Ep#24-From Thrift Shops to Stand-Up: The Elijah James Story (How to Make it in Stand Up Comedy)

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We sit down with local comedian Elijah James to explore how he's building the comedy scene in Coachella Valley through his Upcycle Comedy shows at a vintage thrift store in downtown Indio.

• Palm Desert native who discovered comedy as a way to connect with others while moving around as a kid
• Started comedy shortly before COVID after attending Arizona State University and working various jobs including valet parking
• Created Upcycle Comedy at Return of the Goods thrift store, bringing comedy and vintage shopping together
• Discusses the challenges and rewards of producing comedy shows, including the behind-the-scenes work of promotion and content creation
• Explains how the Coachella Valley comedy scene is more collaborative and welcoming compared to larger markets
• Shares insights on his creative process, including when to write jokes and developing his own unique style
• Performs his spot-on impression of RFK Jr. that had us in stitches
• Recommends following @upcycledcomedy and @elijah.james on Instagram for information about upcoming shows

Follow Upcycle Comedy on Instagram for upcoming shows happening every other Friday at 8pm at Return of the Goods in downtown Indio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is going on?
Everyone, I'm Robin Mraz andI'm Pina Mraz, and this is CV
Hustle, the podcast dedicated toentrepreneurship here in the
Coachella Valley.
And, for those of you that maynot know, the Coachella Valley
has a burgeoning comedy scenehere in the Valley and it's
spearheaded by a bunch of localcomics, and today our special
guest is one of those guysthat's bringing that comic flair

(00:22):
to the Valley, mr Elijah James.
Thanks for coming in today, man.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey, thanks for having me.
How are you?
I'm doing great.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, he's throwing shows down in the downtown Indio
upcycle comedy shows.
That's how we kind of came tomeet you, so thanks for coming
in today, man Upcycle comedy.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Thanks for having me.
This is the nicest couch I'vebeen on in a while.
We try, man.
Thanks for having me.
This is the nicest couch.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I've been on in a while.
It's already a good start.
You got to go to MathisBrothers.
They got some nice ones there.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, I know I run a comedy show.
I don't got Mathis Brothersmoney.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
True, true.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
So I have a question for you.
I don't know if you're local.
I mean, we just met you thatnight.
You heckled us.
Thanks a lot.
I went home and cried, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Starting off swimmingly.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Dude, that jacket you were wearing.
You were on fire.
Legitimately yeah it totallyhad the flames and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Does your car have the flames on it?
Does my car yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
no, I do sleep in a race car bed, though.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Lightning McQueen, action Exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh, that's Lightning McQueen action.
Exactly, it was on sale.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
But yeah, Upcycle Comedy.
Yeah, you guys are great.
It's a fun time.
I got that jacket from thethrift store that we were
running out of in Indio calledReturn of the Goods, the guys
over there.
They have a wonderful shop.
Everything is so unique, asyou've already seen.
The space is really great and Ifeel like comedy and thrifting

(01:51):
kind of goes hand in hand,because none of those hands got
a lot of money.
So then when you bring themtogether, you're like it's the
best, you're like it's a family.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, we're gonna, we're gonna delve into that yeah
so you're, you're a younggentleman thank you I would like
to know are you are you fromthe valley?
Or or how did where are youfrom yeah Valley?
Where are you from?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, I am from the Valley, I'm from Palm Desert.
I came out here when I wasreally young, though, moved here
with my mother, went to PalmDesert High School.
Yeah, all that fun stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Came out here from where.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
The Beaumont area.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh my God, they have so much family out there Really.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, my mom grew up there.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
It's crazy yeah so did you go to high school down
here?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
yeah, yeah, I did, went to high school here, palm
desert palm desert high school.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right man, that's awesome.
So you were a local guy.
Comedy is not really a thingdown here.
So how, I mean, how did thatprogression do something you
always wanted to do?
Is it something that you as akid you saw?
Like you know, dave chappelle,were there like inspirations
that kind of led you in thatdirection?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
you know, I I feel like when I was younger I was
like always kind of like I movedaround a lot when I was young.
Uh, so, like making friends andkeeping friends, all that stuff,
the one constant was like, oh,I had to learn to like be funny,
to like it's like, I guess,like a social skill.
Yeah, I about.
But yeah, once, like in highschool, once I went to college,

(03:07):
I never really thought of it aslike something, you know, that I
could like do, as like a careeror even as like a passion.
I just really didn't put a lotof thought into that.
But then, you know, I came outhere and you know I was doing
like a little bit of this, alittle bit of that and yeah, I
just kind of like fell in lovewith like seeing other people do
comedy and then kind of thinklike, oh, it's like I want to

(03:28):
try that and a lot of people dothat.
You know, it's like that's alot.
I feel like a lot of people goto shows and they're like, oh, I
can do that.
And then you get there andyou're like oh, can I do?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll use thattomato, but it's honestly, it's
going from the first show tolike there's really nothing out

(03:48):
here, you're right.
So I'm lucky enough to be likea part of like a group of people
that have really started tolike, you know, dig up a lot of
like.
You know the hard work to getcomics to come out and all that
stuff, and I mean there is a lotof like really good local
talent, so it's really not thathard.
The promotion part is a littledifficult, but you know we, you

(04:11):
know we make it work.
You know it's good.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah.
So when you said you went tocollege, where did?
And hold on, let's go back tolike.
You jumped around a lot yeah.
So, do you consider yourself achameleon?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh, yeah, yeah, we can get into the trauma.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't knowwho I am.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
No, I'm kidding, yeah yeah, we can go back into the
therapist's office.
Yeah, so like 1994.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
No, I feel like kind of you know, you kind of like
when I was younger, I mean, onecomedy is all about like trying
to like find out, like whereyour niche is, you know where
you fit in, just like in life uh.

(04:53):
So you kind of like do there'sa lot of trial and error with
that.
Um, so when it comes to likecomedy my comedy specifically I
try to just be, like you know,open to like everybody, like not
like putting down anybody, uh,unless, like I did put you guys
down uh at the show.
But you guys had fun.
Yeah, oh yeah, we knew what wewere doing.
We're sitting in the front rowfor a reason.
Yeah, yeah, I did put you guysdown at the show, but you guys
had fun.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh yeah, we knew what we were doing.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
We were sitting in the front row for a reason, yeah
yeah, yeah, and like it's alllighthearted stuff, you know, I
really do.
People want to laugh atthemselves and, like you know, I
want to laugh at myself.
You know, self-deprecating abit.
So it's like that's the type ofcomedy that I feel like I enjoy
.
It's the type of comedyeverybody enjoys to a certain
degree, absolutely.
Yeah, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Speaking to that.
So you kind of mentioned thatyou guys are kind of the
forefront of comedy down hereand I mean honestly, like I said
, we went to your show kind ofby accident.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, most people do you guys are trying to get away.
Well, we were eating downtown.
We wanted a funnel cake.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, at the food trucks.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
She was disappointed.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I heard there's a comedy show in like 10 minutes
on the corner shop at the UrbanDonkeys.
So we're like let's go, weain't got no kids, let's go
check it out.
So just having those events Imean speaking to that from the
business perspective what groupof guys kind of got you going
and how did you guys kind ofcome to the realization?
Because traditionally in comedy, right you?

(06:08):
got to go do your rounds, youknow, in LA and the bigger
scenes, right and try, and youknow, get your Netflix contract
and all that.
So how did you young guys,because there's a group of you
guys, correct?

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
How did you guys kind of come together and what was
like the inspiration for hey,maybe we can do this ourselves
and throw our own shows?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I mean I I kind of did like follow suit.
There were some people thatcame before me that I kind of
like laid like a little bit ofgroundwork and so like I was
lucky enough to kind of likelearn from them and uh, you know
, so I wasn't going incompletely like blind.
Obviously, doing a productionon your own is like there's a
lot of like things that you'relike not really aware of,
because I'd only been likeperforming on shows for years.

