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Laughing Through Life: Comedy Journeys and Legendary Laughs with Tristan Johnson · Yeah Buddy! Podcast

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Music.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes. What's going on, world? This is your man,
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Buddy Roming, and we are back at it, y'all, with another episode of the Yeah, Buddy podcast.
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And this episode is like no other. You know how I do? I always bring some of
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my friends in the entertainment business to sit down, chop it up,
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talk about our crazy stories in this entertainment world to see what we got going on.
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And this episode is like no other. y'all my friend
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today y'all huge honor to have him this guy is a i
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don't even want to call him a bay area california just a californian comedy
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legend in his own man he hosts shows all around the country
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man you catch him up at uh raps of limited old sacramento man i gotta try to
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make it loud make it right here for my good friend mr tizzy tiston johnson and
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with the building y'all what do you do what do you say what do you do yes man
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we back at the lab we are back at the lab back at the lab.
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Yeah, man, we've been rocking and rolling for years now.
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For years, bro. I know, what, 2014, 15-ish?
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Just about. Yeah, we got a tenure in this.
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We've been here for a minute. I remember the first time, I went to a touch of class,
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first time or whatever, first time I did, you put it back up there or whatever,
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you was real chill, real cool with me, and then I ran into you.
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Maybe a couple weeks after that, I went up at one of those bars up at Citrus
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Heights or whatever, stuff like that, I showed you the photo of us at the Touch
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of Classy. He's like, you know what, bro?
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You're part of the brotherhood now. You're part of the brotherhood now. You're at the same,
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it's been a wild ride ever since yeah man we've been
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pushing the line we've been do remember we was working at tommy
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t's when they had tommy t's and rancho yeah they
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had me as the house host and putting shows together i always
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try to reach back to my folks yes sir
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right before before they put up that big old the the mural or
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whatever we have that was before tomorrow and it was just a black
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wall so we are
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in brand new year man 2025 yeah
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before we get rolling into you know what we got coming up for
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this next year let's kind of do like a recap about how
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our 2024 was and stuff like that i know it's not january started
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off pretty hot especially for comedians yes because we
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all know about the infamous cat williams yeah yeah
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yeah january wow i
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wasn't even thinking about that how january started
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off it started off from that december 2023 we
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was all auditioning for the west coast comedy jam you know what i mean and it
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was the west coast comedy jam and we was all doing auditioning and then in january
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that's when they called and selected the comedians they were going to have do
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the West Coast Comedy Jam.
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And I did an audition and I did my motherfucking thing.
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Nice, nice. So what was the, I saw a lot of, I saw a comedians post about it
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and stuff like that. What was the West Coast Comedy Jam?
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The West Coast Comedy Jam, there was a pirate that they were shooting.
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It was all the comics from the West Coast or that now live in the West Coast.
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So they didn't just want to have LA comics. They came up and did auditions at Tommy T's.
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They did them in Sacramento and they selected a few of Northern California comedians.
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And I was one of them. Nice. Was that, was that scruncher that put that on?
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Well, scruncher was the host. It was.
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Hey, but he used to do a lot of business with ice cube and he's a big part of West coast. Okay.
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Music and stuff like that. His name was lay law. It was his production,
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but he got with a lot of people that carried it out for him.
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Will Squancho and a bunch of others. Okay.
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So how did the West Coast Comedy Jam go? That was down in LA,
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right? That was down in LA.
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Yeah, it was good. It was my first time shooting something like that.
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They made me sign NDAs, so I can't tell you that.
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I didn't do too much about it, but I can talk about the experience.
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I was the first comic on the first episode of the first season mm-hmm,
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So I came out, and when I'm telling you, I came out just knocking it out the park.
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I was ready for it. I prayed for it. I practiced and everything.
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So, yeah, it ended up being dope. I was proud of myself for what I did.
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And I'm telling you, Northern California was really representing.
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I'm talking about me, the Ricos, the Jay Riches, the Marios,
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the Shea Sugars, the Lance Woods.
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Oh d tyler murdered it
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d tyler murdered it in in a fashion that was just unbelievable he tired murdered
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it if they were on different shows and it was like after i murdered it on the
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first show it was a few that didn't murder it as much yeah.
