October 12, 2022 • 26 mins
Frankie Quiñones welcomes “good” friend and co-star Chris Estrada from Hulu’s hit show “This Fool.” In a battle to stay friends, will Frankie’s positive vibes prevail or will Chris’ dark soul reign supreme. Also Creeper calls Customer Service to help fix his Ramming Robot. Plus, new song by the guiro master Solomon Ocampo!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We got that laugh before your soul and now too
the into the Frankie on this show. Hey, what's up
homies Frankie? Uh, this is the Frankie on the show
podcast Today I got the homeboy came through Chris Ostrata
for a little quick interview. What's up home Yeah, so
thanks for coming through, thanks for having me. Um. Yeah,
(00:21):
so a lot of people, uh, you know, don't know
that we actually been homies for a long time already. Hyeah.
Even though you're could be a negative guy a lot
of times and all about I'm all about a positive kick. Yeah,
you're not like that. I'm not like that at all.
I'm massively depressed. I'm a negative person, right right, Um,
we don't like each other in real life. Yeah, yeah,
(00:42):
some people are. I told my acting coach my greatest
thing to overcome will be pretending to like Frankie on
this show, right right? Right then he said all right,
well we're gonna work over time and I said great, Yeah,
I said, challenge accepted. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it goes
both ways, you know, I mean, because I know it
a pressure too, but that's how I do it. My
depression is be like, hey, let's kick it and you're
(01:04):
not that. So it's kind of like, you know, you
really kill my vibe. Like if I have to be
in your presence, you know, it'd be like you happy.
I'm like, oh, let me go over there and put
it into that happiness. Oh yeah, yeah, you're definitely that
dark cloud of my life, you know. Uh. And somehow
we're able to make money together entertain people, but you're
very hard. It's very hard to be around. It's like dang,
you know it suddenly now it's raining, you know, heavy clouds.
(01:29):
But I remember the first time, uh that we met
was it's not hoping anymore. But it's a place that
closed down in Echo Park called the Echoes under Sunset. Yeah.
It was like a little kind of d I y
comedy club that they had right there off like Glendale
in the park, right under the bridge right there, and uh,
oh man, I love I used to love that place.
(01:49):
But I remember the first time I saw you there
and you did about I don't know, maybe ten minutes,
and uh, I was like, man, you know, it's like,
because I'm a comedy fan first, you know, I've been
doing end Up sixteen years now. But it's like when
you see and I don't care if it's my first
time see this comedy, is this if they just started
doing comedy or whatever. Like when you see Homie, home Girl, whatever,
(02:12):
that just makes you laugh, funny, it gives you that,
it gives you that life, you get inspired, you know what.
And then I saw him like da that that fool
has a show right there, like even in your timing
and sim that's a that's a show, and uh yeah,
yeah no, but I was was the first time we met.
That was like fifteen maybe two sixteen, But I think
it was like maybe I think it had to be.
(02:34):
I think about it because we were I remember we
were homies already and you were doing some gigs with me,
and because I was like, man, I like, you know,
I went up to that night and I was like hey,
and then and then on the road took you on
the road. But at the time I was doing you know,
just either l A San Francisco. I was doing those
(02:54):
show him in tour that you did for me. And
then uh and then we went to like friends know,
and you know, we we've been doing like smaller, smaller places,
but they like Passo or Phoenix, I think, right, yeah,
and this is when I was like just getting going
and then and then went viral and then we really
started to hit the road. We started going to all
parts of the country like Florida, Indiana. Yeah, and that
(03:17):
that was a lot of fun, man. So yeah, a
lot of people don't know that we were on the
road together for over four years, I think, right, and
then pretty often going out. Yeah, and that was fun,
and it was just it was hard because you're You're
a hard person to be around and you're so negative. Absolutely, yeah,
but the shows were going so good. I was like, hey,
I gotta keep this wool like. But I almost think
you like like being miserable in a way because you
(03:40):
were like you you were like, who can I find
that miserable? To bring like a rain to my parade?
And that was me. Yeah I brought that. Yeah. I
do like beating myself up. Yeah, you like beating yourself
up emotionally like yeah yeah yeah. I was like time
I went to you, smile or have a good time
and just be like smile. Yeah, you would shoot me down,
come the clouts. I would go, oh there was Frankie
(04:00):
and I like that. Yeah yeah, fall down yeah yeah,
but you you would put me back where I'm like company, yeah, company, Yeah,
because I would get all too happier. I'd be like, yeah,
you know I'm doing You're like, hey, come down, right down. Yeah.
The world is still messed up. Yeah yeah, everything still sucks.
Yeah yeah, you would remind me of that. I'd be like, yeah,
you're right on being still in have to be in
(04:22):
my presence or whatever. But you would pay me to
be miserable around you pretty much. I mean yeah, I
mean you know, I paid you what I could, but
I was like, I do it three times. When I'll
be writing you that check, like man, yeah, but in
the memo line, you would write for being a miserable
piece of yeah, like thank you for keeping me yeah
in my place? Yeah yeah, you know, I'd be like
(04:44):
I deserve this, you know, I deserved this pain being
around this pole. So anyway, uh food m ramp to
customer service. Who do I have the pleasure of speaking
it today? He is this creeper, I one of those
robots on me we call ours Carlos. But he's all
(05:07):
funked up right now. He can't stop ramming the washing
machine home. He's ramming it all crazy right now. Yeah,
like mom, and when ye like for a robot, it
doesn't even know. Well, he's pretty horny, but beyond that,
on me, I can't even dry my clothes. Hey, so
it's like a catch twenty two or whatever. They say.
