Episode 88: Comedian-Carlos Alvidrez

Comedian Carlos Alvidrez, who's now based out of Chicago, joins Curt on this episode. Carlos talks about his Mount Rushmore of comedy, who influenced him, starting out in New Mexico and more in this episode!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
His name is a really funny guy and this is
his podcast in the Rise.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
And Ride Ster Fletcher.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
He thanks for tuning in. Everybody in the Right podcast
with Kurk Fletcher. Got some tour dates. Wednesday the seventeenth
Tonight Socorro, New Mexico at the Loma Theater, opening for
Jim Rule. September twentieth, This Saturday being Santa Fe at
Knuckles and U C K O L L S. I

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think it's spelled September twenty fourth, House at the Burger Stand.
September twenty seventh, in Grants, New Mexico at the Junkyard
on sixty six. I'm headlining the Comedy Cave in Calgary
September twenty ninth through October fourth. I'll be at the
Colorado Springs Comedy Festival at Looney's Comedy Corner. My show's

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are October eighth, tenth, and eleventh, and then October twenty fifth,
i am performing at Eagles and Blenn with Barry Neil,
and then I've got some shows lined up for twenty
twenty six as well. Go to the website Funny Fletter
dot com. That's it, let's get into the podcast. I

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have a very funny comedian Carlos Alvidrez on so check
it out. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. Carlos Alvidrez, How
do you pronounce your last name Alvadrez.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
As that's the weird thing, dude, is like, it's Alvidrez,
but it's also Alvadrez, but it's also on vides depending
on who you ask and who, like who is who cares? Okay,
I I'm fine with as long as it sounds somewhat similar.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, Alvidrez. Have you had any had any when like
really mess it up, like introducing you on stage?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Dude, I still go. I still go to a couple
of places and they already know me, they know my face,
they know everything, and they'll still say Alvaderies or alvader Is.
So that's kind of the pain of not having a
common last name. I will see.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah. Yeah, I one time had to open for Kostacki Economopolis,
which I can say fine now, and I was practicing
all week and I had it fine, but the night
of the show, I totally fucked it up.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
How long how long? Like how many hours did it
take give or take to.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Get to get it down? Yeah? You know, it didn't
take too long. I tried it a few times to say, Okay,
I got this, and I think I got a little
too cocky about it. And then showtime, you know, I
went up there and did my set and I was like,
all right, here we go, and then totally butchered it.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Dude. It's one of my favorite things to do, is
like actually be able to pronounce people's names correctly. Yeah,
Like every so often, I'll work at a bakery here
and you know, we're taking orders, were doing all that stuff,
and then someone will tell me their name and I'll
write it down how I think that it's spelled, and
just to check, like I always ask like then mackenzie
with the like like McK or ma ac kind of thing.

(03:30):
And it's just a fun little game that I play.
Oh yeah, but I just everything's a game to me, So.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, yeah, it's fine. I one time back in the
day at I started out at Laughs Comedy Club, and
so when you were hosting, at the end of the show,
you would collect the comment cards and then or the
staff would collect the comment cards, and then the host
would draw two names out of the bucket. So whoever

(03:59):
you drew out of the bucket one tickets to like
some shows or whatever, and one time this guy won
and he he came up to me after the show.
He goes, Hey, how the hell did you know how
to pronounce my last name? So it was spelled f
r O E l I c h and was pronounced freylk,

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And I go, oh, I grew up in Iowa. And
there's this really good basketball player with that last name
and he's still always like score like forty points against
my school. And he goes, where'd you go to school?
And I was like, I grew up in Iowa. He's like,
oh shit, was it aj? So that's how I knew

(04:45):
how to pronounce his name was from his cousin.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh shit, dude, it's such a small world. Where'd you start?
Where'd you start coming yet? Because I know you've been
at it, like what twenty three years something twenty.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
They said twenty four years. I started at laughs in Albuquerque.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh you're starting out?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, where did you start?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Albuquerque? Okay, y'all's at y'all's mic actually at the Founders one.
No Dunce is in the dark or something? Ship the
uh yeah, November twenty twenty one, No kidding Birds lounge.
It's our space venue space, the one with no roof.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh the one uh spaceport Nope, no, fuck inside out,
I think, yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
They had like it was right next to l Ray
or the Sunshine or one of those two.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah that was my first time ever.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
So uh cool. Yeah yeah, okay, I remember that. Now,
did you grow up in Albuquerque or did you grow
up in a different town?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
No, I grew up into Roswell, well outside of Roswell.
I'm from a small town called Hagerman, New Mexico. It's
like a thousand people right like twenty miles south of Roswell.
But I ended up in Albuquerque after I graduated from
college because I went to college in Portalis at Eastern.
Yeah at Eastern four and a half years, had a

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fucking blast. Then I ended up in Albuquerque then the
pandemic hit. Just kind of hung out there for like
a year and a half and then I was like, oh,
actually the way that I found the mic was I
went out to go watch the United play New Mexico United,

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and I don't remember the game. My friend actually promised
to get me drunk for the game as like a bribe,
because he went with the girl that he was I
guess talking to or something, and he needed a wing man.
So I ended up going to the game. It was
like a Monday night, I think, and it was already

(07:03):
like late. I was tired. I m some stuff had
happened already, so I was like, I'm tired of the ship.
They're like, oh, we're going to go to an open mic.
I was like, I don't want to see musicians, like
I really, I can't. I don't. I can't sit through
it through somebody's like ballad or whatever, oh how much
they hate their mom or something. But uh, they said

(07:23):
it was like, oh, like comedy, and I was like, oh,
fuck it, why not? So I actually went to go watch.
I'm like, before I actually did it, Oh okay, but
that's how I found out about it.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's cool. So before you went to watch it, did
you have any desire to do comedy before that?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Dude? It's weird now, like this is about to hit
four years since that, since that day, right, I've looked
back on it, and you know, you tend to reflect
about things. But I actually went back and I've been
a fan of comedy ever since I was a kid,
Like my first recorded memory of like what a comedian is.

