Inner Journey with Greg Friedman welcomes Monique Marvez

Monique Marvez is our guest tonight on Inner Journey with Greg Friedman. Monique uses her  Cubana roots to emphasize themes in her skits common among Latina women such as relationships, gender dynamics, gender stereotypes, and communication and she does so with insight and her super gift of being to speak truth through comedy.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hi, this is Greg Braydon, Jack Can't Field, Mariam Williamson,
James Van Proud.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hi everyone, this is Neil Donald Walsh and I'm happy
to tell you that you're listening to in our Journey
with Greg Friedman stick around.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Your life will change any minute. All right, you guys,
here we go. Y'all know the gig, sex, relationships, dream interpretation.
We talk about it all. We don't tell you what
to do, and we don't tell you how to do it,
and there's a very good reason for that. It's not

(00:39):
our freaking lives. It's your life. It's your choice, it's
your happiness, it's your power. What are you going to choose?
Because even not making a choice is a choice. We
do one thing with this program and one thing alone
to help you understand you or the magic, and we

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just get to help you realize that we.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
I got a warma way over town.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
That's good to me?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Who yeah, said? I got a woman where over time?

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Good to me?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
WHOA yeah, she killed me money when I'm in need.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
Yes, he's a kind of friend.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Indeed, I got a warma way over town.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
That's good to me. Oh yeah, she says.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Love and early in the morning, just for me. Oh yeah,
she says, loving early in the morning, just for me.
Oh yeah, she says, alive it just for me, love

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so tenderly. I got a warma will over time.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
That's good to me. Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
She's there to love me both day and night. Never
grandmas are fusses. Always treats me right, never running in
the streets and leaving me here alone.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
She knows a woman's please, it's right there.

Speaker 7 (03:03):
Now.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
You a home.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I got a warman where over town.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
That's good to me. Oh oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
See ya got a woman way old town.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
That's good to me.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Oh yeah, seen my baby.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
I don't you understand.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Yeah, I'm a love a man.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
I got a warmer where over tow.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
That's good to me.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Oh yeah, I dot you know she's all right.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
I know it's all right.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
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the entire world. I haven't said this in a long time.
Our second biggest audience is India, and then followed by Australia.

(04:11):
It's At first it made me go, really what, But
it makes a lot of sense because there are so
many people that are on a spiritual path or have
that kind of consideration more as a component of their
cultures there than perhaps other countries. Who knows. All, Right, y'all,

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it is the last program of the year, and if
I could leave you with one thing as a parting
thought for this year, it would be get your a's together,
except allow, align and act. It is what it is.

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And the more that we deny that, the more we
just frustrate ourselves. How many times I've done it, I
can tell you I've done it. We've been in relationships
and we're like, no, they're not really like that, they're
just acting that way with this person, that person, and
that person. My favorite Maya Angelou quote is when a

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person shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Accept just accept it. It is there. We are, where
we are, with whom we are as we are. And
if you could just accept that in trying instead of
trying to make them in some vision of who you'd

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like them to be or where you'd like to be,
your happiness quotient is going to go through the roof.
Then on top of it, allow It's if we do
not allow things to flow, we are just fooling ourselves.
And that goes for or finances, that goes for love,
that goes for getting someplace on time. It's the more

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you grip money. Energy is like water, and the more
you grip onto it, the more it's just gonna squish
through your fingers. And the more you work with it,
the more you're going to find how much you're supported
by it, all of it and then aligns. You see
where the energy is going. You're not obligated to that flow.

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The river is the river, but you get to choose
how you'd like to navigate that river. Do you want
to go to the rapids, you want to go to
the slow part, Do you want to dock on the
side of the shore for a little bit, whatever you
like to do. You get to choose your life, choose
the day, and then act. We're here. It's that if

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this is who you want to be, then be that.
Because every action or every inaction and has a ramification,
not a penalty, but a ramification. You have something that's
going to happen as a result. You could call it
the butterfly effect if you want to get all very
fairy about it, but it is what it is. And

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if you can do these things, you will be so
much more at ease. Things will be much more abundant.
And the funny thing is, even if there's not an increase,
it's going to feel that way because you're just more
at ease, more in at peace with yourself in this world.

(07:40):
That's all I got, baby. All right, we have an
extraordinary guest on this evening. Monique Marvez is somebody that
I found online, and I'll tell you why. I adore
her work, and I've only met her for two seconds.
I probably adore her too, but her work reminds me

(08:03):
of the real mission of comedians. It's somewhere we got
a little bit lost because we got so politically correct
that we stopped saying the truth. And Monique can't stop
saying the truth. It's you could tell she's got that
Back East attitude that just says, I gotta say what

(08:26):
I gotta say. And the beauty of that is Comedians
have always been the greatest philosophers and truth tellers that
this planet has ever had, and Monique is high among them.
To me and we'll be back and you get to
see for yourself. You're listening to Inner Journey with Greg
Friedman on k XFM.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Do live on me.

Speaker 8 (09:02):
Keep American woman, Mama lemen be kep, don't come banging
now my dog. I don't want to see your face
no more. I got mom problem, things to do. Stand
my time going on with your now man.

Speaker 9 (09:23):
Still may.

Speaker 8 (09:26):
American woman Listen what I said? American woman, Live on me? Keep.

(09:49):
American woman, Mama limit be kep. Don't come knugging now
my dog. I don't want to see you shot. Don't
no more. The light skin isn't the ties stagn sabe
Elsan's eyes.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Now get away. Any American woman. Listen what I said.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
American woman.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Said, get away American This is what I say.

Speaker 8 (11:04):
Don't come hanging m my dog. Don't wanna see your
face no more. I don't need your WARMA scenes. I
don't need your GPTO scenes. Gonna love get in the
times bos it's yes, Now, don't get away.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Heavy American woman. This what I say.

Speaker 8 (11:32):
American woman. Still leave my me me, American woman, Mama,
let me be me.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
I kind of dom I gotta get away.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Maybe I got a domb and I'm flying man.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
I'm gonna leave you one more. I'm going lenyone my,
I'm gonna leave you my mom.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
I'm gonna lean man bye bye, a bub by a
baby bob. Don't know goods to me, don't know goods
to you? Look you straighten eye.

Speaker 7 (12:27):
I tell you what I'm going to do.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
I'm gonna leave you my mom.

Speaker 9 (12:32):
You know I gotta do.

Speaker 10 (12:35):
I'm gonna leave on my mom.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
I gotta dom, I got a doll, I gotta gold.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Welcome woman, Yeah, Hi, I'm Carlin Mace And you're listening
to Inner Journeys with Greg Friedman.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
You know it's funny Carolyn Mace's the drop before you,
because Carolyn Mace is And it cracked me up because
I said this to her when she was on the
first time and the second time, said, man, oh man,
you got a rep as a big ballbuster, I mean,
and she went, oh, I don't think so. Everybody says that.

(13:33):
But I don't think so, I said, because you just
tell the truth. And people these days are so namby
pamby that they get afraid of the truth. And our
guest this evening, that's the real reason that I wanted
to invite her on the program. I saw a couple
of things that she did. Initially it was on relationships,

(13:58):
and it's so funny and it's so true. If we
could just there was a study that I will screw up.
It's that they talked about how many reputations it takes
to learn something, and I think it's about sixty and
they said, unless you're laughing and having fun with it,
and then it's ten to twenty. And I think our

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guest this night tonight is not only a phenomenal performer
an amazing comedian, but she is somebody that helps us
learn in such a easy, gentle and fun way that
you are really a blessing. Thank you, welcome, wow, subtle.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 6 (14:42):
I have a firm belief that guides my every step,
which is the people want to do and feel and
be better.

Speaker 10 (14:52):
They just want it made easy, you know.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, they want the little pill that's going to make
them skinny and young and beautiful.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
But even philanthropy, like when you started, you know, with
the ability to donate to something online versus mailing in
a check, you know, I mean, I give money to Wikipedia,
even though my pages I do and.

Speaker 10 (15:14):
The funny part of it, Greg, is that here's the
funny part.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
I actually have gotten emails from Wikipedia because I don't
send like a buck or five. I was in like
twenty five dollars two three times a year. I'll remember
because I was that nerdy kid that knows the Dewey
decimal system and used to like pull out microfiches. I'm
incredibly curious, so every once in a while. And then
when somebody told me that I had my own Wikipedia page,

(15:38):
and I went to it and it was awful and erroneous,
but it's gonna get fixed. I'm okay.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
That's why I left so hard. I'm not mad at you,
but everything's wrong on that Wikipedia.

Speaker 10 (15:49):
It really is just about except my birthday. They got
that right.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
But you know, though it's late, it's still okay.

Speaker 10 (15:57):
When you make it easy, people don't.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
I've been a member of green Peace because they just
take twenty bucks off my amex every month. You know,
people want to do and be and feel better.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
They just just help them, yeah them, and you do
that beautifully. All right. I'm going to jump in and
ask the first question I asked him.

Speaker 10 (16:17):
I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
We'll see.

Speaker 10 (16:20):
I love surprises.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
So we've had everybody and their cousin on this program.
We've had authors and artists. We've had Don Miguel Ruiz,
we've had car I know him. He is such an amazing,
wonderful I'm telling you.

Speaker 10 (16:35):
I have a picture of me and him. It's a
great picture.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
He put up with me debating him all night long,
and it was and he's a pretty tough customer. He
did it with grace and he did it with elegance.
And it's not that he agreed with me, but he
didn't demean me for disagreeing with him. And a lot

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of people, as they go up in ranks with any industry,
will often, let me just say it this way. I
can't necessarily say that for some of the biggest names
I've had on and he was just beautiful, I mean
all across the board. So we've had all these guys
on the program, and to a person, there was an

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event or a series of events that really thrust them
on a significant aspect of their journey. There was something
that really was a pivot point for their lives. What's
your story Girl?

Speaker 6 (17:32):
When I was funny Chapter one of my book. When
I was about seven and When I say that, it's
because I intuited a problem long before it was said
out loud.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
But I believe we live our lives in cycles of seven,
and I have a thing called the seven up theory,
which I say, people spend the age of seven and
up healing and protect wounds that they incurred from the
age of seven and down. Yep so and the French
say it's the age of reason. So when I was
a little girl nineteen sixty nine, do the math.

Speaker 10 (18:12):
I'm sixty two. Don't care. It's on Wikipedia, the only
thing they got right.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
It's even on your website too.

Speaker 10 (18:19):
I don't care. I say it on stage almost every show.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
My father called me into the room and he said,
this has nothing to do with you, which immediately I
was like, what did I do?

Speaker 10 (18:32):
You know, I'm a kid and.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
I'm going to pull a trick on you. The old
and now you know the rest of the story. Remember
that radio, great radio Paul Harvey. So when people walked
up to my father rest in peace and they were like, she's.

Speaker 10 (18:49):
Brilliant, she's hilarious. You must be so proud of you.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Know, people say nice things about me after shows. My
dad would look them dead in the eye without any
irony and say Monique was a fully formed demigod by
the age of seven, and he bent it. So yeah, okay,
so now you know the rest of the story. So
let me back it up. So when when he said
that to me, it has nothing to do with you,

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he looked at me and he said, I'm not happy,
And I knew he'd had some mental health issues. I
heard the adult speaking, I'm not happy, and I can't
live here with your mother, and I'll be leaving, but
I'll visit you all the time, and you're gonna be okay.