I'm sorry to hear the Trevior problems with your unit. Hey, well, man,
(05:28):
I just gonna think it's his unit that's having a problem.
You know what I'm saying. I'll be up to troubleshoo
with you over the phone. I'm just gonna need you
to reach behind it and shut it off. Oh dang,
a rebold glad I called the professionals. Ay, all right,
hold up, alright, well, here's a switch right here. Hey,
so I can help me. Still ramming on me? It
(05:48):
won't stop. Okay, Let's try something else here. We won't
be able to reset the main frame on our end
until he nuts um In the back panel, you'll see
a green light. Can you read to me what that says?
Eighteen point two five? Great? Great? Okay, Now I need
you to look at the source compartment regulator. Okay, can
(06:10):
you read the last four digits starting with the X
two point zero zero b? Okay? I see right here? Uh?
Seven seven five one excellent lastie, just pulled back the
rear assembly and you'll see the C A D configurator.
I need you to decrease the parameters, okay, and I'll
match up the levels with the schematics in the manual. Okay. Next, okay,
(06:34):
do you have a vacuum nearby? Of course? Going on
right here? Okay, go ahead and turn that on. Go
around the house and turn on any appliance as you have. Okay,
could be a blender, microwave, or TV. Okay, Le'll just
turn them all on. Okay, all right, now here goes
out blendard. Okay, that microwave and that TV. Okay, got it?
(07:00):
Oh dagn hold me, oh dang, he's getting all excited
and marsh he drop get it, Carlos. This was about
the blood. He's about the blood cream. Okay, now now
we're talking. That should do the trick. We just need
to over stimulate the computer in order to reset the system. Okay,
(07:21):
all shoot, all get it. Carlos. He's like having like
a three summing or eight nab or some or ione.
It's like a plant's orgy on me. It loans like
general me, my homie in there, get down home. Boy. Okay, well,
(07:49):
it sounds like he's really getting after it there, because
summer third is about that. You did it. This was
a Carlos Carlos. Yeah, it was passed out. They just
bust it all crazy. All right, sounds like that's gonna
do it. Should be able to reset a signal to
remove Carlos stress levels and he'll be running back to
(08:11):
normal again. Okay, okay, now go ahead and try it
while I'll have you on the phone here. Okay, Hey Carlos, Carlos, Hey,
good morning on me. Hey, so I'm just good. You're
gonna have to clean up the mass say you made
a mess with your robot Balo or whatever a customer
(08:34):
service hold me, Hey, thanks for the help. Hey, I
guess it's true what they say, you know, like when
you're stressed out and that you know crazy, you might
just need to empty out your levels if you know
what I'm saying, you know, like bust a nut or whatever.
You Okay, no problem, creeper, You and Carlos enjoyed the
rest of your day. All right, thank you on me? Hey,
say thank you Carlos to the customer service. Thank you
(08:55):
customer service. All right, we're going on me. M m
h m whom we got that laugh before your soul
and now too then to the freaky you're on this show.
But yeah, homie, I remember you were on the road,
(09:15):
You're already starting to work on this fool, and you
were spitball me like what it was going. I was like, dang,
this is gonna be dope. And then it kind of grew,
you know with the homies, uh you know my Angle
brist and Pat Bishop, Jake Wiseman shout out to those fools.
And then Fred Armison stepped on. I remember you told
me you're like, hey, like Fred arms and step as
an executive producer. It was a really nice guy because
(09:37):
like super helpful when I went to like meetings with
us to go so to like pitch the show to
networks and stuff. Yeah, that was dope, man. And then
Jonathan Grab Yeah yeah he was he was cool man. Um.
But yeah, I remember always telling you like, because this
fool would always be like, you know, we'd be on
the road and he'd go he'd go right to the
hotel lobby. Um, you know because at the time we
(09:59):
were like her hotel room to room, so we're like
really just stuck with each other, always kicking it. Um.
But he'd go to the hotel be writing right right
and right after the show, you go right back to
the hotel room, writing, writing, writing, and then uh, and
I would always tell you, I'm like, damn, you're gonna
give me a job one day. Watch you get me
a job one day. And then then one day my
nightmare came through, and then I gave you a job. Yeah,
(10:20):
but then I was in your life, never getting rid
of this. But yeah, honestly, it was like a dream
come true to me because you know, our community needed
a show like this, and uh, you know, just like
you know, I'm a comedy fan person, just like if
even if I had nothing to do, And I always
tell you, like my familia, even my mom, like she's like, man,
(10:42):
even if you weren't in the show, I would love
it like that I does. She goes, she was texting
me all this crazy stuff like finally finally someone did it,
like you nailed it. He nailed it, like the authenticity
of it everything, and and uh, those were all things
that are important to me already. And then having you
there and then you know, and your sister even doing
the horn roll up like down to the t hold
me the details. It's like the words of the thing,
(11:03):
the language, everything on me. It was like, you know,
I just felt like I was right there, like that
show is familia to me, you know what I mean.
