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#698 - Jo Koy Talks New Netflix Special, Selling Out SoFi, His Son, Co-Parenting & More · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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Speaker 1: We got a special guest in here, a comedic legend.
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Speaker 1: His new stand-up special's on Netflix right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Blue in the face?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Joe Coy. What's up, man?
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Speaker 2: I'm good.
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Speaker 1: Finally, got you here.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, man. Finally, I'm talking to you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's great to see you, man. I got to
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Speaker 1: watch the special. It is hilarious.
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: You know what I appreciate about you is because I
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Speaker 1: always feel like comedians, there's always comedians that get broken
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Speaker 1: into whether you're a joke teller or a storyteller.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I see what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: But you are elite at both.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Like, your storytelling is bar none some of the best
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Speaker 1: in all comedy, man.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, bro. Yeah. Fuck. Thank you. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: It's crazy you say that because I was just talking
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Speaker 2: to my son about it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And my son's a huge stand-up fan. Thank God. And
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Speaker 2: I love stand-up. Right. But one thing that I really
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Speaker 2: loved were the storytellers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I loved Richard Pryor. I loved Eddie Murphy talking about
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Speaker 2: his Aunt Bunny and Uncle Gus. I loved Louis Anderson.
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Speaker 2: There was another comic named Dennis Wolfberg that would just
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Speaker 2: tell these amazing stories about being a brother. Like Louis
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Speaker 2: would talk about his little brother and make his little
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Speaker 2: brother do stupid shit. The way he would just use
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Speaker 2: his words, you could actually paint the picture in your
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Speaker 2: brain and the story would just move, right? And we
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Speaker 2: were talking about that, and I was just like, but man,
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Speaker 2: I talk in joke form. For sure. You know what
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Speaker 2: I mean? Like, it's so funny because, you know, there's
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Speaker 2: so many genres. It's just like music, right? Stand-up is,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's storytellers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's people who do the crowd work very well.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I kill that crowd work shit. Come on. Crowd
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Speaker 2: work is just part of the– that's our paintbrush.
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Speaker 1: But now there's people who just are known for that, right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, which is dope, which is dope. But, you know,
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Speaker 2: they're also comics, you know what I mean? Sure. They're
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Speaker 2: just using that part to promote, which is still dope.
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Speaker 2: I love it. I love seeing the crowd work, guys.
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Speaker 2: But that's our paintbrush, man. There's every comic. Everyone should
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Speaker 2: do it. Yeah, that's our skill set. That's like, he's
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Speaker 2: a DJ, but he also has a turntable. It's like, motherfucker,
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Speaker 2: no shit. Yeah, no shit. But yeah, but on top
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Speaker 2: of that, if you watch the stories, like I was
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Speaker 2: talking to my son, I was just like, god damn,
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Speaker 2: these are like, Like, my callbacks are crazy. You know
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Speaker 2: what I mean? Like, I kept calling back stuff. And just, like,
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Speaker 2: the way they're being set up and then the way
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to take you down this path. Because I
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Speaker 2: really was focusing on one particular thing on Blue in
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Speaker 2: the Face. And I was really, like, there was one
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Speaker 2: through line that I wanted. Because I did an hour
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Speaker 2: and 45 minutes on the special. I cut 50 minutes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's an hour long.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so I cut it down to 55 minutes.
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Speaker 2: Because my whole idea of Blue in the Face was
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Speaker 2: the state of the times that we're in. And I
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Speaker 2: was kind of getting kind of sick of it. You
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Speaker 2: know what I mean? I feel like we've turned this
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Speaker 2: way to where people punch down and people read the
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Speaker 2: headlines without reading the story and make an opinion. And
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Speaker 2: I was just like, people like to celebrate losses and
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Speaker 2: not you know, celebrate wins. And I was just like,
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Speaker 2: you know what, let me do this thing where it's like,
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Speaker 2: let me just show you an example of who I am.
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Speaker 2: And before you make the opinion, listen to the story first.
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Speaker 2: You know, I started off with my teeth.
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Speaker 1: With your teeth, yeah, with your veneers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I had to because, dude, it's like every
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Speaker 2: DM would be like, oh, look at it. He's laughing.
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Speaker 2: Look at those teeth. Oh, it must be nice to
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Speaker 2: be rich. Yeah, it wasn't nice when I fell on
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Speaker 2: my face and almost died.
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Speaker 1: Great story, by the way. And then the fact your
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Speaker 1: mom was like the deciding factor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. It was crazy. But I'm glad I got
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Speaker 2: those stories out because then you see all these things.
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Speaker 2: Just like with sports. It's like, oh, I thought you
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Speaker 2: were from Seattle. No, you're a Dodgers fan. It's like. Hey, man,
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Speaker 2: there's a story. Right. Like, won't you listen before you
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Speaker 2: make an opinion? Right, right, right. Like, it's not hard. 100%. Like,
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Speaker 2: find out about somebody before you really pass judgment. You
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Speaker 2: know what I mean? It's like, yeah, my stepdad was
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Speaker 2: a huge Dodger fan.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: My first pitch at the game was with Fred and
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Speaker 2: my son. He was five at the time. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm a Seattle fan, but... Bro, this is my youth.
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Speaker 1: LA's also been your home.
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Speaker 2: My home. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. I got houses here. It's like,
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Speaker 2: of course. Yeah, of course Dodgers. But even just like
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Speaker 2: the sentimental part of it, like being able to take
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Speaker 2: Fred to that game before he died.
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Speaker 1: Which is crazy that it was the 18 inning game.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy, right? So crazy, man. But yeah, I was
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Speaker 2: so happy that you got to see the footage of
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Speaker 2: him at the end. Yeah. Cause even that people don't believe,
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Speaker 2: you know, for sure.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Cause I mean, it's like, it's such a great story,
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Speaker 1: but for you, was it like how, how dope was
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Speaker 1: it for you to kind of pay? Because it all
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Speaker 1: ties together at the end, the name of the special
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Speaker 1: is in dedication to your stepdad. Yeah. How, how dope
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Speaker 1: was that for you to be able to kind of
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Speaker 1: like pay homage to him and his memory in a
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Speaker 1: special in that way?
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Speaker 2: It just sucks. Cause you know, you know, you remember
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Speaker 2: in the, in the beginning of the special where I said, uh,
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Speaker 2: When the girl goes, hey, do you want to know
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Speaker 2: what happened to me? And I'm like, no, bitch. Do
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Speaker 2: you want to know what the fuck happened to me? Like,
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Speaker 2: that's what Fred is. It's like, I got to do
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Speaker 2: this finally. But there's this thing that's happening at my
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Speaker 2: home that I could never get Fred to come to
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Speaker 2: my shows. Right. Because I'm dealing with some bullshit with
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Speaker 2: the family. You know what I mean? But I don't
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Speaker 2: need to talk about that. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: That's just family problems. I'm pretty sure you got an
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Speaker 2: aunt or an uncle or somebody that just fucking.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I do.
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Speaker 2: Right? We all have it. And it's just like, you know,
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Speaker 2: sometimes we don't want to talk about that. You know
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Speaker 2: what I mean? But I do like to laugh. So
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Speaker 2: it just sucked because he passed and he never got
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Speaker 2: to see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it just sucked.
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Speaker 2: But now I know he's up there like, you did that, Bubba.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: 100%.
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Speaker 2: I get choked up a lot. So if you hear
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Speaker 2: me do that shit where I, it's because I get
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Speaker 2: choked up. I cry a lot. So don't make me
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Speaker 2: do that shit.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't want to make you cry. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was awesome. I have a lot of close friends
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Speaker 1: from Stockton and they're all Filipino. Yeah. but Stockton is
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Speaker 1: also one of the craziest places in America. So I was,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know you were in Stockton for the special
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Speaker 1: until it started. I was like, Oh, he did this,
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Speaker 1: but he did it in Stockton.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Why, why Stockton? Obviously it is a Filipino hub, but
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Speaker 1: it is also, I feel like an underrated city.
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Speaker 2: I didn't do it because it's a Filipino hub. Cause
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Speaker 2: we're past that. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: My career is past that.
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Speaker 1: It's a great city for like, if you've actually gone
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Speaker 1: and like had food there and shit, like it's a vibe.
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Speaker 2: But, but, um, You know what I mean? Like, that
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Speaker 2: whole thing of, like, you know, we tend to compartmentalize ourselves.
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Speaker 2: We tend to put ourselves in groups. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know why we're still doing that. But, like, people are like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I guess there's Filipinos there. It's like, nah, man. Like,
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Speaker 2: I sold out SoFi Stadium. Like, we're past that. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're past it for sure. And I don't know why.
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Speaker 2: You are an arena act nationally. Let's be clear. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so it's like, I don't know when people say it.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, is this for you? Are you saying this
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Speaker 2: for some indirect racist shit inside you? Like, we're past that.
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Speaker 1: Stockton's still a random place to do a special, though.