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I was sitting there, like on the floor in my
parents' home where I grew up, and someone was on
the TV and it was in Spanish. As a Mexican
guy he was he was doing it some kind of
bit or whatever, and I looked at my dad and
my dad was laughing. And my dad doesn't really laugh
at a lot. My parents are very stoic, very stoic

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Mexicans because that's how they were raised. But I saw
that they were laughing, and I was like, what is this?
So I turned to my dad and I asked him
and he's like, oh, well, he's a comedian. It's like,
what do you what does that mean. He's like, Oh,
he just pays gets paid to go around telling, you know,
doing this kind of thing. I was like, Oh, it's

(08:50):
kind of like the first time that I was like, Oh,
that's that's a thing. But my my graduating class in
high school was twenty six.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's tiny town in the middle of nowhere, like no
nothing is there unless you're a farmer or in the
oil fields. But essentially I never considered it being in
my wheelhouse. But I listened to comedy. Growing up the
entire time, like middle school and high school, all I

(09:22):
would listen to is Pandora. There was a like clean comedy,
raw comedy, musical comedy. Like I would just keep going
through all of these little sub things and listening to
every last album that was on there. So I was
like a big old fan of it. And then come
to find out, while I was going through my dad's
cassette tapes, while I was sitting in his eighty nine

(09:46):
Chevy van, he had like an eight track and a
cassette tape player. So he had like this giant leatherbound
box of like lined up with just cassettes and stuff,
and it was all mostly music. But the first one
I ended up finding was Sam Kinnison.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Then so then I popped it in and I listened
to it, and I was fucking dying, like middle school
edge the word and me, you know, dying laughing. So
I never thought it was kind of a thing. Soever
I found out about what years later in Albuquerque, I
was like, Oh, New Mexico has this what you know,

(10:23):
just never clicked in my head that maybe that that
that was a thing that existed, you.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Know, yeah, for sure, how old. Are you by the way,
so I can kind of get it out of twenty eight,
twenty eight, okay.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Graduated high school twenty fifteen, college twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
So Kennison had been dead for a while when the
first time you heard him then?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, yeah, but not long enough to where like people
still kind of, you know, recognize the name for sure.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
I still go visit his grave sometimes because he's buried
in Tulsa. Is he Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
What the fuck?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah? Yeah? Actually I lived in Tulsa for a few years.
I actually found Yeah he found what I found. The
church he used to preach at in Tulsa.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
No shit?

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, is he from there?

Speaker 2 (11:13):
I minimum, well it kind of cut out.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh yeah, I don't know if my internet's all that
great right now. But yeah, his parents live there, and
that's they were living there when he passed away. But
he would go there when when he wasn't doing comedy.
He would go there and preach on weekends and stuff. See.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
I knew he was a preacher before he did it,
but I didn't know he kept doing it.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, he actually during from stand Up to Go do
preaching full time?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
No shit, Yeah, I guess one of my base bills.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's what i'd heard. I don't know if
that's true or not. That I tore with a lot
of Tim Gaither. He actually had Sam's brother on his
podcast one time.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
That was brilliant.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah. Yeah, his brother Bill, I think his name is.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
What got you into it?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Kind of the same thing as you. Like my mom,
she listened to a lot of comedy when I was younger,
and so I would sneak out of my room and
see what she was laughing. But I'd be like, Okay,
that's that's what I want to do. I just want
to make people laugh.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, that was my dream since I was four years old.
So once I turned twenty one, I was like, all right,
here we go, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's sick, dude. I like the normal behind you.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh yeah yeah. It's a T shirt gave me right
after he passed away.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
As soon as it passed away, I found a it's
a yellow, it's a gatty color, it's a gaudy yellow
T shirt. He passed away pretty much like about a year.
A year or two of me actually starting to do this.
I was like, I gotta I gotta support, I gotta
do that. So I was living back at Roswell at

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that time, and there was only one mic a month,
and it was fifteen minutes, but it was one mica month.
So I did it the first time and then he died,
and then I went quickly online. I found a T
shirt and I was like, I'm gonna rep norm. Everyone's
gonna see this and people are gonna be like, oh,
that's fucking normal in there. Cool because it's a yellow

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T shirt with the SNL portrayal of him doing Burt
Reynolds with a big old hat, you know. First and
all it says at the bottom is rip Burt Reynolds,
and it's one of my favorite things. It's such a
shitty color, dude, like, but I couldn't get in any
other color. I was like, ah, that's the thing. So

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I ended up buying it and I wore it and
nobody knew what the fuck it was.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
So really that's disappointing.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, small towns, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Actually no, I still wear that around like an open
mics and stuff and people look at me like, that
doesn't look like Burt Reynolds.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
It isn't, he I will say, dude, I I I
am a massive comedy nerd. I fucking like, I told you,
this is all I listened to growing up. I remember
listening to like, uh, Robin Williams is nine at the
ment or one of the older ones that he had,
and it was that bit of lorena above it.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
And I me, like a eighth grader or ninth grade
or something like that. I didn't know what it was.
But the advent of the Internet hit right at that time,
so I was like Wikipedia and I started looking at
like looking into every reference that any old comic would do.
So essentially I knew everything that happened from like nineteen

(15:08):
seventy five to like nineteen ninety five, predominantly because every
comic was kind of hitting on the same topics. Yeah,
and I knew nothing about what was going on at
my current time.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
I remember two guys fighting my seventh grade year over
John McCain and Barack Obama, like the fist fighting in
and I was looking at them. I was like, yeah,
but you guys don't even know who's like the president
in the eighties, Like why wouldn't why do what do
your opinions matter? You know, dumb middle school shit.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
That's so funny. Who are some of your favorites that
you would find like on Pandora?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Do you remember, oh man, my top three that my
mount Rushmore I I guess I would say is for
sure definitely no order. George Carlin, Robin Williams, and Bo Burnham.
Those are my three. The fourth one is always like
a revolving door. Because you got Louis, you got Hebburg, patresa'nial.

