Episode 74: Comedian-Jose Maestas

Comedian Jose Maestas joins Curt on this episode to talk comedy, starting out in New Mexico, moving out to LA and a lot more!

Episode Transcript

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His name is a really funny guy. This is his podcast in your Rise
Crime letter. Hey, everybody thinksfor tuning in. It's in the Rye
Podcast, episode seventy four, eventhough it says seventy three at the bottom,
it is episode seventy four. Myguest is jose Miests, comedian from

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Los Angeles, originally from Las Vegas, New Mexico. We had a fun
chat, super nice guy, knownhim for a long time. Very funny
dude. I do have a bunchof tour dates coming up. They're scrolling
at the bottom. February ninth andtenth, Colorado Springs Loonies. The tenth
we're actually doing an open bar special. It's gonna be a little recording.

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It's gonna be up on YouTube anda few that's probably February fourteenth, fifteenth
at Boulder, Colorado, Licensed numberone, which is in Hotel Boulderrado.
February sixteenth, seventeenth at the DenverComedy Lounge, doing five shows. February
twenty third and twenty fourth, TucsonLaughs Comedy Club, an awesome club.

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March first, I'll be in SantaFe. I forget the venue name right
off the bat, but I'll havea fly for that soon. March thirteenth,
Akama, New Mexico, Sky CityCasino, March fourteenth, Into the
Mountain Gods in Mescalero, March sixteenth, Rio Rancho at Turtle Mountain. My
buddy Eddie Stevens is going to headline, so I'm gonna host that show for

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him. April twenty sixth, twentyseventh, des Moines, Iowa at the
Funny Bone, and then a hometownshowed July twenty seventh at Clarion, Iowa
Chappie's on Maine, and then Octobertwenty first through the twenty sixth Calgary,
Alberta at the Comedy Cave. I'malso gonna line up some more shows in

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Iowa, and I'm gonna be inTexas in June. I gotta nail down
the exact dates on those. Ifeel like there was something else might be
going to Vegas for the World Seriesof Comedy and signed up for that,
so we'll see if we get inon that September sometime. I don't know

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when they announce the people for that, but probably not till August something like
that. Anyways, if you wantto check out a show, go to
Funny Fletcher dot com. Click onschedule. All the ticket links are on
there, or most of them shouldbe. If they're not, I'll add
them soon. When they're on sale, I usually add them right away,

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So if they're not on there,then they're not on sale yet. Probably.
All right, let's go talk tojose my eu stills awesome. Hey,
we got jose mist Is on theshow today and he just left.
There he is, and what's up, man, I'm good to see you.

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Go to see you too. What'sgoing on? Oh man? Just
working my ass off, trying thebook dates, uh, all that stuff,
trying to keep busy this year.Last year kind of sucked. So
uh so this year's gonna be awesome. I've already decided what happened last year?
Who hurt you? Uh No,my car broke down and uh and

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then my sister got sick and hadto have surgery and stuff, and so
I took like a month and ahalf off to like hang out with her.
And yeah, so I didn't doas many shows as I should have.
Like I was going over my uhmy stuff for taxes and things,
and I was like, I onlydid like forty five shows last year,

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which is at least amount I've donesince I was an open micer. Didn't
make a whole lot of money thisyear. Yeah, it was pretty rough
and they weren't all open mics,which was nice. But uh but yeah,
it was it was. It wasrough. So I read that more
than that book this year already.So how are you, man, You're

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out in Los Angeles. Yeah,I'm sorry if I'm looking I looked tired.
I just woke up, like Iwas saying before, and uh,
a late night at the improv,I was just hanging I wasn't performing,
but the lineups were just stupid.They were incredible, so I had to
I had to hang out. Soback in Madispalco, was there Melissa Vius
signor Godfreed, Oh my God withhim. Yeah, he might be the

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funniest person on the planet. Hefucking crushes. It's just like his level
of confidence and rightly so. Buthis voices impressions. He knows something about
every area of the world. Yeah. I told him that we were working
together at the Denver improv, andI told him right before he went on

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stage. I told him that thearea that we were in, which is
called Stapleton, is named after aguy who was in the in the Ku
Klux Klan, and he's like,are you serious? It's like yeah,
And he did like fifteen minutes justabout that, like on stage that night,
right after I told him that,I bet is that really in Denver?

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That's the case. Yeah, yeah, I believe the guy was.
I can't remember if he was amayor. I think he was the mayor
of Denver years and years ago.Wow, he was a clan member.
I don't think they made it asfar west. A little disappointed, if

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I'm being honest, But yeah,learned something new every day the more you
know. Yeah. Yeah, soDenver had at least one clan member.
Colorado Springs had one too. Isthe Black Clan member? Remember did you
ever see that movie Black Clansman?Yeah? It was great. Yeah,
I was in Colorado Springs. Yeah, so they definitely had some clan numbers

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in Colorado. We can hang outmore. Ker. I need to learn
something from you, yeah right,I need to pick your course. That's
why I wanted you to have youon the podcast because I don't know you
very well, Like we've done showstogether, but you know, I've never
really like I thought you're gonna say. That's what I wanted to have you
on the cast, pretty dumb.I wanted to just educate you, but
really I wanted to tell you aboutthe clan and see if you wanted to

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join. Are we taking notes?Then? Where do I apply? Yeah,
I'm recruiting people through the podcast.Yeah, yeah, I hope they
have. I don't know if there'stoo many equal sands in the clan,
so you me get it except Yeah, that'll be interesting to find out.
I would guess probably not. Yeah, probably's negative negative numbers on that one.

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Are these your dates here? Uh? Yeah, they're scrolling on the
bottom there. Oh ship very cool? Yeah, yeah, I put your
instrum. I'm on there too.I wasn't sure if you had a website
or anything. I should have askedthat for him. I just open it
up. It's just my name,I'll say. I asked us dot com.

