#113 - Keith Pedro, Filipino-Canadian Comedian

Keith Pedro is a Filipino-Canadian comedian who's been at it for 17+ years. He recently just got his shine thanks to his viral clips on social media and is currently on a comedy tour across the United States. He talks about the difficulties coming into the U.S. for comedy work and what's kept him motivated for nearly two decades.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What I'm saying, las number one player.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Come on, that's that's factual. That's factual. We're not just
talking ship. We got like a real deal softball player
in the building, you know what I mean. And we
also got a real deal comedian in the mother freaking building,
Keith Pedro bus popping Man Mexicano. Thanks man, straight out

(00:25):
the gate. We got the one and only Keith Pedro
in the building. Man, welcome Bro all the way from Canada. Yeah,
what up? Man? Can we give a shout out to
Norm to norms in the building. You know what I'm
saying in the cuts, you know what I'm saying before

(00:47):
we start the podcast. You know, Jackie and I wanted
to give both of you something really quickly. Oh please,
we're in the merchandise right now, Yes, sir, don't be
don't be offended if the size is like too big,
because Nico told me you guys were both largest, so

(01:07):
living at large. Thank you Jackie, Nico Man Maxepino. Love it. No,
I've always have watched the podcasts and stuff. Do you
guys do your things? Your posts? Ye appreciated.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
We appreciate you coming on, bro, especially with the busy
ass tour.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh, man, real blessed. It's great. It's I'm hitting places
that I've never thought i'd be ever in my life,
you know. So it's funny.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
And oh and when I talked to Nico, He's like,
why don't you come by?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm like, let's he's a date.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
We finally did it. It worked out, man, I mean,
you know, the same way you've been following the podcast.
We've been following you on like the comedy Tip, like
ever since the pandemic. Like I was like, literally, this
guy's fucking funny. Man's funny, and it's cool to see, Like,
it's cool to see you actually like start off a
tour because I can only imagine that's really hard, especially

(02:00):
for a comedian. Bro, I wouldn't even know where to start,
like the tour or how to be a comedian well,
I mean a little bit about I literally would not
even know how to start either of those things. No, man,
I'm I just busted my ass. I'm the crazy thing
about it. I've been doing this for a hot minute.
I've been doing it for like seven seventeen years. I've

(02:21):
been doing this for it. Oh.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
The only thing is I had I had an issue
with a crossing the border. So now that's all been
taken care of and all that stuff. So like I was,
I was out for a hot minute.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I was touring.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
I was doing some stuff. I was touring with Joey Gilia.
Okay you know from the Bay Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
he's joe Cooy's guy now, and guys like Ron Jostle
and Kevin Kamia and these guys are all big now
doing their thing. But I was like, they're at their
host and opener. And then things happened where I had
to get some paperwork done and the lawyer and now
it's all worked out and now yeah yeah, now I'm all.

(02:59):
I got my pay for work and all sorted out
in my working papers, so we're good, dude. And then
so yeah, man, I'm just busting my ass and now
we're here, you know, for.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
For preference, like he is from Canada.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, so for those who don't know, yes, I am
a Canadian Filipino.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
We do exist. Do people think.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
That you're just like from the Philippines, like.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Right off the bat, like audience or like audience was
like they just.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Most people assume it's crazy. A lot of people either
think I'm from California or or they just know I'm Canadian.
They just assume a lot of people will or perform
in other clubs that they didn't come to see me at. Like,
you know, if I'm not headlining out perform, people are like,
are you from You're from LA.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm like, I wonder what the vibe is that you
give off that the tattoos.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Probably the tattoos, and I've gotten Chicago, San Diego.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I can see San Diego, right, so I've gotten that
and that's all good man. Fuck I You know. That's
the cool thing about Filipinos though, Like you could kind
of just put them anywhere and then anyone will think
they're from like literally those places you mentioned, like anywhere
in California, Chicago, I guess, like even Austin has a
big Filipino community as well. Say, it was fun.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
We just came back from Texas in the earlier June
twoth of July. Sorry, yeah, and that was fun. Yeah,
and I've never been in Texas.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Woh so, like, remind me again, how many like cities
is this current tour of the tron right now? It's
like twenty six Jesus six cities. Of those twenty six cities,
how many of them have you actually been to before
this tour? Probably like four, like six six cities. So

(04:51):
this is just like a whole brand new experience for you. Yeah, man,
it's fun. It's fun.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
And you know, SHOT's my man, nor him because he
did the Flyers too, so he knows how much cities
there are.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Jesus.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Norman has been on the on the branding Guy the
whole tour, like he's been doing the barrel work.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
But hey, the flowers are all though, Norm I funk with.
It's tough, man. It's like so Filipino heavy representative on there,
you know what I mean, Keith coming out the barrel man.
You obviously see like the Red, the Blues, like everything. Man,
it makes me proud and you, I mean, I want
to include Norm to both of you make me extremely

(05:28):
proud to be Filipino. Oh thanks, super No, we try
and bro that's what we do, you know.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
And the thing was we were I was on tour
I had to hold like Trilipino uh uh branding for
my comedy album, and then when we started doing this tour,
I wanted to do the barrel guy.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, the barrel man and have a shirt you know
where like in the barrel.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
But we didn't have a chance to make it on time,
and and but we still got some dope merch. But
it was it was mad fun because I'm glad that
people are just you know, are really taking.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
It in the barrel man reference, because it's like it's
one of those things like if.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
You know you know, yeah, and it's and if you
know my comedy, it's it's exactly that, like you walk
into you know, you walk like you know, a white
person will walk into your house and see that.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Little at fella and then he just lifts.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's like, what is this actually happened to me the
first time I started dating Nico because I had no
idea what the hell it was and he just I
was roundly sitting on the couch.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
He goes, do you want to see something?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I was like, okay, you want to see He's like, you.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
Know, He's like, just pick up the barrel.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I was like, I have a feeling like something stupid
about it like happened and I picked it up.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
I was like, you're dumb, Okay anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, no, man, It's like the one thing about the
Philippines that everyone just loves.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, it's a great ornament. I got these people hit
me up in sacrament I know, and they're like, we
got we got barrel barrel man, necklaces like chain some
I'm like.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
That's that's great.

Speaker 7 (07:08):
Me.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
You know what you need if you don't already have it,
you need like the custom barrel man, like with your
face like, oh, mizzled on it. Yeah, barrel man, barrelhead,
the barrel head, barrel key. But if you sell it,
I need one percent of all the profits. You know
what I'm saying. No, we give it a.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Nico because my branding manager. Where could I get a
copy of that barrel? But you've got up the mexicpoena podcast,
me podcast. You scan the QR code.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
So many cities.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Like how I guess receptive or like how much do
you constantly change your material?

Speaker 1 (07:53):
If you do?