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I'm a big Emo Phillips fan, even though he only
had like the one album I just met months ago. Really, dude,
if I could, if I could, I didn't discover him
until like twenty I had to move back home because
I got fired out of nowhere from my job in Dallas,

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and it was kind of like one of the worst
times in my life. But I remember clearly setting up
my hammock in my mom's front porch because it just
fit perfectly for some reason. And it was like nine
or ten o'clock at night. I was laying on the
hammock and it's a summer night, so still like seventy
or eighty degrees. And I found that album and I

(17:05):
like the actual special on YouTube because everything's on YouTube
for free if you look hard enough. But I found
the live at Hasty Putting Theater and I can't. I
cried throughout it, Like I was crying, laughing, yelling at
the top of my lungs, apparently because my mom ended
up walking over opening the door and just being like

(17:27):
are you Are you okay dude? I was like, yeah,
I'm laughing, I'm enjoying it. She's like, oh, I thought
you were like sad or something like you just there
was a lot of emotions and we can hear it.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Oh. Sorry, Well that's great.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
But did you got guys like from Pandora specifically Stephen
Lynch was a big one, you know the news right,
very good. Yeah, doctor Steven superhero, his superhero thing is

(18:05):
fucking phenomenal to me. I don't I don't care what
anyone says, which I actually just recently found out that
him and Hebburg had gone on like a double headliner
tour sometime really nineties. Yeah. I found an oral history
by some reporter who's been covering comedy for like all
of her career or something. She was a big Hedberg fan,

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but she just did like a two hour oral history
report in a sense on Hebburg and his life and
like his works and stuff, and she had like David
Tell's speak on it, and it's actually all comics speaking predominantly,
so it's not just her like, oh, this is his
life and all of that. But there's Standhope. Stanhope is

(18:47):
also one of my favorites. Yeah, stand Hope, a Tel,
a couple of others that I didn't recognize but were
close to Hepburg and all of that stuff. So again,
I this is one of the things that I could
just talkout for a long time for sure.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, it's awesome being a comedy nerd. I Yeah, I've
met a lot of those guys. I like, I met
Stan Hope. I got to perform with him before. David
Tel actually came to Laughs one time when he was
filming Insomniac remember that show.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
I was on Comedy Central and he was there for
He did like a quick five minute set and then left.
I didn't even know he was there and I was
I was in the kitchen. I had no clue he
was there. He just popped in. They set up the cameras,
he did a five minute set and then left. It
was a fun show though. On Comedy Central he would
go around he would do like a five minute spot
somewhere whatever comedy club was in town, and then he

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would just go around town like kind of showcasing like
some of the nightlife in the town, or just find
some weird shit to do. Like I'm trying to remember
the Albuquerque one. Remember he went downtown, he went to
a bar, and then he went to I think the
Scorpions were playing, so he went to the concert and

(20:07):
then he went he did something else too, And I
wish I could remember. It's been like twenty years since
I've seen it, but it was a pretty interesting show.
That was cool. Yeah, that tells awesome, do you think?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Okay, this question popped up in my head as you
were talking. I would be very interested in seeing, like
some of the top name comics right now, like a
Tell insert other top name comics or whatever, specifically only
do five minute sets.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, like kind of like a.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Local mic showcase. I don't know why. In my head
would be like is that harder? I don't know, Maybe
you have like a more set, like like five minutes
is nothing kind of thing I feel.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I feel like it's different for each comic, Like for me,
I do a lot of one liners and stuff, so
a five minutes set for me is pretty easy. I
feel like some comics not necessarily have to warm up
for a bit, but to get into some of their stuff.
Like Louis c. K. I think would probably have a

(21:16):
hard time doing five minutes, you know, because his his
bits are pretty I don't know, maybe not. I mean,
he's he's a pretty solid writer, so I think he
could probably figure out how to do a decent amount
of jokes in a five minute set. So I guess
it's different for everybody, you know, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Hey, I think could be kind of fun of something
to happen. It's like all of these guys just get
five minutes only, even though they're big names, just like
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, like a guy like Christopher Titus, who's like a
great storyteller, Yeah, how good of a story could he
fit into five minutes? Dude?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Titus was actually one of those those big name Pandora
only players that I've hoped that I've never really heard
anybody ever mention him. I don't really hear anybody talking
about him. But the dude has so many albums and
they're all.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Could yeah, all funny. Yeah, I feel like he's super underrated,
like because yeah, you're right, nobody, nobody ever talks about him.
But like when I think about storytelling comics, like he's
the he's the one that comes to mind from me
because he's so good at it.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
See I think Mike Berbiglia. Yeah, oh yeah, but for
Bigley is one of my also one of my like
rotating in that for it. Yeah, his his twenty thirteen
my girlfriend's boyfriend. Like, yeah, dude, it's so weird. Like
I listened to it and I can clearly, clear as

(22:51):
Dave remember the fact that I lived through something pretty
much exactly like that really and it yeah, very much
almost to a t. Dude. It was kind of crazy,
but testament of like what it was just connected instantly
and I've loved it ever since.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, uh, do you prefer listening to comedy or watching it?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
I have a gripe with a lot of comedy right now,
which is like to watch a comedian. If I can
do it in person, I will, Yeah, I'm in person
is the best way to experience comedy, it hands down,
no matter what it is. However, some comics they're hard

(23:36):
to watch because it's boring watching somebody just stand there
delivering jokes like some comics don't. Some people don't like
do it, but I mean like piling together like a
one liner one liners back to back or a shorter
kind of form. Because I've seen some of your stuff
and like you make it work because you like your
stuff is kind of tailored to not really moving that much. Yeah,