(06:46):
Um, so I feel like, with theyoung group of people that are
here, um, yeah, dakota miracle,he was one um, he does a lot of
shows around here.
Actually, he was like the firstshow he put on, a show that I
first went to in the desert, andI remember, like years uh ago,
when I asked him, I was like, oh, hey, just like an open mic and

(07:06):
all that stuff.
And so, yeah, I mean, you know,went to open mics, you know
continue going.
You know was good enough to geton shows, to continue getting
on shows.
And then you know, from thereon, you're just kind of like,
okay, you make the connectionsright.
Yeah, it's all networkinghonestly and just doing it at
like most of these shows arehappening at like bars, yeah.
So it's really difficult tonetwork with alcohol, you can

(07:29):
imagine.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah it makes it tough right a lot of heckling
going on.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
So, um, I want to talk about you.
So you said you went to college.
Where did you go to college?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
arizona state asu sun devil here amir went.
I like we love their logo rightthe, the sparky sun devil, yeah
, sun devil, yeah, yeah, the sundevil I was like the pitchfork.
Yeah, yeah, sun Devil here.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Amir went I like we love their logo right the Sparky
, the Sun Devil, yeah, yeah theSun Devil.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Sun Devil.
I was like the Pitchfork.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
We love that.
It was a great time.
Didn't do a lot of studying,but yeah.
So what did you major in when I?

Speaker 3 (08:04):
went out.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, I mean because, you know, honestly, it's funny
thinking back to it.
I mean, I was young, I wasraised by a single mother.
I really wasn't like, oh, whatcan I do with my life to be like
giving back, you know, in thistype of sense, to feed me, and,
yeah, just being a cop.
What seemed like it was likewas, like, you know, oh, that

(08:26):
that can be something.
That'd be great, that'd be agood pathway, very secure, and
all that stuff.
But yeah, yeah, just as timewent on, I kind of just found
out that, like I, I wanted to belike giving back and also
validated in a different way, asopposed to just, like you know,
having a badge, I guess.
And then I, yeah, I mean I wentto a couple classes and then
they showed me videos of likeyou know, just cops getting shot

(08:49):
like when they're doing liketraffic stops, and I was like
Autopsy photos.
I was like man, yeah, not worthit, it's a tough job.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
People say being a comic is a tough job.
I'm like there's some toughjobs out there.
There's definitely some moretough jobs, Wow.
But that definitely steered meaway and I was like you know,
let's search, let's try and findsomething else.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
And that's what you should do when you're young.
You should do this and do thatand then kind of figure out what
you like to shit.
But like that you're kind offinding yourself.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, it's trial and error.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Right, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Especially these days , Nate, because you're switching
careers all the time.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Gone are the days of working for a company for 50
years.
You know, we're kind of allkind of doing it.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
On the railroad, so then you were over there On the
railroad, on the railroad, backin the day, on the railroad back
in the day.
I was like, were you?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
working on a railroad ?

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't know where that came from.
Maybe in Monopoly?

Speaker 4 (09:47):
we were talking about like yeah yeah stuff, stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
You know, back when we were on the railroad all day
shoveling that coal.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
So then you came back to the desert, like everybody
does, right?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
yeah, I went to one desert back to another back to
the other desert.
Arizona was fun, different thanCalifornia.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
For sure, right yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I mean slightly different.
They act like they're so muchdifferent.
It's just like the laws arejust like a little weird, you
know.
It's like you can't go to likebars with like a vertical ID,
you know, because it's like thatcould be like seen as like a
fake.
Essentially, you know how wehave like horizontal ids yeah,
yeah yeah, so it's like avertical one.
It's like, oh well, they're justturning 21.

(10:28):
Yeah, yeah, that was, that wasa weird thing and uh, but they
can also um, you can like ridein the back of a pickup truck on
the freeway, like just reallyno problem just hanging out.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
See, it's what I we used to do.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I mean, we used to do that like in the 90s, but that
was a long time.
That was back on the railroad,that wasn't in the 90s, but that
was a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
That was back on the railroad.
That was in the early 80s.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Well, no, even in the 90s I can remember jumping in
the back of a pickup truck andbeing driven around town.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Those were the good old days that's been outlawed a
long time ago, so Arizona canstill do that.
Huh yeah, pretty sure that'scrazy man.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Let's go and you can also carry.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh yeah, and I was not really paying attention to
my studies and so I was like letme come back out here, get
refocused, go to COD.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Shout out to the Roadrunners.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, yeah, shout out to the Roadrunners.
I don't even know why I shoutthat out.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
You guys do good work , but it's like I'm getting a
sponsorship.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Never know, yeah right.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Like hey, you guys got a scholarship.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Hey, maybe you can perform at their uh, their uh,
what do you call it graduation?

Speaker 2 (11:48):
yeah, you guys won't lose all your funding, yeah,
yeah, yeah, that'd be great, um,but I went to cod and yeah, I
was just doing like you know,finishing up my schooling and
stuff like that, and yeah, I waskind of just working, trying to
focus on that and yeah, I mean,comedy came about and that just
became like you know, the thingthat I was really passionate
about.

(12:09):
That made me just like want tocontinue doing it the most so
when did it come about?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
you said, like when did you get those?
So you said you had a bug.
Younger, like what years didyou really start going?
Because I mean it's, it's kindof a rough.
It's a rough start.
Any any comic I've ever talkedto or heard interviews about,
it's a rough start right.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, there's really not like a blueprint, you just
got to go up there and do it,right?
Yeah, exactly a lot of peopleask.
You're like, oh, how do you getstarted?
And it's like the same way.
You know, I did find out foryourself.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I'm not gonna give you the secret yeah, exactly,
give you the secret.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
I don't want no competition, you can't have,
have my notebook.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's, but it genuinely isn't.
That is one thing I do likeabout this valley is that bigger
markets will be like that here,you know, it's one come one all
because it's, you know, it's sogrowing and there's a lot of
talent out here and I feel likewe kind of get overlooked
because we are, like you know,in between San Diego or LA.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Or the redheaded stepchild.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Exactly, yeah, yeah, exactly.
That's a good way to put it.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
The black sheep, yeah , yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
And so when we get new people, we're very
accommodating Because it's a bigcommunity.
The more minds the better, andthe more eyes that are on us is
the better too.
We get just so many differenttypes of people older, younger
that are all interested incomedy, and you don't want to
like be having to go out to,like you know, a casino all the

(13:30):
time to be seeing a show Cause.
I mean like you can.
You know those are good showslike 100%, um, but like, like I
used to perform at the, at oneof the casinos around here, like
consistently, uh, hosting showsand it's good, but it's, like
you know, the casino vibe islike it's very niche, you know,
it's not for everybody, you know, but it's like I feel like with
Upcycled Comedy, it's kind oflike a more like I don't want to

(13:53):
say grunge, but it's kind oflike it's like it kind of is,
you know, it's like for comedy,you know, and it's like there
are a bunch of other like venuesout here that are like that and
it's just cool.
You know, you're starting tosee a lot of people come out
here from la, from san diego, um, just, you know, to live, yeah,
just to visit and to comethrough.

