November 5, 2025 • 16 mins
🎙️ Steve Treviño joins Sam Diggedy and Showbiz for a hilarious and heartfelt conversation about Texas life, the Dallas Cowboys, Latino culture, family, comedy, Netflix specials, and so much more! Don’t miss this one — full of laughs, real talk, and Texas pride. 🤠🎤
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Some morning Madhouse, Sam Diggny show. This thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, we got a very special guest, Steve Trevina.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
What's up, bro, I'm good Man on the one oh
two point five K Down, Black and Brown Show.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
That's right, man, that's how we do it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
That's what you know. We come together.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yea, and the white engineer.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You already know. You already know.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Either that or the Otani engineer. We might have an
Otani engineer.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh yeah, very well, strong chance, strong chance.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well look, all I'm saying is, look, you guys got
to come out and see my show this weekend because
you know, the Niners play on Sunday, so you might
as well get a laugh with me before you cry
on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'll tell you what. We're Raider fans, so we're crying
every week. You know. We just don't stop crying.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Sometimes on stage we're like, well, who are you a
fan of? And I go the Cowboys and they boom me.
I go, you're gonna boo me? That's like kicking a
man while he's down. I mean, instead of booming, you
should go ah sympathy.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hey, cowboys are like America's team Cowboys are America's team.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
If COVID was if COVID was real, Jerry Jones be dead.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
He just keeps on pushing. Huh. He's just he keeps on.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I want to paint him green because he looks like Yoda.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Hey, and he's starting to age. How old is he?
One hundred and two to three?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Bro, It's it's weekend at Bernie's at this point. The
guy's not even alive. They just they just prop him up,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So the Cowboys are your team? So is Prescott the guy?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like he's the guy.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
He's a great guy, he's a good person. He's just
not the guy. He is not an elite quarterback. He
does not have the armstring. He does not have the understanding.
I mean, look, dude, the quarterback position to be successful,
you have to be extremely intelligent.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Not so much athletic.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I mean, how many great quarterbacks have led teams to
Super Bowls and they can't even run a four nine
to forty? You know, Tom, Tom Brad, Tom Brady, Joe Montana,
I mean, the list goes on and on. Troy Aikman,
the Manning Brothers. I mean, dude, you see those guys
without a shirt, and you're like, really, that's an athlete.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I mean, what's Tony Romo your guy?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I love Tony and and poor Tony man what he
was able to do with a with a terrible team.
I think he would have taken us to the super
Bowl the day they took that year they took him out,
I think, so huh.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
But you know, Sam, Tony Romo is still celebrating man.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
They love him on you know, was he on CBS
and he has an incredible contract and stuff like that
he does. He's doing a great job. So and he
never won a super Bowl, but he's still like that
guy that people love to hear his take on everything.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Sometimes it's like that sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know what I mean? Anyway, Steve Trevino's.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm just glad Tony Romo wasn't in an alley getting stabbed.
That's all I know.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That part.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Why is the Mexican quarterback the one getting stabbed in
a white quarterback? I mean, come on, man, dang had
to be Romo Martino got in a knife fight.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
No, Steve, your last name Trevino?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Are you from Latin descent?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I am one hundred percent Latino proud to be Latino.
You know, my name is Trevigno, and U with the
crazy part is I'm not Latino enough for the industry,
but I'm also not white enough, you know. You know,
if you don't know this, Louis c k is Mexican.
Oh he and I told I told Louis one time,
(03:58):
I go, how come people don't know your Mexican? He goes,
because this white shit, that white stuff is working out
great for me.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Mess with it. Everything's going okay.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But but I'll be honestly, man. I you know, I
want to represent the Mexican American in a way that's positive.
You know, I love my country, I love my wife,
I love my kids. I believe in God. You know,
I did not grow up ghetto. I did not grow
up on welfare.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And you know, my.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Story on stage is very family, very you know, family.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I love taking care of my family. And there's so
many Mexican Americans out there that that's who they are.
And unfortunately the industry they just want to see the ghetto.
They just want to see the struggle. And yeah, did
we struggle, sure, But I had hard working parents. My
father served in the Vietnam War, you know, and those
are the stories I want to tell and I want
(04:51):
to represent, and unfortunately Hollywood doesn't want anything.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
To do with that.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah that's crazy, but so many Latinos can relay with
your story, right, because there's only just like that. Everything
you said, I was like, oh my goodness, that kind
of rings true how I was raised right, And we have.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The best We have the best dads and the best moms,
and they wake up every day and they work their
butt off and then on Sunday they take you to church,
I mean, you know, and then a wilitas at the
house and THEO and Thea's at the house, and you know,
we're so family oriented.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So when I see these other comics on.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Stage that they quote unquote represent us, and all they
talk about is their drug use, are their drug dealing dad?
