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#75 | Tina La Cochina · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_03: Alright, what's going on y'all?
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SPEAKER_03: Corpus Christi Originals back at it again.
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SPEAKER_03: Um, coming to you live or coming to you recording from the Streamlab Studio Downtown Corpus Christi, Texas, at produce sound studios um here on People Street.
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SPEAKER_03: Forgive us for not going live.
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SPEAKER_03: We have some technical difficulties, so we're recording it.
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SPEAKER_03: We're gonna post it later.
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SPEAKER_03: So leave comments, questions, whatever later to help us with engagement.
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SPEAKER_03: Uh, as per Tina's suggestion, appreciate you.
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SPEAKER_03: So today we have Tina Lacochina.
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SPEAKER_03: Hey, Tina the Nasty in English.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna have a translator.
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SPEAKER_03: The translator.
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SPEAKER_03: Thanks for coming on.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm so happy to be here.
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SPEAKER_01: Thanks for inviting me.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm digging the shirt, man.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Slayer slash Selena.
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SPEAKER_00: Got a rep.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Galactic.
0:43
SPEAKER_00: That's where I scored this shirt.
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SPEAKER_03: That's dope.
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SPEAKER_03: Dope.
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SPEAKER_03: For sure.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: So we were talking, we were talking before air that um there's 25 plus comedians in town.
0:54
SPEAKER_03: That's a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, on Thursdays, we have uh open mic night at Mesquite Street downtown.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And I mean the list fills up to like 20, 30 people sometimes.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And but we only get like five minutes.
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SPEAKER_03: So Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Like it's not enough.
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SPEAKER_03: Do you feel like there's enough time for those comedians to work their set in town?
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SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Every day.
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SPEAKER_03: Because it seems like a small town, and there's I don't know how many places is there.
1:22
SPEAKER_03: There's the exchange, the exchange, right?
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SPEAKER_03: Where you do it.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, mine as well.
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SPEAKER_01: My my uh my residency at Exchange is more of a comedy showcase.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: So I usually book either um regional, excuse me, or like touring comedians, local comedians.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so and it's on the the last Tuesday of the month.
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SPEAKER_01: So that one's just a monthly show.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but as far as open mics, we have Thursday is like a for sure, like that one gets really uh busy.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we have um on Sundays, we have uh Jay Everett at Rich's um on I think that's Weber.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm laughing because that's what the the slap happened.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh yes.
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SPEAKER_03: Where's that at, anyways, Rich?
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SPEAKER_01: It's on Weber.
2:07
SPEAKER_01: It used to be called by H E B?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: So so you said Thursday nights or when when do they have that once a month?
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SPEAKER_01: On Sundays, it's at Rich's, and then on Mondays it's at Tapology on Staples with Miguelito.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and then on Tuesdays, um, if it's we're usually it's my showcase on the last Tuesday of the month.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but sometimes we'll have open mic um at Panacea, and House of Rock also has an open mic on Tuesdays.
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SPEAKER_03: So there's one every day of the week or yeah, except for like Fridays and Saturdays.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, usually those are like actual comedy shows.
2:46
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so those are usually uh paid events or you know, you'll have to, it's like an actual show, like be booked or whatever.
2:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Not really an open mic where it's free.
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody can sign up.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, man.
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SPEAKER_03: So so your first open mic, well, man, what was that like?
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SPEAKER_03: I can't imagine.
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SPEAKER_03: Because I've thought about it, I'm sure everybody's thought about it.
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SPEAKER_03: You've never tried it?
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SPEAKER_03: No, I'm sure everybody thought about it at one point.
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SPEAKER_03: It's like, I dude, what do I talk about?
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SPEAKER_03: Am I gonna bomb?
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SPEAKER_03: Like, what yeah, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_03: How do you go about like how do you get over the nerves and the fear of like actually finally doing it, you know?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, I didn't try it until the first time I tried it, it was on my 30th birthday.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, which was almost 10 years ago.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so it was more like a bucket list type of thing where I was like, I want to do it.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to, I've always wanted to try it.
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SPEAKER_01: It looks so fun or whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: And um, and my my coworkers at the time were like, we should go, let's all go, we'll support you, we'll clap, we'll laugh.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So sure enough, um, my birthday landed on Thursday.
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SPEAKER_01: So I went to Mesquite Street Pizza and I signed up.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh the one that actually even introduced me was Andy.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, I bumped into him at another restaurant or bar or something, and he was performing and he was like, Yeah, you should come out.
4:03
SPEAKER_01: Cool.
4:03
SPEAKER_01: And so I started coming out to see him, and then I ended up signing up.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So um, man, it was a it was so fun.
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SPEAKER_01: Like I it was an experience I can't even describe.
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SPEAKER_03: You know, were people laughing?
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SPEAKER_01: I mean it it was um well, it was my first time.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, but um, I had like birthday jokes, and then I ended up roasting Andy.
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SPEAKER_01: So it ended up being like super fun, and and I could not stop doing it.
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SPEAKER_01: I would sign I signed up next week and I signed up the following week, and every Thursday I'm here downtown um checking it out, making friends, networking, and pretty much building my brand for Cochina comedy.
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SPEAKER_03: Amazing.
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SPEAKER_03: So you just started that far and then eventually you just like kept on billowing it.
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SPEAKER_01: Really, it was just like something fun to try, you know, bucket list type of thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, which I encourage everybody to try.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying like do it every week or whatever, but like just, you know, one time, go up and say a funny story.
4:59
SPEAKER_01: You know, remember that first time that you tried mushrooms, or the first time you got drunk, or the first time, you know, maybe something happened while you were in an elevator or your car ride to work.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, something happened, and you want to tell a friend, right?
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SPEAKER_01: You want to be like, dude, you know what happened to me.
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SPEAKER_01: You want to believe it.
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SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, and you it it's surprising of how many people will relate to you, like, dude, that happened to me.
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SPEAKER_03: And you know, and and like somebody said it, right?
5:27
SPEAKER_03: Somebody said it.
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SPEAKER_03: It's just it's just it's funny.
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SPEAKER_03: So yeah, shout out Andy Gomez.
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SPEAKER_03: Andy Gomez, what's up, man?
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SPEAKER_03: We got we got your your homie in here, uh Tina La Cochina.
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SPEAKER_03: Thanks for uh suggesting.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh appreciate you, yeah.
5:39
SPEAKER_03: And yeah, so he uh it's pretty cool to know that he actually helped you to to make that for to take that first step.
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SPEAKER_03: So that's awesome.
5:46
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's good.
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SPEAKER_03: So Tina La Cochina comedy, how when did you when did you know that they were gonna have that brand?
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SPEAKER_01: Or did you um Cochina is more of like um like a nickname, more like okay, so like growing up, um, you know, it rhymes, so it kind of stuck.
6:03
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
6:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, but the reason I was called that is because I have a birthmark on my face, um, on my chin.
6:09
SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I have makeup on, but um, so yeah, so it looks like my face is dirty.
6:15
SPEAKER_03: So well, shout out the cotton pickers, man.
6:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Robstown Cotton Picker.
6:20
SPEAKER_01: All the buller, all the bullies that uh you know.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's now I have that.
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SPEAKER_01: I use it as a stage name.
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SPEAKER_01: I love Robstown.
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SPEAKER_01: That's my hometown.
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SPEAKER_01: My mom still lives there.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and I I love it.
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SPEAKER_01: I I always represent when I go on stage, I always talk about my hometown.
