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Chona E Gets UNFILTERED! 😂 Comedy, Tequila & Celebrity Roasts 😂🔥E6 | S3 · The Unspoken Podcast w/ Breyden & Cody

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody, to The Unspoken Truth. My name is Brayden,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, I've got my partner in crime, Cody,
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  Speaker 1: right here with me. Today's guest is somebody who knows
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  Speaker 1: how to make people laugh, keep it real, and represent
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  Speaker 1: her roots while doing it. From becoming a viral sensation
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  Speaker 1: to selling out comedy shows and even taking the stage
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  Speaker 1: to host the Tejano Music Awards. She's been making people
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  Speaker 1: laugh every step of the way. She's a wife, a mother,
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  Speaker 1: an actress, and a comedian. And she's right here in
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  Speaker 1: North Texas this weekend with her Hot Flash and Furious
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  Speaker 1: comedy tour. Today and tomorrow. But we're getting to know
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  Speaker 1: the woman behind the laughs. We're talking life, family, fame, struggles,
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  Speaker 1: and everything in between. So get comfortable because you never
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  Speaker 1: know where this conversation is going to go. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: The Unspoken Truth. And everybody, please welcome the hilarious, the
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  Speaker 1: fabulous Joanna Estrada, aka Chona.
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  Speaker 2: Yay!
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  Speaker 3: What a beautiful intro.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't he do it so well?
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  Speaker 2: For the tissues.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he did great.
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  Speaker 1: He did great. So we're so excited to have you.
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  Speaker 1: How was your flight?
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  Speaker 5: Flight super easy, 40 minutes from San Antonio. But tell
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  Speaker 5: me why I slept.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, I get on the plane and I sleep before
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  Speaker 2: it takes off.
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  Speaker 3: It's very rare that I do that because I hate turbulence.
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  Speaker 5: But I did that coming home from Albuquerque because we
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  Speaker 5: went out and I didn't sleep.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm also that guy. I hit the airport and
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  Speaker 2: it's drink time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 2: I get a drink or two and I'll get it.
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  Speaker 3: So you're nice and relaxed.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I'll sleep as soon as I hit that fucking plane.
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  Speaker 3: And you're the guys that I pass by and I go, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's drinking.
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  Speaker 1: We're not sloppy like that. No.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Speak for yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we can get sloppy, but not on the airplane.
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  Speaker 4: It depends on how long the flight is.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're not trying to bop that line. Right.
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  Speaker 3: You're not trying to get kicked off the plane.
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  Speaker 1: I need to come back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: Shit.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tempt me with a good time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to come back.
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  Speaker 1: I got Delta.
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  Speaker 4: He said, don't kick me out. tempted yes yes so
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  Speaker 4: san antonio is that where you live.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah that's where i live that's where i'm from and
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  Speaker 5: you lived here before yeah i moved uh to dallas
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  Speaker 5: in 2007 okay yeah 2007 lived here for seven.
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  Speaker 4: Years san antonio afterward yeah went right back home so
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  Speaker 4: where's actual home san antonio you went back home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah i went back home okay all right yeah awesome
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  Speaker 1: we're all texas natives.
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  Speaker 3: Huh Yeah, 100%. It's the best place to be. Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: He's from the Midwest where there's nothing but dirt.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing different here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel... I'm.
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  Speaker 2: From the Four Corners way up there where there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: but drugs.
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  Speaker 1: Ice and snow.
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  Speaker 2: Drugs, ice and snow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always cold up there. Yikes. In Amarillo.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit further north.
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  Speaker 3: My Uber driver in Albuquerque was from Amarillo.
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  Speaker 2: All four seasons in one day.
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  Speaker 3: Do you really?
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  Speaker 2: It sucks.
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  Speaker 4: The blizzards will be up your door and they still
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  Speaker 4: expect you to go to school. We'll see you when
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  Speaker 4: we see you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, not in Dallas. 65, close it down.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I remember when I lived here, there was a
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  Speaker 5: pretty gnarly snowstorm. And I used to work for the
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  Speaker 5: doll store, American Girl. That's where I worked for years.
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  Speaker 5: And we still had to go to work because we
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  Speaker 5: had to bring joy to the children.
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  Speaker 3: And I was with child. So I was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: what about the joy in my stomach?
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  Speaker 5: You guys don't give a shit that I have to
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  Speaker 5: drive my ass there with this big ass stomach.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to dive in. Where did the nickname
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  Speaker 1: Chona come from?
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  Speaker 5: That was a nickname my dad gave me growing up.
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  Speaker 5: He said I reminded him of a woman that was
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  Speaker 5: selling alcohol out of a paleta cart in Mexico. And
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  Speaker 5: on Fridays, they knew she was coming. She'd be ringing
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  Speaker 5: her little bells and she's got her... She would stop
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  Speaker 5: at the job sites. It's payday Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So they would... All the.
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  Speaker 5: blue collared men would stop her and get their drinks.
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  Speaker 5: And he said that she was just the funniest female
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  Speaker 5: that a man had ever seen. And he said, you
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  Speaker 5: remind me a lot of her, her spirit and her
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  Speaker 5: character as a little girl. And I was like, so
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  Speaker 5: you're saying that I'm an old woman that sells alcohol
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  Speaker 5: to the men. He's like, no, besides that, that just
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  Speaker 5: happened to be what she does. But she was very funny,
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  Speaker 5: very witty. And she just had a way of of
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  Speaker 5: being so charismatic with her comedy.
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  Speaker 2: So you've always been funny and comedic, even just as
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  Speaker 2: a child?
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  Speaker 3: It's what they say. Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it was really the only way to grab
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  Speaker 5: people's attention, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And the moment that I realized, like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: This, I can.
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  Speaker 1: I could do this.
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  Speaker 3: I could do this.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, I'm going to go ahead and keep
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  Speaker 5: doing it.
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  Speaker 2: When did your career kickstart?
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  Speaker 5: 2018 is when I had my first viral video, and
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  Speaker 5: it was at that point that we were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we got to run with this and see where we
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  Speaker 5: can take it.
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  Speaker 1: So what's it like when you have a video and
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  Speaker 1: it just like, you just, you're just posting it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to post it. And then it just, it goes viral. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what's that? What's, I imagine it's like hearing your song
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, you know, just something to that extent.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, a hundred percent.
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  Speaker 5: Well, part of it is that my goal was that
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  Speaker 5: I just was hoping to get at least a thousand
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  Speaker 5: views on it.
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  Speaker 3: That was going to be crazy great.
