Extra, extra! This episode has extras! As it turns out Yoel and I have something in common: we were both extras on TV and in movies! Yoel and I discuss everything from Legos to Communism in this easy-to-listen-to chat. Yoel and I work together at a certain Austin comedy club. He goes up on stage and has some seriously hilarious stories when he performs. The best part is he brings that fun sense of humor to the podcast. So grab an Arizona green tea or Sunny D, and come sit down for a cool, refreshing, hilarious conversation! Thanks for coming on the show, Yoel! - Trey
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:54 Only bombs Like if you want some water got you
00:00:54 --> 00:00:57 some water there. Thank you, sir Yeah, no drinks
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00:01:02 --> 00:01:05 I need to wear that better because I always because
00:01:05 --> 00:01:08 that does happen like, you know question like
00:01:08 --> 00:01:09 people see it and they're like, oh, okay, I can't
00:01:09 --> 00:01:12 put Drinks on like I think it's good side. It
00:01:12 --> 00:01:16 gives people a little like that gives them something
00:01:16 --> 00:01:20 to like look at and Ponder on for a second when
00:01:20 --> 00:01:21 you sit down here. You're like, oh damn like
00:01:21 --> 00:01:24 I got us I got a entertain now. Yeah, maybe I
00:01:24 --> 00:01:27 can make it like a haiku. That's a good idea.
00:01:27 --> 00:01:30 Yeah, make it kind of like poetic. No drinks
00:01:30 --> 00:01:37 this side table. Oh, fuck. This side table drinks
00:01:37 --> 00:01:41 forbidden. Yep, there you go. Forever. I think
00:01:41 --> 00:01:43 was it five, seven, five, I guess is a haiku.
00:01:43 --> 00:01:47 Five, seven, five. Yeah, I wasn't trying. Do
00:01:47 --> 00:01:49 you have any like kind of talents or like any
00:01:49 --> 00:01:51 kind of any kind of hobbies or anything that
00:01:51 --> 00:01:55 you like to do? I don't know, build Legos, I
00:01:55 --> 00:01:57 guess. You like to build Legos? Yeah, I'm big
00:01:57 --> 00:02:00 into Legos. Dude, I'm just getting into that.
00:02:00 --> 00:02:03 Yeah, yeah. So much fun. Did you have like a,
00:02:03 --> 00:02:05 what's like your most challenging set of Legos?
00:02:06 --> 00:02:08 Probably from when I was younger. Cause when
00:02:08 --> 00:02:10 I was younger, like I would, you know, as a kid,
00:02:10 --> 00:02:13 I would like ask my mom to like get me like expensive
00:02:13 --> 00:02:15 sets as like, you know, like I don't want, I
00:02:15 --> 00:02:17 don't want nice clothes. I don't want like a
00:02:17 --> 00:02:20 new phone. I want Legos. Now as an adult, like
00:02:20 --> 00:02:22 I can't justify spending that kind of money.
00:02:22 --> 00:02:25 So I don't, I don't like build cool stuff anymore,
00:02:25 --> 00:02:28 but it's like, I also don't want to spend an
00:02:28 --> 00:02:30 entire day building Legos as an adult. I just
00:02:30 --> 00:02:32 want to like do it for like a couple of hours
00:02:32 --> 00:02:35 in an afternoon. You got like little, like a
00:02:35 --> 00:02:38 flower pot set or like a picture frame set, you
00:02:38 --> 00:02:41 know, just something a little more mature. Yeah.
00:02:41 --> 00:02:45 I didn't realize the, I guess like how intricate
00:02:45 --> 00:02:50 they've gotten. Nowadays with Legos, until my
00:02:50 --> 00:02:53 son, he wanted like the Bronco, the Lego Bronco.
