
the list of other comedians that also signed up, and
I was like, well, they're doing the hell yeah, let's go.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm down.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, they're jumping off a bridge. Let's jump.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Let me ask you this because I'm not a comedian,
you know, historian or anything like that, but you mentioned
Kimp Floores. George Lopez is another famous Hispanic comedian that
I mean, who did you draw inspiration from when you
were growing up? Did you always want to be a comedian?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, I always wanted to be a comedian. I wanted
to be a comedic actor though okay, yeah, I wanted
to be like like Adam Sandler's okay yeah, or I
wanted to be like on skids, like I really like,
you know, Chappelle Show Skids, Saturday Night Life skids. So
I went to an acting class because I read online
that Adam Sandlers did acting school. Yeah, so I went
to one at a community college. I couldn't go to
the one he went, and uh, I was horrible at it.

(04:52):
My acting teacher was like, I say, for you, yeah,
why why do you you know, why do you want
to do this whatever? I mean, he was like supportive
and everything, But I told him I just wanted to
be like a funny actor. And he told me that
a lot of the funny actors they do other types
of comedy too, like in problement stand ups. Yeah, he
told me about like open mics and a bomb really bad.
But I also got like obsessed with it right off

(05:13):
the bat. So I was like, man, I just stick.
I didn't go back to the acting class. Say that
open mics, right.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
You're from You're from Dallas? Does that mean you're a cowboys? Fan.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
I mean, like, yeah, by default, I don't watch a
lot of football ball. I'm a Cowboys fan.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Cowboys, I'm from Man, So y'all, y'all super Bowl this year?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
So yeah, every years our year.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah I know, but it ain't been y'all year for
a minute though it's been thirty years. Were you alive?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
We're about dude.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
I was just about to ask you were you allied
when the Cowboys won the last Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I almost feel like they're bad look charms. They started
winning after I was born. Don't laugh at me.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
What about the Mavericks. Are you a Mavericks fan?

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, I'm a Mavericks fan, because.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, you're a Mavericks fan. You find out they're trading,
Luca goes through your mind.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
A bunch of cuss words, a bunch of bunch of
bad stuff about the new owner and the tears because
he didn't even want to go. It's like when your
mom has like a like a new boyfriend and you
like him a lot, but she done something or like
she cheatsing him. Like, bro, we finally had one.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, we had what he wanted to be here, Yeah,
he wanted to be Yeah, you ran him off now.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
And and it's weird because I don't like the Lakers.
It's like, of all the people the Lakers. Yeah, that's
like if your chicks starts banging your worst enemy like that,
just her, and then Lakers fans are all supporting him.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, but you know, La, they got a big they
got a big community, man, because I mean you should
like that they got a big Hispanic community. Y'all got
something to bord though, like when you had Lucas, now
they got Luca.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I love that La has a big Hispanic community and
I love l A. Yeah, but you know what, and
I'm gonna get a lot of hate over this teams wise,
I don't like the Lakers.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Why you don't like the Lakers?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I like the Celtics. I want I want. I want
to infiltrate the cities that have a smaller Hispanic population.
I want all the Mexicans to move to Boston.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Uh that's a long commute, bro.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Okay, But think about it like this, Mexicans, who are
who are gonna cross? You know, maybe you're planning to
cross tomorrow. The further you go up north, the harder
it's for them to catch you. Maybe that being said, look,
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Speaker 1 (07:44):
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Speaker 3 (07:45):
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Oh? Wait? Where?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
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Speaker 1 (07:48):
Can you see you? Can you see? Okay? They can't
deport us if they can't catch us.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
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Speaker 1 (07:57):
Let me ask your question. What happens if they actually
catch one of y'all and they somebody got that shirt
on camera with ice half you guys the handcuffs. I
didn't go work out for you. I don't think you're
selling more shirts.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
We'll go down even more popular. It's better to go
down on camera, you know.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh my goodness. Let me ask you. Okay, Luca goes
to the Lakers. What if Lebron went to the Mavericks.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
I mean, I'd want to just to get even, but
I don't even think a lot of LA fans would't
even care. They'd be like, so what we got Luca?
Like he's younger?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
True, I don't know. I don't know how much long.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
So youful? You're bengeful. That's the vidictive.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
If I wasn't vindictive, I wouldn't have a career, right,
I'm still every time I'm getting on stage, I still
think about open micers from ten years ago that kissed
me off.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
What happened open Mike teen?

Speaker 2 (08:50):
You have to go all the people who like maybe.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Other their booth comedians with other comedians.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, my first time on stage, I got booed by
the open micros.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Come on, bro, look, how thought you were supposed support
each other.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
For the most part, we do. But it was like
my first open mic ever. Sign up was like at
five pm. Mike starts at eight pm. By the time
I go up, it's like one in the morning. Oh,
there's like there's the host, the guy who's hosting the mic,
and then there's like another local comic open micro and
then his buddy were there and so he was just

(09:22):
on after me, but he was drunk at that point.
So by the time I get up there and I
just start talking, he's like get So I was like,
all right, that's my time.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
So you cut your set short cut you, I mean,
open mic, what do you get five minutes, ten minutes?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Maybe at one am you get three minutes.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Three minutes, so you could holdo on. You only had
three minutes, and he got up there. He was already
you know, a little ineborated.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Got about a minute, fifteen minute, twenty and.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
You cut your own you cut your own set short.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
My first like year of comedy, anytime anybody would yell,
I would get off stage, I'll get nervous, damn. But
you know it's like repetition. Now I'm stage so much
that if people talk to me like I'm more comfortable,
I'm way more comfortable than anybody in the audience. Right
the stage, like it don't matter what stage it is,
any stage, And I think any comic will agree after

(10:11):
you do it so many times, the stage is like
your house, right, How are you gonna talk shit to
me in my house?

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right?

Speaker 2 (10:16):
So it's fun now.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
You know what you know what I like about you, Ralph,
is that because most of the comedian that I've had
up here, oh, they've never been booed. They started off
and they were already at the level they are now
they almost like it seemed makes it seem like they
started off at that level and you were here because
like man, when I went to over mic Man, I
got booed. There were but four people in the house,
and one of them was supposed to come on after me,
and he booted.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Every comedian is lying. Every comedian is lying. I don't
care who you are. Your first year is trash. Yeah,
and maybe it wasn't as trash as mine or as
the next comedian.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
But you had to be a start from somewhere.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah. If you were that funny in your first year
of comedy, you had already been touring in your first
year of comedy, something would have popped off.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
What was it like growing up in Dallas?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I technically grew up in a Mesquite is like a
suburb of Dallas, and I spent a lot of my
weekends in o'cliff, which is like a hood of Dallas,
but it was like in Olcliff. They make fun of
me for being in Mesquite. Yeah, because you know, Mosquiite
was kind of for people that were actually from the
Mosquite was like a nice neighborhood. But to white people,

(11:19):
Mosquite was still trash. So I feel like I couldn't win.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
So being in the Mesquite if you're like, it's a
nice area if you're there, but if you're not from Mosquite,
they're like, bro where you from? Oh? Nah?

Speaker 2 (11:31):
I don't know how to explain it, and then I'm
like a block away from Dallas, like from the county line,
there's no difference, Like, there's not a big difference. But
because I was a block away, if Dallas people would
hear me claim Dallas, it'd be like, you're not from here, Yeah,
you're from across the street from But then I got
on Netflix and everybody was like, you know, he's from Dallas.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Right, So then once you started popping, then it wanted
to claim you.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, county lines didn't matter no more.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I read your grandmother raised you, My grandma other raised
made What would what would I mean? I don't I
don't know your situation with your mom, but what was
that experience like with grandma's Because grandmas are normally a
little bit more strict than moms.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
My grandma was not. From what I hear, my grandma
and my grandpa were really strict and tough on my
mom and my uncle. But to me, they were like
the best parents in the world, and soup like spoiled
me my grandma. As soon as school would be out,
my grandma would take us down to Mexico. She would
drive like me and my cousin and sometimes I'll take

(12:31):
you like a friend and then she would go to like,
uh because we visit like three different cities. We got family,
like in three different cities in Mexico. So she would
drive to like the furthest city out to pick up
more of my cousins and then bring us to the
city where.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
She had a house. Us. I mean, you picked up
a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
We were in a single cab pickup truck just righting
in the bed of the truck through Mexico over there.
That's cool, Like they don't trip on that.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
We did that when we were younger, Ralph, but we
were working. We were going to the field. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
How old are you? That a long time ago?