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  Speaker 5: And I posted it on Labor Day and we drove
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  Speaker 5: to go see my mom who lived in Del Rio, Texas,
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  Speaker 5: which is two hours South of San Antonio. I never
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  Speaker 5: checked my phone after I posted it before we left.
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  Speaker 5: Cause my expectations, you know? And I guess I must've
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  Speaker 5: had it on silent. So by the time we were
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  Speaker 5: 30 minutes outside of Del Rio, it had 800,000 views.
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  Speaker 3: And I was all.
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  Speaker 5: Like, I couldn't, my husband's driving. I was like, like
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  Speaker 5: I could barely even speak.
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  Speaker 3: And he's like, what? And I showed him and he's like,
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  Speaker 3: What the fuck? That's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: But what happens when that happens is immediately you think 800,000 people.
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  Speaker 5: I thought I was famous that day. I was walking
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  Speaker 5: around Walmart.
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  Speaker 1: Like, everybody notices me. I don't know who I am.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Where's my publicist?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm out.
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  Speaker 2: They just saw my video.
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  Speaker 5: No, and I'm like, and I'm thinking like in my
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  Speaker 5: head that people are staring at me and I was like, yes,
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  Speaker 5: I'm the girl.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the girl.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's me.
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  Speaker 5: But we went to, there's like a little river that
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  Speaker 5: goes down at Del Rio and people camp there and
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  Speaker 5: they swim or whatever. We happened to be out there
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  Speaker 5: and a lady from across the river actually walked over
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  Speaker 5: and said, are you that girl?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, I told you. I knew it
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  Speaker 3: was happening. I'm like, listen, it's happening.
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  Speaker 5: I told my husband, you better get some security over here.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting wild.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't even know how to act, bro. I was like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: you could take a picture.
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  Speaker 4: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. So that part of it, um.
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  Speaker 5: It's so crazy how quickly your head fills with, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: and I am not like that. If anybody who knows
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  Speaker 5: me personally is like, she's not like that at all.
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  Speaker 5: But I did, I made a few mistakes in that
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  Speaker 5: area where I'd see people at the grocery store staring.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yes, I know you're looking at me. Come
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  Speaker 3: take a picture. And they're like, I don't, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know who you are. I'm like, Get
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  Speaker 3: humbled real quick.
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  Speaker 1: So before you went viral, what was, what did you
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  Speaker 1: envision or what was your career before, you know, before comedy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I honestly always had a passion to perform. I've
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  Speaker 5: been performing since high school in theater. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I went to acting school. I did all those things.
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  Speaker 5: So you went to Los Angeles, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: New York and Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. So I, but nothing really ever happened. And that
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  Speaker 5: was my fault because I was young. I was dumb. I...
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  Speaker 5: I really enjoyed the party life more than focusing. And
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  Speaker 5: a job was really just a way to support me
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  Speaker 5: so that way I can continue partying and whatever. So
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  Speaker 5: before 2018, I was a claims adjuster at an insurance company.
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  Speaker 5: And so, yeah, that's what I was doing.
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  Speaker 1: You were the one that settled my claim?
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  Speaker 3: It was probably me, honey.
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  Speaker 5: I have fought with every attorney you can possibly think of.
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  Speaker 4: You've hit enough curves and had enough wrecks that she
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  Speaker 4: probably did.
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  Speaker 5: We're like, you came out on the report for most
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  Speaker 5: filed claims. We're going to send your ass to fraud.
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  Speaker 5: And I see B warning immediately. So, yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 5: I was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Just.
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  Speaker 5: Living my life as a wife as a mom and
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  Speaker 5: you know at that time I only had my first
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  Speaker 5: born and so that was it I was climbing the
• 8:19
  Speaker 5: corporate ladder and you know I would get a bonus
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  Speaker 5: like that was great.
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  Speaker 3: Like dude I got a fucking bonus.
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  Speaker 5: She's kicking ass at work you know what I mean
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  Speaker 5: and never thinking in a million years that this desire
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  Speaker 5: to perform would just happen.
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  Speaker 3: Kick off like it did yeah how many kids do
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  Speaker 3: you have I have two.
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  Speaker 2: Do either of them follow you in comedy?
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  Speaker 1: Comedy. Comedy.
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  Speaker 3: Comedy. That's a good one. I like comedy. The little one.
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  Speaker 5: My 16-year-old is, she's a scholar. She's an honor student.
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  Speaker 5: She's all that. My little one is a straight-A student
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  Speaker 5: as well, but she's very witty.
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  Speaker 3: Just naturally. And so.
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  Speaker 2: My oldest is pretty witty.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it's so fun to watch your children.
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  Speaker 2: She's such a little, she's mean.
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  Speaker 3: Well, so is Quinn.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say what I wanted to say. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, they are. I think the funny ones are mean.
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  Speaker 5: We'll trauma bond about this because I completely relate.
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  Speaker 3: Mine's seven. How old is yours?
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  Speaker 2: My oldest is 18.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so that's an adult kicking your ass.
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  Speaker 4: Now, yeah, but when she was 13, 14, it was
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  Speaker 4: a teenager kicking my ass.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, those are tough years.
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  Speaker 4: And my youngest now is 11 and he's falling behind.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I bet he knows it all.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't know better.
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  Speaker 4: He was at his stepdad's house and he builds fences
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  Speaker 4: for a living. My son was telling him, everything you
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: did wrong, you're not doing this right.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: Do this right.
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  Speaker 1: You don't do that right. You can't tell him.
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  Speaker 2: That he doesn't know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 5: 11?
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: 11. Yikes.
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  Speaker 2: 11 and he knows too much.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, but we encourage them to read, man.
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  Speaker 5: Is that what he's reading at nighttime?
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I had a bill.
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  Speaker 1: Fences.
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  Speaker 2: They don't read, they watch.
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  Speaker 3: Very true.
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  Speaker 5: I'm very blessed in the sense my girls like to read.
• 10:06
  Speaker 5: Like the seven-year-old made herself, I just was like, clean
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  Speaker 5: your fucking room, please. It's always a mess. And she's like,
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  Speaker 5: I cleaned my room, but I did do something productive.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like, what? She's like, there is a fort
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  Speaker 5: in there. I know you're going to think it's not clean,
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  Speaker 5: but mom, it's because it's a little nook so I
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  Speaker 5: could read more books. And I'm like, how can you
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: say no to that?
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  Speaker 4: All my stuff is piled in there, but I lay
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  Speaker 4: on it to read.