(14:13):
I get a lot of people that hitme up to just be on shows, like
last minute.
They're like big names.
I'm like, yeah, totally likethis.
It's a, it's a great place.
But to answer your question, um, what was the question?
no, no no, yeah, the questionwas when did I start?
I started before COVID.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Oh yeah, I want to say it was.
That's kind of bad timing.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
No, we needed to laugh.
Well, I mean with everything Isaid, To start your dreams, to
start when you had to be withpeople.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Yeah, where you right , no it was right.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I want to say it was like maybe like seven or eight
months, like before COVID.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, wow, yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
And I mean COVID was great.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
You could do your comedy routine on Zoom.
You know, yeah, I mean that'swhat a lot of people did.
A lot of people did that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up.
I know, I was just joking.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I know In front of monitors.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
How do you get paid?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
That didn't make any sense to me.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
I just started, yeah, so I wasn't like book me on AIM
.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
No one was doing that with dial-up back in the day.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
The kids don't know what that is.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
No, they don't you youngins?
Don't know what dial-up is?
Check it out.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
YouTube it.
I have a question because I'mtrying to take it back.
I want to know was anybodyfunny in your family?
Because, you know how artistsor musicians, somebody in their
family kind of passed that down.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, I mean genuinely, I feel like a lot of
people in my family were funny,or at least they thought they
were.
It's back to trauma.
We can take this to therapy.
I think that, yeah, I, I feltlike my mother was a very funny
person.
Um, I think that I, but also Ikind of just feel like I used

(15:53):
humor to you know, cope with somany different oh yeah, it's a
nice little exactly.
So it's like you know, people inmy family were very funny.
It's it's hard not to bewhen're when you have this much
melanin.
You know everything iseverything can be turned into a
joke, and then you're just like,oh yeah.
So you kind of learn that alongthe ropes.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
And the right.
The more trauma, the better.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, exactly.
I mean yeah, without makingthis like show like too
depressing.
No, no, no, I'm not trying todo that.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
but I mean, I got a tissue.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well, some of the best guys that ever do it in
your world had some big timetrauma.
I mean, richard Pryor was bornin a in a in a in a had.
His mom was like, yeah, like adrug house.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
He lived with prostitutes, so that's why he
was such a great.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
he basically did what you did, Just turned all that
into.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, grew up into prostitutes.
No, no, I'm saying, we'll takethe trauma, took the trauma and
spun it he turned out to be thepimp, yeah yeah, that's we can
cut.
No, no, uh, yeah, as my arms arelike this with all these nice
pillows uh, but yeah, no, you're, it's very much so.
Like you know, that wassomething I've.
I kind of learned to be funnyin that respect because I mean,

(17:06):
I was left home alone a lot, soI was, and this was before the
internet, so I had to really usemy imagination to kind of get
myself by.
But yeah, my mother was workingtwo jobs, so it's like when I
was doing my thing I wasn't.
Sometimes I was out doingthings I shouldn't have been,
some things, you know.

(17:26):
You know, just like kids stuff,you know, just being young.
Yeah, but you kind of learnalong the way and that's kind of
like you know I feel likethat's where my humor came from
is you know just kind of howlife, you know kind of teaches
you things, yeah, yeah exactlyum, now that I look at it more
you know I'm more likeintrospective I feel like I have
a better way to like graspthose ideas into like a

(17:48):
productive way.
Yeah, um.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
So when you said you were working jobs, what kind of
jobs were you working?

Speaker 2 (17:54):
um, I was a valet for a while, oh, god how was that?
I mean, it was cool Did youcrash any cars, you know.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
We won't talk about that.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
No, I mean, I didn't crash any cars but, like you
know, that has happened where,like you know, a car gets dinged
, you know, and it happens to bea Ferrari.
No, I never did that.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
No, those cars, you're almost like too scared to
even like move them.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, no, it's, but it was a really good job it was
at one of the uh, the resortsaround here, so it was uh 24 7,
uh, you know really good money.
Uh, you know great cardio, youknow, oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Great, exactly running car to car to car awful
during summer.
Oh, I could imagine yeah,you're like stepping into cars
that are like 500 degrees.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Awful.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Where's that AC All?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
leather too.
You know real proud of it too,like some assholes.
But yeah, no, that was a goodjob.
I got tipped a lot in weed.
What?
Yeah for that job?
I don't know why.
I mean it's not the worst wayto get it to you and then you're
driving the car.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Exactly, but that's what I'm saying yeah, everyone's
.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Be like you know, be like, hey, bro, you, you know,
and I'm like you know, like am Igetting shopped right now?

Speaker 4 (19:08):
is this a test?
And he's like do I have anycash on me, dude?

Speaker 2 (19:12):
yeah, exactly, but yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
I accepted it because that's right, man, I mean
street value right.
That's what street value is.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Exactly.
You know my bills.
It was hard to pay them.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, california Edison does not take marijuana,
which is surprising.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I mean, who would have thought, get it together
over there?
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's maybe like more of an IID type of thing, but
yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
So you did that, and then what did you end up doing?
Like was there anything youliked, or is it like?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
what is there anything I liked?
Right?
I hated it all what I'm saying.
You know you're trying outdifferent things but no, I did
enjoy uh being a valet.
I was there for a while.
You know I met a lot of, likeyou know, saw a lot of
celebrities, you know uh, yeah,any any famous autographs you
got?
Uh, no autographs here's myhere's my sleeve um and Garcia.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Andy Garcia, where's that from?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Sounds familiar, exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
He was in my Godfather 3.
Oh, he's my brother.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, no, he gave me $5.
Nice, you laugh at that, right?
Yeah, yeah, andy Garcia man, hecame back to give me $5, too.
I was like, okay, so it's tough, you know, being an actor, you
know, sag, all that stuff, it'snot as hard as it looks, yeah,
um, but I'm trying to think ofwho else.
You know, I met, I met a bunchof people, dmx oh, yeah, yeah

(20:31):
yeah, I saw dmx.
Yeah, I remember hecomplimented me on my watch, you
know.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
And I was a big dmx.
Uh, I am, yeah I love, I lovehis that voice that talk about
that grunge?

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Exactly right when my nose at.
That's right.
I think that he just couldn'tnot talk.
Remember, have you guys heardhis Christmas song?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
No, he does not have a Christmas song.
He has a Christmas song.
James Earl Bell, you neverheard the Christmas song.
Dmx has a Christmas song, yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
What are you guys talking about?
We're going to go YouTube it go.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
YouTube it.
You could pull it up, you couldcut through this interview and
if you go find the Christmassong by DMX, it's like Rudolph
the Red-Nosed.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Reindeer.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
I'm not even kidding.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
No way.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Your kid knows I'm going to look that up after this
show you already got methinking about that now.
I'm trying to think of whatelse there was.
Mac Miller, yeah, mac Miller,oh yeah, yeah, yeah, mac Miller.
Yeah, yeah, we like Mac.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Miller, talented, talented dude, yeah, very
talented.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Talented.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Trouble dude.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I just named off two rappers that have died, so it's
like there's some othercelebrities outside of Mac.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Let's quit while we're ahead.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
But the trauma it makes me funny.
But yeah, mac was really cool,that's nice.
But yeah, you meet so manybecause a lot of people come
here for Coachella and just toget away from the town, for sure
.
Yeah, and it's just a greattime.
Other jobs I did.
I mean, I work in therestaurant, a lot of different
restaurants and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Good money, I hear, for a short amount of hours,
right, yeah, yeah, yeah,currently yeah yeah, yeah, I
currently I bartend at a place.
Now yeah, oh, okay, okay, whilealso doing comedy.
Comedy.
Yeah, yeah.
So how many hours would you sayyou do comedy?
Like a week?
Is it like a full, not afull-time job?
I mean, is it like regular?

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, I mean right now we're doing two shows a
month at the location that wehave for Upcycled.
I personally that's what I run,and so any other shows I get on
in a week.
It's kind of tough becauseyou're kind of doing a lot of
editing, you guys know.
It's a lot of behind-the-scenesstuff getting ready for shows.

(22:36):
But on stage time, yeah, Ican't really even tell how much,
like in a week, like it's notenough?

Speaker 3 (22:43):
well, it's too, it's too.
So what do you mean editing?
What are you editing?
Like all?

Speaker 1 (22:46):
this content, yeah, yeah, the content.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
I mean it's all about content in his world right,
yeah, yeah, I mean you don't saythe same jokes over and over I
mean, I try, I you know if I'min a different city I don't yeah
, no, I know I try not to um,okay, start shaking, no, uh stop
questioning everybody has likeyeah, bits, you know it's like
you do all that stuff like it isthe same.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
You know it is repetitive that sometimes you
know that's kind of like why Ienjoy doing crowd work.
You know that's how I met youguys, right, um, but because you
know that stuff is always uhauthentic and like brand new,
yeah, but yeah, I mean like thejokes, you know you, you gotta
run them through.
You know that stuff is alwaysuh authentic and like brand new.
But yeah, I mean like the jokes, you know you, you, you gotta
run them through.
You know you gotta see whatworks, what works in different
situations and but like editing,like you know the footage, you

(23:30):
know you film everything, youknow you gotta do like all like
the promotion, all the otherstuff which I hate.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, it's not your thing.
I'm just like why do you thinkwe hired Danny?
You know we're like bye.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah, it is.
It's a grind, you know, butalso when you're having to see
yourself after you perform, youknow oh yeah, that's got to be
the worst.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Because you're constantly critiquing yourself
right.
It is yeah, every little thingyou're like, oh I like.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Why are my eyes going in two different directions?

