Season 3/Ep.5:Spokane Famous featuring Anthony Singleton

In this episode of From da Bottom, we sit down with comedian Anthony Singleton, one of Spokane’s rising stars in the comedy scene. We get into the grind behind the laughs — from how he first got started in comedy, to the wild stories that come with life on tour.


Anthony shares what makes Spokane’s comedy culture unique, how the city shaped his voice on stage, and how he wants to be remembered when it’s all said and done.


Get ready for a mix of raw honesty, road stories, and plenty of laughs in this one.

🎧 Tune in now — it’s funny, it’s real, and it’s straight From da Bottom.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the bottom. You know, we got up that last
meant that ship. We got it all right, y'all.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
You know we're back with another episode. Oh man, this
time shoot, we getting even better.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
We got comedian Anthony Singleton from Spokane, Washington, up and
coming comedian you know, open for like Mike Epps and
and others. And you know, he he want to let
y'all know like his background and what he got going
on and how he got his start in comedy and
some of the other awesome stuff he do. So Anthony

(00:48):
got to tell you thank you for even coming on here,
taking your time out of your business schedule, you know,
because I know that being a comedian it's a grind.
You know, you have a lot of stuff to do. Yes, oh,
you know we're gonna go and get to it. Uh

(01:10):
And how did you get your start in the company?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
First off, thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, but I think for you sins your home boy Mike,
I'm not gonna give you the same answers I always give,
well because I'm not sincere. Sometimes I'm just saying, if
you get asked questions, think about it as a comedian
people walk up to on the street.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Like, you want to hear a joke. Actually I don't.
I don't don't want to hear John It's Spokane. It's
either gonna be racist or stupid or both.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, you know, I ain't gonna lie to you. I
didn't know no black people stayed in Spokane. It won't
until Mike told me, you know, and then he told me.
Uh well, shout out to Mike too. You know, Mike
helped set all this up. He said, Man, he said,
I got a partner comedian over there, and he even

(02:08):
goes Idaho to do comedy. I said, Idaho, I do?
I said, I don't know about that one.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Mike, hold on, Here's what i'ma do. Here's what i'ma do.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I want to address the Idaho conversation, but I want
to do it organically. Okay, so let me before I
go on a tangent, because I got an add medication
right now, y'all. Okay, I'm just gonna answer the first question.
How I got the I think. First off, I think
I live in a family. My family's funny, you know

(02:43):
what I mean. I think my dad's funny. My mom's
funny too. I mean, I'm a single kid and I
was born in Italy. Oh yeah, my dad's got twenty
years military. He said he wanted to leave. He's from Dayton, Ohio.
He lost his dad when he was fairly young, and
they get out of Dayton, Ohio see the world. Well,
he got into martial arts in high school and he
wanted to be the black Bruce Lee. So he joined

(03:03):
the military and he got you know, he got a
black belt in Ohio, and then I think you got
a black belt in the Philippines, full contact martial arts
for the US team in the Philippines. Oh, and then
my dad got s fished in Italy and he I
think he ran some schools there, some martial arts schools,
and uh, you know, they had me there. So then

(03:25):
from there we moved to Guam. So I already have
this this weird. My dad was a DJ too, Yeah,
and I guess, yeah, and I guess, I guess. Uh,
I've always been an asshole, so I would do crazy
shit like he'd made these. He had this real to
reel machines to play music for hours, and he could
record on them so that he could play because a

(03:47):
DJ around the house or whatever. Right, So I guess,
I guess I took a microphone. I guess I took
a real no reel or something, and I pushed the
button on there started to recording myself in the middle,
in the middle of the music, I just started just
that was me. And they got pictures of me as
a kid sitting on one of the little potties with
some earphones. So I think music and entertainment and my

(04:12):
parents' personality. There's already something there because my family is unique.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
And then.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
My mom and dad divorced. My mom stayed in Guam
for a little bit. My dad moved to Spokane, and
my mom would commute back and forth from Guam and
shit as they were going through their thing. Long story short,
mom gets cancer, parents get divorced, and you know when
you already have a funny household. And as a black comedian,

(04:42):
for a lot of us, you probably included how other
groups of people look at comedy now, like they'll be like, oh,
everybody loves comedy, you like all the same comics. No,
as an African American comedian, as a black comedian or
a black person Richard pryor Red Fox right, Martin Lawrence.

(05:04):
So I'd see all those influences Martin was on you.
My mom got cancer. Man, I would do these different
characters to make you feel better than the ship when
I was younger, right, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
So I'll do that.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
I put on my first coat upstairs and afterca pamp
whatever whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
So, so back then when you were younger, did you
ever watch the Eden Murfy tape?

Speaker 1 (05:26):
I know you had? Oh no, well of course, yeah
that was a that.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Was way before my time. But you know I watched
and it was a classic.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Well, I mean, I'm not that I'm not that old asshole.
I don't know what you're trying to say. I don't
appreciate that ship, not even a little bit what I'm saying. Also,
I didn't attend the motherfucker. I've seen it. I'm pretty
sure I was a fucking baby when the ship came out. You,
I would appreciate it. I just met you, and you

(05:58):
already an asshole. Okay, look at that, I'm organizing this
ship around here? Who is your boss? Hey?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
So, so I got to ask when you was when
you were in school, were you a class clown?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Did you stay getting in trouble for cracking jokes in class?
Making people laugh.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Bro, I didn't give a fuck about any of it. Okay, yes, yes, okay,
do you understand listen, I used to have to have
my dad, my teacher would have to sign a little
book talking about my behavior that day and bringing home
to my parents. I've been in special their classes my
whole life. I swear to God, swear to God. There's

(06:44):
something wrong with him. He's touched, as our people would say.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
So when you got home, how did your parents react?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Listen?

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I knew they had to get tired of you getting
those notes, bro.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
That's that's how they acted. Black as hell, Okay, my
dad and my dad a razor strap. Bro.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
He used to call whoopings tune ups. Yep.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
If that engine ain't working, you got to tune it up.
And remember, he's a black belt too. Ain't a whoop
in his ass. He's a real martial argist too. I'm
not talking like one of these one of these new
karate movie type. He's not Steven Sagold. Okay, Okay, my
dad's playing games he used to in the Philippines. Bro,

(07:31):
his hands they put in rocks his hands. When he
blocks a kicker, a punch feels like cinder blocks. Bro.
They bang their wrists together in martial arts class like
this before class to strengthen their wrist bow, so when
they block, it feels like another blow.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, how big? How big was your dad?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
One hundred and thirty five pounds?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Wait? How tall was he?

