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Ep. 1 | Javi Luna Comedy · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: What's going on y'all?
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  SPEAKER_01: 22 Daddy Numbers here.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got the first episode here for Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we have the pleasure of having Javi Luna with Javi Luna at Javi Luna Comedy as our first guest at Luna Versal Comedy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Check him out on YouTube.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be talking about his experience with comedy and being a dad, a father.
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  SPEAKER_01: We get into music, uh audiobooks, his philosophy behind comedy, where he's going, what he's been doing.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: If this is something you want you're interested in listening to for this first podcast, stay tuned.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you got a you have a show coming up soon?
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  SPEAKER_03: There's always a show coming up soon, man.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, nothing, nothing here locally.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but yeah, there's always there's a I stay I stay pretty busy.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'll be uh in when does this come out?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_03: Like you like you put it online?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I put it out probably in the weekend.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_03: So if you're listening to it and when it comes out and you're in Raleigh, North Carolina, uh that's where I'll be this weekend on Sunday at uh Goodnights Comedy Club.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what's up, bro.
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  SPEAKER_01: North Carolina, man.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's been a few years with the pandemic there since I've been out there, but uh, but I like it's been a couple years, well, since pretty much since since probably I think we I think we got to go in 2020.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_03: I think it was one of our last like stops before we got shut down.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: So wow bro, so were you hit pretty were y'all?
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm assuming y'all got hit pretty hard.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like for real.
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  SPEAKER_03: Life-changing for for everybody.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's guys that just you know packed it up.
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  SPEAKER_03: We all, you know, especially if you were if you were a road comic, and which I had just started to kind of really make it full-time wise, without without the side jobs and stuff, and then you know, your whole calendar gets wiped out.
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  unknown: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_03: And in a matter of weeks, it went from, you know, oh, we're not we're canceling everything from March and April to uh we're canceling May to we're can't we're we'll come back in August to everything's done for the year.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like don't plan on any like like within a matter of a few weeks, you saw your whole calendar disappear uh in front of your very eyes.
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  SPEAKER_03: So some guys, you know, like myself, if you had a family or whatever, you had to go and and figure out a day job or try to get on on uh on unemployment or whatever whatever you know it was you're gonna try to do.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh some guys doubled down.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_03: They went the like TikTok route and like you know, and and came out of it, came out of this with a bigger following than they ever had.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, bro, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it's like I said, when I say it was life-changing for the comedy industry, like it like it looks completely different, right?
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_03: Even if you look at like pre-pandemic, everything was New York, LA, New York, LA, to now it's Austin's it.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_03: Like that's where that basically half of LA and half of New York moved to Austin in the course of the last two years.
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  SPEAKER_03: So now Austin is this it was already a hot comedy town, but now it's actually the epicenter of the comedy industry.
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  SPEAKER_03: So the whole landscape of the comedy industry has changed in the last two years.
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  SPEAKER_01: So wow, would you say like the that the jokes the jokes have changed?
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  SPEAKER_03: And I mean how that's a that's a personal um I'll tell you for for me, um the jokes haven't changed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh I've changed, you know.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I don't know how you went through the last two years without you know rethinking some shit in your in your day-to-day life and how you feel about certain things.
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  SPEAKER_03: No kidding, bro.
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  SPEAKER_03: So so you know, so I've changed, but not because comedy itself changed.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think some there's guys out there doing the exact same set they were doing, you know, two years ago.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh bro.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's fine.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then there's there's guys that have a whole new perspective, so you got something to say.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it's the thing with comedy, people worry about getting like stagnant in material and shit like that.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_03: But the thing is, if you don't stop growing as a person, like your your act will always grow because you're growing and changing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_03: And so so yeah, I mean, I don't think I don't buy into the whole like, oh, you can't say this or you can't say that, you know, bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_03: It because comedy is subjective, it always has been.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's not new.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um everybody's not for everybody, not meant to be.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because if you're making if you're making everybody laugh, then there's something superficial about what you're saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_03: So even if you're funny to most people, even like let's say, like the most, we're gonna say back in the day, Tim Allen, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: Which who you didn't watch back in the if you grew up in the 90s, so who didn't watch home improvement, right?
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: Or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_03: But if you watch his comedy, is this is his stand-up for everybody?
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  SPEAKER_03: No, it's sort of a very niche audience.
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  SPEAKER_03: Granted, it it's a big cross-section of the country, but there's people that don't care for it, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: The biggest money-making comics like Kevin Hart, there's people I guarantee you, there's people out there that don't think Kevin Hart is funny, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: You're thinking, so what what is so what does funny mean?
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it's not for everybody.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_03: There's gonna be people that don't laugh at right because whatever you have to say, it's not for them.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_03: And it's fucking okay.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so if so if someone if some comic offends you or you don't like what they're saying, it's okay.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_03: Like they're not fucking for you.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_03: Right, don't go to the show.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_03: You probably weren't going to anyway.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_03: Especially like I don't get like people like like you've never heard of this comic before.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, you know, there's guys like like Ari Shapir and like Tony Hinscliffe.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, I guarantee you, like half the people that were upset with Tony Hinchcliffe would never have gone to a Tony Hinchcliffe show on purpose.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_03: Because you know, I'm not saying what what he said was okay or anything like that.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just saying if you knew Tony, if you knew his comedy, what he said didn't fucking surprise you.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: Well, hey man, it's kind of like music, like genres, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like some people like country, some people like alternative.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: That makes a lot of sense.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: So so you started here in Corpus, and I know it's and then like I heard a podcast, you're like, it's it's difficult to be accepted in your own in your town, but when you go to perform at other places, it's like they receive you a lot, a lot better, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're speaking differently, right?
