October 26, 2023 • 35 mins
A chat with San Antonio's Comedy Gem, Chona E.
In this episode of 210 Originals, your host Pedro Al Aire dives into the world of laughter and comedy with none other than the local San Antonio comedic sensation, Chona E. Join Pedro and Chona E. as they share hilarious anecdotes, explore the art of stand-up comedy, and discuss the vibrant comedy scene in the heart of Texas. Get ready for a dose of humor and a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make people laugh in the Alamo City. Tune in for some genuine belly laughs and insightful conversation that's bound to brighten your day!
In this episode of 210 Originals, your host Pedro Al Aire dives into the world of laughter and comedy with none other than the local San Antonio comedic sensation, Chona E. Join Pedro and Chona E. as they share hilarious anecdotes, explore the art of stand-up comedy, and discuss the vibrant comedy scene in the heart of Texas. Get ready for a dose of humor and a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make people laugh in the Alamo City. Tune in for some genuine belly laughs and insightful conversation that's bound to brighten your day!
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Two ten originals Pedro Familia. Allright, So I have in the studio
on this occasion, in this occasion, on this occasion, in this occasion,
I don't know language. I forgetEnglish. I have a special guest
with me, a local San Antonian, a person who's been making a lot
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of waves here in the city,in the comedy world. But that's not
where she started. We're gonna diveinto who my guests is, what they're
about, and what they're doing currentlyand making noise, not just in San
Antonio but nationwide. Senna, Ilove that was alright. I I was
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up late writing about it, thinkingabout it. I I I bullet pointed,
you know, and then and thenand that that's how we prepare.
That's how I prepare for these things, no preparation. It was great,
Chaunta, how you've been I havebeen fantastic, Manito, you've been doing
You've been doing more than fantastic.Yes, man, I'm so blessed.
There's a lot going on a lotin your world, and we'll jump into
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all that, but let's start offwith with who is Chauna? Where does
Chawinna come from? Chauna e?Where did the name come from? Which
we I think we all have anidea of why the name come from.
But why Chauna E and uh andtell me your humble beginnings. Oh,
I love it. Yeah. Wasborn and bred here in San Antonio,
Texas. I left for a verybrief, brief time after my parents divorced.
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When I was four, I movedto Del Rio, Texas. So
I do have some fan base outthere as well. Lived there towl was
nine, and then came back toSan Antonio and that's when Chauna was born,
probably about nine years old. Mydad said that my personality reminded him
of Chauna motto lavinatea in Mexico.She was she would push a palletta cart,
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okay, but she had wine andbeer in her balletta cart. Sign
me up for that. One ofthat rolled through my neighborhood. I'm like,
we didn't need to bring that back, but yeah. He said that
she was really funny and that shehad this personality about her, and he
said that I reminded him of Sothat's when he started calling me Chauna.
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And then Pa was born because Istarted writing parodies and performing parodies and Cardi
B had that one hit called ILike It Like that or I like it,
I like it with I think withbad Bunny, if I'm not mistaken,
yes, and yeah j Balbini right. So on one of her lyrics,
she says something something Cardi b Cardioor whatever. So I Chauna and
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Chauna. My married last name isEstralla. It worked and that's when Chauna
E was born. So so mymind immediately went to just like anybody else,
Lachna, right, which fun factand faithful followers of Pedrolia know this
my favorite band of all time,hands down, my idol, My musical
idols are Quana. Yeah. Absolutely, I've met Madio fromas I've already lost
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count many times. That's awesome,and they are one of the reasons I
got into radio. Actually, sothat's the whole of this story. It's
pretty cool. But so yeah,my mind immediately went to La and we
can't sing much of it because thenwe'll getdinged here on the podcast. But
but okay, so that's not thecase. That's not the Chuna, you
know, and it's and it's crazybecause that's because that song is so popular
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with that name Chauna. When peoplemeet me, they're like, mite,
that's Lachana. It's Lachana. It'sLachoana and some most people call me Johnny,
but a lot of people also callme Lachana. It's okay, man,
I take it. I'll take itoff. So it's before comedy.
Tell us what what were you knownfor? What? What? What were
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you doing before the comedy thing tookoff? Yeah, honestly, I performing
uh in front of an audience hasalways been my passion, has always been
what I wanted to do. WhenI was eighteen years old, I moved
from San Antonio to New York Cityto attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
I graduated in the Los Angeles campus, stayed there, try to do
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my thing, see if I canbecome this famous actress. Right, And
it's a very different world, man, once you start getting into it.
And I actually stayed there to workmore than I was able to do anything
with the acting. So I camehome and I wasn't really doing anything with
my craft. I got married,I started a family life. Yeah,
life came and hit hard, andit just was in the pit of my
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stomach. Man. And I've saidthis story time and time again. My
older brother Abraham, who has produceda lot of my parodies. Would always
tell me why did you stop?Like just because you have a daughter and
a husband doesn't mean you should stop, like keep going. He kept encouraging
to get rid of him, right, He's like, fake you go,
just keeping you. But yeah,he was right, and that's when,
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like I said, we did thatCARDI B parody and it went viral in
at like hours. It was amazinghow viral went. And that's when he's
like, hey, it's time.Now, this is your time. And
so from that parody, I usedthat momentum and through the parodies, I
became a stand up comedian. Throughit all, I didn't. That was
not the goal. So so that'sthe question right there, what was what
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was the decision? At what pointdid you say, all right, I
just became this social media darling andthen now you're like, I'm gonna do
stand up? Yeah, So thatwould that that credit is going to go
to I Ma Ruiz. She's alsoa nationwide during comedian from San Antonio,
Texas. Is she always on yourside? She's always on my side?
Yes, nationwide? Nice little mybrother over there, but yes, she's
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she's amazing. She produces a lotof shows and so She liked a parody
that I had done, Lizzo's parody. It was a Lizzo song truth Hurts.
I made it into a Bukxica anthem. So she really liked that song.
She's like, do you do standup comedy? And I was like
I don't. She said, comeperform this song at my show. Like
okay, So I came, andwhenever I I got off stage, her
and the other comedians were like,you have, like you have a niche
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for this, like you should.Really, there's a thing there, there's
something there, you have it,you have as the French would say it,
remember what I'm Alone, that movieon Alone. They're like, yeah,
you are less and that's incompetent.But no, I just wanted to
speak French. Yeah no. SoI was like, all right, I'll
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check it out. Well, thenshe challenged me, like a month later,
no, I'm sorry, I'm lying. Then the pandemic happened. Did
that was twenty nineteen? Oh thatthing? But yeah, that did happened.
So the pandemic happened, and thenhere we are finding ourselves a year
later in twenty twenty, and shesaid, hey, they're opening comedy clubs
back up and I'm going to doa show. I would like you to
be on it. No music,five minutes stand up only. I'm like,
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oh, man, I don't knowif I can do this. And
then I did. And I didn'thave I didn't I wasn't writing, I
didn't know. You didn't you didn'thave a set. I didn't have a
set. I just went up thereand I told my husband, did you
have like a premise an idea ofwhat you wanted to say? It was
about talking crap about my husband.Oh, And I was like, yeah,
that's a good story. Tell it. And I did, and people
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just enjoyed it. And that sethas turned into like almost I think I
have forty five minutes I'll probably beable to do probably can How long you've
been married. I've been with myhusband since I was seventeen years old.
Also, plenty of material, plentyof day, plenty yeah, yeah,
tea. So yeah, it's amazingwith that five minutes. And it's great
because I recorded it. I recordedthat five minute set and then I started
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booking show after show after show aftershow after that, and I was already
selling tickets before I could even trulybecome like a experienced stand up comedian,
So you know, like they Ihad to figure it out on the fly.