Speaker 10 (19:32):
And I just wanted you to hear it from me.
I'm seven.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
I mean I literally can close my eyes and feel
the weight of his hands on my shoulders. I still
actually owned the chair he was sitting in, and it's
nice mid century I have a pair. And I remember
processing I have one of those weird memories, not Mary
Lou Henner.

Speaker 10 (19:54):
But it's good.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
And I remember processing my own selfishness of like, oh, like,
you're leaving me with the bad babysitter because my mom
did not understand me at all, and I could tell
she didn't like me. But I said out loud. Will
you be happier if you don't live here? He said yes, yeah,

(20:15):
And he said yes sweetheart. And I said, then I'll
help you move. And he had an MG convertible. And
I remember going to the closet and opening I can
picture because it was it was a nice house, but
it was nineteen sixty nine, so it was like the
closet door it wasn't mirror during The closet doors have
like the little brown like little brass disc that you
put your finger to slide them open. I can picture

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opening the closet door, and I just started gathering shoes
because I was I couldn't reach up and get his suits,
so I gathered shoes and just started making trips to
the MG in the car port and throwing his shoes
in the back seat. And at some point, because I
was very attached to my father, I could feel his emotions.
I felt the brack could break and like the shelf

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was askew and everything was sliding off. And at some
point he just sat in the grass next to the
car port with his you know, suit spread around him
on the ground, you know, just like drop them. As
I continued to take his toiletry whatever I could carry
and put in the car. And at that moment, I

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didn't think like I do now as an adult. That moment,
I was just like, I'm going to get him out
of here. I want my dad to be happy. Now
I look back, and you know, watching it like a movie,
I remember having this inner knowingness of you're on your own, kid,
You're on your own, like he is a hot mess,

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and your mom is a lovely person, but a little
over her head, like life is above her pay grade
right now. And and I jokingly tell people that most
people have an inner child. I have an inner gangster.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
I have.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
I have, I have.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
I have a thing that has always protected me and
taken care of me. But I've always felt in debt
for a favor. I don't remember asking ooh, but I
don't in this now that has passed. But I'm saying,
for many, many years of my adult life, I had
an inner gangster.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Okay, so you had a guardian of some sort.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
Absolutely, I've always felt protected and blessed. When I was
a road comic. I can't tell you how many times,
you know, I ran out of gas, I had a blowout,
I could have been There was one time when I
had my little dog Vinnie, and I was in Dutton,
New Mexico. I mean, I can tell you the place
is Montana. I've had my my serpentine belt go out

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and Dutton, Montana is nothing there. I've been in New Mexico,
in the middle of nowhere, praying.

Speaker 10 (22:56):
This was my prayer.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
If you're going to rape and kill me, take the dog,
don't take Vinnie with you. I'm not even kidding. And
a trucker stopped and not only did he help me
and changed two tires, but my lugnuts were frozen. It
was it was so hard for him to help me,
but he did, and we exchanged numbers. And this was

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nineteen let's say, for the sake of this story, ninety five.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
Four or five.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
My hard heart broke road years and I would send
him VHS shapes of my comedy. Oh and Christmas cards
so sweet deming New Mexico. I can picture the business card,
so that you know. I've always felt protected and safe.
But on the other hand, I always felt like I

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had to answer to someone.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
See now that's the part that makes me very curious,
because I heard something different the first time you said it.
It's almost like.

Speaker 10 (23:53):
But I was beholden to something. I owed it.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
That's what I'm talking it. So talk to me about that,
because if it's a guardian angel, the way I understand it,
it ain't going to be asking you for anything, because
love is for free. So help me understand what you
feel for lack of a better way of saying that

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this entity.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Is okay, Well, Bunny, you should ask because people always say, like,
when did you decide to be a comic?

Speaker 10 (24:22):
And I'm like, I didn't.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
I went with it, and I just dealt with a
core issue in the last two weeks because I know
that twenty twenty five is going to be the best
year of my life. You're meeting me on the best
ending of the best year of my life. That's going
to be even better. Things are coming fast and hard
and wonderful. And I have to whom much is given,

(24:49):
much is expected, no, bless obliged. Yes, And I have
always felt you know, people worry about the genetic lotto.
You know, if you look like Army Hammer. I'm just
saying I don't find a particularly beautiful, but he's tall.
You know, he had want sort of the genetic lotto,
you know, or if you're bought, born to generational wealth,

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or you're you know, you grew up in Nantucket and
that's your norm. Like whatever you want to say. But
I'm going to say something that's going to sound egocentric,
but it is not. You can look me in the eye.
God has been so amazing to me. Amazing. What I
have in my head makes me like Rockefeller was a

(25:30):
pauper compared to my level of unshakable faith, my intuition,
my problem solving, my my core intelligence, my IQ.

Speaker 10 (25:41):
None of this is bragging. I mean, it's I got paperwork,
But that's not I.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Got paperwork is a great life. Back it up.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
But that being said, I have always felt a guilt
of how easily things come to me. Not from the
outside looking in, they're not easy. I work hard, I drive,
I fly. I mean I from the outside looking in,
it looks challenging and it has been. However, the fact

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that I'm not afraid being to me is such a
gift because so many people live in terror.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Okay, as usual, you threw a whole bunch of stuff
out on the table.

Speaker 10 (26:26):
Sorry I'm not okay.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Let's start with that fear. The first article I ever
had published was on fear. The way I framed it
was false evidence appearing real y and we buy into
all these stories. I look around and the hardest thing
for me to have compassion for is fear.

Speaker 10 (26:49):
Because I'm the opposite.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
People are doing that to themselves, and I feel that.

Speaker 10 (26:55):
They don't know it. They don't know it.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
It's literally Jesus on the Christ, forgive them, Father, for
they know not what they do. The more terrified I
see a human, the more I lean in, And even
if I can't help them in that moment, I picture
them in white light.

Speaker 10 (27:11):
I know what it's like.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
I mean, I've been afraid. I know what it feels like.
And I see that they're gonna call something down from
the invisible. If they don't stop being that afraid, then
the next step is anxiety and neurosis, and then the
next step is cancer, and then the next step is
and I so want in my lifetime to help as

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many people as possible to stop it in the invisible.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yes, that's what this show's all about. It's helping you
realize your own magic. And what you were saying before
about bragging, because you said, you know God has blessed you.
God's blessed all of us. The difference is it goes
back to one of my favorite Roomy quotes, which is,
do not seek love, instead seek all the barriers betray

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between you and love. And that's just life, that's everything.
It's that if we understand that fear is a barrier,
and we could instead of trying to kill it, because
so often with these kind of processes, we want to
suppress it, we want to beat it down, we want
to Rather, you've got to.

Speaker 10 (28:17):
Lean into it.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
It's like Rumy says, look to the bandage place, that's
where the light comes in.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (28:23):
I can do some roomy quick.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
But when I see people that are afraid, that's the
first thing I tell them. I say, what's the opportunity
in your fear?

Speaker 9 (28:31):
Right?

Speaker 10 (28:32):
Why?

Speaker 6 (28:33):
Why is this in your movie? The Matrix was a documentary.
You made this scary thing show up.

Speaker 10 (28:37):
What are we going to do now?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Right?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Exactly? And then the idea is that is a very
very powerful force.

Speaker 10 (28:48):
That's what I make jokes about.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
People laugh at what my whole career, whether you know
it or not, the hardest laughs are what we're afraid of.
That's why death, the irs, impotence, you know, you put
a list of everything that people male and female are
terrified of.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
I can write a set list each other. Yes, absolutely.
And the idea is it's so powerful, why would you
want to kill that off? Instead make an alliance with
that energy that is you.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
I tell people, use what fools you to fuel you.
Fear can blind and fool you, use it to fuel you.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yep, I agree entirely. Absolutely. Okay, so you have all
these things that are going on, you are blessed, and
you realize it, and therefore you know to align with it.
And don't think I didn't hear that little bomb that
you dropped. So you just dealt with something.

Speaker 10 (29:40):
Huge, huge huge?

Speaker 3 (29:43):
How old.

Speaker 10 (29:45):
Like Tuesday?

Speaker 5 (29:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (29:46):
No, how old was it? Set in life?

Speaker 10 (29:51):
It predates speech.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
That oh no, no, no, nothing. Of course, I'll share
nothings for boten. I an I had an undercurrent, a
subtext of guilt because I have so much, and I
feel that it's probably you know what, like white privilege,
or which I don't have I'm hispanic, or or you know,

(30:17):
super rich people, or I don't know.

Speaker 10 (30:19):
I only know my own experience.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
You said it originally, and I thought it sounds just
like survivor's guilt. No, but wait, but for you, it's
Thriver's guilt.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
Okay, I'll take it.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
I like that.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
But yes, I.

Speaker 10 (30:36):
Just know how fortunate I am.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
Like when I see people that are looking at their
phone because they're trying to get directions and they can't.
I have such a good memory when I was a
road comic in the nineties and early two thousands. I
can navigate to this day, probably twenty five major metropolitan
cities without looking at like can I just know how
to get around?

Speaker 4 (30:58):
You know?

Speaker 6 (30:58):
Or when I I would fly to Apts for the
USO and I would land in Hanada, or I would
land in Korea and Soul Korea, and the other comedian
or the other performers would be terrified.

Speaker 10 (31:10):
They're like, they don't announce things in English.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
How are we gonna know a plane?

Speaker 10 (31:13):
Where's our terminal? And I just always knew, like it's
everything's figure outable, We're gonna get it, We're gonna be.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Okay, yep.

Speaker 10 (31:20):
And I always was right.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
I absolutely get that, and I agree with it. And
part of it is just learning to trust your intuition,
and all your intuition is is your connection with source
energy guide energy, universal energy that's as that's not encumbered
by fear or other things clogging the.

Speaker 10 (31:42):
Pipe, or even if it is, you just have to
be bigger.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
Like I tell people, people aren't born brave necessarily, but
everybody can be courageous.

Speaker 10 (31:54):
Just do it anyway.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, that's the thing I tell people all the time.
I'm afraid I said, Courage is not the absence of fear.
Courage is exactly what you just said doing it anywhere.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
I mentor people in comedy. Not many because I don't
want them to say she helps me and then they're
not good. But there's a handful of Yeah, people ask
me all the time while I mentor them, and I'm
like no. But there's like two or three people that
I mentor, and for the record, I don't even charge them,
like I make them buy me coffee or something. But
the first thing I tell them is you're going to suck.

(32:28):
It's going to be bad, and the audience is going
to stare at you, and you know it's okay.

Speaker 10 (32:34):
This is part of it.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Bruce Lee stole a line from Confucius. The difference between
the novice and the master is the master has failed
more time than the novices, even it's bad. That's the
whole thing. I love it. It's that you have to
be willing to be bad, otherwise you're never going to
be gone.

Speaker 10 (32:55):
Oh you should see me in yoga all over all
the time.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
I understand that one really well. I used to have
a yoga teacher I loved up in Santa Monica. He
was fantastic. Brian Kest was amazing. You go out of
there after three hours of yoga, Schwitz like nobody's building.

Speaker 10 (33:15):
Yeah, I look like I want to do the high.
I look like I was hit with a fire hose.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Yeah, but I'm so not good, and I so don't care, right,
I just keep going and sweaty.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
And along these lines. The other thing that's really important
is your opinion of me is none of my business.
And if I could remember that then And the other
thing this is we're talking off air that you had
some experience with Don Miguel Ruiz.