I was channeling all this thing. And then the character,
you know, Louisa, you know you created it was like
you know what they envisioned to be, you know, you
guys envisioned to be a different a bigger, like tougher,
more obvious, like you know, more on the nose kind
(11:25):
of depiction. And then when we couldn't find that person,
and then when we auditioned you, I was like hoping,
praying that you wouldn't be right for it, and then
when I saw you were right for it, I went,
goddamn it, now I have to hire this fool. And
then I set the nightmare continuence. Yeah yeah, well but yeah,
(11:46):
and then you you auditioned for it, and you were
just so funny and it felt like reverse Friday, like uh,
like I was the ice Cube character and you're Chris Stucker.
All right, yeah, and when it was funny too. I
love that how the I said, the cast and crew
they saw that hard relationship is very similar in real
life to what it is on camera. I think that's
what helps us something each other. Yeah, We're always talking
(12:08):
to each other and were like always making fun of
each other, always making jokes. Yeah yeah, just just all that,
just talky popas all day to each other. Like I
remember our airplanes would just be talking ship, talky ship.
That's how we would get through, yeah whatever, just like flights,
you gotta talk to you to each other. And then
we were tak a nap wick up like yeah, call
(12:30):
my lady, tell her I hate Frankie's ruining my life.
Things like that. Oh yeah, yeah, you know, I kept
having to read for the part. And then you you know,
you fought for me because you were like you saw it. Yeah,
I mean I know I saw it, but it wasn't
my place to be like hey, like you know, I'm
not a cocky photo be like, but you you saw it,
and I saw it, and you were like you went
to bad for me, and you and another homie, and
(12:50):
then eventually other people are like I started seeing it,
but it was all because of you, homie, and then
what came out, and I mean even though it was
very regret of my like yeah, yeah, but we're not really,
But I remember I was like, damn when we remember
I said, one day you're gonna give you a job.
Then here we are, and you're kind of like, you know,
I'm kind of lightweight my boss on the set, you know,
(13:12):
and I'll be like when just when they put me
in the dinosaur costume, you know, I'm like, I'm like
putting out a dinosaur costume, but I'm looking at you, like,
all right, anything for you on me? Yeah, you know,
like and I was sweating by eyes off it there
with the ice pack around, I think, and all that.
But I love that episode. Oh man, so but the
finished product came out so funny. Man. Yeah, but we're
(13:32):
gonna put you in more suits more like next year.
It's not going to be another dinosaurs suit and a
lot more suits, yeah, a lot more sap I think
we already. I don't know we need more suits, more
dinosaurs suits. People a little bit. People said, we've got
a lot of messages saying like, oh, we would love
to see him and like and a lot more dinosaur
suits and like different episodes. And I said, whatever the
(13:54):
people want, na, But but you know, people, we could
probably do some other stuff. But the people want it,
you know, and you and you love the people. You're
always like um for the people and this and that.
So yeah, but the people don't understand it. I don't
need to be sweating my mask off and a dinosaur
suit everything they sent us message just though, So we're
doing it. It'll be funny. He loves the people, he
(14:16):
always says, I do it, but yeah, not you so much.
But yeah, not me, but the people. You love them?
All right, you heard it here first on me. You
see me in a suit the next season there. You
know that you came from this for it. Yeah, if
you die of a heat stroke, they would blame us. Okay,
yeah you won't. That wouldn't affect you though. You'd be like, hey,
if it happens, you know, he signed up for it,
(14:38):
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(15:22):
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fishing wildlife bums now. But it was it was so
cool man like doing the doing the show. Uh it was,
(18:07):
I mean it was long days and all that, and
I know I was like twelve thirteen hour days. Were
there every day, you know, I remember, you know they
would they would always have to put the black couples
on me, the tattoos every morning. So a lot of
times my call times would be four thirty five am
and they're just because they have to put the tattoos
on me and you know, do the makeup and all that. Um.
So I remember it was just like we had no
(18:29):
life like that was our life. It was just like
every day, every day home. They were like three to
four months. Yeah, like it just over three months for me.
And then uh, and then you were going through a
lot of stuff at the time, and I was just like, man,
I just remember being, um, I hate telling you this
because I know you don't really like you're not about positive.
I was really but I was really proud of you,
you know what I mean. I was just like as
a homie, as just like a fellow comedian. I was like, man,
(18:52):
I both did it, you know, and just like, uh,
you know, you're like, you know, like one of the
realest schools that I know, and and um, you know,
and you're like first generation, like your your mom is
your mom, and your parents are straight from there's like
my hour Elitos from you know, Sycatecas. Your mom is
from Psycho, you know, from the same same region a Maybo,
(19:12):
which is families from Mexico. My parents moved here in
the eighties. Yeah, so man, it was just so cool
to see see that happen for you. And then uh,
and then your mom retired while we were still filming
you retired. She was retired from a janitor. That episode
six called Los Botas where the mom character steals toilet
(19:33):
paper from work was baked off of my s mom
used to bring home totlet toilet paper from her job,
which was the worst, big toilet paper that didn't even
fit on the wall, the big odustrial roll, the worst.