That is amazing. That is that, you know, it sounds as
you're telling me this story from yourhumble beginnings as a social media influencer to
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now a comedian. It sounds simple, But tell me about everything in between,
the struggle, the proverbial struggle,like how difficult. Were there moments
where you said I'm done, thisis this is not it? Yeah,
totally, Because I was getting alot of pushback in the comedy scene because
I was using those parodies, thosehearing as tight anybody's specific that you can
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call it noular. But just thenthe naysayers and there was there was kind
of talk going around the town aboutshe's not a really true comedian because she's
using nine minutes of her time toseeing her parodies. You know, we'd
really respect her a lot more ofshe was truly just doing stand up right,
So over time it gets to you, man, it gets to your
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head. And and I'm not muchof a quitter. I'm more of a
I get down in the dumbs fora second, but I'm more like,
nope, I'm gonna come back,and I'm gonna come back swinging and I'm
going to figure it out, man, and I'm gonna show them that's how
that's my attitude and they're gonna watch. So yeah. So I now it's
it's come where I'm only performing oneparody and the rest of it is just
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the meats and nuts of stand up, which I'm really proud of. But
it that's not so much the challengingpart. The challenging part is that I'm
a mom and I'm a wife again. Life's so how do you do that?
How do you balance being a motherand a wife and then now traveling
around the country to perform. Imean, we know it's doable, right,
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but the folks that do it rightnow there may be already you know,
they're making a ton of money.They can hire somebody. And I
work full time. Ah, andyou work full time, work full time.
So this is nights and weekends.This is only and that's that's the
thing that's what makes it difficult aboutbeing a stand up comedian. When you're
not George Lopez or you're not AngelaJohnson, you're getting Wednesday deals, you're
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getting Thursday. I've had to turndown a lot of deals because I can't.
I can't leave so because a managerdidn't approve your Friday off or something
like that, you know what I'msaying. Or I have to pick and
choose which gigs I'm gonna do,because I could have traveled a heck of
a lot more if I didn't havea job like I do it just like
my kids, we could just geton, you know whatever, figure it
out. But I have to bevery selective because I'm still I'm in that
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kind of limbo phase where Juana's notmaking enough to sustain my current income.
And I was laid off this year. Dude. That was a blow.
That was a blow, And everybodywas like, this is God's way of
telling you this, to pursue now, to pursue it full time. But
then the bills were saying what thebills were? Like, No, and
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I've always been and it's not somuch. My husband works full times,
that's fantastic, he could have sustainedus. But I've always been the healthcare
provider for the family. Got it, So that alone was like mess the
gig with insurance correct, I justwasn't ready, dude. So I was
without a job for a good threemonths. Savings started to deplete because the
bills keep coming, and there washiskey bills, I know. And in
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those three months, the phone stoppedringing, nobody's calling, nobody's booking.
Ye, there's nothing going on,and I'm like, I'm free right now,
I have nothing happening. And thenmy mom gets sick, very sick.
She needed a triple bypass surgery.Oh my gosh. It just just
life, just life, and itall piled up. Everything happened all at
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one time, and then all ofa sudden, the phone starts ringing again.
Right as I accepted a full timejob. I'm like, God,
you work in mysterious ways. ButI think ultimately the lesson is when you
pray for something, God goes followsBam, there you go. How are
you gonna do it? Yeah?Figure it out? You can. There
it is. Yeah, you wantedthis, Yep, yep, you pray,
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figure it out, make it happen, benefits. Don't you complain about
it later. I've done right.And you pray for shows shows, so
yeah. And then on top ofhaving all those hats, my husband becomes
a coach for my daughter's rec volleyballteam, which, in turn I become
the volleyball mom ad time, Like, do you have a like a like
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a soccer mom type vehicle even thoughit's volleyball. I do. I got
a Wrap four, a perfect perfect. Yes, my mom has a rat
four. It's perfect. I'm almostforty. My game perfect for Costco trips.
Absolutely, dude. I am soproud to be a Costco member.
I mean, hello, they didn'thave to roll lucky. I'm still I'm
still Sam's Club. Oh you gotto get what the times? I know,
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I gotta goes where exactly. YeaCostco is the target of of a
big box, real tail. Youknow. I could probably go to Sam's
built all the way in the southSide, which there's nothing wrong. I
was I was born in south Side. But I'm like, no, target,
it's real pretty. Yeah, it'sthe aesthetic. It just kiels nicer.
Yeah, it does. It does. I'm like, hey, that
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kind of hurt. I wanted.So, So you just got back from
a trip to Chicago. You wouldn'tperform. Where did you perform? And
tell me all about it? Whatwas the experience like and how did you
get invited to this? Yeah?So I just came back from the Latino
Comedy Festival in Chicago, and sothey were having open submissions. Filled out
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the application, submitted a video andgot selected. And I'm proud to say
that I was one of four Latinasfrom Texas that went to represent three from
San Antonio alone, which was amazing. There was thirty seven of us there.
Thirty good god, how many dayswas this thing? It was a
three day festival, multiple shows goingon at the same time. I did
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three shows, one at the LaughFactory, which is I mean, those
walls are just you just rub onthem, right like it just so many,
so much history that in that place. We performed a Laugh Factory,
then we performed at at Reggie's ComedyScene, and then the last place was
a really cool like chain place calledJoJo's Shake Bar, which was really cute,
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and we performed there and there andthe sets were six minute sets.
You have six minutes to make itimpressed press yes, and yeah, I'm
really proud of what we did outthere. I'm really really proud. And
I say we because I feel likeTexas was the top. My guy.
Oh see, yeah, they werelike man, y'all came hard, dude,
y'all, like that's how we rotit. How many Texans were there?
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There's four of us okay, okay, one from Temple, she's Puerto
Rican, and then three of usfrom San Antonio. Wow, that's shocking.
Nobody from Austin because like Austin rightup the street, they're like,
you know plenty yeah, yeah,no, I mean I don't know how
how much this reached people. Butwhen I got there, I was like,
well, there's New York, there'sBoston there. I mean it was
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crazy. There was a lot ofLatinas there, Wow, a lot.
And you know, something about growingup Hispanic is that you know, we've
always like it's the thea syndrome thatI like to call it where don Ju's
gando. Everybody's immediately either welcoming youor they're kind of sizing you up.
So I was already worried that that'skind of the environment that I was coming
into. Thirty seven Latinas dude atTunle, So I just thought, oh
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my god, about mamasand who's mana? But no, it was it was
very refreshing, my guy, becauseeverybody was ready to be at manas and
mades. Okay, so everybody's helpingeach other like a feedback from from seasoned
comedians I did. I did positive, very positive feedback. We got to
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perform with Gwen, which is she'san up and coming Hispanic Mexican UH comedian,
and she got to see our setsand she was just absolutely floored and
excited. And I gained followers fromthe other fellow Latina comedians, and you
know, I have and some otherfuture opportunities. So I'm just excited about
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having been there and being expected.So yeah, So with all that and
and and now now, uh,your career as a as a stand up
comedian flourishing here in San Antonio.What opportunities here have opened up for you?
Well, which is the whole purposewhy I'm here. Man, I'm
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talking about this to everybody. Iwant everybody to know this that it's not
easy for Latina comedians first and foremost. Second of all, it's not easy
for locals to get great real estatein these amazing comedy clubs. And we
have one percent. What do youthink that is? Because we're not ticket
sellers, Like, we're not bigbig names that are going to pack out
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the houses. And it's a risk. These are chains, these are corporations
that need to make money. Theyhave like a quota. Now is it
that? And I'll tell you whyI'm asking asking us Is it that or
is it a lack of support fromthe community. I say this because having
spent I spent a decade in Austinworking radio up there, and Austin has
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a very interesting comedic scene. There'sa lot of comedians and as you know,
there's a there's a comedy festival upthere every year or the moon Tower
Comedy Festival, and comedians big namesand small names from all over the country.