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All your comedians no no i'm talking about the
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other comedians okay so but it was i mean it was
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some dope ones there that was there for the night i
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stayed there it was we ran it for about four
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or five days i only stayed down there for like two
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or three days so it was some new comics
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that i they're not new in their
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craft they're new to me okay it was some people that was knocking it out the
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park and it was some people not so much they just had a really good audition
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but we were kept talking for like to with the bright lights of the bright lights
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is different yeah it changed the game
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but yeah we it was dope i enjoyed it that's that put me on a run where,
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all i care about is recording content and i ain't gotta wait for no cable channel
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i ain't gotta wait for no big platform for me to record myself so that's what
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we shot that early february the
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beginning of February. So that was dope.
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And so with that did that kind of kind of take build up the momentum for you
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to take it to like the rest because the rest of 2020 because i kind of consider
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you like uh out here at sacramento,
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it's kind of like the people's champ last year you know what i'm saying you know say if you say,
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you was a comedian's favorite comedian yeah um switch to style rap it's a lot
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of people in my coming up you got to understand the same time i was meeting
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you I was meeting the Jay Riches,
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the Mario Hodges, the Lance Woods.
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I was meeting a lot of these people.
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Now that they're in position, they remember me and they put me in position.
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You know, me and Mario went to Texas.
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Me and Lance did things, you know. So whenever comics, they kick down the door,
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they say, man, y'all just haven't seen Tristan Johnson. and he could do a church.
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Sometimes they don't want to do churches and they send me.
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And then, so I do, I'm a comics comic.
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I mean, most of my career just come from the love that other comics have for me.
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And that's probably by the way that I conduct myself.
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And yeah, so yeah, I was getting a lot of lead from comics and I wasn't letting them down.
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But you also do more for the comedy community besides just like providing jokes and stuff like that.
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Because you literally have your own studio set up in your garage and stuff like that.
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And, yeah, I try to just have this one thing to tell a comic they're not promoting
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enough or they're not pushing their career enough without giving them the tools.
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So whenever a new comic or somebody, you know, they got to show us,
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they come to my house and we can shoot the commercial on green screen.
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We got it. We got it. If you're not famous, we got to show the audience who you are.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. so i always try to tell comedians like
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this is a private owned business it's like i got
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a coffee shop and you've got a coffee shop yeah yeah sometimes there's
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two coffee shops in one parking lot yeah we ain't got to kill each other yeah
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so if there's another comic i tell them you know push yours the way i push mine
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because like you said i'm the people's chance if you booking enough comics i
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might end up being one of those comics before the year is over and if i got 52 of you.
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Now i'm making a living yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah yeah now you're doing something every weekend now i'm doing something
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every weekend comics don't get the understanding of that is that all you got
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to do is make a good 52 relationships and you might not want to work 52 weeks
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or a year so you make those relationships and push your craft and handle it with integrity,
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you would be a good journeyman comedian yeah
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the same part you know that would come with a certain level
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of momentum that comes a certain level of
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momentum that just comes with put it in the work and
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then also just chance you know how's that it's really just chance you know
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it's chancing is good when you get that
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chance to be a actual professional
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comedian i'm a professional so
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that means i'm a professional public speaker
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i have done things that wasn't even
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in comedy settings i had to host a graduation a
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college graduation for the black the
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black union and solano yeah yeah yeah and it's like i didn't graduate from college
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but graduating brothers and telling them what they're gonna do with their future
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and all that stuff just because i speak well and i could make a room feel good
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so i have done i'm doing a memorial another funeral it's called a going-home celebration.
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I have done at least a dozen of those in my career. So it's comedy,
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but it's also just public speaking.
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It's also really just being able to relate to people.
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Being able to relate to whatever it is they're going through.
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And with comedians, that's the rare thing that we're able to do.
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Is be able to connect with somebody.
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On an emotional mental level and stuff like
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that without really just making them feel uncomfortable about
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themselves and things like that because laughing is you don't
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have to think about laughing right it's just something that just comes natural
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you're like oh wow that that made me feel something yeah well like doing comedy
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is like it's almost like dressing you might have a lot of clothes but if you
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about to go visit your mom in the hospital are you gonna wear all your nice,
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liverache clothes are you gonna wear something decent you
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know what i mean where you're not putting attention on you so
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much yeah and that's the same thing with comedy is
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what you know you might have a joke about a gag ball but is this the setting
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is this the setting for yeah yeah we're at church for that so yeah yeah we're
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we're at a church we're at a job fair we're at a we're raising money for little
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league your best if that's your best joke then you have closed the door on those.