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but it's hard to see some people who I don't know.
I see it from my perspective because I like moving around.
I like movement. I'll do sudden, sudden little jerks or whatever,
like into things. But that's just because that's how I
am as a person. It's kind of how I tell
the stories in general. But I like being able to

(24:25):
have like some visual components to jokes because like thing
with Carlin specifically, like even his older like his later
year stuff. He did have some jokes that I didn't
They landed whenever I listened to it, but whenever I
went back and finally watched the video, he would do

(24:46):
these faces in that pause where like I just associated
my mind that there's a pause here, But in those
things it'd be like he does a face a little
bit like for a little like a couple of seconds
of Anty looks. Yeah, that to me is like I
can understand listening to it was one thing, but also

(25:07):
adding it into that. And Bo Burnham is another another
example of that, Like I mean his video editor joke
in twenty thirteen, what was just the one off thing
for the video, but then you go back and listen
to the album version of that, and he recorded that
on a completely separate night, so it has other little
jokes and bits in inside of it and that thing.

(25:30):
But I can imagine somebody going watching it, like somewhere
in Iowa or wherever else he was, and they just
got an entirely different thing, but they actually got to
see him perform. Yeah, Like some of those things are
very Miami.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because when I grew up. When
I was growing up, you know, it was rare to
have a comedy special. That's why I got to see
Carlon so much because he I feel like he had
an HBO special like every year. Yeah, and you know,
so I remember watching those and those were like the

(26:04):
only ones I really got to see and tell about.
The mid nineties, HBO started doing the half hour comedy specials,
like with Richard Jenny and Carlos Mencia and stuff like that,
because I would usually just listen, like I remember listening
to Eddie Murphy's stuff. I never saw like raw or whatever.

(26:27):
I never saw the special until I got older. I
would just listen to it on like a cassette tape
or something like that. So, you know, miss you miss
a lot of mannerisms and things he's doing, you know, yeah,
and that outfit he's wearing and stuff like that, you know, iconic.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
I put I put it right up there with Michael
Jackson's Thriller, yeah, which I mean they're kind of similar.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
But yeah, probably came out around the same time too, probably, Yeah,
uh uh, yeah. I definitely prefer watching comedy. I remember
I used to love andrewized Clay when I was younger.
I thought it was so funny. And then when I

(27:13):
started doing comedy and stuff, I went back and listened
to one of his albums and like, God, this is terrible.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
It's terrible. But for that for that time, for that era, yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Hu man, and he was on TV a lot too,
you know, so you got to see him and him
and Kinnison were kind of the big guys around that time.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
It's kind of like going back and watching Steve Martin's
stuff sometimes is kind of I love it mm hmm,
but I show it to somebody else and they're kind
of like, this is yeah, this sucks, Like this is weird.
So I can understand it being of the times sometimes

(27:56):
for sure, but I don't know. I I love Steve Martin.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Another one, fucking Woody Allen before he got older, before
he left stand up. Like Woody Allen is a stand
up to me still to this day, is like one
of my favorite stand up people. And he was around
the same time as like a young Carlon, which is

(28:22):
kind of cool. They used to hang out, they used
to hang out together. But his joke telling his delivery,
some of it is kind of dated now. But again,
me knowing what it was like to be in the seventies,
I also just connect the sixties eventually, because if he
learned something about a certain thing, eventually kind of have

(28:44):
to branch off into more niche topics. So I can
go back and listen to like Lenny Bruce's stuff and
still understand some of the slang or some of the
references or whatever it is. But no, I love Woody
Allen's early stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
I've actually never I don't think I've ever heard his
stand up at all.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Really, yeah, that surprises the hell out of me. I
have two of his albums in there, the exact same
album but just marketed differently. However, very funny.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Huh interesting? Oh yeah, because I like old school comics
like Red Fox, Don Rickles, you know some people from
that era. Yeah, I've never listened to any of this stuff.
Bob Newhart, I used to have some old records of his.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
I've gone back and because of again trying to get
more than niche topics, because I have nothing else to
do with my life. I started watching a couple of
years ago. I subscribed to something unknowingly on YouTube as
an attachment to Premium called Curiosity Stream, which is like
documentaries and all of that stuff. But he hasn't really
added anything, and they weren't really high quality anyways. But

(29:57):
I kept it around, and eventually there was a series
that opt up those at Comedy Legends, so I obviously
naturally watched that, and recently I watched like Jack George
Burns and Jack Barr and you know, Peter Sellers and
all that kind of thing. So I've been going back

(30:19):
and learning about that. But the Peter Sellers one is different.
Peter Sellers I actively sought out because I'm a massive
Rowan Atkinson fan. I I love Rowan Atkinson. Have you
ever seen his one man show.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
It's been a long time, dude.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I think it holds up. I think it's still one
of the funniest things.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
I would love to see it again.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, on YouTube too.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
But Rowan Atkinson, he's another guy that I think is underrated.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
I think he's properly rated to the fact that he
doesn't want he doesn't like the limelight.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Like globally, he is one of the biggest stars ever.
Oh yeah, I just don't think he's very well received
in the US because part of his humor is very British.
I'm a fan of British humor.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I love Eddie Izzard. Oh yeah, I love Dylan Moran.
Dylan Moran is do you know of him?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
I know the name. I've never.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
He's famous for his three season long Black Books he
did with Bill Bailey. Bill Bailey is also funny in
his own right, but he's more musical. Heat This is
I'm getting on so many tangents. This is unlocking a
lot of things. Sorry, I like American humor and I

(31:48):
like British humor, but I can understand and recognize the
difference between two, and personally, if you put a gun
to my head, I would prefer British humor personally because
it's not it's not cutthroat, it's not Dixon vaginas, it's
not personal to them as people like that. They don't

(32:13):
care about your personal opinions on politics or any whatever.
It is like, yeah, they care how funny you are
and how like not just like eloquent in you know,
oh you got to use big words or whatever the fuck,
But it's like, how do you how what's your act?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Tell me?