Speaker 1 (13:03):
A fifty seven? Yeah, I don't people still. I mean
I haven't seen people still riding in the bedroom of
pickup truck.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, I mean I don't know. I mean I live
out in the country, so out there. Yeah, so you
have a pickup truck. Yeah, we got a few one
of them runs.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
But yeah, we used to gopare parts you get you got.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
My grandma used to take us to yell at prostitutes
in Mexico.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
What.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, So, like she would take us to the movies
and it's a border time we would be at it's
called my Tomotos. So she take us over to Brownsville,
Texas to go to the movies, right, and then she'd
take us back across and it'd be about like eleven PM,
and she take us to a park and we'd be
out there at the park. And then after that she
take us to like a little corner store where they

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got women in bikinis that serve you like liquor and stuff. Yeah,
we were buying liquors or were just buying like chips
and sodas.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Oh, I thought you talking about buying something else.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
But one time I yelled at one of the bikini
ladies to call me. So then my grandma started driving
around to like where they would be like hookers and stuff.
And then we'd all just yell like let me get
your number and stuff, and then she would drive off
and she would just laugh. I had a great childhood.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Great granty was like that.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
She was fun.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Why do you feel that? And I feel this exact
same way that grandparents are so instrumental, instrumental in minority communities.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't know. I think, I think, I think within
minority communities, and I'm not trying to like disrespect white people.
Maybe it's not.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
A we can only speak to what we know it.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Maybe it's like a money thing. But I think that
when when you have less, you cherish your family more.
So I think maybe like the grandparents get a lot
wiser minority communities, I think grand I think in minority communities,
our grandparents were the first to realize that if you

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if you raise your kids right, you can spoil your grandkids.
But if you spoil your kids, you end upraising your grandkids.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
So I think my grandma knew like, all right, well
I gotta raise them now. But at the same time,
like he and my kids, I can spoil them.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Because he get bad, I send him back to his
mom and dad.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Uh man, let me ask you this. You said your
grand your girlfriend parents never argued in front of her girl,
your ex girlfriend. But but your parents, like they could.
They say, okay, he's around that, let's go.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
I think sometimes my grandpa would argue with my grandma
in front of me on purpose to I think he
would do it to be like, look, this is what
you need to be, like you want to show you
he's the mad And then my grandma would do it
because she'll be like, look, this is what you don't
need to be Like like, I don't know. I would
just ignore them. But it's hard to ignore them because
like my room was right in front of the living room,

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so like I hear everything.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Right, but what what were some of the things they
would argue about you coming in late? You know, maybe
some bills didn't paid, maybe this or that.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
With my grandpa, as he got older, started I think
losing his authority and so, like he used to be
the type, I mean, he was always the type to
tell my grandma, like where you at. You need to
be home at this time. I need my dinner, I
need this right. But as I started getting older, as

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I was like a teenager, my grandma would would meet
up with all her her old lady friends from the
neighborhood and from down the street to with her and player,
you're playing lotta it's like Mexican bingo, but instead of numbers,
it's like little pictures. And they were and her and
her friends will play till like two three in the morning,
to take a little cigarette breaks and go back. And
the gambling like little dollar games, two dollar games, and

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so my grandpa would be mad he would be calling
her and calling, blowing up her phone, like she needs
to come home, and one day she just like stopped.
She was just like, man, I don't care. So they
would argue about that sometimes, like she'll get home and
he'll be mad, or the next day he'll be mad,
tell her he can't be doing that. But she was like, man,
I don't give a damn no more.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I tell you. Is it true that you would get
in trouble at school? The teachers would call home, call
your house, and then you would translate for your grandmother.
What they would say it is Spanish, which was actually
wasn't what.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
They would say that that really only happened like one time,
but every couple of times that I would have to
translate anything, like even if I was in trouble, my
grandma would assume that I was in trouble, but she
also wouldn't really care my mom. My mom lives with
us too. My mom just move out sometimes and then
come back and stuff. My mom when she when she
was living with us, she would be the one to
be more mad, like if I got in trouble. So

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my grandma would tell me, like, if you're in trouble,
just call my phone, like because she wouldn't understand the manuay.
She'd be like, oh okay, like we'll talk about it
and then like just whatever, hang up, So like she
didn't even.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Care, but you translated you like, oh yeah, girl, Mike
was good. They said I got good grades, or they
said I was I was well behaved. But were you?
Were you a class clown? Were you always funny? So
how did you how did you stumble or did you
stumble upon this comedic side of you? Did you know
you always wanted to be a comedian? How did that
come about?

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I
was I was only class clown in some classes. Right
as a kid, I was always nervous about my voice.
I didn't I was insecure about the way I sounded
when I talked. I felt like I sounded goofy, like
like in a bad way. I had a friend named Madlex.
I have a friend named Alex Ross's and he's always

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really handsome and he talked really like suave, and I
would be like, bro, I want to talk like how
you talk like. But when I talked, people don't really
take me serious. So what I would do, especially when
I got to like high school is on the first
couple of weeks of school, I would test the waters
and I would try to throw a joke out there
or something. And if they, I know, I could be

(19:01):
a class clown in this class. And if they didn't,
I just wouldn't talk. But I didn't like my voice
enough to just conversate with anybody. Also was nervous to
talk to people went on one conversation, so I wouldn't
talk unless it was like something goofy to say, but
if they weren't really laughing, like laughing at my drugs,
and I just wouldn't talk the whole year in that class.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Your grandmother grew up in Mexico. You grew up in
Mesquite close to Dallas, things of that nature. Did you
spend a lot of time in Mexico as a child
other than just going, you know, your grandmother going, You're
taking your back and forth, And did you spend like,
say three weeks or a month or anything.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, I spent like three months over there every summer,
like the whole summer over there.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
What was that experience, Like, what is the difference between
Mexico and say, you know you say you spend a
little time in Brownsville because that's the border town Laredo.
All that's close down there. So what's it like in
Mexico compared to where you were growing up in Mesquite, Dallas.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
The we're from like the like the coast. Her family's
near the coast, so it was like, what's the name
of that gonna leap us? And so we're like at
the beach a lot beach all the time, so you know,
we're always swimming. It's fun over there, even like you know,
maybe my cousin's houses weren't as nice as like our

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house back in the States. She was like our house,
but it was like it was funner. You learn, you
learn to, I guess to get a little humble little
town that my cousin is from, Carlos Womas, And it's
almost like a kick your kick your shoes off type
of vibe. Like the whole little town. Everybody knows everybody.
It's a dirt road town. I could walk barefoot, shirtless

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through the whole town, Like you got to move to
the side so herd the cows can walk through. It's cool, man.
You see the beach right there, Like I would say
the difference is right there, you just be more casual,
whereas over here, like if I walk around out of shirt,
people probably think I'm on drugs or something. From barefoot
and shirt absolutely, so, like I don't know, out there's

(20:58):
just you feel a little more relaxed.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
I think, what's the difference in cuisine, because you know,
everybody says like.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
A lot more diaryeal over there, because.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
You know, like they have Okay, let's just say they
have Nigerian, you have correct Caribbe, you have Jamaican ex
for n Y and z and you might have that
in the States, but people that's from those areas says
it doesn't actually taste like it does if it's over there.
You know, do you notice the difference, Like when you
go to Mexico and you have a dish from Mexico
and then they kicked that cook that same dish over

(21:31):
here in the States.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, I mean I haven't been back so I was
a teenager. I mean the food is definitely grease here
from what I remember all over here over there, over
here over okay, okay, and you can get it, you
can match it over here, but you gotta go to
like a real hole in the spot. You know what
I mean when people don't people aren't trying to live
up to like any standards. Like people are just trying
to cook it the same way they cooked it when
they were back home.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Oh, okay, you go to Mexico.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
I'm gonna take you to Mexico.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Man.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
I wanna go to the beach. I wanna take you
pick up truck.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
No no, no no, we got to go in the
sprinter in. We gotta go on the sprinter man. Uh
is it true that your grandmother told you that when
you came here, look, don't touch nothing, just say because
I guess she was.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Afraid, not not necessarily, like we'd see stuff on TV,
and uh, you know I was. I mean I was
a little kid, but it was like George Bush on
TV and a bunch of like new stuff. I rack
with her, right, But she would just be like like
her opinion about every politician was essentially be like they're crazy,
Like don't worry about that, they're crazy. But she she wouldn't.