Speaker 10 (33:41):
Yes, he's so lovely, and when he was here.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
We're talking about not taking anything personally, and he explained
it gorgeously. He said, basically, we're just everybody's a character
in our story. Absolutely, because what we're doing is we're
not seeing them as they are. We're seeing them through
the prison.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
You don't exist. I'm going to go a step further,
they don't exist.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Tell the Matrix.

Speaker 10 (34:06):
It was a documentary. You don't exist. I conjured you
so that I could tell the story of how I
got over my guilt.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Nice. There's a guy named R. J. Spina who's written
a couple of books. He's been a guest too. He's
phenomenal and he's going to be on again soon as well. Yeah,
that's his whole thing. We're in a video game.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Absolutely well. I mean I'm a little old school. I
still like the matrix reference. But you know, it's almost
a quarter century at this point.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Is that long ago? Red pill or blue pill?

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (34:37):
And I tell people I say all the time when
they're oh, thank you for helping me, monique or whatever,
and I go, you don't exist.

Speaker 10 (34:44):
I manifested you because I needed to do this. Thank you,
Thank you for showing up in my movie.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
It's fascinating because now y'all are going to think I'm
whack adoodle. But I'll be walking down the street sometimes
and I'll go, huh, wonder if this is just all
something I put into a projection absolutely.

Speaker 10 (35:04):
I say it at the end of my stand up
on cruise ships.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
When I'm on a cruise ship and there's multi generational
I have you know, what they call family all ages.
So I love being on there with the grandmas and
the grandchildren. You know, the multi generational cruise ship. Theaters
hold about nine hundred people, so it's a great opportunity.

Speaker 10 (35:24):
They're packed.

Speaker 6 (35:25):
There's maybe even people in the aisle sometimes. So let's
say I got nine hundred peoples. They are literally, you know, captured,
They're on a ship. They you know. And at the
end of my I have two big closes that I do,
and one of them is, thank you so much for
being in my movie. And then I'll say the Matrix

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was a documentary and nothing is a coincidence.

Speaker 10 (35:50):
This isn't a group on.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
You didn't show up at a comedy club because a
friend got free passes. I said, you pick this cruise,
you paid for it, you packed, you showed up, you
came to this show. This is a very specific.

Speaker 10 (36:03):
Moment in time.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
And I'm now woven into your memory of this event
that you had with your family. And I say it
much funnier, but and I'm woven into to yours, I said,
And then I tell them about how everything is energy
and there's a reason why they call it the currency
of a country. And I talk about Wallace Waddles and
the science of getting rich. Again, there's stories I make

(36:26):
them funny. I say, so even though I go, when
you got on this ship, you'd never heard of me.
You know, maybe some of you've never heard of me,
but you came because you're on the ship and you
want to see the show. I said, Let's not make
it weird. I never heard of you either, I said,
but now you've heard of me. And when you send
the energy, because I do, you know again I get standing.

(36:47):
Oh's incredible ratings, I said, and when you send to
the stage what I'm feeling. I may not be the
most famous, but I am the highest paid comedian on earth.
Right now, you have sent me so much currency. I
am the richest comedian on earth.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
If you could see my forums right now, are the
hair is standing straight up? It's that's one of my
big barometers. When somebody says something incredibly poignant and that's
just stunning. It's like you are so much more than
I bargained for. In the best possible way that makes
me happy. I'm telling you. It's it's that I work

(37:27):
very similarly to you. I saw you a couple times,
you know, doing little Instagram things or on YouTube here
and there, and I went, hmmm, and I went, I
don't know why I'm asking her, but I'm asking her.
And now that you're sitting here, I go, oh, now
I know why I'm asking you. And you made it
so simple. Usually there's a lot of back and forth

(37:49):
and all these questions. You just basically went went and
where that's.

Speaker 10 (37:53):
Me because I follow the voice and the voice told
me to go.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah. I called it the little voice, but I like it.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
No min's of It's not even a doesn't talk, it's
a download. Yeah, I and you sent me the message.
And I was like a Sunday night driving like there
was a million things in my head. And then the
voice goes go, Okay, that's.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
How I roll.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
I tell people God does not reward me for my faith.
I'm rewarded for my obedience. I do what the voice
tells me.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Saying, now there you and I disagree, okay, because I
believe that we're not one of the greatest gifts that
we have as a humans. Is the gift of choice,
and to feel beholden is.

Speaker 10 (38:37):
I don't feel beholden to the voice. I just know
it's always right.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yeah, I'm stubborn anyway, because.

Speaker 10 (38:43):
I'll just go you're a man.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Here we go. Wait, she's just warming up, y'all.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
No no, no, no, no, no no no.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
Look, I don't know you from Adam's house Cat, but
I kind of do know you. Yeah, and there's a
charming glibness to you that you choose. I always say,
as an artist, you have two choices, when to open
the kimono and when to let it drop. If you're
not willing to be completely vulnerably naked, you're not going

(39:14):
to be an artist at that level. And you are
an incredible human I can tell already that. Being said,
you still are slightly guarded.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. And part of that. Me playing
with that is my own folly, and I realize that
as I'm doing it. There was a long time this
goes along these lines. To prove your point, There was
a long time I was struggling with the concept of

(39:46):
surrender and submission because.

Speaker 10 (39:49):
Very different things.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (39:54):
I'll give you a personal Okay, I had a boyfriend
that I dated for seven years, lived with for four.
We had an amazing run. I loved him, he loved me.
It was all good and it didn't end badly at all.
I always tell people the first season of True Detective
ended and so did we. It was perfect for me,
no need for season two. So that being said, you know,

(40:15):
he would He was into the house. You know, he
was into house stuff, which is unusual for a straight
mail but I mean really into it. Like he loved watching,
you know, design shows on HGTV. It was just his thing, right,
And if I wanted a lamp, he would say, you know, wow,
I don't really want a lamp.

Speaker 10 (40:31):
There, it's a clutter.

Speaker 6 (40:33):
One day, my mom was visiting and we were kind
of having one of these things, and it aggravated her.
She's like, you always let him get his way with everything.

Speaker 10 (40:42):
There are are you know?

Speaker 6 (40:44):
And I was calm and I said, Number one, I
don't compromise ever at any time, I don't. I said,
I don't believe in the concept of compromise. I don't
believe in it because here's what a compromise like. When
a scientist says the experiment has been compromised, Like nobody pops,
champagne corks like Petri dishes, hit the garbage cannon.

Speaker 10 (41:05):
It's over.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
When you compromise, neither person gets what they want. They're
just kind of putting up with something. The difference is
I capitulate, I surrender. I give people ninety five percent
of the time. Gary, I really don't care. I'm in
my own head. I'm thinking about comedy. I'm in a
dream state. I'm doing monique stuff, which is like aggravating

(41:30):
to people. However, what I want that five percent is
non negotiable.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Oh I get it. Yeah, I'm very very similar.

Speaker 10 (41:40):
So I surrender all the time. I capitulate all the time.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Right, And So I was struggling. I was going back
and forth, and I finally went to an elder and
I said, I'm struggling with what kind of elder? Most
of my training, most of my teachers have been either
the brilliant people i've been I get to have a
free masterclass with here on the program fun oh so cool,

(42:05):
or indigenous elders from all over. I've worked with shaman
here and also in the jungles in Peru. I've worked
with Native Americans first peoples in Arizona and in the
Dakotas and all over the place. And I've worked with
Aborigines in the outback.

Speaker 6 (42:23):
I haven't done that. Oh super bombed. I've been to Australia,
but it was just Sydney.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Just Sydney, Oh for you, uh huh. Australia is amazing.
It is huge, first of all. And the Aborigity elders
near ularu Are, it's always you hear really great musicians
talk about how to make music. It's not about the notes,

(42:51):
it's the space in between. Amen. And you watch these
elders and it's not what they say, it's the energy
in between what they say. That's everything, and it's stunning. Anyway,
I go to one of these elders and you say,
and I say, I've been struggling with this, what's the
difference between surrender and submission? And his answer was who cares?

(43:17):
And all of a sudden I realized what a fool
I was being. I realized how I was making this
up as an obstacle rather than just letting go.

Speaker 6 (43:28):
I asked my dad a similar question when I was
a little girl, only but much more prurient and funny.
I think because I would spy on the adults all
the time. I said, Daddy, what's the day the difference
between nude and naked? He said, nude is on purpose.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Okay, good to know. That's funny. Yeah, so all of
these things. Now you had this, you've been working through
something recently, yes, And what was that process like for you?
And what is the transformation like for you?

Speaker 6 (44:07):
Well, the transformation is happening like now, yeah, like the
last forty eight hours or seventy two.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Congratulations, thank you.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
I always go out of my way to help people.
I'm the person that if somebody says I want to
lose weight, I'm like, I'll meet you in the park
in the morning, you know, come over, we'll cook meals
and you know, put them in tupperware for the week.
And I realize how much of my life force, time
and energy I have spent helping people that really just

(44:39):
wanted to talk about it and not do it. And
the problem is, not only is it wasting my time
and upsetting me to some degree. I try not to
be judgmental, but I'm human when people like don't do
the thing they told me they wanted help with, and
I dove in with both feet to help them.

Speaker 10 (44:56):
I realize now that I don't don't have to do that,
that I can just you know.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
Ken Kesey says that love is not necessarily a call
to interact, like you can love people from Afar. Oh yeah,
but I didn't understand you can help people from Afar
that you can just wish them well, hold them in
a light, you know, tell them I've got faith in you.
You don't have to proactively dive in and help them.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
I think you and I are very similar in a
number of ways. One of the gifts that I have,
which is also a curse, is I could see a
person's essence, their soul viewing. And so when I was
working with people one on one as a guide, I
would see that and I would drag them metaphorically kicking
and screaming.

Speaker 10 (45:44):
And that's what I say to the Promised Land.

Speaker 6 (45:45):
I would say, grab them by the shirt collar and
they'd be like bouncing on the pavement and.

Speaker 10 (45:50):
Had road rastion on and they're like back all of me.
It's like, no, we're going exactly.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
And they were paying me to do it, and I
did it bo No. One day I woke up literally
and figuratively and I said, you arrogant so and so Greg,
it's who are you to dictate their life choices, their path,

(46:16):
their timing. That's all on them. So now I shifted
my work where you come to me. I'm going to
take you into the dark room of your choosing. I'm
going to help you find the light switch. You're going
to turn it on if and or when you're ready,
and if you would like some guidance with what to
do with all that new light, I'll be there. And

(46:38):
if you don't go do it's up to you, amen,
And it's up to each one of us. And the
difference is and it comes back to the same thing, fear. Okay,
you know, I have found that I am less afraid
the older I get and the more I really the

(47:01):
more I really become me, the less I realize there
is to be afraid of. And it's one of those
things that's if we could just help people understand that
it's okay wherever you are, as you are, it's.