I know. Like a lot of people tell me, they're like, hey,
Los what is that's my favorite episode? Some people tell
(19:55):
me that's her favorite episode, and I'm like, hey, you know,
Chris's mom was really a janitor because I love that
that opening scene and the music, everything is oh man,
it's so gangster, just her in the cut like nobody
noticed and just thinking all the cans cleaning and then
steal the toilet paper, stay flurs all that if you
just know it, you know, have you known your family
(20:17):
and all that, And then just like watching that episode
of like, oh that it's so dupe. Probably is so
because it's comes from a real place, and I think
that's why it's resonating with so many people. So it's
just like a lot of people the show's authentic, and
it's like and then we're always talking ship to each
other in real life, so that translated our chemistry translated
to the on camera. You know, it just worked out
and it was just like bam, only let's go like
(20:39):
and so from getting each other into headlocks before cameras. Yeah, yeah,
when the cameras were started, man, because being on the road,
like we'll be going city to city, like you know,
in the budget, we had to share a room, like
you know, we're sharing a room and you know, when
you're just in somebody's tight space like that all the time,
like we would really we were never going to get
(21:01):
in a fight, but we were just just to get
that out and then just like get on each other's nerves.
Then we would get like two or three days off
from each other during the week and then it's like, hey,
it's Thursday night and we gotta go to the next place.
We'll see Frankie again America. And then it was going
to making the show and do it Spady twalk two
hours a day again. Positive I'm dead in Fine, uh
(21:27):
but yeah for those listening and watching, please tune in,
please share this fool episodes not streaming out Hulu. Hopefully
we get a season two. Yeah, hopefully by the time
this episode, as we're already announced the second season. But yeah,
we'll see about that. So what's coming up for you
other than uh, you know, working on the second season
(21:48):
of the show, just doing stand up, going back to
stand up. I never stopped doing stand up. I love it,
And so working on stand up and making sure that
I'm writing new material and then I'm performing off and yeah, yeah, man,
it was crazy. We were so busy with the show
that it was like, you know, the stand up kind
of took a back seat for a while, just a
little bit, just for like maybe two or three months.
(22:08):
But then it was unhappy to be doing stand up. Yeah, yeah,
me too, homie. And it was like, you said, you
working on that new material because I had so much
stuff from being on lockdown in the pandemic and now
I'm getting tired of those strokes. I'm like, even though
i haven't put them on camera, or I'm like, I'm like,
oh man, just feeling I want I want something fresh,
something new. Yeah, So, you know, been working on that.
(22:29):
And it's just cool that when people discover that we
that we are stand ups and that's how we started,
that's how we met each other and all that, because
even when you know, even when like to went borrow
all that and I was doing shows, people were like
not knowing what to expect, and They're like, oh, shoot,
this one does stand up and I'm like, yeah, only
like been doing it. Yeah, it's been it's been sick.
This is sixteen years this year for me since I
(22:49):
started doing stand up. And then I know you've been
doing it a long time too, and so eight nine years,
eight and nine years. Yeah, yeah, it's been a while.
And you're kind of like even when I met you, man,
you've always been like like an old soul, like a
student of the game, you know, like and you are
like that, You're always reading something about you know, punk
rock culture or or you know, just and then you'll share,
(23:09):
you'll share a little tidbits with me, and I'm like, dang,
like this school knows us up, you know. Yeah, so
yeah anything that. Yeah, I just love keeping up with ship.
But also just like you know, figuring out new material
for stand up and stuff like that, writing new stand up.
That's that's what really gets me excited. Yeah, damn, I
just can't believe I've known you almost ten years now. Yeah,
that's crazy. I can't believe we're still keep it as
(23:33):
much as like how different we're like you're just hey,
the world whatever. And then you're all like, I like people.
That's not how I talk. A told me what I don't.
That's more you that you're like my face like one love,
one lovey about that one love. Yes, you're not like that.
(23:54):
I don't like that. Not everybody's cool. Yeah, some people
are cool and some yeah yeah, no, I know that.
But you don't like that. You're all like, well, one love,
bad days don't exist. I don't know. I'm realistic. I
don't say like that. I mean I have to kick
it with you a lot of days. So but I
bring you back to reality. Yeah yeah, all right, yeah,
(24:15):
like a rainy day or whatever, cloudy day, all right.
And like I said, I'm excited for people to see
you do stand up. And you've got some I know
you've got some dates coming up. You've got one in Miami, right, Yeah,
I'm playing the Miami in prob October twenty nine and
thirty a Saturday and Sunday, October ninety. Yeah, be out
there with comedian Mike Menendez was a really funny comment.
Cool cool, alright, So Miami, get your tickets before they're gone, homie.
(24:39):
And then uh yeah, I'll be in uh Vegas October
twenty one and twenty second at the Tropicana at the
Laugh Factory out there, so Vegas. Hope, hopefully I'll see
you there. Um yeah, Homie, thanks for coming through, kicking in. Thanks,
Thanks for being a good homie, you know, balancing me
out with your negative vibes. Yeah on me. I'm always
(25:00):
rooting for you. I'm so proud of you, and I'm
excited to keep killing it with you. And all right enough,
stay miserable everyone, you don't read that positive ship point.
All right, y'all, thanks for tuning in. Much love, che
(25:25):
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(25:46):
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Sixteen
We got that laugh before your soul and now too
the into the Frankie on this show. Hey, what's up
homies Frankie? Uh, this is the Frankie on the show
podcast Today I got the homeboy came through Chris Ostrata
for a little quick interview. What's up home Yeah, so
thanks for coming through, thanks for having me. Um. Yeah,
(00:21):
so a lot of people, uh, you know, don't know
that we actually been homies for a long time already. Hyeah.