And they also have the mothership thereconverged there. The mothership is Joe
Rogan's place. Oh now now JoeRogan, Yeah, but before Joe just
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just there was you know, likefor example, the the comedy place up
there was called cap City Comedy Club. Capsidy is just a staple around the
country, which I didn't know untilI, you know, lived in work
in Austin. There's a lot oftalent, there's a lot of competition.
It's also a different type of comedy. You don't see a lot of Latinos
there. But those folks in thatcommunity, they support each other each other
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and the scene. Do we havethat same support here in san Antonio will
will drive up from the West Sideall appear to come see. Yeah,
I don't know because I'm still learningthe city. But what are your thoughts?
What are you seeing? Absolutely,and I have to I have to
give back to the San Antonio comedyscene because they've been so welcoming to me.
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Comedians are not naturally big social mediainfluencers. They don't have the big
numbers off the bat, right right, So I came in starting with that
aspect first, then the comedy after, the stand up comedy after. So
as far as San Antonio backing mebuying tickets out, that was not necessarily
an issue. I was worried aboutthe comedy scene here, which, to
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my surprise, everybody was so embraced. I did embraced me because they're giving
me knowledge on stand up comedy andI'm giving them knowledge on social media.
So we're working together. Ida MaRuiz, I'll name her again. She's
Michael Madden Comedy. No, mymad DNA, Sorry, she has We
have a whole group chat on amessenger and it's called Algorithm. So when
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they have shows, we're hey,guys, comment share like, so we
throw everything on there that we're doingand everybody supports each other and shares the
boast and comments on it to kindof get the algorithm boosted. But yeah,
everybody's very supportive, very welcoming.That's been my experience so far.
So that now this leads to yourperformance here in San Antonio at the laugh
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Out Love The Laugh Out Loud ComedyClub, which is the biggest comedy club
in San Antonio, has been aroundfor how long, Oh my gosh,
God knows how long. God knowshow long. I mean you you walk
up there and you just see thesephotos of Bob Saget on stage. I
mean it's been there, it's beenthere. A big names have gone through,
their names, big names. Whenis the show? Yeah, and
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you're headlining. Yes, Who's Who'sWho's coming along with you? Right?
So the show is October twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eighth. I
believe this is the first time alocal comedian has been given a weekend spot
like this, which is impeccable,and I thank San Antonio for that because
we were there last year on aThursday and we sold out two shows.
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Nice. Yes, so I'm lol, was like, yeah, this girl's
guy, like, we can doit. You know what I mean.
So I'm bringing with me the samerecipe that I had last year and it
worked. So I have my households. Not one who is also a TikTok
sensation in San Antonio. I havewhat's his name, not one, you
have to look him up. Hestole my idea people for some reason.
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And I don't know why. I'vebeen called my name is Pedro, people
call me. And I thought aboutgoing, and then I thought, well,
that's isn't that there's a north ofso yeah, whatever. It was
like I was in my air accordion. That's so, I do a mean
aer accordion too, I do.I I played the accord That's another story.
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Anyways, Yes one, and he'she's growing. His numbers are amazing,
like he's doing a phenomenal job.And then we have also TikTok sensation
a Rivas who's also known as Yesthat's like San Antonio favorite. I remember
when he went viral Selena. Yes, well not just that one, but
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the one that really went viral wasuh challenge, I believe because Jlo commented
and shared it or something. Really. Yeah, I I found out about
aj because he did something at theTB whatever with the white truck and the
battle the which one was that one? What's that girl's name? Yenni sixty
nine? Oh yeah, there yougo, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah
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yeah. So he's going to beon the lineup. He does. He
does a whole like thing with hischaracter Yessica, who is basically a spoof
of Isprimas, who are like bigSelena fans and they dress up and they
think they look like Selena, butthey don't. So it's a it's a
really really funny, funny set thathe's got going on, and he involves
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the crowd. He gets people outof the crowd and stuff, so he's
doing that. Then I have oneof the fastest rising Latina comedians from San
Antonio on my lineup. This girl'severywhere like you have you have to look
her up to. This is MichelleCantu and she's going to be featuring for
me. And then I also inviteda lot of the local San Antonio scene
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to do guest spots, so Ihave five other comedians for each night of
the show, there's going to bea different gentleman that's joining me. And
each one of those guys that Ipicked are one of the guys that have
done something particularly special for me inmy journey of comedy. So that's why
I ask them. And not onlynot only that, but I think it's
monumental that I'm in a male dominatedindustry and these mails are so about catapulting
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me forward in my success in comedy. So those gentlemen are Chris Greon,
we have King Quasi, Big John, Clifton Simmons, and Cousin Bruto.
So if that's who's all going tobe performing now, I know it's it's
not proper to ask a comedian tolike share a bit of their set on
an interview. I'm not gonna I'mnot going to ask you that. But
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if there's something right now that you'rethinking of from maybe a past set or
something that us from an experience,you know, something that you wanted to
share about your husband that drives younuts, or you know, yeah,
no, what that mean? I'mtrying to think because a lot of it
is like adult content. Well,let's be a podcast. Okay, okay,
cool, cool, and no onelistens to this podcast, so listen,
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tune in and listen to Clutch onyour Pearls if you like. Oh
so one of the things that Italk about in uh in my comedy.
In my comedy said about my husband, is I talk about I don't know
if I want to say that.Okay, I talk about so my husband
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does. He also joins me onTikTok's and I do pranks on him all
the time. Okay. And lastnight I had him film three videos with
me, which is a stretch becausea lot of the fans ask where he's
at, like, why aren't youdoing any more videos with your husband?
Because he's tired of my you knowwhat, he's sick of me already.
I don't want to as soon ashe sees me sitting at the try No,
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man, I'm not doing that.Get out of here, Get out
of here with that crap. Solast night I did. I did a
video with him where there's this challengeon TikTok that says, I know how
to crack an egg with one handin half no shells, And I said,
you're at the judge, You're justgonna sit here and watch me do
it to make sure I have noshells. Yeah, the bowl And he's
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like, okay, And my husband'sbald has a really big forehead, and
I go okay right on his forhead. Oh my god, it's hilarious.
Yes, he was. It wasfunny. So what is your husband's name.
His name is Billy Billy, BillyBilly. You need to stay on
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board with this because you're gonna haveso much money and you're gonna be able
to retire early. So you arenot sick of TikTok videos with your wife.
You need to be supportive and youneed to knock out five pieces of
content every day or more. Keepit up, fifteen games it and that's
just in the morning and and andthat's going to send you, guys eyes
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you know, to to financial that'sright, Yes, early retirement, that's
right. It is he a carguy? Oh? Yes? Was his
favorite car the Jim Car Chevy Chevelle. That you're gonna be in the Chevy
Chevelle sooner than you thought. BillyBilly Jack. That's his real name,
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Billy Jack Estrada. Really, yeah, that's not even a joke, is
yeah, Billy Jack Estrada, BillyJack Estrada. So his dad was a
big fan of the cowboy movie BillyJack and Postland. His wife was about
to have everybody does, and heand he loves like I have this this,
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I have this one particular joke thatI talked about where where we're gonna
go there where I was constipated,said his lesson to learn, not mine.