Speaker 6 (47:20):
Not just okay, it's perfect. Yeah, it couldn't have gone
any other way. That's my new mantra. Now twenty twenty four,
I kept telling I developed a mantra, which is why
I think a lot of things surfaced, like poison, like plus,
like a boil, whatever negativity you want to say. I
know it sounds awful, but this year, I you know,

(47:40):
and we talked about it off air. I'll be brief.
My brother died suddenly massive heart attack during COVID July
twenty second, twenty twenty one. It took me a long
time to process. We were exceptionally close, and you know,
it's you expect to bury your parents, but not a
younger sibling. So it took a minute. But once once

(48:04):
I started to pick up the momentum of what it
did for me, because people would be like, you know,
I'm having a problem because I paid extra to have
that couch delivered before that party, and I'm thinking in
my mind, I'm thinking my brother's dead. And then the
second thought is like, I don't care about your couch.
And then the second thought was life is short, death

(48:25):
is sure became my mantra, and I didn't say it
in a negative way to scare myself or upset.

Speaker 10 (48:30):
It's the opposite. It freeze me.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
I've become like a spiritual tender like yes no yes
no yes no, Like like my invisible finger swiping right
and left, like and people say to me, like even
in the car when it's like a message comes in
and my car talks to me and says in the message,
would you like to respond no, blah blah blah No,
I say no, more than a bad two year old.

(48:55):
And I think that's why this year so many core
issue shoes that were in the in the corners, in
the in the subtext, in the you know. I mean,
I've dealt with a lot of big stuff. I'm very
happy person, but even those little snigly tiny hooks, you know.
And one of the last ones was that guilt of

(49:15):
having generational spiritual wealth and wanting to help other people.
And now it's like, the best thing you can do
is just be a great example. Wish them well. No
more casework, no more one on one files, just do
big stuff, think big thoughts, have big dreams. And to

(49:38):
that end, like people started, I had a video go viral.
Big people showed up like great stuff happened and is happening.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
Absolutely, Now that's your choices. It doesn't have to be
for me. I still love being of service, even the
small things, and that's okay. If the difference is how
I'm holding it. It's now so many things. I've discovered
this a lot lately. So many things in this world
are transactional, and especially the way people hold them.

Speaker 10 (50:11):
Everything is because there's an energy exchange.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
But does that mean it's transactional?

Speaker 6 (50:18):
Absolutely, go ahead. My dad told me when I was
a kid. There's no free lunch, and and there's a
whole conversation, a bigger, deeper, more spiritual. But we have
a finite amount of time on earth. When you have
given somebody your time, let's even take energy out of

(50:38):
the equation, you have made a decision to spend. That's
why they even call it paying attention. Spending time. There
is a transaction. You have given up something, whether it's
an hour of your life or some of your life force.
And people often don't understand the magnitude of.

Speaker 10 (51:01):
How much they give away.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Okay, I'm not disagreeing with that.

Speaker 10 (51:09):
You can't, We're friends.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
I can, but I'm not going to at the moment. However,
I think there's an evolution of that, and the evolution
of that is I am. That is I am just
gonna be And what I do isn't doing it for
the return on the investment of my presence is my

(51:32):
own return, and the more I could walk in that,
the more I'm walking as source energy incarnate.

Speaker 6 (51:40):
All Right, again, I'm not going to argue because it's semantic,
but I love the Earth experience and I'm going to
run out of it right as Monique Marvez.

Speaker 10 (51:51):
I believe in reincarnation.

Speaker 6 (51:53):
Right, but at some point Monique Marvez is going to
go nips up and that's game over.

Speaker 10 (52:00):
Pac Man. You know, did I how did I use
spend that time?

Speaker 3 (52:06):
I understand that, and that's the whole thing.

Speaker 10 (52:08):
And I've become much more judicious in answering that question.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Yeah, if we would realize how precious we are, then
we would be much more judicious. I can't tell you
how many times I've said to people, all right, so
you have the hope diamond, are you gonna go leave
that on the corner? No? Then why would you treat
yourself so callously?

Speaker 6 (52:29):
Because we're trained to. I mean, that's a conversation for
another day. But I don't know, which is why I'm crazy. Uh,
I'm not crazy.

Speaker 10 (52:40):
I'm out of my mind.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
It's not the same thing when I did my first
Show Time special, not skinny up Blonde is one hour special.
My producer, who's a wonderful man, said, do you want
to do any sort of dedications? You know, remember back
in record albums when they'd say I'd like to think
you know, He's like, do you.

Speaker 10 (52:56):
Want anything in the credits? I said yes, I said it.

Speaker 6 (53:00):
I want you to put I want to thank my
dad for being crazy in a good way and my
mom for being good in a crazy way. And he said, whoa,
that's great, okay, And I meant it. My father suffered
from depression back in the day, they called it manic depressive.

Speaker 10 (53:17):
He had shock treatment twice.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Oh fu.

Speaker 10 (53:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (53:20):
He was ridiculously brilliantly intelligent. My dad forgot more than
most people ever knew, and he would tell me when
I was a very little girl.

Speaker 10 (53:30):
He would say, one day, you're going to have the
attention of the world. What are you going to do
with it? God?

Speaker 3 (53:37):
I love your dad.

Speaker 10 (53:38):
He was amazing.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
My dad was probably equally as brilliant, but not as
effusive as your dad.

Speaker 6 (53:46):
My dad he just constantly bolstered the idea that there
was something very special about me and that I should
protect it and nurture it and enjoy it and know
that I was fortunate.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
To have it, and how long did it take you
to learn that?

Speaker 6 (54:06):
Tuesday no again, I've I would tell you I'm probably
organically one of the happiest people you've ever laid eyes on.
And I think even the things that trouble me don't
get into my soul. I have an expression that I
like to use where I say I'm soul sure instead

(54:27):
of so sure. People go, I go, I'm soul sure.
I go, did you mean to say?

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (54:34):
I love it because even when something's bothering me, and
things have hurt me and bothered me, I'm human.

Speaker 10 (54:39):
There is a part of me that knows.

Speaker 6 (54:42):
And I guess that's why I'm a good comic, because
as it's happening in real time, I'm the ultimate recycler.
I say, this is either going to be a great
time or material.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
That's funny, all right, believe it or not. We have
whipped through an entire hour, I believe it, and we
are going to take a show break for the top
of the hour, and when we come back, we're going
to dive into some of your projects. Here's some of
your material if you're open to it, and we're going
to rock and roll. I am just so blessed by
your presence. Thank you, Thank you for joining Monique Marvez.

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You are listening to Inner Journey with Greg Friedman on
k x f M. My name is Mariam Williamston and
you're listening to Inner Journey.

Speaker 7 (55:25):
With Greg Friedman.

Speaker 5 (56:07):
WHA will you do if I say out a song?

Speaker 6 (56:13):
We should stand up and walk out on me.

Speaker 5 (56:18):
Lay me your ear and I'll sing you a song.
I will try not to sing out her key. You
better let me.

Speaker 6 (56:33):
Somebody said, I'm gonna get on my friend having to leave.

Speaker 7 (56:43):
Hell?

Speaker 5 (56:52):
What do I do when my love is away? It
does a word be loan? No?

Speaker 7 (57:01):
No?

Speaker 5 (57:02):
Pound? Do I feel at the end of the days?
Are you saying because you're on your own? I said you,
I don't get sad, no more help from my friend.
I'm going to get fired. I'm going to get fat.
Leave my help from my preen.

Speaker 9 (57:21):
You know more people trying y'all with help from my bread.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
I don't get said no more movie. Do you need
any bad?

Speaker 10 (57:42):
I need some wonder lord.

Speaker 8 (57:47):
I'm gonna be a vile spos a smell.

Speaker 5 (57:57):
Somebody who knows, but I'm shut.

Speaker 9 (58:07):
From my forad said, I'm gonna.

Speaker 5 (58:10):
Get fine.

Speaker 9 (58:13):
No, son, I'm gonna turn.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
Shot.

Speaker 6 (58:19):
When I hid our hair from my fore head.

Speaker 5 (58:28):
Would you be lee even love at first sight?

Speaker 6 (58:34):
I'm certain happens all the time.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
What do you see when you can turn of the lights,
I can tell you about it. Shut. It's like.

Speaker 9 (58:52):
Said, I'm gonna get on that.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
I'm gonna get on back from my prayer, I do.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
By, I could be that.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Let me somebody, somebody who's gonna last minute, somebody who's
got so.

Speaker 9 (59:35):
Many in the world.

Speaker 5 (59:44):
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My name is Greg Friedman. I am a modern version
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a guide for years, I have taken people all over
the world to work with indigenous elders in exotic locations
only to show you that you are the magic, and
we just help you realize it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
It could be.

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Terrifying to look at our fears, and sometimes even more
so to look at our strangers. I take you out
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(01:02:40):
welcome back. You are listening to Inner Journey with Greg
Friedman on k x F M one oh four seven. Tonight.
We are here with someone who I originally said was
a very special guest, and she has far exceeded any
kind of possible preconceived notion that I could have had

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because Monique Marvez. I asked her on because her comedy
is so honest.

Speaker 6 (01:03:15):
They're not jokes. I tell people I tell the truth
and wrap it and bacon so you'll eat it. And
if you're not doing bacon, you can dip the truth
in ranch. Yo.

Speaker 10 (01:03:24):
I'll eat anything in ranch.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Come on, oh all right. So instead of me trying
to talk about what you do, I'm just gonna play
a little clipper. You go with that. Absolutely, this is
Monique Marvez at work.

Speaker 6 (01:03:39):
Men only want three things.

Speaker 10 (01:03:40):
They want you in a good mood, quiet and willing
to lick them.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
That's it.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
They're so simple. Women say, I don't know how to
talk to him. He doesn't listen to me. First of all,
this is what I've learned about men. You want a
man to love you with all of his heart forever,
don't talk to him. That's what your girlfriends and gay
men are for. Because we freak men out. Wreak them
out on the information Highway where drunk drivers. Because when
women talk, we don't have to have a point. We're like,

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you don't have to have a focus. You met a
guy on match dot com and he wasn't really divorced.
He was just separated, but it was like by a
body of water, restraining order, an area CODEY had a wife.
She wasn't in on the separation. What foundation are you wearing?
Your pores look tiny? But my guy that's coming to
visit me calls me.

Speaker 10 (01:04:21):
I keep it brief. Men are hunters.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
You want a man to love you, hide from his ass,
Stay off his I'm serious, Stay off the phone. I
pretend the FBI is tapping my line and I'm dealing blow.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
You know what i mean.

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
I'm like, make it fast. Be vague.

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
Where are you?

Speaker 10 (01:04:34):
I'm over here. I love you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
We'll talk soon, you know, all right? That is the
reason dad, she is sitting in this chair today. In
all honesty, it's that's the thing that made me go, okay,
I have got to find out more about this woman
because it's true. I mean, and you said it before

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the clip played. You don't tell jokes. You tell the
truth I do, and you wrap it and bacon. You
make it fun and funny and light, and yet it's not.
It's absolutely serious. The things that you're saying are so
elegant in their simplicity, and and that's why and wrapped

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in laughter. Who couldn't ingest that?

Speaker 10 (01:05:25):
And you start.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
One of the other things I've seen watching a lot
of your footage or some of your footage, is that
you'll play with audience members a lot. You do it
in the sweetest way. You could be just tearing apart
somebody's beard that looks oh, I.

Speaker 10 (01:05:47):
Know exactly what clip that is.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
Okay, it's crazy, yeah, except you do it, and you
are ripping him in the most fun and beautiful way
that he's not feeling demeaned or lessened or like you
are saying anything negative to me.

Speaker 10 (01:06:04):
Well, I genuinely like people.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
I genuinely like people, So when I'm playing with them,
it's like a like a cat.

Speaker 10 (01:06:12):
With a ball of yarn.