Speaker 4 (07:54):
You know what, it's crazy because I, like I said,
I've been doing this for a while. I've been I'm
in held back unfortunately, so I've been I've been headlining
up for back in Canda for the last like eleven
twelve years. So I'm dumby in like hours at home
and I have so much stuff that no one's heard of.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, oh I get it.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, so I can give you twenty fifteen headline set
that you haven't heard. And the thing was me is
like a lot of my stuff's not really topical. It's
like I just go what do I went through my life?
So people are are are watching my show now thinking
my son's fourteen? Really this guy's seventeen.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
These are all jokes man, right.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
So I'm just fortunate enough to have a lot of material.
So if this city was like can you do come
next week, I'm like, yeah, done, and wow, I started
doing different material when I did the Texas Roun, I'm
doing different sets and headline sets. And then my managers like, yo,
that's we came to an agreement. He's like, just do
one set. Let them see this set when it comes

(08:57):
back for you, give them another one, give them another
that way, you know, that's why it's nothing you heard before.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
So it's just more so so I gotta ask you
this because even as a DJ, who you know, I've
DJ'ed in Vancouver, I've dj' like Texas, Philippines, everywhere, and
I have the blessing of Okay, no one's heard my
California says, like nobody has like heard the ship that
I do over here. Yeah, so I could do it
in Texas, I could do it in like whatever city,

(09:24):
and it's just brand new to them, right. I think
the one of the issues right now, But also a
really good thing is social media because you know, like
I got to post DJ content, you got to post
your jokes online, like so for you, like even if
you posted something like on the internet, like is it
just like a is that joke like officially done? Are

(09:45):
you done telling that joke? Or do you continue to
say it in like other cities? You know what? To
be honest, man, if there's people who listen, what do
you think to the best? But I don't know what
I do. That's my biggest struggle because to be honest,
I have a set. So I have these banger jokes.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
I got this tried, tested and shoe uh material, especially
especially just Filipino material.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I got these ones that are just boom boom boom.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
And I don't I don't post them and they're old,
very probably like three four years old, some of these jokes.
And I haven't posted them because I was I want
people to see my ship online and be like, I
want to see this guy is funny, and then when
they come paid money to see me. You mean, it's
like selling dope.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Man, you give a free you give a free bomb.
You know, you give a free little I don't want
to go sell dope. You can't give them your best
ship off the ril. You can't.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
You can't you get you get them good enough so
they enjoy It's a sizzle reel.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
You give them the sizzle reel and.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Then give him a sizzle reel and then when they
come they're like, oh, wow, this guy had some jokes.
That's that's one of the compliments I get when I
when I do these shows, people come out to down
and they're like, oh, you actually have jokes, you're actually a.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Comedian, And I'm like yeah, yeah, no, yeah. It's like
when you tell a girl you got a three inch
and then next thing, you know, it's like six. It's
like yeah, no, yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
It's like you know, oh, you're Asian and then you
show that you're not, you know you and live up
to the stereotype and she's like, oh my goodness, oh
my goodness.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Are you sure? Are you sure? You're full Filipino. Nah,
you'rel on a quarter.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
When it comes to like, I don't know I when
it comes to like crowd work, I know that a
lot of like comedians now because of social media, that's
they're like tried and true. But because you were You've
been doing this for so long and the people in
the States haven't seen it yet. Do you even bother
with CrowdWork at this point?

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Man, like you gotta want to show sometimes I'll be
there for half an hour. No, there's a clip that
I have. I've posted it recently on my story, but
it's so loud Vegas shout out to Vegas. And when
I showed up to my show, why is guys Like
I was doing some crowd work and it was just
like like thunders, Like I'm trying to edit the the

(12:11):
clip to post it, but it's so loud that damn
and yeah, like nuts and uh, long story short, fucking
that's the I I love doing crowd work because to me, uh,
if you come up and you just watch a set,
that's just like you're watching Netflix but live. But if

(12:33):
you know, you break the fourth wall, you pull the
dead pool, you.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
Know what I mean? And got your girls it's your
go for your sister, you know, stupid ship like that
and you talk to him and it gives the audience
a better experience, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
So, but I've been doing it for so long and
then that I just love doing crowd work and I
feel like it's one of the reasons to come see me.
I guess we have fun doing it.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I feel like a.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Lot of people like want to be roasted now, like
at common shows to like it's like they want to
be seen, they want to be like part of it.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
The thing with me is I do like these my
roast are kind of like boats.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're like, oh, look at you man with three girls tonight.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
They all do ship like that, and it's not so
it's like a Canadian way of roasting.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Way they boast like look at your chest, probably looks like.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Thoris or something stupid and people just laugh. So there's
no real like, you know, I'm not out of here.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Like you tiny dick pencil. I won't like call you out.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, or something like that. Yeah, like good good observations.
You know, I'm not going to see some girl who's
clearly like you know, not having a good you know
good Yeah, man, are you're tired, You're like, you know,
just start going at her and like no one wants
to see that. Yeah exactly. I mean every time I've
seen your clips, like, it's always been like positive, It's

(14:08):
always been funny, whether you're like either executing like a
joke that's like old per se or like even you know,
just boasting like with audience members. Yeah, I think it
was funny. I was just on your Instagram earlier and
I sent this to Jackie because she loves Crazy Rich Asians.
She loves that movie more than me.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
Yeah, literally, like that is.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
My comfort movie and send me your clip about talking
about Crazy Rich Asians.

Speaker 6 (14:34):
I was like, what the fuck is he hating on
Crazy Rich Asians for?

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Not?

Speaker 4 (14:38):
The thing with me is not even as to hate.
It's just there's so many people around my comments, like.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
You know this cryskno was on it.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
And it's not that I'm saying there was no Filipinos
in the movie.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I mean, but there was no Philipinos in the movie.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Bro, It's like Filipinos were in the movie, you know
what I mean, Like there could have been a fucking
tree there that grew in the Philippines that was in
the movie, but no one would have known. Like you
know what I'm saying, Like the street grew up in
Pengasty nothing, but we planted it here like no one
and it's the same thing, you know what I.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Mean a barrel man moment.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
You know, I have one guy pick up something with
his feet like I don't know, like ain't you know,
playing with his mouth like I want to, like like
show us he's one of like like Nicos Santos was there,
but we didn't know if he was Filipino.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
He had to do like a Filipino gesture. Yeah, you know,
That's all I'm saying about the move. The movie. It
was a great movie, Don't get me wrong, it was
a great It's funny, bro because like I just kind
of feel like we have a homegirl. Her name's Ashley Meta,
so she's half Filipino half Indian. Yeah, and I even
told her, I'm like, you know what's crazy is like
amongst Asians. I always feel like people forget Filipinos are

(15:43):
Asians and Indians are also Asians.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yeah, it's in different type of Asian. Yeah, if you
really think about anybody who's bargaining.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
A deal as Asian, anybody at any place where they's
looking for a cheap deal is a you know yeah right.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Yeah, I know that is I mean, that's how it is.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
The Mexicans matter.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
Even you could be.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
At to fucking swap me and they already have a
cheap price and they're like, yeah, give me the Mexican
like price.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Though It's like no, but Mexicans go hard, Like do
you guys party too though? But you stunt, you know
what I mean, Like if I have some Mexican friends
when they you know, don't buy around the drinks. And
then the stupid movie they did that with a bunch
of Asians. No one's returning that.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
Favorite, all right, next one, thanks for the first problem. No, no,
we got We've got. I think we're just gonna go
to karaoke down the street.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Tapping out. Man, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
You men, like you know, they're like in crazy Asians,
Like there wasn't any Philipin.

Speaker 6 (16:45):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
How many people I grew up thinking we're Mexican and
are actually Filipino, Like Bud Diamond Phillips, I had no
clue that he was Filipino, and I.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Don't know is he is he what's his what is what?
What is lou?