So then in Chioka I said thisjoke and people were calling him,
got up, beepy, You're like, you will addit? That does does
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Billy Jack have? Does he atleast have like a textan accent? Like
when I hear the name Billy Jack, I imagine like, hey, y'all
tell you who god his name righthere is Billy Jack. I could do
the best impression of sound like,okay, babe, So you're gonna go
to that thing today and you're gonnayou're who's this guy? What's his name?
I'm like his name is Bethroda Andhe's like like, I'm like,
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yeah, you get it, likeradio airton. Oh that's badass. I
like that. So he asked vaguequestions. You're going to that thing,
You're gonna talk to that guy atthat one place at a certain time.
Not only that, but that's howhe communicates things. And he's like,
Babe, did you do the thingwhere we're gonna get for the girls?
You already got it right. I'mlike, I don't even know what you're
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I think we all know someone likethat. I've had several people in my
life who speak like that, likea very like broad or vague you know
question askers, Hey, did youdo that thing at the other the other
day at that place with that oneguy? You know who I'm talking about,
right, it was in the daylight. Don't forget it was in the
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daylight. What are you talking about? You know, that's how we communicate.
And he's like, my so likewhen you're growing up and your children,
so moms will understand this. Yourchildren are baby talking and you don't
know people want to understand, likewhat did your child say she wants the
milk? Well, I'll get herselThat's me with my husband right. They're
looking at me and I'm like,he's talking about the game. It's next
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week, like I already know.But yeah, I mean I created a
whole character, a deal that Samanthaand I do together, Samantha and not
had on I do together. Whatname clear and he is a combination of
my husband, his uncle, hisdad, and my dad's accent. It's
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a plethora and so so deal Chonis just he's he literally is a guy
that a lot of people relate toand is probably one of the fan favorite
characters that I do because they're likeI grew up with that guy, Like
I know that guy and that's howhe talks. But he talks his mannerisms.
He talks like dish and he hesays everything real quick and he's like,
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IM going to super Bowl. Ithought that you're fine. So yeah,
that's that's kind of like deal.Chon is a mumbler and and he's
pretty much like he's just crazy.So it's it's it's these characters are folks
that we've all at some point experienced, so relatable. You'll get it right
away. Someone will be like,oh my god, I have a theo
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ch as he said, Okay,absolutely, yeah, that's that's steal Chunk,
that's Chunk. It's a lot oflike I said, it's a mixture
of all those people. So wherecan we where can we see uh some
of your stuff? I mean,you're on social media, so I'm guessing
and you said you mentioned TikTok?What is your TikTok? Where can we
see some of your stuff? Everywhere? You just look up to ten and
they'll find me choyna eat two tenon all social medias. We'll get your
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content. And then the big showis is this weekend? Uh No?
When that October twenty six, twentysix, twenty seven, twenty eight at
Laugh Out Loud Comedy Comedy Club herein San Antonio and with a whole lineup
of local comedians at performers. Ticketsavailable at at improvtexts dot com. Improv
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texts dot com. You can buytickets to the day of the show as
well, but be safer than sorry, buy your tickets in advance. Club
comedy clubs still do a drink minimum. They all do. Now it's a
two I believe it's at two trink. I'm a lightweight. I can't do
two drinks. I'm good with one. So what do I do with the
second one? Do a sprite?I thought I'd have to be alcoholic?
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Yeah, Oh, I don't know. I'm assuming a lot of comedy clubs
are like that, because I mean, it's they got to keep their doors
open. Yeah, I gotta paysome bills. Okay, okay, all
right, all right, what's happeningto make sure you get your tickets?
Jeez? And my God says foruh, just jumping in here, for
knocking out this podcast with us twoten originals, super excited to get you
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in here, and just really excitedabout watching your career flourish. And it's
always exciting to be in a townwhere you know, you see someone grow
from a social media influencer in thiscase, to then a nation or nationally
known figure name. Yes, wegot the Spurs and we got Wemby whatever.
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But when you got a hometown herothat then gets to gets catapulted to
perform as you mentioned Chicago, youknow who knows. The Tonight Show might
call amen, Stephen Colbert, andthe Late Show might call right the if
and when you do make it toone of because that's when you really made
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it, when you made it tothe late night shows. And by the
way, I'm a big fan ofthe reason I love speaking to comedians is
because I grew up on Colon O'Brien, love it, And Colin O'Brien is
the guy who you know, andso did Jay Leno and of course David
Letterman too, and of course DavidJohnny Carson. But is the generation that
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that or the or the the hostthat introduced me to a generation of comedians
right, and continues to do soeven now with this with Now he's not
on TV anymore, but he hashis podcast, right, and he still
has these amazing people roll through andgives them time time too. I think
it's amazing. Yes, you knowwho else is doing that? And it's
it's something that people are like alot of my family members like, you
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need to go to this. Soit's it's at the Mothership. It's this.
I'm drying a blank on this guy'sname, but I am terrified to
go because he's so mean. Ifyou're not good. Gosh, what's his
name? I already forgot, Butthat's essentially what he's doing. There was
this girl from Arizona. She went, they only give you a minute.
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You have a minute to a minute, a minute to be funny. And
he's got a panel of people.Roseanne Barr was there. Are we talking
about? His name is kill killTony, kill Tony kill Tony in Austin.
So they do this thing and nowthey do it at the Mothership.
So it's kill Tony. He hasJoe Rogan on there, or celebrities or
whoever. So this particular panel hehad it was killed Tony, Roseanne Bar
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and a few weathers. This girlcomes up, she does her minute sets.
She's very dark comedy, and itwas joke after joke after joke after
joke after joke in one minute.She's done. She has Roseanne Barr rolling
the whole minute. Kill. Tonyis like, you're just phenomenal. I
love I love watching you. Andshe put her on a whole tour.
Roseanbar put her on a whole tour. Wow. And my family's like,
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did you watch that? Did youwatch that? That's why I keep telling
you you should go. You justnever know that an opportunity is gonna open
up. I'm like, oh mygod. But he's also terribly mean.
I don't know, give an exampleof what what what does he do?
For example, I don't know wherethis guy is so yeah, I know.
I mean he can either do greatthings or he can just be awful
awful with so this this, Ithink it was a gentleman. He had
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this one minute and you can tellthat you're walking in there and you're giving
it. You're all right, Ihave one minute to make an impression.
And then he's they're done, andthey're just standing there so intimidated, and
he's like, you were awful,Like how long have you been doing this?
It's kind of like the Simon Cowbut total feels like the American Idol
of comedy or the X Factor ofcomedy. And he's like, how long
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have you been doing this? I'vebeen doing this for twenty years. You
wasted your time? Things like that. So, and this is all live
and it gets posted on YouTube.Really, I'm okay, you got to
check it out. Don't go,don't go. If he's going to do
that, that's why I'm like,let me find my perfect if you if
you go there, If you gothere, you get your minute and he
roasts you. Yeah, let's sayhe roasting right Are you know? Are
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you to roast him right back?Are you allowed to? Yes? You
can? So what would you sayto him? See, that's that's what
I'm not a roaster. I'm notquick on what looks like just just look
at his physical characters something, Yeah, I mean i'd be I don't know.
I like the first thing that cameto mind to me was the the
Little boy Friend toy story with thebraces and this I wouldn't even know the
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guy's name. Because I'd be like, what is now? You got me
thinking? Is that what he lookslike? That's what it reminds me of?
What's his what's his background? Like? Is he a comedian? Comedians?
The guy huge? Yeah? Inwhat year? Was a huge?