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Lots of, yeah. Now, I got all the nasty jokes.
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Too Short, one of my favorite rappers. I got all the nasty jokes,
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and there is a lot of people making a lot of money off those nasty jokes, but go there with it.
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Yeah, go there with it, yeah. You know, me, I just want to be able to speak anywhere.
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Black, well, I did a Mexican church, some Victory Outreach churches.
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I didn't did the You buy a little now? No, no.
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You're from California. you might as well be you might as
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well be you know talking about Hayward is
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almost the same as talking about Oakland you know is it's it's the same thing
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so when I go down there and I'm dealing with Gilroy and all those people down
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there it's like we relate and then I'm one of those people I could really get
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down with a culture I'm not one of those people that's,
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It separates myself. Like, if I don't rock with you, I don't need to be telling jokes to you.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I could
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tell some people come to black rooms and they're scared of black people.
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And fear is the biggest form of racism.
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You know what I mean? When I do jokes in front of white people,
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I'm not scared of them. When I tell jokes in front of Mexicans, I'm not scared of them.
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And they could feel like we're brothers. I'm one of them.
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You know what I mean? And so I'm able to talk to a lot of those people, even gay people.
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I don't, I don't have a natural hate or disdain or frustration towards same sex relationship.
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So if I tell them a joke, they could feel that I'm not making fun of them.
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I'm not tearing them down.
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I don't have those. I naturally just don't have those views.
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It's just, that's what they're doing.
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You know what I'm saying? You're more of like, everybody's a target or like,
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nobody's a target type of thing.
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It's, I don't feel like my jokes target people. I feel like everybody's a human.
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Yeah. If I can't, if I can't make fun of a special needs person,
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if I can't make fun of a blind person,
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if I can't make fun of a gay person, if I can't make fun of a church person
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or somebody that think they so gangster or somebody that think they so self-righteous,
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everything, Everything comes with balance.
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You can make fun of, when I go to churches, I make fun of pastors.
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I make fun of the old ladies at churches because that's where they need to be.
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But it's some jokes in there. Mm-hmm.
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If you feel like you got to target people and you really got to displace a certain
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level of hate in your comedy, comedy is a form of therapy.
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So if all your jokes is about gay bashing, maybe, maybe wrestling with something.
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Yeah, you're fighting something.
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There's some type of inner struggle
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there. You get it. It's the inner struggle. You get what I'm saying?
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It's people that chew tobacco.
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When I think of gay people, it's like me thinking of people that chew tobacco.
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Oh, that's what they do with tobacco.
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My people split the blunt and pulled the tobacco out yeah y'all just put the
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tobacco out yeah we spoke yeah it's not that I hate them I think they're disgusting
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it's still tobacco they just take it they got cultured into that you know what
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I mean I still have a great,
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appreciation for the opposite sex you know what I'm saying that's the only difference
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you know what I mean and I like it the bigger the better so not mad at that
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not mad at that at all So now we got to talk about the comedy and that good jazz.
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What are you got coming up for 2025?
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2025, I am writing to make my comedy special extremely cohesive because this
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is what I want my kids and my grandkids to show the world.
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I'm going to spend a year getting it right.
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I might do a taping on my birthday in 2026, but I'm spending this year making
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sure that these jokes are funny in all 50 states.
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So I'm trying to headline at least two states, two or three or four states every month.
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And I got those connections. I got those relationships.
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So that's what I'm doing. So when the special do come out It's like I know this
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ain't just East Oakland funny I know this just ain't Sacramento funny This is
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our main part This is Massachusetts,
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Texas Yeah, this got back from Boston That was dope That's the home of new addition,
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I'm telling you I treated Boston like it was at home Those are real black people
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Baltimore Shout out to Shad at Battle 2.
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I went out to Baltimore and I was about to cut you off.
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I was like, yeah, there is black folks up in this motherfucker. Yeah.
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Every single kind of black folks you would see. Right. And in California, you can hit a wall.
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Sometimes you see, especially in Northern California, sometimes the ones that
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break out and get those relationships with Punchline and these comedy clubs.