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  Speaker 5: And I looked, it was really cute. She had like
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  Speaker 5: a little crate of books on the side. I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: she's really serious about this October reading challenge. She wants
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  Speaker 5: her class to get the pizza party, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Gotta love it. Yeah, but that's what I do outside
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  Speaker 3: of this. Kids, kids, kids, kids, kids. My world revolves
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: around that.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a grandbaby growing up, too.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: He's got a grandbaby.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: So I get kids, kids, full time.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: Kids, kids, kids, and grandkids, kids.
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: One year old December. What?
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  Speaker 3: Are we the same age?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to talk about it?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, let's go. I'm 38.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: I'm 38.
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  Speaker 3: Shut the fuck up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He looks older, huh?
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: Fuck off. Are you older? You're older and don't have
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  Speaker 2: a grandchild. Yeah, he can fuck off right there. I'm
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: actually the youngest one in the room.
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  Speaker 3: I could fuck all the way off because I said,
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: are we the same age?
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: You're younger than me, right?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm 42, mijon. Oh, man. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm the youngest one in the room.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, grandkids?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 3: Slow the fuck down. I like to get it. What's
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: your rush?
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  Speaker 4: I want someone to come see me in the funeral
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  Speaker 4: or in the nursing home.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like, sir, how old are you? He's like 15.
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  Speaker 5: The youngest motherfucker in the nursing home.
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: No.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: So yeah. 18, 12, almost 12 and one.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have babies?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: I got two babies, two dogs.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: I got three babies.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what kind of dogs do you have?
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: I have a Chihuahua and a long-haired Jack Russell.
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  Speaker 4: I say we're working on it. I'm trying to get
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: him because he wants to adopt and I need him
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  Speaker 4: to hurry.
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  Speaker 2: Up and do it.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: A child?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I want him to get like a 15-year-old because
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: mine are almost gone. I want to live my life.
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: I'm like, mm-mm.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to stick around for his.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so just one grown up and set in their ways? Yeah,
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: watch my.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: House while I go on vacation.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody come see him in the fucking nursing home.
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  Speaker 5: But how do you know you're going to be in
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: the nursing home? What if they make you rot in
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: your bed?
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: I hope not. I'm going to be like Dolly. Nipped
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  Speaker 1: and tucked in 17. Oh, please.
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: Same.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: I'm a nurse full time, so I.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: Spend a lot of time nursing home.
• 12:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, I see.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: So that's real.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you for taking some time away. from your
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: duties to be here today.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: Of course, I'm glad you came.
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, you're welcome. I'm happy to spread joy to you today, sir.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you for your service. I'm just recruiting.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: In case this doesn't work out, in case this doesn't
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  Speaker 5: work out, you can fucking.
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: Come nurse with us at the nursing home.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: So when did you, after your video goes viral, when
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: did you realize that Chun-Ai could be a career?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 5: When I started doing stand-up comedy, And I, and it
• 13:12
  Speaker 5: was like the smallest thought because I started selling comedy
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: tickets before I even had a comedy set and, and
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: not like quick moment in time.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: I thought like, oh, that'd be crazy if I can
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: do this like forever.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: But I had never done standup before. So when it
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: actually started becoming real was when I was having a
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: hard time juggling everything, mom, wife, you know, full-time job, comedy, touring.
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: And then I got, you know, approached by management and
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: I was like, okay, this is getting fucking serious. What
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: do we do? You know, I think the biggest thing
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: for me and the hardest decision for me to make was,
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: do I continue pursuing this as a career or Or
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: is that making me like a bad mother? Because I
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: was the one that carried the medical benefits for the family.
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: And like, but I'm very blessed in the sense that
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: I have such an amazing family. My parents, my husband,
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: my children, everybody was like, go for it, mom. Like,
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: just do it. Just do it.
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: And so, yeah.
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: And so we took the plunge. I, you know, not
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: sure how many people will watch this, but I've never
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: talked about it until now. I quit my job in
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: June and I've been free falling with God's grace ever since.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: This year?
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: No joke.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I, it just had become too much. I was
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: getting a lot of panic attacks and anxiety about just
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: everything and trying to juggle and then the full-time job is,
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: is a whole nother, it's a whole nother beast because
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: even though they're, you know, you 40 hours a week,
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: but not in my job, you know, the claims adjuster jobs,
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: it's very demanding and, in this particular company, there was layoffs,
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: but they weren't replenishing the jobs. And so we would
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: have to pick up the slack. And when I'm not
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: pulling 60, 70 hours a week to keep up, you're
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: getting reprimanded. And I'm like, I'm not going to fucking
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: work for you guys 80 hours a week. And a
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: lot of my home girls that I worked with were
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: doing that. And there was times I was there at
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: 10 o'clock at night, just at my fucking desk. And
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: I worked from home, which was another blessing. But I
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: was like, I can't keep fucking doing this. I wasn't
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: having time for content. I wasn't having time.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: So, yeah.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: So who is, who is Chonai? Is she a specific person,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: a combination?
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: She, what you see here is not what you'll see
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: on stage when you guys come to the show. Chonai is,
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: is rough. She's very unapologetic. she is la mera mera,
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: like she is that bitch. Like, and she's not afraid
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: to stand up for herself. She's not afraid to, be
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: whatever she wants to be. She's the most confident person
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: in the entire world. And it's not at all who I,
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: who Joanna is, you know, like I.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a lot of my drag queen friends.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's what it is. No, a hundred percent. It
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: really does.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: It's like an alter ego.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Like a Sasha Fierce.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: If you will. Like a Sasha Fierce, if you will.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: That's what it sounds like to me. That's, that's definitely Tawna.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Any performer, whether music, whatever, Any performer, then they go
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: on stage, they become a different person. It's a switch.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: It's just a switch. And you get to be that person.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: And it's unapologetically, it's great, you know?
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, in a nutshell, it's a Sasha Fierce type situation.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: No, I was telling my mom.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see it.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you. I speak a lot of Spanglish.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Do you?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I know a little bit.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: He was married.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, good, good. So try to keep up.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I don't do subtitles.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: We're not talking about.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: My marriage life.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: No, nine years, Hispanic in-laws, nothing but Spanish.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: So I'm pretty good.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Okay, good. Good, good, good.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know when I saw your video, I said
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: it to my mom and I go, mom. And she's like, okay, son.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, this is like all my tias
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: and like grandma. There's all of them mixed in one.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: I was just laughing and laughing. And I was telling
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: her this morning about the one that you did when
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: you're like, tia, you're going on the trip and she's
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: got the hat. She brought her bikini.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, all her stuff. So that character is Doña Chona.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Doña Chona, yes.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: She's... Three years old in internet land, I believe, three
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: or four years old. And yeah, that is what brings
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: all the senoras to, you'll see, there's a lot of
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: elders in the audience.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: What really struck with the first video that I sent
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: to my mom was, because I was like, when I
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: have kids, you know, I'm going to eat, because my
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: mom doesn't particularly care too much to watch my dogs
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: when I go on vacation. And so she said, what
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: are you going to do? What do you have kids?