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_03: Because you're not from there, you're you're you're imported.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so so so therefore there's something you know special about you.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like fresh meat type of thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh to put a metaphor on it.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_03: I was I was at this uh comedy condo one time and I posted this picture of they giving us his like fancy or to me fancy Italian water.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like like some brand of water I've never heard before.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not and not one of the like like uh mainstream ones that we have here, not boss or anything like that.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_03: It was like some some type of of mineral water.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_03: And I post a picture of it, and someone apparently who lived in Italy uh on my social media commented.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_03: She goes, Yeah, that's actually a really shitty water.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_03: Like no one drinks that, no one buys that.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's literally crap.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's funny, bro.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_03: But but the but the fact that it's imported here, oh well, it's it's from somewhere else.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: So they brought it in, they shipped it, and it came on a fucking boat or something.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so so sometimes, you know, when you're traveling, they're like, hey, you had to f you they you flew to get here, right?
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_03: You know, but then you know, there's other people that are really just behind anything local, so you know, yeah.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_03: On the whole though, you know, you know, it's it's easier on the road because right on, bro.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: So you're going to north you're gonna be in North Carolina.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: That um how do you prepare for a show like that when it's not like over here, you know what I mean?
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like like uh, you know, do you have to like change your jokes around or I mean how do you how do you prepare prefer?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, do you even prepare you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, no, I I don't uh when you're when you you're really young in the game, like it's all pretty much all you can think about, especially when you first start going out, because you because you believe that.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that and that's a common assumption because it's what makes most sense.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_03: Oh it's it's different over there, they're different over there.
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  SPEAKER_03: But when you start actually traveling, what you find out more and more is that we're a lot more the same than we believe.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_03: You know, and because you I you can get in front of a crowd of a bunch of different people that that grew up in a different region from you, that have a very different uh bringing.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_03: And if what you're saying is true, saying if it's funny because it's true, it's only funny because it's true, right?
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_03: So what you're saying doesn't isn't just about um, you know, it's gotta have some truth in it.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_03: So even if I do a joke about my Mexican family, you know, or whatever, um that's that's fine.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_03: It's about my family who happens to be Mexican, but it says something about a family dynamic, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's true, you know, about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it doesn't matter if you didn't grow up in a Mexican family, you still grew up in a family, you or you've been around a family, and understand that they're different people in the family play a different role.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_03: And it doesn't matter what cultural background you come from, everybody, every culture's got their version of the crazy ant, every version got their version of the of the promiscuous cousin, yeah, you know, you know, the rowdy one, you know, everyone that archetype just creates so you just have to really all you're doing is just tapping into their their language.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like humanity, like humanity, I guess you can say.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so I don't I don't prepare any more than I prepare for every room I go into, which is every room's different.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can go up four times in the same city and have four different audiences because it's gonna be a different makeup of people every single time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: So really there is no preparing for a show like that.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh huh.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you have to go up there and and read their read their faces and decide what what they're gonna take and and what they're not.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, man, that's that's really deep, bro.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was and I was kind of like when I was preparing for this interview, I was like studying comedy, like what's it like to be a comedian?
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: And then they talk about setting up punchlines and different ways to do it, different tactics, or whatever.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: And the one thing that came up a lot was to be a good comic, you know, added on all that theory and stuff, you have to go up and actually do it.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like there's there's no way around being a good comic other than the experience.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_03: There's no other way to do it.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_03: There's there's no, I mean, are there classes?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you still gotta get up there and do it.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_03: Are are there books?
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, you can read the fucking books, you still gotta get up there and do it.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_03: It's all theory until you put it to fucking practice, and I've and I've always told pe people that, and sometimes people think you're like not being helpful or like gatekeeping somehow.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_03: Like, first of all, no one can gatekeep comedy.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_03: But like I've had people like I was just in Laredo this past weekend, and uh the the guy that produced the show, I think he's been doing comedy, I think he said like five years, something like that.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_03: He remembered when he he met me at a bar show down there in Laredo, and he hadn't started doing comedy yet.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_03: And he goes, I mean he goes, I remember I asked you how to do like what that told you that I wanted to do comedy and what should I do?
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_03: And you said, go do comedy.
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  unknown: Yeah.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_03: And he goes, he he goes, he goes, and I kept waiting for you to tell me something else, and you didn't.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, uh-huh.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, and what did you do?
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_03: He goes, well, I went and did comedy.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_03: They go, and what are you doing now?
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_03: Well it fucking worked, didn't it?