(22:35):
She wouldn't like encourage me to like you need to vote,
or like you need to pay attention to this stuff.
Like no that she was just like like maybe maybe
once she actually told me like, don't even bother voting,
Like they're just all crazy.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
So that'sh the grandmother that raised you. That was your
mom's mom, did your your father's mom? How did you
when you did you go spend time with her then?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
But she had she had a lot of stories. You
sit down near your grandma, I feel like everybody at
least one of your grandma's like that where you sit
down and she just automatically starts the story that maybe
she left off at the last cookout.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
And she remember to start telling it.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
She started telling it again, and she starts telling you
how she's related to everybody like you never she starts
showing me pictures of like this is your grandpa's cousin.
But I divorced your grandpa like in eighty eight. Well
his cousin was so nice. And I'm like where he's
showing me this?

Speaker 1 (23:33):
You're right right? What did they got to do with
the conversation?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, so like she was one like that.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
You know my grandparents, like I live I lived with
my my my mom's mom and dad grandparents.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Where did you grow up at?

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I grew up in South Georgia. They raised us when
we got an opportunity to go with my dad's parents.
They didn't get an opportunity to see us much. So
we got whatever we wanted. We go to the store,
we get any kind of series we won't. We got
hamburgers with hamburger buns, we got hot dogs with hot
dog buns, we got honey buns, we got all kinds

(24:05):
of stuff, and then we go back. Like I remember
telling my brother said, man, I showed wish we could
stay with Grabb my childhood because it was such a
vast difference between the two. Did you notice the difference
between grandparents? I grew up great.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
We always had hot dog buns.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Now, no, do you get hot dog? You know, hot
dog with lightwood? I guess you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, see
we call it lightning bread.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
But yeah, lightning bread. Yeah, we called it sandwich bread.
He called it lightning bread.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
I don't know, That's just what they called it in
the South.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
And so yeah, yeah, okay, I'm gonna start using that.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
So let me ask you. You look, you're Hispanic, and you
see what's you saw all the Hispanics for Trump, and
you saw farmers for Trump, you saw gays for Trump,
and then you see.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
What people were supporting him too. Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, some people might say the same thing about you know,
it's mad because they just they do a lot around me.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
You gaze always surprised me. Oh lord, I love it though.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
When you see what's happening, what goes through your math.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
I think I think that no matter like like I mean, hey,
support who you want to support. That's like the beauty
of this country, right, more power to you. But I
think if you like, excuse my language, if you dick
right either side to him, much like you lamely right,
like if you're gonna go red like fine, be read,

(25:38):
you can go you know, live like be left. But
I think when you're like just shoving that out there
and you swear that like Trump is the new Jesus Christ,
like shut up up.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
You do realize now, if whomver you vote for and
they do something like okay, it's like he kind of
told you, like what he's gonna do. He wanted to
have this math deportations and he wanted to round up
so for the song. So if you was one of that,
you know, Hispanics for Trump, and all of a sudden,
your family member or you getting snared in that trap

(26:07):
you can't be mad and says, well, why is he
doing this? Because he told you that's what he was
gonna do.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah. I wasn't supporting Trump though.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Why he's coming at me like just saying no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Don't click that up like Shannon Shot goes off onund
Ralph for Trump.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Like hell nah no. But I'm saying, you know, you
see a lot of people now it's like, well, this
is not what I voted for. That's exactly what you
voted for.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, there's a lot of that. People are like why
is he doing this? Like why is he doing what
he said he's gonna do?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, why you mad? Because he's doing what he said.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't like when people come back come at me
or me in my comments. They're talking about, you know,
Obama deported more people. It's like rob was like fifteen
when Obama got anock for Obama either for nobody.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Do you know anyone that's been deported?

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Uh? Yeah, my uncle, but he's back right, but he
always gets deported.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
But you know I supposed to say that, you know,
somebody might watch this and then go get him again.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
I got like eighteen uncles.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
They don't know what you want.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Look, he's probably hiding somewhere.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, help me understand this because I and this is
what I tell people when I was growing up and
I became what I became, I said, work a lot
of jobs, because working a lot of jobs will tell
you what you don't want to do when you get older.
Because if you, if I promise you, when you young
and you fill of energy, you energetic, and you just
just go, go go, if you don't want to do

(27:31):
those jobs, then you think you're gonna want to do
it when you twenty five, thirty, thirty five, forty fifty.
And so the problem that I have is that they're Okay,
we're gonna round up these people. But these people, some
of these people are doing jobs. I ain't gonna lie.
A whole lot of Americaans ain't gonna to do that
manual labor, that feeld stuff that yeah, people that that people.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
That uh so everybody who was like I mean not everybody, right,
But I see a lot of these videos of people
at the rallies for Trump and like they're they're like, oh, well,
they needed they're in this country legally, and a bunch
of them are criminals, and criminals and criminals. But why
are they pulling up the job sites that they're looking
for criminals?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah. And then when they shut down, you
see a farmer, you know, going bankrupt because a lot
of them do farm work, construction, a lot of them
do construction work. A lot of them do they're doing work,
Ralph that I promise you they're not a whole lot
of Americans. I'm not saying every American, but there are
a lot of Americans that don't want to do those jobs.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Also, they're getting hired like by people who want them here. Bro,
Like with the it's not like they just showed up like, hey,
you're gonna pay me right or kill your family?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Uh you use the ice hot line.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
That was a joke. Yeah, I gotta clarify this man,
because even people believe that's truth. Yeah, even like other
Hispanic people, like I joke like that because it's like, Bro,
I'm joking about my own people, like with my own people,
you know what I mean, And people want to men
like Ralph is destroying his own people. And it's like
shut I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
But you you call it on your ex girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, I'll call her on her. Nah. You never like
this is This is maybe whole advice, but you never
completely get rid of an X man.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (29:19):
You might need that hotline one day. You might need
to shoulder to cry on one day. Hey, how you been?
You know you don't ever do that? Hey, how you
How you been? I've been thinking about your lady.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Holdo, are you Are you like crying? You trying to
get back or you just I mean you're really going
through something that you really need someone to talk to.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
No, it's booty cos ah No.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
No, no, no, no, no no no, ain't no spend in
the block. Ralph. You're done? You done, Ralph. You can't
be doing that. Bro.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Why what you mean?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Why you broke up for a reason?

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Okay, well we can be friends.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Nah, Ralph. When you go her way, you you go
your way and allow her to go her way, allow
her to have somebody in life.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Shannon, let me tell you something. When you start dating somebody,
even if y'a don't get serious, y'all reach some level
of intimacy. Yes, I don't want to go and get
intimate with every girl I meet. It has to date it.
Sometimes you just hit up in the old flame and
you watch some TV together. You Hulu and chill.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Ah okay, okay, Hulu and chill Division in your in
the community, Latin community. Why is there so much division
in the Latin community. You call some of it too,
you all the jokes you'll be.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Telling, Yeah, maybe I'll call maybe I just put a
magnifying glass up too. I don't know, man, it sucks
to say, but damn, bro, Mexicans. Mexicans be hating on
other Mexicans.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
But see, that's that's funny that you say that, because
from the outside, it looks like I would like, Man,
y'all great in the community, Like y'all live together, the grandparents' parents, kids, all,
y'all lived together. So I would assume until I started, like, hello,
they be beefing like that.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, it's weird. You can't have success near your loved
ones really too much. Maybe I don't know. I just
feel like.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
And I don't want to be sterical stereotypical, cause people
just like we see how he generalizes Mexicans again.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
But I'm just saying I know what you mean, like
we're very closed. Yes, yes, but it's weird. Man, Like
ninety percent of my fan base is probably Mexican, and
so all I all I can go off of is
like what I'm speaking here is from my experience, right, Like,
based off of my comments, my messages, my feedback, people

(31:40):
have to show like I'm never Mexican enough, bro, Like
there's there's always so many people. But also these people
are judging me based off of one or two clips
they might have seen, Like, you don't even know me.
If I don't post the clip where I'm speaking Spanish
for a month, they're like, he don't know Spanish. He's
not a real Mexican. He's not doing Spanish jokes, so
he's not real Mexican's kid. If I do jokes in Spanish,

(32:02):
they're like, oh, well, I he's catering now. He's like
your stereotypical Mexicans. Like, Bro, they never happens.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
So you're never going to be able to please everybody.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
But it doesn't bother me too much because the ones
I'm not pleasing, it's it's very small compared to the
to the ones who are pleased. Who the ones I'm pleasing? Right,
That sounds weird to say, but I'm pleasing more people
than I'm not pleasing.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
You travel the country, so obviously they're you're a vast community.
So how you accepted, Say in the West versus the South,
versus the Northwest, the Midwest, the East.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Uh, I will say East Coast, West Coast, and the
South boom like I can never I can never go
broke there as long as I'm telling jokes. Yeah, you
know what I mean. Uh, Midwest shows a lot of
love too, like Chicago, Chicago.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I don't know if anybody's ever sold out my shows
as fast as Chicago has, really Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
I wouldn't. I would not think there's a Harry Democratic
Hispanic demographic in Chicago. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
And what's cool about the Midwest and the East Coast
is that it goes into other you know, cultes too,
Like I'll get Mexicans, I'll get Puerto Ricans, I'll get
the Minicans. I even start getting it, like in the
Midwest and the East Coast, I didn't start getting like
a lot of like Indians, a little bit of Asians,
you know what I mean. But yeah, the West Coast
also super supportive, Like California will sell out really fast. Yes,