00:02:54 --> 00:02:56 That's an adult Lego set. Yeah, I didn't know
00:02:56 --> 00:03:00 that. So he's seven. So I get this Lego set for
00:03:00 --> 00:03:04 him and I'm thinking that, you know, okay, we'll
00:03:04 --> 00:03:06 have it done, you know, and quickly like in a
00:03:06 --> 00:03:09 few hours, that kind of thing. No, dude, like
00:03:09 --> 00:03:11 it would take four hours and I think all we got
00:03:11 --> 00:03:14 was like a little part of like the engine Yeah,
00:03:14 --> 00:03:16 I did I had no freaking clue and then I told
00:03:16 --> 00:03:20 Paul Paul's a dude we work with They don't pull
00:03:20 --> 00:03:22 shout out Paul. Hell. Yeah, and I told Paul I
00:03:22 --> 00:03:25 was like, dude, uh, I You know, I told him kind
00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 of the same thing and he goes he's like, well
00:03:27 --> 00:03:29 how many pieces are in it? And I was like, oh,
00:03:29 --> 00:03:34 I didn't even look The box is pretty big Yeah,
00:03:34 --> 00:03:36 the box is pretty big and stuff. There you go.
00:03:36 --> 00:03:38 That tells you everything. You got a big Lego
00:03:38 --> 00:03:40 box. That's an entire day's worth. I'm sure that
00:03:40 --> 00:03:43 was like $100. They're pretty expensive. Yeah,
00:03:44 --> 00:03:46 it was on sale, I think. But it was very expensive,
00:03:46 --> 00:03:49 though. I think it was like $70 or $80, you know?
00:03:50 --> 00:03:53 I like the Shoplift Lego minifigures. You ever,
00:03:53 --> 00:03:56 you know about those? No, what's that? So Lego,
00:03:57 --> 00:03:58 they make these like collectibles where it's
00:03:58 --> 00:04:00 like there's like different lines of them. They're
00:04:00 --> 00:04:02 like themed. And then it's just like, you know,
00:04:02 --> 00:04:04 the little guys that come with the sets. Yeah.
00:04:04 --> 00:04:07 So you could like for like three or four bucks,
00:04:07 --> 00:04:08 buy like a little one. And it's like a mystery.
00:04:08 --> 00:04:11 You don't know which one it's going to be. And,
00:04:11 --> 00:04:12 you know, like every time you see when you buy
00:04:12 --> 00:04:14 one, you're like, oh, damn, I got the dinosaur
00:04:14 --> 00:04:16 again. I already have two of them. It's like
00:04:16 --> 00:04:18 a happy meal. Yeah. It's like a little toy you
00:04:18 --> 00:04:20 get yourself. And that's exactly it. You know,
00:04:20 --> 00:04:22 go to Wal -Mart, get myself a little happy meal
00:04:22 --> 00:04:28 toy. Yeah. Lego can afford it. They can survive
00:04:28 --> 00:04:32 a couple of missing minifigures. Yeah. Especially
00:04:32 --> 00:04:36 if it's from Walmart or something. They don't
00:04:36 --> 00:04:42 need money. I would never steal it from a B &O.
00:04:44 --> 00:04:50 Superman comics. Like a comic book store that
00:04:50 --> 00:04:52 sells Lego. I wouldn't do it from there. Sure,
00:04:52 --> 00:04:55 yeah. But like, but yeah, we got to heist Wal
00:04:55 --> 00:04:57 -Mart, you know? Yeah, there was actually the
00:04:57 --> 00:04:59 last time that I did it, I was on Wal -Mart and
00:04:59 --> 00:05:01 there was like a there was like a new guy that
00:05:01 --> 00:05:03 you could tell it was like clearly like he just
00:05:03 --> 00:05:08 started working there. And he like he like ran
00:05:08 --> 00:05:10 into me like when I was like looking for something,
00:05:10 --> 00:05:11 he's like, oh, I'm so sorry, sir. And I like
00:05:11 --> 00:05:13 for a second, I was like, what the hell's wrong
00:05:13 --> 00:05:15 with that guy? And then I'm like, whatever, he's
00:05:15 --> 00:05:16 probably he's probably got something going on,
00:05:17 --> 00:05:21 you know. Right. And then I like, I just overhear
00:05:21 --> 00:05:23 like what it seems like one of the Walmart managers
00:05:23 --> 00:05:24 just like talking to the walkie talkie, just
00:05:24 --> 00:05:28 like, yeah, he's just walking around. We need
00:05:28 --> 00:05:30 to make him do something. He's literally just
00:05:30 --> 00:05:36 walking around. Hey, Bill's not, he's starting
00:05:36 --> 00:05:39 to color again. He's like, he's in the sketch
00:05:39 --> 00:05:42 aisle just sketching again. Well, Walmart's very
00:05:42 --> 00:05:46 inclusive. They'll hire anyone. They really,
00:05:46 --> 00:05:48 really will, dude. And it's like, I wonder what
00:05:48 --> 00:05:50 the stalkers are like. I wonder if the stalkers
00:05:50 --> 00:05:52 are like the people who are just completely not
00:05:52 --> 00:05:55 social at all. Do you ever find that? You would
00:05:55 --> 00:05:57 think, but I feel like usually when you see a
00:05:57 --> 00:06:00 stalker, they look like the most... They look
00:06:00 --> 00:06:02 pretty competent, right? Because you see them
00:06:02 --> 00:06:04 moving fast, they know where everything's going.