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Five seven? Maybe five nine? Five seven? May fine nine?
Yeah he's little. Beat your ass, beat the breaks off you.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sh Well, that was it he was ripped to. Huh
he's skinny, skinny nick. He ain't got an ounce of
fat on that nick man. He does don yoga. He
goes to the Vorde, Texas, Thailand, like he's not playing game.
He like the mental side of this. My dad and
I don't get along.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Without having a strong father figure, I wouldn't have the
mental fortitude that I have. My Dad's My dad's experience
in martial arts, though I thought it was tough, molded
my brain to be tougher than other people without even
knowing it. Right, Like the art of meditation, which which
I think is very important, you know, being able to

(08:47):
separate yourself from whatever situation you're in, to find calm,
understand the anger is an emotion. Yeah, I'm a talker.
I'm a comic. When is it time for you to
shut the fuck up? You got point there, right, So
so those are things for a wild kid who is

(09:08):
getting in trouble. He's trying to reinforce. But yes, they
get frustrated because as a black man in a place
like Spokane, Washington, they're trying to explain to you that
you're not equal, but you are equal. And I just
came from a place where I didn't understand race at all.
The only word, the only time I ever heard the
N word used was a reference to me, like my

(09:31):
dad's like a get over her, little nigga, what we're doing,
or to one of his friends. But other than that,
it wasn't used as much as we use it today,
as much as I use it, and I shouldn't, but
he didn't use it like that. It's just there's something
my parents really wanted the best for me. However, it
worked out, and I think that his discipline and also

(09:53):
mold you mean to be mentally tough were equally important.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's what's up right there? Is he still he's still alive.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, he's just an asshole. O.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, I got.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
What listen, Uh, it's not even he's a bad dad.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's just that, you know the way things Well, my
parents got divorced, my mom got involved in Uh this
tradition called Yuruba. It's for West Africa. Our ancestors studied
it in benin Africa. Most of the people that were
taken were taken for West Africa, and our people got
our religion or tradition came over on the boat with us. Yeah,

(10:38):
and my mom went from a Christian from Dayton, Ohio
that was a military wife, to cancer survivor to Europa
priestess to batshit crazy right, and uh, I think a
lot of things she said to me was like some
mothers can be, especially black mothers. Right, you look like

(10:58):
your father.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Those things really created a disconnect.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Between my father and I as I grew up, and
then because I was in the life that I was
when we did reconnect. I think I still have this
feeling of like, look, I feel like I'm always seven
when I'm around that nigga. You know what I'm saying,

(11:23):
I'm I'm always seven years old. That dynamic I don't
know how to change yet. So I guess it's more
about me being a man and having a conversation with him.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Instead, I'm just better at running running from it. That's
what I'm good at.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, did you have in a sipos? Nope, just a
couple of adopted ones that my mom picked up along
the way. Also do the only kid too.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, So it's rough. It's a rough situation.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
But you know, in transparency, and I think as a comic,
those are things you have to be. That's your obligation
as a comedian, right to be honest with you. We're
going on stage and we're telling well, at least my
son if I'm telling my story all the time, and
I'm writing an ex comedy special about my life, and
so I guess for this interview for the first time,

(12:09):
I guess being honest with you is the most important part.
And again I think as an only kid, it's not
for me the man the fuck up and and probably
make the call, but I just haven't done it. Dang man,
that's wow.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Wow, wow. I didn't expect that.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
What did you expect?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
You know?

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Shoot, you know most of the time, everybody just like
everybody make it seem like when they grew up it
was all peaches and cream. Nah, you know, like it
was just like what you see in like a Disney movie,
you know, and they growing up.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, Disney movies are racist as fuck.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Have you known, Well, you know it makes it seem like,
you know, it's perfect, you know when you grow up.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
So so so yeah, that's to get metaphor think about
what you just said. They made it look like it's perfect.
So in a Disney movie, there's like Dumbo, everything's fine.
So there's a nigga named Jim Crow over here who's
actually a crow. But you're telling the world this movie
is perfect, while behind the scenes it's not.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Is that not life?

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Mm? Whoa what you think about? Well? Aladdin? Same thing
in the Latin right, you got the You got a Laddin.
He has white features, face shaped, all circularies white shaped.
He's got a fucking carpet, nigga, there's no magic carpets. Okay.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Then you got this red Muslim. He's like a really
bad Muslim because he looks actually like the Muslim.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
But everything's okay. Are reinforcing white stereotypes and saying that
I am the white savior while demonizing Muslim people at
the same time. Who's great? Well, now I'm like, now
you got me thinking pay that much attention to the
Disney movies. Right, So here's the thing that analogy is

(14:05):
exactly what everybody wants to give you, right, give you
an idea of how it's all good and I'm getting
through the struggle and ship still doesn't hurt. Well, that
would be a lie. That would be with every other person,
every comic unless they're a real motherfucker, right, A real
motherfucking comic is going to tell you everything.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Even the bad, the good and the bad.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Isn't that what makes stuff funny?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, these days you can't. You can't do a lot
of stuff because you know, people get offended real easily
and now like compared to like back in the day
and stuff. You know, you can't tell certain jokes. Why
not know that counsel coaching and stuff?

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Is that real?

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I don't, I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Don't know, you know, I ain't No, I ain't no,
y'all lever well, No, No, I'm not on any level.
Won I'm just saying this.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
I'm saying this. First off, I'm not popular enough to
get canceled.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, let's start there, right, But then but then say
say like right now, say you going up, say next year,
you finally get your big break. Yeah, but then they
can go back like four five years on the old
joke that you said, and then we're resurfaced.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, own you you know. And here's the thing. The
problem is that cancel culture. The problem is a lack
of understanding. You want to blast people when you don't
even know what the fuck is going on, what they
were going through at the time. I'm explaining to people

(15:44):
what's going on, I'm subject to make a mistake. I'm
improving to you on a daily basis on that stage
that I'm fucking human. Right.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
But it's also about fucking context.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Right. If you present something like an asshole, you're going
to be looked at like an asshole. If you're out
there talking about gay people dropping the F bombs, right,
and you're calling this and calling them that, that is terrible.
But if I say to you, I'm confused about something, right, So,
like I have a joke where I say these words,
I'm like, I'm like, you know, I have a friend

(16:21):
of mine who is a transgender from male to female, right,
and she's getting married. So I asked her, Hey, you
know you're getting married. Is your partner male or female?
And She's like, oh, my partner's female. Can you believe
in a lesbian? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, I can.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Absolutely. You were born a dude, okay, I can definitely tell.
See to me, I was only raised with certain genders,
so I'm old. So I want to have some questions
for you, because you know what for me? See, you know,
man transgender or transition to a woman only to date
women is like a guy wearing suspenders in a belt.

(17:01):
I'm gonna have some questions. Right, do you not feel supportive?
Why do you neat belts and suspenders? That's different than
me calling you out. I'm saying that I have something
I'm working out, and that's the truth. You can't expect
a forty three year old man, because only grown up
with two genders, only known a couple of sexualities, to

(17:24):
fully understand what you're going through right away. I don't.
I don't understand that. And here's the thing. The equivalent
of you expecting that of me is when white people
ask me black stuff. You wonder why I get offended?

(17:48):
Oh no, here's one. Oh my god, can I touch
your hair? Like?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
What do you put in it?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Like? Listen, I know George Floyd got shot, but how
do you feel about it? Hey, what do you think
black people should use the N word? I'm googling? Or
if they ask me, what is molatto really a bad word? Anthony?
Can I ask you that question? Like people say a lotto,
but what does it really mean? You know, Google, That's

(18:17):
what it means, Google? Right, I get offended on that
kind of stuff all the time. But instead of getting
mad at educate mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
But then over over there, do you get those type
of questions?