Speaker 6 (01:06:13):
I'm not there to hurt or claw or scratch. I'm just,
you know, let's have a little fun.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
How does that relate to what your father said at seven?

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
Well, you know which one I'll be happier? No, which
one fully formed demigod? Well, he didn't say that when
I was seven. He would tell that to people that
I was at seven. I here's what I'm going to
reverse engineer your question.

Speaker 10 (01:06:38):
Can I do that?

Speaker 9 (01:06:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:06:39):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:06:40):
When I'm on stage, I feel people, I feel their energy.
I know who's up to be played with. I know
who does not want to be played with. I picked
very carefully, and even recently I was complimented by a parent.
There was a family, a big family, cruising during the holidays,
and you know, as a group of cousins and sisters,

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and everybody was very pretty. It was a beautiful family,
affluent family. I'm on a nice ship. And one of
the girls was clearly like nerdy, smart girl. You know,
I'm not saying there was anything wrong with her. She
was on the spectrum that I could see. I mean,
there was nothing physically wrong. She just wasn't hushed up girl.

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And I immediately zeroed in and you know, complimented her
simplicity and how she hadn't been influenced by TikTok and
how nice.

Speaker 10 (01:07:36):
Just the reverse.

Speaker 6 (01:07:38):
The other girls clearly get all the attention. They were
beautiful girls with eyelash extensions and bandage dress.

Speaker 10 (01:07:45):
You know, they were.

Speaker 6 (01:07:46):
Clearly and I just really zeroed in on how I
was like the nerdy, brainiac microfiche girl, and I could
see it in her, and you know, she just lit up.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
It was like I plugged her into a socket like
she'd been seen. That's exactly what I was going to say.
We so desperately want to be seen.

Speaker 10 (01:08:07):
I see you, I see people. I see them so clearly,
right and when they when they you know, they.

Speaker 6 (01:08:14):
Just need a little top off and then I just
give them a hug and tell them they look great.
And when I could see like this girl probably her
family was subtly you know, kind of, oh, your cousins
look so terrific, I could just feel I've been her,
I have been her, you know, and I could feel it,
and it was It was a great moment for me

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watching her just come to life. And then you know, afterwards,
her parents sought me out later and said, like, you know,
thank you so much. You know, we don't know what
made you think to do that, but it was like
the high point of her trip.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Really. Yeah, that's so beautiful.

Speaker 10 (01:08:51):
It made me happy.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
That is great payment.

Speaker 10 (01:08:54):
Oh absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
All right, So what made you go into comedy?

Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
Oh boy, I'm gonna tell you a very funny story.
I've always been the person that says what everybody's thinking
and won't say out loud right always, so people laugh,
you know when I do it in my family painfully,
sometimes they're not happy about it.

Speaker 10 (01:09:15):
But I'm that person. Well, I got this thing.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
I call it the grievels. I don't believe in illness.
And a friend of mine uses the term Teresa. She says,
you got the grievels, and the grievels is a combination
of grief and sniffles. Like whenever somebody tells me I
have a cold, I go, you have the grievils? What's
bugging you?

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Now?

Speaker 10 (01:09:33):
That thing's bugging me? I just have a cold. Oh
we're going to go that route like that.

Speaker 6 (01:09:36):
If my friend's note, don't call him on he can
tell her you've got a cold, because you're gonna get
I'm like the closer.

Speaker 10 (01:09:41):
You know, I'm gonna put you in the box and
I'm gonna find out.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
Where were you on the night of the track.

Speaker 10 (01:09:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get it out of you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:49):
Right. So, so I had the grievels. I was twenty
seven years old, smart, didn't know what to do with
my life. And I was a waitres. I was, you know,
I didn't want to sell cosmetics. I had done very
well selling. I was a waitress and I was trying
to figure out what was next. And I had a fever.

Speaker 10 (01:10:08):
I had the grievls.

Speaker 6 (01:10:10):
I'm laying in bed. I'll never forget. It was May thirtieth,
nineteen ninety and the and the Miami Herald on the
inside page is like the people section, and I was
used to, you know, read that, and it said that
Sam Kinnison, rest in peace was at the Miami Arena.
The Miami Arena, it was like a big place, and

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they had a picture of him and he had like
these two big chesty blondes on each arm. And I
see your sign here. This says absolutely no swearing. So
I'm just gonna be careful. Could I said, if that
big ugly fat you know like, is getting rich and action,
you know like, I'm gonna try this comedy thing because

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people kept telling me you need to be a comedian,
you need to be a comedian. And I didn't stalk
comedy clubs. I didn't watch Punchline like. I wasn't that person.
I just called Coconuts Comedy Club and Coconut Grove, Florida, Miami,
and I said, how do you do comedy?

Speaker 10 (01:11:06):
I asked the guy how do you do comedy?

Speaker 6 (01:11:08):
And he said, you write three minutes of clean original material,
come in on a Thursday, and you sign up to
go up. And the next day was May thirty first,
nineteen ninety. It was a Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
How do you remember?

Speaker 10 (01:11:22):
I'm see for those people's minds.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Well, because for me, one of the things, time is
a very weird concept because I don't believe in it.

Speaker 10 (01:11:29):
I don't either, but we do market.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
It's hard for me to remember things.

Speaker 6 (01:11:33):
I remember everything interesting. My friends call me their external
hard drive. They'll call me and go you probably don't remember,
but I'm trying to think about that time ago you
were wearing a green dress.

Speaker 10 (01:11:43):
We did this, we did They're like, okay, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:11:45):
So so May thirty first, nineteen ninety I had cold
together passages from my journals because I've been a writer
forever since elementary school. And I pulled together moments in
my journal that people had said, like you need to
be a comedian, or that was hilarious. I just put
it together and I went up and the first time

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I went on stage, I got a lot of laughs.
And the guy that owned the comedy club ran the
comedy club. He goes, how long have you been open micing?
And I said, I'm was the girl on the phone.
He said, wow, you're a natural. Come back next Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Do you remember any of that?

Speaker 10 (01:12:21):
Of course I do.

Speaker 6 (01:12:22):
I mean I'm looking at the sign. Absolutely no swearing,
you know. I I'll tell you one thing that it
is clean. And then they all were, but they're like edgy,
you know, I don't want to so yeah, yeah, I
was a smart, nerdy child, okay. And there was a

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boy named Sergio, Sergio Vasquez who liked me, and I
remember and.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
This was in this I love that you still per
when you say his name, and.

Speaker 10 (01:12:53):
He emailed me.

Speaker 6 (01:12:54):
He emailed me recently, So I remember we're hearing and
I said this, and this is the funny part, I said,
I said, I remember hearing my mother tell my aunt.

Speaker 10 (01:13:06):
My aunt said that this cute boy in school like me.

Speaker 6 (01:13:08):
And my mother said, well, thank god she's smart and charming,
because she's not the cutest kid. And the same voice
that a flight attendant says, thank god they're foaming the runway.
Oh man, Oh yeah, so thank god they're foaming the runway.
We've got a big laugh that first night, and h
and that was all kind of along those lines about

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you know, overhearing things and how I used to spy
on the grown ups.

Speaker 10 (01:13:34):
And nice et cetera.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
And you never looked back, and you never thought nope,
you just from that point on you knud this is
this is me, This is my job, this is this
is what he gave me. Right, I get. That's why
I do this stuff. I mean, it's guiding people, whether
I'm teaching workshops or doing or guiding people on journeys
or one on one.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
It's what I do.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
Or here on the airways.

Speaker 10 (01:13:59):
How fun.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Oh I love it. Plus I get to learn all
the time. Absolutely, it's when I have people like Don
Miguel Ruiz, or James Redfield or Greg Brayden on it's.

Speaker 10 (01:14:11):
Like they ever had Mike Dooley.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
No, not yet.

Speaker 10 (01:14:14):
I love Mike Dooley.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
He's on the list. Okay, we'll get him.

Speaker 10 (01:14:18):
Can I come in and sit if I promise to behave.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
You can come in and sit if you promise not
to behave.

Speaker 5 (01:14:23):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
Okay, Now you said that you've had a lot of
things that have broken loose recently. Yes, talk to us
about that if you would.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
I'm gonna tell you a great story. I love a
good story. So in Ji, I told you my brother died.
And then in the fall of twenty twenty one, a
very nice man, Tony Camacho called and said, dry Bar
would love for you to do a dry Bar special.
Now they call it dry bar because there's no alcohol.
It's in Provo, Utah. You do the math and very

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nice people, faith based comedy, and they've fallen into this
weird Niche almost by accident of creating a clean comedy channel.
So it was Drybar Comedy on YouTube had millions of subscribers.
But the thing is they were building it and they
just wanted content. So every crappy middle in LA would
close their step by saying, catch my dry bar special

(01:15:19):
on you know right, you know, I'm human and so yeah,
and you know, like anybody that could scrape together twenty
six minutes of something could get a dry bar special.
So the ego side of me was like, I don't
know about this. But then when I told my friends
about it, like absolutely not. You have four showtime on

(01:15:39):
one HBO, why would you do a dry bar special?
Like everybody's like, no, it's a step down and back
and you know, awful. But something, the voice, something inside
said you know, and it wasn't the voice, It wasn't
a download, but it was a feeling of you know what,
you need something to look, you need something on the
horizon and tapings are always fun, and you need to

(01:16:01):
get out of LA, like you need to change of
scenery because we were still COVID lockdown and you know,
and I was in desperate grief, desperate grief, so I said, okay,
So I fly to Provoka And usually they filmed two
in the same night with the same outfit, so that
no matter how bad you suck, they can Frankenstein something,

(01:16:23):
and so I went up and I did thirty seven minutes,
and the girl that's in charge, Marin King, walked over
and said, we don't care what you do.

Speaker 10 (01:16:31):
The second show that was perfect, like we're just putting
it in the can. That's your special. We're done.

Speaker 6 (01:16:35):
Do whatever you want nice and I said thank you
and did the second show. Had a great time, and
then I didn't hear from them for two and a
half years. Really two and a half years.

Speaker 3 (01:16:44):
Did that freak you out?

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:16:46):
And then I stopped thinking about it. Like everybody that
filmed the same time as me was released. They were climbing,
they got numb. I got nothing. Really, yeah, crickets. So
they called me to approve cover art. They asked me
what I wanted to call it. But then nothing is
where it gets delicious, the voice had told me, because
I declared, declared, because that's what I do. I go

(01:17:08):
just like this, Greg decided and declared. And when I
do that, Katie bar the door. Decided and declared.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
So she's basically making a perpendicular motions with her arm.

Speaker 6 (01:17:20):
Yeah, cross, So I cut the air, I cut the
bad juju. So twenty twenty three, going into twenty four.
I said, this is going to be the best year.
I'm letting go of everything I've built momentum. I believe
my brother died and went to heaven to become my agent.
Because things were already ramping up, like I was in
a space. So March sixteenth was a Friday, and I

(01:17:43):
had just talked to a social media girl.

Speaker 10 (01:17:46):
Eighteen seventy sixty.

Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
Yeah, March fifteenth, just making sure because I know that
you like it. So I got this girl that's got
like a million side hustles. She's a great actress, and
I said, I need to get my forward facing media
looking not derelict now like I'm a witness protection comedian,
and because I feel like something big is coming.