(33:34):
Texas will sell out fast. You know, it's crazy about Texas.
Like I'm from Dallas, and Dallas has always sold out.
You know, it's my hometown. They show a lot of love,
but Houston will sell out quicker. I don't know who
sells out quicker Houston and Chicago. Wow, yeah, the New
York sells well too, you know what I mean? Like
New York, uh, North Carolina. I feel like they really

(33:54):
well there. But in between those like once you go
like Upstate New York, or once you go to like
like I've never been to Wyoming. I don't think I
got a fan out there. You know, I would like
to go to some different places.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
How do you guys put together where you're going to tour?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
At man? Leave that to like my manager, my agent.
I will tell them like, hey, I get a lot
of comments of people telling me to like come to
Detroit or come to this city, come to that city,
Like can y'all can we the first the first time
I ever started like touring or trying to schedule a tour,
they were telling me like, oh yeah, we're gonna set

(34:31):
up a zoom meeting and this is our like like
data analysis person, We're going to see where you do
the best. But I'm like, bro, I'm going off of
these comments like please put me in Chicago, and I
remember that one specifically. I felt like, I love my agent,
he's cool and everything, but I felt like, bro, why
he's not listening to me, Like why why don't I
have a Chicago book that I told them maybe like
two three times and they were like, yeah, well right now,

(34:53):
we got to offer for this city that city. And
then they put up my first Chicago show ever. It
was put it up for sale and he and I
remember telling him like maybe like in an hour. I
was like, bro, it's sold out already. I see if
we can add one, It's like all right, yeah, And
then we ended up having to move it because I
ended up doing the I had to clear out the

(35:15):
schedule to do to leave days open to do the
tonight show with Jimmy Fallon. But yeah, we went back
and even until this day, like I'll go to Chicago
just to work on material. If I post like I
got two shows tonight, they'll sell out real fast, so
then we'll add. Last time we did that, we stayed
there for like a week because we just kept adding shows. Yeah,
and Chicago people are cool as hell, like homeboy as

(35:38):
hell saying I mean, and it's everywhere like you get
cool homebo people everywhere, But I don't know what's in
the water over there.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
They like me. Right, So Chicago is one of your
favorite city the tour or two. But I was listening
to you say, like your dad, like your managing your
agent and stuff, And that's what they look at. They
look at the data. They look at you know, the
most people who probably who's looking at those comments, who merchandise,
who you know, so forth and so on, and so
they're based on well, you know, La, we gotta do La.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
La shows a lot of love. Yeah, you California, all
the California shows. Like I can go to certain states
and like if we go to the big cities, like okay, yeah,
we'll still take it's no problem. We'll have some good
shows everything. But then we'll go to like their smaller cities, right,
and maybe it's a little harder to sell, but like California, Texas,
and I mean that's really all I can think of.

(36:29):
Maybe Arizona too, Like I can go to the big
cities and the little cities and they'll still like, you
know what I mean, Bakersfield, it's a tiny little town
on CALLI that will set out as quick as LA
will really, I mean, yeah, wow, So that's what I
like about like California and Texas. Big town, little town,
don't matter.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Like, did you have anybody just fish the topics and
I wanted to talk to you about this. Did you
have anybody impacted by the flood?

Speaker 2 (36:56):
No, not that I know personally, No, Right, but yeah,
that's that's crazy. Yeah, it's tough. That sounds. That's sounded
something almost like like it was made up. It was scary,
you know what.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
And I'm saying I saw time laughs, and I don't
know if it was AI and they were showing it
how the like it was just like you know, raining
and all of a sudden you see, you know, you
see the rain and people getting out of town and
then all of a sudden, I don't know, Like I said,
I don't know if it was AI and then all
of a sudden or as tall as houses.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
That's that's insane.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I'm like, what the hell?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Yeah, I opened up my phone and I saw that
I was and how many people had passed away. Yes,
I was like that that just sounds unreal.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
But watching it in your community, how you guys came
together to help like rescue and look and to do
things like that. I mean, it's always great to see
communities come together because although maybe something maybe that community
someone from that family, they didn't have a family or
a friend or a loved one that was lost. But
to see communities banded together because we do have more

(37:55):
similarities than dislike. Somehow, over the years we've allowed politicians
to say whatever little little dislike dislike that we are.
They play on that and it grows.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
I mean, I guess I really always love that about
being from Texas is and I know other people from
other states to be like, y'all swear y'all are so
cool from Texas or why y'all love but Texans are
very proud to be Texans. I think we kind of
band together over that, like Texans help other Texans. You

(38:27):
believe in aliens, Yeah, it's funny to believe in them,
not to believe in them. Why am I gonna walk
around here like there's nobody out there?

Speaker 1 (38:35):
But you said they're dumb? I mean, because you know
they always they never can land safely.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Aliens. I don't know why we assume they're naked all
the time. Why else would we assume they're naked unless
there was proof that they're naked. You know what I mean?
What do you think do you think the like okay,
like all the all the cartoons, all the movies. Yeah,
they are always like look at these and tailings and
life forms that are coming to the planet and to
kind of either we go to world with them or

(39:05):
they're way smarter than us and their technologies that have
been But why are they naked? Is that the part
of evolution? We're gonna be naked in one hundred years.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Well, let me ask you this. What if the alien
showed up in chrome hearts, jeans and some.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Naked, then you're like, okay, then I would want to
study them. I'd be like, who do you follow on
this story?

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Speaker 1 (40:45):
Your mom gave birth to you when she was sixteen,
your mom. So your mom was a young mom, and
you know that's probably why your grand grandparents had such
It's makes your grandmother had such a big impact in
your life. What's your relationship like with your mom?

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Oh, my mom has like the greatest sense of humor.
I think she's a big reason I got into comedy.
She love like funny movies. She still loves funny movies,
funny shows, like all that stuff. And I go, I
take my son to see her. I try to go
once a week. Sometimes I don't make it, you know
what I mean. But yeah, we get along. Grade. She

(41:19):
worries about me a lot when she I mean, she
had me at a young age, so she was like she.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Had to grow up a child at a young age.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Well that's the thing is like at first she wasn't
growing up.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
She still wanted to be a kid.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
So you know, I understand. But I watched that kid
grow up before my own eyes, and I'm so proud
of her. She now because I have a I got
other siblings you know, between like my dad and my
step mom whatever, but my mom with my mom, I
have another sister. And my sister is al she's thirteen

(41:54):
right now, and it's crazy watching my mom.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Be like so different with her that she was with you.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yeah, because now my mom's older and everything. And like
I'm all for it too, you know what I mean,
Like whatever I can do to like help them out. All,
Like my sister, My sister plays volleyballs. She's really good
about your plays. Like I select teams and stuff. So
sometimes I can get pricey, but like I'll make like
I'll do my part to like help them out, to
make sure she can stay in there because my mom's
off for it. My mom works her nine to five

(42:22):
and then right after work, we'll take my sister to
her practice or to her to her like my sister's
in band where so like it's crazy seeing that, but
I love it. I love when I go over there.
She's always just worried about me, but I joke around
her a lot. I tell her I'm out here on
drugs and I'm dying and stuff.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Even though you know she's worried about you.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, but she knows I'm playing around you.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
You said that your mom broke up with a lot
of people, but you respected the guys that beat her
to the punch and broke up with her first? Are
you joking?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yes? And no?