Speaker 4 (18:31):
A lot?

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Well?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
No, could you be in comedy club?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
A lot? So? No? No? Hold on comedy is a
crazy like, Bro, people say some shit, Oh you mean
doing your show like while you're on stage.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Or where I live? Might as well be Idaho.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Bro, Okay, he ain't lying about that.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah. The next city over it is post False, Idaho, Bro,
State Line, Idaho. I go there every week to do comedy.
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah? There's especially bro Trump Trump like parades. Bro, I've
seen some things.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
So do you go to the Ida Whole comedy club
that was.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
The No, there's a place called Draft Zone, which club
Draft Zone and Post Falls used to be a sports
bar right now it's a sports bar slash B plus
comedy club. Like, he's so close to be an a bro.
Like I did my comedy special preview there. It was
amazing we did. We did almost one hundred seats there.
I mean, Mike is such a cool dude. He's spending

(19:44):
his own money to make it a comedy club.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Comedy club, Bro, it's like a vape store where they
make make a bunch of money on vape. Then they
have like a bar where people shoot pool and shoot darts,
and then a comedy space. Bro with the stage Mike's
projector screens. It's crazy. Mmm. See, I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I didn't know if it was called a comedy club
over there because I'm used to like Tacoma Comedy Club.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Well we have spoken comedy club, and Tacoma and Spokane
are owned by the same people. Oh for real, Yeah,
they own them all.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
The way out to uh I think Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Oh, I see, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
You know, I'm just used to the I'm just used
to like the two like Nate Jackson Comedy Club and
Tacoma Comedy Club out here where I'm at.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Break Entertainment, Bro, It's it's a business.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well yeah, I see, shoot these are different.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
These are all different places we go to.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Who uh who inspired you to get in the comedy? Mm?

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Okay, so transparency. Let me think.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
I've always messed around, like I used to mess around
with hip hop back in the day, and I've always
been funny, and so I don't necessarily know if it
was any one thing, like I dipped my toe in
a little bit, but there wasn't any one thing that
inspired me. I think what happened was is when COVID
hit in twenty twenty, do.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
You hear a clicking noise on your side?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
No, I could have been kicking something. It was probably
my fault.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh sorry, Oh.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
In twenty twenty I got COVID.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, and I ended up in the hospital for eight days.
Oh snap. Yeah. I was going through a crazy transition anyways,
because I left my wife, Like all this shit went down.
I went from living in a basement where I live now,
but I was.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Living in a basement and a buddies sharing a house
with a buddy and then he kind of got radicalized
with Trump and found out he was on heroin. So
then I rented a shitty apartment and then that shitty
apartment right when I moved in not too long after
I got COVID, and I thought it was going to
be like two weeks to playing video games, so I
bought Tony Hawk pro Skater.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh, let's do it, and then h yeah, man, I
got I was sick, so I like, like, I ended
up in the hospital for eight days, almost lost my
life and shit, I went to the emergency room that
kept me there because there were no other rooms in
the hospital full of COVID, and uh yeah, well I
was laying there, bro I had like some time to think,

(22:25):
because when you're in that situation, one I had nurses
that couldn't take the vaccination and couldn't go to their
whole their families and staying in hotels to help me.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
And I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
See my family, so they can only go up through
the window and I can only wave at them from
the outside. So but I was sitting there watching like
I'd watch a lot of news about how ignorant people
were being about COVID and seeing families die, and I

(22:59):
thought to my so like, honestly, I was like, what
the fuck are we doing. I'm laying here in this bed,
I'm working a job. I really don't care for it.
I gotta support myself.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Fuck it.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
So then I went home and I was like, yo, RB,
I wanna try to do some comedy and that's it.
Mm hm.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oh So yeah, well you just said you didn't think
you was gonna make it when you was in the hospital,
so now it changed your whole outlook on a lot
of stuff.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah. I mean, I don't think I had the thought
process of I don't think I'm gonna make it. I
think I was just super sick. And then they're like, yo,
you could have died, and I'm like, oh, snap, I
could have died. I don't really know when you're gonna die.
You just die, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, well, I think, you know, depending on how some
people go, you know, because so you know, some people
are really sick. You know, they be in the bed
and they be losing a lot of weight and they
can't move on their own.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
That's different than like, like, but if your long term
illness is different than oh my god, you got this
thing oh.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
Yeah yeah yeah, and then you put on this thing
on your finger that tells you how you're breathing, and
it says you're not breathing good and you should probably
go to the hospital and you feel like shit and
you pass out.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
They're like, yo, you could have died. You're like, oh,
that would have sucked.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
So okay, So after you made that, what was it
like your first time getting in front of that crowd
of people to work on these jokes?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
You know? Cauld y'all do y'all do? Like?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, they say room work and stuff like that, right, huh,
proud work, Yeah, crowd work. I don't know why I
said room worker.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
I think I think some people.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Think.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
I think people glorifying comedy, man.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
I think looking back at it, bro, if I'm being
completely honest with you, yeah, I don't fucking it's it's terrible.
It's fucking terrible. You realize how bad you sucked the
first time you go in there. You realize that what

(25:26):
you think you have ain't shit. What do you These
people are just like, oh, it felt so amazing, Get
the fuck out of here. It felt amazing.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, well, when you say when you say it felt amazing,
they saying it felt amazing to get up there, or
it felt amazing to get some jokes off in front
of people.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
You know. I think I think people are different right.
I think people do comedy. I think people do public
speaking comedy for different reasons. I've been a poke speaker
for a very long time. So the fear, the fear
of it, like because I have I have a couple
degrees in this ship, just presenting in class and right,
race and diversity, meeting, chance spoken, being part of the
NAACP at one point, all these different things teaching why

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race matters. Like I talk to people, but I think
most people do it because they're trying to get over
something or I don't know what it is. But for me,
I think it was just chasing that one. I think
it's chasing getting that hip hop fucking There's something about

(26:27):
jumping in a cipher and spitting and just leaving it
all there that feels good. Right, So I think there's
that element of me like, hey, I want a piece
of that again, And then another element of a place to.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Put put stuff going on in your life.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah. Then another part of it is just competition, right,
like with yourself. I think every person as they get
older start to question their life and what their purpose is.
And like some people become rock climbers, some people run

(27:10):
marathons yep. But for me, that's my everest, right like
my everest is is an arena. That's the goal. The
goal is the arena. I'm not gonna hear a Lotti.
My goal personally is to have my whole family and
all my boys and my city filled with the arena.

(27:32):
Right that that's that's the competition for me.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Dang is it is it in in particular arena that
you just know?

Speaker 1 (27:41):
This is it?

Speaker 2 (27:43):
You know, like Malay and Square Garden, that's like the
pinnacle or.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Home here?

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
For me, it's right here, because he would that be
the convention seller?

Speaker 3 (27:57):
No, I've done that before. Moving on?

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh wait, what else? What else? What's the next biggest
thing out there?