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's literally the the easiest job to get, you know, or the and and the well, no, let me rephrase it.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_03: It's the hardest job to get to to get a job where you're actually making money doing it.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but it's the easiest fucking one to keep.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_03: Because all you have to do is refuse to stop.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome, bro.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_03: There's always gonna be a money.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, man.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, and I was uh so you've done, I guess I don't know.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: I was I guess it was just recently.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how recent it was, but you've done baby showers, funerals, 316, birthday, and uh grad parties, bro.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I I it's kind of I never think I never think of a like a stand-up, a stand-up comedian at those types of functions.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_03: The randomness of of things that I've been able to been asked to do nine, you know, been asked to do uh the funeral was definitely probably I I had I've done two funerals.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_03: One was a close friend of mine, by the way, is David Safuentes.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um that's why I can't get the video taken down.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_03: He was he was he was my best friend in comedy unfortunately he passed away a handful of years ago.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I asked him always to take that video down, and he never fucking did.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_03: And and now uh I can't, and I I don't I won't.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_03: I you know, I don't want I don't because I don't want his like I don't want it to end up like I could record it and ask it to be taken down, but I don't want it, I don't want him to lose his whole channel.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_03: It stayed up there his whole years or something.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_03: Like, if you want to see some like cringe worthy shit, go because we he used to drag me into doing these skits with him.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_03: I wouldn't post anything on YouTube, and so there's lots of stuff like that video on there, and that's fine.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: It can stay there forever.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_03: And so some if I ever make it and someone digs it up and it's uh whatever, you know, uh it's fine.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um yeah, but but yeah, man.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: I started to think about my homework.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's pretty cool, bro.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's like you're doing it out of respect for him.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you know, he passed away and and you put you actually performed at his funeral.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, sorry, yes.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_03: So so we I we I did his funeral, yeah.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, and that's trivial because he he um he was uh he was a kidney patient, uh dialysis patient, and uh and not a lot of people knew that towards the end, and he that was a promise I made to him.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_03: He said, Hey, uh, do me a favor when because I'm gonna die, you know, probably sooner rather than later.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: And he said, uh, you know, uh when I die, I want you to roast me.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_03: I have a full-on roast at my funeral.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: At the funeral, wow.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_03: I'll throw you a roast, man.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_03: He goes, No, no, no.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: At my funeral.
• 16:35
  unknown: Wow.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_03: I want to be there.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_03: He said, I'm I want to be there.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_03: He made me promise that to him.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: So I had to, it was so so hard because I I you know I knew his family, you know, but but when you make friends as adults, you don't meet their family as often as you do as you like a kid.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_03: Like when you were growing up, you knew your best friend's family, right?
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_03: As an adult.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_03: So I had met his brother a handful of times.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: He was a cool dude, and uh, so I had to call him up.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, hey, like, you remember me?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_03: And he's like, Yeah, you know, hey, look, listen, your brother made made me promise him to uh that he wanted me to roast.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_03: He goes, No, no, yeah, he told me about it.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow, and I was like, okay, look, I don't want to disrespect your family, but this is it's like how can we make this happen?
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: He goes, so so what they did is they went ahead and had like the family portion of the funeral, and then they did like a second hour where they let me and a bunch of other comics.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh um Larry and Regan came down from from uh from San Antonio, and D Williams and Mario Salazar came from the valley, and I think uh Raymond Hartha came as well, and uh and we we roasted him, but right there, open casket roast at his funeral at Saxon funeral.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's wow man.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_03: So that I thought that was gonna be the first and last funeral I ever did.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: That was the last one you're gonna do, you know, I would have believed you.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_03: And then I had this uh this young lady, young woman hit me up, and she asked, you know, if I would be open to the idea of performing at a funeral.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I remember I remember you talking about that in the podcast.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: You're like, well, you want me to talk about you know, do fat jokes at a grad party?
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_03: Like that's kind of like like like what do you what do you want me to say?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: And and basically what it came down to is it was the her father had passed away during the pandemic, and uh so they didn't get to have a funeral, like a like a problem, like this was at the beginning, like in 2020, when when things were really shut down, people weren't able to do you know, you know, in-person funerals and stuff, and so she goes up so nobody this time, uh, but it was more like a celebration.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_03: She was that her father was like this lively, party, always joking kind of guy, and he wanted she wanted to have more of a celebration of life for him, and he was always joking around.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_03: She so she thought he would be uh he would appreciate the just the randomness and the the funny of having a a comedian there.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_03: And she wanted a full-on show, so so me and two other comics went out there and we did a we did a set for the family.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: It was awkward, but but we laughed, yeah, you know, and reminded them that this is what the gentleman would have would have wanted.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_03: And um, you know, we did it respectfully, you know, and there was kids there and stuff.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_03: You know, yeah.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's pretty yeah, that's pretty cool to think of, yeah.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty cool to think about like just trying to laugh in those moments, man, because it's and it's funerals are sad.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's just crazy, man.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Crazy.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_03: And that that and probably the sweet 16s were probably the uh the other for me.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not I'm not the the um I don't know.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know what why why I don't know where these people get these these ideas.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'm glad that they do.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate the work.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love this.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_03: I'd love to have the stories.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_03: It's always a great story.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so so now I was gonna say, so those those engagements they would did they help you?
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: So I guess it was during the the pandemic when the you when comics were kind of out of work.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: Did that help you get through the pandemic?