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SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'm always there.
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SPEAKER_01: My mom's there.
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SPEAKER_01: So right down the road, man.
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SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, from Ropstown.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Ropstown people doing it for sure.
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SPEAKER_03: It's awesome.
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SPEAKER_03: So your your career and uh so what is so what inspired?
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SPEAKER_03: So there we go.
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SPEAKER_03: It's kind of weird, I got that.
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SPEAKER_03: Um, so what are your big biggest comedic influences?
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SPEAKER_01: Lithium.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, I think when I was younger, I was uh I don't I don't know if you remember, like right be right after the news, they would show Seinfeld, yeah, like um like at 10 30 or something.
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SPEAKER_01: And I always remember Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So, you know, when um when the show starts, it's him doing stand-up.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's always just like a few seconds, you know, it's not his whole bit, it's just like, and I always wanted like more, like, man, I wonder what he's gonna say next.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, what's the next joke gonna be?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So um that really like got me curious about stand up.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and then of course, um, the comedians that are doing it now that I kind of um follow is like Angelo Johnson, yeah, um Christella, Christela.
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SPEAKER_01: I I there's like um comedians that I've followed, like you know, Dave Chappelle.
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SPEAKER_01: I've been watching him forever.
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SPEAKER_01: I love Dave Chappelle.
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SPEAKER_01: Cool.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, but there's other uh comedians here in Texas that man have really um inspired me, like, oh I I can do it.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, I yeah, um, and that's mostly like my comedy family here in Corpus.
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SPEAKER_01: Like my my uh my friend Ana Ramidez, she's like one of the persons like I kind of go to, like, hey, this is happening.
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SPEAKER_01: You want to go with me?
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SPEAKER_01: Or like, what do you think about this project?
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SPEAKER_01: And we bounce ideas off each other.
8:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and then of course, in the beginning, Andy kind of we would always after open mic, we hang out afterwards and we talk comedy.
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SPEAKER_01: And so that included the rest of the comedians amazing, um, like Javi, and you know, Javi has taken me on the road uh with him several times, you know.
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SPEAKER_01: And and so it's just like I'm learning.
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SPEAKER_01: Even the ones that um the comedians that have started after me, they're they end up starting open mics and um doing projects and improv and doing other things in the arts.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm just truly inspired.
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SPEAKER_01: The comedy circle that we have right now, we we like motivate each other.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, we you know support each other.
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SPEAKER_01: If if I'm having an event, usually I can count on a lot of the comedians to share my flyer or tell their friends and family to come to my show.
8:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
9:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, or even show up.
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SPEAKER_01: Like it's just nice to have an audience, you know, so that way the comedians that I book have somebody to tell jokes to.
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SPEAKER_03: So yeah, shout out Javi Luna.
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SPEAKER_03: He was on episode one, yeah, for sure.
9:12
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
9:12
SPEAKER_03: Do you is it so is it tough?
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SPEAKER_03: Is it difficult, would you say, because the city is so small for comedians to like, you know what I mean, to make it or practice or whatever.
9:22
SPEAKER_03: What what are the challenges that y'all have?
9:24
SPEAKER_01: That, yeah, it's you know, um, I think it's hard.
9:30
SPEAKER_01: Um sometimes the audience is not as open as we would like, you know, uh certain topics right now.
9:37
SPEAKER_01: It seems like politics is a very sensitive subject.
9:40
SPEAKER_01: Um, so those types of challenges, but I think um the fact that we like push through that, you know, we find the humor in it.
9:48
SPEAKER_01: I mean, try not to take everything so seriously, right?
9:51
SPEAKER_01: We find a silver lining in everything that happens.
9:54
SPEAKER_01: So um really that's how we kind of keep it going.
9:59
SPEAKER_01: Um we try like there's certain places that really don't welcome us, you know, especially, you know, it depending on what type of comedy we're we're doing, you know.
10:09
SPEAKER_01: A lot, yeah.
10:10
SPEAKER_01: You know, some sometimes certain places want clean comedy or don't say anything about politics or don't say anything about you know religion or how do you how do you feel about that?
10:18
SPEAKER_03: Like, can you work around that or in certain situations?
10:21
SPEAKER_01: Like, um, in certain situations, if I'm asked like, hey, I would like for you to mc this event, um, please don't say the F word, or hey, you can do this, but please don't bring up any politics.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, if I'm MCing an event or if somebody books me to host or you know, um be a guest and and do a spot, um, whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: If if it is something where I'm like, well, you know what, I'm actually not comfortable with that.
10:45
SPEAKER_01: I don't I I don't think I I I'll have to pass.
10:47
SPEAKER_01: And I've had to do that.
10:48
SPEAKER_01: Some people are like, we want 30 minutes of all clean comedy.
10:52
SPEAKER_01: Um and don't mention this or that and that.
10:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh that's that's all my that's yeah, it's very limiting.
10:57
SPEAKER_03: And oh, it's limit, okay.
10:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I I wouldn't be able to be Tina La Cochina.
11:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, do you know my stage name?
11:03
SPEAKER_01: How are you gonna book me?
11:05
SPEAKER_01: You can't even say my stage name when you introduce me.
11:07
SPEAKER_03: That's so crazy, man.
11:08
SPEAKER_01: And that's happened.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, people will book me and they won't even introduce me by my stage name.
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SPEAKER_01: They'll just say, All right, come into the stage is Tina.
11:15
SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
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SPEAKER_03: So man, say you gotta tiptoe around that?
11:20
SPEAKER_01: That sucks.
11:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's okay.
11:22
SPEAKER_03: You still gotta you still gotta maintain a level of professionalism, like as it seems like it in this city.
11:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it would hope.
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SPEAKER_01: I try.
11:32
SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, yeah.
11:33
SPEAKER_03: So you um, so you just you won like uh no, what is it, the Ben magazine or whatever, like how many times five times or something like that?
11:41
SPEAKER_01: This is my fifth year.
11:42
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, congrats.
11:43
SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
11:43
SPEAKER_03: How do you feel about that?
11:44
SPEAKER_01: It was um, you know, I'm always surprised.
11:48
SPEAKER_01: Really?
11:49
SPEAKER_01: Well yeah, because I don't think anybody knows I'm super private.
11:53
SPEAKER_01: I'm super private.
11:54
SPEAKER_01: If you look me up, you won't you won't really find my comedy, or you won't really find Is it is it is that because you're private?
12:02
SPEAKER_03: I mean, I am private.
12:03
SPEAKER_03: You choose to be that.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: I choose to be private.
12:05
SPEAKER_01: Like I I like what I do, you know.
12:07
SPEAKER_01: I I work during the day, I work in education, and then at night I do comedy on the weekends.
12:13
SPEAKER_01: I travel and I do shows, and so it's I I I'm able to manage it better that way, keeping it separate and and things like that.
12:22
SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, of course, my students and the people I work with and things like that, yeah.
12:26
SPEAKER_01: They some of them know, hey, did I see you on the flyer?
12:29
SPEAKER_01: Hey, but for the most part, you know, I I um I'm able to to manage and juggle both.
12:36
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's what's up.
12:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if anything, I use my personal life for material because when I go on stage, I'm talking about my mom and I'm talking about my do you yeah, do you makeup story?
12:45
SPEAKER_01: Like, oh yeah.
12:46
SPEAKER_01: So there's you know, a percentage of uh real life situations, and then I tweak it a little bit, add a little bit more, exaggerate.