Speaker 6 (16:58):
He was he's Philippine.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, Filipino, I think, and like.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
He played he played well when he come Ritchie and
LaBamba and all.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, like that's the Latino. Like I grew my whole
life thinking this man was Latino.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
But then he was also in that movie Young Guns
and he was a Native.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yeah, and that's the savage.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Great great range on him, yeah, great, great range as an.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Actor, He's ambiguous, ambiguous, He's either Mexican Native. Well, wasn't
he also in the Joekoy movie, like he did a little.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah to actually prove that he's Filipino.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
That's just crazy that that was funny he was at
the end. Yeah, it was nuts. I saw you also
just got the Joe Cooy follow Oh man, No, that's
like crazy.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
No.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
I've always told people, they're like, you know, because I
ran into I Ranton and he's you know, he's the
fucking man right now, and not even on the Filipinos,
I on the comedy side, guys selling out fucking stadiums. Yeah,
and you know, and the best part about it, Joe,
he's he's repping you, right, said so when I ran
into him, and uh jfl in Montreal. It was kind

(18:08):
of like very brief, you know, but he didn't know
who I was. So I'm not trying to like, you know,
you want to dick ride the motherfucker.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
Listen a comedian too.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm a comedian too. I know your friends, I know
your friends, they know me, right, So.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Exactly I'm trying give him something hitting an indipendos no,
but I I uh yeah, Now, I was just telling everybody.
I'm like, I'm just gonna keep killing it and keep
doing being undeniable, and then one day, hopefully he just
messages me and is like, oh man, keep keep doing
you And then on that follow that's exactly what he did.
He shot the DM and it was like, I'm like, oh,
we made it, baby, small fucking knows And that's all

(18:50):
you want, man, Yeah, you know what I mean, that's
all you want.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Like, I grew up.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Watching a lot of stand up comedy that I feel
like also inspired his comedy because he's fast talking, he's loud,
you know. I grew up on the like the the Carlins,
the Chris Rocks and Dave Chappelle's Yeah Eddie Murphy, you
know what.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
I mean, I cooped his black comedy basically me too,
you know.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
I mean it's Bill Burr's probably you know, I watched
George Carlin growing up, but Bill Burr's probably the only
other white dude that I really fun with, Like you
know what I mean, Like that I that I like,
you know, oh he dropped something. I'm like, I'm gonna
check it out, you know. Patise O'Neil was another guy.
So the crazy thing though, was because I'm loud and
I do my clips, I got a lot of like.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Oh, this guy's trying to be like Joe Coy. He's
a Joe Quit ripoff. And I'm like, why can't I
just be loud, you know what I mean? Loud? Aggressive?

Speaker 8 (19:45):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (19:45):
I get it, like you know this cool guys like
Andrew and j R. Who are slow and like you know,
and like that's that's them, you know. But I'm like,
I don't want to be like a gimmick or anything.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Night.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
But like I grew up an Ilicano household man. So
like my mom is loud.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Bro, there was we and we had a big house,
so not even a big house, like there was my
brother and my mom and so everyone's just fucking yelling.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
And I had all my monongs and ship and then like,
so you know that must be some Ilicano ship because
my dad's Elicano too. Yeah, and he's loud as ship.

Speaker 7 (20:15):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
He will talk loud, he will sneeze loud, he will
cough loud. You can attest to that ship.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, man, Yeah, my girls always like why why are you?

Speaker 4 (20:28):
People can get mad at me shit, and but no,
at the end of the day, like I don't want
to you know, it's not like I'm trying to be
fucking joke oy.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, I'm just trying to do me. It's just some
normal Filipino shit. We're just loud as hell. Yeah, we're
just loud as hell. And we both probably loved black
comed So my heart was broken though, because I showed
Jackie like the Chappelle Show for the first time, like
a couple of years ago, maybe even last year. She
wasn't fucking with it.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, not that I was not.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Fucking with it, not that I was not fucking with it,
it's just that I did. I didn't grow up watching
the Chappelle.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Show like this was just ruthless to you.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, so it was just like it was just like in.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
My fucking face, Like I was like, oh my god,
like this is absolutely fucking absurd right now. And but
I like, there were some episodes that I did like,
but it was just more crazy than anything. I feel
like if I was like if I feel like, if
I was like growing like growing up with it, I
would have been like, okay, like, yeah, this is just

(21:28):
regular degular as shit.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Man. It was regular degular two thousands comedy.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
But so there wasn't none of it made you laugh
or it did, like, but for the most.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Part, I was just there like this is fucking crazy,
like this is actually insane.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
But I enjoyed it, and like I watch his like
his specials, you know, and I'm just like, okay, now
I get it. But as far as like I'm I
was like a like a censored kid, I guess you
can say my mom, like she didn't let me watch
South Park. She didn't let me watch like certain things
like oh Ship, Yeah, there was parental control on Ship.
And I was just like, so when I saw this,

(22:04):
I was like, oh fuck, this is kind of crazy.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Like do you think doing that for you helped you
in the long run as a no kid.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Or no, no, because I was gonna like look for
it anyway, like yeah, because I was just like all right,
like well, if I know that that's bad or wrong,
I'm gonna go on to do it anyway or.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Explore it, check it out. Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah,
we keep it open and have a conversation.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah. I mean to me, like totally forgot what we're
talking about, Superstone.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
But no, it was like when like, yeah Chappelle show
in like south Park. I remember there was this crazy,
wild ass joke that Ego showed me on like a
south Park episode and it.

Speaker 6 (22:51):
Had to do with Asians and he was laughing.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I was like, I don't know if I.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
Should laugh, Like I don't know if this is okay
to laugh like, but I mean now it's just like okay.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Like, well, the thing with me is is if you
really do you remember when you were a kid, like
you were probably like you know, second grade or something,
and someone said something foul yeah, and you laughed at
hard because it was so so that's basically your human instinct.
Something inappropriate is actually funy, that's your normal gut instack.

(23:23):
It's just and then you started growing up like I
cannot laugh at these things.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, so I get it.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
And you were just raised in a really good household, right,
so you're very very polite, you know what I mean,
you're very pale. I got manners.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Yeah, well you know you have to be outside.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I was like, yeah at school. No, it's good.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
And that's honestly, then that's your parents did a great job.
Like you don't want you know what I mean, you
don't you see this girl talking like you said? Abortion
episode on.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Fourth grade? It's like, excuse me, Jackie inside down place?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh my god. But yeah, I remember the first time
I watched Appell's show, which was literally what two years ago?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
It was like two years ago. I was just and
I'll say this, since then, like your reception of like
jokes like that, whether it come from like me or
just the outside, has been a lot a lot better.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Is there like an age gap? What's the age gap
between you? I'm ninety three, okay, eight?

Speaker 2 (24:21):
M so five you guys, A, No, that's all right.
How are you? Oh, buddy, you don't want to know.
I'm yeah, I'm fine. I'm in the eighties. Buddy, Oh shit,
is baby?

Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay? Hey man, I could have sworn you were like
thirty something. No, it's great. I just hit the four.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Oh really yeah, oh shit, yeah no, I line though,
we're gonna added this part tell them thirty four.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
But that's that's the age, like the age gap between us,
and that's why I'm like, oh, you were. And he
was also raised in the Bay, so I feel like
Bay culture is completely different.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Than LA where it's like here, we're kind of more
like censored.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
Like I said, yeah, up in the Bay, no one gives.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
But you know what's crazy is like ever since I
moved from the Bay, which is basically my comfort zone
for like comedy, like I could let shit fly, other
people lets ship fly. It's just funny. And then when
I moved out here, I had to start getting held
a professional because it's just you know, everybody in the
industry and whatnot. And I feel like, I don't know,
ever since the pandemic, I feel like a shift in

(25:31):
the way people are receiving like this PC culture shit,
and I feel like it's getting back to like the
early two thousands type things. You see Norms shaking his
head like he's feeling it too, Like am I tripping?
Because I feel like that's a thing now, Yeah, because
now they've if censored. Comedy is so censored now it's
cool to you know, it's like punk rock, that's what

(25:52):
it is. That's if you really think about what comedy
is now.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
It's like, you know, it's a lot of commercial success
can get from being a fucking guy just talking shit,
you know what I mean? Yeah, but I'm not saying
my my stuff's controversial whatever, but I tap into a
lot of things that are just strong opinions, and people
people come out and are like, hey, man, what the
and and other people are like I feel you man.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
He man, I've been wanting to say that ship for years.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah, that's a lot of things I say as a
Filipino though, Man, there's it's it's good you got to
come out watch the set. It's uh, He's like, I'm
not about to crack my joke here, Yeah, no figures out.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Have you ever had anybody, though, like come up to
you after a show and like talk to you about
a joke that they didn't.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Like at first?

Speaker 4 (26:43):
There was a lot of Filipinos would come up to me,
even in the beginning, like you shouldn't say that the
way you say it's too much swearing, and because to them,
you know, they just hear the swearing.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
But yeah, that was in the beginning. But have people
came up to me and said, do you know what
they did in the beginning?

Speaker 4 (26:59):
And then I found down ways to work things, you
know what I mean? I found I found ways to
work things like there was I do this. I don't
do the joke any one that I'm gonna say it,
but I used to do this joke about my Indian
friend playing hockey and uh him, I know, I love it.
I have a friend he plays hockey, he's an Indian
and I love it if he just made the NHL

(27:21):
because he was the first ever player to bargain penalty minutes,
you know what I'm saying. So but at first I
used to say, oh, man, I have a friend he
plays hockey. I hope he doesn't make it an NHL,
like you know what I mean, because you know he
will if he makes it an NHL. He's been the
first ever player to bargain penalty. And just that one
negative switch where I was like, from oh, he shouldn't

(27:46):
to oh, I can't wait to see him because he's
going to change the game. So it was never about like,
you know, me shooting on Indian people or anything. It
was this, but people would assume that it's that small
little thing. It's where it's crazy about what comedy is?
You know, you gotta you have to switch little cadences
and one words and what's the point of view.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I think that even just goes back to like even
the boasting that you were talking about, right, like you know,
like you take something negative and turn it into positive
all of a sudden people like it, even though in
your mind you're basically saying the same thing.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, No, it's it's Uh, comedy is is fun if
you could really really read it, you know what I mean.
Some guys will just go autopilot and I don't care,
like my material air, and then they come back to like,
I don't know why you crash. He's like, well, fuck man,
sometimes you can't go autopilot. Yeah, yeah, you gotta fucking
you know know the moment. No, you're There's times where
I did the show in Vegas and it was all

(28:40):
like you know, older white people, you know, and I
was had a set in my head and I was like, nope,
switching it up.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Do you think that comedians can get canceled.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah, of course, I mean you go and like, fucking
look at the dude from Seinfeld. Man, haven't seen anything
from that guy since and he was on Seinfeld.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Everybody left Kramer. He was on that show. That guy
probably fucking has to wait in line to get fruit.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
I don't know, man, he's a regular, regular as person.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
We haven't seen this dude, I think so, Man, I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Maybe, but then you got another guy like you, Louis,
who's fucking the guy you want a grammy? Yeah, it
was slowly creeping up. So I mean all depends on
the comedian.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Like, yeah, how do you even like, let's circle back,
like seventeen years of doing this, how do you even start?
What even prompted you to start comedy?

Speaker 7 (29:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Man, I was doing a fucking I got in trouble obviously,
you know what I mean. I got in trouble the beginning.
I got in trouble.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
So I had to prove my mom I was doing something.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
And I've always thought I wanted to be a comedian,
but I didn't know that you can just go to
school for it.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
And there was a community college program that you can
just take. So I just took it. It was a
two year program.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Wait, this is there's comedy school at the Americans come
to it. I met a friend named Sean Maguire.

Speaker 7 (30:08):
But my guy.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
I hope I'm gonna send him this fucking tape. But
he's my guy.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
And he was from Gainesville, Florida. He saw the program online.
He's like, yeah, man, and there's a lot this one
guy from Buffalo. There was another guy from Michigan. So
there was a lot of Americans that came out. And
this is in Cana this is in Toronto, this is
in Toronto. One of the teachers is do you know
that guy? And Happy Gilmore he just passed away.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Fucking nice swing Jackasser.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
That guys with gil He was one of the guys
who taught like improv and skipt writing because he was
on st TV, Second City TV. His brother was on
it to Dave Flaherty, Alan Gutman, Mike Myers' mentor from
Second City. He was the improv teacher. So you'd go
like the program would be like you go straight from
Stan you have stand up class and they'll teach you

(30:57):
all these things like this is how you bring it
back full circle or they're gonna The crazy thing is
there are a lot of people in the program, but
everybody dropped out. Like it started with like ninety people.
I swear of got it started with ninety people, then
like eighteen graduated. Because people couldn't do it. They actually
put you like part of it, part of the stand
up classes. You go to Yuck Yucks and you do
the fucking the stand up comedy show. There the the

(31:20):
open mic, and because it's everybody's first open mic, the
place is ramped and there to support your friend for the.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
First time fucking and then people like eat shit and
like what that's it.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
I'm done, And then you know, by fucking October, you're's
nobody left. And then the crazy thing about me, I
graduated that program every like it was like probably what
eighteen maybe twenty two people. Now from that, there's probably
like four of us doing it. You know, my boy
Garrett Jamison, Dylan got my homie, Dylan got Nick Reynoldson,

(31:51):
you know what I mean. Oh yeah, so those homies
are out there handing unis. You know, that's like five
I just named, you know what I mean. So it's
a tough fucking thing. So I started that just to
kind of like.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Get my mom off my back. Yeah, but it's also
like just one of those degrees. I was actually just
talking to Jackie about this the other day. There's like
some things that like you don't necessarily have to go
to school for. This is very interesting because no, you
don't know, but I'm saying, like, this is very fucking
interesting because like even if you pass right, yeah, you

(32:24):
still gotta be good. You still gotta be funny. Like, well,
you can get all the technical shit down, but if
you're not funny, well that's what it was. It just
made you funnier. That was the whole pull me on
the pitch. We're like, we're not gonna make you a
good comedian, You're just gonna make you funnier. And it
harnessed it.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
And the thing was, though what happened was I was
doing it, I'm like, well, whatever, we'll see that takes
me and my My literally plan was I was gonna
take this and then maybe jump into like advertising, you
know what I mean, and like fucking funny ass like
learn how to write scripts and then use those scripts
to become an advertiser. So there was a strategic move
to it or fuck around and go like the video

(33:03):
audio route and like make movies and direct and right,
you know what I mean. Yeah, so there was another
route there, but that while I was doing the last
year of this program, I knocked up my girl.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
So right, that's why my son's seventeen years old. So
he's as all that starting a thing as me taking
it seriously, let's dope. So when people ask me, like
how old long doing it? Like as old as my son? Wow?