Are not taking care of their kids? And it absolutely
breaks my heart because I want to represent us in
a better way.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, you think they're kind of like playing to the
stereotypes because it's easy, like low hanging fruit, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, I don't think they know any different. I think
I think the executives in Hollywood living in a cul
de sac and they ask themselves. Would my maid watch
this guy, would my gardener relate to this guy? And
they don't realize that we're so much more than that. Yeah,
a lot a lot of us have been here for generations,
a lot of us, A lot of us have hard
(06:04):
working parents, and we speak English as a first language,
not Spanish. You know, so I always quote the Sealina
movie right where he goes, it's hard being Mexican American.
You know, you gotta be more Mexican than the Mexican
from Mexico, but you got to be more white than
the white guy in America. But you got to know
about being Senta Fernandez. But you also got to know
about Leonard skinnerd Like, it's.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
True, It's so true. I was just having the same
conversation with somebody this week, you know, because you know,
if I tell somebody from Mexico, then I am Mexican.
Then they're like, oh, you're you're an American, and well yeah,
well I know, but you know, but then you know,
then I tell American guy, like a white guy, then
it's like, well you're not American. Well I'm Mexican. But
I'm like, it's this constant depends on who's asking.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right, But but you know, and you know this man
as a Latino, Sam, you look at my playlist, it'll
trip you out. My playlist will go from Ramona Yala
to Tupac to country to Georgia straight too. I mean
what I listened to to Mariachi, to Kojuko, to hip hop,
to to Gangsha rap to soul. I mean, you know,
(07:11):
we as a Latinos, we we love everything, you know,
and everybody loves Everybody loves us.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
They all want to go to our restaurants.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
They want to they want our breakfast, tacos, they want
our our our south Side, they want our food. So
you know, we bring a lot of value to America
and and I feel like we just don't get the
love that we deserve as the the members of society
that we need to be loved for.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Definitely, this what you're bringing up, Steve, is what I've
been hearing from Sam for all the years we've been
doing the show. You know what I'm saying, Like, you know,
it's it's sort of like, you know, like it's kind
of like you're like a long lost brother to Sam.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But it's a similar story, you know what I mean
of us.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Feel that way.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
A lot of us feel that way, and a lot
of us are sitting there watching TV.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Going why not us?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
We make up twenty percent of the US population and
we have we have point oh one percent representation on
TV and movies.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And then the representation we do get is ghetto is
thug is the.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
The struggle, and the struggle I can't afford nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, it's gotta be a cholo. And you know, and
those are obviously parts of the culture, but that's not everything, right,
I mean, you know, there's so much more and everyone's
so different, and like, yeah, we can go on and know.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I tell my black comedy friends and friends, I go, look,
as a black person in America, you have a comedian
that represents all aspects of being black.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Right. You have the Kat Williams, but you have Kevin Hart.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You have Mike Gepps, but you have Chris Rock, you
have Chappelle, but you also have Earthquake.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Have a gamut of what it is to be black
in America. And as Latinos, all we have is the
ghetto version.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So that's what I love about what I do. You
come out to my show, We don't talk politics. We
don't make it a race thing. We talk about family,
my wife, my kids, what I'm feeling as a dad,
and what I want to do. And at the end
of the show, we thank all the troops and men
and women that defend our country and we say good night.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's awesome. Yeah, that's great, man. Love that.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
And I gotta ask you, Steve. You from Texas, do
you get down? Do you barbecue?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What's barbecue? Take this flag back there, man, Dude.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
When I lived in LA, people will come up to
me and be like, Yo, you gotta go to this
barbecue spot.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And I'm like, look, dude, I'm from Texas.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
There is not a barbecue spot I have been to
in California that even comes close.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But I'll start the debate right now.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I had Gabroy Glescias on my podcast and the big
debate was who has better Mexican food.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Californ California, California.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Man bias. I'm biased because I'm from California. But yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What it's different. Is what I say is they're both good.