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Is super white friendly joke comedy comedians
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and i realized like oh
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i just haven't traveled enough my people are
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in boston my people are in baltimore my people are
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in chicago my people are in cincinnati charlotte norfolk
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yeah you know and that's where i was like oh tristan
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you keep on trying to chase master's house
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but you're you telling it out there in the yard you know
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that's where i mean hey this year
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i'm not chasing comedy clubs yeah you know
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what i mean i have a great relationship with raps
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unlimited that's my home room and that's
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where i started from and they always they had
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me performing there when i had a mouthful of gold teeth and i had braids yeah
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i was really hoodie two shoes that was you know i was doing my thing they supported
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me so that's going to always be my homeroom and they really support what I do
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they let me name my shows there's no people.
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I'll be able to lift up my people like even this time I'm about to do Martin
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Luther King's real birthday,
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January 15th at Laughs Unlimited so I salute Laughs Unlimited for always supporting
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me and so like you said we're bringing the fire up right now so you set up,
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January 15th. January 15th. That laughs are limited. That laughs are limited.
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Yes. Tristan Johnson, 7 p.m.
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Showtime. Oh, you got Coretta Kissing Martin for showtime. Yes.
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I had a controversy about that. I had another fryer. It showed Martin getting arrested.
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Somebody called me and it was like, man, some people could find that offensive.
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But I salute Martin. I think the way that they discuss Martin to us they only
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try to show the soft side of Martin.
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Even if you're pushing peace, you know you're pushing peace up against water
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hoses and dogs. You gotta be something.
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We've had some aggression to us.
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And it's two type of people that looks at Martin Luther King's dream,
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who remembers Martin Luther King's dream or Martin Luther King's murder.
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Yeah. Yeah. You do not teach nobody peace by getting murdered.
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Look, look, you can tell us all that good.
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Sir, if we're nice like Martin, we still end up on that balcony.
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That didn't teach us peace. It taught us forgiveness.
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It taught us grace. It taught us being strong in different ways, but Martin wasn't soft.
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And I'm not going to believe that Martin Luther King was soft I believe he Saw
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something wrong He's Dr.
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Martin Luther King So we're talking about an educated man Who could have went
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and spent his time Getting a good job or doing something else Even at that time
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Education is still an education And if he could rally that many people Martin
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Luther King could have made some money,
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Outside of getting Water hosed and chased with dogs So I don't see Martin Luther
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King As a weak person And I won't even remember him as a weak person Nobody
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should man Nobody should remember as a weak person Yeah so yeah,
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so we got the show cut up january 15th january 15th with the king show what
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comedians can we expect to see on this show oh you can see the ever so smooth
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big sass big sash quick sass.
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Because it's short for sasquash yeah he's probably gonna be the the biggest
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comedian you have ever seen.
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Yeah. And he even lost 100 pounds and he's still the biggest comedian.
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Yeah, yeah. You know, and he's the smoothest brother. Talented.
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Me and him just got back from Boston. It's big sass. And then I also had to put the Oakland legend.
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Cinderella. Cinderella. Shout out to Cinderella. Yeah, Cinderella.
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She came up with Linnell and them.
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Sometimes I just hang around Cinderella so she could tell me about how comedy was in the 90s.
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She know all the locations of Tommy T's. She was like, Tommy T's was in San
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Leandro, then they went to Concord, and then they went here,
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and then they went there.
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So I'm like, talking to Sin, I'll be like, dang.
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She was us. She was doing what we're doing in the 90s.
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Man, I'll get back to you talking about the new lineup, but what did I say?
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Especially with Sin, and then just the comedy game in general,
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it's one of the few things where different generations of comedians still come up and collect.
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You can still like talk to a sin and you
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know a show with sin you will be do a show with uh
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colonists you know and all this type of stuff
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to where i don't think you really get that with maybe other forms of like art
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where you just have different generations of whatever that art is and they could
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be able to just collaborate give advice and people don't understand being a
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comic it's a it's a special type of fraternity.
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You get what I'm saying? I have done comedians' funerals,
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i've seen comedians in the hospital sometimes they left
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sometimes they didn't i i've i
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had lance wood to do my wedding when i
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got married i he got ordained became a preacher and it was everything you wanted
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and did this for my wedding dope you know what i mean and he married me and
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my wife and stuff like that we was roommates we just lost we just lost a beer
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man yeah and i'm talking about a leader in our gang.