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Like the first off, let me clarify, I did the
Convention Center. I did comedy for a VETS convention there,
so I count that. I didn't sell it out myself.
But I did comedy there, so I counted. Okay. But
the Spokane Arena where like hockey has played all the concerts,
come Kevin Gates, Little Wayne whatever it is that.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Or the podium. But for me moving here in elementary school.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
And all the things I've been through, bro, like with
the mom who is kind of in a cult, kicking
me out all the time, drugs. I had a friend
died when I was twenty one. She got murdered. Like
I had another friend hang himself. I just lost eight
friends last year. We're in the midst of a final
epidemic here. You know, as a social worker, we're seeing

(28:56):
people suffer on a daily basis.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
So it's like.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
To come up from nothing. And I'm not saying I
had to have nothing. My dad probably would have taken
care of me if I went to him and acted right.
But because of some of the choices I made and
the choices that my mom made, I was out there,
I was doing I was doing crazy shit.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
So it's like, and I was in a lot of
pay you know what I'm saying, So for.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
This community to pick me up and do what it's
done for me and taught me in so many different ways.
That's why my specials called Spokane famous because the city,
the city determines what I am. You know, Like I
won Comic of the Year this year and they said
thank you. They said that the two comics that are

(29:44):
from Spokane, one of them has a Netflix special, right,
and I beat her numbers significantly. Oh, ma significantly. The
person that wrote wrote the artic said, they said it
wasn't even a competition, and we went to we went

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to the same high school.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
So to get to get Comedian of the Year. What
did they base it on?

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Voted? People voted, bro Man, watch hold on, like around here,
this is a big deal. Oh see there's a stick

(30:41):
or too, uh.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
So everybody can see I'll make it big.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Please see there's in Spokane.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
The Islander is like one of the big biggest publications
because it tells you on every news stand what's going on,
what's happening, who you should be tuning into. You know
what I'm saying, is that weekly or monthly or weekly?

Speaker 3 (30:59):
In this this goes all the way to Moses Lake
and standpoint.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Congratulations. See you know what I'm saying. So it's like
it's like, let's see yeah, full spread. Kelsey Cook second
place and I got much love for her. I watched
you do comedy, love it and I know that it's Look,

(31:31):
I'm not the best comic. I just work hard and
the city put me on so the arena they deserve that.
I really love it. It's kind of like the machine
gun Kelly approach. Bro I got a cold fan base. Man,
it's they show love. Like I said, we just did
eighty nine to eighty nine seats last week.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
So let me ask you this, Do you want a
Netflix special because I know that's big time for some
comedians or what you do like Andrew Scholtz and Alisa
Deek and I hear it. I love stuff like flood

(32:15):
the YouTube market with your comedy.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
To be honest with you, in I just want to
stay true to what I've I've always I've always done.
I want to bring to the people. Man, I want
to hit the road like whatever. Yeah, I want to
feel an independent. If Netflix comes, that's great, But I
want to meet the people. Bro, I want to I
want to shake hands. Like I said, we grew it.
We have right now on hugs and handshakes. Bro talking

(32:43):
about a single person that comes in, selling the shirt
to every one of them, giving them a sticker, giving
them a memory, Like that's really where my heart is
right now. I know that I'm behind the eight ball
because I'm a little bit older. When I start a comedy,
to start a comedy at forties on forty three, now
by fifty, I want that arena period.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
I think you can do it. You know, anything possible.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
No, no, anything is not possible. I've already seen my
vision though. Look, anything is possible if you're willing to work. Yeah,
that's that's the bottom line. I just want to work, bro,
I just want to keep my head down.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Steed. My family take care of my people like I
want to take it.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
There's my nephew's my uh my, my right hand man, Like,
who's my best friend in this in this business? Like
he sets up venues, he keeps my mental health good
when I'm out there. Drives me crazy, But we built
We built the shit together. My girl, she does shirts
are we built the ship together. Like my boy Colt

(33:48):
and Drake. We started in a fish restaurant together a skippers,
and people thought I was crazy. My homegirl, Jinny is
crazy as she drives me. She's she's like a sister
of me, but she drives me up. But it's you know,
the people that gave me anything, Chris Jessup, Blade, Frank Film,
My Comedy Special, Charles Hall, Junior, Harry j Riley, John Odge, like,

(34:12):
these are the people that, oh, my boy, ibrahem adigichi,
these are the people that if I can get sorry.
When I get on the road and we start to
grow and get traction, I can put them on too. Dang, No,
that was so.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
I think it's cool that you have a team already
who really believe in you, you know, because I think
that make a person go even harder when other people
see your vision and want to help you get there.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Well, here's the thing. I think, all my other all
the other comics, we're all doing our own thing, make
no mistake right. Like I do have a team of
people that help me, these guys are my friends as well,
and we want the best for all of us. Like
I may not be. I just now started opening bigger

(35:05):
shows at the Comedy Club, and my friend Colton has
been doing it for a year and a half almost
two years, and we started at the same time, so
so and Charles Hall has been doing it way longer
than I have. I just want to be able to
put the city on right. These guys are some of
the best comics that I've known, and I merely believe

(35:29):
that if I don't care what any of them say
and what their plan is or what their outlook is,
if I have an opportunity to put somebody on my
city on, I'm going to.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
But I think someone's authentically funny regardless.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
If you're funny and the and the world needs to
see you, and I know the product to be better
because you're there. If I know the show will sell
numbers because you'll make it good, then let's go.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
So well, now you've got let me think. Do you
think do you think the Spokane I the whole area
get overlooked as far as being on the comedy scene.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Well absolutely, why? First off, Idaho is not really on
the comedy scene. It's it's one space. It's right outside
of Spokane. It's it's a twenty minute drive between my
house and the other place, all freeway. So of course,
I mean, but in the circuit in the Pacific Northwest,

(36:34):
people stop through. There some bigger names that we know,
like maybe you might not know them, but in our
world we know them. Yeah, right, comedy in Spokane. Comics
come here, bro excuse me, d y All Hugle is
here in November, Kevin Hart's been here, Nicky Glazier comes here, right,

(36:57):
Eddie Griffin comes here? Oh oh wow?

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
See.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
No, you know, when I think about Washington, I never
think about Spokane. Only time I think about Spokane is
during the summertime, during hoop fest.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
First off, do not get it twisted. A white boy
out here whoop your ass? Don't get it twisted. Should
people have made that mistake and be like, oh because
he's white out off the fear wrong? And brown?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Tell you you mean could they from could they from Spokane?
From over in the area.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Hey, my boys are not playing with you, none of them.
None of them. This is fight town, USA.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Baby. You know how many MMA fighters we got here? Nope,
you better ask somebody.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
We got a UFC champion from here, boy, Julieteapin, you
better stop playing.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Oh well no, see there see.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
He just won the Ultimate Fighter. I got homies. I
work out with it to whooped that ass.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
See, so you're telling me stuff. I ain't even know
about Spokane. I ain't know they had a lot of
m m A fighters over there.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Bro. My homeboy, Ibraheen, who is a comedian, is in
jiu jitsu. We we have jiu jitsu gyms here. We
have there's somebody Rick Wever or uh. We have a
boxing culture here. Let's not talk about sick jujitsu. Who
if you turn on UFC right now. He's probably he's
probably on TV coaching somebody right now. So I'm just saying,

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we got Michael Kissa's from here, He's in the UFC.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Don't get it twisted. Get your ass beat.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Well, no, you can't. You can't underestimate nobody no matter
where you go.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
What else we have here?