Even though you're could be a negative guy a lot
of times and all about I'm all about a positive kick. Yeah,
you're not like that. I'm not like that at all.
I'm massively depressed. I'm a negative person, right right, Um,
we don't like each other in real life. Yeah, yeah,
(00:42):
some people are. I told my acting coach my greatest
thing to overcome will be pretending to like Frankie on
this show, right right? Right then he said all right,
well we're gonna work over time and I said great, Yeah,
I said, challenge accepted. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it goes
both ways, you know, I mean, because I know it
a pressure too, but that's how I do it. My
depression is be like, hey, let's kick it and you're
(01:04):
not that. So it's kind of like, you know, you
really kill my vibe. Like if I have to be
in your presence, you know, it'd be like you happy.
I'm like, oh, let me go over there and put
it into that happiness. Oh yeah, yeah, you're definitely that
dark cloud of my life, you know. Uh. And somehow
we're able to make money together entertain people, but you're
very hard. It's very hard to be around. It's like dang,
you know it suddenly now it's raining, you know, heavy clouds.
(01:29):
But I remember the first time, uh that we met
was it's not hoping anymore. But it's a place that
closed down in Echo Park called the Echoes under Sunset. Yeah.
It was like a little kind of d I y
comedy club that they had right there off like Glendale
in the park, right under the bridge right there, and uh,
oh man, I love I used to love that place.
(01:49):
But I remember the first time I saw you there
and you did about I don't know, maybe ten minutes,
and uh, I was like, man, you know, it's like,
because I'm a comedy fan first, you know, I've been
doing end Up sixteen years now. But it's like when
you see and I don't care if it's my first
time see this comedy, is this if they just started
doing comedy or whatever. Like when you see Homie, home Girl, whatever,
(02:12):
that just makes you laugh, funny, it gives you that,
it gives you that life, you get inspired, you know what.
And then I saw him like da that that fool
has a show right there, like even in your timing
and sim that's a that's a show, and uh yeah,
yeah no, but I was was the first time we met.
That was like fifteen maybe two sixteen, But I think
it was like maybe I think it had to be.
(02:34):
I think about it because we were I remember we
were homies already and you were doing some gigs with me,
and because I was like, man, I like, you know,
I went up to that night and I was like hey,
and then and then on the road took you on
the road. But at the time I was doing you know,
just either l A San Francisco. I was doing those
(02:54):
show him in tour that you did for me. And
then uh and then we went to like friends know,
and you know, we we've been doing like smaller, smaller places,
but they like Passo or Phoenix, I think, right, yeah,
and this is when I was like just getting going
and then and then went viral and then we really
started to hit the road. We started going to all
parts of the country like Florida, Indiana. Yeah, and that
(03:17):
that was a lot of fun, man. So yeah, a
lot of people don't know that we were on the
road together for over four years, I think, right, and
then pretty often going out. Yeah, and that was fun,
and it was just it was hard because you're You're
a hard person to be around and you're so negative. Absolutely, yeah,
but the shows were going so good. I was like, hey,
I gotta keep this wool like. But I almost think
you like like being miserable in a way because you
(03:40):
were like you you were like, who can I find
that miserable? To bring like a rain to my parade?
And that was me. Yeah I brought that. Yeah. I
do like beating myself up. Yeah, you like beating yourself
up emotionally like yeah yeah yeah. I was like time
I went to you, smile or have a good time
and just be like smile. Yeah, you would shoot me down,
come the clouts. I would go, oh there was Frankie
(04:00):
and I like that. Yeah yeah, fall down yeah yeah,
but you you would put me back where I'm like company, yeah, company, Yeah,
because I would get all too happier. I'd be like, yeah,
you know I'm doing You're like, hey, come down, right down. Yeah.
The world is still messed up. Yeah yeah, everything still sucks.
Yeah yeah, you would remind me of that. I'd be like, yeah,
you're right on being still in have to be in
(04:22):
my presence or whatever. But you would pay me to
be miserable around you pretty much. I mean yeah, I
mean you know, I paid you what I could, but
I was like, I do it three times. When I'll
be writing you that check, like man, yeah, but in
the memo line, you would write for being a miserable
piece of yeah, like thank you for keeping me yeah
in my place? Yeah yeah, you know, I'd be like
(04:44):
I deserve this, you know, I deserved this pain being
around this pole. So anyway, uh food m ramp to
customer service. Who do I have the pleasure of speaking
it today? He is this creeper, I one of those
robots on me we call ours Carlos. But he's all
(05:07):
funked up right now. He can't stop ramming the washing
machine home. He's ramming it all crazy right now. Yeah,
like mom, and when ye like for a robot, it
doesn't even know. Well, he's pretty horny, but beyond that,
on me, I can't even dry my clothes. Hey, so
it's like a catch twenty two or whatever. They say.
I'm sorry to hear the Trevior problems with your unit. Hey, well, man,
(05:28):
I just gonna think it's his unit that's having a problem.
You know what I'm saying. I'll be up to troubleshoo
with you over the phone. I'm just gonna need you
to reach behind it and shut it off. Oh dang,
a rebold glad I called the professionals. Ay, all right,
hold up, alright, well, here's a switch right here. Hey,
so I can help me. Still ramming on me? It
(05:48):
won't stop. Okay, Let's try something else here. We won't
be able to reset the main frame on our end
until he nuts um In the back panel, you'll see
a green light. Can you read to me what that says?