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That was like fossil falling. That was all my way.
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It came out of nowhere. Do you know to talk to people, I had to lie and say
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I had an extra close relationship.
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Oh yeah, Kabir is good and he would vouch for it.
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And that would get you work. Just being close to him. And then I actually,
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during the pandemic, working with Jeremy Curry, I was actually able to work
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and link up with him and stuff like that.
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But me and him did Bury Your Black 2013 together. We both events.
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So, you know, that dude was a special dude. But us comics, we'd be so close.
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Sometimes our families don't know us as well as another comedian.
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You know when when they when this all said and done
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and uh they were able to do a viral pick on my life it's got to be written by
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another comedian because it's not being directed by a comedian yeah but yeah
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i mean gonna know what i'm doing my brothers ain't gonna my children might not
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know what i'm doing you know what i mean it's this is what we're doing what
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would the trissy biopic be called,
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$35 a show. $35 a show. $35 a show.
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I don't know how inflation might end up being a lot of money. It might be, yeah.
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I don't understand that. Man,
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to make some money in this, I have to do 10 shows to pay a car note. Yeah.
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You know what I mean? You have $35 a show.
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That'll let you know the grind. When I got a manager and an agent who used to
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bet hoods, they was like, Tristan, you can't just be doing $200,
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$300 shows no more because, you know.
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People are not going to want to pay you more than that.
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But it's like, if I don't do the shows, I won't be as good as a person that they're paying for.
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I mean, even if I go out there just to practice, like, you rather me go to open
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mic? Is that what I'm saying?
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I literally got to take this out. out but there was
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like you don't want to oversaturate yourself and then
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like you said i'm a comics comic i can't see
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me throwing the book at another comic on the way up you
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get what i'm saying so we just got to
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find ways to get to the bag i'd rather
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help us both make some money and that's
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why i'm happy you invest in your setup and you got your
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own podcast so we winning now you
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know what i mean oh something happened big
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for me in the next couple of months that they go
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and flood this podcast and be like
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oh that's the real tris yeah you know what i mean so that's that's kind of how
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kendrick did it when his first album came out people went back and bought the
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old album yeah they went back they listened all that yeah they went and bought
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section 80 once you know and then they went back they was listening to the the
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drake beef all that type of stuff then they went back and listened to homies.
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I'm like, oh, Drake should have known. I went back and listened to all his old stuff.
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Mr. Morale, Good Kid, Mad City, Damn, whatever it may be. I'm like, I hate...
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Y'all should have known a long time ago that kids are going to fuck up anybody
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that you try to battle with. But I'm definitely the people's champ, the comic's comic.
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I want everybody to win.
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And that's something that you're aware about, like that title,
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that you are the people's champ, that this comedian is
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somebody that not only that you can look up to, but also somebody that's going
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to be giving them good advice, but then not also give them good advice,
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but also help them come up with the recording of the commercials,
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getting them stage time.
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How do you carry that that that that that weight i always remember that that's who i am.
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I can remember ellis showing me how
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to write jokes i remember doughboy showing me how to write jokes doughboy from
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well and out i bt kingsley probably taught me things that i still use to this
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day some of my tags from my jokes come from comics that ain't even doing comedy
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no more But they was like, hey, Trish, you can add this to that.
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Even me buying my camera, when I'm capturing my content, that came from Nick
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Larson, told me what to buy.
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The dude with the backyard shows, like every comic helped me be the Trishy that I am today.
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I'm really built by comedians because before comedy, I didn't have these type of comedian friends.
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You know what I mean? I'm from a whole different world.
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So I'm definitely built by comedians. when I first started with Laughs Unlimited,
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I won a comedy competition going up against N. St.
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Wayne and he's the first person that ever paid me to do comedy in my life.
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You know what I mean? But when I got in with Laughs Unlimited,
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I was never a feature. They made me, I was never a host. They were straight
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to featuring? I was straight to featuring.
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And she, for the first four times she ever booked me for a weekend,
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she said I couldn't cuss.
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But you didn't, though. She said I couldn't cuss.
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And I got used to not cussing. And now that's where 90% of my money comes from, not cussing.
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Yeah, doing these church shows and stuff like that. Right. So it's like she
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and she was like, yeah, you was mad because you had some good jokes about eating ass.