It's different.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We don't sell you street tacos in Texas. We sell
you flower tacos. It's text text Mexas different than California,
and then San Diego's on a whole level of their
own doing their things the seafood.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
But it's like comparing Chicago pizza to New York pizza.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, they're both.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
They're both good. They're just different.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, both good. It's just different.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
And Steve and Steve, you've been, you know, all around
the world, especially going to from state the state. Do
you when you travel do you look forward to like, Okay,
when I come to like, for instance, San Jose, I'm
looking forward to go check this place out, this restaurant out,
you know when I'm there, do.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You do that?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I'm a fat boy. I know, I know that I'm
not the brak. I improved that there's going to be
a hat. I love the hat, the PASTRAMI. Yeah right,
I gotta. I gotta get my in and out fixed
in California. I know there's gonna be a good in
and out right. I gotta get the street cacos in
San Jose. I gotta go to the street vendor and
get that California hot dog that. Yeah, I gotta get
(11:19):
it when I go to when I go to Pittsburgh.
I gotta get a Primanny sandwich. When I got to
the street, Cogo, I gotta get I gotta get that
deep dish. I gotta get Portillo's, like I know all
the spots.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That's dope, man.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I respect that. I respect that.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
And you have so many successful specials. Congratulations on all
of them, Steve. And I know it's not easy put
it together. Does it stress you out? That that is
special time? I want to submit this to Amazon or Netflix?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
And how does that work?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know, usually you know Amazon, Netflix, they'll come to
comedians and say we want you on our network. All
five of my specials have been self produced by me
and my wife, and then you know this last one
also self produced. But Netflix actually came to us, gave
us a little bit of a budget to be on Netflix.
Not to mention we were number we were, we were
(12:10):
the I was the only comedian last year to stay
in the top ten for the longest.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I was number two for several weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I am top five comedians watched last year for simple Man?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
They have not They have not given me another one?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
What makes no sense?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And all and so many of the dudes that did
not perform like I did, and Mexican Americans are getting
million dollar offers and they did not do the numbers
I did.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
So at this point, Steve, do you just like, Okay,
let me just you know, I can produce this by
myself and these steals, do you still put it out?
Because there's still a lot of folks that will use
the platform like YouTube and your successful podcast, right I am.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You can't stop me. Yeah, you can to stop me.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I can go straight to YouTube tube, I can go
where I need to go, and my fans will follow
me and I'll get more fans every single.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Day, and I will outwork everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I've always outworked everybody because I have to, because I
am Mexican American. Because they're not gonna they're not gonna
put somebody like me on media that represents us.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well, that's the fact.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
All the other guys that they offered, all the other
guys that they offered special to same story. Grew up
or grew up with immigrant parents, were on welfare, dad
was a drug dealer. It's all the same. So I
don't fit that profile. They're not gonna give it to me.
I'll do it myself.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Well, now, listen, I got an idea, though, I got
an idea for you, Steve, so we can get these
things because you come into they have some Netflix in
some lots of Silicon Valley, you in San Jose. All
you gotta do is tell the story about your mom
doesn't have any windows right now, you know, yeah, Sam,
you don't know. There was a like a winter storm
or an ice storm in Texas where Steve is from,
(14:00):
and his mom's windows are all busted out and all
that stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So there you go, bro, that's the story.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
He told me. We didn't have nothing.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We didn't have nothing grown up, and I had I
had fourteen brothers and sisters, and I was raised by
my older brother who was a drug dealer, and and
we had to.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Use we had to reuse piatas.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And we like your new content, Steve. We love it.
You've Greenland Greenland right away, Greenland.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He's thinking, Steve, here's what we're thinking for your show. Okay,
we're thinking. Your dad is a Marachi. But your dad
left you when you were a kid, and then he
became a valet parker and actually parked his car and
reunited with your Mai dad.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I bet, I bet you this is this really happened
to Steve Trevino.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's what I'm saying. This conversation.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
That was too real, And that's why Steve all is
It's like he has to fight. And I'm glad that
the fans supports you.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Love.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I love the fact you have an incredible fan base
and you're just real man. You you touch all the
different markets that not a lot of people go to,
you know what I'm saying, and the bigger cities. At
the same time, you're definitely in your own lane, Steve,
and that's why we both.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Let me tell you my fan base in the Nuts
show and I got a roll. But my fan base
is a hard working man who married an above average
woman and all he cares about is making her and
her his kids happy.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That's my fan base.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Love it crazy, But let's just just like that.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I love Bougie, that bougie woman that doesn't take no
for an answer, and that poor dummy that wakes up
every day to work his ass off to give it
to her.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Well, just like that, everybody, well, everyone goes support Steve Trevino,
go follow him on social media and also this weekend
November seventh and Saturday November eighth, two shows each each
day at improv dot com. Thank you man, Thank you
for your time to be on one or two point
five kon.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
We'll see you guys Friday, Saturday stand Hose Night,
Some morning Madhouse, Sam Diggny show. This thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, we got a very special guest, Steve Trevina.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
What's up, bro, I'm good Man on the one oh
two point five K Down, Black and Brown Show.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
That's right, man, that's how we do it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
That's what you know. We come together.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yea, and the white engineer.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You already know. You already know.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Either that or the Otani engineer. We might have an
Otani engineer.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh yeah, very well, strong chance, strong chance.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well look, all I'm saying is, look, you guys got
to come out and see my show this weekend because
you know, the Niners play on Sunday, so you might
as well get a laugh with me before you cry
on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'll tell you what. We're Raider fans, so we're crying
every week. You know. We just don't stop crying.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Sometimes on stage we're like, well, who are you a
fan of? And I go the Cowboys and they boom me.