Speaker 10 (01:18:07):
And she said, yeah, you're funny.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
There's no reason why you shouldn't have more view Like
she was like I've been waiting because she loves me
and she's a good girl. She's like, you should be famous,
like people should know your work like this is BS.
I agree, and she went on and on and on
and on. I said, Okay, so we're gonna we're gonna
get a website and we're gonna do this.

Speaker 10 (01:18:26):
Yeah yah, yeah, yeah, and believe me.

Speaker 6 (01:18:28):
It was something that I did that I could ill
afford to do because the next day was starting like
crunch of touring, like a red Eye of Miami.

Speaker 10 (01:18:34):
Get on a ship, get off a ship, go to
a theater.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:18:37):
PS.

Speaker 6 (01:18:38):
Tuesday March nineteenth, I get an email from Maren King saying,
here is an addendum to your contract. We have changed
the format. It's no longer just YouTube. We've created an
app and we're going to use your special to you know,
launch it the day of the app or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:18:55):
PS.

Speaker 6 (01:18:55):
By that Friday, I had two million views. By Sunday,
a friend was like, my girls breaking the Internet. I
was like, what he's like, you got x amount of views,
you know, millions of views. By Mother's Day it was
eighteen million people that hadn't heard from in twenty years.
It's a fifty two million now and hashtag Monique Marvez
on Instagram, I mean on a TikTok has one hundred

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and ninety million.

Speaker 10 (01:19:19):
It went bananas, Yeah, bananas.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
I get it. Now. This is a great opportunity because
everything I talked about in the opening, excepting allowing a lining,
it's illustrated here. There are so many times where you
could have and probably did sometimes and I would have
at different times pouted and yelled and bitched about how
come it's not up. This guy's up and I know

(01:19:44):
I'm better than him. This one's up, and I know it.
It's like, what the heck?

Speaker 6 (01:19:48):
But they're very fleeting. I'm not gonna lie. I do
think those thoughts. I get it, but they're fleeting. I
get it when I'm you're a human, Yeah, you're not
going to hold on to them. However, and I'm doing
this more for the general public, of course. It's that
The idea is we often have these kind of thoughts
as humans. What we don't understand is there are no accidents, m.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
So this is exactly as it needs to be.

Speaker 10 (01:20:17):
Amen.

Speaker 6 (01:20:19):
That's the biggest Amen I've set on the whole show.
And I've said a lot you have because we're in alignment. Yep,
that's what it means. So you know, I have a
big casting agent who lives in my building. She glides
around like Darth Vader in a black leather coat and
drives a maserati.

Speaker 10 (01:20:34):
And people kind of like her.

Speaker 6 (01:20:36):
I mean, she does big shows and on the fourth
of July she sashayed over to me on the roof
of the building and said, just the person I'm looking for.

Speaker 10 (01:20:45):
I turned around, is there's somebody sitting behind me.

Speaker 6 (01:20:47):
And she basically let me know that a major agent
sent her my video and said, who the bleep is this?

Speaker 10 (01:20:56):
And why haven't you cast her? And how have I
never heard of her?

Speaker 6 (01:21:00):
And now I have a very big person looking after
me and making good things happen behind the scenes nice,
and pretty soon they won't be behind the scenes.

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
And you, I'm telling you it's that there's an old
school honesty, because I'm so sick and tired of most
comedians these days, because people like Bill, Bill what's his name,
Bill Burr, Bill Burr, George Carlin, even you know, even yeah,

(01:21:31):
all these guys, I mean, no, Bill Hyman and him
I cannot remember his name, sixties seventies. Oh you're talking
about an older guy, yeah, yeah, okay, anyway, yeah, Bill Burr's.

Speaker 10 (01:21:42):
A young guy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
Yeah. All these guys were truth tellers and they would
probably possibly literally be crucified these days because everybody's terrified
of the truth. You know how charming it is when
people when you tell the truth to people. Most of
the time and they find it so lovely. When I
do it, they go, you so and so, because coming

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from a masculine energy, it has a different energy to it,
or more specifically, coming from my masculine energy, it has
a different way of approaching.

Speaker 10 (01:22:16):
Are they paying you to say it?

Speaker 3 (01:22:18):
Sometimes?

Speaker 10 (01:22:18):
Okay? Would you like me to explain cancel culture? Go
for it if you want to hear it.

Speaker 6 (01:22:23):
Yeah, I'm uncancellable, and I'll tell you why, because here's
how cancel culture works. Number one, it's voodoo. Meaning voodoo
only works if you believe in it. So here's what
I believe is that what happens is you tell the truth.
You're funny or whatever you are, whatever comedian, we can

(01:22:46):
fill in the blank. Dave Chappelle's taking some heat, you know,
fill in the blank. And you do things that are shocking, funny,
whatever they are, and you build this mass of public,
of following and people that are interesting in you.

Speaker 10 (01:23:00):
You've got eyeballs. So now corporate America.

Speaker 6 (01:23:03):
That wants to get those eyeballs, they sponsor you, they
put you on TV, they give you money. They so
now you have something to lose because you know you
are beholden. As you said, earlier in the show to
that house in Malibu. You've got a car, You've got
you know, you've got a lot of stuff riding on

(01:23:24):
this relationship that you have forged with people who are
anathema to an artist. So in my case, it's like,
I'm me, who's gonna cancel me? What'll happen? Drybar stops?
It pulls all my clips down? Okay, you know what
does cancelation look like to monique credit card debt? You

(01:23:45):
know what I mean?

Speaker 10 (01:23:46):
Like, I don't. I don't own a big giant house
in Malibu.

Speaker 6 (01:23:49):
I don't I lease a car, like I am connected
to everything and attached to nothing. So it's a it's
a three prong attack. Number one, I speak from good
intentions and love. I don't, And it's not the words.
The reason why I'm going to tell you something amazing
and blessed, blessed, blessed my demographic. The reason why I

(01:24:10):
have corporate America's eyes on me and wanting to get
me a podcast, sponsor me, put me on network telling
all the good things that are happening, is because if
you go to TikTok, it's all young twenty something year
old girls lip syncing me and they're all like, she's
my shero, she's fierce. I love her because of the
fact that it's not the words that get you canceled,

(01:24:35):
it's the intention. If you genuinely have a hitch in
your gidde up about the other human being. It's it's
like when a Southerness says, bless his little heart. They're
not saying they're saying something all different.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
Yeah, they're saying that's an idiot.

Speaker 10 (01:24:50):
It's right.

Speaker 6 (01:24:50):
So all I can offer, And maybe it's dead wrong.
But we're friends and I like you. Is that be
Maybe maybe even though they're paying you, you are a
strong personality. I could feel it through your emails. And
maybe they're not mad at what you said. It was

(01:25:11):
just a little too unvarnished for their taste.

Speaker 10 (01:25:14):
Yeah that's all. Yeah, that's all. But that being said, my.

Speaker 6 (01:25:19):
Three prong attack is Number one, I genuinely love you,
genuine from my heart. I just love everybody till they
give me a reason not to. Number two, I have
no agenda. See the difference is I'm just being a comedian.
People actually pay you to do stuff and then they
get mad when you make them do it. And I
get that you put yourself in a position, you know.

(01:25:42):
And then number three is I'm not dependent on the
externalities of being a celebrity of the money and the fame,
and that's all nice. I've had success at that level,
not at that level, but I mean I've done drivetime
radio where I was making a lot of money and
I had a you know, house in Encinnita's not with

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my fourth husband.

Speaker 10 (01:26:04):
That was a long time ago.

Speaker 6 (01:26:06):
You know, I'm going back to the Wikipedia page saying
I've been married to my fourth husband living. I haven't
lived in Ensinnita since two thousand and seven. But the yeah,
but the epshot is and that was a third husband.
But the epshot is is that you can't take anything
away from me because I'm not attached to anything.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
It's that one word is the freedom word, non attachment.

Speaker 6 (01:26:28):
It's I love a house in Malibu, but I'll do
it when I can pay for it cash or mostly
you know what I mean. Like, I'm not going into
debt to live a particular kind of life, right, I'm
not interested in that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
Because you look at all these people, it's they go
from the time they're seventeen or eighteen or even younger
till the time they're seventy or seventy five, going and
working nine to five, so they could pay for the house,
so they could pay for the car, so they could
pay for that two weeks to go somewhere. And it's
why not just live your passion. Listen to that little

(01:27:03):
voice or big voice in your case.

Speaker 6 (01:27:05):
Well, what I tell people to what you do for
a living isn't the same as what you do for
a life. There are two different things. Like you can
have that job, you can be in a cubicle, but
by God, you know, by God, on the weekends, get
out there and decopogh you know what I mean?

Speaker 10 (01:27:18):
Like whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
There's a word you haven't heard in a long time.
Pash what a shock. And we're going to take a
short break. We are here with Monique Marvez. You are
listening to k x f M.

Speaker 9 (01:28:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Honey says, I said my episode you.

Speaker 7 (01:28:29):
I'll tell you that truly.

Speaker 8 (01:28:35):
Episode you're trying to clasic.

Speaker 11 (01:28:40):
Cob where.

Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
You're lame go.

Speaker 7 (01:29:37):
As mind him.

Speaker 9 (01:29:46):
Like a can't shut So.

Speaker 11 (01:29:57):
My guy, I'll stand yam, wank out the mess up.

(01:30:55):
I'll tell you truth.

Speaker 5 (01:31:03):
She's coming clos Steff. She's getting close to me. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
To you guys, social media again is in a journey
with Greg Friedman and the website is Gregfriedman dot com
and we are hanging out with Monique Marvez. And as
far as I'm concerned, you are one of the brightest
shining stars in comedy today. I'm there's just and it's again.

(01:32:51):
If you guys are just tuning in, it's really simple.
You're a truth teller and that's it, and you make
this reality what it needs to be, which is a
big joke.

Speaker 10 (01:33:04):
Oh, it's a cosmic whoope cushion.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
Yes, it's exactly what it is. And it's the thing
is if more of us would just realize that, then
we'd be in on the joke rather than have the
joke on us.

Speaker 10 (01:33:17):
Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:33:18):
During COVID on Saturday nights, I did a show called
Talk of Our Times because the acronym was two. I said,
this whole thing is just a cosmic whoope cushion. Just
we're gonna get through it. Because people were flipped during COVID,
So I did like fifty three shows every Saturday night,
like because I was on KFI from eight to ten.
I would do from A to nine, no commercials, straight

(01:33:41):
up hour of just talking about not even like COVID stuff,
but just observations of people being kind or funny or
what happened in my family.

Speaker 10 (01:33:51):
Or et cetera. And people loved it.

Speaker 6 (01:33:55):
They came together and once this dry bar video went viral,
what I really the blessing is that all my social
medias have ticked up because what my producer from Showtime
he said, Monique, it's not how many views you get,
it's the shares and the percentage of shares. Like somebody
can have two million views and a couple hundred shares.

(01:34:17):
He's like, your percentage of share the amount of he goes,
that's that's the money. And I was like, wow, I
never thought of that. And then he says, and then
they go and find you, and they and all of
your everything's ticking up.

Speaker 10 (01:34:30):
Like he called me.

Speaker 6 (01:34:31):
He was so excited because because all of his stuff,
all of my specials that he's filmed, Snoop Dogg Presents
at Back, Girls of Comedy, Latin Divas of Comedy, not
Skinny NP Blonde, of all of his clips that have
me in him were ticking up dramatically because he said,
once people find you, they want more.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
Right, Oh, which I love. It's absolutely true. I have
sought you out all over the place. Now to that end,
how do people mind you? What's the dry bar? How
do they get associated with that and see your stuff?