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Because they're because they're a smaller market, so you kind
of have to learn how to just be yourself and
people end up liking whoever it is that you are.
Jimmy Carr before he got into America, I think it's hilarious.
After he got in America, it's like he kind of
got American. Now he's in a sense. Good for him.
He broke into the market. Not a lot of British

(32:51):
comics do. But Dylan Moran has this like poetic way
of speaking, like totally and unster or like his first
two albums. They're also both on YouTube. You can watch
them phenomenal fucking phenomenon. And the thing is is like
I watched it and I was listening and I was laughing,

(33:13):
but also I was learning some things, Like I learned
what nannyism is through him, and I didn't even pay
attention to it until much later because I laughed at
the joke and I thought back and I was like,
I don't know what that is, So then I googled it.
But he was also in Shawn of the Dead.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh he was.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
He was the guy with the glasses, the really annoying guy. Yeah,
so Dylan Moran is very funny.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
That's probably where I know the name from then, But
I like.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
He types of all all of that, Like the Mexican
comic that I watched as a kid and I asked
my dad about. His name is Dele Gonzalez. He has
like famous for like having a long pony tail like
act like a horse's tale, like it's always always down
his back and stuff. But we actually ended up meeting
him randomly at a Walmart in Ridos, So really like

(34:11):
two years after that, we took a picture of me
and my cousins and him. But it's because Ridosa has
like the it's a ski town that's close to Mexico. Yeah,
so a lot of people from like what is and
all of that stuff come up. They always have like
bigger Mexican named acts because there's a lot of people
from Mexico and really close by. So randomly. I've seen

(34:34):
him twice. Actually I saw him at that Walmart and
then I actually saw him at a show like two
or three years ago, so I mean he still acted
still all that the jokes were dated. They were you know,
older crowd things, but yeah, I thought it was cool still.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
So did you did you watch any of like Monty
Python stuff growing up?

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Not? Growing up? I loved, like, obviously The Holy Grail.
Everyone watched Only Grail. It's one of the movies that
they played in college, I mean in high school or whatever,
like the teacher was at you know, the sketches. I
caught a couple of them, but I've gotten more into
them now that I'm older and trying to write them

(35:17):
and trying to like.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, that's how it was because they used to show
their sketches on TV a lot, like on public television,
and I remember I try to watch it and I
was just like, I just don't get this.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Some of them are out there, some of them are killer.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah. Like I think it was probably around seventh grade
when I was talking to my gym teacher about comedy
and he brought up Monty Python and I was like, yeah,
I watched some of their sketches when I was younger
and didn't really like it. And then he loaned me
some of the tapes and stuff, and he was like,
he's like, well give it, give it a shot now,
you know, I think you'd really like it. And he's like,

(35:55):
you have a similar sense of humor I think, and
I was like, okay, cool. And then so I watched
some of their stuff. I was like, Okay, this is
way funnier now.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I like the absurdity of it.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I like the fact that they Everyone who talks about
like creating a sketch show or whatever struggles with the
in between thing of like how do we go from
one to another seamlessly or whatever, And people do credit
Terry Gilliam's animations and all that short. However, I'd also
like to say that the way that they ordered it

(36:29):
and wrote it and were actually able to just be like,
why don't we have a cop that shows up at
the end of this and just says this is too
too silly just moving on Like that decision to me
is like that's why they're funny. To me, it's like
they have one character who's one thing is that, and

(36:50):
then they're actually like I ended up watching the season
two episode one and one, the first, very first sketch
that they showed had like it gotten too It had
gotten to that weird level of absurd that usually, like
in season one, they kind of cut it that character
walks on and cuts it, but at that point they
actually mentioned it and they're like, wait, isn't this the

(37:10):
time for this for the cop to like come in
and cut this off? And then they actually played with
it and said, no, he's on vacation right now, let's
continue it, and then they just kept going. So it
was like, God, that that's beautiful, you know.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah, did you see their improvised show they did on Netflix? No,
I think it was Monty Python. I'm pretty sure it was. Yeah,
I had to have been. I'll look it up and
i'll send it to you. It was one of the

(37:44):
funniest things I've ever seen though. It was so good
and Russell Brand was in it and a couple other guys.
But just yeah, it was was an improvised show. I mean,
I'm sure they had practice it before, but it was awesome.
Actually I got a you live in Illinois right No, yeah,

(38:04):
I'm in Chicago right now. I did a set at
Zany's in Rosemont one time and John Cleese's daughter was
on the same show. That was cool.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, I heard that she does stuff like this, she's
in the comedy acting thing. Yeah, but I didn't know much.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah, I wanted to bugger about it, but like, I
don't know, I'm not one of those guys that does it.
Like just talk about her dad the whole.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Time you want to, But also you feel bad.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, I actually really good looking. I have a hard
time talking to good looking ladies, you know. No, there
was the guy who hosted that show that night, was
a guy named Vince Moranto. Have you ran into him
in Chicago at all?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Doesn't doesn't ring a bell.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
No, he was. He was awesome, such a funny host,
and I didn't get a chat with him for too long.
But man, he's been doing stand up for thirty plus years,
and just I bet that guy's got so many stories.
Like just the stories he told me just in the
limited time that I had to chat with him was awesome. Yeah,
what a cool scene to be in.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Man, let me let me write that down. Sorry, Yeah,
of course, I'll ask around for it. I like Chicago
so far. The community is very fun. It's much like
the Dallas one or much like the other ones that

(39:31):
I've been around. Honestly, gotta know people, you gotta talk
to people, all that stuff, but it is very fun.
I like the fact that there's so many different types
of people to talk to in front of like every
mic that I go to, because right now I'm mostly
doing mics. I just got my first stand up my