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Keep cool simple? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. I
do a lot of business still throughmy Instagram. It just seems easier for
all intents and purposes. So okay, at this point, most of the
shows that I get booked on arethrough Instagram, so it's kind of hard
to stay off that thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like Instagram
more than Facebook and Twitter and stuff. Oh for sure. Yeah, it's

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just there's less bullshit, for sure, there is, and it serves a
more direct purpose, I feel like, as of right now, until you
know, society ruins that too.But it's done. It's I just realized.
I put it's episode seventy three onthe ticker there, but it's actually
episode seventy four. I guess it'snot a big deal, you know what,

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Let's just start again. I'm outof here. Yeah, so yeah,
welcome to Kurt Fletcher invites people tojoin the Klan Episode seventy four.
So how long I long have youbeen out in La now man? Just
a little over seven years? Actually, yeah? Wow? So what makes

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you want to move out there?Comedy obviously, like do you do acting
and stuff? To you a littlebit? I mean, stand up has
always been the focus. I've donelike some commercials here and there, short
films that sort of stuff. Uh, the goal has always been Saturday Night
Live. That's okay, That's alwaysbeen the dream. I feel like a

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lot of performer or writer, Soyeah, yeah, I have a very
difficult time writing for someone else's voice. Oh really, we don't even know
how I would do that. Honestly, There's there's a handful of voices.
I feel like I could, likesome of my favorite comics, Yeah,
like I could write for them,And I think maybe that stems from doing

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like the impressions and stuff. Yeah, a lot of the impressions I do.
It's just like what they would talkabout, I feel like, or
their opinion. Oh yeah, yeah, b you know what I mean,
especially if they're like observational comics,like like Sebastian Maniscalco. That's like my
main impression right now, and it'sjust like what I just write material in

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his voice essentially. Okay. Soother than that, I don't know how
I would write for like a sketchedperformer. Oh okay, we'll find out.
Yeah. Actually I sent a packetinto SNL a couple of years ago,
and so they, yeah, theyhave you write I think like six
or seven sketches and then you haveto decide which character is gonna or which

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performer is gonna be which character andstuff like that. So that's kind of
a cool exercise. So I wentand watched, you know, a bunch
of episodes to kind of get familiarwith the newer cast members that I didn't
know. Yeah, that's kind ofa cool thing to do. Like I
knew I wasn't gonna get hired oranything, but you know, I gave
it a shot. And I heardI think what Shane Gellis was talking about,

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like if you said in a writingpacket, they can use your stuff
without telling you, And I didn'tknow that, and I was like,
oh shit, So I've been watchingall the episodes like maybe they'll use something,
you know, I don't think theyhave. But how would that make
you feel or how do you thinkyou would react in a moment. I
think it'd be kind of cool.I mean, you know, I'd probably

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go online and and be like,you know, see what people's reactions are,
and they be like, yeah,I wrote that shit. I think
that would be my feeling too.Initially I wouldn't be here. It'd be
like an overwhelming sense of pride.I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Like when I when Iwrite like a tagline or something for
a comic and it does well,I'm always like hell, yeah, yeah,
you know it was interesting. Thatdoesn't happen to be too often.

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But I opened for Brent Eernst inVegas last year. Oh yeah, and
phenomenal comedy. Yeah, I knowis but I never met him, but
I've seen him on Cobra Kai andstuff right right look up his he had
a Comedy Central like thirty minute specialmaybe like ten years ago. That's where

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I first saw him because me andmy brother were we lived together and there
in Albuquerque on the West Side,and every time I get home from work,
we just throw on Comedy Central Presentsand we record him all on the
DVR and we'd watch them all andhe was one of the ones that we
would always quote. And so whenI moved out here, then I opened
for him. So it was kindof like a really cool, cool quo.

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Yeah, So I told Bread,It's like, you know, every
week, my brother and I quoteyou to each other. So but anyway,
we were hanging out between shows andI inadvertedly gave him gave him at
tag. He loved it. He'slike, can I use that? Like
of course the next show? Andit worked and so that sense of pride
that feeling was was awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I

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Actually I just wrote a joke fora buddy of mine that I tore with
all the time like we were justkind of stoned in the hotel room one
night, and I was just tryingto make him laugh, and I was
like I just typing stuff on thecomputer and it was like one of those
things where you type it out andlike hit play and like a voice says
it out loud. You know.Yeah that I was trying to make him
laugh and like this one thing likethis made him laugh like super hard.

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And he's like, did you justcome up with that? I was like
yeah, He's like, can Iuse that? It's like yeah, fuck.
So he tried it. We werewe were in California in Torrents,
and he tried it out at theshow and it did really well. See
that's so cool, and I thinkthat's how it should be. I mean,
obviously, like jokestling is a hugething, but yeah, if we're

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talking about your material, that's likein your work, take it. Yeah,
that's where material generation comes from.Yeah, and that joke went so
well with you know a lot ofstuff that he talked about too, Like
actually, I used to write whenI first started out, you know,
I worked at Laughs here in Albuquerque. Yeah, and a buddy of mine
started the exact same day that Istarted, and his whole thing was,

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uh, he grew he was ahe's a Mexican dude, and he grew
up in Alaska, so that waslike his whole thing and like so easy
to write jokes for that. SoI wrote tons of jokes for him,
you know, because he already hada character. So a couple of jokes
I remember writing for him was like, uh, because he grew up playing
hockey and so I said, hecould say something like, you know,

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anytime you got a hat trick,your family would throw sombreros on the ice.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, stufflike that. So it was like
super easy to write for that,easy easy pickings. Also, he might
be only Latin to ever play hockey, so I didn't. Yeah I didn't,
honestly, yeah I would. Yeah. He ended up quitting doing comedy,

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but he was really funny, anduh, I don't know. I
thought I thought he would have donereally well, but he just disappeared.
Yeah, I mean it's it's it'stough, you know, it's yeah,
it's definitely not for everybody. It'samazing how many how many people, uh
just quit. But yeah, lastweekend I actually had a similar situation that

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you had with Brett. I workedwith Chris catan and and my sister and
my sister quote him all the time, like Corky Romano and absolutely, yeah.
I tell my favorite part, meand my sister's favorite part is when
he's on uh He's fighting with thatdog over the bag of cocaine and it

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gets all over and then he's gotto do that press conference. So are
those second graders? Dude? Mybrother and I quote that one all the
time to question question, question,I should buy a boat? I love
that scene. Yes, So Itold him that me and my sister always
quote that, and he's like,you know what's funny about that is like

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when I wrote it into the script, a lot of people told me to
take it out because it was drughumor and they didn't want They said I
shouldn't put it in there. AndI was like, man, I'm glad,
I'm glad you left it in.And he's like, yeah, me
too. I mean, look atthe premise of the film, it's like
it's a mob movie. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah,