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_03: Like those shows private parties helped me tremendously during the pandemic.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: But pretty much all of 2020 was almost all I did was private backyard parties, and I was doing like very small gatherings in people's backyards, and then that that was a big chunk of my work for 2020.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: 2021 was a mixture, about half and half, you know, because everything would back open up, and and so we were doing shows, but not at the volume where we're that we were doing before.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and that uh uh back pre-pandemic, I was on the road probably three weeks, three weeks out of the month.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, you know, now now uh now like this past month I've been on the road every month, but it's one nighters.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's going you go and do a show, you come home, you do it.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: And that's what that's what what North Carolina is.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_03: We're going on Sunday, we'll come back Monday, you know, and then we got McCallan the next weekend five days later.
• 21:53
  unknown: You know.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, bro.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, and it's but then you know, March, I don't have too much going on in March until April I got Nashville.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so it's a it's interval.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: Nashville, bro, man, that's nice, man.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome, bro.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that that's been a good part to get to get around the country.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: But though the doing the parties has taught me that that you can make funny in almost any situation if you read the room.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: And you were saying in in the one of the podcasts that at at those events you're invited and it's not like stand up like at a show.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like you're a guest like you said.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_03: So so it's I also ask you know like I said very much like like how I asked you before you know if I was trying to be clean or or dirty on on this or kind of what your vision for your podcast was.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_03: You know you want to respect that you know because you're you're it's it's different right when versus when someone came to see your show or even just a show that you're on you're coming into the comedian's house.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_03: Especially if you're going to a comedy club.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_03: Which is why it's dumb when people go to a comedy club and get offended.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's almost like you came to my house.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_03: Like you know what I'm saying this stage I'm on the stage right now this is my house.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah you don't like it you can fucking leave get out of here yeah don't come to my house and complain about the fucking way I'm doing shit that's funny bro because you don't gotta be here right now.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah but it's the opposite right like I'm not gonna go to your house and fucking go on the coffee table in the refrigerator you know yeah that's cool man you know if I gotta go number two I'm gonna go down to the stripes I'm gonna respect you respect your house.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: Wow bro wow yeah no I just kind of started this podcast just to let I because I want people from corpus that either live in corpus live out of corpus or whatever is just gonna share just just share I want to see where this goes I mean you're the first person on here so I'm just kind of like all right where's this gonna go I'm I'm number one yes sir you're number one bro this is the one that everyone's gonna listen to yeah this is it's there bro this I've done four podcasts man I know how it works that first that first episode all the friends all the family they listen and then podcast is a weird thing man because if you're not a like some people can't like I've had friends like good friends that are like man I want to listen but I just I can't listen to people talk for an hour.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_03: Like if it like there's just some people they need music they need a video they need yeah they they need something some people just can't some audio some people I like I think people that listen to podcasts are the same people that listen to audiobooks if you're not you know so they'll they'll listen I have some people that only watch the videos they're like uh I don't really listen to the podcast but whenever you post the videos I'll watch the videos it's like okay well that's cool you know yeah people are visual yeah that's why they that's why they like if sometimes they make podcast videos they'll but they'll make them in the clips like yeah in the cutting I I always got more views on the clips than I ever did on they're shorter they're not an hour long yeah totally yeah I'm a I'm an audio listener too because if I I I'd rather audio listen than to read a book.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah so what's great for this one people are gonna listen to man yeah man what are you listening to now like what's in what's in your audio book right now good question I you know what because I I don't have an audiobook at the moment because I'm not on the road as much as I used to and that used to be like nine times out where I would listen to my so I think the last one I listened was actually fiction because I I get in these ruts where I listened to a bunch of audio autobiographies.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_03: So like I I listened to uh Matthew McConaughey's Green Lights like two weekends in a row uh two two on on the road because I had I had a I had shows in in in Waco and Midlands and that was a long drive to so I listened to that and Kevin Hart's uh I forgot the what what the name of it was one of Kevin Hart's books um in in that weekend then the following weekend I went out of town for for the anniversary with my wife and she hadn't heard green light so I listened to it with her again you know uh but so I sometimes have to remind myself like biographies and shit like that that's great but but fiction is also great too because because it make uses your imagination a little bit more yeah you have to kind of like imagine whatever world the the fiction writers doing so uh I listened to uh to Rocket Boys which is some fiction but yet some somehow uh autobiograph graphical as well uh it's it's the it's the book that uh I don't know do you remember the movie October Sky?