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Right.
You're like Stuff that doesn'treally matter in the grand
scheme of the performance, butyou're always your worst critic.
If you're an artist, you knowyou're always going to be the
worst.
If you're a good artist, you'realways going to be your worst
critic.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Right, I think yeah, thank you, I appreciate that
Well.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
I mean, we'll critique, yeah, no thanks,
thanks, yeah, hop on.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
But yeah, that is a part of it, because the whole
social media world is everywhere.
Now You've got to try to beyour best promoter, you've got
to put yourself out there.
But if you're a perfectionistwhich I am, and I'm recovering
from that trying to work throughthat is awful?
Yeah, because you want thingsto be done a certain way, but

(24:41):
sometimes just doing them isawful.
Yeah, cause you like you wantthings to be done a certain way
but, like, sometimes you know,just doing them is is all that
matters you know, and that's thething you know, a lot of people
talk about like doing standupor doing anything in life,
entrepreneurship and all that.
It's like oh, if it isn't likethis and I'm not going to do, it
is like not gonna happen.

(25:01):
While you're like waiting,while you're for something to be
perfect, you know, you justgotta like continue to make
steps forward.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Trial and error, yeah , yeah.
How often are you writing?
I know you got as a comic.
You got to sit down and write,right yeah consistently right,
just to keep a little bit oftrial.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Like you said, trial and error right a lot of this
trial and error definitely wantto take from like what's
happening in the world.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
You know all the time oh my gosh, didn't you do rfk
or whatever I was gonna?

Speaker 4 (25:24):
ask about rfk later.
Yeah, we're gonna.
We're gonna talk to rfk at theend.
Oh man, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
We'll see if we can get them here let's channel them
just shirtless with like a bear, um, but yeah it's, uh it's.
I definitely have to take timeto like you know you know,
separate myself and like writeyou know, it is something that
you kind of want to be cautiousof, because back in the day I

(25:49):
would be like I feel likeeverybody kind of does this.
Like you'd be laughing, havinga good time with your homies,
you're like, oh, it's a funnyidea, and it's like you'll
forget that idea ever happenedright comedy is like all about
like having that idea andwriting it down and then coming
back to it and then like puttingmore thought into it.
Yeah, trying to like putyourself in that situation, like
why was that funny?
Why would that be funny topeople that like aren't in that

(26:11):
situation or don't like aren'tmy homies, you know?
or aren't drunk you know so it'slike you kind of have to like
be introspective in that way andjust think about it from all
different avenues, um, but yeah,I mean open mics.
Uh, doing it on stage is thebest way to do it, uh.
But yeah, definitely, I try totake time to write, so I'm like
you know you get peace right?

Speaker 1 (26:30):
do you and your homies in the comedy world share
jokes?
I mean because some thingsmight be.
You know, you may need to looka certain way to tell a certain
joke or something like that I'veheard of instances where comedy
crews, kind of you know, writefor each other.
Sometimes that go down.
Oh yeah, no, no definitely,definitely it does.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
It's important, uh, because, like you know, if
you're in a good, you're in agood like setting, like a good
like comedic, you know,environment, everyone's kind of
like thinking about things aslike, oh, this could be a good
punch line, this could besomething you can expand on, you
know, and it's like there areno egos.
Then it's like that's where,like the best, growth can come
from.
And I feel like that, like thegroup, that like is out here.

(27:07):
There is like that, likesynergy, which is important
because you know it's it's hardto do it as like, as a family.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
You know it's like a bunch of different people like
coming together yeah, it'seasier to do it as a village and
not as an individual right.
Exactly, I think that's true alot of things.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I think a lot of like comedians that we've seen or
we've because we, you know, wewe like to watch documentaries
and things like that they alwayshad kind of this like little
crew that they see a lot.
Everybody just goes in the samecircles, kind of.
They're a little gang, if youwill.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
My fiance watches a lot of murder documentaries.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
I go to bed to them.
You go to bed to them.
I hear it's not healthy.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
She's crazy man.
I hear it's not healthy.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
When I know when the date line's on that she's going
to be in the room asleep, thepillow's over my head, she's
just taking in all that thepillow's over your head.
Taking in all that she'sgetting ready.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Mommy's ready to?
Yeah, she's like, I'm justgoing to go to sleep.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Setting me up right there, don't you run.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, I don't know what's happening.
Oh man.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
So how did you meet your fiance?

Speaker 2 (28:24):
I hear in the valley I was the funniest person she
met.
Yeah, she would say that she'snot here to say it.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
But I know she's thinking it.
Yeah, I know she's constantlythinking it.
She constantly tells me yeah,she can't help but think it.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh, my God.
But thank you, because now thisis out.
You know, in the world it's onthe internet.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh, nobody's gonna watch this.
That's always facts.
Yeah, we're good so what?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
I, I work, or my building is on highway 111 in
Palm Desert, like on that littlefrontage road, so I'm right
next door, not next door, but afew doors down from the red barn
.
Oh okay, so are you?
Are you gonna hit them up?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
because I know it's music, but yeah, they have a
stage in there, yeah, they do Ihaven't been to the new one, uh,
because it just like renovatedon stuff but yeah, I remember.
I mean, I've performed at thered barn before when it was uh,
yeah, when it wasn't nice rightwhen it was three dollar drinks,
yeah, when it was all the localalcoholics were in the crowd.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Oh yeah, scared to go into those bathrooms.
Oh yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
You know, I performed at some pretty sketchy places.
You know, yeah, Red Barn wasone of them.
What's another one I performed?
At this one place like out inlike DHS, where, like they paid
us, like in like catfish andlike the promoter, got in a
fight with some random dude.
It used to be a church, butthey turned it into a kitchen.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
What?
I don't even know what it was.
Wow, did they pay you.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, they did.
I need payment before they didpay us, before A couple of us
got hit up and we went out thereand the tickets to go out there
it was kind of overpricedBecause I had heard about it
last minute and I was like, yeah, sure, I'll go out and do a
show, so-and-so, a couple otherpeople are going, and then I was
like, oh man, this is a littlebit.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
This is intense.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, yeah.
Whenever the guy, the host, isfighting somebody, you're like
this is a legit comedy venue.
We're all going to get bigafter this Netflix.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Right, I mean, something could go viral in
there.
There's a fight you know.
That could help.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
It could, it could have been you know, but it was
mostly used for evidence.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah it's true.
I'm trying to think of like itcould have been a producer in
the crowd, a scout, right.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Like yeah, yeah, a producer.
If there was a producer outthere and they weren't producing
anything I wouldn't be a partof it.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Maybe, like one of them, dateline murders or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, maybe Now you're talking what is up with
that?
Like women, y'all are likeobsessed with, like murder.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, it's weird man.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I don't know, because I think I'm just like how can
people do that, and how is thisreally somebody's life?

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, somebody's life .
Yeah, thank god it's not mine.
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
So maybe I'm just doing the same thing with, like
reality dating shows.
Oh yeah, do you watch those?
Oh yeah, oh wow, wow, I'm anaddict dude.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Have you watched the golden bachelor?
No, oh, that was awesomebecause I'm old, so I like to
see people fall in love, yeah,yeah, that one is like it's
heartfelt, you know, it's likeit makes sense.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
You know like, oh, this is good tv, I'll be
watching.
Like, uh, like, love is blind,you know, or?