00:06:04 --> 00:06:07 Yeah, they're the big dogs. Like, they... Every
00:06:07 --> 00:06:09 time I need something, I'll go to those guys
00:06:09 --> 00:06:11 and they'll be like... Yeah, it's on aisle three.
00:06:11 --> 00:06:13 Yeah, because they put everything down and then
00:06:13 --> 00:06:16 you go to like the lady in the bakery and she's
00:06:16 --> 00:06:18 gonna be like, I'm a bakery girl. I don't know.
00:06:19 --> 00:06:24 I'm a bakery girl. I never go to the TVs. How
00:06:24 --> 00:06:29 big is 50 inches? 50, right? Yeah, just say when.
00:06:29 --> 00:06:33 50 slides. Yeah, exactly. Dude, when when I was
00:06:33 --> 00:06:36 in France, me and my girlfriend went into this
00:06:36 --> 00:06:39 Lego. It was a grand opening of this, like, French
00:06:39 --> 00:06:42 Lego store. And she wanted to get some, like,
00:06:42 --> 00:06:44 souvenirs for her family. And it was literally,
00:06:44 --> 00:06:47 like, this guy, it was his first day setting
00:06:47 --> 00:06:49 it up, dude. And I went in there, and I guess
00:06:49 --> 00:06:53 we'd just eaten. And, like, you know how you
00:06:53 --> 00:06:55 think you're gonna have, like, a silent fart?
00:06:56 --> 00:06:59 Dude, I fucking farted. The grand opening? The
00:06:59 --> 00:07:01 grand opening, dude. Of a French Lego store.
00:07:01 --> 00:07:03 Of a French Lego store. And I farted fucking
00:07:03 --> 00:07:06 loud. And my girlfriend, like, shot those eyes
00:07:06 --> 00:07:09 at me. She was like, are you fucking kidding
00:07:09 --> 00:07:12 me? There was like, so. Right, because you're,
00:07:12 --> 00:07:14 oh no, you're the one that likes Legos. Does
00:07:14 --> 00:07:17 your girlfriend like Legos? No. Okay, okay. No.
00:07:17 --> 00:07:19 I was like, oh, you ruined it for her. She was
00:07:19 --> 00:07:21 probably looking forward to that. No, she was
00:07:21 --> 00:07:24 trying to get her dad, her dad, you know, like
00:07:24 --> 00:07:26 a Lego set kind of thing. Like just a little
00:07:26 --> 00:07:28 something from, you know, from France, because
00:07:28 --> 00:07:30 it's cool. And the owner was actually helping
00:07:30 --> 00:07:33 out somebody. And, uh, and they were speaking
00:07:33 --> 00:07:34 in French. I don't know what they were saying,
00:07:34 --> 00:07:36 but he was, I guess, explaining, you know, what
00:07:36 --> 00:07:41 the Legos were. And then all of a sudden. And
00:07:41 --> 00:07:43 dude, it was bad. That's crazy. You could probably
00:07:43 --> 00:07:45 smell it through the cigarette smoke inside of
00:07:45 --> 00:07:48 the Lego store. They're smoking inside of the
00:07:48 --> 00:07:50 Lego store in France, right? I mean, they weren't
00:07:50 --> 00:07:53 there, but, you know, that's what I imagine.