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Bro? We got wrestling, we got and you got you
mean gone zaga.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
They need to win now, it's time to win. Okay,
you've been there, you're putting in the tip. I need
you to I need you to get in there. What
are you talking about? Hey?

Speaker 2 (39:08):
They one of the best teams every year though, they
one of the best teams.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
You gotta win.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah, but you know it's not that easy, you know.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Oh you know what. It is that easy for me
to fill an arena. But I'm gonna do it. You
know why, because I'm gonna work to get to that.
It's gotta be a dub. They gotta want a dumb
We got the expectation has to be a dub. Period.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
That's what elite elitist looks like. Not almost there.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Ooh, you're right, you're right. Well, shoot, how do you
come up with your material life.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Life is hilarious.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
So you make a joke out of like everything everything.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
I'm a hold a person, I'm a horrible person. I
can't I'll joke about cancer. I'll joke I am not
jews sometimes because they're acting up, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
So it happens, we gonna talk about it.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Do your girl get pissed off at you because you
make a joke?

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Oh? Here we go, hey, bade, let's ask her.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
That's first, he's to get the wife.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
She taken She taken a nap. She takes a nap.
That's okay.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
The answer is most of the time though, but sometimes yes.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
But she probably be like, you don't take nothing serious
except for the comedy.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Well yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
I always wondered, like how people come up with some
of the material because some of them, some of them
jokes be next level of jokes.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Bro, have you seen the President of the United States?

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean he everyone you can't help
bussye it?

Speaker 3 (40:53):
How can you not be funny?

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Bro? This motherfucker got mad because of a teleprompter. It
is a conspiracy see and he just lost in your face.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Tarffs are good what yeah, Look, I tell you right now.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Does I said this on stage last week. I said,
doesn't it feel like our president's cheating on us with
another country? Doesn't it like if you're gonna fuck somebody,
I just want you to fuck one person.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
I want you to look me in the eyes when
you do it. You know what I'm saying? Like, this
is crazy.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Things are so things are so bad.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
I agree, Ted Cruise, Ted Cruise.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Look Tucker Cross and says something I said, I agree,
Tuck Cross that I did with you.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
How is that not funny?

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Mmm? How's He's like?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Well, left us, left us thugs, get out of here.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Bro. So okay, have you well?

Speaker 2 (41:56):
I know you you had to because I think every
comedian did this.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
When you when you bombed the joke? How did you respond?

Speaker 3 (42:07):
What the fuck you mean? When you bomb?

Speaker 2 (42:09):
I heard some people be like, man, I had to
get off the stage. You know, you man, you hear everything.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Some people be like I got off the stage. Some
people was like I took a long break from you know,
I don't know who are these people?

Speaker 1 (42:25):
This is crazy? This is crazy. I look, my boy
called Drake man him and I went through this phase.
He started it, and I just followed Sue. We went
through this phase where he where he uh, and I
went over a way to bomb jokes. Bro, We went
to have a way to bomb jokes. Number one time
went to an open mic. He was cracking. He was like,

(42:48):
come and tell jokes. I said no. He said why
he said, I said, because it's a clean mic. We
can't cuss. I don't have any clean jokes. And he's
like six three and I'm five five. Bro, He's big, big,
big beer and he looked me in the faces like
I didn't know you were a big old bitch and
slapped my back. And he's so big that when he
slashed my back, I felt like my heart was gonna

(43:08):
come out of my chest. He's like, he's like, I
told jokes. I told all four skin jokes. I said,
you did what their kids here? Four skins are clean.
That's the kind of mentality people have around me. Yeah,
Like we're gonna tell fucking jokes that about Mitzvah. Are
you fucking kidding me? I'll bomb anywhere on earth.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Let's go. Well, how I respond to get back on
stage and do it again tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (43:34):
But then what?

Speaker 2 (43:35):
But then I don't know if it's a comedian secret
and not would you tell the same joke again to
a different crowd.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
That's the whole point of an open mic. If you're
telling jokes at a club without testing them an open mic,
you have you got some balls and you're at a
different level. I mean I do I do it sometimes
because if it's my show and I know a lot
of the people, I know what I get away with.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
So what what about because I heard in the comedian world,
you know, I listen to the podcast, Yeah I heard
the comedian be still another comedian jokes.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Yeah that happens, but not around us.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
What do you mean we that's not something that we
really tolerate. Man, like the last person to try that,
they put his ass on the internet. Bro, they blasted him. Oh,
we called him right handed. He was stealing jokes from
famous people. The nigga moved, he moved to a different state.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
M So then when a when another comedian on the stage,
do you go listen to their set or you like
you don't like to hear their set? You know, so
you don't like they don't influence your stuff?

Speaker 3 (44:55):
When like when when do you when.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Like when you had another company like when you other
comedist show, like, do you sit back and look at
other comedians set? Or do you, like, I don't know,
do you stay in the back until it's show time?

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Or Okay, let's let's break it down for anybody that
wants to get a hold on them, for anybody who
wants to be a comedian will answer this in a
way that they can understand it. There's a difference between
an open mic and a comedy show. Okay. I go
to open mics four or five times a week minimum,

(45:32):
and so the comics that I know, Hey, Quincy quantaviuscumber Batch,
will you give me some water?

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Please want to feel this STU for me? Thank you baby. Ooh,
we bring one of those sodas too, Yeah, the ones
that I drink.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
Oh yeah, not not one.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Of them trash ass ones though, like root beer or
like the like cherry vanilla.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
You got this.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
You might not be. That's okay, I'll take a roop here,
all right. I love you, Open mis bro. A lot
of the times I'm around the same comics working the
same material. They've heard my material bunch, I've heard their
material bunch, and I listened to them to help them

(46:25):
punch up stuff like I'll think something's funny and I'll
say it, or they'll think something's funny and tell me,
and that I put it into my routine, you know
what I'm saying. Yeah, But sometimes I mean I went
through a phase where I did nothing but listen to
my earbuds when I worked on when I went to
the comedy club. But I felt like I wasn't invested
and I wasn't watching some of my friends bits like

(46:46):
I should and paying attention and shit like that, just
just because you never know, like maybe they're talking something
similar to what you're writing, and now you want to
frame it a different way, so you want to listen
to that too sometimes, So I think it's kind of
your preference at an open mic on how you handle
that now during a show? Thank you now during a show.