I don't know. I just friendswith Joe Rogan. Possibly possible. I'm
sure Joe Rogan heard me on theair and heard this podcast. He's He's
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like, this is your podcast.Cute girl, lovely y'all stay in San
Antonio here, fine, we will. You can keep doing, keep my
backyard, keep your weirdness up inAustin, Weirdos. We're looking forward to
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see, continue to see your growth, continue to make noise and representing two
ten to the fullest. Uh.And please do as all amazing comedians do
uh once you hit the pinnacle.Uh. And you also bring up those
other folks that that are also wantingto get to the top. So T
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ten Originals and our guests tonight todayChuna
Two ten originals Pedro Familia. Allright, So I have in the studio
on this occasion, in this occasion, on this occasion, in this occasion,
I don't know language. I forgetEnglish. I have a special guest
with me, a local San Antonian, a person who's been making a lot
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of waves here in the city,in the comedy world. But that's not
where she started. We're gonna diveinto who my guests is, what they're
about, and what they're doing currentlyand making noise, not just in San
Antonio but nationwide. Senna, Ilove that was alright. I I was
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up late writing about it, thinkingabout it. I I I bullet pointed,
you know, and then and thenand that that's how we prepare.
That's how I prepare for these things, no preparation. It was great,
Chaunta, how you've been I havebeen fantastic, Manito, you've been doing
You've been doing more than fantastic.Yes, man, I'm so blessed.
There's a lot going on a lotin your world, and we'll jump into
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all that, but let's start offwith with who is Chauna? Where does
Chawinna come from? Chauna e?Where did the name come from? Which
we I think we all have anidea of why the name come from.
But why Chauna E and uh andtell me your humble beginnings. Oh,
I love it. Yeah. Wasborn and bred here in San Antonio,
Texas. I left for a verybrief, brief time after my parents divorced.
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When I was four, I movedto Del Rio, Texas. So
I do have some fan base outthere as well. Lived there towl was
nine, and then came back toSan Antonio and that's when Chauna was born,
probably about nine years old. Mydad said that my personality reminded him
of Chauna motto lavinatea in Mexico.She was she would push a palletta cart,
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okay, but she had wine andbeer in her balletta cart. Sign
me up for that. One ofthat rolled through my neighborhood. I'm like,
we didn't need to bring that back, but yeah. He said that
she was really funny and that shehad this personality about her, and he
said that I reminded him of Sothat's when he started calling me Chauna.
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And then Pa was born because Istarted writing parodies and performing parodies and Cardi
B had that one hit called ILike It Like that or I like it,
I like it with I think withbad Bunny, if I'm not mistaken,
yes, and yeah j Balbini right. So on one of her lyrics,
she says something something Cardi b Cardioor whatever. So I Chauna and
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Chauna. My married last name isEstralla. It worked and that's when Chauna
E was born. So so mymind immediately went to just like anybody else,
Lachna, right, which fun factand faithful followers of Pedrolia know this
my favorite band of all time,hands down, my idol, My musical
idols are Quana. Yeah. Absolutely, I've met Madio fromas I've already lost
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count many times. That's awesome,and they are one of the reasons I
got into radio. Actually, sothat's the whole of this story. It's
pretty cool. But so yeah,my mind immediately went to La and we
can't sing much of it because thenwe'll getdinged here on the podcast. But
but okay, so that's not thecase. That's not the Chuna, you
know, and it's and it's crazybecause that's because that song is so popular
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with that name Chauna. When peoplemeet me, they're like, mite,
that's Lachana. It's Lachana. It'sLachoana and some most people call me Johnny,
but a lot of people also callme Lachana. It's okay, man,
I take it. I'll take itoff. So it's before comedy.
Tell us what what were you knownfor? What? What? What were
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you doing before the comedy thing tookoff? Yeah, honestly, I performing
uh in front of an audience hasalways been my passion, has always been
what I wanted to do. WhenI was eighteen years old, I moved
from San Antonio to New York Cityto attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
I graduated in the Los Angeles campus, stayed there, try to do
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my thing, see if I canbecome this famous actress. Right, And
it's a very different world, man, once you start getting into it.
And I actually stayed there to workmore than I was able to do anything
with the acting. So I camehome and I wasn't really doing anything with
my craft. I got married,I started a family life. Yeah,
life came and hit hard, andit just was in the pit of my
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stomach. Man. And I've saidthis story time and time again. My
older brother Abraham, who has produceda lot of my parodies. Would always
tell me why did you stop?Like just because you have a daughter and
a husband doesn't mean you should stop, like keep going. He kept encouraging
to get rid of him, right, He's like, fake you go,
just keeping you. But yeah,he was right, and that's when,
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like I said, we did thatCARDI B parody and it went viral in
at like hours. It was amazinghow viral went. And that's when he's
like, hey, it's time.Now, this is your time. And
so from that parody, I usedthat momentum and through the parodies, I
became a stand up comedian. Throughit all, I didn't. That was
not the goal. So so that'sthe question right there, what was what
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was the decision? At what pointdid you say, all right, I
just became this social media darling andthen now you're like, I'm gonna do
stand up? Yeah, So thatwould that that credit is going to go
to I Ma Ruiz. She's alsoa nationwide during comedian from San Antonio,
Texas. Is she always on yourside? She's always on my side?
Yes, nationwide? Nice little mybrother over there, but yes, she's
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she's amazing. She produces a lotof shows and so She liked a parody
that I had done, Lizzo's parody. It was a Lizzo song truth Hurts.
I made it into a Bukxica anthem. So she really liked that song.
She's like, do you do standup comedy? And I was like
I don't. She said, comeperform this song at my show. Like
okay, So I came, andwhenever I I got off stage, her
and the other comedians were like,you have, like you have a niche
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for this, like you should.Really, there's a thing there, there's
something there, you have it,you have as the French would say it,
remember what I'm Alone, that movieon Alone. They're like, yeah,
you are less and that's incompetent.But no, I just wanted to
speak French. Yeah no. SoI was like, all right, I'll
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check it out. Well, thenshe challenged me, like a month later,
no, I'm sorry, I'm lying. Then the pandemic happened. Did
that was twenty nineteen? Oh thatthing? But yeah, that did happened.
So the pandemic happened, and thenhere we are finding ourselves a year
later in twenty twenty, and shesaid, hey, they're opening comedy clubs
back up and I'm going to doa show. I would like you to
be on it. No music,five minutes stand up only. I'm like,
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oh, man, I don't knowif I can do this. And
then I did. And I didn'thave I didn't I wasn't writing, I
didn't know. You didn't you didn'thave a set. I didn't have a
set. I just went up thereand I told my husband, did you
have like a premise an idea ofwhat you wanted to say? It was
about talking crap about my husband.Oh, And I was like, yeah,
that's a good story. Tell it. And I did, and people
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just enjoyed it. And that sethas turned into like almost I think I
have forty five minutes I'll probably beable to do probably can How long you've
been married. I've been with myhusband since I was seventeen years old.
Also, plenty of material, plentyof day, plenty yeah, yeah,
tea. So yeah, it's amazingwith that five minutes. And it's great
because I recorded it. I recordedthat five minute set and then I started
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booking show after show after show aftershow after that, and I was already
selling tickets before I could even trulybecome like a experienced stand up comedian,
So you know, like they Ihad to figure it out on the fly.
That is amazing. That is that, you know, it sounds as
you're telling me this story from yourhumble beginnings as a social media influencer to
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now a comedian. It sounds simple, But tell me about everything in between,
the struggle, the proverbial struggle,like how difficult. Were there moments
where you said I'm done, thisis this is not it? Yeah,
totally, Because I was getting alot of pushback in the comedy scene because
I was using those parodies, thosehearing as tight anybody's specific that you can
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call it noular. But just thenthe naysayers and there was there was kind
of talk going around the town aboutshe's not a really true comedian because she's
using nine minutes of her time toseeing her parodies. You know, we'd
really respect her a lot more ofshe was truly just doing stand up right,
So over time it gets to you, man, it gets to your
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head. And and I'm not muchof a quitter. I'm more of a
I get down in the dumbs fora second, but I'm more like,
nope, I'm gonna come back,and I'm gonna come back swinging and I'm
going to figure it out, man, and I'm gonna show them that's how
that's my attitude and they're gonna watch. So yeah. So I now it's
it's come where I'm only performing oneparody and the rest of it is just
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the meats and nuts of stand up, which I'm really proud of. But
it that's not so much the challengingpart. The challenging part is that I'm
a mom and I'm a wife again. Life's so how do you do that?