Speaker 3 (31:22):
like something island , temptation island, yeah
temptation island is amazing ohmy, you want to feel good about
yourself.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Uh, feel about how, like I'm in a great situation
you do.
You know what temptation islandis oh yeah okay, gotcha, all
right, I was gonna like well,talk to bobby.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
I don't know hates it I will not watch any reality TV
, too badly.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
They take it's.
You say that, so they takethese couples.
It's like four couples usually.
They've you know, they're sortof like at a make or break point
, and so the idea is to put themon this island and the guys
will get separated and the girlswill get separated into
different villas and thesedifferent vill villas.
There will be like 12 new likesingles that are like,

(32:03):
essentially trying to tempt themthat's freaking horrible.
It's amazing it's the best thingto ever happen on television,
and so like, as like, as like,the days, the weeks go on,
they'll the four guys, the fourgirls they'll like meet up with
like the host and they'll do,they'll get snippets of like
what the other person, therelationship, is doing.

(32:23):
Oh wow, with no context.
So, like you might seesomething you'll be like, well,
what's that mean?
But then you might see somestuff where you're like our
relationship is over.
Right, it's amazing they had itthey had like one in, I think,
spain recently and it went viral.
This guy like he ripped off hisshirt, like when he was at the
bonfire, because his like hisgirl was with another guy and he

(32:44):
was like ayo, what up man andran on the beach.
It was, it was great TV Wow man, but yeah, Golden Bachelor, you
know a little bit more slowpaced yeah.
I don't think you You're like,yeah, yeah, my sciatica, what's
the date?

Speaker 3 (32:59):
I'm not doing that.
I got vertigo.
They're like I'm 68.
I better get it together.
I better find love.
You know what Find?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
love.
You can find love at any age.
I mean, you're going to croakpretty soon.
You better get going.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
I didn't want to say that, but I was thinking that I
didn't want to say it.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
So the whole point of that show is just to watch
people fight, basically Likecouples fight, not like
necessarily fight, but likebecause a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
It's like the guys are like oh man, like I cheated,
she can't let go of that.
Like I'm a good dude, and thenthey'll like go there.
And he's like I'm here to provemyself and then he sees like 12
women in bikinis.
They're just like all likegorgeous and he's like I'm going
to be fine and they foldimmediately.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh my God.
And then?

Speaker 2 (33:46):
they meet back up and they're like I love you and
it's like man, we saw what youdid.
It's just honest, you know, andthat's what I think.
I'm like that's the most honestthing on TV, wow.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Oh, my God.
So you know, I have a tidbitfor you.
So you were saying that you'rein situations and something
could be really funny and likeyou're like.
I got to remember that.
Yeah, get out your voice notes,oh yeah, Just be like go to the
bathroom.
I got to remember that.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's a good one.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
You ever dream about stuff?

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Oh yeah, but like I hate dreaming right because you
forget.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Right like, not even like I forget.
I feel like you got any sleep.
I exactly.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah, that's it I feel like my dreams are like I
mean tiktok's.
Like I feel like I'm adhd, liketiktok diagnosed me at this
point.
But yeah, my dreams are awful,like I'm just like oh, can I
just get a rest.
Like I just wish I couldn'tdream anymore which sounds dark,
but like it's just too active,you kind of want to just pass

(34:43):
out.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
So that's a creative curse, then?
Huh, it is.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
She's probably dreaming about getting murdered
or running away from a murder,or solving a murder.
Solving a murder, yeah, solvinga murder.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
And I think it's because I used to play Clue when
I was a little kid oh my God,that's a natural progression
You'd be like.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
why do you want to join the FBI?

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well, I used to play Clue and it worked.
Wow, yeah.
But I told Bobby yeah,everybody that comes in here
does have ADHD and it's asuperpower.
So you get stuff done, don'tyou think it's a?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
superpower Like realign this like four times.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Makes you good at business apparently mean a lot
of people a lot of the mostsuccessful people we've talked
to.
There's some adhd going on,because I I know, I know it when
I see it these days.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
So oh yeah, I've already counted all the
toothpicks.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
That's ozempic, you know I'm just like right, you
know where I can get some youknow, I honestly I don't.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I think that if you, just if you're hyperactive on
ADHD, that's like a natural.
Right oh my gosh, thinkingabout trains.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
So upcycle comedy show.
Can you kind of tell us wherethe inspiration for that came
and how that kind of came cameto be?

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Oh yeah, so I was.
I was going to a thrift store,return of the goods and Indio.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Shout out to Mata.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mata puts on a great place.
All the pieces are amazing.
I was going there for a whileand before it was just like just
full of like so much crap, likeit wasn't just, like it wasn't
spacious, like there was a lotof stuff in there before, and so
, like my head I've always beenlike, I was like, ah, you know,
I just like like the idea oflike thrifting and you know like

(36:24):
I think a comedy space would becool, because you know, I feel
like a lot of people that areinto comedy would also be like
oh, comedy works when it's likenostalgic, in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
You know, it.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, I guess you could.
You know they'd probably murderyou like on sight.
You know, like that'd be aDateline episode about that.
He just walked on to the smallworld Matterhorn.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Oh, that's jacked up.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Yeah, they'd be like oh, you're not signed by us,
buddy.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
I'm talking about a comedy show, though.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
I'm going to get drone strikes right now.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Disney with this um, but I digress yeah, but I think,
uh, with the, the thriftingaspect of that, uh, I mean, I
was going there a lot and I italways connected to me and so I
was doing comedy.
Manta had saw me in a video, uh, from like one of his like
friends had like shown him, andhe was like, oh, I think I, he's
like, oh, I sold that guy likethat jacket, or like friends had
like shown him.
And he was like, oh, I think I,he's like, oh, I sold that guy
like that jacket or like thatshirt or something like that.

(37:30):
And so, because I wear a lot ofhis pieces, you know, around
town while I'm on stage, you'rea vintage guy.
Yeah, yeah, very much so.
And so when he came up to mewhen I was shopping, he was like
, oh, like you do comedy.
And then we just kind of vibedand, yeah, I, I was like, yeah,
let's get a show going.
And then first show went reallywell, second show went really

(37:51):
well, and now it's just beenlike you know, a good
progressive, like you knowlearning experience, you know
where we're just like constantlythinking of new ideas and like
how to make the shows better.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I have an idea to make the show better Get.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Disneyland.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
Everybody sits in a recliner and gets a bag of
popcorn you know, like vip orwhat, yeah right, you pay 20
bucks, you're in the front withit, 20, you know I think 30.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, right, the recliners our chair guy.
We did a good deal on chairs.
I don't know if, like,recliners are gonna be in the
budget yet, but we'll let youknow.
That'd be cool.
You guys will be the first onesto know vip.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
We want to be the first ones to sit in one.
I want the VIP recording.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Well you guys drifted this, see, yeah, I need a show
before and afters, exactly.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
You'd be amazed.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yeah, hey, I'm down.
I get a lot of videos on TikTokof people refurbishing stuff.
Oh yeah, I'm like a real oldwhite lady when it comes to that
.
All I see are just like it'ssourdough bread and people
making a dresser really nice andI'm just like man.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
This is crazy, you're going to be knitting pretty
soon, man.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Oh yeah, you know you want to see this.
No, forget it.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Bobby loves him some sourdough too.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I do.
Oh yeah, Sourdough's amazing.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
I started making it at home, you did.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yeah, you have a sourdough starter.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
I made my own.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Yeah, it was like.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
But with my ADHD I'm over it because it took too long
.
I need something.
I need something fast.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
So now you're, going to Panera.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
This is true.
You stunk up the house for twoweeks.
For Now what I'm into.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
You know what I'm going to do this weekend Make
some beef jerky.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
RFK Jr over here, dude.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Going to do some roadkill, nice segue there.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
She's going to make her own beef jerky.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Going to start going on gambling riverboat trips.
That's cool.
That sounds kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
I think it's the plot to Step Brothers.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
I'll be the youngest person on there, so that makes
me feel good.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yes, you will.
That's funny.
You're going to make your ownbeef jerky?
Yeah, why not?
I'm not on that side of TikTok,but what's the process?
How long does it take?
I?