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I'm going to bring one. No, no, no.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: In the video, you know, you brought your kids here.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: You didn't come back till Monday. And I was like,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: that's it. It's my mom. I go, this is you.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: It's exactly who you are.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: And because and it's and it's crazy because a lot
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: of the stories is just like life experiences and things
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: that have happened, like in the family or stories I've heard.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: And so I'm just.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Putting it to life with this character. I'll get texts
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: from the family, like.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Bitch, really? The world doesn't know, but I know.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: But nobody knows.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: So you've talked about, you know, using the comedy, you know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: with your different characters and insecurity and body shaming. How
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: has your relationship, how has this, how has your relationship
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: with yourself changed?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Am I the same person I was in 2000 18.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know how to answer that.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I really, I don't. Are you more confident?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's, yeah, I would say yes. I'm definitely more confident. Um, Yeah,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I would say that. I would say that. I don't,
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: besides I get Botox and I'm a hundred pounds lighter,
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: but physically changed.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: We can't tell you're confused about the question right now?
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: No, no, you can't.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: I actually said a joke about it. You'll see tonight,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: but yeah, I'm like, this is my mad face, my
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: happy face and my angry face.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I love Botox. It's great.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I would say definitely a lot more confident.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Do you also, so with your comedy, do you feel
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: like your comedy is preserving a piece of Latino culture
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: with the personalities that we grew up?
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: 150 fucking percent. I feel, and I've said this a
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: few times, I feel like that part of our culture
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: is dying because we're so fucking censored and like.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Sensitive?
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Sensitive and like, you know, growing up, growing up, my
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: mom would be like.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: And like, that's. a fucking harsh ass word.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: It is. I would never tell a child today, panzona
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: or panzon. Now, maybe some of my friends, maybe, and
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: we're roasting each other. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: But never, because you can't speak to people that way anymore.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: It's just not.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: And that's why I feel like that part of our
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: culture is dying, which is why I love that I
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: can play Doña Chona. Yeah. People aren't getting offended by
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: the things I'm saying because there's, yes, there's nostalgia behind
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: it and there's truth. And she is the people that
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: we grew up with, but she's 75 now and she's
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: still the same because that's who she is, you know?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: And that's my favorite part about playing her is I
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: love that. I love that people are having that like
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: nostalgic spark when they watch the videos. And that's, that's
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: really important to me because I, I do.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: It in honor of my mother-in-law and my, and my mom.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It's funny when, cause I have a big Botox and filler.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: We talk about that and I love lip filler.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: They're a little small right now.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: A little much.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: But my grandmother got, she was a 93. She passed
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: two years ago, but 93 years of wisdom. But anytime
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'd get it done, I'd go see her. And she's like,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: She'd be like, are you okay? And I'm like, yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I'm okay. And I wouldn't tell her about the lips.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And mom would say, mother asked, she's like, why does
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: he look so fat? And it was my lips. Every
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: time I'd get my lips on and she'd be like,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: he's fat. And mother's like, I don't know. She didn't understand,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you know, lip filler. But mom was like, and that's
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: muy hinchado. I was like, mother's asking why you're so fat.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: You need to lay off the salt.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And so, like I said, that character just specifically
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: just growing up for me, that's what struck it. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and I had been talking about it, too.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And I was like, there's this I want to bring
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: her on the show. And then, you know, I saw
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you got management and everything. So it's just, yeah, squirrel.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: But anyway, so that was that was the highlight of
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: last year for sure.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: So talking about like. your family, we won't go too
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: deep into it, but like your husband. So do you
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: ever make, on your comedy tour, do you make jokes
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: about your husband and how does he feel about that?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Does he get offended?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: No, no. He likes every fucking pair of shoes I've
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: bought him after every fucking show. So he's happy.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Early on in the comedy, 99% of it was my husband.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: I had a whole... bit about when I was toxic,
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: when we've been together a really long time, I had
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: a whole bit about, um, you know, how we handled
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: the weight loss journey. Like, and a lot of it
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: was about him. Um, now there's still a few bits
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: about him, but he doesn't mind at all.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: And did he in the beginning?
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Never, no, because we met in high school. So he's
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: always known what I've wanted to do. I just didn't
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: realize it would be standup comedy. And, uh, he's just
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: so supportive. He's like, I'm just happy to see you
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: where you finally belong. And I don't give a shit
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: that you're fucking roasting me the whole time you know
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: but um yeah he doesn't mind it and and in
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: the beginning uh he would be at every show because
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: we were just performing locally and so he would run
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: the merch table and people would say like the men
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: especially like you have some fucking balls like i would
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: never let my wife talk shit like the way she
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: does about you up there you know and my husband's
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: like I'm secure, man. I have no fucking issues with
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: my wife.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Doing what she loves.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: That's really awesome. What's your husband's name?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: His name is Bill.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Billy.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Billy.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Billy Estrada.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Kudos, Bill.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Kudos.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And I love that, too, because hearing that story also
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: sounds like one of my other favorite comedians is Leigh-Anne Morgan.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: And her and her husband have been in it forever. Forever.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I got him watching her videos, too. She's like, oh, no.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: With her accent.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: With her little twang.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: She's so good.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: She said I had to be a hoe for him.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: She had to do nasty things in that bedroom.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: That's right. I agree with you, Morgan.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Every time he goes to a hotel room.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Unspankable things.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Relatable.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Relatable. You'll hear about it tonight. Relatable.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And so how do your daughters react to seeing mom
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: on stage?
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: So they don't come to the shows because mommy's raunchy.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: I'm raunchy. Ladies, be prepared. And so they don't come.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: But my 16-year-old got to be backstage at one of
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: the biggest shows of my comedy career, which was last
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: year in November.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: It was a 985-seater.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: And so she came out at the curtain call and
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: surprised me with flowers.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: And she just... fell into my arms and started crying.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: And I was like, why are you crying? She's like,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you. So yeah. So it's, it's,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: it's really cool. It's really cool.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: And the little one loves it because her teachers are
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: all fans.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Her mom is famous.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. She's like, you're coming to speak again for career day, right?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I'll be there for the fourth year in.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: A row, girl.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: That's so cute. So going into your character a little
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: bit more about Doña Y. Yeah. So what is the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: most stereotypical señora thing you do?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: For Doña Chona?