12:54
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
12:55
SPEAKER_01: My brother's always like, Tepatas, yeah, tepatasas.
12:57
SPEAKER_01: You go too far.
13:00
SPEAKER_01: Make the story a little more spicy.
13:02
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, how do you how do you handle uh crowds or hecklers?
13:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't.
13:07
SPEAKER_01: I break down, I cry, I yeah.
13:11
SPEAKER_01: It's hard, you know?
13:12
SPEAKER_01: I'm super sensitive, so I get my feelings hurt really easy.
13:15
SPEAKER_01: Maybe that's another reason why I'm super private.
13:17
SPEAKER_01: I I don't um Wow, so crazy.
13:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's like you're and you go on stage and you do jokes and stuff like that.
13:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
13:24
SPEAKER_01: So when somebody doesn't laugh or if I I can't make them, you know, smile or anything, it really hurts.
13:31
SPEAKER_01: Like I go home and it hurts.
13:32
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
13:33
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it hurts my heart.
13:34
SPEAKER_03: Is that motivation to help you like get better at what you're doing?
13:37
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes.
13:38
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes it's motivation to end it all.
13:44
SPEAKER_01: Depends, you know?
13:45
SPEAKER_01: Depends on the situation, depends on the mood.
13:50
SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's crazy.
13:51
SPEAKER_03: Oh man.
13:52
SPEAKER_03: Uh rop's down in the house.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
13:55
SPEAKER_00: Go read it.
13:56
SPEAKER_03: Go red, yeah, yeah.
13:58
SPEAKER_03: Uh has there been a time uh when you had a joke that didn't land as expected?
14:02
SPEAKER_03: Uh, what did you do to recover?
14:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, in the beginning when I first started, yeah, I I like kind of like would repeat it, not repeat it, but like kind of explain it.
14:14
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
14:14
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, dude, it's not hitting.
14:16
SPEAKER_01: Don't do, don't say that joke anymore.
14:18
SPEAKER_01: Um now uh what I try to do if I'm saying something, immediately I try to change the subject or you know, go go ahead and go go in the opposite direction where I know something else will hit.
14:29
SPEAKER_01: It's just it's funny because that's the time you go to open mic is to work it out.
14:32
SPEAKER_01: To work it out, yeah.
14:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you go up there, you you talk about the Olympics, you talk about you know what's going on in the news, you talk about whatever uh is relevant.
14:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then if nobody's it's not hitting, then you either move on or usually we like to to comedy talk afterwards and be like, Oh, did you hear my joke about this?
14:51
SPEAKER_03: And then we try to um you know try to fix it up and an angle it or whatever to make it work.
14:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
14:57
SPEAKER_03: Um and so to be to be a good comedian, do you think you have to practice at it like actually have that stage time, or can you be a com be a good comedian without having that stage time?
15:10
SPEAKER_01: Um I think it's a combination.
15:14
SPEAKER_01: Some some people I feel um need that uh muscle exercise if if you know daily, if not for sure wake weekly to get stage time.
15:25
SPEAKER_01: You have to.
15:26
SPEAKER_01: It's it's just it's it's like I said, exercising a muscle.
15:29
SPEAKER_01: You have to, you have to practice the public speaking, um, how to rebuttal when you do have a heckler, um, working on crowd work, uh getting through jokes that are not hitting, yeah, things like that.
15:40
SPEAKER_01: Like you do have to get through that, and that's um doing it is part of it.
15:45
SPEAKER_01: And getting roasted or getting heckled or getting that that you have to get through that in order to grow.
15:51
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
15:52
SPEAKER_01: Um so, but then there are some comedians that I've known where um they they really don't come out to an open mic.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: Um, whether they're maybe they're they're doing it in the in the privacy of their home in a mirror.
16:04
SPEAKER_01: I I really don't know their techniques, but um, for me, I have to have like the back and forth.
16:09
SPEAKER_01: Like I need to say something and then see if it works.
16:11
SPEAKER_01: Like I I need that.
16:12
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
16:12
SPEAKER_01: Um and so there other comedians are a little bit different where they they're able to work their stuff out and either with maybe just their family or or you know.
16:22
SPEAKER_03: How do you feel about the the corpus scene now?
16:24
SPEAKER_03: Like for good for comedians.
16:26
SPEAKER_01: The corpus scene, I feel well, you know, I've been doing open mic for almost 10 years now.
16:31
SPEAKER_01: Um and I've been hosting the exchange for for for five.
16:35
SPEAKER_01: And the comedians that I've seen come and go, I I feel like it's grown.
16:40
SPEAKER_01: Um since the pandemic, I have seen a change as far as like um the type of avenues comedians are taking in order to get their humor out, you know.
16:51
SPEAKER_01: So that's different, and I feel like it's growing in different directions, especially with improv.
16:56
SPEAKER_01: I feel like that needs to be more incorporated where people are able to do that.
17:00
SPEAKER_01: There's more of um uh what is it, like crowd work going on?
17:05
SPEAKER_01: So when an audience member comes back with you, you gotta keep it going.
17:09
SPEAKER_01: You know?
17:09
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:10
SPEAKER_03: It's part of that practice where we're talking about, yeah, it's just to be a better comedian.
17:14
SPEAKER_03: Do you feel like there's like regarding like because you mentioned like a circle of comedians?
17:18
SPEAKER_03: It seems like there's a bunch of different ones everywhere, not only here, but everywhere.
17:23
SPEAKER_03: Like, is there do you feel like there's like tension between other comedians or how do you how do you go about like navigating that?
17:30
SPEAKER_01: Um it's hard to say because you know, I've had falling out with with comedians.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: You know, it happens.
17:39
SPEAKER_01: I feel like in any any industry you're gonna cross paths with people that don't have the same vision as you, you know.
17:48
SPEAKER_01: Or maybe they're saying and doing things that really are not part of your mission or my values.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: You know, I I try not to really work with comedians that say the N-word.
17:59
SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't really work with comedians that uh talk about certain things that I'm not comfortable with, you know.
18:06
SPEAKER_01: So when it comes to booking for my show, I there are I go to open mics to see and watch and to see how do you handle yourself.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: Can you handle a heckler?
18:15
SPEAKER_01: Can you can you do you even have a five uh solid five minutes, ten minutes to even uh get laughs?
18:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know?
18:23
SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's awesome.
18:24
SPEAKER_03: And so how long have you been doing that there at the exchange, like having that showcase?
18:28
SPEAKER_01: I've been hosting for five years.
18:30
SPEAKER_01: Um, a good friend of mine, he was uh hosting the open mic there, and um he ended up moving to um Houston, uh Max Richards, he's also a comedian.
18:42
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, and and when he moved, he was like, Tina, go ahead and take over, you're here every week.
18:47
SPEAKER_04: Like wow, yeah.
18:49
SPEAKER_01: So I was you know, I was really there every week, um, helping him promote the open mic, sell tickets, like anything he needs to do.
18:57
SPEAKER_03: Why were you doing that?
18:57
SPEAKER_03: Like just because you wanted, I mean, how come?
18:59
SPEAKER_01: Like I it it it feels good.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, when you find something that feels good, you do it.
19:05
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that makes sense.
19:07
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's so cool because like some people wouldn't want to do that.
19:10
SPEAKER_03: And then so eventually so you got really involved in that and he turned it over to you.
19:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he went to Houston, he moved to Houston, he does comedy out there now.
19:17
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was gonna I was gonna say, like, it seems like Houston Houston has a big scene.
19:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:20
SPEAKER_03: Have you considered moving out of town?
19:22
SPEAKER_03: No.
19:22
SPEAKER_03: No?
19:22
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm a cotton picker.
19:23
SPEAKER_03: You cotton picker.
19:24
SPEAKER_03: Ooh, come on.
19:25
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
19:26
SPEAKER_01: So you're actually I live I've been living here in Corpus for for um yeah, for about 10 years.
19:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh well, actually over 10 years now.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, but um I yeah, this is this is my my home.
19:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my mom is in Robstown.
19:41
SPEAKER_01: I'm here in Corpus.
19:42
SPEAKER_01: We're just it this is home.
19:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't mind traveling.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: I love traveling.
19:46
SPEAKER_01: I've been doing shows out of town, out of state, but um come back home.
19:50
SPEAKER_03: So the I guess I'm asking, like, because do you f like do you want to make it big?
19:54
SPEAKER_03: Like, you know what I mean?
19:55
SPEAKER_03: You know what I'm saying?
19:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:57
SPEAKER_03: And if so, like, do you feel like you have to move out of town or can you stay here to do that?
20:02
SPEAKER_01: I guess you know, when I think about it, like long term, I'll I I just think about like I'm still doing it.
20:09
SPEAKER_01: I'm still doing it.
20:10
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if I'm gonna get a bigger stage or not.
20:12
SPEAKER_01: It would I don't know.
20:15
SPEAKER_01: I I see what the possibilities are and it's a little scary.
20:18
SPEAKER_01: Wow, yeah.
20:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, so right now I I like I'm still I feel like I'm still learning.
20:24
SPEAKER_01: If if that comes along, that would be great and I I would just have to embrace it.
20:30
SPEAKER_01: I feel like I'm still very green in the industry and yeah.
20:34
SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
20:35
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean it's interesting to know, like, because it seems like it seems like you you're out there in corpus and people know who you are, you know what I mean.
20:43
SPEAKER_03: And who knows?
20:44
SPEAKER_03: I was listening to the the lit the lit, what's the name of the podcast over there?
20:48
SPEAKER_03: Oh lit Logan?
20:49
SPEAKER_03: Lit Logan?
20:50
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Lit Logan.
20:51
SPEAKER_03: And you were saying uh something about uh having the Ben magazine.
20:55
SPEAKER_03: I lost my trainers out there, being on the Ben magazine for five years, but then you oh you're gonna be on a show soon, right?
21:01
SPEAKER_03: Or did it pass?
21:01
SPEAKER_03: I can't remember when I heard the podcast.
21:03
SPEAKER_03: But you're like, ah, this is actually I'm actually gonna be a part of the show instead of like running the show, so you're actually you're actually gonna have time doing it.
21:10
SPEAKER_03: Oh doing you know, doing your bits or whatever.
21:12
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
21:13
SPEAKER_03: How do you feel about that?
21:14
SPEAKER_03: Has it been a m has it been a while since you've done done your your set?
21:19
SPEAKER_01: No, I do comedy every week.
21:20
SPEAKER_01: You do it often?
21:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, every week.
21:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, every week, yeah.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so next next weekend I'll be in San Antonio.
21:26
SPEAKER_01: I have two shows in San Antonio, and then when I come back to Corpus, I have the exchange, and then um September 6th is the Friday, art walk three, and I have a comedy show downtown at Mesquite.
21:37
SPEAKER_01: That's my birthday birthday show.
21:39
SPEAKER_03: Birthday show, come on, that's awesome.
21:42
SPEAKER_03: And and you're so you started com comedy on your birthday show.
21:45
SPEAKER_03: On your birthday, right?
21:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's why it's so special.
21:47
SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Anna and Brandon at Mesquite.
21:49
SPEAKER_01: That I was they were like, What are you gonna do for your birthday?
21:51
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, you know, maybe I should have a comedy show.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: And they were like, We'll do it here.
21:56
SPEAKER_01: Hello, I'm dumb.
21:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:59
SPEAKER_03: How do you feel?
22:00
SPEAKER_01: about like where you're at now like you know what I mean I um I'm still super nervous I I I um you know I I write and I'm trying and uh I'm not for everybody you know so it's hard to make everybody happy so I'm just trying to make myself happy like doing comedy makes me happy and if people will laugh along the way then let's go let's go yeah but you know it I I know you were asking me about like where do I see this going or whatever and and I like it would be great to have my own like you know what I mean spot I I don't necessarily think I have to move away and do all these things and I it would I mean what if I had something here and I I had something here you know um yeah so and then brought names I mean Joe Rogan is in Austin right now.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah you mentioned and then he has a club so not only is he doing comedy but he has a space where he can do comedy and have his friends do comedy there too.
23:02
SPEAKER_01: So that I think maybe that would be maybe something in the future.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: I mean I I like to go travel and do shows all over you know I've been to Vegas and um all over Texas.
23:11
SPEAKER_01: So yeah I would like to go do shows in other states and and all over the world but um maybe doing something here in Corpus would be that's great in Robstown.
23:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah no yeah yeah success looks different for everybody and it seems like yeah that's why I was approaching it like that or do you want to be like a famous comedian but you're looking I'm famous.
23:29
SPEAKER_03: Oh that's good that's good but and you're looking at enough yeah but I thought yeah you mentioned that too like Joe Rovigan moved to Austin.
23:35
SPEAKER_01: He's got his thing going on there you mentioned that on that podcast as well shout out Lit Logan podcast uh but yeah doing it here in Corpus that's that's awesome um do you feel like the it that that the scene is growing to will it get there you think it could get there it you know with the pandemic that was kind of um a bump in the road you know for us to get it going again we were doing like zoom comedy it was horrible horrible during the pandemic so um now that we're what three four years out of that whole weird situation um I feel like more people are coming out this is a form of coping because you're writing you're performing you're uh going on stage and pretty much spilling your gut it takes a lot to go up there you know so I give props to anybody that even tries it once you know I they don't have to make a living off of it but just to even try it once just to do it you know yeah what makes a good joke what do you think makes a good joke um I I feel like if you can at least relate to one person in the audience you know make at least one person laugh because not everybody's gonna laugh you know but if you can make at least one person it's crazy.
24:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah so do you do you like study the actual like how to write a joke or you just kind of just well like yeah yeah so when um sometimes we do these writing sessions like um on Mondays at Topology with Miguelito um there are kind of like writing sessions that he does this one thing where you kind of pull things out of a a um a bowl and there's topics you know and so you got to make a joke and kind of work on that and hey if it's good if you get a laugh write it down use it on your neck you know what I mean so um there's there's things that we do um we also me and Anna had started uh looking at a book where it kind of gives you a breakdown of you know taking time to pause um even my good friend Jan uh she she does musical uh comedy oh yeah so she writes like her songs in a comical way and then performs them she sings them with her guitar so I feel like everybody kind of finds their way some people are one-liners you know they're just hey have you ever heard of this and then boom boom boom you get a laugh and then and then like for me sometimes I'll I'll go to open mic and I'm trying out a new bit but it'll be a story like okay check this out this is some history you say a little bit of me and then you do the punchline you know what I mean like so it's a little bit more of store storytelling.
25:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah um so there's a technique to each each do you think of a do you think of a punchline first before you write the joke sometimes sometimes I find something super funny and I'm like oh my god how am I gonna fit that on things so cool like there's this one word I love this word but what was it the other oh there's a couple of words I love pope I love that word it's funny it's so funny and only certain people know the word though Michael Michael Matt has a song called Gachope and when I was listening to it I was like dude this sounds funny it's a funny word I'm sorry to put you off no that that's exactly it so like being that not everybody knows that but if he says it I'm gonna laugh when he thinks it or when he says it because you know that's relatable to I've had pope I've had pope who had it right so um when it comes to stuff like that yeah when you relate it's funny yes exactly or if maybe you don't use that term but you're like man my mom used to say or my well I used to say it's a funny word.
26:53
SPEAKER_01: So I need to really start working on that.
26:55
SPEAKER_01: So you're constantly thinking you're constantly thinking jokes like I wouldn't say constantly I just feel like everywhere I go let me see if I can make somebody laugh like even right now when I walked in with him what if I didn't mind that's my yeah what did I say and I was all trying to make you crack up oh your arm oh yeah yeah yeah I think my my hand is hand at a mouth did you get scared?
27:15
SPEAKER_01: No see so wow yeah I feel like that breaks the ice like it's it's okay yeah that's we can just laugh about it yeah no that's awesome wow oh uh what was I gonna say uh man let's see what we got here open mic uh comedy shows uh have you noticed any rising talents in the local scene that people should keep an eye on yeah um I truly encourage um if people are looking for a good show or like local talent is to show up to an open mic no because you'd be surprised there's some guys that are like some some of them are not even of age I've seen kids sign up wow um and they'll go up there with like a funny story and I'm like dude I think he's gonna come out on like America you know what I mean like what is it America's got talent you know like there's just people that have it they have it that it factor you know um so you'd be surprised so yeah the open mics that I mentioned I would definitely check out the one on Thursday at Mesquite um Monday at Topology and then Sunday at Rich's that one just started I think so I don't know if they're gonna keep it going because they have like uh pool tables and things going on so um and I know topology I think it's like every other Monday so you'll have to follow them to to see which dates um that is and then Thursday of course it's every Thursday at Miske.
28:38
SPEAKER_01: So if you're downtown um that's the spot we all hang out afterwards so if anybody was like well I'm I just want some tips or whatever like we're down that's all we do is talk comedy that's all we want to do is go back and forth with jokes.
28:50
SPEAKER_03: Yeah it's awesome I brought all these drinks I didn't even offer you did you want to try one of these modellos no I'm good hey I got I got my I got my flavor I got one in every flavor I'm so excited to try these I don't even drink no I don't even drink but I'm excited to try these I don't drink either I don't drink I'm very so I don't drink I don't smoke I you people come and they ask me can we smoke I'm like nah you know I mean you can smoke before you come you can it's fine with me you know what I mean I I just don't do a perfect that's actually that should be required you should smoke before you come somebody was saying like uh it's funny how when you tell somebody you don't drink they're like well why what's wrong with you instead of like saying um like if if they don't drink water you're not like hey well why don't you drink water yeah yeah I'll dehydrated all sick another funny word sick yeah do you find that certain words are like okay so when you're when you're when you're doing your bit or whatever do you find that certain words do you have do you find like you have to use certain words to make it sound funny before you do the punchline because I hear that like if you use b's or p's or t's you know what I mean yeah yeah and then that's how you like uh like enunciate them more yeah yeah yeah to make it stand out right yeah I've been I was studying it like I was like oh man this is pretty cool and I know that you're gonna so you're gonna sign up I believe you're uh I might I don't know maybe maybe you just need to like I know you're doing your research and you're thinking about it and you're looking at it yeah exactly but I'm like I'm not gonna do it but I'm like I'm not a comedian like no you don't have to be a comedian open mic is for anybody I'm just I'm just I just go to work I'm why why am I why would I do that you know what I mean that's my train of thought like okay well me too me too I work I work for in education during the day you still do hair you still do hair I do hair yes it's so why what would I be doing what makes you different from me right that's what you're saying no I mean once you go um I mean there's a community there to support you for sure and then um it's so fun so even when you're like man I don't I just wanted to try it out even if you come a month later or a year later it's still there you know it ain't going nowhere because yeah because I have my moments I'll take breaks I won't come out for weeks sometimes even months wow and and take a break from comedy and then of course I find my way back wow so you so you you do hair you still work at a is it a Veda I I wouldn't work anymore no I don't work you want to talk about you don't want to leverage oh that's okay I mean I'm sure I'm no I think they still have me on payroll yeah all right I could go plug in tomorrow yeah I can literally go back is it is it there on six six point six yeah okay yeah yeah yeah I'm I'm more of like an on-call substitute teacher got that special title yeah all right substitute teacher awesome oh man personal insight uh how has comedy impacted your personal life my personal life well like I said I I try to be private so um if anything it just takes time away from my family you know if I do have like next week next weekend I'm gonna be in San Antonio so that means you know I work all week and then Friday Saturday and Sunday Sunday I'm not gonna be here and usually that's the time I you know spend with my mom so yeah is she by herself yeah oh no you're interested or what what no like because if your mom's by herself how old is she you know I mean she's by herself because you talk about your mom a lot you know yeah she's super independent oh she just turned 76 last week oh man she walking around she's yeah I'm telling you she's independent she don't need me there I'm like mommy if you need the to cut the grass I already cut it I'm like what just stay over there I don't need you okay well can I go with the weed eater she's like I already did it well did you cook something what's so what's her best dish oh all of them yeah mom's mom's in the mom in the kitchen is the best um I want to say uh a dish that she makes that I really don't you can't really order at a restaurant or like something I probably won't make at home is like her fideo I love her yeah she makes some good and her tongue and all that so did she teach you which one do you make best I I I could probably make fideo some clo kind of close to her but it's I don't know what it is about her like she she has the touch so when I make it it's a little similar but it's it's not the same.
33:11
SPEAKER_03: Do you put the chunks of meat in there?
33:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah every time right yeah all right on yeah you could I haven't had it in so long I can't remember what's in there I'll tell my mom to make you something yeah hell yeah come on for real you man I miss grandma's cookie for real damn I'm getting hungry now don't even man don't even start with that golly yeah it's been a minute since I had and she she puts a she puts a a pot of beans too like a cockpot and everything so yeah that's what I'm talking about going to Robstown tonight again oh yeah Charlie Brown Charlie Brown thanks for the liquid death too you're welcome all the sponsor yeah all the podcasters have them I'm like let me bring them nice appreciate you liquid death come sponsor throw some money this week yeah hell yeah mango chainsaw you guys gotta try it which one I tried the green one I can't remember is that the lime one yeah the green one and then they got the black one too yeah but yeah thanks for bringing that out uh man so what so what's the future uh for comedy here in Corpus or for yourself or what do you think um well every last Tuesday of the month I'm at the exchange um and then every Thursday I'm at Mesquite for open mic and I have a birthday show coming up uh next month so you can find me around Corpus Christi and then if you follow my page I I I usually have shows around Texas so I kind of make a little Texas tour of Laredo San Antonio Austin Dallas Odessa um I'm working with Aldo Caldo um uh have you have you heard of Aldo Caldo?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah no no no he's awesome he also does um kind of comedic uh musical he's awesome right now he's working with Chris Bettes so he was in the studio not too long ago here it's amazing um yeah and so I'm working with him because he books me to do uh he just booked me to come out to West Texas so um yeah I'm I'm working um with Isaac and uh Grim Entertainment and there's just amazing people out there that that support this whatever I'm what I'm doing wow amazing and I've just been so blessed and so lucky that um that they want a cochina.