(39:52):
first show stand up show because I've done Namprov as well.
I just have it my first show coming up on Friday,
and then I'll have one next month, which is nice.
So slowly but surely, you know.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
The thing is, though it's I I take kind of
a weird stance on it. I go everywhere as much
as they can. Because there are so many mics, there's
opportunities to do three or four a night sometimes, and
there are there have been nights that I do four
to a night, but they're all in like one specific area,

(40:27):
one very concentrated thing, and it's kind of the same
type of audience where the same comics go to the
same things. So I came here. Whenever I first moved here,
I was like, I don't know anybody. I don't know
how to do any of this stuff. I don't know
where I'm going or what the people are like. Soon,
why don't I try every mic once and see which

(40:48):
ones I go with and all of that stuff within reason,
Like I'm not gonna there's some that are about two
hours away. I'm not going to go for just seven
minutes or whatever unless like they an show.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
It's been fun because I got I get to see
the suburb comedians have a much different vibe and like
feel when even their joke structures and the way that
they do things are different compared to some of the
people in the city that live a little bit more
south or a little bit more west, or a little
bit more in this specific area like there. It's so
interesting for me to see.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Oh yeah, definitely, because Albuquerque doesn't have anything like that really, So, yeah,
that that is interesting. Have you done any of the
open mics at any of the comedy clubs.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, I've done the laugh Factory open mic once. Okay
that it's by bucket and about like seventy five to
one hundred people apply every time, and there's only like
ten spots per night, five for next week, so it's
kind of a crapshoot. But I've done it once. The
stage is fun. I got nervous, I flubbed it. Oh really,

(42:02):
it happens. I was just more like, oh man, I'm
up here, you know kind of thing. Yep, And it
was super late whenever I went on. Yeah, it's one
of those times where you're like seventeenth, but then a
friend of a friend shows up or a friend shows
up and the like. Eventually I became like twenty third
or twenty fourth, so it was like, yeah, I'll go
up whenever I grow up. I've done a couple of

(42:27):
the comedy clubs open mics here, but the ones that
I mostly want to do were kind of in the suburb.
The suburb has more comedy clubs there and smaller venues,
but they're more homely.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
I would say, oh, Yeah, they're.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
They're a lot friendlier to faces that they see in
talk through and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Oh yeah, have you how far are you from Peoria period?

Speaker 2 (42:53):
That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
I did a club there called the juke Box juke
Box Comedy Club that was pretty fun.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Poria one hundred and thirty one miles four hours by train,
okay and bus. No, I haven't been there. I've heard
of it, but I haven't.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Yeah, yeah, it wasn't a bad club. I've done that one.
I did Zanies and rosemut and I did Zanies Downtown Nice.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
I working my way up to it. There's this is
there's this cool thing about Chicago is like they do
have a lot of options to be able to kind
of go up onto things like that. So there's a
monthly competition called Vouch that if you show up to that,
you sign up your name. It might be it might

(43:43):
be capped at twenty five, it might be capped at fifty.
But it's three minutes and you get to showcase you're
you know, this is this is my act, this is
who I am. And if you're lucky enough to get picked,
you oh lucky and good. I would say lucky to
get drawn good enough to get picked. Yeah, you get
to have a show at laugh Factory at Fresh Faces

(44:05):
so that you can actually and that shows in front
of like bookers and all of that stuff, and most
people that go on there come out with at least
one to two like things. Rare has it been that
I've seen that nobody gets booked from them? And then
I mean from there, it's basically like your wheelhouse, like
are you gonna run with it or not? Kind of thing.

(44:27):
Maybe yeah, but I haven't gotten there yet.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
You'll get there.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
I'm not in a rush.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Yeah, that's good. I know. A lot of comics feel
like they need to do it now, you know, and
they they try and overdo it and it doesn't work
out and then they end up burning a bridge or
two and then kind of screws them in the long run.
So it's a good mindset to have, not not rushing
into anything.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Well from what I've all because I mean, being such
a nerd for this stuff. I've listened to a lot
of comics. I mean a lot of them, whether they're
alive or dead, but most of them say, like, if
you're under ten years, you're not even a newbie, you know,
like ten years is kind of the point where people

(45:14):
are kind of like, okay, like he's starting kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Yeah. Well, I even heard Luis c k was on
THEO Bond's podcast a little over a year ago, I think,
and Louis asked THEO how long he had been doing
stuff up and he said like twenty years, and Louie
was like, oh, you're just a baby still.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah, yeah, I heard that.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
I oh, man, that's crazy that he thinks that, you know,
because looking back at Louie even like I remember watching
some of his older stuff from early nineties. He was awful.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
The stop Light, Yeah, it was like all trackplight.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Yeah, which I mean, I get it. There are some
things that I'm doing right now that I can't lie.
I don't believe they love doing, but I know that
they get laughs. Yeah, there are some things that I
have outgrown out entirely because I just don't care to
talk about that subject or like, personally, I'm not very topical.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
If I can pull a topical joke out every so often, sure,
But I like jokes that just pop in my head.
Did I think that makes me laugh? Because I if
I'm not laughing at it, the audio, why would I
expect the audience to And right now I'm just kind
of in that mode of I'm four years in. I'm

(46:36):
just throwing shit the wall and see what sticks.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
You know, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
But that's the fun part about it. And that is
kind of where I get into trouble sometimes because I
don't overdo it because I think like, oh, I'm behind
the ball. I overdo it because I'm like, this is fun,
let's keep going kind of thing. So it's not the
healthiest sometimes.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
I think it's fun that way, though. I kind of
miss those days for me, like just going and seeing
what works and what doesn't and fucking around and trying
different things.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
If you don't mind me asking, how do you how
does your your writing or your your thing pop? Like
is it? I know? Rare is the time whenever like
something pops in your head, you write it down and
you say it that night and it kills you know.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
But I had that happen two years ago really after
a show though I was it was after a set
I had already done and I was sitting outside kind
of going over my notes for the show and the
show is still going on. I don't know who's on stage.
But I was out there and like when I was
writing some notes down, this thing popped into my head