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yeah. He was great to workwith. Super nice dude. He doesn't
like really do stand up. Hekind of just kind of you know,
he tells stories from like SNL andyou know, some movies, and then
he does some improvs and then he'skind of he's kind of a shy dude,
Like he doesn't seem like he likesto hang out with, you know,

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people after the show and stuff,so he kind of just hung out
in the green room. But butFriday first show, he showed up like
super super late, so I hadto like stretch my time, and like,
I was almost done with my set, and then the MC was like
calling my name from the side,you know, and so I look over

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and he's doing this, So Ithink I thought that was wrap it up.
And I'm like yeah, but I'mconfused. I'm like, why would
he tell me to wrap it up? Though? So I look over at
him and I'm like, you tellme to wrap it up? Like trying
to whisper is like, so thecrowd doesn't know what the fuck's going on,
you know, And so I toldthe crowd I was like, hold

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on, my my coach is overhere, give me some signals. I'm
not sure what he's saying. Andthen he's funny. He's like he's like
go longer, and I was like, oh okay, and I was like,
all right, I guess we're goingfor it, Isn't it Funny?
Like in the beginning of stand upyou feel like, oh, it's supposed
to be this pristine, clean showwhere everything's tight. They don't get a

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peek behind the curtain. And thenafter a while you're like, just acknowledge
what's in the room, just becausethat you can probably do, you know,
five minutes just on that he's givingme hand signals, he's doing the
man over here, and I don'tknow what he's saying. Yeah, a
lot of times if you just acknowledgewhat you're seeing, you're gonna Getyeah,
that's kind of what I did.Finally, I was just like, I

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gotta go longer. And then uhso, yeah, it was weird because
I didn't know how much longer Iwas going to have to go because Chris
wasn't there yet, and uh so, I'd already done my twenty minutes,
and then I did another ten,and I'm like, I'm starting to forget
all my jokes, you know,and I'm trying to remember which ones I

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hadn't done yet, and you know, because I chunk my jokes together,
you know, so like we'm onlydoing twenty, I cut some of them
out, so it's really hard togo back and like, especially on stage,
like go back and figure out whichones I hadn't done yet. So
I started like doing some crowd workand stuff, and then a joke had
popped my head. I do thatand then kind of get on a little

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roll. I'd forget again do alittle more crowd work, and then I
ended up doing forty minutes instead oftwenty. But oh wow, yeah,
but it worked out nice, andI sold a shipload of shirts that night.
Man, it was awesome. Ohperfectly. Yeah, it was a
great club man case that is,let's still check it out. No,
not yet the show there, No, I was. I had already booked

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a show in Albuquerque, like theweekend that it opened. That was that
was somewhere else. I think boxingBurg. Didn't we do boxing Burg?
Oh but but the other Boxing Bearonce together on the on the West Side.
Yeah, right, I think Iwas doing the other location that weekend
that they opened, and then Iwas leaving sort of the next day.

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So but I've heard nothing but likethe best things. It's great, It's
great, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely good book there, dude,
It's Uh, it's cool having aclub, like a big club, you
know. Uh, so now wegot two clubs and then we're gonna have
a three club here pretty soon,which is awesome. So yeah, we're
going from nothing to like an abundance. This is pretty awesome. Yeah,

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dude, Yeah, and uh yeah, the other club is going to be
at wind Rock, you know,so they're all spread out, you know,
I don't think they're really going tobe too much competition for each other.
You know. Casata brings in alot of people from Santa Fe,
which was cool, you know.So yeah, it's awesome, man,
A lot of a lot of opportunitiesfor the comics, and you know,

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we have a pretty strong scene rightnow. So it's awesome. That's so
cool. Man. I wish Iwish I had that. We had that,
you know a decade ago when Iwas yeah, yeah, I had.
I moved after Laughs closed, Imoved to Denver and nothing here at
all. Right, I was justlike, I can't fucking be here.

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So I'll tell you this. Whenpeople out here ask me how long I've
been doing it, it's a hardquestion to answer because there's no being from
New Mexico. There was nothing fora very long time. So it wasn't
like I was in the club everynight. I mean, I started doing
stand up when I was seventeen.I was still in high school, but
there was no club. So we'redoing you know, coffee shops. You

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know. I did like a motorcyclerally, like weird stuff that it doesn't
consider I wouldn't consider it time spent, you know what I mean. So
I can't I can't say I've beendoing it seventeen years because that's not the
truth, you know what I mean. So I reset my clock when I
came out here because then I wasfinally in the club all the time,

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you know, So that seemed rightto me. That made that timeline made
more sense, even though I havea little bit more experience in that year's
than those years would say. Butyeah, but yeah, I mean the
shows, Yeah, because my firsttwo years were just open mic years and
yeah, twenty five sets, that'sit in two years because we we didn't

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have open mics. We had laughs, had one open mic a month and
that's it. So it sucked becauseyou're like, well, do I do
new material or do I try tohone the stuff I've already tried, right,
and then even if I do,where am I supposed to use it?
Yeah, exactly if I do ownit, you know. Yeah,

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But I was lucky enough where Igot. I got guess sets quite a
bit. So yeah, Like mysecond show I ever did was a guest
set. Like, he liked meso much at my first open mic that
he gave me a guest set thefollowing week, and so that was really
cool. I had guests sets.My second and third show I ever did

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were guest sets, and so itwas kind of just doing the same material
I did at my first open micand just trying to make it better.
And I ate shit both times,of course in front of a professional comedians,
but yeah, and I asked.I even asked the club owner about
it. I was like, becausehe because I ate shit the first guest

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set, and then he asked meto come back the next Sunday, and
I get I go. I waslike, you saw my set right,
and he's like yeah, I waslike, what happened? I was like,
I hate shit. I was like, same material. He's like,
it's just a smaller crowd because likethe first the first time I did open
mike, there's like one hundred peoplethere. It was an awesome crowd.
Yeah. And then so the guestset there was like fifteen people in the

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crowd, so it was different,you know. And then like so the
next week I did another guest setand there's maybe twenty people, so definitely
not the same as the one hundredpeople laughing. Pretty wild though, that
the open mic would be so sopacked. I feel like it's pretty rare.
It was the only open mic intown. Man. So it was