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Speaker 2: But I'm going to, the reason why is, there's two
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Speaker 2: reasons why. I got a lot of friends there. They're B-Boys.
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Speaker 2: Style Elements crew is from Stockton. So I always had
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Speaker 2: an attachment with Stockton. And two, that's where the first
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Speaker 2: migrant workers from the Philippines stepped foot on and were killed. Wow.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? A lot of them were killed.
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Speaker 2: There was a lot of displacement. Little Manila first was
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Speaker 2: developed in Stockton. Yeah. So it's basically that is where
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Speaker 2: the whole Filipino movement started. My whole point of going
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Speaker 2: back was it was 100 years after that. It was
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Speaker 2: a hundred years since the killing.
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Speaker 1: A hundred years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And since, you know, where the restaurants used to say,
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Speaker 2: no Filipinos allowed and no Filipinos allowed to drink on
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Speaker 2: this water fountain and don't date our white women and
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Speaker 2: stay on the East side. Don't come to the West side.
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Speaker 2: And they built that, they built a bridge going through
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Speaker 2: little Manila just to displace them.
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Speaker 1: That's so crazy.
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Speaker 2: And, and so that's why I said in the beginning
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Speaker 2: of this special, like, I get it. Like we can,
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Speaker 2: we can dwell on the past, but, You know what
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Speaker 2: I mean? But do we really want to do that?
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: Or can we just concentrate on the good that's happening? Like,
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Speaker 2: I'm in Stockton. I got a big Filipino sun behind me.
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Speaker 2: For sure. And I got every color of the rainbow
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Speaker 2: out there. And it was so funny, because when I
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Speaker 2: first started the routine, when I first walked out, Kev, like, honestly,
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Speaker 2: I was going to talk about that shit. I was
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Speaker 2: literally going to talk about it.
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Speaker 1: Why do I think a lot of people know that?
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that about Stockton.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was literally, I was about to just go
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Speaker 2: in on Stockton, right? And then I got that second ovation,
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Speaker 2: i go because i even set it up i go
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Speaker 2: a lot of people ask me why stockton right and
10:02
Speaker 2: then it got this ovation they started standing and i
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Speaker 2: was literally gonna start talking about all that and find
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Speaker 2: a funny way to get out of it right right
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Speaker 2: right and then uh and then i saw this white
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Speaker 2: guy two white guys standing and just like just fucking
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Speaker 2: going ape shit And then hugging this one Asian guy
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Speaker 2: on his side. There was a black guy over here.
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Speaker 2: And in my head, that's where I made that shift.
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, nah, man. I'm not going to use
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Speaker 2: this special for that. We know what happened. And if
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Speaker 2: you don't know, I'll show you at the end. But
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Speaker 2: just know this. There's a Filipino on stage 100 years
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Speaker 2: later celebrating us right here. And I brought a million
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Speaker 2: dollars worth of cameras here. So let's just all act right.
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Speaker 1: into the interview. It's your sixth Netflix special, is that right?
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Speaker 2: That's my sixth one, yeah. Wow, dude.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be crazy because I feel like When
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Speaker 1: I first saw you doing like the Chelsea Handler show
12:13
Speaker 1: back in the day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: To now, it's like been kind of cool. Like when
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Speaker 1: I was doing radio physically in Tampa in 2014 and 15,
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Speaker 1: and I remember you came out and did the Mahaffey
12:24
Speaker 1: Theater out there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, this Joe Coy guy's like,
12:28
Speaker 1: he's becoming a fucking thing.
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Speaker 2: Do you?
12:31
Speaker 1: Because I feel like sometimes, man, like no matter what
12:33
Speaker 1: level of success you're having, like when you're living in it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's a little harder to kind of like appreciate how
12:39
Speaker 1: far you've come and be present.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Are you able to ever like reflect and be like, damn,
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Speaker 1: this is my sixth special.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Especially with Netflix. You know, I love Netflix so much.
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Speaker 2: But they made me work hard. Right. You know what
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Speaker 2: I mean? That first special, you know, I paid for
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Speaker 2: and did it all myself. They said no. And I
12:59
Speaker 2: get it. You know, they're supposed to say no. They
13:01
Speaker 2: don't know who I am. And so I went and
13:05
Speaker 2: shot it myself and then I brought it to them.
13:07
Speaker 2: And I'm glad I made that decision. A lot of
13:10
Speaker 2: people would be like, no, I'm not. They said, no, well,
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Speaker 2: let me go get back on the grind again. Yeah,
13:16
Speaker 2: I'm not ready. Yeah, no, man. Better yourself. Yeah, I
13:19
Speaker 2: had the money. Let's go. My manager was investing. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: I got it. I'll pay you back somehow. Right, right, right.
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Speaker 1: I'll figure it out.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? We'll figure it out. And
13:27
Speaker 2: then I'm glad I did. And now here we are,
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Speaker 2: six specials later. And it's just, I hate to brag, man.
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Speaker 2: It's crushing right now, man. It is.
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Speaker 1: I saw it was, I think it was number three
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Speaker 1: last night.
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Speaker 2: It was three last night. It was number two out
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Speaker 2: the gate. Stayed that way for like six days. And
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Speaker 2: then number eight in the world. It's like crazy, dude.
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Speaker 1: What is for you, because you have these like milestones
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Speaker 1: you keep checking off, whether it's the Netflix shit, whether
13:53
Speaker 1: it's obviously you're a voice in a new cartoon for DreamWorks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
13:58
Speaker 1: But the SoFi thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: As a guy who's been in L.A. for how many
14:02
Speaker 1: years have you been in L.A.
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 2: This is my 25th year.
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Speaker 1: To do so.
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Speaker 2: Half my life. To do where the Rams play. That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: You know, where Kanye did two nights in a row.
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Speaker 2: The weekend did three nights in a row. Right. That
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Speaker 2: was nuts. He was literally the week after. It was
14:16
Speaker 2: insane to even be able to say that.
14:19
Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: Like, that was, it was already crazy saying that the
14:22
Speaker 2: Super Bowl was here. Like, that's, and it was, when
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Speaker 2: I walked into my green room, I made sure that,
14:28
Speaker 2: you know, I told my manager, I don't want no
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Speaker 2: family back here. I don't want anyone back here right now.
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Speaker 2: Just me and my son. See, I get choked up.
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Speaker 2: It's crazy. But I went in there going, like when
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Speaker 2: the Rams were in the Super Bowl, did every player
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Speaker 2: have their family with them? No, they were concentrating on
14:47
Speaker 2: winning the Super Bowl.
14:48
Speaker 1: Well, this is my Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: I can't mess this one up. I don't mind messing
14:54
Speaker 2: the other shit up. Whatever it is out there, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's what you're supposed to do as a comic. But
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Speaker 2: this one... where we put all our money into it. Like,
15:02
Speaker 2: no one invested. We had no sponsors. Like, we paid
15:04
Speaker 2: for those lights to be turned on. We paid for
15:06
Speaker 2: all those speakers. We paid for everything. Like, we were
15:09
Speaker 2: already in the hole when we put those tickets on sale.
15:12
Speaker 2: We were already in debt.
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Speaker 1: Wow. So you and Fluffy just collaborated and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're going 50-50 on this. We're going to sell this
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Speaker 1: bitch out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And, you know, shout out to Fluffy because I
15:23
Speaker 2: didn't want to do it. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: I told him we should do– A residency at the forum.
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Speaker 2: That's what I said to him. Because, you know, I
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Speaker 2: got six forums. I sold out six forums. So I'm like, bro,
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Speaker 2: imagine you and I.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do 20 of those.
15:36
Speaker 2: Bro, stay here. Let's just do a residency. Like that
15:40
Speaker 2: was my idea in my head. And he's like, ah,
15:43
Speaker 2: let's go over to SoFi. And I'm like, all right.
15:48
Speaker 2: And we looked at the seat mat, Kev. We put
15:50
Speaker 2: it on the wall. And it was the size of
15:52
Speaker 2: like six forums. Right. It was crazy. The seating map.
15:56
Speaker 2: And I was just looking at it. I go, I
15:58
Speaker 2: go fluffy. Are you sure you want to do this?
16:00
Speaker 2: Cause yeah, man, let's just try it. I'm like, I'm
16:02
Speaker 2: with you, dude. I'm in it. I'm like, let's go.
16:06
Speaker 2: Let's pull the trigger. And our math, our math in
16:09
Speaker 2: our head is if we sell, uh, 40, I think
16:13
Speaker 2: it was 40%. Don't quote me on the number, but
16:15
Speaker 2: if we sold 40% of SoFi, we break even or 30%
16:20
Speaker 2: of SoFi will break even. So we looked at it
16:22
Speaker 2: that way because 30% of that is still like 20,
16:25
Speaker 2: 30,000 people, right?
16:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, but also, you know, I feel like you guys,
16:29
Speaker 1: you've done six shows at the forum, right? So it's like,
16:33
Speaker 1: you know, it's reasonable to say, hey, this is a
16:36
Speaker 1: decent gamble.