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah I think so Jake Gillenong okay where they're like they live in the Virginia uh coal mines uh I feel bad about it's cool it was what you know what it was one of those movies that they could that you they could show you in school like like middle school like it was rated PG so it wasn't like yeah it wasn't like super kiddie you know but it but it also wasn't remember the titans because they played the fuck out of that movie it was a good movie but I like I've seen it way too many times because like especially like if if you're I was in band so like it was one of the like few like movies that wasn't a cartoon that they could fucking show you in school.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_03: So this was October 5.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_03: So I always liked the movie.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: I like when they would play that one because it was something different and uh and so so and I had read the book when I was in high school and so I decided to listen to the uh the audio of it and the uh the narrator I like when they they pick a good narrator yeah for their audiobooks they can make a break a audiobook experience for sure I listened to the Hobbit the book I don't know who did the yeah I don't know who did the narration but it was good and there was like how often is that uh I don't remember man uh close to 20 hours I would think yeah it's not as long as Lord of the Rings it's not that long plus the Hobbit not the long i not it was it was the Hobbit like the the precursor before uh the Lord of the Rings not for me could not get into it I'm not gonna don't come don't don't come at me Lord of the Rings people because I know you're a passionate fan base I'm not saying it sucks I can never get into it I don't I don't know enough about it to say to make fun of it I used to I used to always want my my my brother to watch it with me homie would always fall asleep bro I'm like dude this is the good part this is the good part but yeah I understand bro it's all good I had some friends that and they swore down to me they're like you you'd like it you like because I like Star Wars you know maybe maybe that means I'm simple minded you know yeah it's not good that's the way I don't offend people like that like like people that are I'm not smart enough for it bro like that's you hey you do that yeah goblins elves all that shit I like sci-fi right cool sci fi I like uh Enders game and Ready Player One and cool like that what about uh inner st Interstellar I haven't read Interstellar have you seen it uh no no I was reading that one I don't know if it's sci-fi it's um I don't know but it has to do with like space and stuff like that uh I thought that was pretty cool all right let's uh so uh what year did you graduate man you graduate and where'd you graduate from uh from high school uh uh in corpus I graduated in 2002 from Ray wow bro cool I went to ray uh huh so I'm getting up there getting my it's my 20 year reunion bro for real yeah no I think I got you by a couple of years I grew well I graduated in 2001 maybe like a year or two I graduated 2001 supposed to be two yeah supposed yeah it was supposed to be 2000 but I I dropped out we're getting on it bro but you went back I dropped out went back graduated from Miller high school okay yeah good on you man yeah I I might be in I'm probably in a couple of your yearbooks if you check it out probably probably you looked a little familiar but but I I was in band so I was in your band it it's that's pretty much your whole life in high school there's not like you don't end up having too many friends outside like I knew people in classes but like I it was always just everything was just banned so so there it was a big school but but that's great man you know the chances of of someone dropping out go like getting your GD is one thing but actually going back and re-enrolling like there's so this percentage of people that that do that is just so small.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_03: So I I used to do adult education um uh okay was one of my was my one of my side hustles when I was doing comedy I was able to do that during the week at night wow uh and so um so yeah so that that's awesome man uh yeah uh this guy Alex Jay-Z on Facebook he was saying that the the room was full of band trophies everywhere uh oh yeah we're right yeah this guy we're we're live on Facebook oh are we oh okay shit yeah uh his name is Alex Jay Z Bazan he's saying it was full of trophies but yeah yeah I was in sports uh and you played the sacks that I I found that out I was like oh cool man that's that's uh kind of a tough instrument man you got to get the omburger right and then it's not like it's not like guitar in that you have to press the strings down but you have to like lift your fingers up and press them down you know what I mean it's kind of weird a lot a lot more key a lot more key combinations of fingerings is what we what we would call them which is which is funny to you say oh what are you doing I'm figuring my horn figuring my horn bro finger your music already finger my music yeah it's not dirty but it sounds dirty and then I heard you playing guitar I heard you playing guitar on Instagram you were playing uh uh let it shine some kind of 90 song on on your guitar you remember playing that I was like oh he's playing a 90s song he's probably like my age and I was like oh shoot 90s bro um uh sound guard sex on pretty much my whole youth from like the age of nine I started early I started in fourth grade something from like fourth from fourth grade through through senior year so wow did your so I guess your parent did your parents play or I mean was there music in I guess there was music in the house no no uh my I had a older brother I have an older brother sorry uh much older than me and uh so it's just kind of that thing like he played in middle school and high school and you know little brother wants to do what big brother does so I had it in my head for a young age that I was gonna play saxophone too and I'm kind of stubborn so when I got once I got that in my head they tried to put me on tuba fucking chubby chubby with a small is like you play the tuba yeah yeah bro like like I was like nine years old like in this tuba home my mom got pissed she's like fuck you look at that instrument back and something you can carry yourself go get a refund.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah go get a refund and so they put me out uh because they do some type of like aptitude test to like see what what instrument's posing you're gonna be good on.