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: The stereotypical thing that I do is if you notice
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: that every video she's either watching a novela right before
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: she answers the phone. And it's so stereotypical because she's
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: very engaged. She yells at the TV. And I think
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: that that's just super stereotype.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: That and when you did the video and Dos Mujeres
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Un Camino.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: My grandmother, like, it's a Spanish novella. Like, that's how
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I was learning Spanish with my grandma. I stayed with
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: her and we watched it. And she did the video
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: with the Laura.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Laura Leon.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And she's singing the song in front of the 18-wheeler
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: because the driver left her for the other girl.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. Eric Estrada.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Eric Estrada was the truck driver and he had two women.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: He had Bebe and he had Laura Leon. And oh
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: my God, so intense. I think I was like nine.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I was like probably like six or seven watching it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: And my aunt said, does he need to be watching that?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: My grandma, no le importa, dejalo.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: No, they don't even understand. But very invested. I was
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: like this.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I would watch it with my dad.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: What's something that younger people do today that makes you say, like, oh,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: hell no?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: The makeup.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Like, I think young girls with a full fucking beat
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: is wild to me. You know? And it's no offense,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: you know, to the ones who do. I just, I've
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: seen some, like... they're young and they don't know how
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: to contour yet. So it's like, you see all this like,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, girl, you are in seventh grade.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Take you back to our junior high.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I don't remember my home girls. If anything, like we were,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: we would do like a lip liner.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: They would put it on their hands and smear it
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: all around their face and do the whole thing.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Where are you from?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Amarillo.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Texas.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's why.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Amarillo ain't got nothing better to do over there but
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: put makeup on.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: No, and I don't remember my homegirls doing full beat. No,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: I don't remember. Compact, I do remember, like, my girlfriend's had.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: But I'm talking now, like, their nose is contoured.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: With the brown.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: With the brown.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: And the colors aren't blended.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: In sixth and seventh grade, that's the shit that's like... What?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: High school.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, when you're in high school, do what you
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: got to do. But this, I mean, obviously that's, that's
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: one that's just inevitable.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: The phones.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: So tell me more about, this is one of the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: questions I've been dying to ask because I've always wanted
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to go because I grew up watching Selena win every time.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Was it like hosting the Tejano Music Awards?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: It was super. I did. Yeah, I did. It was
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: super fucking cool. I mean, from.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Getting glammed up and, you know, having a, formal dress
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: and we had rehearsals and and then seeing all the
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: artists backstage and I think the coolest part of hosting
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: it was you know obviously they hired us to be
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: funny and make it there was a script but then
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: there was little moments that they would let us like
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: do our piece so we really only had like and
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: totaled maybe 20 seconds of comedy throughout the two-hour.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Show, just that we could ad-lib.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: But in one of the breaks that we were waiting
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: for the next presenter's, Jay Perez was backstage and he
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: came up to me and he's like, you are really
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: funny and your dress is badass, girl. And I was like,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I got this shit at Kohl's. He's like, you're fucking hilarious.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: No, I did.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: OK.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm funny. But I thought that was cool because
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I grew up listening to Jay Perez.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Like fucking Jay Perez, dude. That's wearing sunglasses at night, man.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? He's a fucking star, man.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I love that. So you get into the perform in
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: front of like, uh, you know, audiences like that. What, um,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: what's the toughest crowd you've ever had to perform in
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: front of. Um, white people, they don't understand it. Well,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I have to change.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: I have to speak English and, um, when was the
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: first time I had to do, do that? I went
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: to an open mic. It was very early on in
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: my comedy career. And when you go to open mic,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: it's called going to the gym. You're going to the gym,
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: you're working out your material. They gave me five minutes,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: which is pretty customary for an open mic night. And
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: we were in the north side of San Antonio. And
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: as soon as I walked into the bar and I
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: saw the demographic, I was all, well, fuck, none of
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: my jokes are.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Going to work.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: You know, they're all what out here. So I was
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: up there. I started my first one and they're just like,
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: I tried. And then I.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Was like, how much longer am I up here for?
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: You did not.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: No fucking way.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I still had three minutes.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: The longest three minutes of your life?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: The longest three minutes of my life. And I was like,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: all right, good night. Fucking out of here. Eject button. Yeah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: I was like, I'm going to go ahead and give
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: y'all the three minutes back. Y'all don't fucking give a
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: shit about me.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Y'all have a good night.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: No one threw anything?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Anyone ever thrown anything at you?
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Nobody's thrown anything out at me, but the thing about
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: trying to be on stage, she would probably fucking.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Throw something back.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: She would square up. I mean, yeah, absolutely. Nobody has.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: I think the most disrespectful thing that's happened, and it's
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: been happening quite a lot recently. is I'm at these
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: shows alone for the most part. You know what I mean? I,
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: of course with the comedians and stuff like that, but
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: family wise, like there's no family. There's no really anybody
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: there besides bouncers and stuff protecting me. And at the
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: meet and greets, men can tend to get a little,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: become assholes, not even handsy. Just like feel comfortable to
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: say something they wouldn't say to a man. Example, in Vegas,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: this couple comes up And the lady was going to
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: buy a shirt from me from merch.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: And the guy says, what the fuck are you doing?
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: And she's like, I loved her. I'm going to support her.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I'm going to buy merch. And he goes, look, let's look.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: And he's like this, look, you think you're somebody right
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: now just because you're here, but ain't nobody even know
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: who you are. And if you want people to get
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: to know you, you got to be up in the
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: names with all the big wigs.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: And until you get there, I'll respect you.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Shut up. Oh, no. That's pretty shitty. That is. Security.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: That's shitty. I looked at him and I said, I
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: didn't ask for your fucking opinion and get the fuck
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: out of my meet and greet line. Yeah.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Get the fuck out of my face.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: What the fuck is he there?