Speaker 1 (42:58):
What do y'all love? How do you go? How you
go applaud the visitors? The whole team is mom? How
you applaud visitors?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
I love my mom, but like, like I learned a
lot about like how not to be as an adult
through through these men's failures and through my mom. Like
no offense to my mom, but I also have a
lack of trust in women because of my mom, because
I will see her like just treat these dudes like whatever,

(43:26):
Like she'll brush them off to the side, be like
I don't want they just do no more like and
these dudes would like caught her and be like please
get back with me and stuff, and it were laying
so whenever I would if I ever caught winning of
a dude breaking over my mom first and I saw
my mom like cry for him or something, I'll be like,
look that's how you need to be.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Now you're gonna see your mob disupported about Yeah, they
got you back well.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Because like it's not that I was like they got
they finally got you mine. Now like I feel bad
for her too, you know what I mean. But at
the same time, Like I watched my mom be like
like she wasn't. She wasn't no sucker for no dude,
you know what I mean. Like I didn't. I didn't.
I didn't feel so bad for her because I'm like,
she's gonna be fine, right, Like she knows what she's doing,
She's fine.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Did you ever get close to some of the gentlemen
that she was dating.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Nah, I never really like you was.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Gonna be round for a long time. They wasn't gonna
be ra.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
It wasn't that I think because she would have like,
you know, long term relationship whatever. I just never liked
that because like to me, my like, I like, I
have my dad, you know what I mean. It's like
I have a dad. I'm not looking for a father figure.
I also have my grandpa who was like my dad,
you know, my mom's dad. So it's like I was
never like, is this my dad? Like I was like, bro,

(44:42):
you basically dating my sister right now, and they would
try to be all cool with me and stuff.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
It's just like all right, you ain't getting no money
out of it, Like hey you hey, hey, you want
me to like you break me off a couple of
dollars there.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Was one dude who when I was twelve, was with
my mom for a while and U he would let
me drive his truck. He kind of gave me a
couple lessons, and he would just let me take off
of my truck or pick up my friends. It was
like twelve, and I thought he was cool for that.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
You know.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
He also caught me ship in school one day and
he didn't see Yeah, he just told me like, man,
don't be doing that, like you know what. So I
always thought he was pretty cool, and I remember when
they broke up, I did be kind of sad, and
he like, he was the only one of the guys
my mom dated when I was growing up. He was
the only one that like sat down and told me like, hey, man,

(45:30):
like I'm sorry, Bud, me and your mom are not
gonna date no more. Yeah yeah, And then he just
hands me like a hundred bucks. I'm like, they ain't
good feelings. He's like, now I gotta turn my back
on you. I mean I took you.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
But I was like, yeah, exactly, yeah, you ain't, no bro,
I'm good. So so you're like that was the only
one that you really got close to it, but so
did But seeing your mom interact with men, how did
that shape the way you interact with women.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
I don't believe nothing they tell me like that, but damn,
I mean, like I believe some stuff, but like like
if they're like, you know, you're the only guy that
this isn't that, I'm like, I don't, I don't care.
I don't know if I believe you or not. But
you don't got to tell me that, Like, I don't
necessarily I'm not that. I don't know. I'm not that
receptive towards compliments or towards like you're the only want this,

(46:24):
you don't want that, right whatever, because I'm human.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
But it's gonna be tough. You know, it's gonna be tough.
If you become cynical of everything of the relationship and
what she's trying to tell you, it's gonna be really
hard round for you to have to find a stable sak.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
I feel like it's impossible for me to find a
stable situation, a stable relationship because one, I have these
issues that I saw my parents in so many failed relationships,
right right, so I don't trust anybody already. And then
two I've accumulated what I think is a good level,
little success. So now I'm always wondering, like, why are

(47:03):
you with me? Yeah? So you know what I mean?
So like it's too much trust is all like? And
hope is that I meet some genuine women in my
life and get to really know them.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
You didn't have anybody before you became this rap Barbosa.
Did you not have a young lady in your life
that but before you started to blow up?

Speaker 2 (47:22):
I mean I dated my son's mom, you know, but
we were we were broken up before this even like
took off. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
You better go and get back with y'all. You already
got a family.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
No, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Wa whoa whoa whoa? You good?

Speaker 2 (47:37):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
But but you but you know, she sincerely and genuinely
loves you for you.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
When you talk to her. You don't know what goes
through that woman's mind. Shot.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
I'm just saying she was with you before any of
this startdom, any of this fandom.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
I mean, there wasn't like a whole lot of women
that were women before the startom, but there was a
handful of I'm not going to go back to them now.
So for hey, do you want to get married now?
Because you pass.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Are you trying to get do you would you like
to get married? No?

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Okay, so, but I would like to like settle down,
if that makes sense. Yeah, but I just don't want
to like sign paperwork.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
But you do realize in your profession it's hard to
settle down because you're on the road. I don't know
how many dates, maybe two hundred, two hundred and fifty
days out of the year you're on the road. Now,
do you plan on taking this young lady on the
road with you or she's back where.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
She's And it sounds like you don't want me to
get married.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
No, I'm just asking you. I want you to be happy.
But I'm just saying I think it realistic. It's kind
of hard when you basically you travel your job keep
you travel.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yeah, I need I need a date, like a flight attendant.
But my friend had a three siwhere flight attendants. I
can't trust them either.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Now you these stories, I just I just think for
the time being, you probably rap. You might just you know,
kick it so low.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Yeah for sure. Like I've been in Vegas two days,
I haven't. I haven't been hearing on nobody. I was thinking, like, man,
you know it's Vegas, me some girls. Whatever. But honestly,
I've just been enjoying my time here as a as
a single dude with my friends. It's a little gay
bus whatever.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
What's it like having step parents? You treat them good?
And you do you treat step parents like you treat
your real parents.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
I think I'm blessed that my my step mom, my
dad's wife, has always been so good to me and
never referred to me as a step son, at least
not in my face. I mean, like, she's she's been
so good to me.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Man, what do you call her? You call her mom?
But what do you call? You call her my birth name?

Speaker 2 (49:49):
I called her by her first name, you know, but
she like I didn't know. I didn't like I was
almost taking it for granted. How like nice she was
treating me, and like how how much like love she
had for me, and like really treating me like if
I was her kid when i'd be over there. Because
when I got older and I started working different jobs

(50:11):
and making friends that were like older than me, who
had kids that were older than me, I would see
these people who have like their own kids, and then
they marry somebody who has their own kids, right, and
then I'll hear how they talk about like her kids
and how he and then I would treat different maybe
how she treats his kids. And I'm like, damn, bro,
it's kind of cold. Like I didn't have to go

(50:31):
through that, thankfully, Like if I would be over there
with my dad, you know, my dad sometimes would have
to go do handle business whatever, he'd leave me right
there with my step mom and like my younger brother,
young sister, like they was like no problem, bro, Like
I didn't have to worry about her treating me any
different or nothing. Like she she's an angel.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
So how how was did they have kids together? Yeah?
So how was that? Because you know that's not your
biological mom, and but they erratically the kid you know,
did they call you? They look up at you. They're
like big brother you, I mean you take them around,
you did things.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
I think they used to look up to me. I
think right now it's probably mad at me. What a
mad because we all live together right now. And like
my my brother, my sister, they're teenagers okay, and.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
They live with you.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Yeah, we all live at my dad's. We all live
on the same like property and stuff. We're out in
the country.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
You So you say, when your money Huh yeah, all
your buddy with for a grill.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
And a bunch of cars. I built a garage right
there on the lines about a bunch of cars.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
You don't want to get your own place.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Eventually, But for what I'm always traveling. This whole country
so far has been one big home. Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
You pay your dad rent?

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Yeah, I'll give him, Like he don't charge me rent.
I just give him some money for like expenses and stuff.
You know, like I might not I give him money
one month, but the next month I might give them
like maybe way more money than I need to give.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Right, and so on and so on.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
So how did that arrangement come about? You? Like, Okay, Dad,
I mean you're traveling, you know you.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
No, no, no, So this is before I even started touring.
This is right before things kicked off from me. Okay,
this is like twenty twenty two. My lease was up.
I was living with my uncle, my mom's brother. We had.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Have you ever had a place to your own?

Speaker 2 (52:24):
No, dang, n you just you just go.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
From uncle to odd to mom to dad the grandparents.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
If I lived on my own, I think I moved
around so much, I would forget that I have my
own place, and I'll forget to go check up on
the house.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Like, okay, you before you stayed with your dad, You
was with your uncle before things popped off, okay.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
And uh. I was always struggling financially though, so I
was like, man, I can't I can't go get another
lease somewhere. My my son at the time was about three,
and he liked going to my dad's a lot because
as the neighbor has like horses and it's just a
lot of room to play and stuff.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
And your dad is in Texas, right, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
So my dad would tell me, like, you know, come
moving over here, come moving over to be fair. My
dad would tell me that pretty often throw my childhood.
But I was just like yeah, and uh yeah. My
son liked it a lot, and I needed a place
to stay. And one day my son got a little sick,
he had like a flu or something, don't remember. We
just stayed right there with my dad's and I just
didn't leave. I was like, man, can I still stay there?