Eighteen point two five? Great? Great? Okay, Now I need
you to look at the source compartment regulator. Okay, can
(06:10):
you read the last four digits starting with the X
two point zero zero b? Okay? I see right here? Uh?
Seven seven five one excellent lastie, just pulled back the
rear assembly and you'll see the C A D configurator.
I need you to decrease the parameters, okay, and I'll
match up the levels with the schematics in the manual. Okay. Next, okay,
(06:34):
do you have a vacuum nearby? Of course? Going on
right here? Okay, go ahead and turn that on. Go
around the house and turn on any appliance as you have. Okay,
could be a blender, microwave, or TV. Okay, Le'll just
turn them all on. Okay, all right, now here goes
out blendard. Okay, that microwave and that TV. Okay, got it?
(07:00):
Oh dagn hold me, oh dang, he's getting all excited
and marsh he drop get it, Carlos. This was about
the blood. He's about the blood cream. Okay, now now
we're talking. That should do the trick. We just need
to over stimulate the computer in order to reset the system. Okay,
(07:21):
all shoot, all get it. Carlos. He's like having like
a three summing or eight nab or some or ione.
It's like a plant's orgy on me. It loans like
general me, my homie in there, get down home. Boy. Okay, well,
(07:49):
it sounds like he's really getting after it there, because
summer third is about that. You did it. This was
a Carlos Carlos. Yeah, it was passed out. They just
bust it all crazy. All right, sounds like that's gonna
do it. Should be able to reset a signal to
remove Carlos stress levels and he'll be running back to
(08:11):
normal again. Okay, okay, now go ahead and try it
while I'll have you on the phone here. Okay, Hey Carlos, Carlos, Hey,
good morning on me. Hey, so I'm just good. You're
gonna have to clean up the mass say you made
a mess with your robot Balo or whatever a customer
(08:34):
service hold me, Hey, thanks for the help. Hey, I
guess it's true what they say, you know, like when
you're stressed out and that you know crazy, you might
just need to empty out your levels if you know
what I'm saying, you know, like bust a nut or whatever.
You Okay, no problem, creeper, You and Carlos enjoyed the
rest of your day. All right, thank you on me? Hey,
say thank you Carlos to the customer service. Thank you
(08:55):
customer service. All right, we're going on me. M m
h m whom we got that laugh before your soul
and now too then to the freaky you're on this show.
But yeah, homie, I remember you were on the road,
(09:15):
You're already starting to work on this fool, and you
were spitball me like what it was going. I was like, dang,
this is gonna be dope. And then it kind of grew,
you know with the homies, uh you know my Angle
brist and Pat Bishop, Jake Wiseman shout out to those fools.
And then Fred Armison stepped on. I remember you told
me you're like, hey, like Fred arms and step as
an executive producer. It was a really nice guy because
(09:37):
like super helpful when I went to like meetings with
us to go so to like pitch the show to
networks and stuff. Yeah, that was dope, man. And then
Jonathan Grab Yeah yeah he was he was cool man. Um.
But yeah, I remember always telling you like, because this
fool would always be like, you know, we'd be on
the road and he'd go he'd go right to the
hotel lobby. Um, you know because at the time we
(09:59):
were like her hotel room to room, so we're like
really just stuck with each other, always kicking it. Um.
But he'd go to the hotel be writing right right
and right after the show, you go right back to
the hotel room, writing, writing, writing, and then uh, and
I would always tell you, I'm like, damn, you're gonna
give me a job one day. Watch you get me
a job one day. And then then one day my
nightmare came through, and then I gave you a job. Yeah,
(10:20):
but then I was in your life, never getting rid
of this. But yeah, honestly, it was like a dream
come true to me because you know, our community needed
a show like this, and uh, you know, just like
you know, I'm a comedy fan person, just like if
even if I had nothing to do, And I always
tell you, like my familia, even my mom, like she's like, man,
(10:42):
even if you weren't in the show, I would love
it like that I does. She goes, she was texting
me all this crazy stuff like finally finally someone did it,
like you nailed it. He nailed it, like the authenticity
of it everything, and and uh, those were all things
that are important to me already. And then having you
there and then you know, and your sister even doing
the horn roll up like down to the t hold
me the details. It's like the words of the thing,
(11:03):
the language, everything on me. It was like, you know,
I just felt like I was right there, like that
show is familia to me, you know what I mean.
I was channeling all this thing. And then the character,
you know, Louisa, you know you created it was like
you know what they envisioned to be, you know, you
guys envisioned to be a different a bigger, like tougher,
more obvious, like you know, more on the nose kind
(11:25):
of depiction. And then when we couldn't find that person,
and then when we auditioned you, I was like hoping,
praying that you wouldn't be right for it, and then
when I saw you were right for it, I went,
goddamn it, now I have to hire this fool. And
then I set the nightmare continuence. Yeah yeah, well but yeah,
(11:46):
and then you you auditioned for it, and you were
just so funny and it felt like reverse Friday, like uh,
like I was the ice Cube character and you're Chris Stucker.
All right, yeah, and when it was funny too. I
love that how the I said, the cast and crew
they saw that hard relationship is very similar in real
life to what it is on camera. I think that's
what helps us something each other. Yeah, We're always talking
(12:08):
to each other and were like always making fun of
each other, always making jokes. Yeah yeah, just just all that,
just talky popas all day to each other. Like I
remember our airplanes would just be talking ship, talky ship.