16:37
Speaker 2: The odds are.
16:38
Speaker 1: Okay if we can do 30% break even.
16:40
Speaker 2: Like even if we sell half, it's still going to
16:43
Speaker 2: be a lot. So that was our main, that was
16:46
Speaker 2: our thing. That was our motivation, right? And then I
16:49
Speaker 2: told Fluffy, I go, look, the only way I'm going
16:51
Speaker 2: to play this, because I saw Def Leppard there. And
16:57
Speaker 2: they had the towers, right?
16:58
Speaker 1: They had the one-armed drummer, right?
17:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the one-armed drummer. And then, of course, Journey
17:02
Speaker 2: was playing. And they got the towers. And I just
17:07
Speaker 2: remember thinking to myself, man, I don't hear this. Like,
17:09
Speaker 2: it's bouncing everywhere. And I told Fluff and the whole team,
17:13
Speaker 2: I go... We need to buy speakers.
17:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, how's everybody going to get the experience of a
17:18
Speaker 1: comedy show in a football stadium?
17:20
Speaker 2: And I was like, that 500-section balcony better have their
17:25
Speaker 2: own speaker, or I don't want to play it. I'm
17:28
Speaker 2: not doing that. I'm not going to charge them that price,
17:31
Speaker 2: and then they're going to be like, can't hear. So
17:34
Speaker 2: we had more speakers. SoFi gave us this information. They
17:38
Speaker 2: said we were the heaviest concert ever. With the most
17:42
Speaker 2: speakers in the house. We have more speakers than the U2.
17:45
Speaker 2: We have more speakers than U2, bro.
17:46
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
17:47
Speaker 2: And the only reason why is because that 500 section wraps, right?
17:51
Speaker 2: And we literally had to give them all their own
17:55
Speaker 2: dedicated speaker so they could hear. And bro, I swear
17:58
Speaker 2: to God, we killed it. You didn't go, right?
18:00
Speaker 1: No? No, I did not go, no.
18:02
Speaker 2: It was like you were at a comedy club.
18:05
Speaker 1: That's a hard thing to accomplish.
18:07
Speaker 2: And Jamie Foxx said the same thing. Jamie Foxx was like, bro.
18:10
Speaker 2: How did you make him feel so into it? He
18:13
Speaker 2: couldn't believe it. He was like, dude, that felt like
18:15
Speaker 2: we were in a comedy club.
18:17
Speaker 1: You guys did what you did with your first special, right?
18:20
Speaker 1: Bet on yourself.
18:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, bet on yourself.
18:21
Speaker 1: Shout out to Fluffy, man. You talked earlier about how today,
18:27
Speaker 1: I feel like you said, we're in a punching down
18:29
Speaker 1: culture and the negatives about people are kind of talked about.
18:32
Speaker 1: And even the headline thing, me and my friends always
18:35
Speaker 1: will send each other these tweets. Well, there'll be a
18:38
Speaker 1: video in the tweet And then a quote that doesn't
18:40
Speaker 1: exist in the video.
18:41
Speaker 2: That's so crazy.
18:42
Speaker 1: Have you seen that? There'll be like an entire, like
18:45
Speaker 1: there was this random example. There was a Brad Pitt interview.
18:49
Speaker 2: Yeah.
18:50
Speaker 1: Where he was just talking about something he was doing.
18:52
Speaker 1: And in the quote, in quotation marks on the tweet,
18:56
Speaker 1: it was him talking shit about Angelina Jolie. But nobody
18:59
Speaker 1: took the time to see that it was a fake quote.
19:03
Speaker 1: And it had like three million views. I'm like, this
19:05
Speaker 1: is the world to me.
19:07
Speaker 2: It literally is the world we're living in. It's so lazy, man.
19:10
Speaker 2: It is, man.
19:11
Speaker 1: I'm curious because I feel like we've kind of seen this,
19:15
Speaker 1: and I got to give love to guys like yourself
19:18
Speaker 1: and Jessel Nick and Fluffy, who've done a really good
19:22
Speaker 1: job of being edgy but very inclusive with comedy. And
19:28
Speaker 1: I feel like during the Pandemic years, comedy got a
19:34
Speaker 1: little dark. And there's comedy for everybody, right?
19:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
19:37
Speaker 1: But for you, because we kind of hear there's this
19:42
Speaker 1: right wing or I guess podcast corner where there are
19:47
Speaker 1: guys like Joe Rogan and Kill Tony and all this shit.
19:50
Speaker 1: And all that stuff is for somebody. But for you,
19:53
Speaker 1: is it important to make sure you are not as
19:57
Speaker 1: divisive with your content, with your material?
20:01
Speaker 2: I think I am divisive. I'm a different tool in
20:04
Speaker 2: the box.
20:05
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, obviously, if someone is offended by a ghost...
20:08
Speaker 1: fucking you in the mouth while you have a seat back.
20:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't care about that person. Yeah, yeah. No,
20:12
Speaker 2: I thought you meant, like, since there's a division, like,
20:15
Speaker 2: certain comics like to steer right or steer left.
20:17
Speaker 1: And it does feel like there is, like, a weird
20:19
Speaker 1: division amongst comedy. There is. There's, like, there is a division.
20:21
Speaker 2: And that's fine.
20:22
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:22
Speaker 2: Like, but I never want to take away the right
20:25
Speaker 2: for anyone to say anything in this country. Right. You
20:27
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like, uh-uh.
20:29
Speaker 3: 100%.
20:29
Speaker 2: Then we all move to China.
20:31
Speaker 1: Yes.
20:31
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, I don't want to
20:33
Speaker 2: live like that. Right. So, I don't care. Like, I'm
20:35
Speaker 2: not offended. Right. if that's what you want to say,
20:37
Speaker 2: then say it. Like, I don't want anyone to be like,
20:40
Speaker 2: Hey man, no, don't say ghost dick. That's offensive. And
20:44
Speaker 2: it's like, no, you know, what's crazy is I did,
20:46
Speaker 2: I did. And what I was trying to say about me,
20:48
Speaker 2: it was like, like, yeah, they have like this, this,
20:51
Speaker 2: this steer, right? Like, like whatever it is, there's a
20:54
Speaker 2: right side, left side. But also I think my tool is,
20:58
Speaker 2: is giving a voice to, to a demo that doesn't
21:02
Speaker 2: have a voice. Yeah. You know what I mean? And
21:04
Speaker 2: you finally get to hear our side. Right. Through a
21:06
Speaker 2: comedic lens. For sure. But as long as you can
21:08
Speaker 2: just hear a little bit of our story and laugh
21:11
Speaker 2: a little, then you realize, oh, fuck, we're relatable. Like,
21:14
Speaker 2: why are we separating ourselves? I always say this on stage, Kev.
21:17
Speaker 2: Broke has no race.
21:19
Speaker 1: They make us argue about race and all this other
21:22
Speaker 1: shit so we don't argue about the classes.
21:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, man. For real.
21:25
Speaker 1: It's a class war. It's not a race war.
21:27
Speaker 2: It is. Yeah.
21:27
Speaker 1: It's not an identity policy. It's all class shit, man.
21:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, man. And you know who's loving it.
21:32
Speaker 1: 100%.
21:33
Speaker 2: You know who's loving it. They're sitting right there on
21:35
Speaker 2: their high chairs and just looking down at us.
21:37
Speaker 1: Yes.
21:37
Speaker 2: Just fighting.
21:38
Speaker 1: The wealth gap is increasing while we're fighting about shit
21:41
Speaker 1: that don't matter.
21:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And they don't give a shit. It's crazy.
21:44
Speaker 2: We just keep dying.
21:46
Speaker 1: Do you think your CPAP joke is one of the, like.
21:49
Speaker 2: Greatest.
21:49
Speaker 1: It's one of the greatest. Bro. All-time joke.
21:52
Speaker 2: Bro, I love that joke. It's my favorite. You know
21:55
Speaker 2: how many CPAP machines I've signed? Like, ResMed needs to
21:59
Speaker 2: give me a deal.
22:00
Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
22:01
Speaker 2: It's crazy. Like, there's not... I love that joke, man.
22:05
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorites.
22:06
Speaker 1: It's so good.
22:06
Speaker 2: It's so good. It's so fucking good. You know what's
22:10
Speaker 2: crazy about that joke is I did it on Comedy Central.
22:13
Speaker 2: I did a different version of it on Comedy Central
22:15
Speaker 2: before my Forum special, right? And I remember when I
22:20
Speaker 2: did Comedy Central, I put that joke on there. It
22:24
Speaker 2: was a different version. It was my mom telling me
22:26
Speaker 2: that I was dying and that I needed a machine.
22:29
Speaker 2: And that was a joke. That's how I went into CPAP.
22:32
Speaker 2: And Comedy Central buried that special, which pissed me off.
22:37
Speaker 2: Like they aired it one fucking time And then they
22:40
Speaker 2: just shelved it. And I would call them every day.