(53:29):
He's just like yeah, and just stayed. He never charged
me rent like to this day, he technically doesn't charge me. Rent.
I just I can't just be making money and then
not give him something, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Like, yeah, hold it over to your Let me ask you,
how do you how do you? How does one go
by asking a relative to live with them? So? How
did you? How did you stay? How did you like
your uncle? I don't know his name. What's your uncle's name?

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Charlie, Charlie, he's over here, and.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Oh, okay, okay, Charlie. So let me ask you a question.
How do you go about a Charlie? You know, I
want to kick it over here for a couple of days,
and then a couple of days turned into a couple more.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Now we got it together, like we agree. Like my
uncle's man, my uncle's a bachelor. My uncle's in in
the mid forties, late forties. And I'll be like, hey,
let's go get an Airbnb somewhere. He'll be like, all right,
just go. Damn it's cool people, m uncle.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
So are you eventually do you hope to eventually get
your own spot?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah? I'm just like because because I have a few
different ideas, I don't want to invest into anything until
I have like a more like concrete idea because I'm man,
I'm very impulsive. Yeah, so I'll go.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
I just don't want to make a big purchase.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
And then what I'm only regretted. Yeah, I'm getting it,
like you said, you know what you look, I travel
two hundred and fifty days out of the year. I
don't even know place I can stay, you know, stay
with my dad breaking off a couple of dollars, IM.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Straight, Yeah, Like I love hotels, like I love hotels really,
and like I'll go home, Like, don't get me wrong,
I missed being home a lot, right, so I'll go home.
But if I'm home for like two weeks straight, by
the second week, I even feel like, damn, I think
I'm bugging my family, Like I don't think they're used
to me being around so much. Like I'm telling you,
my brother and my sisters are teenagers, and like I

(55:22):
kind of started cracking down on them lately because they
do little teenager stuff and I'm like, bro, respect respect
my dad sounds like respect us not to like live
bro right, I gotta lie for like you want to
be grown, be grown? Stop lying like social my intelligence,
and I don't think they like that when I like
talk shit to them or so, like sometimes I.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Feel like looking at you like a brother, and you
tell them, hey, respect my dad, You're like, oh, that's
my dad too.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Yeah, but I'm like I feel like I'm bugging sometimes
after a while. Right, So I'm like ready to get
back on the road after a week and a half.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
But for the longest, you thought you were the only child. Huh.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
I mean I grew up very much only child, you know,
just me and my grandparents, and then once my so
my mom has me and my sister, and then my
dad has uh three other daughters and one other son.
So like you're the oldest, though I'm the oldest, okay. So,
like I was alone with my grandparents. And then when
my when my sister as I started having siblings, like

(56:22):
you know, the ones that my dad had, I never
lived with them. I just go visit. And then when
my mom had my sister, she was the first sibling
to like really live with me and stuff. But I
was already like fifteen when she was born. So I
grew up solo dolo.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Right, what's the relationship? Right, Like with your siblings, I
love them all, but they know you're somebody they know
that they you ain't just no just no normal big brother.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Yeah, it feels like, uh, I don't know what the
I don't know what the official term is, like maybe
everygant maybe like like a head ass type thing. I
try to I want to warn them that, like, hey,
some of the people that come around there might might

(57:05):
just be coming around to like try to get a picture,
but that I don't want to assume that like that's
true either Like hey, but like my brother or like
my sister on my mom's side, you know, sometimes I've
just see them hanging out with somebody, and then next
month they're hanging out with a whole other group of friends.
And the next next week is a whole other group

(57:27):
of friends, and I'm like.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
You're like that what happened to the other group of
friends that?

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Yeah, so I'm like, and then my brother's trying to
make content now too.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
You know.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
It's it's like, man, I don't know, like some of
these dudes might just want to be around you because
they think you're going to be famous, or maybe they're
trying to come and just be at our house and
watch me eat or something like. But I also don't
like I feel like when I say that you don't
want to see American. I don't want to see Amrrigan.
But they're also teenagers. They don't got the best judgment,

(57:54):
you know what I mean. But also it's like as
soon as I'm saying it, I can already I could
hear their eyeballs roll to the back. Hey, you know
what I mean. So it's just like I just don't
say nothing. I just keep traveling.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Your dad did a bed, damn Charlie. Charlie said, yeah,
they had me locked up too. How did that impact you?

Speaker 2 (58:16):
It just really influenced me to like make sure that
I learned the skill and like became became successful with
like like a skill because I wasn't really doing much
when they both they both ended up going away around
the same time, like separate cases separate.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
So, yeah, you two was the right thing because you
gonna you dying people out because you told on Charlie.
I didn't even ask you about you you damned Charlie.
I quick, Oh my.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Uncle too, Yeah, man, I I just didn't, you know,
I just did. Like my my older cousin, he didn't
go to like the pegidal like that, but he had
his run ins with the law and so, you know,
just every everything going on in our family. I felt
like all our relatives may be suffered enough with stuff

(59:03):
like that. Like I remember when my when my uncle
had to go to himself in my grandpa was tearing
up and he told me like, don't, don't never get
involved with that bullshit because this hurts too much. So
I just you know, Also, I was like bad at it,
Like I'm not good at like at like the streets
and yeah, so yeah, I just never went that route.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Do you get a lot of fights as a kid.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
I fight with my friends a lot, and you know,
maybe okay, you got friends and you fighting them, I
don't know, they just like fighting and they or you,
we all didn't and it made it easier to like
fight other kids because then I, you know.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Y'all team up and go fight other people.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
We went to team up, but it's like, man, I
done got beat up by my friends so many times,
Like who's this dude? Like, yeah, we fight a lot,
sometimes with gloves, sometimes no gloves. Do you ever do that?
You look like you beat up with your friends? Nah?

Speaker 1 (59:58):
You know what, I didn't really try to like nobody rap.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
I'm just you know, that's what swore dudes always say.
Mof dudes always like, I don't want to hurt nobody.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
No, but I was. I was the youngest of all
my cousins, you know, I had I was the youngest,
so seven years, six years, My brother was three years,
had a cousin two years, and then I was the
youngest of the guys. And obviously you know, wrestling and
fighting those guys. Like when you go to school and
you people your age, obviously you know you're more developed

(01:00:30):
and so you could. But I was never I was
never a bad kid. I just want to you know,
I tell jokes, rag on people and stuff like that.
I was good and athletics. I ain't really try to
fight nobody unless I absolutely positively had to fight.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Yeah, like real fights, I might like against like a stranger,
like somebody really didn't like. I just had like a
handful if my own friends one than our fust strangers.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Yeah, I mean, you know, in college, had one fight,
but it was a dude on the team. But as
far as like, you know, I always.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Have bad luck. I think I got weak bones. One time,
one time I was fighting my friend, I fell back
and I try to catch myself and I broke my
middle finger trying to catch myself. So not even like
in the fight.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
I mean you you ain't drink enough milk.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
That yeah, that's true. Milk makes me sleepy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Yeah, but let me So you're fighting, you found your friends,
did y'all make up? Or were you like? Nah? Once
you fight your friends, I'm done with y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
We fight like every day. We had like a fight club.
We meet up in the restrooms in between classes. We
had three minutes. In middle school, we had three minutes
in between classes, so we would fight for two minutes
and then you got a minute to get to class.
She gets the class and shirts off stretched out.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Teacher asks you what happened?

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Like, why are you bleeding? Like I fell?

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
It seemed like you got a lot of enjoyment out
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Yeah, my childhood was fun, man, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Why what? What? What I mean? It seems like to me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Look, prostitutes fight your friends. You fight who I said,
I yelled at prostitutes and then you know you fight
your friends.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
But I mean, I'm just like, okay, yeah, friends gon
have a disagreement to you by fight, But you guys
like friends and y'all like, okay, bro, we got we
gotta say. What were y'all? Do you know what you do?
You remember what you guys were fighting about?

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
No, to see who was a better fighter. It wasn't
like we were like mad. If anything, If you got mad,
we'll probably be like, all right, bro, maybe don't fight
because you get it mad for real? Yeah it was, man,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Did you Did you win any of the fight? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
A couple of times.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Couple the way you was.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
I so a smaller one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
I know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
I knew I would lose, but my mentality was like,
all right, even though I'm gonna lose against these bigger dudes,
I'm gonna keep on fighting them because whenever I fight
somebody in my size, I'm gonna just beat the shit
at them.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
But it wasn't nobody your size.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
The few times that I had to fight somebody that
was like around my size, you got the man, I'll
demolish them. It was like nothing at that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
You feel good? You feel good? Like yeah, I was like, this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Must be how my big friends feel all the time.
No wonder they be my This is amazing. You were
a barber, yes, sir, I started cutting hair at thirteen.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Really, how did you how did you get I mean
somebody said, hey, rap, did you like cut your own
hair to start up in your own hair? I mean
how does somebody like you let them just you ain't
got no barber's license and you just start cutting people here?