Speaker 3 (39:56):
bought a dehydrator.
I don't know, I'll let you knowwe're going to figure it out.
Well, this is how we went toBig Bear recently.
We went to the House of Jerkyand I bought the best jerky and
I turned it around Ingredientsand I bought all those
ingredients.
And I'll make it this weekendDude pineapple juice and soybean
paste.
I had to buy it off Amazon.

(40:19):
It came with some Chinesewording.
I don't even know how to use it.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
You might need to double check that.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
You'll be my taste tester.
I don't know how to use it.
You might need to double checkthat.
You'll be my taste tester.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
I don't think I'm volunteering for that taste test
.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Bobby's, my potato salad test tester.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Needs a little more salt.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Well, I'm half white, so I can.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, I was going to say I'm not a potato salad.
Yeah, I can get the potatosalad.
Cracking man that.
And coleslaw.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Coleslaw, he's favorite, that's a half white
coming through man, I can doslaw if it's not
mayonnaise-based Not a fan ofmayonnaise.
Get that slaw going.
He's like I love mayonnaise, Ibrush my teeth with it, I mean.
He's looking right at thecamera.
He's like, oh, you did all that.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I'm like you're going to eat that from KFC.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
So Upcycle, you're just going to make beef jerky.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
You're going to eat KFC.
I can make you KFC, as you weresaying.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Back to Upcycle.
So you said the first coupleshows were success.
So how long has that beenrunning?
How long have you been doingthat show?
I mean, it's been a while right.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, it's been, like I want to say four or five
months.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
That's it Really.
Yeah, it really has not beenthat long, wow, four or five
months.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, when you sent me the email and you were like
what was your first year, like?
And I was like we're in it.
You're part of it, baby.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
I'll let you know at the end.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
I'm telling you, you know I'm telling you right now I
doing it that long, but I meantwo shows a month.
You know it, the time flies.
It kind of just feels like it'slike oh wow, yeah, we're
already here, but yeah, it's um,it's been good.
Uh, you know great responses,you know from everybody.
Uh, this is like because, likeyou know, the desert, seasonal
so it's like we got like thewhole tennis tournament, you
know like cello's coming outcello's coming up, all that
stuff, and yeah, now it's windyhere all the time.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
I know it's horrible man.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Yeah, what the hell?
I don't know.
I think it's the Disney.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
They're building something on some burial ground
or something like that.
Hey man, the spirits are upset,man.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Yeah, it's not going to be windy there at all Watch.
You'll be like how is thishappening?
But yeah, yeah, it's, uh, it'sbeen a good process.
You know, I mean like monta'sbeen really great, uh gracious
about like you know, like youknow the space and like how
everything has like been working.
It's very collaborative, youknow, and everyone's like
putting their heads together tomake it work and you know people

(42:37):
coming through.
You know it's it's more, youknow it's happening and india is
a great area.
I feel like I love that spot youknow it's so much like you know
younger business, you know like, so they're just like all these
big businesses, big, uh, bigbusinesses that are coming in uh
, which you see in like certainareas, you know, like I like on
el paseo uh, it used to be likemore mom and pops, but now it's

(42:58):
starting to become more likemainstream you know which is
good.
You know I get it like, butalso now all that stuff's
getting pushed out to indio andI.
I feel like the people that arelocals, their vibe is to go out
to those local spots.
Oh yeah, so I think that itactually works.
It's beneficial, it works, yeahit works Right.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
And I mean, if you haven't been to the show, it's
every other Friday, right,correct?

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah, yeah, every other Friday, Every other Friday
we do it.
Yeah, two shows a month um 8 pm.
Uh, yeah, well, it's like 8, 30, 8 pm.
You know, it's like if youfollow us on like instagram, you
know you can get tickets toeventbrite, um, you'll, you'll
see the times.
You know, unfortunately, withthings with comedy, people show
up like they'll get tickets andthey still show up like later.

(43:39):
You know, and I'm like shows ateight and they'll just like be
like oh, we're here for theshort, did you get tickets?
And like, yeah, it like, yeah,it's like, well, you're here at
830.
Right, so we kind of do push ita little bit.
But the good thing about thatis, though, it gives more time
for people to enjoy the space,which is very unique.
It's like you can do a littlethrifting, you can see the art.

(44:00):
They have all these old vintagecameras.
It's a really cool, unique spot.
Oh, totally so it's not likeyou're just waiting around for
someone to tell you a joke.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Yeah, I want one of those boom boxes.
Yeah, exactly, those are coolman.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
All these really cool stuff.
It's very unique.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
I have a question how did you come up with the name
Upcycle and hold on?
Let me tell you what I thought.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
I you what I thought.
I thought you were bicycling upthat hill of success.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Yeah, no, totally.
Yeah, that works, I'll use thatfrom now on.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
I hey, you know I gotta put like a bike on the
logo.
Now I'm like sponsored byschwinn yeah, no, well, uh,
upcycling is like, is like aterm that you use for, like,
refurbishing something you know,like.
It's like because, like thewhole thrifting, you know,
recycling stuff I put a lot ofstuff into chat gpt and it came
back really crappy.
So, like there was a lot oflike, I was like maybe I can

(44:55):
just like figure out a littlesomething.
I wanted something that like isshort, to the point.
Uh, you know, they're gonna belike some, like I didn't want to
do something.
That's like oh, oh,hand-me-down jokes or anything
like that.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
So it's like upcycling.
It's you upcycle the jokes.
Upcycled comedy.
It's not like the same type ofcomedy.
We're not doing the same jokes.
You just can't go to the sameshow.
You just can't go to the sameshow in the same month.
But yeah it's like everythingshould be like upcycled.

(45:34):
You know it's, it's up to scale, you know, huh yeah and don't
talk about chat.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Gpt, that's like my best friend.
Hey, I'll put my phone awaytalking about talking about on
my phone.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
You're always having conversations with chat gpt yeah
no conversations conversationsour cousin tell them.
It's your story, you tell it,I'll tell it.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
So our cousin says I need to be talking to ChatGBT
about my business, about this.
You know, give Fina softwarefor a tile company.
No, but I mean I talk about,like how come Bobby doesn't tell
me he loves me every day?

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Oh my God, what did they say?

Speaker 2 (46:06):
ChatGBT starts hitting on her.
I have to.
He's like, you don't need that.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
It's like wait for my wait for my.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Call me baby.
Yeah right, where did Chad GPTget this voice?

Speaker 3 (46:16):
I'm here 24-7 for you .

Speaker 2 (46:18):
He doesn't understand you like I do.
He doesn't know that you'reAliyah Rising.
Oh my god, I mean it's coming.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
We can watch dateline to get exactly yeah, they won't
hate on your dateline, that'sfor sure it's gonna be
temptation island, it's gonna beher and her phone speaking of
chat gbt.
How is it with uh comedy?
Is it giving you any good, anygood material for your?
I know I do not I mean yougotta be there's gotta be some

(46:47):
temptation to see what it spitsout, right?

Speaker 2 (46:49):
yeah, I mean, but like I think that all that ai
software and a lot of people arekind of like oh man, it's like
it's really like taken over.
It's like, yeah, it is in asense, but that's more like
technical stuff, you know, likethat.
That's more like I things thatare matter of fact.
Comedy's not like a matter offact, it's more of like you
gotta be like with the people,you know it's like yeah you

(47:12):
gotta think on your that thinghas no soul, man.
It just takes my soul away whenit's like you know, oh, you got
two legs, nevermind, it ripsyour soul out but you're right,
though it doesn't have the humantouch, and I think comedy is is
human touch, right you?