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You paid to be here.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: And she's like.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Mortified.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Mortified.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: And then she bought one of each shirt because she
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: felt so bad. And then I was like, ma'am, I'm
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: sorry I spoke to your husband that way. I just
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I have to defend myself.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: And she's like. we're on our second date. And I
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: was like, fucking run for the hell. Bye.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Get the fuck out of here with this. If he
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: can disrespect a fucking stranger, you imagine.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: And so I, I just think it's comical that, um,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: you know, men have big balls when it comes to
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: telling a female, but would you fucking say that to
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Joe Coy? Yeah. At his meet and greet, would you do,
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, you wouldn't have the balls to say that
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: to a man. So yeah, that's kind of comes with it,
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: you know?
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So, well, that goes into, like, how
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: do you feel now about, like, cancel culture and the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: changing of boundaries in comedy?
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: That's tough. That's really, really tough.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Naturally, I'm not a dark comedic person.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I don't really like dark comedy.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: I don't poke fun at certain things because that's just
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: not my style. Raunchy, yes, I can get very raunchy
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: at times. It's difficult because especially when I'm posting, like,
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: my content on social media and I overthink a lot
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: of scenarios because I don't... If I got canceled the
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: way a fucking James Charles or Jeffree Star got canceled,
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: they still have hundreds and thousands and millions of followers.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: If I did.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Something so fucked up, it could take a day and
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: it could all be over. So I have to be very,
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: very cognizant of what I'm putting out there. And you
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: watch my stuff. I'm not even risky, even close. But there's,
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: for example... my friend, I was wearing this like jumper.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: He's like, bitch, you're giving Miss Rachel vibes. Miss Rachel
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: is a children's, like a Barney, like a, she wears overalls,
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: super cute, huge advocate for the Hispanic culture and trying
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: to save the children that are captured by ICE, like
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: all that stuff. I just love everything that she's about.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: And he's like, you should do a spoof of Miss Rachel.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: And I was like, God, that would be so funny.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: So I was like, let me let me look at
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: some of her videos on YouTube just just to get
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: some inspiration. Very first video that pops up. She's like,
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: can you say mama, mama? And my homeboy is like,
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: mama mellow.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Do you know?
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: So, which means. So, your favorite.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: That is my favorite.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: And we started laughing. And I'm like, could you, and then.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: She sings it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Hold on, wait, what is it?
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Because I want to use it again.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Mamamelo.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Mamamelo.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Mamamelo. Mamamela.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Mamamelo.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: So, that's the same thing as my favorite?
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about the same. Yeah, like, suck it, suck it,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: suck it. Mamamelo. And then she starts singing it. She's like,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: let's sing it. Ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, right?
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: And so, we already came up with the whole thing.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: So I go back. This was in Albuquerque. I go
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: back home.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: I started thinking about it some more. And I'm like, oh,
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: I could get some backlash for making fun of Miss Rachel.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: She's doing so much for the community.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: She's like, fuck, I don't know.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: So that's kind of where my head was. And he's like, hey, girl,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: don't forget to film your Rachel thing. I was like, no,
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to do it. And he's like, why?
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: I was like, it's not me. I don't need the controversy.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: And that's because what if nobody even fucking watches it?
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: But that's in my head because of cancel culture.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Dumb. But you're like, that would have been a big hit.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: My buddy's like, well, can I take it? I was like, yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: fucking take it.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Use my shit.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: You go ahead and get the controversy.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit more about your Cardi
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: B parody.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, I wanted to ask about that too. Yeah.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I want to know.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: So everybody thought I was a rapper at first, but
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: I'm just an actress. I can play the role.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: That was born. I love saying this story.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: That one was born as a result of my childhood
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: friend that I met in middle school. He was dying
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: from leukemia and I went to go see him at
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: the hospital. His family was making the calls. He did survive,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: by the way. Um, and I, as I was in
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: his hospital, as I was in his room looking over
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: him on the hospital bed, I couldn't stop hearing his
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: voice telling me like every time I would see him,
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: he's like, but why did you stop? Like, why did
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: you stop performing? Like, why did you, you're so talented.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: You're so this, you're so that. That's all I could
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: hear in my head is, and I'm just crying, crying, crying.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: When I leave, um, Cardi B's I Like It comes
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: out on the radio. And for whatever reason, I was like,
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: I like a my fat. I like my fat. And
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: I was like, oh shit. My brother is a producer.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: So he does. He's got a studio. He's have all
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: that stuff. My niece is very quick and witty on
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: her feet. I called them real quick and I was like,
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: are you guys available right now?
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: And they're like, yeah. Okay.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Can we, Abraham, can we go to your house? My brother,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: I have an idea for like a fucking parody. I
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: think we can knock it out right now. We did
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: it in 10 minutes.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: And then filmed it on his iPhone a week later,
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: got all the components together. And that's the one that,
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: and I dedicated it to my friend PD. You'll see
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: it at the end of the YouTube video. His family's
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: walking with me. I invited them to come to the
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: shoot and they'd been at the hospital for weeks.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: And so they're like, thank you. There's like the most
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: fun we've had in weeks, you know? So because of that,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: I think that, because it had such a good origin story.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: And I think that's why I did so well.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Because God is good that way, you know?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: And I was also telling Cody too, I was reading
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: when I was doing more research, you also became viral
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: before becoming viral.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: It was 2010, right?
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Was it the, um, was it the California girls?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Cause I was like, you became viral before becoming viral.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Right. That was like the first official. I 2018 was
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: where it all started. So I was actually at home
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: resting from, and this is exactly why I called my niece.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Cause she's the one who recorded that video. Um, I
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: was at home resting from a leap procedure that I
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: had had, OBGYN shit.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: And she was there with me, helping me recover, helping
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: me with my newborn at the time. And we were
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: just playing around and- California girls was a thing. And
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: so we called it San Antonio girls and rewrote it.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: And it's so low budget video, but I think it
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: got a whole bunch of hits.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I was like, Oh shit.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Um, other than coming to the show, you are in
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: town for your hot flashing comedy tour or hot flashing
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: furious comedy tour.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: So tell us more about the tour and how the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: tour started and all the good things.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I, um, and how long is this going?