That's how we would get through, yeah whatever, just like flights,
you gotta talk to you to each other. And then
we were tak a nap wick up like yeah, call
(12:30):
my lady, tell her I hate Frankie's ruining my life.
Things like that. Oh yeah, yeah, you know, I kept
having to read for the part. And then you you know,
you fought for me because you were like you saw it. Yeah,
I mean I know I saw it, but it wasn't
my place to be like hey, like you know, I'm
not a cocky photo be like, but you you saw it,
and I saw it, and you were like you went
to bad for me, and you and another homie, and
(12:50):
then eventually other people are like I started seeing it,
but it was all because of you, homie, and then
what came out, and I mean even though it was
very regret of my like yeah, yeah, but we're not really,
But I remember I was like, damn when we remember
I said, one day you're gonna give you a job.
Then here we are, and you're kind of like, you know,
I'm kind of lightweight my boss on the set, you know,
(13:12):
and I'll be like when just when they put me
in the dinosaur costume, you know, I'm like, I'm like
putting out a dinosaur costume, but I'm looking at you, like,
all right, anything for you on me? Yeah, you know,
like and I was sweating by eyes off it there
with the ice pack around, I think, and all that.
But I love that episode. Oh man, so but the
finished product came out so funny. Man. Yeah, but we're
(13:32):
gonna put you in more suits more like next year.
It's not going to be another dinosaurs suit and a
lot more suits, yeah, a lot more sap I think
we already. I don't know we need more suits, more
dinosaurs suits. People a little bit. People said, we've got
a lot of messages saying like, oh, we would love
to see him and like and a lot more dinosaur
suits and like different episodes. And I said, whatever the
(13:54):
people want, na, But but you know, people, we could
probably do some other stuff. But the people want it,
you know, and you and you love the people. You're
always like um for the people and this and that.
So yeah, but the people don't understand it. I don't
need to be sweating my mask off and a dinosaur
suit everything they sent us message just though, So we're
doing it. It'll be funny. He loves the people, he
(14:16):
always says, I do it, but yeah, not you so much.
But yeah, not me, but the people. You love them?
All right, you heard it here first on me. You
see me in a suit the next season there. You
know that you came from this for it. Yeah, if
you die of a heat stroke, they would blame us. Okay,
yeah you won't. That wouldn't affect you though. You'd be like, hey,
if it happens, you know, he signed up for it,
(14:38):
you know, I go if you want it. If you
wanted to do this, I'd be like the nightmares over
assholes you know that time? Yeah you do? Wow, you
(15:02):
get over look, get over me. Hermo sa Bonita. The
wish she looks, the wish she moves while representing for
the people. The way you dance surround the place makes
me say, oh wow, I like this. I like this,
so I said hello, how you're doing? And you say, oh,
(15:22):
I know you. I said, oh really, she said yeah.
Then I said, oh oh, it's the life of slam.
No campo lookt over look get over Hermo Sabonita, the
(15:55):
wish she looks, the wish she moves while representing for
the people. Che Solment will come. We got that nactor
for your soul and now too the into the Frankie
king you on this show. Mm um um um um
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fishing wildlife bums now. But it was it was so
cool man like doing the doing the show. Uh it was,
(18:07):
I mean it was long days and all that, and
I know I was like twelve thirteen hour days. Were
there every day, you know, I remember, you know they
would they would always have to put the black couples
on me, the tattoos every morning. So a lot of
times my call times would be four thirty five am
and they're just because they have to put the tattoos
on me and you know, do the makeup and all that. Um.
So I remember it was just like we had no
(18:29):
life like that was our life. It was just like
every day, every day home. They were like three to
four months. Yeah, like it just over three months for me.
And then uh, and then you were going through a
lot of stuff at the time, and I was just like, man,
I just remember being, um, I hate telling you this
because I know you don't really like you're not about positive.
I was really but I was really proud of you,
you know what I mean. I was just like as
a homie, as just like a fellow comedian. I was like, man,
(18:52):
I both did it, you know, and just like, uh,
you know, you're like, you know, like one of the
realest schools that I know, and and um, you know,
and you're like first generation, like your your mom is
your mom, and your parents are straight from there's like
my hour Elitos from you know, Sycatecas. Your mom is
from Psycho, you know, from the same same region a Maybo,
(19:12):
which is families from Mexico. My parents moved here in
the eighties. Yeah, so man, it was just so cool
to see see that happen for you. And then uh,
and then your mom retired while we were still filming
you retired. She was retired from a janitor. That episode
six called Los Botas where the mom character steals toilet
(19:33):
paper from work was baked off of my s mom
used to bring home totlet toilet paper from her job,
which was the worst, big toilet paper that didn't even
fit on the wall, the big odustrial roll, the worst.