Speaker 10 (01:35:04):
Thank you?

Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
Well, there's an app you can watch ten minutes for
free on YouTube or Facebook, very funny. So just you know,
type in Monique Marvez Drybar and it'll pop up. Believe me,
you can't miss it. And then and there's several clips
now one of them has like sixteen million, five millions,
a bunch of clips. And also, I'm the only Monique
Marvez on social media because Marvez is a very small

(01:35:27):
name and we're all related. So at Monique Marvez on instat,
at Monique Marvez on x. However, on Facebook I'm maxed
out because you know, you only have five thousand.

Speaker 10 (01:35:40):
So it's Monique Marvez official fan page.

Speaker 6 (01:35:43):
Please follow me there because that seems to be the
one that gets the most traction. Really yeah, I have
like twenty seven thousand followers on Monique Marvez official fan page.
And here's what I want you also to know is
that during COVID March twenty fifth of twenty twenty.

Speaker 10 (01:35:59):
I'd just gotten back from Australia.

Speaker 6 (01:36:01):
I almost got stuck in lockdown in Australia, and a
friend of mine who's a manager of talent, called me
and said, money, don't go dark. You're you know you're different.
You're not a regular comic. You're like mister Rogers. So
find a way to interact with your friends during COVID
and your fans. So I didn't even know what I
was doing, but I went live March twenty fifth, twenty twenty,

(01:36:22):
at three thirty pm, and I said that we're going
to find a rhythm from no rhythm right now. Nobody
knows where to show up, what to do, what their
life is like. So let's agree at three point thirty
to meet here, and I'm going to say something funny
or positive or just we'll be together energetically.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
You're creating a village.

Speaker 10 (01:36:44):
Thank you. And I and I and it just my mantra.

Speaker 6 (01:36:47):
It just came to me, I said, I said, fear
stays here, love comes near, all gets clear, like we'll
figure it out together.

Speaker 10 (01:36:56):
It just came to me.

Speaker 6 (01:36:57):
I said those three things, and then I did it
every day. I missed three days for minor surgery to
get the Shimbowski's redread.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
And then.

Speaker 6 (01:37:07):
And today I think was day one thousand, seven hundred
and thirty seven, and i've I said, when you guys
stopped showing up, I'll stop doing this. Well it dropped
down to like four hundred people watching, you know, the
core group. But I kept doing it because I figured
it four hundred people are showing up and it means
something to them, then it means something to me. I'll
keep doing it. And people were like, You're gonna have

(01:37:27):
to do this the rest of your life. Well, then
the dry Bar special came out and people followed me
on Monique Morevez official fan page. But prior to dry Bar,
we had formed they have a group chat, the three
point thirty Gang. They talk to each other all day,
they send each other Christmas it's a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:37:46):
Oh yeah, it's a village. It's it's a trial.

Speaker 6 (01:37:49):
So now the least amount of views I get is
like fifteen hundred, and some of them when the when
the messages are particularly poignant or heartfelt. I did one
on Boxing Day on the twenty sixth of December where
I said I'm not boxing up. I will clean my closet.
I will have a real boxing day. But today I'm
boxing up negativity. I'm boxing up the invisible. And I

(01:38:13):
went through a whole poignant conversation about what boxing Day
means to me this year because I know that twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 10 (01:38:21):
Will be the best year of my life.

Speaker 6 (01:38:23):
So I'm boxing up and I processed that, the guilt
thing and the you know, I said, this year, I'm
so grateful that things became very obvious and apparent, and
I know what dark corners of the closet they're in,
so I can box them up on Boxing Day.

Speaker 10 (01:38:37):
And that one has ninety, like nine three hundred views.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
Yeah, and it sounds like your monologue. Your talks are
very parallel to mine. Yeah, And so what are you
going to do with all that room now that you
don't have Thriver's guilt?

Speaker 6 (01:38:55):
I am smiling ear to ear because I love a surprise.
But I texted my very powerful agent today and she's
a girl, and I told her, I said, I think
the word gobsmacked isn't even going to begin to cover
what's going to happen to me next year.

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
Nice. I love that you feel that in your bones.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
I'm so sure you, and it shows, it vibrates off
of you. Yeah, it's not like there's Sometimes people will
say that and they're saying it because they're attempting to
manifest it.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
Sure.

Speaker 6 (01:39:30):
And I've been that person too, the one whistling in
the park so the monster won't bite your head.

Speaker 10 (01:39:34):
I've been that person.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
I'm the monster. So there's something else you brought up.
But I want to talk about that for a second
because it's really important for me. Trust is proven, faith
is offered. And you've spoken a lot about faith tonight,
will you say a little bit more please?

Speaker 6 (01:39:55):
Faith is one of those things. Okay, again, I hate
to go back to the Matrix. People are gonna think
I'm a one trick song, a one trick pony, one
note song. Faith is like being in love. And I
love the scene in the Matrix where he goes to
see the oracle and she talks about you know, being

(01:40:17):
the one is like being in love.

Speaker 10 (01:40:19):
You just know.

Speaker 6 (01:40:20):
And what I tell people about faith, you don't have
to feel that in love feeling like I feel. But
if you feel something akin to it, if you feel
like you're having a crush on it, like you're getting
close to it, like you like the feeling of knowingness.
You feel more comfortable when you believe in yourself versus

(01:40:41):
when you don't. It doesn't have to come to you
of a piece. It's not respect like respect. Do you
either respect somebody or you don't. But faith can come
up like the sun. It absolutely can get brighter and stronger.
I feel blessed and fortune that I have been in
love with the world and the process at predate speech,

(01:41:05):
I was born like this, you know, it's like being
born with Charlie's Throne's face. She'll never know what it's
like to be ugly. She's Charlie's throne that she was
born with that face.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
You did a good job in that one movie, I know,
but you.

Speaker 6 (01:41:18):
Get my point. Like people that are I was born,
but I do. I can because I am intuitive. I
can feel when people are playing, they're leaning in, they're
getting closer, they're flirting with faith, and even that feels delicious.

Speaker 3 (01:41:35):
So if somebody is hearing this and going, boy, that
sounds amazing, how do I do that? How do they
do that?

Speaker 6 (01:41:44):
I've just been telling a friend of mine. It starts
with a dream, dream bigger, whatever you think you can do,
dream bigger than that. And then when you start to
feel a little uncomfortable like, oh I could I could
never you know, fill in the blank, like I could
never live in that big house. When you start to
get to the negative part of it, then you then

(01:42:07):
you dial it back. But what could you do that
would be exciting? What's the furthest you can go? And
then just keep getting closer.

Speaker 3 (01:42:15):
To the house. Interesting because the dialing and back part.
I think it's throw who said a man's grasp should
exceed his reach absolutely Elsewise, what's a heaven for?

Speaker 10 (01:42:26):
Amen?

Speaker 6 (01:42:27):
And Mike Dooley, who I reference, talks about the delicious Incomplete?
So you know, I there's things that I very much
want and I dream, and my dreams are getting bigger
and bigger, so that means I'm really going, you know,
I dream of arenas. I dream when I look and
I see people like Joe Coy or Russell Peters selling
out the H two arena or Sebastian Menescalco.

Speaker 10 (01:42:50):
There was a time when I wanted it, but I
would go like, I don't know how that's going to happen.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (01:42:56):
It exceeded me right now, I can dream, I don't
know how it's gonna happen. But that doesn't frighten or
upset me in any way. It's like, oh, but I
can see it now, interesting, I could, and and but
it came from knowing that when I thought of it
and got nervous or afraid or challenged or doubted, that
was perfectly normal human. And Okay, yeah, get as big

(01:43:18):
as you could get. Okay, I can do a big,
big theater.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
Then think about big, big theater. Right, But don't forget
that for a second. You thought I really would like
to do that. I really would so, and you'll get
there stretching. It's stretching, that's the thing. It's like, are
you willing to go to that place that's beyond your limits?

Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
Are you willing to go.

Speaker 10 (01:43:44):
To them in your imagination? You've got nothing to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:43:47):
Not only that, the truth is you're the one who
put those limits in there.

Speaker 6 (01:43:51):
Yeah, and dream, I tell people, dreams have no calories.
Eat the biggest piece of chocolate cake you can in
that dream.

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
Okay, I like it, definitely like it. All Right, we're
gonna play another one of your clips.

Speaker 10 (01:44:03):
Okay, hold on it. Oh you like this one, haha.

Speaker 3 (01:44:13):
Being a woman is a team sport.

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
Oh yeah, it's a different world. Last time I dated,
you know, there was like smartphones and sexting and texting.
I sexted for the first Well, I don't really sex,
you know what that kind of quasi sexted. But I
told him, I said, don't send me pictures. I don't
send me because women are not visually stimulated. I'm gonna
tell you right now, we're not like you. You send
a woman a picture your package on the phone. You

(01:44:36):
know what she does? She looks at the phone. What
does he want me to do with this? You know
what I mean?

Speaker 10 (01:44:39):
Like first thing, we show it to our friends.

Speaker 6 (01:44:41):
You need to know being a woman now, being a
woman is a team sport. You need to know this.
When a woman tells you I'm not telling anybody, that
means seven broads will know by dawn. You need to
know this. It's why we like when you give us gifts,
so we have something to take to the coven and
show the other witches.

Speaker 5 (01:44:55):
Look look what I got.

Speaker 6 (01:44:58):
We tell each other every it's really guys, you should
be nervous. If you have a woman and she has
a best friend, they know what you call your thing.
You know what I mean as my girlfriend Andrew, her
husband calls it tyrone. Okay, that's his nickname for his thing, tyrone.
Why this guy's a ginger, you know, but he calls
me yeah tyrol.

Speaker 10 (01:45:15):
Yeah, I all right.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
That was just a short grip, you know. And it
is so true. I gotta tell you. I have been
in the presence of women that trusted me enough that
they would speak around me as though I wasn't there.
And the things that women will say will melt a

(01:45:40):
man because they will talk about which way the vein
on your penis goes. I mean they will say every
single intimate thing.

Speaker 6 (01:45:52):
They talk about men having locker room talk, where like amateurs,
did you.

Speaker 3 (01:45:59):
Have a good talk? Yeah, what did you guys talk about?
I don't know. It's well, did they have a good time? Yeah?
How'd you know? Because he said he had a good time.
That's I mean, what do you want from me? It
was a good conversation. Except it's not the same for
both sexes.

Speaker 6 (01:46:14):
No, But in all fairness, even though we do discuss
the physical with women, a lot of it's more about
the feeling, like well that we that's what we really
talk about. Is how how the person made you feel physically, emotionally, spiritually.
We fire on a lot of pistons simultaneously.

Speaker 3 (01:46:34):
Oh yeah, you do. It's amazing, all right, lady, believe
it or not. We are at the last question of
the evening.

Speaker 10 (01:46:40):
Oh you've told me that you always ask the same
last question.

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
Anything you'd feel remissing if you didn't share?

Speaker 10 (01:46:46):
Because is this the last question of anything? I feel
remiss Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:46:49):
I mean because anything we talked about you'd like to
flesh out more, or something we didn't talk about. Also
a great opportunity for shameless promotion plugs all over the place.