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twenty comics and they were all bringingpeople, so you know, it was
pretty good. And Freddy Charles wasthere. Uh that was cool because I
had seen him on TV before.Yeah, and uh, my buddy that
started that same day. He broughta lot of people. I brought like
forty people. I think it wasnot so it was more of a bringer

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than it was a mike. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure,
no wonder Oh it's great, man. Yeah, it was so cool.
I almost walked out though, becauseI was so scared. Really I had
Yeah, I had the worst stage, right, dude. I was so
scared. And then I was likeI talked myself into staying just because you
know, all these people came tosee me and took time out of their

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wives and shit to you know,come out. So I was like,
all right, I gotta do thisat least once and see how it goes.
That's that's all they keep you accountable. I can't just walk out the
door. Now they're all here.So yeah, because if nobody had showed
up and I invited nobody, Iprobably would have fucking walked out right because

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I was so scared. But oncethey called my name for some reason,
like I had like this little boostof adrenaline and like I was walking up
on stage and my boss from PizzaHut was there. It's so funny.
I didn't know he was there.I had no idea that he even knew
I was performing. And I say, and he's like right in the front
row, and I just give himthis big ass high five. And my
friends are like dying because they didn'tknow that. They thought it was just

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some random dude. Oh but itwas my boss. Yeah, you had
that random dude. I was like, Oh, that's my boss. Isn't
that funny. It's like as soonas you get on stage that anxiety goes
away. Yeah. Well I gotmy first laugh on the first thing I

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said, and I was like,fuck yes, and I was just I
don't know. I don't remember muchof the set after that, but I
remember it going well. And Iknow I didn't hit my five minutes,
even though I practiced, and tosome practiced until it was five minutes,
but I probably I was probably onlyup there two and a half minutes.
Oh wow. Yeah. You knowwhen you're up there, you just kind

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of rush it and you know,oh, especially early on boooooooo yeah yeah
ye. But yeah, it wasgreat, man. It's it's such a
cool feeling. And the headliner thatnight was there. His name was Darryl
Rhodes and I'm still friends with him, and he came over to me and
he goes, how long have youbeen doing this? And I was like

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about five minutes. That was yourfirst time? Is like yeah, He's
like fuck yeah, dude, isthat keep it up? Is that sweet?
It's amazing With just a little bitof encouragement, how far that can
go? Uhh? Yeah. Youknow, I wanted to do this as
a career, and I was justthinking like, well, I got to

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give it a shot at least once, and if it doesn't go well,
at least I tried, you know, and uh my, my friend Nate
was the guy who kind of likepushed me into it, like because when
I turned twenty one, Like Iworked at Pizza Hunton. When I started
when I was eighteen, I kepttalking about doing stand up, you know,
and then one day my friend Nate, it just goes, why don't

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you just shut the fuck up aboutit and try it? You're right?
So I didn't know you could docomedy before you're twenty one, you know.
I didn't know you can get intothe club. So like when I
turned twenty one, it's kind ofI was like, all right, this
is it. You know. Ipicked a date because I knew they did
the first Sunday of the month,so I picked August. It gave me

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like four months to write five minutes, and I was like, this is
it. If it doesn't go well, probably never try it again. But
I had a similar experience, exceptlast closed before I turned twenty one.
Oh yeah, well I could neverget in because I called them and I

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don't know who I spoke to,but they're like, I gotta be twenty
one, and it seemed like reallyfirm on that, so I never I
never stepped foot in there. Idon't know. Oh shit, that was
funny because my friend Mark started whenhe was sixteen, but they made his
mom like come in with him everytime I've heard story of that. Yeah,
and they didn't even give me thatoption. Maybe I don't know,

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maybe I should have been more persistent. But I also wasn't in Albuquerque yet,
So oh, yeah, you're in. You grew up in Las Vegas,
right, Las Vegas and Mexico.Yeah, uh so what was your
what was your first show? Like? Where was it? My first show
was great. It was a littlecoffee shop that actually just closed like two
weeks ago. Yeah, and soit was nothing but like family and friends.

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It was the most like supportive roompossible. And I feel like I
flip a switch when I'm on stage, and I did that immediately right from
the from the bat, because usuallyI'm pretty like killed and calm, like
we're in this conversation right here.This is how I am all the time,
but I'm staying. All of asudden, I'm this other like character.

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I think. I don't know wherethat comes to you the high school
or no, we didn't have it. We're such a small town, didn't
have it. Yeah, I justgrew up watching Saturday Night Live and those
type of sketches, and I feellike, oh, you're supposed to perform,
you know, And so that's justalways how I've done it watching,
you know, and Jim Carrey islike, my god, so doing the

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most. And so I went up. I went up and performed. I
think it was the same thing likethree minutes, maybe five minutes, and
I just turned into this like peacocklike look at me and that feeling.
I was like, Oh, that'swhat I'm supposed to do. It reaffirmed
all the like thoughts and hopes anddreams I had, and yeah, I

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feel like I'm trying to tap intothat feeling every every time after that.
What year was that, two thousandand seven? Oh okay, Yeah,
it wasn't the Blue Dragon Coffee House, was it? No? It was.
It was in Las Vegas. Oh, okay it he was a cult
it just closed. Yeah it was. It was in Las Vegas. Okay.