(47:08):
That's different.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
If I've.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Some of the people I do shows with are some
of my favorite people, like people that I want to see,
like some of my favorite comics, my friend Calton one
of my favorite comics, one of my one of my favorites.
So I'll watch it set at a show. You know,
if I'm headlining a show, like I'll listen to bits

(47:34):
and pieces, especially if I've never really heard the comic.
Let's say I'm putting them on the show for the
first time or something like that.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
I'll pay attention.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
But for the most part, my nephew's running like the
door all that kind of stuff. And then right before,
like thirty minutes before I go on, I probably have
earbuds in. I'm just getting my head right. But if
I'm not headlining, I'm trying to watch as much comedy
as I can. Because here's the thing. The best thing
a live comic to me, the best thing the comedian

(48:05):
can do is go see comic comedy live.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
So like open Michael Inn and type of comedy and stuff.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
I think it's important for you to learn and see it.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
All that makes sense, bro, We go to the comedy
club for free to big acts. The club's policy is
comedians get in for free, and if they're sold out,
we can help see people.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
So we get free seats.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Oh snap.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Because the best way to learn to be a comedian
is to watch a comedian.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
That's a fact. That's a fact. I watch more comedy
face to face than I do at home and watch specials.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Probably because it's a different type of feeling being there
live than being watching them on TV and stuff.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Well, and just like you said earlier, there's certain things
I don't want my brain. So if I think something
super fucking funny and I keep watching it and laugh
at it, it might seep in there. That makes sense, right,
So I'd rather go out there and see it live.
I get to see the energy, how it flows. What
are they doing to get to where I need to be,

(49:18):
Because make no mistake, there's different venues for comedy, BRO,
and it took me a long time to learn that
some of the shit I say is not going to
be accepted at the club. There's a time and a
place to agree with the rules. No, but if I
want to work then I have to follow some of
the rules in that establishment. That makes sense.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
That makes a lot.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
In my when I first started BRO, starting to skippers
and not a lot of people believing in me, and
me having to hustle and fail a lot. I've said
some things that people probably won't come back and see me.
My shows have ran too long, it wasn't a good
enough roster of comedians. I've lost friends over this ship.
But at the end of the day, I'm dedicating myself
to this, because how can I come home and tell

(50:06):
my family I've been gone and come home with nothing.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Well, you lost you lost friends of being the comedian.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Of the Jukes. No, I've lost friends over not being
transparent in the business. Friends that just friends do. It
was both of our faults, miss miscommunication. They're my miscommunication.
They're arrogance once again, not having the conversation. And then
now we have bad blood. Oh my fault. My fault

(50:38):
for not saying, hey, you're not funny enough to be
on these shows. Us some more work and so I
bring you along, bring you along my product. Shit, you're
getting arrogant because you think you're good. We're all lying
to you, and I'm not having the conversation. Hey, you
misunderstud And I said, do you want to go on
to it? I mean, do you want to ride in
the car and physically with me, not be on the shows? Oh?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Well, I mean if you would have told me that,
I would probably thought you were putting me on the show.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Too, exactly. And that's where I fucked up, because I
was like, we're putting the tour together. I'm like, yo,
you want to go Yeah? So he's like Oh, he
thinks he's gonna be on the tour. I'm like, no,
I never said he's gonna be on the tour. It
was misunderstanding. But then his arrogance was so bad that
I just didn't like what was going on.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
So what's one crazy story that you have from touring?
One that just stand out? Oh, you started smiling. This
is this is about to be good.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
I can see. Well. First off, how he got touring
was we did weed shows first, where you can smoke
weed in the venues.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Oh, they got there at the Tacoma Comedy Club.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
I forget smoking smoking everybody like the crowd can smoke.
Not the Dope show where the comics.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Yeah, they called the Dope Show Tacoma Comedy Club, Sam
with the Spokane Wait, so they can smoke with in
the venue or they have to smoke outside.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
They come into bus, We provide the weed and they
can smoke and dabs and edimbals.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
They're getting fucked up.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Oh right, So before before we go on this tour,
I'm not even gonna say what we had in the car,
but it was it was a felony for sure, you
know what I'm saying. Like, because we're like fucking radio.
Do this. We're gonna make some money. So my homeboys,
my homeboy Dustin, he's in the back seat. He's in

(52:28):
he's not drinking or anything, but he comes in with
the four gram Millennium Falcon chocolate bar full of shrooms.
Then he had a bunch of capsules of shrooms. This
nigga's in the back seat. This white boy's just getting
fucked up. And he's like, oh, I can't wait till
I get off probation. I'm like what He's like, Yeah,
then I'm gonna get high. I'm like, nigga, you're high
right now. You're eating shrooms at seven oh two in

(52:52):
the morning. Him, he's eating shrooms. Then my homeboy, Billy
t Bone. He's a white boy from Texas who's like
almost fifty. He didn't even smoke weed until like two
years ago. Uh, he's eating shrooms in the back. These
fools are eating shrooms the whole way to Seattle.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Bro to ever they're there's they are tossed.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
We found like a wild dog in the past. We
we fuck we uh, Bro, we get to the whole
We get to the airbnb, right I walk in.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
T Bone's so high, Bro, t Bone.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Is so high.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
There's a picture of these, uh.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Giraffes are not a picture, but there's a sculpture of
a giraffe and their heads are in the twine. I
call it two giraffes necking right Like. I'm like, that's
where they fuck, right, that that's what right. T Bone
goes in the bathroom, comes out and he's like, yo,
that's a skinny ass that statues's some skinny ass giraffes
right there, or no skinny ass elephants. He says, I said,

(53:53):
those are fucking elephants. Bro.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
I said, those are fucking giraffes.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
And he says, from my perspective, though, look like some
bliemic gass elephants.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
I said, no, nigga.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
So that was the first day we were there. Then
we go to we go to Capitol Hill, Bro to
go tell jokes. It's me, my nephew. He looks like
he's from Argentina, my white friends with me. We go
into this we go to this gay up of mic
Bro Susie walked in. They stopped telling jokes.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
They stopped telling jokes.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Oh yeah, they thought we were there to funck sit up.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
How many of y'all was there's only.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Four of us, bro, but we are all straight as ship.
We walk into the gayest environment you could ever walk
into in downtown Seattle. Yeah, with the dude who has
Texas shoes on. I make fun of him like he's
Captain America because his shoes have big ass stars on them.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Oh, Texas shoes, Like I'm thinking like that, like orange
and white, like University of Texas.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Shit, No, I'm talking about red and blue, bro Red,
bright and blue.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Okay, So it's a nigga some white presenting dude, my
other white friends. The lady is like, okay, who runs this? Me? Right,
I'm I'm in charge. It's just one of them crazy stories.
So we do that whatever. I'm not getting into that

(55:19):
because I'm not trying to get canceled before I get started, right,
But yeah, because there was an incident there where this
girl one of the cut One of the things you
do when you see another comic and they're good, you knucklebump, right,
So this girl is hell of funny. She knuckle bumps me.
My nephew tries to knuckle bump her. Ghost him, Bro,