22:42
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, are you guys going to play it again?
22:45
Speaker 1: Put it on YouTube, something?
22:47
Speaker 2: They wouldn't put it on anything.
22:48
Speaker 1: Wow.
22:49
Speaker 2: I was like, what the fuck, dude? And then I
22:51
Speaker 2: offered to buy it back. They only paid me $ 118, 000
22:53
Speaker 2: for that special, dude. I was like, I'll give you
22:55
Speaker 2: half a million. Give it to me.
22:57
Speaker 1: So they aired it and shelved it?
22:59
Speaker 2: Shelved it. It was crazy. And then what pissed me off,
23:02
Speaker 2: and I kept telling them, I was like, and they
23:04
Speaker 2: buried the other one, too, Don't Make Him Angry, which
23:07
Speaker 2: that one had a killer joke. One of my favorite
23:09
Speaker 2: jokes is on that one. It's called God's Gift, where
23:12
Speaker 2: God makes the vagina. Bro, I fucking love that joke.
23:16
Speaker 2: And I was so mad because no one got to
23:18
Speaker 2: see it. I'm like, what are you doing? Play that
23:21
Speaker 2: fucking bit, bro. So literally, it wasn't until 15, 16
23:27
Speaker 2: years later when whatever, Instagram or whatever took off. Something
23:33
Speaker 2: took off. I don't know what took off. Anyway, I
23:36
Speaker 2: started cutting them up. And posting them. And now the– oh,
23:40
Speaker 2: TikTok really blew up Vagina. The Vagina bit from Don't
23:45
Speaker 2: Make Him Angry. It hit like 80 million on TikTok.
23:49
Speaker 2: And I'm just like– and everyone's like doing voice dubs
23:52
Speaker 2: on it. And I was just like, bro, this shit
23:54
Speaker 2: came out 15 years ago, like 16 years ago. Like
23:57
Speaker 2: what did you– like that's the kind of shit, the
23:59
Speaker 2: struggle I had to deal with. in this business it's
24:02
Speaker 2: like what is going on right who's in power right
24:06
Speaker 2: you know i mean so thank.
24:07
Speaker 1: God for netflix shout out to netflix.
24:09
Speaker 2: Yeah for real bro really they like ted truly loves
24:13
Speaker 2: comedy like he loves stand-up and and over everyone over
24:16
Speaker 2: there joanne and and uh robbie prawn everybody you know
24:19
Speaker 2: they love it man.
24:21
Speaker 1: Tell me uh for you obviously your son has been
24:24
Speaker 1: as much of a part of your journey especially to
24:27
Speaker 1: your fans yeah like we've like watched him grow up
24:29
Speaker 1: yeah you know what i mean yeah yeah um how
24:32
Speaker 1: cool is it to be able to because you guys
24:34
Speaker 1: have the not a podcast together how cool is it
24:37
Speaker 1: to do the podcast thing with your kid and like
24:39
Speaker 1: i love it and now he's pretty kind of like
24:41
Speaker 1: if you're a joe coy fan you know your son.
24:43
Speaker 2: Yeah so he's i'm sure popular bro he's.
24:45
Speaker 1: Popping at the shows.
24:46
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah oh they love him man he takes just
24:49
Speaker 2: as many pictures it's so funny But I love it
24:52
Speaker 2: because his one thing that he said that he can't
24:54
Speaker 2: stand is when it's like a tabloid style pod.
25:03
Speaker 1: Okay.
25:04
Speaker 2: Like, oh, did you see what happened to Moe? And
25:05
Speaker 2: then they just discuss... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what
25:08
Speaker 2: I mean? It's just like, what are we doing right now?
25:10
Speaker 2: You guys are all 50, bro. Yeah. And you're talking
25:14
Speaker 2: like my aunts used to talk. This is aunt gossip
25:18
Speaker 2: right now. For sure. There's things we can talk. We're talking.
25:22
Speaker 2: We're just shooting the shit. You can talk, bro. Anyway,
25:25
Speaker 2: my son doesn't like that. And he was just like, Dad,
25:27
Speaker 2: as long as we just sound like we're in the car,
25:31
Speaker 2: then I'll do it with you. But it's so funny.
25:33
Speaker 2: I have footage, too. I'll send it to you, Kev.
25:35
Speaker 2: It's so fucking funny. Because I'll bring up a topic. Like, say, like, fucking,
25:40
Speaker 2: I don't know.
25:42
Speaker 1: Something good to do.
25:43
Speaker 2: Something good to do. And I'll bring it up. And
25:45
Speaker 2: my son will be like, hey, man, I'm good, Dad.
25:48
Speaker 1: He'll be like, yo, next.
25:51
Speaker 2: He's like, yo, I'm not feeling this shit, Dad. And
25:54
Speaker 2: then he'll move it. And I'm like, all right, fuck.
25:55
Speaker 2: And I'll stop.
25:56
Speaker 1: It is intoxicating to get wrapped up in some of
25:59
Speaker 1: that stuff.
25:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:00
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a. You know, everyone has their...
26:03
Speaker 1: Some people like watching Love Island. I don't get it. Yeah.
26:06
Speaker 1: You know, but that shit, like the shit that I'm
26:09
Speaker 1: into right now is watching DJ Vlad reply to people
26:13
Speaker 1: on his YouTube channel.
26:14
Speaker 2: That's so.
26:15
Speaker 1: He's at war with like Noriega and Aries Spears at
26:17
Speaker 1: the same time.
26:17
Speaker 2: Dude, it's so crazy. And he's doing it with a
26:20
Speaker 2: Gucci short set.
26:21
Speaker 1: Yeah. He's got the crazy designer, the gold chain.
26:24
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:25
Speaker 2: Looking in the camera. Yeah. The Gucci shoe that's not
26:27
Speaker 2: matching the Gucci outfit. I love him, dude.
26:30
Speaker 1: Dude, it's so entertaining. I just, it is wildly, it
26:33
Speaker 1: is like, it is, I told my son, because my
26:35
Speaker 1: son is always like, yo, like he'll ask me if
26:38
Speaker 1: I seen certain shit. He's like, yo, did you see that?
26:41
Speaker 1: This Vlad guy's beefing with this comedian. I was like, son,
26:43
Speaker 1: when I drove to Vegas Friday, I watched an hour
26:46
Speaker 1: and 45 minutes of them screaming at each other.
26:49
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:50
Speaker 1: I know everything that's going on.
26:51
Speaker 2: Dude, Vlad is a trip, dude. But, you know, more
26:54
Speaker 2: power to him. Bro, look what he's done, man.
26:58
Speaker 1: Built a lot.
26:58
Speaker 2: It's crazy, yeah.
27:00
Speaker 1: Talk to me, man, for you. I'm sure when you're
27:05
Speaker 1: a comedian, it's probably not... It's almost like a lot
27:08
Speaker 1: harder if you are... an artist making music like to
27:12
Speaker 1: kind of pay attention to what's going on but are
27:13
Speaker 1: there any comedians who have caught your attention who you
27:16
Speaker 1: kind of just look to for inspiration or who you
27:18
Speaker 1: are just a fan of that have come after.
27:20
Speaker 2: You oh come after me oh my god dude there's
27:24
Speaker 2: so many right now that are just like they need
27:27
Speaker 2: so much shine right now bro um man i could
27:31
Speaker 2: man i can give you a list man uh paris
27:34
Speaker 2: sachet she's amazing uh tara conestrosi is just fucking killing
27:39
Speaker 2: it italian Mateo Lane, Nicky Paris, Lulu Gonzalez. Fucking beast, bro.
27:48
Speaker 2: Alfred Kayenge. He's a beast out of... Oh, God, what's
27:55
Speaker 2: it called? What's it called in Africa? It starts with
27:57
Speaker 2: the letter N.
27:59
Speaker 1: Nigeria?
28:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Nigerian. He's Nigerian, yeah. He's a beast, man.
28:06
Speaker 2: There's so many more, man. I got to pull up
28:07
Speaker 2: my phone.
28:08
Speaker 1: Are you still... When you need to work out new shit,
28:11
Speaker 1: will you still hit the comedy?
28:12
Speaker 2: Always. Yeah, yeah.
28:13
Speaker 1: What's your go-to spot here?
28:15
Speaker 2: Laugh Factory. If I want to play Hollywood, I'll just
28:18
Speaker 2: go up. Yeah. And then, like, if I want to
28:23
Speaker 2: play the improv, I go outside. I don't mind Hollywood improv.
28:27
Speaker 2: I love it. It's a great room. But I can
28:32
Speaker 2: go to Brea and get 600 people in there, like.
28:34
Speaker 1: Like day of.
28:35
Speaker 2: On a day, yeah.
28:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, like four hour notice.
28:38
Speaker 2: Yeah.
28:38
Speaker 1: By the way, Joe Coy's coming tonight, guys.
28:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
28:40
Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday. That's why going, I always tell people like,
28:45
Speaker 1: you know, whenever people come to LA to visit and
28:47
Speaker 1: they're like, well, where should we go? Yeah. I'm like,
28:50
Speaker 1: just go to any comedy club.
28:51
Speaker 2: Go to any comedy club.
28:52
Speaker 1: Because you never know who you're going to see. Yup.
28:54
Speaker 2: And you don't know who's going to be sitting in
28:55
Speaker 2: the audience either.
28:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I've sat next to Quentin Tarantino at the store. Obviously,
29:01
Speaker 1: he had a booth, but I was like right there.
29:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.
29:03
Speaker 1: And I was like, he was by himself and.
29:05
Speaker 3: Then martin lawrence came out oh yeah that's my guy
29:07
Speaker 3: and i'm like that's my guy right there what the
29:10
Speaker 3: fuck yeah man going on yep no it's yep i'm
29:13
Speaker 3: glad you said his name because you know we have
29:15
Speaker 3: a thing together we're doing a show together you and martin.
29:19
Speaker 2: Uh yeah hold on i want there's another one i
29:21
Speaker 2: want to uh uh yeah brisha webb do you know
29:25
Speaker 2: brisha webb bro watch her hulu special she's a killer
29:28
Speaker 2: so that's another one and i feel like a lot
29:31
Speaker 2: of women especially the women that I just shouted out,
29:36
Speaker 2: they need some shine, man. It's a heavily male-dominated... 100%.
29:42
Speaker 2: And there's some women out there that are killers, bro.
29:45
Speaker 2: They're killers. The ones I just named are killers. So
29:49
Speaker 2: watch them. Brisha Webb, Lulu Gonzalez, Tara Conestrasi, and Paris Sachet.
29:56
Speaker 1: I saw you on Shannon talking about how you... have
30:00
Speaker 1: such a great relationship with your ex-wife yeah which by
30:03
Speaker 1: the way is very admirable oh thank you was what
30:06
Speaker 1: was like because i feel like it takes two like
30:10
Speaker 1: grown-ups to kind of still have like a great relationship
30:12
Speaker 1: after a divorce yeah was was like getting through that
30:16
Speaker 1: because so many people go through divorces and on the
30:19
Speaker 1: other end of them they you know you kind of
30:20
Speaker 1: see the divorced dad memes and all that yeah what
30:23
Speaker 1: was your.
30:24
Speaker 2: I hate seeing those Well, that's what I was going
30:26
Speaker 2: to say.
30:26
Speaker 1: It seems like you had like a probably, I mean,
30:28
Speaker 1: obviously there probably is no pleasant divorce, but you know,
30:31
Speaker 1: to still be friends with that person and still have
30:32
Speaker 1: a relationship with them.
30:34
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:34
Speaker 1: Was it, was it harder?
30:35
Speaker 2: When I was a kid? Yeah. Yeah, man. That's why
30:38
Speaker 2: I hate seeing those memes, man. Like. I don't know.
30:41
Speaker 2: I feel like that's also a programming thing that happened
30:43
Speaker 2: in this country. Yeah. It was celebrated. You know what
30:46
Speaker 2: I mean? Like there's so much celebration about the divorce
30:49
Speaker 2: and where's your dad at? And like, you know what
30:51
Speaker 2: I mean? That bitch better try to get some money
30:53
Speaker 2: from me. Like it was like a, a hacky thing
30:57
Speaker 2: to say all the time and it was celebrated. And
30:59
Speaker 2: I always hated it. Like, cause I come from a
31:02
Speaker 2: divorced family and I, I hated that my dad moved
31:04
Speaker 2: to Phoenix. You know what I mean? I hated that.
31:06
Speaker 2: I didn't have a dude in the house and I
31:08
Speaker 2: have this, You know, I have my brother who suffers
31:10
Speaker 2: from mental illness and he's just causing chaos in the
31:15
Speaker 2: house and there's no male figure, you know what I mean?
31:17
Speaker 2: And we'd always have to call the cops, call the cops,
31:19
Speaker 2: call the cops. And when my stepdad came to my life, Fred, like,
31:24
Speaker 2: Now I got a goddamn X-Men in the goddamn house.
31:26
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
31:28
Speaker 1: A real hero.
31:29
Speaker 2: A real fucking hero.
31:30
Speaker 1: An American hero lives with me now.
31:31
Speaker 2: With awards. And wounds. And wounds. And he loved to
31:35
Speaker 2: walk around the house with no shirt on. He loved
31:37
Speaker 2: doing that shit. And man, when he manhandled my brother, bro,
31:40
Speaker 2: I thought I was looking at Jesus, man. I was like,
31:43
Speaker 2: oh my God, this is my God. He's my savior.
31:46
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:46
Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about Robert punching me or
31:48
Speaker 2: us calling the cops. By the way, no shade on
31:52
Speaker 2: my brother. I'm just being... completely transparent. You know what
31:55
Speaker 2: I mean? Like I love my brother and he, and
31:56
Speaker 2: he suffers from, you know, this mental problem that he has. And,
32:00
Speaker 2: but you know what I mean? It was rough when
32:03
Speaker 2: I was a kid and I hated that. And I, I,
32:06
Speaker 2: I remember when Angie and I got a divorce, I
32:09
Speaker 2: kind of took that route for a little bit. I
32:11
Speaker 2: was taking that, you know, try and get something from,
32:14
Speaker 2: I was working at Nordstrom rec, bro. I was like,
32:16
Speaker 2: try and get half a nine bucks. And then, uh,
32:19
Speaker 2: And then just something clicked, man. Like, what are you doing, dude? Like,
32:23
Speaker 2: this is dumb. Like, bro, that's your son. What are
32:27
Speaker 2: you fucking doing? You know what I mean? Like, she's
32:30
Speaker 2: taking him to school. She's feeding him when you're not here.
32:32
Speaker 2: When you're on the road, she's bathing him, washing him,
32:35
Speaker 2: feeding him. What are you going to do? Are you
32:37
Speaker 2: going to get a nanny and take the kid? Right.
32:39
Speaker 2: Or are you going to have the best nanny, which
32:41
Speaker 2: is his mom, and just take care of her? And
32:43
Speaker 2: just make it beautiful and hang out with all, when
32:47
Speaker 2: you go out with your son, take her.
32:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, not make it weird.
32:50
Speaker 2: Not make it weird.
32:50
Speaker 1: Like there's not a child swap happening in a parking
32:53
Speaker 1: lot of a Sears.
32:54
Speaker 2: It's so bizarre with a police officer watching, making sure
33:00
Speaker 2: it's cordial. Like, dude, we're not doing that. I told
33:02
Speaker 2: her that. And I didn't even have that much money
33:04
Speaker 2: at that point, but I promised her. I said, when
33:07
Speaker 2: I make it, I promise you, I will take care
33:09
Speaker 2: of you. Like, just believe in me.
33:12
Speaker 1: I'm sure your son appreciates your guys's.
33:14
Speaker 2: Relationship oh he loves it dude because we still like
33:17
Speaker 2: joke with each other like how we always were you
33:20
Speaker 2: know i mean it's just it's not romantic that's dope
33:23
Speaker 2: right right right but we're fucking the best parents man
33:26
Speaker 2: i remember we we took him to uh uh you
33:28
Speaker 2: know he went to a private school and you know
33:31
Speaker 2: it was one of those catholic private schools so they
33:34
Speaker 2: looked down on like uh divorce families they don't look
33:37
Speaker 2: down on it but you can tell there's a little
33:39
Speaker 2: of course oh and i guess your dad's not gonna
33:42
Speaker 2: be at the like doing that kind of shit and
33:45
Speaker 2: then he started playing basketball for a team kev and
33:49
Speaker 2: then i i would see like this kid that has
33:53
Speaker 2: parents that are still married but mom's up here and
33:57
Speaker 2: dad's here and i've noticed it a few games and
34:00
Speaker 2: i'm like i looked at angie i'm like aren't they
34:02
Speaker 2: married You know what I mean?
34:04
Speaker 1: They hate each other, though.
34:05
Speaker 2: They fucking hate each other. But yet they're celebrated. And
34:08
Speaker 2: here we are divorced. She's got her boyfriend with her.
34:12
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I got whoever I'm dating.
34:14
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And it's just like this.
34:17
Speaker 2: We're the ones that are looked at as dysfunctional, but
34:21
Speaker 2: we're the most functional family.
34:22
Speaker 1: And the most mature.
34:23
Speaker 2: And the most mature.
34:24
Speaker 1: Yeah.
34:25
Speaker 2: And guess who was the happiest kid in that fucking place?
34:27
Speaker 2: My son. Right. You know what I mean? So, yeah,
34:30
Speaker 2: I had to make that work, man. And. And yeah,
34:33
Speaker 2: like when I said that to Shay, that was so
34:36
Speaker 2: funny when I go, I just bought her a house.
34:37
Speaker 2: Like I bought her that house like five years ago.
34:40
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
34:41
Speaker 1: Yo, what's your favorite Jordan of all time? Because you
34:43
Speaker 1: are a Jordan head.