Speaker 1 (47:30):
know in your audience , knowing the environment you're
in human touch with consent,yeah what I'm saying it's a very
human art form right, it's likehuman to human yeah I don't
think a chat bot or anythingcould ever really duplicate that
yeah, yeah, I, I don't, I don'tsee that happening.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
I mean, you see about , like uh in the news, like some
production companies, likemovie studios, are starting to
use, like ai yeah, um musicdrake drake did a song, that
somebody did a song with drake,with ai, and that was crazy,
yeah yeah, it was good.
Um, so that does happen, but Idon't think that comedy it can.
It can work like that.
Luckily there's enough stuff totalk about in this season of of

(48:09):
america oh gosh.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
I mean, you guys are gonna have a field day they
honestly need to take a breakwith the government.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
The government needs to give you guys time to keep up
so you can write some material,man between the tesla you know
it's they need to take a break,like I'm just like we need to
start writing something thatmakes more sense, because
they're just throwing everythingat us now but the kitchen sink,
I mean it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
So, with that being said, like, do you have any
mentors in the comedy world?
I mean, some are funny, someguys are not funny, you know,
honestly I haven't really beenlucky enough to like have like,
who makes you laugh in thecomedy world?

Speaker 2 (48:47):
um this really funny guy named elijah james.
No, um, now, uh, I so manypeople, uh, honestly, uh, shane
gillis is really funny.
Bill burr um, there's, thoseare like I would say like the
two big names uh, namish patel,um oh my gosh, I think I follow
him on nikki glazer's reallygood.

(49:08):
Oh my god she was hilarious yeah, I'm trying to, I'm trying to
think I there are a lot ofcomedians that I enjoy, um, but
I genuinely try not to watch toomuch stand-up.
Really, yeah, uh, just because,like I don't want to like be
influenced you know, it.
I do watch it.
It'll be short form or if Ireally like somebody, then I'll

(49:31):
take time to enjoy that.
But all comedians are different.
I can't be the one that's justlike oh, if I'm trying to think
about writing jokes or somethinglike that, it's like I have to
shut myself off from watchingother stuff Because I don't want
to be influenced.
I don't want to be taking jokesor taking like that.
It's like I have to shut myselfoff from like watching other
stuff because I don't want to beinfluenced.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
I don't want to like be taking jokes, no, but I mean
different things, well you know.
But it's also about like theirstyle, right, like we loved a
chapelle well, exactly, that'sthe goat, that's to me, that's
the goat, yeah and then justbecause my generation chapelle
show.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Yeah, I watched tons of chapelle show, so like all
the skits that was very much so,like that is what formed me,
I've watched a lot of ConanConan's hilarious oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
He's a funny guy A lot of late night.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Conan, even like the stuff where he's like in the
streets and how he's likedealing with people, he's like
probably the wittiest personlike ever and that would be like
the goal is just to be likestriving to be like that quick
and that like well friendly,because he'll say some stuff
that's like off the handle buteveryone just like gets into it.
Um, I would say like those arekind of like my biggest

(50:36):
inspirations.
But yeah, I try not to watchtoo much because the mannerism
thing when you go to biggermarkets, like in la, you'll see
a lot of people that like dojokes and how they say things,
how they like talk.
It'll be just like DaveChappelle, yeah, but it but it's
been, it's been a good time.
Honestly, I feel like, um, I'vebeen doing it for like I want
to say five, six years.

(50:57):
Um, actually, and it's um, Iknow right, it doesn't look like
it.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
You're like a baby, like 12.
With facial hair, I guess.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Thank you, I am like a baby, a baby child, and if
you'd like to come support thisbaby child, my cash app and
Venmo.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Please donate here.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Yeah, no, it's I.
That's what's cool about likecomedy is you do feel very like
young in a sense, always Causeyou're always looking for like
new stuff, new inspiration.
You got to be locked in withthe culture, right.
Exactly, it's not too likemundane and like uh, like you

(51:35):
have older like people that doit and you don't be stagnant,
you know.
So it is very like a young,like type of like energy,
constantly, right?

Speaker 3 (51:40):
well, and they do say laughter is good for the soul.
Yeah right.
So like you want to hang outwith some comedians and just
laugh your ass off, exactly.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
But when you go to the shows you see all kinds of
ages, young, old.
I mean comedy's prettyuniversal right, exactly, it's a
universal language.
I mean, if you're funny, you'refunny, you could be, you know,
15 or Funny's funny, so that'swhat's up?
Man, I love the art form.
I think it's, you know, veryunderrated in our culture.
I think what you guys do isreally hard.

(52:09):
Oh, thank you.
You know it's not like youthink.
Everybody thinks, oh, they'rejust going up there and telling
jokes Like, oh, you go try thatbro no-transcript.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
But it happens, right yeah but like, even if, like, a
joke doesn't hit, you know aseasoned comedian, you know
someone that's good at what theydo.
They can, you know, use that.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Yeah, but are you expecting people to laugh at
every single thing you sayYou're like, yes, yeah, people
to laugh at every single thingyou say you're like, yes, yeah,
that was that's the goal, I docomedy.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
If you're like one laugh I'm good.
No, but I'd be like, don't dotoo much laughing.
It's like everything get hit, Idon't know.
No, no, but you know that is.
You try to throw out stuff likeit's funny, because when you go
to open mics you'll be doingshows in front of other
comedians mostly, so no one'slaughing, you know, and that's a
good thing.
It's like it's supposed to likemake you tough.
You know you're supposed towork on the things, but also

(53:19):
you're trying to be like well,is this working, is this funny?
All that stuff in your head.
But then when you go to likeactual shows and you try
something, something will crush.
You know something will be likeoh wow, I didn't realize it was
that good.
So you know it's all aboutsteps and levels and there's
like obviously you take stepsback, but that only takes you to
a place to where it's like okay, well, now I can think about
this in like a different waylike the trauma it's back.

(53:40):
Yeah, yeah, the trauma.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
It's like dateline all over again, mommy so I hear
you do a good uh rfk uh, I don't, I never really thought it was
that good I mean, when I firstsaw you, that was the, that was
the bit that kind of stuck outto me.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
Yeah so I mean, you got the you got the voice.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
You got the voice down.
Uh, does rfk care to take aquestion today?

Speaker 2 (54:02):
I you know mr uh health secretary.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Let me take a drink.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Mr health secretary of the united states.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
I'm gonna speak to rfk he's all yeah, so, mr rfk
you have my bear meat uh-huh, mrrfk.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Uh, mr health sec secretary of the united states,
there's been a measles.
There's been a measles outbreakin Texas this year.
Do you have any comment orconcern about that?

Speaker 4 (54:32):
I can't even spell measles.
No, I can't.
Is there a three?
What is measles?
I think that measles is justlike a phone call.
It's just like a ringer.
I haven't.
Is that a rapper?

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Next question Is there any truth to the rumor
that you think bear meat is thecure to cancer?

Speaker 4 (54:55):
I think bear meat is the cure to most relationships.
It is the one love drug thateverybody can use.
I approve this message.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Well, I think we're in good hands with Mr Secretary
of Health here.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
Thank you, sir, you can reach me at Twitch, where
I'll be cutting into myhouse-made brief jerky from
hamsters that were disposed ofby Petco.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Well, yeah, that was see.
I mean, like, do I expectlaughs, you know, maybe like one
Give?

Speaker 3 (55:35):
me one little.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, thankfully RFK came out and you know.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Gave you some content .

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Yeah, I mean.
I mean, that guy gives you somegood content.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
He really does, you know, and I never really I never
thought that I was like wow,that's, that's a you try
impressions like the trump one,everyone does the trump one, you
know, it's like tesla, you knoweverybody's saying everyone's
saying hi elon elon's a good guyhe's, he's the
best guy he's bigly.