(55:40):
Ghost Him does not give him any dap whatsoever. And
goes over to a gay homegirl bro just ghosted him
because he was straight. So that was a weird situation
because we never been discriminated against because we were straight
and she was crazy.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Never see anything like it, but only in downtown Seattle.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Whatever. So the next the next leg of the two,
we go to Yakama. Right, yeah, I swear to god.
Some niggas got jumped in front of our hotel room,
but no our Airbnb. They got jumped in front of Airbnb.
Like five Mexicans got in a fight. Uh, we got
locked out when we first got down there, so we
had to stay at a ghetto ass hotel.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
So it's me and my homies just sharing beds.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait, you you had the Airbnb
in the neighborhood. Somebody got to fight outside your house, but.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
We couldn't even get in when we got there.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
We got we got to Yakima like five in the morning, No,
like three thirty in the morning.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
So how could you not get in your Airbnb that
you I used.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
The code, the code wasn't right. So we had to
go to twenty four hour Mexican spot. Right. My nephew.
My nephew's mad as fuck because we make fun of
him the whole time, and he's he's man, he's mad, mad, bro,
because those ladies trying to explain to him what he like,
what kind of soda he once, and he couldn't get it,
like he couldn't understand her accent. And my homeboy t

(57:04):
Bone he's from Texas, so you know he speaks Spanish.
So we just start roasting my nephew. Bro, mad as hell.
Finally get back to the hotel. Right, well, we get
a hotel for the night. We go to the hotel.
Soon as we start unloading our shit, my boy Dustin,
excuse me, he had his car. He opens the back
of this Audi Bro a dash station. These fools start

(57:26):
taking dabs in the parking lot off a hotel. Oh
they don't care, they don't care.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
They're getting hight.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Fuck. I'm like, we got shit to do. We spend
the next two hours rolling joints in the hotel, pass out,
go back to the Airbnb. Then that same day there's
this thing called the uh it was called the sun Pread.
So we go to the Sun prey. Bro, it was
the most ghetto pread I ever seen. There was like, yes, Bro,

(57:54):
there was a row of Deloreans. Okay, a bunch of
white dudes with the Deloreans back to the future car.
The next row was a bunch of Native Americans and
kilts looked like brave Heart means dancing with wolves. Crazy.
Then then these Mexicans pulled up on a produce truck
throwing fruit. Bro it was crazy. They're just throwing fruit

(58:15):
throw No, I think it was happening. You know what
they say, apple a day keeps the migro away, so
so so uh. I thought to myself, I'm like, bro,
if if if against the most racist thing I've ever seen,
it's racist shit. Like the equivalent of me doing that

(58:36):
is if I pull up in a KFC truck and
start throwing hot wings.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
You know what I'm saying, Like, that's that's how racist.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
It was, Okay, but it was hilarious, hilarious. Then we
realized on the same block we were on there was
like five fucking crematoriums and funeral homes.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
So they're having this parade.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
All this weird shit's happening in front of a bunch
of crematoriums while somebody tries to else fitting on.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
It was crazy, It's.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Crazy, and it was awesome.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Why did Why did y'all stop there?

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Why not? Did y'all have a show there? Yeah, we
have a show everywhere we're talking about. Here's that you
bring it to the people. Here's the business model. Bro.
You go to the small counties or the small towns
to get no entertainment. You make a fun ton of money,
which pays for you to go to the big cities
where you're gonna lose money.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Until you're established.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
So have you So that means have you ever did
a show over in Tacoma?

Speaker 1 (59:33):
No? Not yet?

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Well I did at the Comedy Club. I'm bombed terrible.
I bombed at the Which One Tacoma, The Nate Jackson Tacoma.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
So do you have you?

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Are you going to be back over this way?

Speaker 1 (59:45):
Yeah? I'm supposed to be over there in like two weeks,
but I think about pushing it back.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
But Tacoma, Tacoma, You're going like in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Seattle, we got this Mediterranean spot that's dope as foot,
It's got lasers, smoke.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Man and Kebob's bro.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
So okay, well, shoot, now I gotta ask these these
last two questions.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
I know you know, I told I.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Was going to hold you for a hour.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Let's get it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
What impact do you want to leave in comedy by
the time you finished.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
It's not even about comedy, man, This ship is not
about comedy to me at all. Comedy is just a vehicle.
It's just a product. Man. I love it, and I
happen to be good at it. But this is really
about my family. Bro Like, I literally come from a
place where my mom has bad mental health issues. She's

(01:00:53):
put guns on me. Bro Like, she's knocking down a
flight of flight of steps with a cannon. Split soup like, oh,
she's dating niggas in prison, She's put me in unsafe situations,
and I love her. But those dark times have to
mean something, and the people that helped me get through

(01:01:14):
that they deserve more. Bro and having a voice is
what's important. You know. I went to that this fundraiser
or whatever from my homegirl a little bit that has cancer.
But I haven't seen him in a minute. I haven't
seen some of my big homies in a minute. And shit,
but I went to go, you know, just eat spaghetti
and just pay money for a place in spaghetti to

(01:01:35):
raise money. My nephew's in there with this girl, and shit,
and the amount of times I had the big homies
like hug me, like chest to chest. I go to
put my hand out, they slap my hand and just
hug me and say, Man, I'm fucking proud of you.
Like where you come from, well, you had to go
through the environment you lived through. I'm proud of you
and that means more to me than anything else.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
That was right there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
I'm just being real, Like, you come from absolutely zero, bro,
where everybody expects you to fail, but you have a
pocket of people that knew that you could do something
and even even if they weren't. Right, Bro, it takes
a man, a big homie. It takes a man to
be like, Yo, I love you and I'm proud of you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
I just met you, but I'm proud you know that
you're doing something you love. It ain't it ain't ever
day somebody go out and be a comedian, you know,
where your job is to make people laugh, enlighten up
their day. And even doing that, you still got people

(01:02:50):
who hate you because you're just trying to help them,
you know, lighten their day.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Up and stuff. Yeah, but you life is still the same.
You make mistakes, you learn from it. If you if
we do wrong as people, you gotta you gotta correct it.
The only difference is is I corrected in front of
hundreds of people? Mm hmm. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
But it's that that's the easier thing to do for
me than have a one on one conversation with someone.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
See oh no, you You open my eyes to a
lot more of spoken in the background of the comedian
world than what people see on TV from the videos.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
We suffer together.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Man, you think you think the emotional side of comedy,
It's it's mental, bro. It's the mental side of this
is crazy, bro. Like I'm getting to a point where,
especially having mental health issues myself, like I'm bipolar. So
to get on stage and appoll accomplish every goal, bro,
and like like.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Be here and then go to work on Monday morning,
like that feeling is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
There's nothing more humbling than that being at the top
of the world and know that somebody else can fire
you if they didn't if they needed to, dang right.
The mental side of that is so torturous. And to
share that with my brothers and like the people I

(01:04:22):
come up with and some of these comics that I love,
That's what it's about for me and I think we've
always we've always given what we've had to each other,
what we have with one another. If somebody has an opportunity,
if I have an opportunity to make somebody better, I'm
going to And they made me better. I've failed in
front of people a million times. Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
You know you kept going though, you didn't let that
deter you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
But isn't that Isn't that the essence of our people?

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Though? You know, people ask me time to They're like,
how come you're so successful? How come you can do
this all the time?