Speaker 4 (33:27):
But in Canadian years, it's like not the same as
American years.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
What the fuck does that even?

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Because like in the American industry, someone's seventeen years in
who's been headlined. He's a fucking star, he's already doing
movies and shit like you know, Canadian like you're doing
it for ten years as a headliner that and you're
now just fucking hitting open mics in America when you
move when you move down here, you know what I mean,
Because I'm I headline it's mostly Avery every weekend and

(33:55):
fucking Canada, and I'm working at least everyone weekend, you know,
headlining feature in you know what I mean, it doesn't matter.
But at the end of the day, that can't happen
here if I'm up moved to fucking California. And then
like we got Kevin Hart this weekend, We got this
guy this weekend, we got like like, oh shit, but
they're not even doing comedy club. They got other guys
doing comedy clubs, Like fucking I don't know who's who's

(34:17):
the who's the big headliner Burbank, Yeah, and Jay Leno
would be someone doing the comedy headline, you know, right,
you know, so it's not does that make sense? Yeah, no,
that makes sense. Seventeen years you're good at the craft,
but you're not industry in does that make sense? Nuts,
You're like, you know, seventeen years in right now as

(34:39):
an American you'd be like, fuck, man, this guy probably works.

Speaker 7 (34:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
If I was a writer or whatever, I probably have
a job by Paramount by now. And like you know
what I mean, Like cause I got I got my
comedy album, Trilla Pino was nominated for Juno, so that's
like that's a Canadian Grammy. And then I wrote and
performed at Rose Battles, so I did that, and then
fucking I got nominated for a Canadian Emmy for that

(35:04):
same year. So it's like these these nominations and accolades.
You know what I'm saying, Get you something. Imagine if
I was nominated for a Grammy and Emmy in one year.
Game's over, bro, I'm on fucking beef with Ali Wong.
I'm wearing fucking black suits and ties and ship I'm
on red carpets.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Bro, Get the funk home. Do you know what people
would love me if I'm at the Emmys. I'm like,
you know what's Filipino?

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Comedians like, dude, they no, not no hatter or nothing,
but they'll celebrate a fucking three quarter Filipino on the
Emmy red carpet.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
And there's nothing wrong with that, you know. But they're like, ah,
I would be fucking Trust me. I'm doing commercial by
now selling slumpus.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Trust me. We got some clips here, We got some clips.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Some point like discouraging because you weren't able to come
to the.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
States, Like no, man, no, I just I here's the
thing with me, And it sounded so cliche. But God
has a plan. Man, he made a man. He made
this happen. And now that I come here, I'm doing well.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
Like people that are watching me are loving the shows,
and it's like maybe he held me back for a reason.
There was a time that you know, maybe if I
came out at that time I was supposed to, I
wasn't as sharpened, or I would have made an immature move,
you know, because I fucking party.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
You know, things happen, you know.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
So now that I'm older, wiser, you know, more mature,
and then have sharper material, I think like he just
put me in the right spot at the right time.
So yeah, and I just kept believing in that. I
was like, now what, it's not my time. Time's gonna come.
And then it fucking came, guys, and now we're here.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Yeah, and now we're here. Come on, man, come on boy, Benny,
he actually got No. It's a blessing, bro, because I
feel like, especially in this day and age, right like,
because I'm gonna be honest, I didn't even know you
were going for like seventeen years. So like when I
started seeing your material on at least Instagram or TikTok

(37:11):
like three, you know, three years ago, four years ago
or whatever, I'm just like, oh, yeah, this guy has
probably just been doing it for like damn five, you know,
five years or but but you know what I mean,
like like especially in this day and age when people
just want instant gratification, Like it's these stories that are
held inspiring because at any point during these seventeen years,

(37:31):
you could have just called it quits.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yeah, No, I wanted to a lot of times I
want And it's crazy. It was like it was like
that like Carlito's way, man, that it just keeps calling
you back.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
He's calling you back the game.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
I remember one time I got a really good, fucking
nice commission job and like, you know, while I was
raising my kid and I was good at I was
getting awards and good commission, it was like, you know what,
maybe and then people are like yo man, you know
like CBS, but the Canadian version, like they wanted taping.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
They like, I was like, oh shit, no, yo man.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
I kept calling things like when I you know what
I mean, moments thought I was like, and then it
kept coming and like I just kept going. The crazy
thing though, is like it's like what people say, like
you know, it takes fucking people always think up some
overnight You're like, oh.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
I just started watching your stuff. You're fucking great.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
Man, And I'm like I've been doing this for a
hot minute a minute. I was promoting shows when like
Facebook was cool.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
You know, I remember when you do.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
I used to do Facebook events and people would come out,
and then now you do Facebook events, it's like, all right,
come down.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Tita, we'll all show up. Well, shit, at seventeen years
you're probably promoting your shit on MySpace too. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Man, I started on my Space account, and then I
was cool. You get to pick your song and posted
my flyers up there.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
But then that's when everything, like I started, when my
Space kind of like fell off, I opened up account,
I'm like, oh, I don't need this. So you were
really the start of the Facebook era.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Yeah, real started Facebook era and stuff, and then like
that it was fun, and then I used to produce
these shows and yeah, I do sketch comedy and I
used to do live stuff and yeah, man, now I'm here, bro,
it's great.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
And then is like the so you know, like let's
say you go to like California, it's like you're competing
against like the Kevin Harts of the world and whatnot. Right,
like is the competition in Canada in regards to like
comedy like that thick as well or would you say
it's a little bit easier keep this clip because we're
gonna cut it up.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
The competition in Canada is nonexistent. I'm buried those fools.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
I'm jalking about.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
God damn no, no, there is no the here's the
thing about Canada, everybody, you got hungry guys trying to
make it. And the thing about it is to get
my paperwork. I had to, like, you know, to get
working papers to perform in America. You can't just come in.
It's not like, you know, I'm from Detroit. Then I
just stided to move. I moved to La like you know,

(39:51):
willy nilly. No, you got to get like a lawyer.
You got to show that you want awards that you've done,
shows that you've headlined. So that's why I when the
canad come here, especially like the performers, they're like, well
they're so good.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
It's because they had to fucking prove themselves.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
They had to like really prove themselves that there was
somebody worth the paperwork with the visa. So that's why
a lot of the guys are killers. And the thing is,
it's just a bunch of guys, Like if I did
a show like to be honest, I'm on the show
and I'm bringing I'm bringing norm.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
He's already this guy's already a killer.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
But if I were to bring like some of the
guys who nobody knows on these shows, it's a rap.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
I'm not following that.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
There's too many killers, you know what I mean. And
they're all hungry, so they've been sitting on their seventeen
years of material. There's twelve years of material, and these
guys are just dumbing it, you know what I mean.
So it's it's is there a competition, Yeah, but there's not.
There's no industry competition. Ye do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Get you?