34:44
Speaker 2: Yeah. By the way, I am OG. Like anyone that
34:47
Speaker 2: stopped coming up to me going, oh, I hear you're
34:50
Speaker 2: kind of like a shoe head. I'm sick of these
34:52
Speaker 2: young kids. These little fuckers that are like 17 going, oh,
34:55
Speaker 2: I hear you like shoes. I'm like, bitch. Yeah. You
34:58
Speaker 2: don't even know what we went through. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
35:00
Speaker 1: For sure.
35:01
Speaker 2: You don't even know what we went through. There were
35:02
Speaker 2: lines down the street, man. I had to pay people
35:05
Speaker 2: to wait in line.
35:05
Speaker 1: I love how now all the Jays are just like
35:08
Speaker 1: in stock. Yeah.
35:09
Speaker 2: They're just in stock.
35:10
Speaker 1: Cause I actually like to wear shoes. So I'm like, Oh,
35:12
Speaker 1: this is great. I don't have to worry about people
35:13
Speaker 1: with bots.
35:14
Speaker 2: Yeah. You don't know how long I wore my size
35:16
Speaker 2: nine and a half when I was truly a 10
35:18
Speaker 2: and a half. I outgrew my shoe. Cause they weren't
35:21
Speaker 2: like making them again. Um, but yeah, all my specials,
35:24
Speaker 2: if you go all the way back to my, my.
35:26
Speaker 1: Half hour specials on in this one, you've got three, fours, threes.
35:30
Speaker 2: On the Brooklyn, uh, uh, the, the off white Presto's
35:34
Speaker 2: in my coming in, uh, uh, coming in hot Hawaii special,
35:39
Speaker 2: my forum special. I was wearing, uh, Jordan's threes, right?
35:45
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:45
Speaker 2: Jordan threes. Uh, hold on. I'm almost there. Uh, Oh,
35:53
Speaker 2: I was wearing ones, gold and black, black and gold
35:56
Speaker 2: ones in my first night live from Seattle. And then
36:02
Speaker 2: lights out, I was wearing bread 11s. And that was
36:05
Speaker 2: 20 years ago.
36:06
Speaker 1: That's a great shoe. I mean, it's a great shoe today,
36:09
Speaker 1: but 20 years ago.
36:09
Speaker 2: And that was the bread 11s that came in the
36:11
Speaker 2: double box.
36:11
Speaker 1: The double box.
36:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, man. And then my first special, I was wearing
36:18
Speaker 2: Olympic 1s. And then my half-hour special, I was wearing
36:24
Speaker 2: flip threes. Wow. Come on, man.
36:26
Speaker 1: What is your goat J, though? What's your favorite silhouette?
36:32
Speaker 2: I think the grail is the bread threes.
36:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a three.
36:37
Speaker 2: Bread threes.
36:37
Speaker 1: Black cement threes is my favorite Jordan.
36:38
Speaker 2: Oh, there. That's it.
36:40
Speaker 1: Black cement threes.
36:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bread threes and then the cement fours.
36:44
Speaker 1: Threes and fours that's that's my shit threes fours and
36:47
Speaker 1: then you know then i like 11s i like i
36:50
Speaker 1: like some ones but i'm.
36:51
Speaker 2: Threes or fours yeah it's threes or fours my first
36:54
Speaker 2: pair ever that i bought with my money was uh
36:57
Speaker 2: the the what is it the north carolina fours yeah
37:02
Speaker 2: yeah i put those on layaway athletes when i was.
37:04
Speaker 1: A kid there was a store called just for feet
37:06
Speaker 1: yeah phoenix.
37:07
Speaker 2: Yeah they had that in vegas and i worked at
37:09
Speaker 2: it yeah that we had a basketball court yeah i
37:11
Speaker 2: don't know if Yeah, that's where I broke my thumb.
37:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to go in there. I used to
37:15
Speaker 1: be the ghetto kid that would just be at the
37:17
Speaker 1: mall all day and I'd be at Jesper Feet shooting hoops,
37:19
Speaker 1: but I got a pair of Jordan 10s there for
37:22
Speaker 1: like 20 bucks on sale or some shit.
37:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did that at Jesper Feet. Shout out to
37:27
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38:29
Speaker 1: So in this special, because I also, too, worked. I
38:31
Speaker 1: actually had a job at McDonald's when I was 12. Yeah.
38:34
Speaker 1: For like a month.
38:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
38:37
Speaker 1: And you talk about your McDonald's gig. In this special.
38:40
Speaker 1: You were a kid. And it was kind of the
38:42
Speaker 1: same deal where you could only work a certain.
38:44
Speaker 2: Amount of hours.
38:45
Speaker 1: Terrible job, by the way.
38:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, the worst.
38:48
Speaker 1: The absolute worst. Was the McDonald's gig your worst job
38:51
Speaker 1: you've ever had or did you have anything worse? Because
38:52
Speaker 1: you at least got to steal some chicken nuggets.
38:54
Speaker 2: No, they were all horrible. That was the one I
38:57
Speaker 2: got fired and my mom went back and tried to
38:59
Speaker 2: get me a job. It was so funny. Thank you.
39:03
Speaker 2: Thank you, man.
39:04
Speaker 1: The fact your mom pulled up. On the way there,
39:07
Speaker 1: I would have been like, Mom, I'm lying.
39:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, man. That was the absolute worst
39:12
Speaker 2: day of my life. And the fact that I didn't
39:14
Speaker 2: ask my mom or didn't tell my mom while we
39:16
Speaker 2: were driving there was just the stupidest thing I could
39:18
Speaker 2: have possibly done.
39:20
Speaker 1: I mean, by the way, I always say this about McDonald's.
39:22
Speaker 1: There's a reason why they're number one.
39:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
39:25
Speaker 1: If you could eat McDonald's with no consequences, everybody would
39:29
Speaker 1: have it because it's fucking fire.
39:30
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's literally the only place. This is how stupid
39:35
Speaker 2: humans are, right? It has been scientifically proven by certified
39:41
Speaker 2: scientists that this shit is damn near a toy. Right.
39:46
Speaker 2: They've proven it. They've proven that that bun is not
39:49
Speaker 2: a bun. They've proven that cheese has got plastic in it.
39:52
Speaker 1: The fries that fell between your seats do not have
39:55
Speaker 1: mold on them two years later with the detail.
39:57
Speaker 2: Three years later. You can actually dip it in ketchup
40:00
Speaker 2: and eat it. It is damn near made by Mattel.
40:04
Speaker 2: For sure. But for some reason, we still buy it
40:06
Speaker 2: and eat it. And that's how stupid we are. So yeah,
40:09
Speaker 2: kudos to McDonald's because they just put it out there
40:14
Speaker 2: and they know they're going to win.
40:15
Speaker 1: What would you be doing if you.
40:16
Speaker 2: And by the way, I buy it.
40:18
Speaker 1: I love McDonald's.
40:19
Speaker 2: I eat a Mc... What is it called? The Filet-O-Fish?
40:21
Speaker 1: Fish Filet.
40:22
Speaker 2: Fish Filet.
40:22
Speaker 1: You got to get the full slice of cheese.
40:24
Speaker 2: Would I call it a McFish? Yeah, it's a Filet-O-Fish, right?
40:27
Speaker 1: Filet-O-Fish, yeah, with the half slice of cheese. Yeah, yeah.
40:29
Speaker 1: Are they skimming on the cheese?
40:30
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's perfect.
40:32
Speaker 1: What would you be doing if you weren't doing what
40:34
Speaker 1: you're doing now? If the stand-up thing didn't work out,
40:36
Speaker 1: what could you have seen yourself in?
40:39
Speaker 2: Directing.
40:39
Speaker 1: Directing.
40:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love directing. That's my favorite, hands down.
40:44
Speaker 1: Talk to me about doing the voice work for this
40:46
Speaker 1: new DreamWorks movie.
40:49
Speaker 2: The new movie.
40:51
Speaker 1: Forgotten Island.
40:51
Speaker 2: It's called Forgotten Island. And, you know, that's led by her.
40:53
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Gabby's killing it. And she's
40:56
Speaker 2: the lead. And she's crushing it. This is her movie.
41:00
Speaker 2: You know, she's half Filipino. Yeah. Like me. And I just... Man,
41:05
Speaker 2: shout out to DreamWorks, bro. Because... I feel like they've
41:09
Speaker 2: always been campaigning for Filipinos, you know, all the way
41:13
Speaker 2: back to Hook when Dante Bosco was Rufio. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:16
Speaker 2: And that was always, like, when I saw him play
41:18
Speaker 2: that character, I was just so, like, inspired by it. Like, wow,
41:21
Speaker 2: this is amazing.
41:22
Speaker 1: Such a great, great classic.
41:23
Speaker 2: Yeah. Best Rufio ever, by the way. Yeah, man, hands down.