I go, you're gonna boo me? That's like kicking a
man while he's down. I mean, instead of booming, you
should go ah sympathy.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hey, cowboys are like America's team Cowboys are America's team.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
If COVID was if COVID was real, Jerry Jones be dead.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
He just keeps on pushing. Huh. He's just he keeps on.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I want to paint him green because he looks like Yoda.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Hey, and he's starting to age. How old is he?
One hundred and two to three?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Bro, It's it's weekend at Bernie's at this point. The
guy's not even alive. They just they just prop him up,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So the Cowboys are your team? So is Prescott the guy?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like he's the guy.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
He's a great guy, he's a good person. He's just
not the guy. He is not an elite quarterback. He
does not have the armstring. He does not have the understanding.
I mean, look, dude, the quarterback position to be successful,
you have to be extremely intelligent.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Not so much athletic.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I mean, how many great quarterbacks have led teams to
Super Bowls and they can't even run a four nine
to forty? You know, Tom, Tom Brad, Tom Brady, Joe Montana,
I mean, the list goes on and on. Troy Aikman,
the Manning Brothers. I mean, dude, you see those guys
without a shirt, and you're like, really, that's an athlete.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I mean, what's Tony Romo your guy?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I love Tony and and poor Tony man what he
was able to do with a with a terrible team.
I think he would have taken us to the super
Bowl the day they took that year they took him out,
I think, so huh.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
But you know, Sam, Tony Romo is still celebrating man.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
They love him on you know, was he on CBS
and he has an incredible contract and stuff like that
he does. He's doing a great job. So and he
never won a super Bowl, but he's still like that
guy that people love to hear his take on everything.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Sometimes it's like that sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know what I mean? Anyway, Steve Trevino's.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm just glad Tony Romo wasn't in an alley getting stabbed.
That's all I know.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That part.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Why is the Mexican quarterback the one getting stabbed in
a white quarterback? I mean, come on, man, dang had
to be Romo Martino got in a knife fight.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
No, Steve, your last name Trevino?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Are you from Latin descent?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I am one hundred percent Latino proud to be Latino.
You know, my name is Trevigno, and U with the
crazy part is I'm not Latino enough for the industry,
but I'm also not white enough, you know. You know,
if you don't know this, Louis c k is Mexican.
Oh he and I told I told Louis one time,
(03:58):
I go, how come people don't know your Mexican? He goes,
because this white shit, that white stuff is working out
great for me.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Mess with it. Everything's going okay.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But but I'll be honestly, man. I you know, I
want to represent the Mexican American in a way that's positive.
You know, I love my country, I love my wife,
I love my kids. I believe in God. You know,
I did not grow up ghetto. I did not grow
up on welfare.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And you know, my.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Story on stage is very family, very you know, family.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I love taking care of my family. And there's so
many Mexican Americans out there that that's who they are.
And unfortunately the industry they just want to see the ghetto.
They just want to see the struggle. And yeah, did
we struggle, sure, But I had hard working parents. My
father served in the Vietnam War, you know, and those
are the stories I want to tell and I want
(04:51):
to represent, and unfortunately Hollywood doesn't want anything.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
To do with that.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah that's crazy, but so many Latinos can relay with
your story, right, because there's only just like that. Everything
you said, I was like, oh my goodness, that kind
of rings true how I was raised right, And we have.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The best We have the best dads and the best moms,
and they wake up every day and they work their
butt off and then on Sunday they take you to church,
I mean, you know, and then a wilitas at the
house and THEO and Thea's at the house, and you know,
we're so family oriented.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So when I see these other comics on.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Stage that they quote unquote represent us, and all they
talk about is their drug use, are their drug dealing dad?