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Yeah, I went to Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
They got Ross over here, Ross, like this is store.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Yeah, onto a Ross And at the entrance they had
like a clearance basket and they had like some clippers
like Remmington or there or something like that. I got
those and uh then I was only using those for
a couple of months. I think my birthday came up
and I got like total from birthday cash. I got
like one hundred and fifty bucks. Yeah, And across the

(01:03:50):
street from my middle school there was like a little
like an Asian beauty shopping So I went in there.
I bought like some real clippers and studising those. But
there was no YouTube tuatorials back then. There was like
one dude YouTube was caking his randy. He had like
one video that actually helped me out. The other people
on YouTube, they were still trying to make money. Like

(01:04:11):
if you found a video of a haircut it would
be like a time lapse and then it'd be like,
you want to cut hair like this, go to my
website and buy my DVD because it is like I
was like thirteen. There was no real tutorials back then.
Now this is totoryal for every damn pade. Yes, But
back then, I would go to the barbershop on a
Friday to get my cut, and then I would stay
there like extra time where I'll show up early to

(01:04:33):
like watch them cut here, and I would ask the barbers,
how do you do this? How do you do that?
And I would watch them, you know, and one of
the barbers that was really cool. He actually let me,
like on my friend, let me like kind of book.
So then I would try to remember that and then
I'd go and like beg for clients at school. I
used to walk around the hall. He was like, bro

(01:04:53):
let me cut your hair, please please?

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Will you charge it or you cutting it for free?

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
I would cut it for free and then I'd be like,
if you like it, then the next one pay me.
But they would get the free one and then there
come back because come up.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Do you man? You look at somebody put hands on
you wrap man? You know you can't people here gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
I got the clippers in my hands. I hit him.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
No, but I'm saying it was like, hey, you handled
the mirror. Say what you think? Bro with your team?

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Bro got them? I got You're seeing. They're called the
fade Masters. It's a big old chrome, heavy ass clippers
your thing. Smash you on the heavy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
So what so what was? What's the funny story you
have of cutting somebody here? Have you really like, really
really mess somebody up?

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Yes, bad man, Look, this one is probably one of
my favorite stories. But I didn't come up though. This
is when I was already kind of getting the fade down.
My one of my good friends, Robinson. Uh, real quiet dude.
I convinced him let me cut his head. So he comes.
He rides my bus because he usually gets a ride home, right,

(01:06:00):
So that day he rides my bus all the way
to my house and uh, we get there to my
house and we actually I would cut hair at the
other end of my block at my friend's house. They
had a better garage set. So I'll go right there
sometimes and and I'm I will still take so long,
you know when you start off, Yeah, take yeah, I'm
taking like an hour on one side, and and I'm

(01:06:23):
doing the haircut, and then my mom calls me and
she said that she had to take me to a
doctor appointment. I don't know how the doctor appointment that day.
So like Robinson, you're gonna have to come back again
tomorrow after school. Bro. So the next day, Robinson, I
see him in Spanish classes and this who has one
fade and then nothing over here.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
So you left the guy. It pretty s haircut. The
haircut up the next day.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
The next it was a two be continued cut.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
You told the joke, you said it's harder to get
a barber's license than it is a gun's license in Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Yeah, because you don't need a license in Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
You need a license for to be a barber, but
you don't be likely to carry a gun.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Well, like, here's what's crazy to me. And I like guns.
I'm not trying to say like they need to make
it harder, like that's a whole other conversation for some
political show. You know, I like guns. I've gone into
a store and filled out the little background check twenty minutes,
walk out with a gun. You know, it's easy. Fine,
that's not my issue My issue is that one day,

(01:07:25):
one of the first barbershops, one of my first days
at the barbershop I worked at. It's called Oakliff barbers
I'm working there maybe like a month, right, but I
only go in in the afternoons. I work from like
five PM to like maybe eight pm because I'm still
in barber college. I'm not licensed, but I go in
those hours because it's when the TDLR or the Texas
Department of Licensing and whatever they don't work those hours,

(01:07:48):
so they can't it's less likely they're going to show
up at six pm and be like, where's your license?

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
But I'm working there for like a month, and one
day I get there and it looks like they got
raided by like DA or something. Like everything is just
torn up because TDLR has showed up that day and
checked for license and checked if everything was up the code.
And it's like, bro, because we're fading people up because
we're cutting people's hair, you know what I mean? Like

(01:08:14):
I got a killing machine break here, like got it
in twenty minutes, but I got to go to school
for fifteen hundred I think I change it to one
thousand hours. But when I went it was fifteen hundred
hours and two exams. You're the Texas Practical, the Barber Practical.
First off, you got to do one thousand hours to
unlock the first test. You go and you sit down

(01:08:35):
at these computers and you can't you can't look at
nobody next to you. If you look at them and talk,
they're just like you felt like if we're taking some
CIA exam. Yeah, and you're just they're filling out, like
what are the shaving techniques?

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
All right, then once you pass that test, you can complete.
Now you're allowed to do the next five hundred hours,
So there goes another six months of your life. Right
then when you do that, you gotta do the practical
in front of the state board. So you go, you
take your model, Like if you were my model, I
sit you down, and I got a bag full of stuff,
and I got to separate all my items in different

(01:09:08):
bags and label them, and I got to shampoo you
and drape you a certain way, tow DrAk tow this,
and then when I'm done using that towel, put it
in my little trash bag. Right, if you were to
be like, oh man, I accidentally grabbed a towel that
I hadn't used and threw it away. Let me get
it back from that bag. All you lose five points

(01:09:30):
and then it's like a four hour long process, bro,
And you can't even talk to your model unless it's instructions.
And my my, well, my best friend Hymen was right there.
He was falling asleep because we had drank the day before.
So I'm like, I'm like whispering, wake up up, and
I start pinching his back fat to come up. But

(01:09:50):
it's like and then they're walking around just looking at
you and like checking you and see talking. I'm like, bro,
this is not CIA.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
It's not that serious.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
It's not that serious it is And I walked out
with a killing machine from Acadegmory Sports and Outdoors like
in ten minutes, Like I don't know. That's just the
only thing the barber stuff needs to be, Like I
think now to get a barber's license, you even need
to like know how to do a manic Curiti Like.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Yeah, they ain't gotta do. So how long were you
a barber?

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
I was cutting full time from when I was like twenty,
so I was how old was that feasible? So I
was like twenty from twenty to twenty six, maybe twenty
to twenty five around there.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
But you knew that wasn't That was not a lifelong
ambition of yours. That was just something that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
I always loved it. But it wasn't like I mean,
I loved the barbershop I worked at, and I liked
I love cutting hair, Like I don't know, it's cool
to me. And I remember being at the barbershop and
those guys were so funny to me, and it was
just so fun being there. I had a realization, like, hey,
if comedy never works out and I worked here with

(01:11:03):
these dudes for the rest of my life, I'll be
all right to.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Go with that you mentioned earlier. The very first time
opened mic, you got booed, Why the hell you go
back because a lot of people don't have a rejection.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Because I can't take a loss. I can't do it.
You won't take that out, Like if I really like something, nah,
I can't take the Like I walked off stage immediately
thinking like why did I even come up here? Like
I'm an idiot for thinking I could do this. And
the host is a comedian named Luke Moore. I had

(01:11:41):
seen him on stage that same night. He was funny
and he was like, hey, man, he's like come back,
and I was like, what.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Like come back?

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Did not see what happened?

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Like I thought he was.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Making fun of me or something, you know. So I
walked to the car and my friend Tony was with me,
and I remember apologizing to him like I'm sorry even
brought you out here. We've been here out here all night,
Like I was stupid. Why Like why did I think
I could do that? But by the time I got home,
I was like, maybe if I would have said this different.
And then the next day I was I think. I

(01:12:14):
think I was working at a diner. I was a
short ordered cook, like just making hash browns and ship
thinking like, man, if folder shiit that different? Man, may
I try this like what you prepared?