(47:46):
and I was like, oh, that is funny. And I
was like, man, I wish I had a couple more
minutes because I would try it. But I had a
show the next night and it got like the biggest
laugh of the night for my out of my set.
You know, some things you just you just think of
and you're like, ah, this is good, this is real good.
Sometimes you're just like I think this is good, but

(48:07):
it needs needs something, you know. But that that thing
like just wrote itself and I was like so happy
about it, you know. But uh, yeah, my writing process,
I used to write every single day and then you know,
when COVID happened, I kind of got out of that.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
I started doing other things that I enjoyed, and I
started playing bass and stuff and like just doing a
bunch of other stuff and kind of got out of
the habit of writing every day, which really sucked. But
I'm starting to get back into it again now.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
So like, when you write, you don't have to divulge
anything that you don't want to. Obviously, this is your show.
So uh, whenever you go into writing something. I struggled
with it because I tend to write paragraphs. Yeah, I

(49:00):
tend to write like if I got an idea, I'll
write until I can't physically, Like I run out of
steam on the idea and I hit a certain point,
I'm like, Okay, i'm thinking about this too much. I'm
trying too hard. So that's whenever I stop writing, put
the pen down and walk away. Then I go talk
about it on stage and I'll listen back to it,

(49:20):
and sometimes I'm surprised about the parts that people laugh
at more than the parts that I thought. Yeah, but
I'm also really bad at going back and rewriting it.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Yeah. I feel like when you get to the point
where you're done with it is the time to keep writing.
I've done that before, where it's like I'm writing it
and there's one funny part, but I'm like, I know
there's more to this, and it's frustrating because I'm not
getting to that point. So I keep going, and I'm
kind of forcing myself to get to that point. It's like,

(49:55):
this is fucking funny, where's it at? You know, just
keep writing even if it's dumb shit, you know, like
I remember how I had a joke a long time ago,
and I knew it was a funny idea, and I
just could not get it to get a laugh on stage.
And I tried it like I don't know how many times,
and then one night I was in Tucson. I was

(50:17):
performing at Laughs in Tucson, and I got there a
day early and they have their open mic on Thursdays.
So I was like, I'm gonna go up and do
some open mic, and then I saw that joke. I
was like, I'm gonna make this fucking work tonight. So
I sat there for like two hours just reworking it,
like I hadn't done it in like two years probably,

(50:37):
so I like, I think just looking at it like
a different perspective, you know, two years older, two years wiser, maybe,
just like I don't know, I figured it out. I
went on stage that night and I got a really
good laugh. So I was like, I knew that fucking
shit was funny. Oh So I don't know. It's a
different process for everybody for sure. But you know, my

(51:00):
friend Tim that I tore with a lot, he's always
trying to tell me. He's like, you got to add
more stories into your set.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
He's like, you always tell me funny ass stories and
none of them are in their set. And I was like, yeah,
that's a good point, you know. So that's kind of
what I've been working on lately, is just like trying
to make my stories funnier, funny for stage. You know.
That's why I think I was thinking of Christopher Titus,
because he's such a good storyteller, you know, and I

(51:27):
feel like I feel like it was him that said, like,
you know, you go out, you go sit down, write
out your story, underline the funny parts, and then decide,
you know, how long in between the funny parts, and
you're like, well, I need something funny here and here
and here, so then just go there and kind of

(51:48):
exaggerate a little bit, exaggerate the story to get a
laugh here or laugh there or whatever like that. You know.
So that's I'm trying to work on that, But I
don't know if I'm any good at it because I'm
so used to writing and short jokes, you know, and
get into the punchline right away.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
So ohd God, new tricks.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Yeah, we'll see what happens. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
I have the issue where I'll write something down and
it works, and I just won't change it to even
like consider maybe it could be even funnier.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
I funny enough, Like I started. I did my first
open mic November of twenty twenty one, but a couple
of months ago, I randomly was like looking through my phone,
my notesap on my phone, and I found something for
like May of twenty twenty barely pandemic just happened. I
got fired, I got laid off all of this stuff.

(52:46):
I don't remember writing this note, but I woke I
was like eleven something in the morning, so I probably
just woken up, and I wrote just line a line,
a line, a line, a line, like a bits and
p of just ideas that I had in my head
or whatever. And some of them were bits, like some
of them were actually things that were like I don't

(53:08):
know why I'm writing this down, but this is what
I think. And then I've as soon as I found that,
I was like, ah, fuck it, I'm just gonna go
up tonight and bring these off and see if there's
anything good. And sure enough, like there's a baseball thing,
and then that like it. It caught me for a
little bit oh nice, even before you even before I

(53:31):
started like doing any of this stuff or even considering
the fact of doing it.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Yeah, so you've been a comedian for a while, I've done.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Just not technically. Yeah, I I've never I've always been.
I've one of my friends. Whenever I told him, one
of my best friends from college, whenever I told him
that I was going to be a comic and all
of that stuff, most of them were just kind of like, hell, yeah,
so you have Netflix someday, you know, the normal thing
that people say. And but one of them specifically told me, like,

(54:08):
why you're not even funny, Like what the fuck really? Yeah,
which to his credit, I don't think I'm like technical
aspect of joke writing. I am not there yet.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Yeah I do.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
I am still in the infancy of trying to learn
how to like structure and how to talk about it
while also doing it in my own base and the
times that I get more laughs or usually whenever I'm
off scraped and I'm actually just talking like a conversation,
which is why I love norm Like it's very conversational.