How do you balance being a motherand a wife and then now traveling
around the country to perform. Imean, we know it's doable, right,
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but the folks that do it rightnow there may be already you know,
they're making a ton of money.They can hire somebody. And I
work full time. Ah, andyou work full time, work full time.
So this is nights and weekends.This is only and that's that's the
thing that's what makes it difficult aboutbeing a stand up comedian. When you're
not George Lopez or you're not AngelaJohnson, you're getting Wednesday deals, you're
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getting Thursday. I've had to turndown a lot of deals because I can't.
I can't leave so because a managerdidn't approve your Friday off or something
like that, you know what I'msaying. Or I have to pick and
choose which gigs I'm gonna do,because I could have traveled a heck of
a lot more if I didn't havea job like I do it just like
my kids, we could just geton, you know whatever, figure it
out. But I have to bevery selective because I'm still I'm in that
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kind of limbo phase where Juana's notmaking enough to sustain my current income.
And I was laid off this year. Dude. That was a blow.
That was a blow, And everybodywas like, this is God's way of
telling you this, to pursue now, to pursue it full time. But
then the bills were saying what thebills were? Like, No, and
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I've always been and it's not somuch. My husband works full times,
that's fantastic, he could have sustainedus. But I've always been the healthcare
provider for the family. Got it, So that alone was like mess the
gig with insurance correct, I justwasn't ready, dude. So I was
without a job for a good threemonths. Savings started to deplete because the
bills keep coming, and there washiskey bills, I know. And in
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those three months, the phone stoppedringing, nobody's calling, nobody's booking.
Ye, there's nothing going on,and I'm like, I'm free right now,
I have nothing happening. And thenmy mom gets sick, very sick.
She needed a triple bypass surgery.Oh my gosh. It just just
life, just life, and itall piled up. Everything happened all at
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one time, and then all ofa sudden, the phone starts ringing again.
Right as I accepted a full timejob. I'm like, God,
you work in mysterious ways. ButI think ultimately the lesson is when you
pray for something, God goes followsBam, there you go. How are
you gonna do it? Yeah?Figure it out? You can. There
it is. Yeah, you wantedthis, Yep, yep, you pray,
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figure it out, make it happen, benefits. Don't you complain about
it later. I've done right.And you pray for shows shows, so
yeah. And then on top ofhaving all those hats, my husband becomes
a coach for my daughter's rec volleyballteam, which, in turn I become
the volleyball mom ad time, Like, do you have a like a like
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a soccer mom type vehicle even thoughit's volleyball. I do. I got
a Wrap four, a perfect perfect. Yes, my mom has a rat
four. It's perfect. I'm almostforty. My game perfect for Costco trips.
Absolutely, dude. I am soproud to be a Costco member.
I mean, hello, they didn'thave to roll lucky. I'm still I'm
still Sam's Club. Oh you gotto get what the times? I know,
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I gotta goes where exactly. YeaCostco is the target of of a
big box, real tail. Youknow. I could probably go to Sam's
built all the way in the southSide, which there's nothing wrong. I
was I was born in south Side. But I'm like, no, target,
it's real pretty. Yeah, it'sthe aesthetic. It just kiels nicer.
Yeah, it does. It does. I'm like, hey, that
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kind of hurt. I wanted.So, So you just got back from
a trip to Chicago. You wouldn'tperform. Where did you perform? And
tell me all about it? Whatwas the experience like and how did you
get invited to this? Yeah?So I just came back from the Latino
Comedy Festival in Chicago, and sothey were having open submissions. Filled out
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the application, submitted a video andgot selected. And I'm proud to say
that I was one of four Latinasfrom Texas that went to represent three from
San Antonio alone, which was amazing. There was thirty seven of us there.
Thirty good god, how many dayswas this thing? It was a
three day festival, multiple shows goingon at the same time. I did
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three shows, one at the LaughFactory, which is I mean, those
walls are just you just rub onthem, right like it just so many,
so much history that in that place. We performed a Laugh Factory,
then we performed at at Reggie's ComedyScene, and then the last place was
a really cool like chain place calledJoJo's Shake Bar, which was really cute,
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and we performed there and there andthe sets were six minute sets.
You have six minutes to make itimpressed press yes, and yeah, I'm
really proud of what we did outthere. I'm really really proud. And
I say we because I feel likeTexas was the top. My guy.
Oh see, yeah, they werelike man, y'all came hard, dude,
y'all, like that's how we rotit. How many Texans were there?
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There's four of us okay, okay, one from Temple, she's Puerto
Rican, and then three of usfrom San Antonio. Wow, that's shocking.
Nobody from Austin because like Austin rightup the street, they're like,
you know plenty yeah, yeah,no, I mean I don't know how
how much this reached people. Butwhen I got there, I was like,
well, there's New York, there'sBoston there. I mean it was
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crazy. There was a lot ofLatinas there, Wow, a lot.
And you know, something about growingup Hispanic is that you know, we've
always like it's the thea syndrome thatI like to call it where don Ju's
gando. Everybody's immediately either welcoming youor they're kind of sizing you up.
So I was already worried that that'skind of the environment that I was coming
into. Thirty seven Latinas dude atTunle, So I just thought, oh
(15:05):
my god, about mamasand who's mana? But no, it was it was
very refreshing, my guy, becauseeverybody was ready to be at manas and
mades. Okay, so everybody's helpingeach other like a feedback from from seasoned
comedians I did. I did positive, very positive feedback. We got to
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perform with Gwen, which is she'san up and coming Hispanic Mexican UH comedian,
and she got to see our setsand she was just absolutely floored and
excited. And I gained followers fromthe other fellow Latina comedians, and you
know, I have and some otherfuture opportunities. So I'm just excited about
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having been there and being expected.So yeah, So with all that and
and and now now, uh,your career as a as a stand up
comedian flourishing here in San Antonio.What opportunities here have opened up for you?
Well, which is the whole purposewhy I'm here. Man, I'm
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talking about this to everybody. Iwant everybody to know this that it's not
easy for Latina comedians first and foremost. Second of all, it's not easy
for locals to get great real estatein these amazing comedy clubs. And we
have one percent. What do youthink that is? Because we're not ticket
sellers, Like, we're not bigbig names that are going to pack out
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the houses. And it's a risk. These are chains, these are corporations
that need to make money. Theyhave like a quota. Now is it
that? And I'll tell you whyI'm asking asking us Is it that or
is it a lack of support fromthe community. I say this because having
spent I spent a decade in Austinworking radio up there, and Austin has
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a very interesting comedic scene. There'sa lot of comedians and as you know,
there's a there's a comedy festival upthere every year or the moon Tower
Comedy Festival, and comedians big namesand small names from all over the country.
And they also have the mothership thereconverged there. The mothership is Joe
Rogan's place. Oh now now JoeRogan, Yeah, but before Joe just
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just there was you know, likefor example, the the comedy place up
there was called cap City Comedy Club. Capsidy is just a staple around the
country, which I didn't know untilI, you know, lived in work
in Austin. There's a lot oftalent, there's a lot of competition.