41:27
Speaker 2: He killed that character. And then after that, mine, I
41:31
Speaker 2: got Easter Sunday from Spielberg. He gave me that movie.
41:34
Speaker 2: That's DreamWorks' first Filipino movie. cast ever by a major studio.
41:39
Speaker 2: And then, and then this, it's just beautiful. Like there's
41:43
Speaker 2: a lot of Filipinos and the stories about our Filipino folklores.
41:46
Speaker 2: And it's just cool to be a voice of one
41:49
Speaker 2: of them and just be a little part of it.
41:51
Speaker 2: You know, I got a little scene in there, but
41:53
Speaker 2: it's enough to be able to say, Hey, I'm in this,
41:55
Speaker 2: you know, it's just.
41:57
Speaker 1: Something I thought was dope. I thought it was cool
41:59
Speaker 1: that David Spade and Theo Vaughn like funded their own movie.
42:03
Speaker 1: I love that bus boys.
42:04
Speaker 2: Yeah.
42:05
Speaker 1: Would you ever, because I feel like we need a
42:09
Speaker 1: movie with Joe Coy starring in it.
42:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
42:11
Speaker 1: Would you ever, you talked about Love and Direct, would
42:13
Speaker 1: you ever fund a movie or try to produce your
42:15
Speaker 1: own movie?
42:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Well, you know I got Easter Sunday. That's
42:19
Speaker 2: on Netflix right now, too.
42:20
Speaker 1: Was that your production?
42:21
Speaker 2: That was mine. Oh, I didn't realize that. That was
42:24
Speaker 2: Spielberg produced it, yeah. But it's, yeah, that's my movie,
42:27
Speaker 2: Easter Sunday, and I love that movie. But yeah, there's
42:31
Speaker 2: so many other ideas I want, like, There's a TV
42:34
Speaker 2: show idea that I want to produce, and I want
42:36
Speaker 2: to self-produce it. And, yeah, we got things in the works,
42:40
Speaker 2: but I can't really say anything right now.
42:42
Speaker 1: Would you say– because I feel like there's always kind
42:47
Speaker 1: of like contemporaries where if we think about Steph Curry
42:51
Speaker 1: and LeBron or Kobe and, I guess, Shaq. Yeah. Is
42:57
Speaker 1: Fluffy like your comedy– like soulmate if you will um.
43:04
Speaker 2: I think my comedy soulmate is my son that's real
43:07
Speaker 2: yeah yeah yeah he's very he's fast he's very funny
43:10
Speaker 2: he'll tell me when it's not funny he's good.
43:13
Speaker 1: Man does he want to do stand-up i don't know if.
43:15
Speaker 2: He does it'll be amazing because he'll he'll crush it
43:18
Speaker 2: you know i have that joke about the dogs where
43:20
Speaker 2: i go who are you who are you who are
43:22
Speaker 2: you who you're the dog uh You know, when someone
43:26
Speaker 2: that they don't like comes to the house. It's true.
43:28
Speaker 1: I think you... I forgot who you quoted, but they
43:30
Speaker 1: had such a good quote.
43:31
Speaker 2: Bill Murray.
43:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Bill Murray quote about dogs.
43:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I don't trust a man that doesn't like
43:36
Speaker 2: a dog, but I trust a dog that doesn't like
43:37
Speaker 2: a man.
43:38
Speaker 3: 100%.
43:38
Speaker 2: 100%. And that, who are you? Who are you? I
43:41
Speaker 2: used to go, who the fuck are you? Who the
43:44
Speaker 2: fuck are you? I used to do that and make
43:45
Speaker 2: the fuck sound like a bark. Who the fuck are you?
43:48
Speaker 2: Who the fuck are you? Who the fuck are you?
43:50
Speaker 2: And I would do it. And then my son... At
43:52
Speaker 2: the end of the show, well, I was doing that
43:55
Speaker 2: for like six months. And then before I shot my special,
43:59
Speaker 2: my son pulled me to the side. He goes, hey, dad, like,
44:02
Speaker 2: I don't think you need to say fuck, man. Like,
44:04
Speaker 2: that joke is funny. Yeah. Like, just say who are you. Like,
44:08
Speaker 2: if you say fuck, like, and then he even told me, like,
44:12
Speaker 2: if you put it on Instagram, it's just going to
44:13
Speaker 2: be bleeps. If Netflix puts it out, it's going to
44:17
Speaker 2: be a bunch of bleeps. And he was right. Like,
44:19
Speaker 2: I remember trying it for the first time without saying fuck.
44:23
Speaker 2: And they were laughing. I'm like, I looked at my son.
44:25
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, thank you. Because that joke is so
44:28
Speaker 2: much better, which is who are you?
44:30
Speaker 1: Yeah.
44:30
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think I had to emphasize who are you?
44:34
Speaker 1: It sounds like a bark still.
44:35
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I made him sound like he was barking.
44:38
Speaker 2: It's so funny. But that's Winston, by the way. That's
44:40
Speaker 2: who I'm making fun of.
44:41
Speaker 1: How many dogs do you have?
44:42
Speaker 2: We got two. Two. Yeah.
44:43
Speaker 3: Yeah.
44:44
Speaker 1: And they're smaller dogs?
44:47
Speaker 2: Winston's small. Kingston's one of those mid-sized dogs. I don't
44:50
Speaker 2: know what Kingston is, by the way. He's something. He's
44:53
Speaker 2: a mix of all kinds of shit.
44:55
Speaker 1: I have two French Bulldogs and a Pomeranian, and the
44:58
Speaker 1: Frenchies are because one of my best friends tried to
45:01
Speaker 1: take advantage of the pandemic Frenchie boom.
45:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
45:05
Speaker 1: And just got stuck with a bunch of puppies.
45:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Oh, so you have a bunch of doodles?
45:10
Speaker 1: I have a fluffy Frenchie. Who doesn't look like he
45:14
Speaker 1: should exist. And they're just their normal Frenchie. And then
45:16
Speaker 1: I have just a Pomeranian little rat dog.
45:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pomeranians are dope, though.
45:21
Speaker 1: They're the shit.
45:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're dope, man.
45:23
Speaker 1: He's my wallpaper.
45:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're dope, dude. Yeah, I love it, man. Actually,
45:28
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what kind of dog you have. I'll
45:30
Speaker 2: be the first one to walk up and hug it.
45:32
Speaker 2: They're just cute, man. If anyone should learn anything, learn
45:37
Speaker 2: from a dog.
45:38
Speaker 1: All right, we'll end the interview with some quick hits.
45:41
Speaker 1: Who do you think is the best storyteller ever on stage?
45:43
Speaker 2: Oh, my God, man. Man, that's a tough one. You know,
45:54
Speaker 2: that's a tough one, man. Like, for my style, it
45:58
Speaker 2: would be Richard. Okay. Because Richard was not scared to
46:02
Speaker 2: really tell you the darkest stories.
46:07
Speaker 1: A hundred percent.
46:07
Speaker 2: That should have been in private.
46:09
Speaker 1: Right.
46:10
Speaker 2: And he didn't care. And I think that's what I
46:12
Speaker 2: love the most. And it was like ahead of its time.
46:14
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like imagine living during that time.
46:18
Speaker 2: And here's a testament to Richard. My son was like
46:21
Speaker 2: watching stand-up on Netflix. And he was turning them off
46:24
Speaker 2: after like 15 minutes, whatever. Like he was losing interest.
46:28
Speaker 2: And there were some comics I was like, whoa, really, Joe?
46:30
Speaker 2: Like that's one of my favorites. You know what I mean?
46:33
Speaker 2: And then he got to Richard. And, man, he was
46:36
Speaker 2: in it, bro. And I didn't even tell him about Richard.
46:40
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. He goes, who's this guy? So
46:43
Speaker 2: he didn't even know. He knew I liked Richard, but
46:47
Speaker 2: he never had a face to Richard. Press play, and
46:50
Speaker 2: he was in it. And he didn't ask that question
46:52
Speaker 2: until after he pressed play. He's just, who's this guy?
46:54
Speaker 2: Like the whole opening scene when, you know, it was
46:57
Speaker 2: just chaos. They're just getting to their seats. And he
46:59
Speaker 2: was just like riffing. And then him talking about the
47:02
Speaker 2: dogs and all that. He was just like. yo, this
47:04
Speaker 2: guy right here, dad. So yeah, if it's the complete
47:07
Speaker 2: honesty when it comes to storytelling, it'll be richer.
47:12
Speaker 1: Who's the hardest comedy you've ever had to follow? Comedian-wise.
47:16
Speaker 2: Oh, man.
47:19
Speaker 1: Maybe you were watching from backstage and you were like, whoo,
47:21
Speaker 1: this is going to be fun.
47:23
Speaker 2: Man, I hate to brag. I'm not scared. Not even
47:28
Speaker 2: being scared. I just always was like, I'll follow him.