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Because I was like.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Somewhat prepared, you know. But I just kept thinking about it,
and I think, I think that goes for anything that
I tried that that I really like and anybody like
you up. But then you started like re reevaluating everything
in your head like oh I could try this. Maybe
I should have zigged when I zagged, you know. So
then it took me like two months, but I went
up on stage again and I bombed again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
Damn.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
But I was like, hey, but I did the whole
time this time.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Yeah, so you did. You didn't let him, You didn't
let him make you walk off. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
So I'm like now and I gotta figured this out
like that, And the first time I got like a
real laugh was kind of unplanned, like it wasn't even
a joke that I wrote. Is I was about to
walk on stage. And this was at a different comedy club.
It was a backdoor comedy club. Shout out to miss
Linda Stagner, who's a daddas legend. She threw me up
on stage, and that open mic was in like a

(01:13:22):
nicer part of Dallas, right. It was the first time
I seen open mic with so many like it was
the first time I was in the room with so
many rich looking white people, and I was like intimidated.
So I was about to walk on stage. I remember
this one dude in the front row was like, I
was like, bro, that guy looks like someone who's caught
the cops on me before. So I just said that
on stage, dude, look like he's calling the cops on me.

(01:13:43):
And out of nervousness and everybody just started laughing, and
I was like, damn, vulnerability, honesty and confidence. That's my
first lesson.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
Like, that's when you got that laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
You was hooked, Yeah, because it was like a medium laugh.
It was like bro, it was like aha. But when
you first hear it, you feel like everybody's just like
a right. And when you whenever you think of something
and you say it and everybody laughs, you feel like
a genius. You know what I mean. Do you remember
the first joke joke you told, like the actual joke
that I rolled? I think, uh yeah, yeah, I had

(01:14:19):
just started. This is like the actual like ridging joke
that actually worked. And it was somewhere work I was.
I was working. I had just started working, uh, construction
under like the electrical like industrial electrician.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
You know you had a lot of jobs growing up, right,
I had a lot of the other thing that you
didn't do growing up. You cut hair, you a barber,
you're a barber. Construction.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
I was going to work on the boat. But you
know I grew up in Dallas. There's no Yeah, what
were you gonna work on the Dallas Well, that's what
I'm saying. That's a job I didn't have asked me
what job I didn't do, and there was like.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
A well, you know, day's catch. I don't know if
they still shooting that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
One day, I'm gonna go do that. Watch I'm just disappear.
I'm gonna go do that. But anyway, my joke was
that I was working for an uncle of mine, Charlie. No, no, no, man,
my uncle, and they're gonna work. No, my uncle keeps
his fingerna's clean.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Okay, he's working for your uncle.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
My uncle, Charlie is the one that taught me to
work smarter, not harder. He's the one that maybe made
me use my brain more than my hands. But I'm
working industrial electricity for an uncle on my dad's side.
And I did this joke where I said, I'm working
as an electrician, but you know, from my uncle. But
he says things that that I feel like electricians shouldn't say,

(01:15:41):
or uncles. I was like, and I wrote them down,
and I pull out a piece of paper, I'd be like.
The first thing that he says is like, well know,
if it's wired correctly, if we don't blow up. The
second one that he says that scares me is like,
I think this is where this goes. The third one
he says that scares me is all right, ones around,
locked the door and pull your pasts down and like

(01:16:04):
that one that wone will get like a little laugh.
But that was like the.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
First joke that I like that you started wrote down
to you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
And uh, I remember the club one of the clubs
that I did it at. They only liked you to
do like clean comedy, right, and they were like, maybe
don't do that one. So then I had to like
start changing it up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Right the second time you performed. The first time you
went to open mic, you got booed. The second one
you went to you performed at a strip joint.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
No no, So I was like my first Like.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
So the first time you actually got paid, you went to.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
A paid gig and I and I didn't get paid.
I lost money because they charged me five dollars to
get in the strip club and they never paid me.
It was all fun. I didn't care.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
I'm just trying to figure how do you perform? But
how do you have a comedy show at a strip
joint gentleman's club?

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Excuse me, I didn't look for the record. I didn't
put this on. They asked me if I wanted to
do it, I said, hell yeah. The show was called
laughs and that ass, which honestly, you don't want to
be laughing when the ass out just focused on the ass.
You know you're not going to compete. I was so

(01:17:11):
they they had a wireless mic and they kept cutting out,
but I just I don't know, it's this horrible idea.
I'm I'm on the stage where the strippers dance, and
it's like a pole right here right and some of
the people when they were still getting dances because they
didn't care, they didn't show up for the comedy. And
I remember there were one of the strippers she was

(01:17:31):
so supportive the There was a dude getting all danced
on by this big girl and the girl's facing me
the dude. The dude's like way back there, he's facing
that world, but he's listening and he liked going to
my joke. He turns around, he's like whoa and then
the girls like. The girl's like good job baby. I
was like, oh, like thank you, man, But the mic

(01:17:54):
kept cutting out. This is so awkward. And there was
an ugly, nasty stripper and I remember she walked up
to me when I was waiting to go on stage,
and she started like like working on me, and I
was like, no, I don't have money, Like don't like
trust me, don't do that. I don't have money. And
this is the first time that a stripper was like, nah,
like tip me so I can leave, Like, give me
a dollar and I'll leave you alone. I was like, oh, man,

(01:18:16):
I had like I had ten bucks that day and
five was for the entry and the other like three
wents of her I had two dollars for chips after that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
So in other words, she said, give me some money
and I'll leave you alone. Yes, well, you just got
to be dancing for free. So the internet, now this thing.
There's this thing called internet and a lot of comedians
it's different than the old old comedians because you had
to go to your gigs and you had to go
put your time in. Now the internet can really help

(01:18:46):
young comedians blow up. How did the internet help you?

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
Man? The Internet gave me a career. You know. I
feel like before the Internet, for people to make it
as a comedian, as an actor, as a singer is
like the industry. Whoever was running, you know, whoever was
making moves in the industry had to kind of choose
you. You know, casting directors or bookers had to be like,
I like this person, Let's make them famous, Let's put

(01:19:11):
them on this TV. So let's put them. But the internet,
you put a video yourself out there. It's the people's choice, now,
you know what I mean? So yeah, like shout out.
I love I love anybody who's ever liked my videos. Man,
Mexican community, the Puerto Rican community, the Black community, Indians,
anybody out there whoever liked my videos and just shared them,

(01:19:32):
even if you never come to a show. Thank you
so much forgiving for changing my life.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
Do you believe that you blew up too fast?

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
I think I blew up maybe a little prematurely. You
said that problem, Nah, I think that I wasn't ready
to be a headliner when I started blowing up. You know,
I think I was still because it like traditionally how
it goes in comedy is like you start off hosting

(01:20:01):
shows where you do like ten minutes, then you introduce
the next comic, next comic, where then you work your
way up to feature act. So you'll go on right
before the main act and you'll do like twenty twenty
five minutes. Then you know, over time you become a
headliner and you kill forty five to an hour. Right,
So when I first started going on the road, I
don't feel like I had a killer hour like that,
you know, but I had to learn it. I think

(01:20:22):
it took like six months of me headlining shows before
I learned to be like a headliner. Right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
The difference now is that, say, twenty years ago, thirty
years ago, forty years ago, you could tell a joke
and you could recycle that joke. Ooh long time. You
can't do that anymore because the internet, cell phones. So basically,
and I talked to a lot of comedians, they say,
the first time you tell a joke is not the

(01:20:50):
best time you're going to tell that joke because over
time you perfect it. And now it's hard to perfect
a joke because once you tell it joke. Man, I
heard him say that the other day. Man, he said
that in Kansas City. Many I heard him say that
same joke in calling They kill you for it. How
do you expand on the joke? How do you get

(01:21:12):
a joke from his infancy to adulthood now?

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
And you can't force it. I don't think one of
my buddies kind of taught me that. It's like you
can't you could think of you can think on it
and like rewrite it right, But sometimes I just kind
of like don't force it. Like I'll go up there
with the idea of how to say the joke, I'll
try it out on stage, and if it works, then

(01:21:37):
I'll make a note in my mind, like keep using
this one, but then maybe next time that I'm on stage,
I don't want to put too much pressure on that joke.
But as I'm as I'm talking, as I'm saying it,
I'm having another conversation in my head, so I'm like,
oh shit, say this different this time. It makes more
sense like that, So then I'll just say but I'll
usually keep changing the joke or keep adding to it

(01:22:00):
until it dies again. So it's like I'll say the
joke next time I say it at a punchline, next
time I say it at this But then maybe the
fifth time I said I added something, and it was
just like, now you got too much fat on this,
you know what I mean. It's like a sandwich, You're
just adding too much more. Yeah, So I'm like, all right,
let me backtrack.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
Okay, this concludes the first half of my conversation. Part
two is also posted and you can access it to
whichever podcast platform you just listen to part one on.
Just simply go back to club profile and I'll see
you there

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