Speaker 4 (40:50):
So everybody's fighting for the same writing job. Everybody's fighting
for the same fucking headline spot. But like, and the
best part about it is because it's not as you know,
like here, Like I love the fact that I could
just be Filipino here. There's so many people in California,
there are Filipino, there's so many the diversity of like
acceptance in California, so like, you know, diverse and everything.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
And then.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
We're in Canada, Like if I wanted to do a
show and.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Fucking Barry Ontario, Like up, just stick to the hockey
jokes and the Tim Morton. So it's like you become
universally funny. Yeah, but then you come here and then
you could just be honest and funny.

Speaker 7 (41:30):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Well and then you're in your crowd's gonna come, you
know what I'm saying. So I could I could do
that there, but it's not gonna you know, resonate that's hard.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Does that make sense? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:41):
No, it makes complete sense.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
I feel like it's also to just uh, like you
were saying, there's so many comedians in Canada that are
just waiting on their moment that is just like the
minute that.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
They get it, they're gonna take that chance. Yeah, like
to just open up the floodgates.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Really no, And that's why I like, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
You know, we talk about this all the time, Like
when we do our shows, we like we hit you
with the heavy hitters, the haymakers and a lot of things.
Is like you might see some of the stuff we
post online, but like you know, I'm telling you right now,
those that's those are the those are the fucking or dervs.
That's not that andres we have bangers upon Bangers upon bangers.
And the thing is, I got a comedy album that

(42:21):
I'm gonna drop in October, and once that kind of
run we get that out, I'm gonna be dropping some
of those clips. But like right now, it's like a
lot of people are are coming up to me after
the show.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
It's like I didn't know you have that, you know, yeah,
so we got I mean, it's like you said earlier,
you kind of just give people like the little taste,
you know, like the taster of it, and then you
hit them with like the big one, like here's the
fucking big boy when you actually come to the show.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
And like even when DJ's post fucking their mixes, you
gotta do this like within you have to do like
six tracks in ninety seconds, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
It's like, well, that's a hard thing. That's why it's
cool because I've been DJing for seven years now, and
so I'll also get the oh, you know, I thought
you've only been or I thought you've been DJing for
like ten, twenty whatever, But I'm like, well, I've been
DJing for a lot within like the seven year spin, right,
and it's like over time. Let's just say I come
up with something cool, I just add that to my

(43:12):
bank so whenever I need to pull that out, when
I know it's the right crowd, it's like, I'm gonna
just do this shit because I know it's you know,
it's more than likely gonna work. It's also stuff that
I'm not gonna post on social media because it's like,
why am I gonna like blow my load like right away?
You know what I'm saying, Like people don't need to
see that people this episode? Why blow my load right away?

(43:33):
That's episode seventeen. Why blow my load right away? Jackie?
You take it from there. No, but it's a smart No,
it is a smart analogy.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
You don't want to give you know, the heavy hitters
right away. You don't want to He doesn't spoilert, right
because that's part of the show. It's part of the
part of the event when you come to see us.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
How does your kid feel being part of your jokes?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
How do your my kids feel? You know what? I
never asked him that because like poor Joe Coy's kids, man,
like they get roasted them all the time. You know
what I have.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
I have stories about my kids and they will just
come on. Is that true that that written and my
daughter or something like.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
It's little, it's it's funnier.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Story is funnier than it's that's true. But but like yeah,
like everything is based on on you know, real real moments. Yeah,
like I gotta I got a joke. I'm not going
to say it all, but I got a joke where
I talk about how I was playing my son's friend
online and two K and then just became a disaster

(44:42):
where like I owed him money, like you know what
I mean, like you money, I owed him. I owed
him a pizza, like this whole classroom a pizza. Like
it's it becomes it's a story. But and that was
the real thing. You know, that's a real end. But
then when I talk about my kids, like my son
did I want to give too much away, but I
talk about.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
How I conceived my son.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
And there's a term I use and someone that video
popped off and some they see him when they're.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Like it's up and then like.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
So he's all like you know, yeah, yeah, so it's tough,
but no, but my son, man, he's funny. So my
kids are actually funny too, Like my daughter, like she's great,
she's she's tough. So when you when I joke around
with him and they say jokes, like when you talk
to them like, they're like, oh they get it. They're
they're funny and they're like ruthless at the same time.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
So have they ever told you a joke that you're
just like fuck, like all right, like damn that kind
of hurt.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
No? Yeah, No, my son gives me smoke. He's funny.
There was one time when he was really young, like
really young.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
I think he was probably like maybe seven, and he
was just like, man, what you just chop chop down
a tree with those beef teeth.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
I'm like, oh, like, oh my god, we did it
everything I want you to be. You ever steal a
joke from your kids? No? I never. I never stole
a joke from my kids. There's this there's the things
that they do I use as a joke. There you go.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
So, okay, I have to ask you because it's kind
of like a consensus. I think that comedians are just
fucked up in the head.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
What's your fucked up like thing?

Speaker 2 (46:26):
My my, I don't know, man. I think I'm really like,
I'll be honest with you, man, normal I agree. I think.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
I obviously have you know the same old like slight
adhd and you know, you're nuts solid time and you
fucking go up and down with emotions. But I feel
like everybody does that anyways. But I'm super petty.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Really, I am petty, you know what I mean. He's laughing,
Petty Murphy. You name it, bro right, yeah, you name it.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
And I'll be like, there's there's things that happen and
I'll watch shows and you know, and they'll be like
this is the greatest agent to me. I was like, yeah,
that's the fucking guy, all right, all right? Or or
I'll see shows that I'm not booked on and then
I'll count like humming, I'm like, all right, this motherfucker's
seven times this guy overlooked me, like you know what
I mean. And I get like it's like Jordan's like

(47:29):
last Dance. I'm like that take that shit personal. Then
that's it now with a murder, and now you're gonna
fucking find me.

Speaker 7 (47:35):
You know.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
It was crazy is that the competition is just like
something that you've created, Like oh.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
No, exactly like I am.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Oh, there's so many times where I'll be in citccenarias
where like oh yeah, this, I'm doing the show with
this fucking guy. Yeah, let's see him say something slick
or whatever. They'll see me and they're like, oh man,
keith Man, I love your ship, bro, Like, oh, this
is not how I thought this.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Was gonna good. I was, well, you're actually nice. I
was yelling at myself in the car to you before
I got here, but you you're really nice.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
And yeah, maybe I should shouldn't listened to so much
Nipsey Hustle calm down, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Yeah, but no, like I don't know, it's weird. I
don't know. The petty, I guess, but it's it's it
motivates me. Yeah, it motivates me. So like my daughter
she does. She's a DJ too, down right, So yeah,
what's her DJ name, DJ love Bug love Bug. But yeah,

(48:35):
I know she's been killing it doing some gigs. But
she would even tell me.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
She's just like, yeah, I get upset when I see
all these other fucking DJs. I can't do ship get gigs.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
I'm like, man, that's like, that's what I'm saying. I'm like,
I'm like, use it, use it. I'm fucking petty to this.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Literally, like at the like when we're at a bug
and I think it's just because I know what like
he can do. Like when it comes to like transitions
and ship, like I'll see a DJ or like I'm
just standing around, I'm like that transition fucking suck.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Like anyway, like the put horns on and what the fuck?