Speaker 6 (01:46:59):
It was just like people to follow me on my
socials because then they'll know when I'm coming to a
town near them. At Monique Marvez on all socials except Facebook,
Monique Marvez Official fan page.

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
And you are all over the country. You are.

Speaker 10 (01:47:12):
I travel a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
Where are you next?

Speaker 6 (01:47:15):
Actually next, I'm on a cruise ship. So if you
have and it's sold out, So if you're not on
the Celebrity Ascent, if you're not on a celebrity ascent
a week from tonight, you're not going to do it. However,
if you're in La I'm going to be at Yama
Shiros and this funny little speakeasy venue on the fourteenth,
and I am solidifying a lot more Southern California dates
as we speak, because I want to get it like

(01:47:38):
dig in, Like I was at her Mosa Beach Comedy
of Magic last night. It's a great club and we're
going to set a date there and a bunch of
California North and south. But for sure, I need to
spend more time with my peeps.

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
And do you like cruise ships? I ever been on one,
It just seems.

Speaker 6 (01:47:58):
It's not it's I'll put it this way, the road
as it used to be, where you would go to
a comedy club Wednesday through Sunday, two shows, Friday, two
shows Saturday. The Internet has killed the road in a
lot of ways that it has lessened, you know, some
of the things that were institutions. Radio KFI you know,

(01:48:19):
is a different animal than it was when I was
on there.

Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
Oh boy, it is.

Speaker 6 (01:48:22):
Yeah, so that I love places like this, which is
why I'll come back anytime and support I so believe
in this. That being said, the cruise ships are the
new road, meaning that's where I can really get in.
I mean, obviously I'm on there for three or four
days with them, so I sometimes I have to stay
in my cabin because it's a little too touchy feeling.

(01:48:44):
It's like you say thank you good night, and they're like,
where are we going? We're in the middle of the ocean, right.
But that being said, I've built my fan base enormously.
I've gotten gigs from it because you know, I'm blessed
to be on a good ship, so I get people
that own businesses and corporate and on top of that,
there's not a lot of comedians that can perform regularly

(01:49:06):
for thirty five hundred you know, delighted people.

Speaker 10 (01:49:10):
So it's it's been wonderful for me.

Speaker 3 (01:49:13):
It is it just sounds like real. So do you
stay the whole cruise?

Speaker 5 (01:49:17):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:49:17):
No, I start the cruise with the audience, and then
when I'm done with my shows, I get to get
off at the next port and just fly back.

Speaker 5 (01:49:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:49:25):
Nice, Yeah, it's nice.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
One more time, give me a plug.

Speaker 6 (01:49:28):
At Monique Marvez, m O n I q U E
M A. R. Vias and Victor e Zas and Zebra
not Marquez, not Montez, Monique Marvez.

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
And we are going to play out with a clip
from Not Skinny, Not Blonde. Hugely grateful to you.

Speaker 10 (01:49:48):
Thank you my pleasure. It was wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
You are absolutely amazing.

Speaker 10 (01:49:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
And I say this every week and especially at the
end of the year. My gratitude is off the charts.
There are so many many people, guests and also the
people in admin working behind the scenes to put this
show on. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and most
of all, I'm grateful to you, the listening audience. This
show does not exist without your participation or that well said,

(01:50:18):
and so so much more. I'm huguely grateful. Thank you.
Good night.

Speaker 6 (01:50:23):
When somebody really really loves you, it's kind of like
a LoJack on your brain. You know, there's just so
far down the road of depressed and freaked out I
can get and then I remember I have a good man,
and he picked me. I did the hard thing. Now
it's up to me to try and remain the person
that he picked. See men, thank you, that's a nice
thank you. Try to remain that person. Are you with

(01:50:48):
me now much? I day because you're looking all somber,
like this is good stuff. I wish that I've brought
some of my kids and their mothers. No, it's true.
I have the most wonderful life.

Speaker 11 (01:51:05):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:51:05):
I'm so grateful. I hope I gave you some stuff.
I tell people, if I made you laugh, that's really
really my gig. I really want to make you laugh.
But I tell people, if I made you think, that's good.
That's a really good thing because you go home and
you think of some stuff. The ladies, you're gonna go home,
You're gonna suck it in. You're gonna buy the expensive peenties.
I know they feel like a cheese grater, but they
won't be on long. And that's the thing. If I

(01:51:29):
made you think, great, if I made you laugh, that's
the real deal, because laughter is the sav that keeps
reality from scarring, you know what I mean. And then
I tell people thank you, thank you so much, thank you,
And gratitude is the perfect concealer for everything that went wrong. Absolutely,

(01:51:50):
I'm so grateful for my life. I have a great life.
I have great relationships.

Speaker 5 (01:51:54):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:51:54):
Me and my mom we so get along, you know,
after heartbreaking homos, she and I just like were like
right there was heartbroken and we're tight. It's a good thing.
And my brothers, I have the best brothers in the world,
and you know, I just have a great life. I
miss my dog, Vinnie Moscatelli. I had a dog when
I started comedy, and I wish he could be here tonight.
You know, he was my road guy when I started

(01:52:15):
out being a comedian. That little dog went everywhere with me.
He was totally my little dude man seventeen years. I
had that dog from my first gig. Yeah, is this
Vinnie Moscatelli, My little Italian dog? Isn't that great? Tamra?
People will say, how do you know your dog's Italian?
He's little, he's hairy, he's macho, he's possessive. I didn't know.

(01:52:39):
He was little Harry. Macho and possessive shows everybody as
Magenta croon. He's a little lover, that Vinnie. I hope
my grandma's looking down. She'd be so happy. My grandma's
stubborn ass woman. My grandma's stubborn. She couldn't hear for shit.
She's deaf, but she wouldn't get a hearing aid, so
we'd have to scream all the time. Will you know

(01:53:01):
strained vocal corse? Ah, you know why she got a
hearing aid? Finally bingo not for us, so she could
hear the bingo caller. A Bingo caller like B twenty
three you would hear before the hearing aid. Cat Now
she'd be like, B twenty three, go on you, you know,
because that's a cuss word for I don't have B

(01:53:23):
twenty three. Yeah, so finally got her a hearing aid.
She goes up to my mother. She's like, Maii, that's
my mother's name is Margie, but it's Mai. My att aparrato,
my hearing aid. This thing gives me gas. My mother's like, no, Mama,
you always had gas. You just couldn't hear yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:53:50):
That's the kind of people I come from, stubborn, delusional,
wonderful people. My mom's so adorable, so polite, so cute.

Speaker 5 (01:53:57):
My mom.

Speaker 6 (01:53:57):
I took my mother to Vegas for the first time.
My mother had never been to Vegas sixty ninth birthday.
Go mommy, you're going to Vegas. And my mother sees it,
don't it look at these women. She's freaked out. You know,
you know what goes around Vegas with the floss and
all of that, you know, all that business. I'ma's like, oh,
my God, are those women professionals? My mother can't even

(01:54:17):
say hook her. She's too polite. To my mother, it
would be a pedestrian sperm engineer. She saw that scente
so cute. I took her to Vegas. She loved it
so much. She's so cute. You know what I'm really
proud of too? How many? And again I don't mean
to pander, but we are in San Bernardino. How many
of my Latino brothers and sisters are here? Flat? Make

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some noise?

Speaker 10 (01:54:39):
Flat?

Speaker 3 (01:54:39):
Flat?

Speaker 6 (01:54:40):
Thank you. It's a funny thing because my mom's gotten
to that phase where she you can see she's trying
to get along with me for a couple of reasons,
and she just finally came right out and said it
the other day. She's like, you would never put me
in a home, right, honey, Because that's women's greatest fear,
women's great fears that they're gonna end up in their

(01:55:01):
daughter's garage getting fat on cat food. You know, it's true.
It's probably a good reason I'll have a daughter. I'll
just be in some random garage eating cat food. But
but one of the things I'm really proud of is
that in English, you know, you have convalescent home, assisted
senior living, you have all of these names. It's Spanish, people,

(01:55:22):
think about it. There is no word for old folks
home in Spanish. There isn't because we can't fucking afford
them anyway. We just have to keep them. And don't worry,
mom and dad, the sum nurse from Apple Valley. I'll
have a very nice garage converted apartment for.

Speaker 9 (01:55:42):
Both of you.

Speaker 6 (01:55:42):
Okay, absolutely, you can count on it. I see everybody
fanning themselves, you know what. Thank you. I've got to
mention it again. Thank you for sitting through the heat.
All right. I mean it is hot. It's not Lozard
exploding hot, but it's I was gonna try and get
a little action in my green room with my boyfriend
after the show, but i'd have to rinse off it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:04):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:56:05):
I got, yeah, an hour talking to you people. I've
definitely got a little swamp puss going on it. So yeah, yeah,
it's marinated. That's a man right there. Spray a little
for breezing your pits. Baby, I got a boner. Let's go.

(01:56:26):
I'm gonna start to wrap it up now because there's
so many of you that I want to make sure,
I say good night to Ron and his woman. Make
sure you know the drill. Now, okay, you know what
to do. He does the right thing. What are you
gonna rub? You're gonna rub everything, and you're gonna do
it like you mean it right, Throw your back in it.

(01:56:47):
Don't take your man for granted. There's a lot of
hussies out there. There are a lot of hussies. There's
a different kind of woman out there now. They're aggressive
and they don't even know how to really enjoy something,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:56:59):
Huh.

Speaker 6 (01:57:00):
They can't cook. This is now turning into an open
form where people just yell at each other. They can't cook,
they won't rub your balls. What do they want to do?
They just want to be out in the workplace. No,
I'm not a very good cook, But that's funny. You
should say that. When you really love somebody and they
make you happy, you will try things you've never done before,

(01:57:22):
like that trick. Yeah, here's the thing, true story. I
had not cooked for a very very long time. I
had Unfortunately, I suffered to burn when I was younger,
and it freaked me out and I didn't cook for
a lot of years. And then it's true and then
when I met my man, I thought, you know what,
it's been a long time, and part of that's an excuse.
So I decided, I said, you know what, I'm going

(01:57:43):
to learn to cook. I'm gonna learn to cook and
I'm going to cook something delicious, and I'm gonna make pancakes.
But here's the cool thing. Ladies, take the pancakes a
step further. Here's what you do. You make pancakes, and
then you tell your man lay down, face down, and
then you get some butter, and you butter each cheek.

(01:58:06):
Yeah yeah, And then you put the pancakes, let them
cool down. You don't want to scald his ass. This
is the perfect combination sex and maple syrup. And then
you put your hair back in a ponytail, you put
your hands behind your back, and you start eating the pancakes.
Then you start licking the maple syrup, and you'll know

(01:58:30):
your man's really having a good time, and he'll move
a cheek and go. You miss a spot. We call
that Saturday. I'm gonna give you my three best pieces
of advice. Number one, love hard. Your heart is a muscle. Okay,
even if you're loving the wrong person, consider it cardio
for your spirit, okay. And you can always learn something

(01:58:54):
even if you're loving the lowest formal life. Believe me,
I know. Number two forgive harder. That's the one that
really freaks people out. Forgive everyone. Forgive his ex girlfriend,
the skank. If it wasn't for her, you wouldn't have him.
And believe me, girls, I try to tell the guys.
Women are a little insecure. Every woman you were with
before is a whore and you regretted. Okay. And number three,

(01:59:17):
get as happy as you can, as fast as you can.
It's nobody's job but yours. Thank you, good night, God
bless you.