I know. Like a lot of people tell me, they're like, hey,
Los what is that's my favorite episode? Some people tell
(19:55):
me that's her favorite episode, and I'm like, hey, you know,
Chris's mom was really a janitor because I love that
that opening scene and the music, everything is oh man,
it's so gangster, just her in the cut like nobody
noticed and just thinking all the cans cleaning and then
steal the toilet paper, stay flurs all that if you
just know it, you know, have you known your family
(20:17):
and all that, And then just like watching that episode
of like, oh that it's so dupe. Probably is so
because it's comes from a real place, and I think
that's why it's resonating with so many people. So it's
just like a lot of people the show's authentic, and
it's like and then we're always talking ship to each
other in real life, so that translated our chemistry translated
to the on camera. You know, it just worked out
and it was just like bam, only let's go like
(20:39):
and so from getting each other into headlocks before cameras. Yeah, yeah,
when the cameras were started, man, because being on the road,
like we'll be going city to city, like you know,
in the budget, we had to share a room, like
you know, we're sharing a room and you know, when
you're just in somebody's tight space like that all the time,
like we would really we were never going to get
(21:01):
in a fight, but we were just just to get
that out and then just like get on each other's nerves.
Then we would get like two or three days off
from each other during the week and then it's like, hey,
it's Thursday night and we gotta go to the next place.
We'll see Frankie again America. And then it was going
to making the show and do it Spady twalk two
hours a day again. Positive I'm dead in Fine, uh
(21:27):
but yeah for those listening and watching, please tune in,
please share this fool episodes not streaming out Hulu. Hopefully
we get a season two. Yeah, hopefully by the time
this episode, as we're already announced the second season. But yeah,
we'll see about that. So what's coming up for you
other than uh, you know, working on the second season
(21:48):
of the show, just doing stand up, going back to
stand up. I never stopped doing stand up. I love it,
And so working on stand up and making sure that
I'm writing new material and then I'm performing off and yeah, yeah, man,
it was crazy. We were so busy with the show
that it was like, you know, the stand up kind
of took a back seat for a while, just a
little bit, just for like maybe two or three months.
(22:08):
But then it was unhappy to be doing stand up. Yeah, yeah,
me too, homie. And it was like, you said, you
working on that new material because I had so much
stuff from being on lockdown in the pandemic and now
I'm getting tired of those strokes. I'm like, even though
i haven't put them on camera, or I'm like, I'm like,
oh man, just feeling I want I want something fresh,
something new. Yeah, So, you know, been working on that.
(22:29):
And it's just cool that when people discover that we
that we are stand ups and that's how we started,
that's how we met each other and all that, because
even when you know, even when like to went borrow
all that and I was doing shows, people were like
not knowing what to expect, and They're like, oh, shoot,
this one does stand up and I'm like, yeah, only
like been doing it. Yeah, it's been it's been sick.
This is sixteen years this year for me since I
(22:49):
started doing stand up. And then I know you've been
doing it a long time too, and so eight nine years,
eight and nine years. Yeah, yeah, it's been a while.
And you're kind of like even when I met you, man,
you've always been like like an old soul, like a
student of the game, you know, like and you are
like that, You're always reading something about you know, punk
rock culture or or you know, just and then you'll share,
(23:09):
you'll share a little tidbits with me, and I'm like, dang,
like this school knows us up, you know. Yeah, so
yeah anything that. Yeah, I just love keeping up with ship.
But also just like you know, figuring out new material
for stand up and stuff like that, writing new stand up.
That's that's what really gets me excited. Yeah, damn, I
just can't believe I've known you almost ten years now. Yeah,
that's crazy. I can't believe we're still keep it as
(23:33):
much as like how different we're like you're just hey,
the world whatever. And then you're all like, I like people.
That's not how I talk. A told me what I don't.
That's more you that you're like my face like one love,
one lovey about that one love. Yes, you're not like that.
(23:54):
I don't like that. Not everybody's cool. Yeah, some people
are cool and some yeah yeah, no, I know that.
But you don't like that. You're all like, well, one love,
bad days don't exist. I don't know. I'm realistic. I
don't say like that. I mean I have to kick
it with you a lot of days. So but I
bring you back to reality. Yeah yeah, all right, yeah,
(24:15):
like a rainy day or whatever, cloudy day, all right.
And like I said, I'm excited for people to see
you do stand up. And you've got some I know
you've got some dates coming up. You've got one in Miami, right, Yeah,
I'm playing the Miami in prob October twenty nine and
thirty a Saturday and Sunday, October ninety. Yeah, be out
there with comedian Mike Menendez was a really funny comment.
Cool cool, alright, So Miami, get your tickets before they're gone, homie.
(24:39):
And then uh yeah, I'll be in uh Vegas October
twenty one and twenty second at the Tropicana at the
Laugh Factory out there, so Vegas. Hope, hopefully I'll see
you there. Um yeah, Homie, thanks for coming through, kicking in. Thanks,
Thanks for being a good homie, you know, balancing me
out with your negative vibes. Yeah on me. I'm always
(25:00):
rooting for you. I'm so proud of you, and I'm
excited to keep killing it with you. And all right enough,
stay miserable everyone, you don't read that positive ship point.
All right, y'all, thanks for tuning in. Much love, che
(25:25):
sent there for tuning into another episode of The Frankie
in your next show. For sending by Will Ferrell's Big
Funny Players Network. Shout out to the homies Haigns Olivia,
Nick the Homie earned dog here in the studio, James Fritz,
Kevin Kamia, Bobby d J Buzz, the legendary soul assassins
by me. You know how we do, Homie. Thank you
(25:46):
for giving it. I saw an opportunity on the get
down and if you get a chance, told me it's
go ahead and rank and review the podcast or continue
living your life. We'll see you on the next episode
of The Frankie Next Show. That's what's soft right there.
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