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: So the last stop is going to be in Chandler,
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: Arizona in November. And then I'm hopping on some of
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: the other guys shows that are in the same management
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: company that I'm with. But it's been incredible. I mean,
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: I can't even tell you how many cities I've gone
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: to this year. Probably the biggest tour I've had in
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: my comedy career to date. Thanks to my management company
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: that they put it all together. You spoke to Marty
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: and Wendy.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Easiest, nicest people to ever chat with.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: Smoothest.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I've chatted with some people.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: They're phenomenal. I'm so blessed to have them. They just
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: kept me busy and they advocate for me. Marty talks
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: about me in rooms that you got to look at
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: my girl and give my girl a chance. He's just
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: my biggest supporter. It started in Covina, California at the
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Laugh Factory. I think it was like six shows. And
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: I was so nervous. That was this year. Yeah, yeah,
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: that was this year, 2026 in January. I think I
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: remember watching a video about it. No, there was one
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: in Seattle. It was a Seattle show. I watched the
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: video for that one, yeah.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: That was when the summer leg of the tour kicked off.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: That was rough.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: And I think because I put a lot of pressure
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: on myself because I have a lot of respect for
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: my manager. He's doing amazing things for the talent in
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: his management company. And I admire the guy's for what
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: they've been doing already themselves. And then all as a
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: unit under LRM. I mean, it's just such a movement.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: And this is, I'm talking about Concrete Duno and Jerry Garcia.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: And so he's mostly with them for the most part.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: But this summer part of the tour, he wanted to
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: travel with me to my shows that sold two tickets.
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, he's going to fucking drop me. Like
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: I thought he's going to be like, I'm wasting all
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: this money. And he called me the day before. He's like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: what do you want to do, sis? Do you want
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: to throw in the towel? Do you want to? And
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: I was like, no, I'm not going to be a
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: little bitch, man. Let's just fucking go. He's like, cause
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: it's your money, kid. Whatever you want to do at
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: the end of the day, it's your money. And I
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: was like, no, let's go. I'm going to keep pushing.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: I'm going to keep pushing. Even if we get 40
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: people and he's like, okay, let's do it. And he
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: was so like, because he's been doing it for so
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: long already. He was like, that like revived me again,
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: because that was the, it's the growth part. I'm, we're
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: at a different stage with the guys. It's, it's nice
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: to be a part of the, the one, the building,
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: you know? And so we, we ended up setting out
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: to do what we said we wanted to do. We
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: broke even and that's, we, we got our flight money back,
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: our hotel money back. We got all, and we were,
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: we were happy.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: And for those of you guys that are in the
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Dallas-Fort Worth area, tonight and tomorrow, she's going to be
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: at Hyena's Comedy Club.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: In Fort Worth.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: In Fort Worth. And we will be there tonight.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Cannot fucking wait.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Cannot fucking wait.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: It's going to be a blast. You'll get to see
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Doña Chona. She has arrived via FedEx because I fucking
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: left her in Albuquerque.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Amazon Prime kind of thing?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: No. She left her in Albuquerque.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: I left her in Albuquerque and just realized yesterday when
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: I was packing.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: So I've got a comedy question. Who is your dream
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: comedy collaboration?
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: You mentioned Leanne Morgan earlier, but for me, I would love,
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: I would love, love, love, love, love, because I feel
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: like we're similar.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I'm the Hispanic version. Steph Tulliv.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: I think I've seen some. She's got kind of like
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: a mullet looking hair. She's very aggressive. And trailer trash, Tammy.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Oh my God, dude. I feel like.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Right there. Yes, I'm sold.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: I'm fucking sold.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: And Tammy, if you're fucking watching this, call me. We
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: can talk about all the things. And I think we
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: would have a fucking blast. And I could teach you
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: Spanish words. that would be hilarious we've got to reach out.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah just put us in a fucking.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: Room yeah dude let's have a drink together like farts
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: and burps and cigarettes maybe hey I'm down to have
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: a few I might have a cigar I might have
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: a couple.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Puffs if you will I'll hate tomorrow but.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: It's fine put a fucking vodka in front of me
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: bitch start smoking real quick I'm not even gonna lie.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: To you give me a whiskey and a cigar and
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I'll be the coolest.
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: Motherfucker there yeah yeah so What's next for you and,
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: you know, a special television, movies, comedy, I mean, something different?
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I'm going to honestly tell you, I think I see, like,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: me personally, and I'm putting it out, if it's something
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: you want to do, but I'm putting it out there
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: in the atmosphere. I think you should do television with
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: your characters and do a show. Like, I think that
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: would be a great thing for you.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: No, I think that's beautiful. Thank you for manifesting.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: That for me.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: If you need a guest appearance, hi.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: No, absolutely.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: If I need a Sean Hayes, how you doing? There
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: she is. That's definitely something that Marty and I have
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: talked about. And I say Marty, I mean my manager.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: We've talked about it plenty of times.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: He... sees so much potential with Doña Chona.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: Now, there's old lady characters everywhere. People have done it.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: It's not that I'm new to this or whatever.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: It's just he sees a brand here with her, a
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: whole brand.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: And there's nobody out there like her.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Not like her. You know, there's a Puerto Rican version
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: of her. There's all these other versions of her. But this, like, Tex-Mex...
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: I don't think anybody's doing that. And if they are,
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: please help me and I'll stand, I'll be, I'll stand corrected. But, um, yeah, we,
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: we see a lot. Um, we do have, uh, producers
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: and directors watching. Thanks to my manager. He's like I said,
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: he sits in rooms. He's like, you gotta, you gotta watch. Um,
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: I received my first cease and desist from a corporation.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: So that's great. They're watching too.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: You're coming up.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: I kind of wish they would have done it in
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: fucking public though. Cause that would have been great for
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: my career.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Like not cancel culture.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: They would have gotten canceled, which is why I think
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: they did it in private.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Motherfuckers.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Man, that's fucking gold though.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: No, it's great. It's great. It's so good.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: So yeah, that, but yes, um, Film, it's definitely around
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: the corner. It's definitely something I feel like. I feel
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: great things just coming for you.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Especially with your vibe.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: And what you're doing. And you're representing our community. And
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: That's so nice.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Seems like a good time. I'm going to sit in
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: the dark back corner where you can't see me at
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: the show.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I'm going to tell him. Trying to easily
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: leave the fuck alone. I'm going to tell him.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Chupa mi verga.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: Mamala.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Mamala. I'm going to be that guy standing on the
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: table whipping it out.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Go ahead and sit your ass in
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: the back.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Vulgar my ass.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: No more whiskey.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: He's one of those guys. Calm down, deal.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Relax.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: No tequila. Oh, same. I can't, no.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: I either want to fight or fuck and it's usually
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: not the good one.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Bro, me too.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Man, I'm not kidding.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Wait, no, not the fucking part.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I fuck like, man, I'm good, but usually I want
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: to fight.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Your mother's here.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: Hi, mom.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Mom, that's how you got me here.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: So our moms are sitting right back there. Our moms
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: are here. Bring mom to work.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: That's what Chona does.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: This is probably the first time they've requested to come
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: into the studio.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: You gotta come see this, Senora. No joke, yeah, first time.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: What she's all about.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: We waited for a special guest.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Hey, but she made it. She knows what, it's good
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: to show.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying? I, too, am a tequila fighter.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Are you? Oh, man, I can't wait to drink tequila
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: No, I don't want anything to do with it. My guy.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Let me call my manager. I'm actually the same way.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: I'm actually the same way.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: She's grown up. I won't touch you.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Not even in a margarita. I won't touch you.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: No.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: I could do a margarita. I could do one. The
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: guys love Casamigos.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: So when I'm at their shows, they do shots of Casamigos.