Are not taking care of their kids? And it absolutely
breaks my heart because I want to represent us in
a better way.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, you think they're kind of like playing to the
stereotypes because it's easy, like low hanging fruit, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, I don't think they know any different. I think
I think the executives in Hollywood living in a cul
de sac and they ask themselves. Would my maid watch
this guy, would my gardener relate to this guy? And
they don't realize that we're so much more than that. Yeah,
a lot a lot of us have been here for generations,
a lot of us, A lot of us have hard
(06:04):
working parents, and we speak English as a first language,
not Spanish. You know, so I always quote the Sealina
movie right where he goes, it's hard being Mexican American.
You know, you gotta be more Mexican than the Mexican
from Mexico, but you got to be more white than
the white guy in America. But you got to know
about being Senta Fernandez. But you also got to know
about Leonard skinnerd Like, it's.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
True, It's so true. I was just having the same
conversation with somebody this week, you know, because you know,
if I tell somebody from Mexico, then I am Mexican.
Then they're like, oh, you're you're an American, and well yeah,
well I know, but you know, but then you know,
then I tell American guy, like a white guy, then
it's like, well you're not American. Well I'm Mexican. But
I'm like, it's this constant depends on who's asking.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right, But but you know, and you know this man
as a Latino, Sam, you look at my playlist, it'll
trip you out. My playlist will go from Ramona Yala
to Tupac to country to Georgia straight too. I mean
what I listened to to Mariachi, to Kojuko, to hip hop,
to to Gangsha rap to soul. I mean, you know,
(07:11):
we as a Latinos, we we love everything, you know,
and everybody loves Everybody loves us.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
They all want to go to our restaurants.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
They want to they want our breakfast, tacos, they want
our our our south Side, they want our food. So
you know, we bring a lot of value to America
and and I feel like we just don't get the
love that we deserve as the the members of society
that we need to be loved for.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Definitely, this what you're bringing up, Steve, is what I've
been hearing from Sam for all the years we've been
doing the show. You know what I'm saying, Like, you know,
it's it's sort of like, you know, like it's kind
of like you're like a long lost brother to Sam.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But it's a similar story, you know what I mean
of us.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Feel that way.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
A lot of us feel that way, and a lot
of us are sitting there watching TV.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Going why not us?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
We make up twenty percent of the US population and
we have we have point oh one percent representation on
TV and movies.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And then the representation we do get is ghetto is
thug is the.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
The struggle, and the struggle I can't afford nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, it's gotta be a cholo. And you know, and
those are obviously parts of the culture, but that's not everything, right,
I mean, you know, there's so much more and everyone's
so different, and like, yeah, we can go on and know.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I tell my black comedy friends and friends, I go, look,
as a black person in America, you have a comedian
that represents all aspects of being black.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Right. You have the Kat Williams, but you have Kevin Hart.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You have Mike Gepps, but you have Chris Rock, you
have Chappelle, but you also have Earthquake.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Have a gamut of what it is to be black
in America. And as Latinos, all we have is the
ghetto version.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So that's what I love about what I do. You
come out to my show, We don't talk politics. We
don't make it a race thing. We talk about family,
my wife, my kids, what I'm feeling as a dad,
and what I want to do. And at the end
of the show, we thank all the troops and men
and women that defend our country and we say good night.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's awesome. Yeah, that's great, man. Love that.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
And I gotta ask you, Steve. You from Texas, do
you get down? Do you barbecue?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What's barbecue? Take this flag back there, man, Dude.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
When I lived in LA, people will come up to
me and be like, Yo, you gotta go to this
barbecue spot.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And I'm like, look, dude, I'm from Texas.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
There is not a barbecue spot I have been to
in California that even comes close.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But I'll start the debate right now.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I had Gabroy Glescias on my podcast and the big
debate was who has better Mexican food.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Californ California, California.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Man bias. I'm biased because I'm from California. But yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What it's different. Is what I say is they're both good.