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So all that little crazy stuff you wanted to talk about.
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But look at me now. I just did a law firm last Friday.
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I did a law firm. I did a I did a fundraiser with Gary Payton.
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And then a church saw me there and told me to come that Sunday morning right now streaming.
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I'm on two different churches websites
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right now me doing comedy in their church on Sunday morning not a special thing
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like I'm a part of church now yeah and it started from somebody saying Trish
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do this don't be hard-headed you know what I mean yeah and so I'm definitely built by,
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comedians okay so since we are talking about you know you being built by comedians
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and all that type of stuff.
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There is a part of the show is what we do. We like to call it the Mount Rushmore.
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Okay, cool. So, yeah, so the Mount Rushmore, for anybody that doesn't know,
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it's just basically a game where we play with a guest.
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They give the top four, since you're a comedian, we're going to give you your
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top four comedians, and they just tell us why. Okay.
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I know this is taboo, everybody say it, but it's definitely Richard Pryor. Okay.
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My dad and them talk like Richard Pryor. I mean, that's how black men talked when I was being raised.
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So, Richard Pryor is a voice that just, you know, when I hear his voice,
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I hear my point parents, I hear my uncles, I hear the OGs around the corner, you know.
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So, Richard Pryor definitely pretty much taught me how to be everything that I am. Yeah.
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And I say after that, I would put Cat Williams.
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Yeah. Okay. Cat Williams was talking how I was talking once I became an adult.
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You know what I mean? I've never seen people talk like that.
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You know, talk about issues, talk about things that just pertain to us in a
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high-quality, high-intelligent fashion.
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You know what I mean? It's like he was the comic I could relate to the most.
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And once I saw Cat Williams I was like I can't be another person I have to be
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that person that's who I am.
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That's two I would have to put I would have to put Dave Chappelle up there put
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Dave Chappelle up there you know what I mean the level of thought on the on that level,
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I would definitely have to put Dave Chappelle up there. You know what I mean?
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To be a true thinker and letting us know where you can take comedy.
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Where you can not just be funny, but actually saying something.
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Mount Rushmore ain't enough. Because there's only four. That's what makes it
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so tough. Once you get to the third, then you think about that fourth.
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More people pop up in your head. That's such a challenge.
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Then it makes me want to put a real person that I know because I'm not a spectator.
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You know what I mean? This ain't like LeBron James saying who is...
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This is like LeBron James saying who is his favorite basketball player as he played with them.
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You know what I'm saying? It's like LeBron said, my favorite player is Wade.
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You know what I'm saying? It's like...
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But I'm going to have to go with it because where he's taken it and where he have taken it.
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But it's – see, the Dave Chappelle – with the Dave Chappelle,
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it's an honorable mention Chris Rock.
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But I'm going to have to just come out and say it. Nate Jackson.
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Okay. I ain't bad at that because he got the club up there. Yeah. Yeah.
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Nate Jackson. Nate Jackson and it's like in this honorable mention they go it's
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about who I see tell a joke the latest if I just watch Nate Jackson in the car
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Nate Jackson is number one but if I just seen Tony Roberts.
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You know it goes Nate Jackson Tony Roberts Nate Jackson Tony Roberts Nate Jackson
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Tony Roberts but But Nate Jackson has been able to deliver his greatness on video.
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And that matters. Yeah.
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That matters. So definitely Nate Jackson. Okay.
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So we have Richard Pryor, Cat Williams, Dave Chappelle, Nate Jackson,
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and then honorable mention was Chris Rock and then Tony Roberts. And Tony Roberts.
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Okay. So, yeah, if we ever add another mountain to it, we'll put it through to it.
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Richard Prowler was interested because he was the first comedy special I ever
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thought was like Live on Sunset or whatever and he was the very first comedian
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for me coming up was that was a comedian but also a movie star,
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but then so well with how he was in real life he didn't really carry himself
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how you would see like a movie star would carry himself he's like I'm a real
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person whereas a movie star is just like you gotta see me as this ominous figure that,
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the only time you see me is on when I'm perfect. Yeah.
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Richard Pryor, I know he spent a lot of time... Paul Mooney is from the Bay
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Area. He's from Berkeley, Oakland, and stuff like that.
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So when I hear Richard Pryor's voice me being raised in Oakland,
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that's how my parents... That's how my dad talked.