Speaker 7 (49:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Or they makes like two different songs. I was like,
that's fucking trash, Like okay, anyway.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Nine, he's already to dance. All that was pretty quick transition.
Smooth that out at all their pal that's hilarious. Oh
my god.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
I just recently heard too that Like Kanye was like
DJing somewhere I think it was in Paris and he
played two.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Digits songs and then followed it up with an R
Kelly song. Like there's video of someone like some crazy ship.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
So what's the general consensus, as you know, because I'll
be I'll be in an uber and ship and they'll
be like where you from.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
I'm like Toronto and they're like, your boy's a pedophile.
I'm like, that's he's not my friend.

Speaker 7 (49:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Anyway, we were gonna ask you about this ship.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
It's not my personal friend. Like he made some bops,
but he made some fun and my friends would I
would be taking as uber if I was. But what's
the general consent? So, so are you guys as Cali
and Callie are so cal is is Drake bumped or
is he just not excluded anymore?

Speaker 6 (50:15):
Being that I'm in radio, we have to play him.

Speaker 7 (50:21):
Him.

Speaker 6 (50:22):
We cannot play Drake in radio.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
But I ever since the beef happened, I feel like
I can't listen to Drake for more than like fifteen seconds,
Like it feels like weird if I sing along and
I'm like, oh wait, like I probably shouldn't do this,
and I changed.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
The song, Like that's amazing powerful the power of Kendrick Lamar.
He can just fucking change the whole perspective.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
I mean, it's nuts because ever since Not Like Us
came out like as a DJ, like it was, especially
for the first month or two, it was so tough
for me to play any Drake anywhere I went, especially
in La I was. I was in the spot and
Rewind in the OCA, shout to Myron, Yeah, I shot
to my man, Myron, yell and send him this, my guy.

(51:09):
You know Myron, he's a dude. And I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
There was young kids there and like they played that
some Drake and still got people bumping. So I didn't
see anything or like, I'm like, all right, I guess
nothing happened, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, I
mean there's still there's still situations.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Like that where people like obviously just like don't care
because nothing ever actually came out right. But you know,
I just feel like if I'm DJing like a super
La party, it's like, all right, you know, be smart here.
It's like you going into the white room. It's like, Okay,
I gotta figure out to not play Drake tonight at all.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Yeah, it's definitely crazy.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
It is absolutely absurd, But it's just like it's one
of those things where I'm like, fuck, I really should
change the song right now.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Well, both of y'all, both y'all being from Toronto, I'm
guessing y'all are on the side of in regards to
the beef I was looking for.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
To me, it wasn't even about a side of it
because I've always thought Drake it was like he care
package was a great when he's on men, Yeah he
can be on right, but he hasn't been on in
a while, like there's to me, in my person my
personal opinion, I think, you know, he can only be

(52:27):
on top for so long.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Yea.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
So it wasn't even like to me, it wasn't even
like he lost. People just wanted him to lose. People
needed him to lose.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
And I feel like many.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
People in like the industry too, and just like outside
of the industry that just they just had this thing
towards him Drake that were just like, oh, like, you know,
he's like this, he's that.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
And when somebody finally just went at him, they're like,
I told you.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Like you know, that was one of those things, like
everybody has something to say now yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
But the thing too about it is like being from
Canada and you're from Toronto, it's it's you you.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
It's a melting pot.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
So you learn how to speak, you know, patois with people,
You learn how to like how to salcid dance with with,
you know, with all these the Latinos.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
You learn so much.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
You learn how to you know, speak proper grammars. So
it's it was I don't even think when he's like, oh,
this is how Drake has so many different ways.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Of talking and says, no, it's we.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
We We've learned as a melting pot in Canada and
just as Toronto, like we learn how to put our
adapt yourself in different situations. We understand there's other people
in the world, so we speak with empathy in ways
that like you know what I mean, Oh, I mean,
I'm not gonna force my culture onto his. I'm gonna
learn and we're gonna take notes from each other and
blah blah blah. So it's more like when I when

(53:43):
I was when I was watching the disc like I
loved it when he when Kendrick was going at him
with the crody and all that stuff, because that accent
is terrible.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
But then there's all this there's all these accusations like.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
He's whitewashed, like because he knows how to do interviews,
Like don't understand that.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Like why does that make him? You know what I'm saying,
Because does that make sense? That makes sense? How does
that Donald Glover does the same thing?

Speaker 3 (54:09):
A man?

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Donald is the same guy. You do a lot better
of an explanation than everybody on Twitter and fucking threat.
So I'll give you that, you know a way better explanation.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Of this world yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
So there's a lot of there's a lot of people
who uh And to me, I think that when Kendrick
was doing all the stuff like it's he was hitting
him hard. And but if you got to look to me,
if you look at the both of them, it's like
twelve the movie Twelve Years a Slave versus Fast and

(54:42):
the Furious, You know what I mean, there's a lot
of fast and Furious.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
It's entertaining.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
Girls are there, you know, And there's memorable stuff. There's
memorable stuff. Listen, Drake has give us memorable things, memorable moments.
But you know, twelve Years Slave artistic great. It has
a message, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Are are you? Are you playing it when you're inviting
your friends for chips and dip? Probably not? You know,
no one, no one's gonna be like you know what
I mean, Like it was like come over the house,
but I got do you watch it? Twelve Years of Slave?

Speaker 7 (55:16):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Are you okay?

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Man?

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Are you okay? You know what I mean? Hey, man,
are you okay? Keith Boley just got me on the
other side of the fence. But I'm not saying Kendrick's
not like he's a great rapper's he's amazing to me,
he's I can't relate to everything he says, you know,
and he talks about the struggle that I don't know,
you know what I mean? Yeah, right, And you know

(55:38):
it's funny because I was actually telling Jackie that because
like when everything started to come out, like I always
told her, like I could never personally relate to Kendrick
like that. I mean, I more so relate to Drake
because of some girl shit.

Speaker 7 (55:52):
Right.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Of course, everybody has a sympaenough, especially as a Filipino. Yeah,
I almost have nineties R and B fucking all for
one in our playlist.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
So silently crying in the corner right now, it's like, man,
we were bumming that'sh in the car before we got here. Yeah,
but yo, I.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
Think, yeah no, and it was it's it's just about
you know, Kenick has like Black of the Berry is
one of the craziest songs, amazing, amazing songs he has.
And you know what, when he's ignorant, like fucking what's
that sound new freezer? And he jokes on great record,
stupid he gets he could get dumb, and I like it,

(56:36):
Like when I when I first heard push ups.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I'm like, oh, this is Drake Wore. Let's see what
Kenrick's got. Listen, man, I'm about to give him a
thousand right now.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
And to me, I was like, I hope it's not
no fucking I hope it's ignorant ken Chick. I hope
he doesn't with this, like you know what I mean.
Like some was like, I'm a big Tupac fan, right,
I grew up Tupac's fucking hero, so he you know
when Tupac he Tupac on his deck dis record, it
was so vicious, even the talking at the end.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Everybody quotes it. You know, you tell me who run?
We see them?