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Black? I'm black man.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Like the ship my people went through when we couldn't
go to your schools. We had to cut down the
trees to write the books. We had to mit a
cement to make the building. Some of these kids only
showed up with They didn't know that what pajamas were.
They were like, Oh, here are your nighttime clothes? What
are night time clothes? I only had one pair of
clothes when they released four million slaves. There's stories of

(01:05:22):
women that have to share address. One would go to
school in the morning to learn how to read like
the daughter, and then the mom will go to school
at night to learn how to read same classroom. That's
the difference. And if you apply that history and that resiliency.
But we're taught that our culture isn't culture at all.

(01:05:47):
That's what the president is trying to steal. He's trying
to steal our culture, our existence. The fact that we
built this country for free, the fact that Justin Bieber,
the reason Justin Bee can make a record.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Is because of us.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
The elvis because of us, the drums because of us,
civil rights because of us. And that is the thing
that we have to embody in this thing that we
do here. And that's why doing it my way is

(01:06:24):
super important. Who are you to tell me? Who are
you to tell me what to do when you can't
even put some money in my pocket, You can't even
give me a blueprint to do it? What is the blueprint?
Do what you're doing? So I could sit around in
this club for the next five years and wish somebody
gave me an opportunity, I'm gonna go get it. And

(01:06:48):
everybody knows me.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Man like it. That's just what it is. You either
get on board or you get off, it don't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Point there well, and everybody know that. Everybody knows me
dating me. I don't care what it is. You know,
if you're not with this comedy ship, you don't love
me nothing now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Mm hm, Well, I gotta I gotta ask you this
last question. Yeah, who do you think we should have
next on our podcast? But before you answer this question,
you gotta help us get them off here.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
I already figured that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Oh, okay, who you can? Well?

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
I really want to think about it because you already
had a comedian?

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Yeah, do I know?

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
That's a super interesting story. There's just so many people.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
You probably have a lot of contacts.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:07:56):
Man, life is life. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Oh you know what. Wow, honestly, my girl would probably
be that or my own boy, Lou. I guess my
hownboy Lou. But one of these days you might want
to get my girl on here. She because you're looking

(01:08:33):
for a good story. She used to be a menon nite?
What's what's the men in Knight? A very very conservative
Christian religion. Don't think of the Amish, but with power.
Oh and a lot more impressive than you think. Where

(01:08:55):
Where was she?

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Where was she born?

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Well? No, no, no, don't tell me, don't tell me.
I mean she's she's from here, that'd.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Be something I have to act so be able to
get her out.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Yes, I'm gonna give you two options. I'll give you
her or my boy Lou and my boy Lou. He's
probably one of the best MC's in the state that
you may not even know about.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Oh and so oh.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Like, here's the thing he did music, He started going
to church, he burned all his books, he started writing
some other, he started writing some other, Like he sent
me a song recently, bro like, not too long ago.
Fire interesting kid and since he was like fifteen. He's Guatemalan.
He's a real estate agent, single father. Like, what genre

(01:09:43):
do he do?

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
He's hip hop artists.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Oh yes, but he's super smart, bro like, especially for
the like he's not originally.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
From here, but being from here, like same high.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
School as me from here. Yeah, you'd be surprised this kid.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Well, shoot, you know you got to We're gonna have
to set that up. Then him all your girl.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
You know you can probably have them both.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
Yeah, and uh, I gotta ask you know, first off, everyone,
I gotta tell aunt.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Thank you for coming on.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
You know. Now he got me wanting to go to
his I gotta go check his comedy show out when
he come over here.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
But I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
This is why you ain't watching my comedy special yet
it's on YouTube for free.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Well, I mean I'm gonna watch it tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Spoke Famous on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
Wait, so show that shirt and show the shirt spoken famous.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
See this is the bill.

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
Let me zoom in for you to help. This is
the Bell Motel when my parents got divorced and moved into. Uh,
this is dix Burger's right there. Eat a bag of
Dick's got homelessness. Rip path. There's a lot of fitting
on in front of the ridpath right here. You need
to see that. Okay, you got a leaning man? Oh wait,
you a leaning man right here. He's on fitanel, clearly,

(01:11:01):
clearly on fitnel.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
You know what I'm saying is that is that your
merch line?

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Absolutely, you gotta get money, bro. You think shows pay
all the money? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Sometimes you take losses in this game.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
Bro, Hold on, I got you, I got you, I
got you, I got you. Check it out.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Stickers, see oh he got the smoke can famous stickers.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Yeah, you see he got you got a syringe in there.
Seven to eleven, when there's a lot of dope's a
couple of pills the Red Room right there, that's when
all the hip hop shows happen. Then you got the
trash dope with these change.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Hey, so you're gonna have to send me your links
so I could put that in the description of the
show with your.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
Line, bro, We just it's all hand to hand, bro.
But you know everything through Instagram. And when we when
we win uh Comic of the Year for a second
time this year, we'll have to do something big. I
kind of feel like it's gonna happen again.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
So so let everybody know what show. You know where
they can follow you at and your Amstagram and you
know if you got X you know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
I'm old as fuck. I don't use ex What are
you talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
At Anthony Singleton forty seven right, or just look up
Anthony Singleton on Facebook and just.

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
Go to YouTube. Look at spoke Caan Famous. You'll see
you see the special there. Run it up. I did
it all independently. We filmed it ourselves. I wrote it. It
took tears to write it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Uh. We just rented out a little spot called the
Hummies over and we just got we just got at it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
And uh, is there anybody you want to shout out?

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
You know? Of course, let's see. I want to shout
out my nephew Damien. Oh, my daughters of course, all
of them. Quincy, my niece Raylan to Cast, my granddaughter Harper,
my granddaughter Leilah. She's brand new, man, she's like three months. Okay,

(01:13:11):
let's see o. My homegirl, Brittany Oh, Colton Drake, Charles
Hall Jr. Harry J. Riley. Also those two people are
black Ibrahim a boy Adagichi.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
And then last thing.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
Six my next comedy special therapy session I'm writing right now.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Watch it, you know, so once again, man, thank you
so much. What's coming on here? Oh no, yeah, you
open up my eye to a whole nother world that

(01:13:57):
I didn't even know about.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Bro. You you you oh you don't know what you
don't know? Oh he's freezing all right. I can hear
you though, I see you. We're going like the hammer
hand shark. Can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Oh oh there, oh yeah, stuff just froze up. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
I'm like, come on, man, it's the wrong time.

Speaker 4 (01:14:29):
Nigerian god Susan froze. Oh my oh my oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
It was like Nigerian's tail.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
But no one more time, you know. Thank you Ann
for coming on. Man, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
Oh, se, you gotta get out this thing. It's isn't that.
That's how black you are, though it's not tolerated anymore.
Donald Trump got a hold of the software. Oh it's over.
You've been deported, my nigga. I hope you got that. No,
everybody makes sure.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
Did Jimmy, I didn't hear you, but thank you cause
you made me laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Oh in a time. All right, then I'll holler at
you later, my gud.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
All right, I gonna watch Fantastic four. I'm out this bitch.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
Hey,