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You know what I'm saying? So it's like...
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I am a Richard Pryor offspring, like in reality, like that's the way I think.
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Yeah. How do I think of myself as a black person? How do I think of myself compared to white people?
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Yeah. How do I think of myself compared to street people? I mean,
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Richard Pryor was in the movie, The Mac.
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So Richard Pryor was telling jokes to the Black Panthers.
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Richard Pryor was in Oakland, in the Bay Area, in San Francisco,
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doing these drugs and raising these children and all these things.
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And a lot of his managers was from Oakland and stuff like that.
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It's like, this is Richard Pryor.
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Yeah, there's a lot of comedy scenes that is sold in Oakland,
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man, that people wouldn't really... He was performing in Oakland like at Henry J.
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Kaiser and stuff. I just performed at Henry J.
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Kaiser for the La Feast. We raised money for the food banks.
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But Richard Pryor did a lot of stuff in Oakland.
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So when I hear that voice i'd be
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like that that's a real person yeah that's not a moose yeah he's one of us like
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that's that's my parents voice you know so definitely richard pride that's why
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he had to come up first the way we say nigga the way we talk about things the
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politicalness in his jokes,
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the the the coolness all that
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stuff richard pride is just something else yeah first time i watched to lie
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about sus and I was like I didn't really laugh I was
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like I'm like no this is real this motherfucker just talking like I mean you
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know you can get the chuckling right now but nothing like how people oh I die
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hard laughing I'm like no this motherfucker just speaking some real shit that
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I can relate to I'm all like damn I used that when I on the voice over when
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he was talking about niggas don't buy tickets until the damn show.
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That man they got extra cards for that show he's still in white people's seats,
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and then he makes and then he stinks up for white people and stuff like that. When you see how,
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Samuel L. Jackson act and even Snoop Dogg and all those people being real black
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men and making white people love them. That's all Richard Pryor.
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Richard Pryor wasn't a watered down black dude.
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You know, he would have to retire the word nigga because he said it a thousand
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times. But that's Richard Pryor. Yeah.
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You know what I mean? So the reason why we say nigga after every word,
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that doesn't come from rap music. That comes from Richard Pryor. That's funny.
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And then we had Cat Williams.
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Was the respect level for you going higher for him after the club Shay Shay,
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or you still had that same appreciation? I'm not going to lie.
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I could tell you that. I'm not going to lie. It's almost like Tupac and stuff like that.
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When people say Tupac ain't the best rapper on earth, they judging him by albums
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that came out after he died.
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But when you compare Me Against
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the World and All Eyes On Me and Machiavelli no
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rapper is touching those three albums now you want to say all those things that
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he was putting out that he threw away and they just used it so they could sell
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records then you could say sometimes he was saying the same thing over and over
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again that's the same thing with Cat Williams you get his first three specials,
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nobody's touching Pym Chronicles it's not a comedian touching I don't think
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Dave Chappelle got something that could touch Pimp Chronicles.
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Classic. Self-esteem. That's a stain of self.
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What do you do for a didamix? You know?
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There's nobody here. Nothing on this planet before or after is touching what
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is it called? Pimp Chronicles?
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Yeah. Him in that green outfit. The green outfit. He had the big-ass belt buckle
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and all that. Nothing. No. That changed.
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It's it's like it's BC it's everything after that or before that yeah nobody
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I don't think I can't say anybody got anything better than Pimp Chronicles but that's why I put,
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honorable mention is Chris Rock is Chris Rock don't let us down no Chris Rock
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be delivered on the specials man right and it like what was the one that he
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did with um with Netflix or whatever when he was in the.
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Just to do that live, you know what I mean? To do that live stream and all that
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stuff, like Break It Better, stuff like that, because I feel like with comedy,
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the term special, like comedy special, is kind of getting watered down to where
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now it can no longer be about the jokes that makes it special.
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It's just got to be the overall package that you deliver to the people that
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makes it special now. And when you do things for years,
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like E-40. E-40, probably one of my favorite rappers of all time.
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But E-40 got actually 10,000 songs.
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He got 10,000 songs and maybe 100 good songs.
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But that's how it is. That's how it is. That's 10 of them.
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That's what I do. That's what I do. I say, am I going to get mad?
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He got probably 9,000 not-so-good songs. Nah, I'm true. I got you with that.