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Cool. We used to have likea it was a music slash comedy
open mic at Blue Dragon. Itwas originally just music, but I think
it was Louise Powell was the firstcomic that actually went down there and asked
if he could do stand up andthe MC was like, super cool,
and so he let Luis do fifteenminutes. So then he told me and

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my buddy about it. He's like, don't tell anybody else because we were
like three of the guys who openedit laughs regularly, so he's like,
don't tell any of the shitty comics. So we get we went down there
and he gave us all fifteen minutesets, which was awesome for open mic.
Yeat heard it. So we starteddoing fifteen minutes like almost every Wednesday

(30:03):
at this little coffee shop. Exponentialgrowth at that point. Yeah, it
was so great. Yeah, itwas such a cool little venue. The
host was cool, and then assoon as there was a new host,
it sucked. Yeah. I wentin there. I went in there with
the new host and I did ajoke and it was like because I would
usually do some pretty fucked up jokesat that open mic and the host loved

(30:26):
it. He had a really dirtysense of humor. And then when the
new host came in, I didone of those jokes and he kicked me
off the microphone like right away,and then uh wow, I was like,
oh shit. I was like soI'm never performing here again. Yeah,
I look this. He like,what did he do? He went

(30:47):
up on the mic from me.Uh, he like stood up and he
was like, Nope, you're done. I was like, really, was
not even that bad of a joke. If I remember, right, I
guess it was kind of dad.It was like, uh, what was
the joke? I don't remember?Something about Rosie O'Donnell eating pussy. That's

(31:11):
what god he was talking about lastnight. Uh, that's just like some
disrespectful ship. Yeah, if yougot a problem with it, let's let's
talk afterwards. We can talk.That's fine. Yeah. You don't interrupt
someone's set. You don't just pickhim off. He's got a laugh,
you know, I got a prettygood laugh. Even if it doesn't who

(31:32):
cares. That's what we're doing herethe whole. And it's funny because I
brought my friend Charlie from El Paso, who was a comic and all of
his stuff was dark. Yeah,and I was like, you might as
well cross Charlie off the list becausedon't even bother. Just go back to
Texas. Bro. Charlie did thisjoke is so funny. He got booked

(31:55):
and Corpus Christi Texas just to tellthis joke, just to see the reaction,
because that's where Selena's from. Iknew it. Yeah, the joke
goes, ah, he's talking aboutSelena. He's like, I was this
close to see it. I wasthis close to seeing Selena. And then
the shovel broke. Ye. Man, oh yeah, I thought he's gonna

(32:27):
get murdered. He was telling methe story about he's lucky he didn't.
Yeah, and he said something aboutfucking Selena's statue and he got arrested for
statutory rape. Oh my god,oh my god. Yeah. Oh oh

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yeah, Cody fun Yeah, man, yes, I see. I would
see your posts on Instagram and stuff. You're always at the Improv with big
names. Man, that's cool.Who are some of your favorites that you've
worked with out there? Who?He's there's so many, There's so many.

(33:20):
So I do I have my ownshow. I produce a show in
our smaller showroom, still at theImprov. Yeah, and so it's called
a plot Break. It's called comingBack February twenty ninth. So we've been
able to get really cool comics thereand then I get to perform a smaller
a shorter set in the main roomoccasionally or every week. And some of

(33:45):
the names are crazy, like Spade, Bashi of Man of Scalco, God,
Free Man. Just the list goeson and on and on. Yeah,
Ian Bag, Oh my god,I don't think I've ever seen someone
crush that hard. Just Yea andall crowd work. He had one joke

(34:06):
that his crowd work, and it'sjust boom boom, boom, boom boom.
Eliza Schleschinger, she's so quick atwriting. Oliver. Yeah, Oliver's
material and she's holding the same material. But every set there's something a little
bit different. And so when you'rein the club every night, you can

(34:27):
see and hear those differences because youhear a lot of Yeah, you hear
a lot of the same bits,but hers is never quite the same,
which is really awesome. It's reallycool to see. Amir Kay is one
of my favorites. Oh my god. He's not super famous like some of
these other people, but you can'twatch a mirror and not love him.

(34:51):
Everyone falls in love with Yeah.He's so funny, so chill, so
cool. It's like the type ofperson you want to hang out with for
sure. Always Murders always crushes fahiman War stupid funny. Do you know
Brent Weinbach, I know the name. Yeah. He is like the most

(35:14):
dry sort of dead pen. Ialmost want to say like avant garde because
no one's like him, and it'susually not my style because my style is
like real, you know, bigand performative. He never breaks It's it's
almost like, what's the show onHBO Nathan Nathan Fielder? Oh yeah,

(35:38):
Nathan for you. He reminds meso much of Nathan Fielder. Never breaks,
Yeah, And he has possibly myfavorite bit of all time. It's
he starts to sing Michael Jackson songs, but he throws the F word in
there, oh nice, and neverbreaks at it, and she'll he'll ask

(36:01):
the audience for suggestions and no matterwhat, he has a bit for every
Michael Jackson song and he throws itin there, and it's just so funny.
Any any of the like servers ordoor guys at the improv, anytime
he starts that bit, everyone startsto talk, you know, talk to

(36:22):
somebody else, like dude, watchthis Day. It's like everyone's favorite bit.
He's just he's just brilliant. He'shis genius. So it's like going
to like comedy school, just beingin those doors every night. So is
he on TV? I feel likeI feel like he was on some show.

(36:42):
I think he might have been.I don't. I don't know because
I know that name for sure.I'll look him up though I know the
name. Yeah, it's so coolman, Like, uh, you know,
I've never lived in LA but Ilived in Denver, and uh,
just going from Albuquerque to Denver wassuch a learning experience, like getting to
watch Denver's got so many great comics, Like the Comedy Works is probably the

(37:08):
best club in the country. Yeah, a lot of the headliners, like
big name headliners, would start bringingtheir own openers because they had such a
hard time following the Denver comics.Because they would stack the line I mean,
the lineups would be solid headliners fromDenver that they had the follow you

(37:31):
know what I mean, Like guyslike Ben Roy and Adam Caton holland Troy
Baxley, like all these dudes arejust fucking crushers. Yeah, these guys,
like all these big name guys,had such a hard time following these
guys, so they would start bringingguys with them that they could follow makes

(37:51):
sense. Yeah, but yeah,just living there and watching watching these comics
all the time, like you know, and performing with them like I mean,
you got to step up your gamebig time, like you know.
I felt pretty good about being inAlbuquerque, but then going to Denver is
like fuck, I'm not even inthe top fifty year, you know.
Yeah, Yeah, the biggest differencefor me was in Albuquerque because there were

(38:16):
no clubs, would have to doshows, so self produce shows. Yeah,
and that means filling time usually.Yeah, So early on I was
doing thirty forty five minutes and Iknow I wasn't ready for that, So
there was a ton of fat onthere. Yeah, and there was a
ton of me doing like big longact outs to filling that time. And

(38:39):
then going from that to la facetime is impossible to come back unless you
just go in to mics. Youmight not even get up at the mics.
So it went from doing filling fortyfive minutes to now three minutes.
Now it was ninety seconds, andI had no idea how to hone that

(39:00):
in and so it's taken quite aquite a while, but it just made
me tighten everything. So now thereare a bunch of smaller bits that you
can piece piece together. I don'thave many of those like eight nine minute
bits anymore. Yeah yeah, unlessyou're doing a special and they're eight nine
minutes of boom boom boom jokes withina larger bit doesn't serve a purpose.