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's like I was like oh yeah so the chubby kid just automatically gets the fucking tuba stuff bro so they put me on they put me on sax phone uh I'm not gonna say that I was ever great but I was I was good I was decent you know yeah that's cool man that's what's up bro and so you lie so you like uh Chicano Rock I do have an affinity I have an affinity for oldies in general do up chick uh chicano rock uh you know uh Freddie Freddie Fender and the Texas tornado up until more recent stuff like those only boys wow that's pretty cool man so what's the what's the most recent record that you got are you still on that are you still on the record I I've I've been behaving because because you know I'm I'm a father of three so I had to oh you know from November from Nov pretty much from middle of October to December all your money's going towards Christmas and and my daughter's birthday and all sorts of things so so I stopped buying records at 2 night because I made a couple of like collector uh um purchases last year that I was like okay pump the brakes a little bit so I haven't I haven't bought anything lately probably the the the last the last big purchase was was that that one uh Freddie Fender I was trying to see if it was here close where I could reach for it without knocking shit over uh but it's uh it it it's well it's gotta be here hold on real quick y'all if y'all don't if y'all haven't heard of Javi Luna check him out he's at javi luna comedy uh he's on instagram he's on tick tock uh he's on Facebook and check him out he's got some shows coming up it turns out when I when I bought this the it's called Eddie the name of the record is is Eddie Condo Shades okay and I it the the guy over at uh hybrid records uh he had it he had it priced very competitively for what it was um but it was it was still a high dollar amount but it honestly probably could have gone for a little bit more he had realized that that is actually a pseudonym that Freddy Fender went under and it's the original releasing of it so so we this was he was just about to get signed to his uh to his label which the name's failing me out I'm I'm not a huge audiophile like that where I can tell you labels and but he he was about signed to it so he recorded this under this pseudonym called Eddie Cornel Shades.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_03: And um and then years later the his label re-released it but it was Freddie Fender as Eddie Cornell Shades.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_03: So this is one of the original pressings and it was in great fucking condition.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_03: I've actually gotten a few records off of that same ended up in different purchases got records from the same collector because the guy put his put his little address label and everything on there.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: Nice man that's awesome it's like one of a kind cool man that's awesome let's see what else I got here oh shoot yeah so you got you got three kids man three wow spread out spread out though divided so okay I got a 14 year old an eight year old and a three year old so I got in all all stages of life right now dude for real bro wow my three year old has finally knocked on wood kind of mastered her potty training oh shoot so uh so I told I told my wife I was like I've been I've literally been changing diapers for for 15 years.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_03: I think they were like I'm sure there there had been some gaps somewhere in between there but not much.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_03: Because my two oldest are boys and boys boys take longer because I think they were probably like four before they got the hang of it.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh so they got the baby sister bro yeah yeah they finally got the babysitter well now my my boys are from my first marriage so they have two baby sisters at their mom's house so um they went from doing two two boys by themselves to like all of a sudden having uh three baby sisters wow man that's so yeah they're babysittered out now wow bro that's tough man so and that's I heard I've heard your wife on the podcast awesome awesome awesome yeah yeah we're on a hiatus right now but but so you're coming back so you're coming back yeah yeah yeah we're definitely coming back we're definitely coming back I had to take a break because well one I wasn't on the road a lot of my a lot of our topics and discussions would come from from almost that it wasn't the format necessarily but the way it was is we would record it when I would get back from the road so what you were seeing what and what people tended to like was it was very much us how we would be having a conversation catching up how was your weekend what did you do anything interesting happened you know and and that that kind of situation and uh and so since I wasn't on the road there wasn't especially during 2020 where you know we're we're literally just here at the house all day there wasn't a hello to talk about so we ended up taking a hiatus we made it to like a hundred uh episode 120 it was my first episode my first podcast to ever cross the the hundred episode mark so it's definitely coming back I can't let it go it's coming back we're probably gonna shorten it to maybe like a 30 minute podcast because I feel like people's attention you know is more around that that time frame than than an than a longer form hour right unless you didn't have like like super interesting guests like myself uh you know that then you know that people want to hear talk longer you know 30 minutes is is about good enough to be entertaining and yet keep their attention right on right on bro that's awesome yeah so is that that's your third or your fourth your fourth podcast so well the yeah uh essentially my third and a half I I so my first podcast was back in 2015 I started called the On Blast podcast and my buddy Andy Gomez who who was part of a group uh that I was part of and start started along with my buddy David's and Jacob Rodriguez um called about the slogans of comedy and then we um Jacob at that time didn't have the time to do a podcast so Andy and I started one together called the On Blast Podcast and we made it about a year doing that and at that point uh Jacob's schedule freed up enough with work and family and everything that he would he he was ready to join us so then that became the Batos Locos of comedy podcast uh which which did about 75 episodes wow um and then um the the it just dissolved uh the the group the group dissolved we uh you know we weren't doing live shows anymore we were always we were always stand up comedians and doing live shows and and uh just some people weren't able to to keep up with it I was on the road more uh at that time with with Chingo Bling and Latin Comedy Jam which were two tours that I was lucky enough to get signed on pretty early on in my career and uh so so then that that that show just naturally fizzled out uh and then and then I tried to start one called uh take the L which I think I did like three episodes of and didn't really the format never really solidified and wasn't sure exactly what I wanted it to be it was it was supposed to be me like roasting different topical yeah things you know and um it just wasn't uh it wasn't organic happening organically I felt like it was a little too forced on my end uh so then so that at that point I was like I didn't want to do another ensemble one because then you're always you know you run the chance of of just chemistry scheduling yeah becomes an issue because not every you know oh can you record on Tuesday no I can't record on Tuesday I can do Wednesday well Wednesday's not good for me you know and so you're always battling that episodes are coming out late it's hard to be consistent uh take the L try to do a single and that's tough you know if anybody that does a a single person podcast i i i don't know what talent they have that i don't but but uh but they are they are severely gifted and uh i don't have it you know i can carry you know i can maybe carry a live for about 10 minutes and then like i'm not talking to anybody so i have no idea if you'll need that connection like i need that other person there to like uh what i saying is funny yeah you you not the most um it's funny but are you understanding what the what i'm saying is funny great you are all right good you know so the most readily available uh co-host was my wife and she's not she's not in the uh she's not an entertainer she's a school teacher you know she never she doesn't she has no ambition in being in in showbiz yeah or entertainment and that almost makes it better uh it's very natural so so really what it ended up being was this hour long episode of me trying to make her laugh which is my favorite thing to do yeah man so and just talking about life whatever we have going on bro kind of helps your material in a way yeah a lot of material was born on the podcast yeah that's awesome man that's awesome so what do you what do you consider to be a successful joke or a successful show you know I mean do you do you think about like do you think about it like that or uh how can I make this or you know what I mean what makes a joke successful um it has to resonate with people okay I to me a successful joke is a joke that people will come up and repeat it to me correctly a lot of people can can remember jokes wrong and when they don't tell the punchline right but when when they come up and they tell you what made them laugh in the joke and and it's actually the part that you meant to be the most funny.