(54:45):
You can tell with Norman it's something. Yes, maybe he
wrote some of these things down, but Also, I feel
like part of it was like he went out there
and just talked and hope the best, at least in
the beginning.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
But for me, I it made me laugh whenever you
told me that, So I forgot where I was going
with this. I don't think I'm like that funny I'm not.
I'm not the guy at if you invite me to
a party, I'm more than likely going to be tucked
away in the kitchen talking to like in the conversation

(55:23):
in a kitchen, or on a couch, stocking to one
person like one on them, two on one, whatever it
might be, rather than like, hey, guys, I'm the funny
wow sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Usually the guy like that at the party, he wouldn't
be able to figure out how to make that funny
on stage anyway.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
True, and some people, some people can be that guy
and be that guy on stage. I've seen some people
are just social butterflies.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Yeah, but I just am not same.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
I like people in short spurts. I I had a
great pandemic because it was spent in Albuquerque. The world
was shut down. I was getting money from the job
that I was working that furloughed me. They gave. They
gave us a nice severance package. Stimulus checks came in.
None of that money went to anywhere that it was

(56:14):
actually needed. I drank a lot and I went hiking.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
That was me and my one friend. As soon as
he was off of work, as he was an essential
worker working in a small business, he would just text
me where are we going? Because I had I had
already had like where we were going to go that
day planned out because I had enough time. Oh yeah,
where we're going. I was like, meet me here. But
five ten minutes later, we're just at the base of

(56:39):
the Sandia is just walking.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
That's awesome, man. What did you When did you move
to Chicago?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
I moved here last August.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Okay, sweet.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
I was in Albuquerque until the end of twenty twenty two.
Moved to Virginia for six months. Oh wow, because I
wanted to continue college and all of that stuff didn't
work out. That was a stupid idea. But then my
nephew was born that year. I was home six I moved.
I actually met a guy at a mike in Houston.

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I went to visit a buddy of mine to go
to an NFL game, went to a mic and ended
up talking to one guy. He also wasn't from Houston.
He ended up being from Dallas. We connected and just
became friends that night. He said, if you're ever in Dallas, like,
let me know. I'll tell you where to go. I'll
show you the ropes, whatever it might be. And he
was only two or three years in too, so he's

(57:34):
like two years ahead of me or something in Dallas. Yeah,
he's Actually I was just talking to him now because
I guess he's up here for a comedy festival and
we might hang out or something. Yeah, so first time
that I've seen him since I've lived there. But I
was in Dallas for like four or five months cool
until I got fired from that job. Randomly, but I

(57:54):
was doing like five to seven mics a week, which
is nice for somebody starting out. I guess finally started
getting like, Okay, this is good, this is nice. And
then I got fired and I had to move back
home and just kind of kind of fucked but go
back home the roswald Ish area a year and a half.

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And then by the time I moved home, I was like,
I I know I'm leaving. I'm giving myself two years
to get my shit together, pay off some debts, and go.
So I worked in the oil fields for eight months.
I made a lot of money, cleared a lot of debts,
not enough, but enough to where I felt comfortable with
it and saved up enough. Fell lucked and fell into

(58:38):
being a teacher at my own high school.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Didn't think that was gonna work out, but it ended
up doing it and that's fun. But came up here
last August and came up here with like the express
cool of stand up but also improv because I'm already here,
so I mean, yeah, the mecca for im of for sure?
Why would Why would I not add something to my

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tool bell?

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Yeah? Who's the comic from Dallas?

Speaker 2 (59:08):
His name is Sean Lee.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Sean Lee, Okay, I don't know if I know him.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Seane Comics. I knew a couple of their names, but
probably not the big name ones. Honestly, though, I did
end up being on a on at the Dallas Comedy Club.
They do annual Funniest Person in Dallas. I ended up

(59:33):
doing that two times, and the second time I ended
up competing against a guy. His name escapes me, but
I actually saw him because he performed at my college
while I was in school. Oh really, yeah, because they
take they take middling small names from my college tours
and all of that stuff and in the middle of nowhere.

(59:54):
Yeah what is it? Naka?

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Yeah, that's yeah. I performed at Eastern and Colvin was
that opened for chrispans Seka. Do you know him?

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Tenny rings Bell.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
He's been around for like forty years. He's in a
wheelchair as cerebral palsy. Super funny dude. But yeah, we uh,
we had a good time. Drove out to Portalis for
a night and ended up driving back that same night.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
So there's nothing there except for cows. I know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
Yeah, my ex wife grew up in that area. She
grew up in Forts, so hey, I spent some time
over there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Yeah old Billy the kid.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Yeah, well cool man. We're about to hit an hour,
so I'm trying not to keep it, trying not to
go over an hour. But thanks for being on Where
can people find you on social media? If you want
people to find.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
You, I am at Carlos Alvidrez Underscore on Instagram. Don't
have a web site yet because that's too expensive. So
if you want to donate money, all eight listeners according
to you I actually watched your episode with Samantha, I think,
just to prep for the Savannah. Ah, I'm horrible with names.

(01:01:15):
I apologize if she has listen to this and be like,
oh that guy, but no, yeah, I mean Carlos A
Vitres underscore. I'm doing a three episode sketch show currently
with a buddy of mine. It's all basically interconnected in

(01:01:37):
one universe that we created, so that will hopefully first
episode will hopefully be out end of October at the
Lanes fingers crossed.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Yeah, I'm looking Thanks for having me on. Yeah, absolutely, Man,
go back in Chicago. I'll try and think of if
I have any connections up there, and I'll send them
to you and see if I can help about a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
If anything. And uh, i'll ask you this off off
camera and all that. I'll off recording and all that stuff.
But I am curious about the Albuquerque thing because so
much has changed. I'm assuming oh yeah, since since like
three years ago or four years ago for sure?

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Well cool, Yeah, I'll stop recording and then we'll chat
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
All right, Thanks for listening, everybody. Bye, everyone, Thanks for
tuning in. Everybody. Also check out Albuquerque the magazine have
a nice little write up on in the RYE Podcast.
Check it out. Also thanks to Jared Riddick from Bowling
for Soup for intro music and John Singleton from Anesthesia

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for outro music. See you next time, everybody,