It's also a different type of comedy. You don't see a lot of Latinos
there. But those folks in thatcommunity, they support each other each other
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and the scene. Do we havethat same support here in san Antonio will
will drive up from the West Sideall appear to come see. Yeah,
I don't know because I'm still learningthe city. But what are your thoughts?
What are you seeing? Absolutely,and I have to I have to
give back to the San Antonio comedyscene because they've been so welcoming to me.
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Comedians are not naturally big social mediainfluencers. They don't have the big
numbers off the bat, right right, So I came in starting with that
aspect first, then the comedy after, the stand up comedy after. So
as far as San Antonio backing mebuying tickets out, that was not necessarily
an issue. I was worried aboutthe comedy scene here, which, to
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my surprise, everybody was so embraced. I did embraced me because they're giving
me knowledge on stand up comedy andI'm giving them knowledge on social media.
So we're working together. Ida MaRuiz, I'll name her again. She's
Michael Madden Comedy. No, mymad DNA, Sorry, she has We
have a whole group chat on amessenger and it's called Algorithm. So when
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they have shows, we're hey,guys, comment share like, so we
throw everything on there that we're doingand everybody supports each other and shares the
boast and comments on it to kindof get the algorithm boosted. But yeah,
everybody's very supportive, very welcoming.That's been my experience so far.
So that now this leads to yourperformance here in San Antonio at the laugh
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Out Love The Laugh Out Loud ComedyClub, which is the biggest comedy club
in San Antonio, has been aroundfor how long, Oh my gosh,
God knows how long. God knowshow long. I mean you you walk
up there and you just see thesephotos of Bob Saget on stage. I
mean it's been there, it's beenthere. A big names have gone through,
their names, big names. Whenis the show? Yeah, and
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you're headlining. Yes, Who's Who'sWho's coming along with you? Right?
So the show is October twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eighth. I
believe this is the first time alocal comedian has been given a weekend spot
like this, which is impeccable,and I thank San Antonio for that because
we were there last year on aThursday and we sold out two shows.
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Nice. Yes, so I'm lol, was like, yeah, this girl's
guy, like, we can doit. You know what I mean.
So I'm bringing with me the samerecipe that I had last year and it
worked. So I have my households. Not one who is also a TikTok
sensation in San Antonio. I havewhat's his name, not one, you
have to look him up. Hestole my idea people for some reason.
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And I don't know why. I'vebeen called my name is Pedro, people
call me. And I thought aboutgoing, and then I thought, well,
that's isn't that there's a north ofso yeah, whatever. It was
like I was in my air accordion. That's so, I do a mean
aer accordion too, I do.I I played the accord That's another story.
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Anyways, Yes one, and he'she's growing. His numbers are amazing,
like he's doing a phenomenal job.And then we have also TikTok sensation
a Rivas who's also known as Yesthat's like San Antonio favorite. I remember
when he went viral Selena. Yes, well not just that one, but
(20:56):
the one that really went viral wasuh challenge, I believe because Jlo commented
and shared it or something. Really. Yeah, I I found out about
aj because he did something at theTB whatever with the white truck and the
battle the which one was that one? What's that girl's name? Yenni sixty
nine? Oh yeah, there yougo, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah
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yeah. So he's going to beon the lineup. He does. He
does a whole like thing with hischaracter Yessica, who is basically a spoof
of Isprimas, who are like bigSelena fans and they dress up and they
think they look like Selena, butthey don't. So it's a it's a
really really funny, funny set thathe's got going on, and he involves
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the crowd. He gets people outof the crowd and stuff, so he's
doing that. Then I have oneof the fastest rising Latina comedians from San
Antonio on my lineup. This girl'severywhere like you have you have to look
her up to. This is MichelleCantu and she's going to be featuring for
me. And then I also inviteda lot of the local San Antonio scene
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to do guest spots, so Ihave five other comedians for each night of
the show, there's going to bea different gentleman that's joining me. And
each one of those guys that Ipicked are one of the guys that have
done something particularly special for me inmy journey of comedy. So that's why
I ask them. And not onlynot only that, but I think it's
monumental that I'm in a male dominatedindustry and these mails are so about catapulting
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me forward in my success in comedy. So those gentlemen are Chris Greon,
we have King Quasi, Big John, Clifton Simmons, and Cousin Bruto.
So if that's who's all going tobe performing now, I know it's it's
not proper to ask a comedian tolike share a bit of their set on
an interview. I'm not gonna I'mnot going to ask you that. But
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if there's something right now that you'rethinking of from maybe a past set or
something that us from an experience,you know, something that you wanted to
share about your husband that drives younuts, or you know, yeah,
no, what that mean? I'mtrying to think because a lot of it
is like adult content. Well,let's be a podcast. Okay, okay,
cool, cool, and no onelistens to this podcast, so listen,
(23:11):
tune in and listen to Clutch onyour Pearls if you like. Oh
so one of the things that Italk about in uh in my comedy.
In my comedy said about my husband, is I talk about I don't know
if I want to say that.Okay, I talk about so my husband
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does. He also joins me onTikTok's and I do pranks on him all
the time. Okay. And lastnight I had him film three videos with
me, which is a stretch becausea lot of the fans ask where he's
at, like, why aren't youdoing any more videos with your husband?
Because he's tired of my you knowwhat, he's sick of me already.
I don't want to as soon ashe sees me sitting at the try No,
(23:55):
man, I'm not doing that.Get out of here, Get out
of here with that crap. Solast night I did. I did a
video with him where there's this challengeon TikTok that says, I know how
to crack an egg with one handin half no shells, And I said,
you're at the judge, You're justgonna sit here and watch me do
it to make sure I have noshells. Yeah, the bowl And he's
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like, okay, And my husband'sbald has a really big forehead, and
I go okay right on his forhead. Oh my god, it's hilarious.
Yes, he was. It wasfunny. So what is your husband's name.
His name is Billy Billy, BillyBilly. You need to stay on
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board with this because you're gonna haveso much money and you're gonna be able
to retire early. So you arenot sick of TikTok videos with your wife.
You need to be supportive and youneed to knock out five pieces of
content every day or more. Keepit up, fifteen games it and that's
just in the morning and and andthat's going to send you, guys eyes
(25:00):
you know, to to financial that'sright, Yes, early retirement, that's
right. It is he a carguy? Oh? Yes? Was his
favorite car the Jim Car Chevy Chevelle. That you're gonna be in the Chevy
Chevelle sooner than you thought. BillyBilly Jack. That's his real name,
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Billy Jack Estrada. Really, yeah, that's not even a joke, is
yeah, Billy Jack Estrada, BillyJack Estrada. So his dad was a
big fan of the cowboy movie BillyJack and Postland. His wife was about
to have everybody does, and heand he loves like I have this this,
(25:42):
I have this one particular joke thatI talked about where where we're gonna
go there where I was constipated,said his lesson to learn, not mine.
So then in Chioka I said thisjoke and people were calling him,
got up, beepy, You're like, you will addit? That does does
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Billy Jack have? Does he atleast have like a textan accent? Like
when I hear the name Billy Jack, I imagine like, hey, y'all
tell you who god his name righthere is Billy Jack. I could do
the best impression of sound like,okay, babe, So you're gonna go
to that thing today and you're gonnayou're who's this guy? What's his name?
I'm like his name is Bethroda Andhe's like like, I'm like,
(26:32):
yeah, you get it, likeradio airton. Oh that's badass. I
like that. So he asked vaguequestions. You're going to that thing,
You're gonna talk to that guy atthat one place at a certain time.
Not only that, but that's howhe communicates things. And he's like,
Babe, did you do the thingwhere we're gonna get for the girls?