It's different.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We don't sell you street tacos in Texas. We sell
you flower tacos. It's text text Mexas different than California,
and then San Diego's on a whole level of their
own doing their things the seafood.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
But it's like comparing Chicago pizza to New York pizza.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, they're both.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
They're both good. They're just different.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, both good. It's just different.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
And Steve and Steve, you've been, you know, all around
the world, especially going to from state the state. Do
you when you travel do you look forward to like, Okay,
when I come to like, for instance, San Jose, I'm
looking forward to go check this place out, this restaurant out,
you know when I'm there, do.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You do that?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I'm a fat boy. I know, I know that I'm
not the brak. I improved that there's going to be
a hat. I love the hat, the PASTRAMI. Yeah right,
I gotta. I gotta get my in and out fixed
in California. I know there's gonna be a good in
and out right. I gotta get the street cacos in
San Jose. I gotta go to the street vendor and
get that California hot dog that. Yeah, I gotta get
(11:19):
it when I go to when I go to Pittsburgh.
I gotta get a Primanny sandwich. When I got to
the street, Cogo, I gotta get I gotta get that
deep dish. I gotta get Portillo's, like I know all
the spots.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That's dope, man.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I respect that. I respect that.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
And you have so many successful specials. Congratulations on all
of them, Steve. And I know it's not easy put
it together. Does it stress you out? That that is
special time? I want to submit this to Amazon or Netflix?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
And how does that work?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know, usually you know Amazon, Netflix, they'll come to
comedians and say we want you on our network. All
five of my specials have been self produced by me
and my wife, and then you know this last one
also self produced. But Netflix actually came to us, gave
us a little bit of a budget to be on Netflix.
Not to mention we were number we were, we were
(12:10):
the I was the only comedian last year to stay
in the top ten for the longest.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I was number two for several weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I am top five comedians watched last year for simple Man?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
They have not They have not given me another one?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
What makes no sense?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And all and so many of the dudes that did
not perform like I did, and Mexican Americans are getting
million dollar offers and they did not do the numbers
I did.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
So at this point, Steve, do you just like, Okay,
let me just you know, I can produce this by
myself and these steals, do you still put it out?
Because there's still a lot of folks that will use
the platform like YouTube and your successful podcast, right I am.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You can't stop me. Yeah, you can to stop me.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I can go straight to YouTube tube, I can go
where I need to go, and my fans will follow
me and I'll get more fans every single.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Day, and I will outwork everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I've always outworked everybody because I have to, because I
am Mexican American. Because they're not gonna they're not gonna
put somebody like me on media that represents us.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well, that's the fact.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
All the other guys that they offered, all the other
guys that they offered special to same story. Grew up
or grew up with immigrant parents, were on welfare, dad
was a drug dealer. It's all the same. So I
don't fit that profile. They're not gonna give it to me.
I'll do it myself.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Well, now, listen, I got an idea, though, I got
an idea for you, Steve, so we can get these
things because you come into they have some Netflix in
some lots of Silicon Valley, you in San Jose. All
you gotta do is tell the story about your mom
doesn't have any windows right now, you know, yeah, Sam,
you don't know. There was a like a winter storm
or an ice storm in Texas where Steve is from,
(14:00):
and his mom's windows are all busted out and all
that stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So there you go, bro, that's the story.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
He told me. We didn't have nothing.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We didn't have nothing grown up, and I had I
had fourteen brothers and sisters, and I was raised by
my older brother who was a drug dealer, and and
we had to.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Use we had to reuse piatas.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And we like your new content, Steve. We love it.
You've Greenland Greenland right away, Greenland.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He's thinking, Steve, here's what we're thinking for your show. Okay,
we're thinking. Your dad is a Marachi. But your dad
left you when you were a kid, and then he
became a valet parker and actually parked his car and
reunited with your Mai dad.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I bet, I bet you this is this really happened
to Steve Trevino.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's what I'm saying. This conversation.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
That was too real, And that's why Steve all is
It's like he has to fight. And I'm glad that
the fans supports you.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Love.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I love the fact you have an incredible fan base
and you're just real man. You you touch all the
different markets that not a lot of people go to,
you know what I'm saying, and the bigger cities. At
the same time, you're definitely in your own lane, Steve,
and that's why we both.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Let me tell you my fan base in the Nuts
show and I got a roll. But my fan base
is a hard working man who married an above average
woman and all he cares about is making her and
her his kids happy.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That's my fan base.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Love it crazy, But let's just just like that.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I love Bougie, that bougie woman that doesn't take no
for an answer, and that poor dummy that wakes up
every day to work his ass off to give it
to her.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Well, just like that, everybody, well, everyone goes support Steve Trevino,
go follow him on social media and also this weekend
November seventh and Saturday November eighth, two shows each each
day at improv dot com. Thank you man, Thank you
for your time to be on one or two point
five kon.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
We'll see you guys Friday, Saturday stand Hose Night,
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