47:32
Speaker 2: And then when you go to the Laugh Factory... You know,
47:35
Speaker 2: you had to, like, how many times did I get
47:37
Speaker 2: bumped by Chris? Right. Chris would walk in all the
47:40
Speaker 2: time and bump me. And I'm like, all right, yeah. 100%. Yes, sir. Yeah.
47:43
Speaker 2: And he'd do, like, 80 minutes in front of me.
47:45
Speaker 2: And then I'd still have to go up. Like, yes, sir.
47:50
Speaker 2: But I will tell you this. I used to book
47:53
Speaker 2: these shows in Vegas where I'd rent out these theaters.
47:56
Speaker 2: I used to rent out these theaters. And I would
47:58
Speaker 2: fly out comics that I met through BET's Comic View.
48:02
Speaker 2: So I was on BET's Comic View. Yeah. So I
48:04
Speaker 2: got all these friends.
48:05
Speaker 1: I miss Comic View, man.
48:05
Speaker 2: I miss it too. And I would fly them out
48:08
Speaker 2: to Vegas and they would come, man, because I would
48:10
Speaker 2: give them like 800 bucks.
48:12
Speaker 1: Put them in a room.
48:13
Speaker 2: Put them in a room, fly you out. They were like,
48:15
Speaker 2: it's a gig one night. Man, Michael Blackson, bro. Michael Blackson,
48:22
Speaker 2: I flew out when he was wearing the dashiki. This
48:25
Speaker 2: is before what he is now.
48:26
Speaker 1: Right, right, right, right.
48:27
Speaker 2: He would wear the dashiki and the hat. He's a
48:29
Speaker 2: mother sucker. He would do all that and Bro, I
48:32
Speaker 2: had to follow that one night. It was my night.
48:35
Speaker 2: And everyone that's in this room knows me. Right, right, right, right.
48:38
Speaker 2: So I'm following my... That was a tough one. And
48:42
Speaker 2: then same time, I think it was like 98 or 97, 1997, J.B. Smooth, bro. Oh, fuck.
48:50
Speaker 1: I'd love to see him get this second win too.
48:54
Speaker 2: Bro, I have footage of that. I have the raw
48:58
Speaker 2: footage on a mini-DV. I have it. I told JB,
49:02
Speaker 2: I go, you know, I got that footage, man. It's nice, too.
49:05
Speaker 2: It's one camera, but, bro, it's explosive. And, like, I
49:09
Speaker 2: had to follow that. That's when he was doing Stagecoach.
49:11
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And it was a DMX song.
49:15
Speaker 1: His Larry David run on Curb is just all time.
49:18
Speaker 2: This is before Curb.
49:19
Speaker 1: No, I know. I'm saying the second win, I think
49:22
Speaker 1: that the Curb thing, and I don't know, did you
49:23
Speaker 1: watch Larry David's re-imagination of history? And then he had J.B.
49:30
Speaker 1: Smoove come to his house. So Larry David has a
49:33
Speaker 1: new HBO show that Obama produced, and he's retelling historical stories.
49:40
Speaker 1: Through his lens. And so Larry David is a safe
49:44
Speaker 1: house for slaves on the Underground Railroad.
49:46
Speaker 2: Oh, shit.
49:47
Speaker 1: And the slave that shows up to his house that
49:49
Speaker 1: he's supposed to help is J.B.
49:51
Speaker 2: Smoove. Oh, that's so good.
49:52
Speaker 1: And then he never leaves.
49:54
Speaker 2: Oh, I got to watch that. That's so good. Oh,
49:56
Speaker 2: that's so funny. So it's just a callback to the show.
50:02
Speaker 2: I'll tell you now, Larry. Dude, I love J.B., but
50:05
Speaker 2: I have that footage, and it's amazing. And I... Some
50:09
Speaker 2: stupid reason I wanted to follow him that night. So
50:12
Speaker 2: that would probably be the hardest one I ever had
50:14
Speaker 2: to follow.
50:15
Speaker 1: What about, obviously there's so many cities that you probably
50:19
Speaker 1: love to perform in. Is there a particular city or
50:21
Speaker 1: a particular show that stands out as like just your
50:23
Speaker 1: favorite ever?
50:28
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd be lying if I didn't say the Forum. Yeah.
50:31
Speaker 2: It's the greatest. It's the greatest.
50:35
Speaker 1: It's still such a great venue, too.
50:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, for music and comedy. It's the greatest. And I
50:41
Speaker 2: love playing there. There's just something special about it. Whenever you,
50:44
Speaker 2: like you said earlier, what's to do in Hollywood is
50:48
Speaker 2: to go to any comedy club.
50:49
Speaker 1: Just go to a comedy club.
50:50
Speaker 2: Yeah. Literally, the Forum, every time I've been to any show... Yeah,
50:57
Speaker 2: whatever's going on at the forum, go. Whatever's going at
50:58
Speaker 2: the forum, go.
50:59
Speaker 1: Because it's a vibe.
51:00
Speaker 2: It's going to be a vibe, and someone that you
51:04
Speaker 2: probably really like is going to walk up on that stage.
51:06
Speaker 1: I saw Tame Impala there, and I was shroomed the
51:09
Speaker 1: fuck out, and it was the coolest. I felt like
51:12
Speaker 1: I needed a seatbelt. Yeah, yeah. It was so good.
51:15
Speaker 2: Really? Love the forum, man. That's dope.
51:17
Speaker 1: All right, so look. Blue in the Face is out.
51:20
Speaker 1: It's on Netflix.
51:20
Speaker 2: Yes.
51:21
Speaker 1: It is your favorite special you've done?
51:23
Speaker 2: Hands down, man.
51:25
Speaker 1: It is a very personal special.
51:27
Speaker 2: I love it, yeah.
51:28
Speaker 1: And it is great, man.
51:30
Speaker 2: Thank you.
51:30
Speaker 1: I want to know what you cut out, though.
51:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so funny. There's a couple bits in there.
51:37
Speaker 1: There's another 45 minutes?
51:38
Speaker 2: There's about 45 minutes, yeah.
51:39
Speaker 1: Yeah.
51:40
Speaker 2: It was crazy.
51:41
Speaker 1: Well, I always wonder, like, give me your perspective on this, because, like,
51:44
Speaker 1: obviously you're a touring act, or for a lot of
51:47
Speaker 1: comedians that are traveling comedians, when a special comes out,
51:52
Speaker 1: they had been performing a lot of that material right
51:54
Speaker 1: on the road.
51:54
Speaker 2: Yeah.
51:55
Speaker 1: But once the special's out, are you still.
51:58
Speaker 2: No, it's gone.
51:59
Speaker 1: It's gone. It's all new shit moving forward.
52:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I played Caesars the weekend after. So it came
52:06
Speaker 2: out on Tuesday, and then Caesars, I was at Saturday. Yeah,
52:10
Speaker 2: it was already a new act. I didn't do anything.
52:13
Speaker 1: It's almost like I feel like how rappers will drop
52:16
Speaker 1: an album, and it's like, all right, well, I'm going
52:18
Speaker 1: to the studio. It's all new shit now.
52:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
52:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to.
52:22
Speaker 2: I can't repeat a joke. I don't even feel right
52:25
Speaker 2: doing it.
52:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're kind of cheating. It's like, you've seen
52:28
Speaker 1: this on TV already.
52:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then my head is fucking with me because
52:32
Speaker 2: I know they already know the punchline. So I already
52:35
Speaker 2: know it's going to be a shitty ending. You know
52:38
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like, I already know they're going to
52:40
Speaker 2: be like, oh, okay. Like, I'm not going to get
52:42
Speaker 2: the big applause that I normally get.
52:43
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like there's a few guys who can
52:46
Speaker 1: do the thing where it's like Andrew Dice Clay. Like,
52:48
Speaker 1: you want to see Andrew Dice Clay do the Andrew
52:50
Speaker 1: Dice Clay?
52:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
52:51
Speaker 1: Or, you know, if I see Bert Kreischer, it's like,
52:52
Speaker 1: do the machine story role.
52:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
52:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.
52:56
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't do any of the stories.
52:58
Speaker 1: I get it, man.
52:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. Once it's done, it's done.
53:00
Speaker 1: Well, listen, go support the special. It is hilarious. It's definitely,
53:04
Speaker 1: like you said, it came out swinging on Netflix. It's
53:06
Speaker 1: top three, I think, right now.
53:07
Speaker 2: It's still. It's crazy, man.
53:09
Speaker 1: A week later.
53:09
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Bro, it's almost 14. It's almost second week.
53:12
Speaker 1: Second week.
53:13
Speaker 2: It's almost. That's crazy.
53:15
Speaker 1: Crazy.
53:15
Speaker 2: Thank you for all the love. Of course, man.
53:18
Speaker 1: Look, I appreciate you, man. You are one of the legends.
53:21
Speaker 2: Thank you.
53:22
Speaker 1: Salute to Joe Coy. Go support him, man. Thanks for
53:24
Speaker 1: finally making it over here, man. Yes, sir.
53:26
Speaker 2: Love you, bro.
53:27
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