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, hey, if y'all fucking want me at
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: the meet and greet, I'll be pounding bitches.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Like, I'm just letting you know.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Milagro is mine or Patron, but. Whiskey.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Whiskey's yours. Mine is Tito's.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: I'm a vodka girl.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: He's a vodka water.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: What about you? What do you drink?
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Vodka water.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I have vodka water, but you know, I mean, if
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I do tequila, it's going to be Jenny Rivera tequila. So.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: Stop.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: All the way.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jenny Rivera. So people have been saying on the
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Laura Leon stuff. Oh shit. She looks like Jenny Rivera.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: So I'm thinking I may do a little spoof.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: But even better, and one past that.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: I like to say when I'm flirting with my husband.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I say.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: My best friend used to say that.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Our go-to shot is Rumpel.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: A what?
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: 100 proof.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: What's a Rumpel?
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: It's the devil's semen. Peppermint schnapps almost, but it's 100 proof.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's the devil.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: That's what you like to do?
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: That's what I like to do.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Stay clear from me, sir.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Shit.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: Don't invite me to your fucking party. I don't want
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: to go.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I'm busy already.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: He's like, come on, Jordan. We got fucking gasoline up
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: in this van. Light it on fire. Merry Christmas.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: It's like Santa Claus coming in your mouth.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Fuck no, dude.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: I'm out.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Switch spots. Why the fuck you put me on this couch?
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: So in true unspoken truth form, we always play a game. Yes.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: And so this game is, it's called the hot seat
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: rapid fire. Oh, it's just some fun questions to ask you.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Just give your answer.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I started sweating.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: I think I'm having a hot flash.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Hot flash and furious.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, fuck.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Go, go. Who's funnier, you or your husband?
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, he is.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: At his expense.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: What's your biggest pet peeve? 5, 4.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: What's the most senora thing in your purse right now?
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, fuck.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: A panty liner.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: What's something that you secretly judge people for?
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know if I want to
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: say it.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Say it.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Say it.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: This is unspoken truth.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Say it.
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess they're past.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure. They're past. Yeah, they're past.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: That was cheating.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you gave it to me, so I just said yes.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Have you ever laughed at your own joke on stage?
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Yes. Like, it took me a second to recover. Because
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: it's when it comes out and it wasn't planned. So
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, fuck, I'm so good.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I don't care if y'all laugh.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: And then there's a lot of comedians that the whole
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: time they're laughing at their jokes.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: I'm like, pipe it down, guys. Give us a chance.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: to fucking laugh. I don't do that.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: What's the most embarrassing thing that's happened on stage?
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: I broke my foot and fell.
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: During a bit. Yeah.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: And when I looked up at the clock, I still
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: had 15 minutes left of my set.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: And you did it?
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: And I got up and finished and not realizing my
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: foot was broken yet.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, shit. If Chonai could roast anyone in the world,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: who would it be?
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Famous? Yes.
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'd like to take a little stab at Atsuko
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Okasako's little mushroom haircut.
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: He's like, just do this, please.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: The blob, what is it?
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: It's so good. I mean, she looks like she's straight
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: out of fucking Mario Brothers, my guy.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: Yes. All right.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: So finish this sentence. The unspoken truth about Joanna Estrada is.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: The unspoken, the unspoken truth about Joanna Estrada is that she,
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: if she doesn't have to speak, she won't.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: And she's very boring outside of all this.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: That's the unspoken truth.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Surprising.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: I literally.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Surprising.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: I cannot wait to go to the hotel room and
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: just not talk.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Just shut up.
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: All right. Last question.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: You know what's crazy? Real quick.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: On that.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: You know, I don't talk too much anyways, but in
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: my truck, I don't listen to music. Kind of like
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: serial killer stuff. I'm silent the whole fucking time.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: I'm in that era right now, my guy. Did we
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: just become best friends?
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Did we? Can we?
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: I'm in a concert with myself and my backup singer.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he will. You're on a whole world tour, baby.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: We're roommates right now and there's not a time music
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: is not on.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: Let him have it. I do. I would love to.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I can do that.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: I can do both.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Like kids, I tune it out, so I'm fine.
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes a lot of sense.
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: Today on the way to the airport, I was fucking
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: jamming out to freestyle. I don't know what the hell happened,
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: but I was like Lisa Lisa, fucking Stevie P, John Sencala.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, I was in love.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: So before we wrap up things, I want to ask
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: you one final question. When you look back at everything
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: you've been through from growing up in San Antonio, becoming
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Chonai and performing in front of audiences across the country,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: what would you tell that younger version of yourself who
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: was still trying to figure out where she belonged?
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: That one really tugs at the heartstrings because I was
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: literally just, I'm sorry, getting a little choked up. I
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: was just talking to my.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Daughter about it. I would tell her, You will be seen.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: You will be seen. And people will love you.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Yes. I love that.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Be brave sooner.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Be brave sooner. You will be seen.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, I love that.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: That actually gave me chills.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: It did.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: It actually gave me chills.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for coming. It has been
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: such a pleasure. And I'm so glad we got to
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: do this. Thank you for coming and hanging out with us.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: And we loved getting to know you and more about
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: the show and the comedy. And to everybody who's watching
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: and listening, make sure you follow her.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Dude, go see the show.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, go see the show. Hyenas Comedy Club. I'll put
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: the link on our social media tonight. And then you
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: can follow Chona at at sign Chona E 210. Shout
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: out San Antonio. To check out the upcoming shows. And
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: as always, thank you for joining us on the unspoken truth.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you again.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: We've had so much fun. I love it. Thank you guys.
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: I can't wait to party with you tonight.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Don't talk about my vet guy.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: I talk about my husband's enough.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Bill, I won't do it.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: And as always, thank you for joining us on the
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: unspoken truth where we have the conversations that deserve to
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: be heard until next time. We'll see you guys later.
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: See you guys later.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Till next time. And that's it.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: That was fast and fun.