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_03: Wow that's crazy and that that to me is a sign of a of a good joke and when people remember it they like it they they take oh I said I said your joke at you know at work on Monday you know or you know and it it it's very yeah you know it's it's a sign of of to me that's a sign of strong writing right and and then um the other part of it as far as like the what really tells you if you had a good show is when people want to hear those jokes again and again.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_03: You know even if they've heard it even if they know it they still want they still want to hear it again.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_01: Wow that's awesome man.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_01: So how do you feel how do you feel about when other comedians steal jokes whether it's from you or from anybody else I've been fortunate I don't at least not to my knowledge I haven't had anything uh directly stolen like word for word.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_03: And I think that's what it comes down to.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_03: I think that there's there's definitely a lot of of parallel thought um but the problem with that is parallel thought there will be there will be um similarities right you you're talking on the same theme maybe even the the the the punchline is about the same issue or or or uses you know but when it's verbatim word for word the chances of you writing something line for line what what someone else wrote right is is not very high.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_03: So that that's that's the issue.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_03: But the the problem with that is because parallel thinking does exist people that don't have any ethics to them can use that as an excuse like oh no it's just a similar joke.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_03: So if you take a joke and just change it well that's not cool fucking either right but how do you how do you how do you prove something like that but definitely comedy's one of those things because it's so hard to get a joke that is reusable.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_03: Right um I think that's why comedians are more defensive of it because you you really have maybe two three times for someone to hear a joke before it loses its its shine.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_03: You know because because it depends on the surprise a little bit.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_03: So you know so if so that's why comics are like oh I don't want anybody else doing my jokes because you can burn a joke you know yeah you know and and that's why even like comics some comics don't like touring with it or performing with anybody that that does anything similar to what they do.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I'm saying?
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_03: That's why a lot it's in my opinion not that I know him personally or or anything like that in my opinion for a long time comics would dog um George Lopez uh he never never toured with a Latino comedy oh wow okay and and somebody would say oh well that's because he's not being supportive or you know he does he doesn't support Latinos or whatever.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_03: But here's the thing like like George Lopez was such a huge influence on so many Latino comics it you know that for a long time I'm not not luckily that's not the case anymore right but for a long time you were hard pressed to find a Latino comedian that wasn't trying to sound like George Lopez.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_03: Right or so or at the very least heavily influenced by him.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_03: So why would George Lopez want somebody going up before him who even if you're not doing his jokes you sound a lot like him wow man it's crazy.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_03: You know you would you wouldn't want that you know so so lucky he said that's not the case anymore you know that there's a lot of there's a lot of different styles of Latino comedy comics that happen to be Latino think uh fluffy helped with that a lot that was his line you know I'm not a Latino comedian I'm a comedian that happens to be Latino cool man and and that's been uh uh you know even me with me touring with with chingo bling you know you know our audiences are probably only 50 to 60 percent Latino you know it's a good honestly a good mixture that's cool man so so this so I felt like in the last like handful of years we really started to to shuck the idea of the Latino comedians only perform are only funny to Latinos that's not true or and we don't have just jokes about about our Tías and chanclas or whatever like we can talk about other stuff still within the lens of being being Latino whatever it might be make Mexican Puerto Rican Dominican whatever you are yeah you know you can still you can talk about other stuff other than the cultural uh intricacies of being man that's that's mad props to y'all for real man that's that's uh just to be able to do that for different audiences from different ethnic backgrounds and just that's pretty cool is like fluffy said it's um comedian that happens to be Latino that's amazing man so what's your um what's your vision for Javi Luna comedy or lunaver I seen Luniversal comedy yeah we did a couple different banners universal comedy uh went back when I was writing more like sketch is kind of like uh the overall umbrella for my comedy is anything I produced uh the the podcast uh sketches uh I used to have a web series called Rosa which was like a um it was a spoof of Roseanne but if Roseanne but if Roseanne was a a Latina from South Texas yeah and I I didn't already someone told me oh are you just gonna do a carbon copy of of of the episodes no I wrote original episodes um because the whole idea of Roseanne was oh this is a a lower middle class white family from Illinois.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_03: Wow so the idea was well okay and their experiences and the and the things that they would go through and the struggles that they would go through so so my was is no I'm just gonna literally take the idea of well what are the struggles that a lower middle class Latino family working class Latino family from South Texas would go through yeah that's awesome and and just tell that story right so so so we did like three or four episodes of that and those those were probably my most successful like web series um so that's why that's what you that's why you came up with the Universal comedy yeah that was one of the first things that the the before then it was just like something I was just like hashtagging or whatever but that was probably the first thing that I produced like like for like YouTube or long form kind of stuff it's actually what led to me writing a few other things for for other other people that's awesome man.