00:07:53 --> 00:07:55 There's like a little smoker section that's like
00:07:55 --> 00:07:58 it's like made out of Legos inside the Lego store.
00:07:58 --> 00:08:02 Lego ashtray, like a French Lego ashtray. Little
00:08:02 --> 00:08:04 Lego art of like a cigarette on the wall. Right.
00:08:04 --> 00:08:08 Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah, that's it. I love like
00:08:08 --> 00:08:10 I love how we just piece that all together and
00:08:10 --> 00:08:14 everything But so dude just to get everybody
00:08:14 --> 00:08:17 familiar with who you are like what uh, so where
00:08:17 --> 00:08:20 you from man? I'm from Miami. I was born in Cuba,
00:08:20 --> 00:08:24 but uh, whoa, no shit. Yeah, so I'm like zero
00:08:24 --> 00:08:26 I'm not even first generation. I'm like generation
00:08:26 --> 00:08:29 zero Really? Right cuz first generation is like
00:08:29 --> 00:08:30 your parents were born in that country, right?
00:08:31 --> 00:08:33 Mm -hmm. So that's me. So my kids are gonna be
00:08:33 --> 00:08:38 first generation. Oh I my family moved to Miami
00:08:38 --> 00:08:40 when I was really, really young, like before
00:08:40 --> 00:08:43 I even started school. So, you know, I was raised
00:08:43 --> 00:08:49 pretty much American. But yeah, I I've always
00:08:49 --> 00:08:52 been into entertainment. You know, when I was
00:08:52 --> 00:08:54 like in high school, I got into acting. I thought
00:08:54 --> 00:08:56 that's what I was going to do. You know, I like
00:08:56 --> 00:08:59 I used to do extra work. I've like, you know,
00:08:59 --> 00:09:01 just been like on the background, like TV shows
00:09:01 --> 00:09:03 and movies and stuff like that. Oh, nice. I thought
00:09:03 --> 00:09:05 that's what I was going to pursue. Then I just
00:09:05 --> 00:09:07 kind of like, you know, fell to the wayside with
00:09:07 --> 00:09:10 that, completely like lost the love for that.
00:09:11 --> 00:09:15 And I just got sick of like working like, you
00:09:15 --> 00:09:17 know, just shitty jobs. I worked in hotels for
00:09:17 --> 00:09:19 a few years in Miami. So it's just like, you
00:09:19 --> 00:09:22 know, kissing ass customer service, like the
00:09:22 --> 00:09:26 the most like disingenuous, like, yes, sir, step
00:09:26 --> 00:09:28 all over me type of customer service that you
00:09:28 --> 00:09:31 can do for like three years straight. Yeah. And
00:09:31 --> 00:09:33 one day I finally got frustrated and my mom would
00:09:33 --> 00:09:35 always tell me, like to inspire me, she would
00:09:35 --> 00:09:37 always tell me, like, you got to knock on doors.
00:09:37 --> 00:09:39 That's like what this person did, what that person
00:09:39 --> 00:09:41 did that's famous. You got to knock on doors.
00:09:41 --> 00:09:42 That's the only way you're going to make it.
00:09:42 --> 00:09:45 And I would always be like, as I work, I can't
00:09:45 --> 00:09:47 knock on someone's door and be like, hey, hire
00:09:47 --> 00:09:49 me for something. Right. But then I actually
00:09:49 --> 00:09:51 thought about it and I was like, you know what,
00:09:51 --> 00:09:54 there's a comedy club in Miami. That'd be pretty
00:09:54 --> 00:09:57 fun. You know, I've always thought about doing
00:09:57 --> 00:09:59 comedy, but you know, maybe that's an easier
00:09:59 --> 00:10:02 entry than like something like acting. And I
00:10:02 --> 00:10:05 got a job there, became friends with like the
00:10:05 --> 00:10:07 comics there. They took me out to the open mics
00:10:07 --> 00:10:10 and, you know, it was obvious like comedy is
00:10:10 --> 00:10:13 a way more appealing thing to pursue than something
00:10:13 --> 00:10:16 like acting. Wow, there's more art behind it
00:10:16 --> 00:10:18 and it feels like you know, it's a solo sport
00:10:18 --> 00:10:20 so it's like you can kind of be responsible for
00:10:20 --> 00:10:23 your success somehow instead of like Waiting
00:10:23 --> 00:10:26 to be picked by someone, you know, right, right.