(56:06):
He's got bigly ideas but like,see, everyone does that.
And then I was like you knowRFK?
You don't know if you can doRFK until, like, you smoke like
a pack of cigarettes and thenyou like scream into a pillow
yeah, what is wrong with him,like, what is wrong with his
voice?
He has like a worm in his brainor something like that.
Yeah he's something weird, butit's like they try to play it

(56:27):
off like that's normal.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Yeah, Dude, but he looks his face looks like a
piece of beef jerky.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
I know I look great.
It's all the other thing.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
No, he looks like jerky.
He does look like beef jerky,maybe like alligator.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
He's a character's a lizard.
Let's just be honest, he's alizard person.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
I think when netflix sees this, I think you might be
getting the call man that rfk.
That rfk is pretty spot on snl.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
You know you need somebody to, I don't know.
Just make your guys's show alittle bit.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
You know more political, I can do that wow I
sure really want that we were uhwatching the documentary for
for snl remember yeah I wasbored of it, but, but I guess.
I guess, because I know it nowI don't really know it from way
back then.
So I don't know, maybe that wasthe whole thing yeah, and I

(57:21):
don't even know, it's kind of.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
It was kind of hard.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
It was a little dry yeah, it was a little hard to
watch with the cinematographyand the.
But yeah, that's, it was kindof hard to watch.
It was a little dry.
Yeah, it was a little hard towatch with the cinematography.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
Yeah, that's what it was.
It was like all over the place,Going all over the place hey
shout out to them.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
You know some people liked it.
Shout out to SNL.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
You guys are the real heroes.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
So we always ask our entrepreneurs and our talent
what advice would you give tosomebody maybe younger than you,
coming up in the game, maybethinking about jumping into
doing some stand-up comedy,getting that comedy world?
What advice would you give them, knowing what you know now?

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Stay in school.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Stay in school.
As long as you can Get a degreein comedy.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Yeah, stay in school, be a cop.
Honestly, do something else,please.
I don't need more competition.
No, um, honestly, I would saylike, just, I mean it's weird
because now there's internet youknow well that sounds dumb,
I've been around since theinternet but it's like.
You know, the social media ishuge, right.

(58:20):
So it's like really like peopleget big and you see a lot of
people like that are big fromsocial media.
They'll do like skits orthey'll do jokes in their room,
in their studio apartment orwhatever, and they'll get really
big and then they start doingcomedy and it's like they're not
.
They didn't start out ascomedians, you know.
They started out like doinglike tiktok or something like

(58:41):
that you know they starteddancing, you, you start doing
that.
I want to do the Kendrick.
What's the Kendrick Come on.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
Oh okay, the.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
Super Bowl one, the one where he's going like this,
to the side.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Oh, I was like I'm just going to wear like
bell-bottom pants, yeah, I wantBobby to wear some.
They're back.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
He looks you do it, I'll do it.
Yeah, you go first.
Okay, I'm in, we'll put it.
We'll do it on the show.
Yeah, we're to his next comedyshow.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
Yeah why not um?

Speaker 2 (59:11):
but yeah, I tell young people to you know, just
chase your dreams and if this issomething you want to do, like
100 like, look into it.
You know, like try to thinkabout how you can get in locally
.
But also, like what you, whatyour like style is, you know,
like what makes you funny, whatlike what you feel like you can

(59:32):
uh really resonate with theaudience about, uh consistently.
Uh, that that's what's mostimportant.
Um, you know, you gotta likedefinitely do a lot of search,
searching like uh soul searching.
I'm kidding.
You gotta do a lot of searchingthrough social media to see
like where they do uh open mics.
Um, if you're young, they'reprobably, probably can't get

(59:52):
into like a brewery.
I feel like breweries are likewhere they have a lot of open
mics now yeah he's going therewith like a fake mustache.
You know, get a fake id andjust tell them like hey, I'm
here, um, but yeah, I'm tryingto think of like.
I think like there's like a lotof theaters that might be like
having tryouts.
Where are you?

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
on, I don't know Okay .
Ask ChatGPT.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Don't ask me, what are we doing?
Ask ChatGPT.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Got the answers for everything my bestie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I would do.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
I'm actually gonna ask ChatGP too how to start a
comedy career.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
One last question.
I love that question whenyou're saying your vows.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
Are you going to throw something funny in?
There Are you going to writeyour own vows.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you should.
You should mention aboutDateline.
Don't kill me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
I should mention Dateline.
Don't worry I've been keeping ajournal about all your
locations.
I know the routes you take.
Yeah, see, yeah I know whereyou live uh, I mean I think I
might I've.
It's funny, I kind of helpedher write her.
Her sister got married uh mostrecently, and then I helped her
like write her um speech.

(01:01:05):
I almost said vows.
Yes, so that that worked outtoo.
Um, but yeah, I mean I'llprobably be serious you know
Really.
Yeah, yeah, you know what?

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
Remember I called your phone and then you're like
a voicemail and I was like dude,come on, I I was expecting your
voicemail to be funny.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Yeah, you thought me I was like, come on, like I'm 15
.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Like I'm going to be like hello, are you there?

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
I do a skit on his voicemail.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Yeah, everyone's calling me and just being like
yeah, we're not hiring this guy,oh, come on.
If you make them laugh, they'lltalk to you.
I don't answer my phone, likeif I don't recognize the number.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Oh, like if I don't recognize the number.
Oh God, this guy right here.
Yeah, exactly True, never yeahright.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
You're like oh God, this guy here.
Safety first, what are you likeDrive with?
Like a seatbelt, Like you're adateline till you die.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
I don't know no one at 1-800.
So I ain't answering that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Yeah, exactly, even you had an area code that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
I was like I I don't know what that is Really 7-6-0?
.
Oh, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Yes, I'm dyslexic too on top of being ADHD.
It happens, it does right, butthat's what makes entrepreneurs.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Oh yeah, the ADHD.
I brought that around.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
It does I mean it helps her.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
It helps her, she gets stuff done.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
But then she crashes and burns on the other side.
But we don't, we don't talkabout that part.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
I know, there's a caffeine's for it.
Crash and burn, crash and burn,man, but that's the cycle of
life, you know ooh, upcycle, itis the upcycle of life, that's
right so, speaking of upcycle,where can our viewers and
listeners find you?
Find upcycle.
Where are they looking to gettickets?
Where can they find you?

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
so we have an Instagram.
It's at upcycledcomedy.
Do you want me to spell it?

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
No, okay, thank you, just upcycled Gotcha, gotcha.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
My Instagram is Elijah James.
That's E-L-I-J-A-3-H's James,elijah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
James, yeah, I got it .

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Yeah, see, I thought about that.
I was like James, james, yeah,got it.
Yeah, I thought about that, youknow, and I was like it's
already taken.
Yeah, yeah, but um, yeah, youguys can follow me there, follow
upcycled.
There we post when we're doingshows a lot.
Um, you know the lineups comeout, you know people come out

(01:03:29):
more local, you know.
Just, I'll just get this bigcomedy, like you know scene
growing.
You know who needs to go toaustin, who needs joe rogan keep
it here, baby, keep it localand downtown india.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
We got upcycle comedy .
We got, we got, we're comingpeople.
Yeah, coachella valley's coming, so thanks for uh coming in.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
Man, you're, you're, you're a legend I think this is
only gonna, I think this is onlythis is all this, this
interview, is only gonna makethat, make that go, your legend
grow.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
So you guys are nice.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, sometimes, you know, Ialways feel like I'm like am I
doing this the right way?
And yeah, it's like moments,like moments like this, meeting
people in these situations.
It really is reassuring andvalidating.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
It was fate, man.
It was fate that we went tothat show and it was fate that I
saw you do your RFK and it waslike hey, we got to get that guy
in the show man I need.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
RFK on the show.
Yeah, that's what he said.
If you ever want an RFK guestspot, I'll put in a call.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
That's your guy man.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
I'll call his agent, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
I can do some breathing exercises for you too.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Oh nice, I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Did you ever get that funnel cake after the show?

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Heck yeah, I did, and I got a faux-o.
When I first met Bobby, all hedrank was 40s.
Oh really, I'm from India, man.
What do you?

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
want from's the devil from.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
India.
What do you want?

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
that's how we grew up , man, exactly.
We didn't drink milk, we drankold English.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
I was like we didn't drink milk and I was like such a
man back in my day.
You know all these progressivemilks.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Yeah, I know old English milk, true, thanks for
putting me out there on blast,honey.
Aww, those were honey.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
Aww, those are the good old days, man, yeah but,
elijah, thanks for coming in,man we really had fun,
appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
You're hilarious.
Everybody go check him out.
He's even funnier on stage, Igotta say so.
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