35:14
SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say do you so does that your stage name do you think that helps out or I mean as far as like putting you like putting putting you on the build or whatever or is it your comedy?
35:24
SPEAKER_03: I mean what do you think?
35:25
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
35:26
SPEAKER_01: Like because you're saying like they need a cochina out there like yeah so like recent so recently last month I went to West Texas and um I performed with Omar um getting I I don't know if you know him he he was in like I live I I live under a rug I don't know people I I hate when that people like bring out names I'm like I don't know and then and then sometimes I just say oh yeah yeah no no no he's he's he's actually an actor so it's kind of weird when I bring him up because people are like what he does comedy now but he's a com he's a a comedian in I mean he's a an actor in comedy movies like he was in baby boy and um and uh uh keeping up with uh Mr.
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SPEAKER_01: Cooper remember that one basketball uh show I don't know anyways so in West Texas there's like uh there was this show I mean there was like like four or five black guys on the show and they called me to open the show and I'm like me this little this little Mexican girl from Rafa yeah yeah they flew me out to West Mexico and then I ended up performing in New Mexico wow they're like can you come and I mean new New Mexico is like a few hours away from Odessa so I guess it wasn't too bad but I'm like me are you sure you are you sure wow and and they're like it's crazy where it can this comedy journey can take you you know you meet meet people I would have never thought this guy was this guy's in movies I've seen movies I've seen him on TV when I was a little girl wow and then to be like oh yeah I'm opening for his show his comedy show is just mind blowing yeah that's cool that's cool to know do you do and do you do you offer your services like do you say hey can I be on the you know what I'm saying because people invite you it seems like it do you like uh like aspire to go yourself you know what I mean I you know I'm I like I said I'm pretty private so I I haven't I haven't really done that yet a lot of people are like hey did did you want to come out or do you have time are you able to travel are you able to come out and so usually that's uh how I get opportunities um Mario superstar salasad I don't know if you've heard of him he also travels from uh the valley he he'll be like let's go on tour and he'll we'll go and he'll take me to West Texas and Austin and uh San Antonio and let's go do show shows here in Mathis and even in I even did a show with him in Freer like Freer?
37:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah oh my god places that I I'm like are we i'm am I doing this yeah wow what what did y'all perform there I go I drive through every now and then for my job there's a restaurant bar oh my goodness I can't think of the name right now across from the Dairy Queen no no oh my god I know the owner her name Nina I that I remember I want to say like railroad railroad something have you gone through fair yeah okay well apparently there's only one bar restaurant there's only one does yeah okay so that's the one that's the one that's where I performed that's where I was at I kind of remember oh man that's like wow so that guy took you all these places man that's awesome yeah so and hobby like that's what I mean like I'm so lucky that I network and I meet these other comedians that are willing to take me on the road with him you know or or have them on the have me on their ticket to say like oh yeah you're gonna host a show or you're gonna do a guest spot or you're gonna you know whatever I'm like really hey let's go wow that's so crazy let's have fun so you mentioned networking the do you know how did you do you know that do you know that that's important in what you do like networking yeah for sure I think my best uh connection has been Brandon Dolly um I met him you know when I first started uh doing comedy and he is a social butterfly you know how I said I'm pretty private he is not he's like networking hey what what's where are you from and like you know do you have five or ten minutes and do you like he's he he's the one that really is in my ear like hey we need to go to San Antonio you need to meet so and so and so and so and you need to go to this venue and talk to so and so and I'm like oh man but he he's the one that does a lot of my connections or he's in my ears telling me like hey I saw this person they're really funny we should bring them to corpus and so he kind of helps me um run the exchange when it comes to comedians you know coming to corpus for the first time so wow that's amazing it seems like you're in a good spot too like if you're bringing them on they'll see you and that's good networking that's awesome man so they're they're at the open mics uh at your show so how do you curate and host the comedy shows what's your process um well usually I connect with the comedians first you know like who's gonna who's who am I booking um you know what is their style so a lot of comedians I try to make them a little bit either like similar how they would flow they would kind of you know complement each other in the flow you know yeah um of course I ask for introductions you know how would you like me to introduce you um and anything like that and then in between if I am able to squeeze in maybe a little joke or a little you know something about them um or their situation or anything funny to kind of bring them up I'll add that in but for the most part I really do try to like uh get we'll be in a group message or a group you know and try to vibe or hang out before the show starts.
40:26
SPEAKER_03: So cool.
40:27
SPEAKER_03: Yeah have you ever had to follow somebody to where they're like their act like the people didn't vibe with with their sh their bits like have you ever followed that type of person to course all the time.
40:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah how do you how do you do that?
40:39
SPEAKER_03: Like how do you how do you bring it back up to the level that you know that you want it to be at um is it hard?
40:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah yeah sometimes you know sometimes um but sometimes that's the that is how you you bounce back you get on there and you're like all right that's enough like you know you address it and say okay elephant in the room and then and then you know you bounce back and then you try to you gauge like they weren't responding to whatever he was saying about so and so and oh they didn't really like when they talked about whatever so you're why while you're fixing to go up you're also analyzing the audience you're reading the crowd um to see what material you can and cannot do what you can touch on and stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: Do you feel like do you feel like you have secrets that you you don't want to give away as a comedian secrets like do comedians do that like like they don't want to give away you know what I'm saying like I'm pretty I'm pretty I'm an open book.
41:29
SPEAKER_01: I all the comedians are like he teen you can ask me anything yeah yeah yeah I I I I I don't feel that way but I'm sure some comedians have their own uh routine or maybe something that they do special that works for them yeah um and not necessarily share that I I I'm sure um but I'm I'm pretty open about my process and how I book and who I book and how my process is when I when I accept sometimes I I do have to turn down you know offers and and it's kind of hard because if they're telling me like yeah we love an and sometimes it's it's for something you know that I wish I could overcome but like I said sometimes I've had uh falling out with comedians and so I'm not able to work with certain people because of falling out yeah it costs it costs time it costs oh man shows yeah right on so uh what was it personal insights uh uh what is what else we got here we got 34 minutes how's uh uh how's it been going for how's how's it going so far for you what do you mean you like the show yeah are you having fun yeah try not to fall asleep man I'm tired I've been trying to make it through the day that boring dang all right cheers sir cheers cheers cheers cheers if we were live I would be asking for questions and stuff just trying to keep it going I feel bad too all your sleep I feel bad I feel bad too because man I I haven't been to a show I got another guy that I know I know dude you don't even know what to ask me you haven't even come to a show dude I I was wanting to make the one the the last one open mic or what the last one I did but at work my work hours freaking suck I went to Houston like twice this week I only got like freaking throughout the whole week like so many hours of sleep I just can't make it out and it sucks you know what I mean and Leto I know Leto too he's a clean comedian or whatever Leto yeah uh he he puts the stuff out I've been wanting to see him too I don't know I feel so bad and I when I told you I was like the last one I went to is in California do you live uh culture out to the island because um my friend Sean Miller has uh shows out there we got one there too yeah out there on the island um we have Shaky Jake also who has shows out there in the island so if you're if you don't want to come all the way downtown there's shows out there on the island see this is gonna make me even look even worse because I live down the street from here I'm literally at the exchange in the ski right here.
43:50
SPEAKER_03: Hey well that's another reason why I do this just to get to know who people are like I just I just recently came out of my show like with this brand and podcast and stuff Like that, because all these people that I'm talking to, I don't know none of them.