Speaker 4 (57:11):
They run like everybody part goes and like Tupac is
like when he disses you, it came like, you know,
he I hate you so much, my little homies right here,
gonna fucking deal with you, like you know what I mean.
He had a lot of guys his boy stomping on you,
so he would like it was like direct pump punch.

(57:33):
And I feel like with Kendrick sometimes he's like, you know,
it's very poetic that like it's it's, oh, did Kendrick
sends you a dis I don't know where is it.
He's like, I left it in one of your novels,
on one of the pages in your room.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Now find it.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
So since you know what I mean, and then you
gotta go find the fucking disc you know what I mean,
and you gotta skimmed through.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
And then it's like, oh he said this, you know.
He's like, he's like memento. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
You gotta figure out what say, which is not not
wrong at all, but it's funny to me because it's
like I was like, I was hoping he didn't do it,
doesn't do that off the top, and he didn't. He
went straight to Euphoria, which I thought, I think is
the best dis track out of all the fucking.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yea, all the ones, because he just went you know,
was like, but yeah, that's that is my take. Well,
I mean, even bringing back to comedy, right, it's like,
you can't be like super freaking deep with your I
mean you could, you can be super freaking deep with
your jokes, but are people gonna get it?

Speaker 7 (58:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (58:29):
And then there's the comedy. It all depends on the person.
Like if it first is really dark and that's their style.
And yeah, I get it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (58:35):
It's different. Comedy music is very you know, like.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
You a dark comedy is the only fucking performing art
form where we have to get one reaction out of it.
Like you could hear a song and start crying, hear
a song start laughing. You can hear dongs are jan dancing.
We we have to turn every moment everything funny. So
even if we do something sad and dark, it better
be fucking funny at the end. No one's gonna be like,

(59:01):
why did I watch this fucking guy's suicidal note?

Speaker 2 (59:07):
So, oh my god, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
It's gotta be funny. So I think that's why it's
the hard. That's why that that crying clown is such
a fucking you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Oh you should Folster? So Keith, oh go ahead.

Speaker 6 (59:20):
So being with music, and when.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
Since we were talking about the Drake and Kendrick beef,
moving aside from that, what did you think about the
Canadian version of Hey there, Delilah?

Speaker 2 (59:36):
What do you think? Bro Yah? Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
They're not like us, We're not like you?

Speaker 6 (59:49):
Is that accurate?

Speaker 1 (59:51):
An exaggeration?

Speaker 2 (59:52):
You know? Like you know, everybody talks like that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
Yeah yeah, no, yeah, there is people with that weird
and and I don't know. My opinion is it has
to be a joke, like he can't be serious.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Yeah you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
So he's code switching.

Speaker 6 (01:00:21):
His code switching game is crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Again. He's not my personal friend. I'm not just shipping
on him. An I don't know what's happening. I can't
speak on it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
And but.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
No, I mean when I first heard it, I thought
it was a I oh, some guy did fucking ai
really well done, well done, Internet, you found you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Found a way, got clout. And then Drakes like, nah,
that was me, fam, that was me my eye.

Speaker 8 (01:00:51):
Oh man, so you have the yeah, yeah, go ahead,
go ahead, go ahead, No folks, you know how and
them has his gimmick. Every time he comes out with
a new rollout, there's that one song that's like yeah,
like you know, if you notice every year Drake came out,

(01:01:12):
he always has like at some point he has some
one parody song or song that's like not really serious.
He just jumps on something like on a Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Oh yeah, great record, it was a good song.

Speaker 8 (01:01:27):
I know this may be a stretch, but there's so
many songs that he does that it is just like,
why did you do even sweeter men? You know, that
was just a random kid making some weird song. He
jumped on that. He jumps on random songs that like
the kids like.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Yeah, and then that's that's just why he did that. Yeah,
I get you. I feel it, Yeah, because in some
way you do need to relate to like, you know, well,
you also can't like take the art too seriously.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Yeah, And I think being that it came after the
beef too, it was just kind of like, I don't
like it was like his way of.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Saying, like I'm chilling. I just still don't give a fuck.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Is what it is. Keith, So, you said you have
the comedy album dropping October. Yeah, you said, yeah, we're
gonna try to aim for mid October. But yeah, I
recorded it in San Diego, so check out for that.
We recorded san Diego earlier this year around March.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
Hell yeah, I forgot February in March and uh yeah,
sold out on the Sunday and it was live. San
Diego is fucking great city, man, and the audio is nice.
So the thing with me is like people like, why
don't you do a special Why don't you do this?
I think audio, you know, which is a good way
to get people to know what's up. And then, you know,

(01:02:46):
I feel like too many people dropping specials that it's
not a special. Let Netflix is like it's special time,
or whoever it's like it's special time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Then you know what I mean, We'll take that there. Well,
ship they had Matt rif on twice. Shit, yeah, so
I mean there's gonna be room. Yeah, for sure, that's
what's up. And so tour, you're still like cranking out
the rest of the dates. Yes, up, the album's coming
out in October. That sounds so crazy to say album's
coming out in October. Anything else for the rest of
the year tour an album coming out? Yeah, I feel

(01:03:17):
this is feel feel pretty cool. That's great.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
Nah, that's pretty much it. Just check me out on
to I'm gonna be in the city near you man,
key faceal dot com. We got what else we got left?
We got Hawaii's coming up. I don't know when it's
when you're gonna drop this, but we got Hawaii coming
up on the sixteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Big Island in Honolulu. We're gonna do that and then.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
Twenty first we got Sacramento. Ohack Town, it up Sacktown
and like the fucking.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Beam, oh fucking cud we light the fig.

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
And then uh, Chicago on the twenty fifth, and then
that's the August run and then.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Yeah, and then we go back on the row again.
Well I'm not you said the twenty first or Sacramento,
come pull up. I'm there because I'm in the I'm
in the Bay next week ship. And it's perfect because
I got to make my way to Sacramento anyway that week.
Let's go, all right, I tell you up, I'll tell
you well, we got it. Come on, man, we got

(01:04:20):
Keith Pedro. Where can everybody find you?

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
Bro keithhas dot com at Keith Page on Instagram at
Keith dot pedro on TikTok and are people.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Still using Twitter? X? All right, then I'll get I'll
get in a Twitter account.

Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
So what happened was So what happened was I I
had to like pause my account because I I was,
you know, too much crazy ship on there. No, not
too much crazy ship.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
It's like because you know, I was having trouble, you know, performing,
and then I cann't, you know, crossing. There's sort of
those things for like you had to like, you know,
deal with and I'm like, you know what, my Twitter
is too much of okay, too much of me looking
hype like I'm getting paid a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
So I had to deactivate it. And I'm like, this
is a lot. I'm not even doing it like this.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
I don't want to question like, oh, you're headlining this show.
I'm like, that was Free Officer and that was a
fucking fundraiser, so like you know what I mean. So
there was too much to too much to explain, and
I was like, no, let me deactivate it and then
reactivate it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
And then I.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Forgot to activate it because I never used it. I
never really goes like, well it was in a tweet
tweet guy, I G and TikTok and your website there
it is. Yeah, thanks guys for having me. Thank you. Man.
My name is Nico Blitz. He's Paijoe.

Speaker 4 (01:05:44):
And then we're here at Big Norm but he's showing
the side though he's showing the side though.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Man, next month we got Big Norm on the pod.
Ain't that right? And Benny Peace o cho all right,