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_01: So real quick I I guess I wanted to talk about like your your so you your background I had I had heard in a podcast that you you went into like theology yeah that was your major your or your bachelor's degree yeah I got my degree my my degree is in theology which uh I I don't I don't talk about it like too much because yeah it's it's almost like it's been done too much like Sam Kennison used to be a preacher or whatever.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_03: The the pipeline from from clergy religious backgrounds to comedy yeah for some reason is is pretty strong.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_03: Wow dude that's so crazy not as unheard of as as possible I I've met several other comics that it had an otherwise religious upbringing wow to to ending up doing secular comedy uh there's a lot of similarities between um between preaching and doing comedy uh and I was gonna say that I was gonna say that like you really don't do like like preaching bits I mean I haven't seen no I don't do any I oh I don't do very I don't do religious material for that yeah for for that reason not to say that I ever won't but I but I you know I I did I do a couple like little tidbits about growing up Catholic or whatever but but I don't typically talk about but yeah I was I was fairly devout Catholic growing up grew up in the church I was an altar server I was a lector yeah yeah uh played in the choir I was in very active in the youth group I caught C C D yeah and what I what I thought I was gonna do is I thought I was going to be a religio director of religious education for like a big diocese like I had I had it's weird to say I had ambitions within the church yeah um I went I went to to college to for for it I went to St.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_03: Mary's university and I ended up doing a research fellowship at Notre Dame for a summer where I was planning to go for my master's degree and and things changed life changed my mom got really sick my senior year of college so I decided to forego um to forgo moving away that far away to Indiana and uh in my seat so I had decided I was going to stay at St.
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  SPEAKER_03: Mary's instead for my for my graduate degree and even in that by beginning of my senior by end of my senior my mom had even taken a turn for the worse and I decided I was going to move home for a couple years um and spend as much time as I could with her and then she ended up um lasting almost about five five more years in that meantime I had uh I got married and had a child and started a career uh with child care services for the state of Texas and by that point it was done uh by the time my mom was passing um I that's how I found comedy it wasn't count comedy was my outlet from so it helped you help that that actually like helped your like helped you get started that not not to be sacrilegious I'm not trying to piss off the religious folk yeah yeah but but comedy became my religion you know wow man you I mean you gotta love it bro like you gotta love it you gotta study it and ain't nothing wrong with that bro yeah that's cool man that's cool Javi Luna comedy so let me put the tag down there Javi Luna comedy check him out y'all uh it's crazy man uh yeah yeah I think that's all I got here I'm looking at my notes here this man came prepared what is the podcast gonna be called uh corpus yeah corporate script originals podcast CCO podcast I don't know if you got an idea let me let me know you gotta have a good acronym CCO's good yeah CCO cool cool cool uh yeah man Chris Farley fat guy in the little code I heard that in your podcast yeah oh man that's so oh dude um I guess yeah I guess we can stop it here man it's this has been an hour I appreciate you being on man yeah yeah thank you uh you know I was a good first guest for you yeah yeah no it's awesome man you guys like you already have your next yeah there's the our I've already invited uh two other people uh the one of the ladies she does like tie-dye tie-dye shirts in corpus dude she does some yeah that's her okay awesome yeah yeah yeah and and that's also one thing you know that's changed over the last couple years you know corpus is a lot more supportive of local artists and artisans and and and entrepreneurs than probably ever before I think that you know it used to be really hard to make it as a local artist in corpus but but corpus has shown me a lot of love the people that have seen me and know me you know they they they support you know and and so there's a lot of great there you know what you're doing trying trying to kind of push other and and build up other people that that's great and like I said there's just lots lots of people out there that that are about that on that local way on that local shit which is which is yeah cool and great so that's what's up bro that's awesome man I appreciate it I appreciate it so you got any tags I I'll put little Habaluna or any anything I have another comedy man uh I do have uh merch uh if you're down with that originalgoroditos.com uh I am going to be uh filming my first special uh at some at some time this summer we're still trying to lock in the venue um it's gonna be self-produced I've recorded for television about three different times and they never come out it it uh that's a different story for a different time yeah uh it's a not a simple it's not an unheard of experience in comedy uh there's always somebody producing something and half of it never sees the fucking light like day so uh I've decided to put my money where my mouth is and I'm self-producing this uh gonna have it professionally done and and gonna see you see what happens with it you know hell yeah that's awesome man instead of waiting for somebody to come and get you you're like dude I'm yeah I'm gonna do it myself yeah that's the thing if you're gonna do comedy for or anything any kind of art from from a town that we're not a major market that that's not an insult to corpus we're we're not we're we're right we're you know four four between four and five hundred thousand people max and spread out at that and you know we're we're not Dallas we're not Houston we're not Austin we're not even San Antonio uh so you so you got to uh you gotta make your own noise you gotta make your own hype a little bit so that's what's up Brian that's that's awesome dude proud of you all right man I appreciate you coming on check this out uh and I'll just put like a an an end one I'll see you later man take it easy I don't know what to do with my hands all right see y'all guys later bye all right y'all there you have it Javi Luna at Hobby Luna comedy I'll leave his links in the description appreciate y'all tuning in stay tuned next week for the next podcast guest and uh appreciate y'all have a good one bye