You already got it right. I'mlike, I don't even know what you're
(26:53):
I think we all know someone likethat. I've had several people in my
life who speak like that, likea very like broad or vague you know
question askers, Hey, did youdo that thing at the other the other
day at that place with that oneguy? You know who I'm talking about,
right, it was in the daylight. Don't forget it was in the
(27:15):
daylight. What are you talking about? You know, that's how we communicate.
And he's like, my so likewhen you're growing up and your children,
so moms will understand this. Yourchildren are baby talking and you don't
know people want to understand, likewhat did your child say she wants the
milk? Well, I'll get herselThat's me with my husband right. They're
looking at me and I'm like,he's talking about the game. It's next
(27:36):
week, like I already know.But yeah, I mean I created a
whole character, a deal that Samanthaand I do together, Samantha and not
had on I do together. Whatname clear and he is a combination of
my husband, his uncle, hisdad, and my dad's accent. It's
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a plethora and so so deal Chonis just he's he literally is a guy
that a lot of people relate toand is probably one of the fan favorite
characters that I do because they're likeI grew up with that guy, Like
I know that guy and that's howhe talks. But he talks his mannerisms.
He talks like dish and he hesays everything real quick and he's like,
(28:18):
IM going to super Bowl. Ithought that you're fine. So yeah,
that's that's kind of like deal.Chon is a mumbler and and he's
pretty much like he's just crazy.So it's it's it's these characters are folks
that we've all at some point experienced, so relatable. You'll get it right
away. Someone will be like,oh my god, I have a theo
(28:41):
ch as he said, Okay,absolutely, yeah, that's that's steal Chunk,
that's Chunk. It's a lot oflike I said, it's a mixture
of all those people. So wherecan we where can we see uh some
of your stuff? I mean,you're on social media, so I'm guessing
and you said you mentioned TikTok?What is your TikTok? Where can we
see some of your stuff? Everywhere? You just look up to ten and
they'll find me choyna eat two tenon all social medias. We'll get your
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content. And then the big showis is this weekend? Uh No?
When that October twenty six, twentysix, twenty seven, twenty eight at
Laugh Out Loud Comedy Comedy Club herein San Antonio and with a whole lineup
of local comedians at performers. Ticketsavailable at at improvtexts dot com. Improv
(29:25):
texts dot com. You can buytickets to the day of the show as
well, but be safer than sorry, buy your tickets in advance. Club
comedy clubs still do a drink minimum. They all do. Now it's a
two I believe it's at two trink. I'm a lightweight. I can't do
two drinks. I'm good with one. So what do I do with the
second one? Do a sprite?I thought I'd have to be alcoholic?
(29:47):
Yeah, Oh, I don't know. I'm assuming a lot of comedy clubs
are like that, because I mean, it's they got to keep their doors
open. Yeah, I gotta paysome bills. Okay, okay, all
right, all right, what's happeningto make sure you get your tickets?
Jeez? And my God says foruh, just jumping in here, for
knocking out this podcast with us twoten originals, super excited to get you
(30:08):
in here, and just really excitedabout watching your career flourish. And it's
always exciting to be in a townwhere you know, you see someone grow
from a social media influencer in thiscase, to then a nation or nationally
known figure name. Yes, wegot the Spurs and we got Wemby whatever.
(30:32):
But when you got a hometown herothat then gets to gets catapulted to
perform as you mentioned Chicago, youknow who knows. The Tonight Show might
call amen, Stephen Colbert, andthe Late Show might call right the if
and when you do make it toone of because that's when you really made
(30:55):
it, when you made it tothe late night shows. And by the
way, I'm a big fan ofthe reason I love speaking to comedians is
because I grew up on Colon O'Brien, love it, And Colin O'Brien is
the guy who you know, andso did Jay Leno and of course David
Letterman too, and of course DavidJohnny Carson. But is the generation that
(31:18):
that or the or the the hostthat introduced me to a generation of comedians
right, and continues to do soeven now with this with Now he's not
on TV anymore, but he hashis podcast, right, and he still
has these amazing people roll through andgives them time time too. I think
it's amazing. Yes, you knowwho else is doing that? And it's
it's something that people are like alot of my family members like, you
(31:40):
need to go to this. Soit's it's at the Mothership. It's this.
I'm drying a blank on this guy'sname, but I am terrified to
go because he's so mean. Ifyou're not good. Gosh, what's his
name? I already forgot, Butthat's essentially what he's doing. There was
this girl from Arizona. She went, they only give you a minute.
(32:02):
You have a minute to a minute, a minute to be funny. And
he's got a panel of people.Roseanne Barr was there. Are we talking
about? His name is kill killTony, kill Tony kill Tony in Austin.
So they do this thing and nowthey do it at the Mothership.
So it's kill Tony. He hasJoe Rogan on there, or celebrities or
whoever. So this particular panel hehad it was killed Tony, Roseanne Bar
(32:27):
and a few weathers. This girlcomes up, she does her minute sets.
She's very dark comedy, and itwas joke after joke after joke after
joke after joke in one minute.She's done. She has Roseanne Barr rolling
the whole minute. Kill. Tonyis like, you're just phenomenal. I
love I love watching you. Andshe put her on a whole tour.
Roseanbar put her on a whole tour. Wow. And my family's like,
(32:49):
did you watch that? Did youwatch that? That's why I keep telling
you you should go. You justnever know that an opportunity is gonna open
up. I'm like, oh mygod. But he's also terribly mean.
I don't know, give an exampleof what what what does he do?
For example, I don't know wherethis guy is so yeah, I know.
I mean he can either do greatthings or he can just be awful
awful with so this this, Ithink it was a gentleman. He had
(33:13):
this one minute and you can tellthat you're walking in there and you're giving
it. You're all right, Ihave one minute to make an impression.
And then he's they're done, andthey're just standing there so intimidated, and
he's like, you were awful,Like how long have you been doing this?
It's kind of like the Simon Cowbut total feels like the American Idol
of comedy or the X Factor ofcomedy. And he's like, how long
(33:36):
have you been doing this? I'vebeen doing this for twenty years. You
wasted your time? Things like that. So, and this is all live
and it gets posted on YouTube.Really, I'm okay, you got to
check it out. Don't go,don't go. If he's going to do
that, that's why I'm like,let me find my perfect if you if
you go there, If you gothere, you get your minute and he
roasts you. Yeah, let's sayhe roasting right Are you know? Are
(33:58):
you to roast him right back?Are you allowed to? Yes? You
can? So what would you sayto him? See, that's that's what
I'm not a roaster. I'm notquick on what looks like just just look
at his physical characters something, Yeah, I mean i'd be I don't know.
I like the first thing that cameto mind to me was the the
Little boy Friend toy story with thebraces and this I wouldn't even know the
(34:21):
guy's name. Because I'd be like, what is now? You got me
thinking? Is that what he lookslike? That's what it reminds me of?
What's his what's his background? Like? Is he a comedian? Comedians?
The guy huge? Yeah? Inwhat year? Was a huge?
I don't know. I just friendswith Joe Rogan. Possibly possible. I'm
sure Joe Rogan heard me on theair and heard this podcast. He's He's
(34:43):
like, this is your podcast.Cute girl, lovely y'all stay in San
Antonio here, fine, we will. You can keep doing, keep my
backyard, keep your weirdness up inAustin, Weirdos. We're looking forward to
(35:05):
see, continue to see your growth, continue to make noise and representing two
ten to the fullest. Uh.And please do as all amazing comedians do
uh once you hit the pinnacle.Uh. And you also bring up those
other folks that that are also wantingto get to the top. So T
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ten Originals and our guests tonight todayChuna
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