44:04
SPEAKER_03: And like I don't, I hadn't I don't know what's going on in the scene.
44:07
SPEAKER_03: Just starting up my Instagram, learning a whole lot of stuff about the corpus scene and how it is.
44:12
SPEAKER_03: You know, it's it's all new to me, you know.
44:14
SPEAKER_03: So I pretty much keep to myself anyway, because that's just the type of person that I am.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: Why not?
44:19
SPEAKER_01: If you come to an open mic, all of them are gonna bombard you.
44:22
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be nice.
44:24
SPEAKER_03: It's gonna be nice when I go.
44:25
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, it's gonna be awesome.
44:27
SPEAKER_03: Uh so what's what's in the future for Tina La Cochina comedy?
44:31
SPEAKER_01: The future is every last Tuesday of the month at the exchange, um, the birthday show next month, and then um, yeah, you'll see me around Texas.
44:41
SPEAKER_01: You'll you'll see me around.
44:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, you'll you'll come out to a show and then you'll invite me back on to the podcast before I move to New York and go on HBO and oh hell yeah, hell yeah.
44:51
SPEAKER_03: Bring some other comedians.
44:52
SPEAKER_03: Uh bring a few other comedians on.
44:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you should have told me I would have brought man.
44:56
SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, next time we'll have you guys on.
44:58
SPEAKER_01: Then we'll go live.
44:59
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that'd be cool.
45:01
SPEAKER_03: But yeah, for sure.
45:02
SPEAKER_03: Yep, yep, yep, yep.
45:04
SPEAKER_03: Uh so let's see, would you ever consider expanding your comedy to into other formats like podcasting or acting?
45:11
SPEAKER_01: Yes, definitely.
45:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
45:14
SPEAKER_01: My uh, you know, the my circle gets bigger and bigger.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: I meet people and they're like, hey, have you ever thought about this?
45:21
SPEAKER_01: And that's why, you know, maybe 10, 20 years from now, you know, like I say, I would have my own space where I'm able to do that.
45:28
SPEAKER_01: Um and that's why I appreciate spaces like this, like coaches where people can come and really work on their have you met Dusty?
45:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, of course.
45:35
SPEAKER_03: Yes, yeah, yeah, for sure.
45:37
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, this space is awesome, man, to be able to do this.
45:40
SPEAKER_03: And like since I'd done it, like people see it and they're like, Oh, that looks cool.
45:44
SPEAKER_03: A lot of people have been wanting to come on, they'll they'll shoot me a message.
45:48
SPEAKER_00: Hey, can we go on the show?
45:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, people ask you to get on the show?
45:51
SPEAKER_03: Well, I I started asking people.
45:54
SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
45:55
SPEAKER_03: Did I ask you?
45:56
SPEAKER_03: Or I can't remember.
45:56
SPEAKER_03: Did I ask you?
45:57
SPEAKER_01: You said Andy.
45:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yes, yes.
45:59
SPEAKER_03: So I asked you, so I asked people to come on.
46:01
SPEAKER_01: And then since I saw You asked me and you haven't even seen a show.
46:03
SPEAKER_03: Man, my memory freaking sucks.
46:05
SPEAKER_03: I haven't seen a show.
46:06
SPEAKER_03: I gotta go see a show.
46:07
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna be out there one of these days.
46:09
SPEAKER_03: Just we'll put that there.
46:11
SPEAKER_03: So, anyways, people have been wanting to come on, and then this one guy was like, You should get a uh like a politician or whatever.
46:19
SPEAKER_03: And then Andy was like, Man, this guy's trying to get you shot.
46:24
SPEAKER_03: He was like, You should ask him the really hard question.
46:26
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and then Andy's like, Nah, you trying to get you shot.
46:30
SPEAKER_03: It's awesome.
46:31
SPEAKER_03: Uh so lastly, what what legacy do you hope to leave in the in the comedy world or in a corpus comedy scene?
46:38
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
46:39
SPEAKER_01: I've never really been asked that.
46:41
SPEAKER_01: A legacy?
46:43
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
46:45
SPEAKER_01: Um I feel like people get the uh misconception of of Cochina, right?
46:51
SPEAKER_01: People think like, oh, she's dirty, she's gonna, you know, she probably has a real potty mouth.
46:55
SPEAKER_01: I don't.
46:55
SPEAKER_01: I I go on stage and I just I I spill my heart.
46:59
SPEAKER_01: Like I'm just talking about things I go through and um things like that.
47:04
SPEAKER_01: They people think it's automatically dirty comedy, like I'm talking about like sex and all.
47:08
SPEAKER_01: It's not like that.
47:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah, I I I'll it's in my sense somewhere, but um, so really I just want to make people laugh.
47:15
SPEAKER_01: I just want people like, don't take it so serious, you know?
47:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's cool.
47:20
SPEAKER_03: It's good, it's good to know because people have a lot of misconceptions about that.
47:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and Rockstown and the name and Cochina, and yeah, people have seen me or maybe knew me in the past, or maybe think one thing of me, and they've never met me.
47:35
SPEAKER_01: You've never even met me.
47:36
SPEAKER_03: When I heard when I first saw your now, I thought it was a cool name.
47:39
SPEAKER_03: Like, I didn't even think like that, like that.
47:40
SPEAKER_03: Oh, it's just gonna be nasty.
47:42
SPEAKER_03: I was just like, oh, that's a pretty cool name.
47:43
SPEAKER_03: And then you had merch, like merch with cochina and uh what you gave us this right here, yeah.
47:49
SPEAKER_03: Cochina comedy, man, that's dope.
47:52
SPEAKER_03: That's pretty cool.
47:53
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and I like to see my well special sauce.
47:55
SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah, man.
47:57
SPEAKER_03: It's cool to see that there's comedians here in corpus, and there's there's an actual scene, a comedy scene.
48:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you should come out and support.
48:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm trying.
48:07
SPEAKER_01: Hey, well, you invited me on, so that's cool.
48:09
SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that.
48:10
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, no, it's uh like I've had like another comedian on at Andy's been on, you've been on, so it's cool to know that that there's a scene going on in your and I hope this because I'm gonna clip clip this up and you know share it and stuff like that.
48:23
SPEAKER_03: So hopefully more people can see what's going on in your scene.
48:26
SPEAKER_03: Is there anything you'd like to share before we go?
48:29
SPEAKER_01: Um I don't know.
48:32
SPEAKER_01: No, I guess I don't know.
48:34
SPEAKER_03: Follow any jokes, any jokes, or what what's your what's the most recent bit that you're working on these years?
48:39
SPEAKER_03: Oh man, everybody's been every what do you share that kind of stuff?
48:43
SPEAKER_03: What do you mean?
48:43
SPEAKER_03: Like your bits, like the what you're working on?
48:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, everyone everybody's asking me about my hand, right?
48:49
SPEAKER_01: So, and I tell everybody like, oh I'm I fight in the UFC now, like I'm a UFC.
48:55
SPEAKER_01: Or or are I been telling people like, oh, I fell off my motorcycle.
48:58
SPEAKER_01: Like, I've never I do not have a motorcycle.
49:02
SPEAKER_01: You believe me, right?
49:06
SPEAKER_03: You didn't know it was a big thing.
49:07
SPEAKER_03: I so believed you, yeah.
49:08
SPEAKER_03: I so believed you when you're talking to that lady outside.
49:10
SPEAKER_03: You're like, oh I felt like I was like, Oh damn, it's for real.