(39:23):
Oh yeah. It's so funny becauselike when I worked at Laughs, I
could always tell which comics were fromLA because they had like a really solid
seven minutes yeah, and then therest was just kind of figuring shit out.
Yeah. Yeah, you're right,yeah, because it's tough beyond that

(39:47):
mark. You're so lucky to getmore time than that out here. Oh
yeah yeah, you have to beso good and or famous. Yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah,that's it. Yeah. So you've been

(40:08):
how long did you say, sevenyears out there? Seven? Yeah?
Okay, uh yeah, so soyou moved away that was probably what two
thousand and sixteen? Yeah yeah,so yeah, the scene here back then,
I didn't think of what it waslike. I think I was living
in Denver at the time. Probablywhen I moved we had the stage was

(40:30):
like yeah and uh, which wascool, but uh, you know,
you only got to perform there likeI think I did when I was hosting
or I am seeing or opening orwhatever, I would do four times a
year and then they bump me upthe feature finally m hm, which I
would do I think twice a year. Yeah, that was. That was

(40:52):
a cool venue, but it wasit was a it was an older crowd
your yeah, yeah, and itwas like kind of hit and miss.
It wasn't always fun, but therethere was a it was a great room.
I really liked the room. Likeyou know, a lot of the
out of town comics I worked withalways commented how nice the room was and

(41:15):
stuff, and it was. Itwas beautiful, but it was a space
so if you yeah, if itwasn't ACKed, it was a lot of
empty space to fill. Yeah,I think when I would do those opening
spots. Yeah, like you said, it was sort of hit and miss.

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The best time I had was whenI actually met Preacher Lawson out here
from America's Guy Talent. I metthe improv and I said, hey,
Preacher, I saw you're going toAlbuquerque, and before it even asked you
want to spot like yeah, Andit was cool because his brother, I
guess usually features for him and hisbrother. Yeah, I couldn't make it

(41:57):
to the show. So he calledme up. He's like, hey,
can you features? So like absolutely. So we did a couple of shows
there, and you know, becauseof him, how good he is and
how his name, he was packed. Absolutely, And so that was a
different experience than opening the regular likeThursday shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and when they put you up yeah, because people when they you know,

(42:22):
the Thursday night, you know,it wasn't like a big name comic,
so they're just like there. Butyeah, when they're when they're there
to see someone specific, it's justa different energy in the room. Like
I felt that with Chris Catan forsure, exactly. No, I was
like, everyone's pumped up to seehim, so this is gonna be fucking
awesome. Uh. You know,I've done that quite a few times where

(42:43):
I opened for like a bigger nameand it's like, you know, they're
all there to see him obviously,but man, just go out there and
just fucking rocket for ten or twentyminutes. You know. Oh yeah.
You know what's interesting is that alot of times sometimes the feature is yeah,
well I felt like that when Iworked with Chris Catan. I had

(43:04):
so many people tell me that Iwas so much better than him, you
know, because he doesn't do atraditional stand up set or whatever. Right,
But yeah, yeah, I seethat a lot. Yeah, and
I think it comes from, like, you know, there's expectations on on
the headliner, they also have tofill a ton more time. And then
as it's so sweet because you cando your best twenty it's night, it's

(43:29):
fun boom, and you're out andleaving wanting wanting more. I remember when
I watched Chappelle that night that theguy in Santa fe through the banana.
I was at the first show beforebefore the second. Oh really Yeah.
And obviously Chappelle's a meaning he's youknow, he's the best whatever. But
I think it was mo Amar washis feature and I didn't know of him

(43:54):
yet, okay, and so heonly did like fifteen, but I was
like, holy shit, who isthis guy? Yeah, because he's doing
you know, he's also nationally touringheadline Oh yeah, yeah, but you
don't know it at the time,and he's doing his fifteen and just blowing
the roof off the place. Yeah. And then in comparison, you know,

(44:15):
Chappelle's doing amazing stuff, but hesits down, has a smoke and
yeah, you know, let's getinto it. But when you have somebody
just boom boom, boom boom forfifteen minutes, it's it's a different thing.
It's a different experience. Yeah,I did see kind of the opposite
of that one time. So Iwent to see George Carlin in two thousand

(44:37):
and two at the Lacino Hollywood,and his opening act was Dennis Blair and
he was awesome. He did thirtyminutes, does a lot of music and
stuff. So after George died,I worked with Dennis. I opened for
Dennis in Fort Wayne, Indiana,and he struggled. Like not to talk

(44:57):
shit on Dennis, because he's awesome, but he's strung as a headliner because
he opened. I even have abook that he wrote. It's about him
opening for all these awesome people.Like he started out opening for Rodney Dangerfield
and then he had a falling outwith him, and George took him on
tour with him for years. Sowhen George died, Dennis didn't have much

(45:20):
headlining experience at all. And Inoticed that when I worked with him,
Like, you know, he hehad a solid thirty and then kind of
struggled the rest of the way,and like a lot of people don't realize
how difficult it is to headline,Like because I headlined Laughs in Tucson a

(45:44):
couple of years ago, in twentytwenty, and not only is it way
different than featuring, but I wasalso in twenty twenty, I hadn't done
a set in like two months.So when I was driving to Tucson,
I was like listening to my albumbecause I hadn't looked at my jokes two
months, you know what I mean. I was like, I don't even
know if I could pull off aheadline set. Yeah, And then I

(46:07):
get there and I've got to followfucking Craig Gas. Craig Gas was the
feature act and I was like,why is Craig Gas not fucking headlining?
You know? But he was justin town visiting family and they gave him
a thirty minute feature guest spot,oh man, because he wasn't gonna be
there the next night, so theygave me the headline spot. I was

(46:29):
like, and he fucking crushed.Dude. You've seen Craig Gas, but
he's awesome. But I was like, well, just fucking ride that way,
just get a good laugh on yourfirst joke and it'll be fine,
you know. Yeah, it endedup being all right. There was some
parts where I kind of forgot whatI was saying and shit, but yeah,