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He's already got a hundred songs nobody can touch.
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That's the greatest. I'm not gonna, because he was nice enough to do a verse
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for his cousin, I'm not gonna count that against him.
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Yeah, so when I did the bitch remix video with E40, Too Short,
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making cupcakes, they was like, hey man, this is one of those 10,000,
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we just gonna push to the center.
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You did do that, huh? For anybody that don't know, I did a few years ago,
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I did a music video for the Trunk Boys.
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Trunk Boys did the remix to Bitch. Still had E-40 and Too Short in the music video.
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They just had me up at the music video getting abused by my girlfriend and making
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cupcakes and shit. Didn't Kendrick just use the Trunk Boys for his script?
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Small circle, man. Small circle. Me and Kendrick, we connected.
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That's why yeah that's why i had
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to put cat williams got even that pimpin pimping
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and like his first three specials
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i don't care what he does after that i'm not
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paying attention to yeah yeah you know that's a pip carticles yeah yeah he's
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saying with dave chappelle he's just greatness and in the level in what he's
40:47
reaching for anybody could go after low-hanging fruit he's going through stuff
40:52
that people gotta you when when dave chapelle talks people go through it with a fine-tooth comb,
40:58
yeah you know he can't just look up and say i was just saying some no he's got
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to pull a surprise they're like we're gonna dissect every single word right
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people don't understand what that actually means so yeah definitely dave chapelle
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and then nate jackson what i have seen when i've seen him when the Bay Area Black went.
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Shoot, we used to pay him to come out here and do shows and it was like...
41:24
I have seen people damn near about the you know shit on themselves like damn
41:29
near throw up eyes popping And the level of funny he is and it's off the cuff,
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And then even once he go into material,
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It'd be like yeah, nate jackson is.
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Yeah, cool Some people are just different,
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And he's revolutionized at the game and stuff, you know So that's what we have
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we have richard pryor cat williams
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stadiums dave chapelle nate jackson honoring mentions was
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chris rock and then tony roberts
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tony roberts yeah i can't forget about the the legend out here tony roberts
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and stuff like that so before we do get up here wrap up this episode was anything
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that you want to let people know before we do um let you know that um yeah we
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i'm going on the tour i'm in your city you can always inbox me and say hey it's
42:16
a comedy show i can reach out to the promoter and set it up where I come to your town.
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I'm coming anyway, but it'd be good to make money with the people that's already
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making money there that got something.
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I'm not just trying to come to comedy clubs. I want to come to people's Sunday night spot.
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I want to come to people's underground spot. You know what I mean?
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I'm not scared of black people. You know what I mean?
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If I got to come to your motorcycle club, your Elks Lodge, that's where my comedy belongs.
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You know what I mean? I'm the chitlin circuit dude.
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Even when I make it big, I'm going to bring the white people to the Chitlin
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circuit to make them some real money. So, yeah, that's what I'm on.
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And where can people follow you at? They can follow me on everything.
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Instagram, Tristan Funny. TikTok, Tristan Funny.
43:07
YouTube, Tristan Funny Johnson. Facebook, Tristan Funny.
43:12
Or Tristan Trissy Johnson.
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But everything hashtag or at Tristan Funny.
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Okay. And of course, you can catch up January 15th at Laughs Unlimited for the
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Martin Luther King comedy show.
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Yes. yes sir can we get some of that merch how we get is this can we get some
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of this but yeah that merch i'm gonna sell you i got a jacket for you too i
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gotta watch i gotta watch.
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You know i record myself on my set so i can have a good sound on my i-watch
43:44
you know that's why y'all be seeing me wear the two watches but yeah i got my
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my merch i'll be selling them after the show.
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It's Tristan Funny on Square Space.
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Yeah, so Tristan Funny on everything, but definitely come to the show and buy
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some merch. Buy some merch. Buy some merch.
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And y'all know me, man. I'll be your host, Buddy Romick. And this has been another
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episode of the Yeah Buddy Podcast.
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Thank you again to my man Tristan for signing through. You can,
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Oh, I got all the funny business sketches up on there, too. Amen.
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Yeah, so we got all that on and popping on the website www.yeahbuddyent.com.
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Again, this has been the Yeah, Buddy podcast. My man, Trizzy,
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I will catch y'all next time, y'all. Deuces. All right.