49:16
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so what's the best ones?
49:18
SPEAKER_03: Is it the same?
49:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but when I go on stage, I tell, you know, I go up there and I'm like, yeah, everybody wants to know what happened, you know.
49:23
SPEAKER_01: And I tell I went to the emergency and I told them that I slipped and I fell down the stairs, you know.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: But to be honest, there has to be an easier way to get rid of this baby.
49:37
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
49:39
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being pro-choice.
49:44
SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's cool.
49:45
SPEAKER_03: So, Green, did you get your juice the color?
49:47
SPEAKER_01: I did, yeah.
49:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
49:50
SPEAKER_01: I picked a yeah.
49:52
SPEAKER_01: My nephew, my nieces, they all uh wrote something.
49:55
SPEAKER_01: My mom she put poor baby.
49:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well soon.
49:57
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, mom, can you sign it?
49:59
SPEAKER_01: And so she put a little note.
50:02
SPEAKER_01: My nephew did uh a spaceship um abducting uh dinosaur, and my nieces put little flowers.
50:10
SPEAKER_01: My sister made a flower.
50:11
SPEAKER_03: Pop that nugget and he put that.
50:13
SPEAKER_01: Stop Miller pop that nugget and he put that.
50:17
SPEAKER_01: Uh what is this called?
50:19
SPEAKER_01: The Roblox.
50:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh not Roblox, uh uh Minecraft.
50:23
SPEAKER_02: Minecraft.
50:24
SPEAKER_02: There you go.
50:25
SPEAKER_02: And then copyright signal.
50:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh, copyright.
50:31
SPEAKER_00: Copyright.
50:34
SPEAKER_02: It's awesome.
50:36
SPEAKER_01: And some signatures.
50:38
SPEAKER_01: I got Javi Luna signed it the other day.
50:41
SPEAKER_01: He was performing uh with Jerry Garcia and Concrete.
50:45
SPEAKER_01: Uh I don't know if you heard those comedians, but man, they're they're hilarious.
50:48
SPEAKER_01: And he was able to he did awesome.
50:49
SPEAKER_01: He opened the show.
50:50
SPEAKER_01: So I got him to sign it.
50:52
SPEAKER_01: And then I got Matt and Randy, my babe, over here.
50:56
SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
50:57
SPEAKER_01: And my niece did a little clean.
50:59
SPEAKER_03: When does it come off?
51:00
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully it's soon, dude.
51:02
SPEAKER_01: I can't do anything.
51:02
SPEAKER_01: I don't can't call my hair.
51:06
SPEAKER_01: I'm over here with my left hand doing my eyeliner.
51:09
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
51:10
SPEAKER_01: I have one eyeliner going this way.
51:12
SPEAKER_01: One eyeliner going this way.
51:14
SPEAKER_01: I tried my best, dude.
51:16
SPEAKER_01: And then not even anything.
51:17
SPEAKER_01: I was like, I thought I was gonna be late because I go home and two pipes busted under my house.
51:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
51:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
51:24
SPEAKER_01: So calling a plumber, their sewage coming up the tub.
51:27
SPEAKER_01: It's a mess right now.
51:28
SPEAKER_01: So I don't even know what I'm going home to right now.
51:32
SPEAKER_01: Just happy to be here.
51:33
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's awesome.
51:34
SPEAKER_03: Well, thanks for coming on the show.
51:35
SPEAKER_03: Is there anything else you'd like to share?
51:39
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
51:40
SPEAKER_01: Come to a comedy show.
51:41
SPEAKER_03: All right.
51:41
SPEAKER_01: Everybody come to a comedy show.
51:43
SPEAKER_03: On Thursday.
51:44
SPEAKER_03: So Thursday, Thursday, this Thursday?
51:46
SPEAKER_01: Every Thursday is open mic.
51:47
SPEAKER_01: My show is the last Tuesday of the month.
51:49
SPEAKER_01: Open mic over here?
51:51
SPEAKER_01: No, not open mic.
51:52
SPEAKER_01: I have a show every last Tuesday of the month.
51:55
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
51:55
SPEAKER_03: What's happening this Thursday?
51:57
SPEAKER_01: This Thursday's open mic.
51:58
SPEAKER_01: It's free.
51:58
SPEAKER_01: You can go any Thursday.
52:00
SPEAKER_03: At the Mosquite?
52:01
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
52:01
SPEAKER_03: Alright.
52:02
SPEAKER_03: I'll probably make that.
52:03
SPEAKER_03: I'll be off on Thursday.
52:04
SPEAKER_01: Thursday night.
52:05
SPEAKER_01: Thursday night.
52:06
SPEAKER_01: It starts at 9, so get there at 8:30.
52:08
SPEAKER_01: But if you plan to sign up, get there at 8.
52:10
SPEAKER_03: So why get there at 8:30?
52:12
SPEAKER_01: Because you gotta get in line.
52:13
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, there's 30 comedians.
52:14
SPEAKER_01: I gotta beat them.
52:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
52:17
SPEAKER_01: You gotta get in line.
52:18
SPEAKER_03: Do a lot of people show up or what's the look like?
52:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
52:21
SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
52:22
SPEAKER_03: That's good.
52:22
SPEAKER_03: It's good for the theme.
52:23
SPEAKER_00: Have you had their food?
52:25
SPEAKER_00: No.
52:26
SPEAKER_00: Do you support local?
52:29
SPEAKER_03: I do from a distance.
52:31
SPEAKER_03: I mean, I wouldn't say that I go.
52:32
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, who's your who's your pizza?
52:34
SPEAKER_01: Where do you get pizza?
52:35
SPEAKER_03: Uh Samuel's or New York.
52:38
SPEAKER_03: Uh New York.
52:39
SPEAKER_01: You don't go to Marty right here?
52:41
SPEAKER_03: I've been there.
52:41
SPEAKER_03: I've been to Marty's.
52:42
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
52:42
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
52:43
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I've been to Marty's.
52:44
SPEAKER_03: Like I said, like I just I just recently started getting out there to know who's out there, what's out there.
52:49
SPEAKER_03: So I'm trying.
52:50
SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm working my way that way.
52:52
SPEAKER_03: So I can't say that I that I'm like full full-fledged like some people, but it's all that's that's just who I am.
52:59
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, we'll be out there.
53:01
SPEAKER_03: So Thursday, if y'all, it's only gonna be on Thursday, be off on Thursday.
53:05
SPEAKER_03: So I actually put it in my calendar to be out there on Thursday.
53:08
SPEAKER_03: Yep, that's it.
53:11
SPEAKER_03: Well, thanks for coming on the show.
53:12
SPEAKER_03: We'll see you then.
53:14
SPEAKER_03: All right.
53:14
SPEAKER_03: Thanks a lot, you guys, for watching.
53:15
SPEAKER_03: Stay tuned for the next uh couple episodes.
53:17
SPEAKER_03: Check out uh Thursday, Thursday night, open mic, every other Tuesday at the exchange.
53:22
SPEAKER_00: No, last Tuesday of the month!
53:24
SPEAKER_03: Last Tuesday of the month at the exchange.
53:26
SPEAKER_03: Uh Tina La Cochina is hosting the hosts the show every last Tuesday of the month.
53:30
SPEAKER_03: Check her out, check them out.
53:32
SPEAKER_03: Appreciate you guys.
53:33
SPEAKER_03: Have a good one.
53:34
SPEAKER_00: Bye.