(46:51):
the next night was a lot better. I didn't have to follow Craig
Gas and had had some more timeto work on my material during the day.
But it was pretty cool. Thatwas a weird time in twenty twenty.
The only thing, yeah, becauseLa was really hardcore about it,
and so the only thing open wasI got booked on like a bringer show

(47:13):
in the back of a church thatwas like at an amphitheater that they had,
and thank god I had that becausethat was that was it for the
longest time. And so but itwas kind of weird, Like the pastor
was sitting there in the corner justkind of arms crossed, watching the whole
show. Do you know the comicant, Oh yeah, yeah, so
and he's you know, he's famousfor being like very famboyant and open and

(47:37):
gay, and so he was hittingon the pastor and just crushing the whole
place and I had to follow that. I still did okay, but it
was it was the funniest thing Ithink I've ever seen that he was just
making the pastor feel so uncomfortable becausewe're even told like keep it sort of
clean, and it's like, doyou know who I am? Like I
can't do that. What are youtalking about? And so that was one

(48:00):
just to be around because we hadnothing. Yeah. I actually flew out
to La when COVID was going on, like because everything shut down like March
fifteenth or something, and I wasin Reno with my buddy and we were
flying out to like he lives inLa, So I was flying out there
with him after we did Reno.He was gonna get me a spot at

(48:23):
the comedy store like on my birthdayor whatever. And I was like,
everything just shut down, so itdidn't happen, but it was it was
all right. Did you did youdo any Zoom shows or no? I
did like two or three. I'mcurious to see how that went as a

(48:45):
high energy guy, like how doyou do that on Zoom? Like do
you did you like get up outof your chair and perform or did you
just Oh no, I was fullstanding, Oh okay, yeah, Like
there was no difference. I wouldcome out of frame, I've come in
and I'd pop in the front Iwas doing the most. I was doing
the most. You know what's interestingthough, is that it was easier to

(49:07):
do that on Zoom than it wouldbe to do like my type of material
and an open mic, because atthe open mic it's notoriously a little bit
darker, very joke heavy, andso not so performative, and so they
don't want to hear that type ofstuff, so you get the immediate sort

(49:30):
of hate from the room, Iguess you could say, But over Zoom,
I'm like, oh, well,I'm just doing this in my living
room. This is kind of nice. And I'm actually making a few bucks,
so I don't even have to leavethat out. I'm not even wearing
pons. This is not bad,pretty good. I did a show for

(49:51):
was it Guna Akima or one ofthe I think, so, what are
the schools there in New Mexico?And I was supposed to do some and
then talk to the kids about myexperience or or whatever. And I started
off with a bunch of jokes andyou know, I'm doing impressions and whatever,
and the principle came on, Okay, uh, that that's that's nice,

(50:13):
That's that's great. Can we talka little bit about about your career
and how that's going. Uh,we really appreciate some some insight for the
kids. If we could just moveon. Oh sure, I'm only pouring
my heart out here, but yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, yeah,

(50:34):
wow, have a have you runacross, like any anyone that's been
rude to you, like comic wisein l A. You don't have to
name names, but if you wantto get me a message and tell me,
sure, not really, not really, I would say there's I mean,

(50:57):
are you find there's there's pockets,you know, so you find you're
sort of niche and you find whereyou sort of fit in. There's some
shows that are very like Broie.Yeah, I mean like frat boy type
of humor, and that doesn't doanything for me. But not people that
have been sort of rude or anything. It's been Okay, that's so fun.

(51:22):
Do you have any horror stories?Yeah, not real horror stories.
But I've had less than a handfulof guys that were rude to me over
the Yeah. Like I've been doingthis twenty some years and like there's only
two guys that really stand out thatI didn't like working with. Well,
and I'll say his name because he'sdead, There's Monty Hoffman. It was

(51:45):
so funny because you know, whenI'm starting out, I'd always ask comics
like, is there a guy youdon't like working with? In ninety percent
of the time they'd say Monty Hoffman. I always heard his name before I
even worked with him, and thenI got booked with him that laughs.
I was hosting, he was headlining. He was actually he was the wrestling

(52:08):
coach on Saved by the Bell.What a credit. Yeah, So I'd
heard all these horror stories about himand stuff, and like, uh,
Russ the owner, Russ Reeves.He was like cool about me selling merchandise,
even though I was a host,which you know, you're really not

(52:28):
supposed to do it as a host. It's kind of like a weird comedy
rule. But but he always letme sell as long as I, you
know, okated with the headliner andstuff. And you know, so I
asked Monty if it was cool ifI sold shirts, and He's like,
yeah, go ahead, and hewas like all right, cool. So
I was selling shirts, you know, the first couple of nights, and
then my buddy Charlie from El Pasohe was featuring, and he was staying

(52:52):
in the condo with Monty and hecalled me and he's like, hey,
just a heads up. I overheardMonty like bitching about you selling shirts on
the phone. He was talking tosomebody and I was like, okay.
So when I got to the clubthat night, I talked to Russ about
it, and I was like,hey, should I not sell shirts?
You know? Charlie said he waskind of bitching about it, and Rust

(53:15):
was like fuck him. He's likeselling for ten bucks and I'll cover.
I'll cover what you don't make.And I was like, no ship and
he's like yeah, fucking I waslike all right, So I sell the
ship out of my shirts that night. I was like ten bucks and you
know, I didn't sell a tonof them, but h yeah, Rest
covered the cost on the other one. Mat He was so fucking pissed.

(53:37):
There is a lot of There isa lot of that like kind of oh,
go tell the teacher, sort ofyeah, tell me. It's like
just what you don't want to,you know, if you're uncomfortable, just
tell me. It's fine, Iwant to do it. Yeah, yeah,
I asked him. He said itwas cool. You know, if
he had a problem, you know, come to me, I would have
stopped selling them, you know,But I don't know. He's just a

(54:00):
dick and he had cancer and died, so fuck him. Uh. He
was actually in Uh I'm sure yousaw Funny People Adam Sandler's movie. Yeah,
yeah, he was in that movie. He was. Uh, there's
like a big group of like realfamous comics and for some reason he was
in there too. It's like adinner party or something. Yeah, Walla

(54:22):
yeah, yeah, Manty Hopfin wasin that scene. Yeah. But yeah,
yeah, I'm glad you haven't raninto any any assholes. That's nice,
man. Shit, Uh, doyou have anything to promote? This
is gonna come out on February fifth, on Monday. Do you have any
shows coming up there you want topromote or oh, you know, I

(54:45):
get a lot of dates sort ofthe week of so yeah. Yeah,
so who knows what that's gonna looklike. But I know my show if
you're in La February twenty ninth atthe Hollywood Improv, it's called a Plaza
Break. Yeah, linked in thebio, you know what I'm saying.
Oh yeah, dude, And yougot your website, josemisdis dot com.

(55:07):
That's awesome. Yeah, everyone gofollow him on Instagram and if you're in
La go catch a show. Veryfunny, dude, Yeah, you get
funnier every time I see him.Man, it's awesome. Oh thank you
man. Yeah, yeah, lasttime I saw you because we did boxing
Bear, I haven't seen you,and i'd probably seen you at the stage,
but that was ship. Yeah,I've been a long time years prior,

(55:30):
and then we did that show inLas Vegas. You're still pretty new,
man. Yeah, thirteen was thattwenty twelve? Twelve? Maybe even
yeah was back because yeah, itwas Stephen Michael Casada and he was still

(55:52):
I think he was still on BreakingBad at the time or just and it
just ended or something like. Itwas like really big at the time.
So yeah, that GID was somuch fun. Dude. Peter's beautiful now.
Yeah, yeah, I did whenI was younger that I've had some

(56:12):
really fun shows in Las Vegas.I don't know if I ever told you
this, but the first time Iever featured at a show was in Las
Vegas. It was at two D'sBar. Oh yeah, and uh so
Danny Romero was a boxer from LasVegas. He was fighting that night.

(56:34):
He was fighting Johnny Tapia. Yeah, huge rivalry. So and that was
kind of his bar, like hehung out at. It was like a
boxing themed bar, I believe ifI remember right. So the show was
gonna happen after the fight because theshow was scheduled to start at eight,

(56:55):
but the fight was going on andshowing it at the bar, so they're
like, all right, we're notgoing to start the show until after the
fight. And then Danny lost,so everybody's in a shitty mood. Yeah,
and uh, the Eddie Tafoya washosting the show, He's the one
that set it up. He goesup and does like five minutes, eats

(57:19):
a huge pile of shit. Nobody'slaughing, which isn't a surprise. But
then he brings up there's a guyfrom Denver who goes up and does ten
and eats a huge pile of shitlike nothing, doesn't get a laugh.
And I'm freaking out because I'm next. I've got to do thirty minutes I've
never done. I've never done thirtyminutes ever. Oh god. And I

(57:42):
was like, I'm gonna have tofucking stretch like crazy because I'm not going
to get a laugh either. AndI went up there and had one of
the best sets of my life.No hit. Yeah, I fucking destroyed.
I did thirty five and just fuckingcrush dude. I don't know what
it was. I think it wasbecause I did a little bit of improv
at the beginning, and uh,I don't know. It just it got

(58:07):
a good laugh right away and thenand so I just I don't know.
I did my set and went reallywell, and then the headliner went on
and ate a huge pile of shit. So I was I but as I
one of the best shows I haddone, like you know, early in
my career. But yeah, myfirst time featuring man Ud did thirty five
and did really well and like itwas a good feeling. Man, it

(58:29):
was so cool. I I usedto my dad used to work at that
bar. It used to be coolSnyder's and Floyd's. In one summer I
worked with my dad sort of handymanwork, you know, yeah, no
kidding, Yeah, I sort ofgrew up in that bar a little bit.
I learned. Yeah, yeah,I was. I wonder what hear

(58:51):
that was. It's probably two thousandand four, i'd say, because uh,
yeah, I started hosting it laughin two thousand and three, and
uh yeah, it was probably twothousand and four. I guess I could
look up the Danny Romero versus JohnnyTapia fights and figure it out. Probably.

(59:13):
Yeah, I was probably helping mydad somewhere in that. Yeah,
how crazy is that? Yeah?Yeah, I did another bar there once
too. What was that one called? I don't remember. That was like
one of my first headline sets,though, I did like Eddie Tafoye used
to set up shows there sometimes forsome reason. I guess because he taught

(59:37):
at Highlands right exactly, Yeah,so he knew a lot of people.
Anyways, we're almost at an hour. I usually try to keep this out
about an hour. So dude,thanks so much for taking the time to
do this. I know you hada late night last night, so thanks
for I appreciate you having me.Yeah, it was good to get to

(59:57):
know each other a little bit better. So II yeah, next time you're
in town, i'd love to seeyou. Your family is super cool,
man. I've met your family atshows and great family, very supportive man.
That's so cool. Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty lucky in that regard
for sure. Yeah. That's awesome. And do they ever come out to
La to see her or no.Yeah, oh yeah, they're gonna come

(01:00:19):
playing a couple of months. Yeah, they come every year pretty much.
Yeah cool man, that's awesome.Well yeah, man, I hope you
enjoy the rest of your weekend.I hope you have killer shows and go
check out jose everybody josemiasts dot comand Instagram at Funny Brownie. Thanks Kirk.
Let me know what next time you'rein La. Man, we got
to get together, will I will? For sure? Man, Yes,

(01:00:42):
sir, all right, take care, buddy, see you all right.
That was fun. That's a joseTesco. Check him out. Super funny
dude, nice guy. You haveknown him for quite a while now.
Yeah, thanks for tuning in.Appreciate that. Thanks to Jared Reddick for
intro music, John Singleton from Anesthesiafor outro music. If you're in Albuquerque,

(01:01:08):
Anesthesia is playing at the launch PadMarch ninth. Go check that out.
I will. I think I'm intown, so I'll probably go check
that out. Also, Bowling forSoup is on tour. They're always touring.
They just announced a little summer tourin the Midwest, so I'm actually

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gonna go get to see him.In Des Moines, Iowa, July twenty
third. I also get to seetheir thirty year anniversary show in Texas,
and I'll be lining up some showsthat Hyena's out there. Those aren't nailed
down yet, but they will besoon. So I hope to see you
guys out there, and we'll seeyou next time. Bye bye yeah