00:10:26 --> 00:10:31 So when you when you did comedy in Miami Like
00:10:31 --> 00:10:33 when you first got up there, what was kind of
00:10:33 --> 00:10:36 something that you noticed? Was there something
00:10:36 --> 00:10:38 different, obviously, from being an extra in
00:10:38 --> 00:10:43 movies and stuff? Definitely, more camaraderie
00:10:43 --> 00:10:47 for sure. When you go to any production, you
00:10:47 --> 00:10:49 might become friends with the other extras and
00:10:49 --> 00:10:51 stuff like that, but you're not going to become
00:10:51 --> 00:10:53 friends with the actors that are casted on the
00:10:53 --> 00:10:59 show. There isn't an energy that's being shared
00:10:59 --> 00:11:01 by the people working there. We're like, hey,
00:11:01 --> 00:11:02 we're all doing this together and we're having
00:11:02 --> 00:11:07 fun. Acting is kind of, um, I don't know. You
00:11:07 --> 00:11:09 just, you don't really make friends. You make
00:11:09 --> 00:11:11 associates and then like, you kind of benefit
00:11:11 --> 00:11:14 from being associates with each other. You might
00:11:14 --> 00:11:15 be friends, but you're, you don't, you don't
00:11:15 --> 00:11:17 really hang out or anything. You know what I
00:11:17 --> 00:11:20 mean? Right. And then I got into comedy and it
00:11:20 --> 00:11:21 was like, you know, I went out there because
00:11:21 --> 00:11:23 some friends took me out there. But then like
00:11:23 --> 00:11:25 from my first night going to an open mic, it's
00:11:25 --> 00:11:27 like, oh, there's all these people that I'm meeting
00:11:27 --> 00:11:30 and I'm going to become friends with. And I did
00:11:30 --> 00:11:32 become friends with, and it's like. There's just,
00:11:32 --> 00:11:34 you know, there's community in comedy. That's
00:11:34 --> 00:11:36 something that doesn't exist in acting. Acting
00:11:36 --> 00:11:39 is like, even though comedy is more of a solo
00:11:39 --> 00:11:42 sport, like boxing, I think acting feels like
00:11:42 --> 00:11:45 you have a solo career, where like, with comedy,
00:11:45 --> 00:11:47 you can almost feel like there's a team that
00:11:47 --> 00:11:48 you came up with, which is like the guys that
00:11:48 --> 00:11:50 you started with, you know what I mean? Yeah,
00:11:50 --> 00:11:54 yeah. Did you have any movies that were like
00:11:54 --> 00:11:56 notable that you were in, or was it like kind
00:11:56 --> 00:11:59 of smaller productions? For like a split second,
00:11:59 --> 00:12:01 I'm in this movie called... Critical Thinking,
00:12:02 --> 00:12:06 it's a John Leguizamo movie. Oh, no shit. He's
00:12:06 --> 00:12:08 he's just like I think it's a remake from like
00:12:08 --> 00:12:11 the 80s or 70s, but it's a it's about just like
00:12:11 --> 00:12:14 a troubled group of teens and like a like a school
00:12:14 --> 00:12:17 that's like, you know, less privileged and he
00:12:17 --> 00:12:19 just like takes them and like tries to inspire
00:12:19 --> 00:12:22 them to like be better and shit. Oh, cool. That's
00:12:22 --> 00:12:23 like the whole general plot. I was in there for
00:12:23 --> 00:12:26 like a split second. I actually. accidentally
00:12:26 --> 00:12:28 got booked on that because they were only supposed
00:12:28 --> 00:12:30 to book people who are over 18 and I was still
00:12:30 --> 00:12:33 a minor. And there was only me and one other
00:12:33 --> 00:12:35 girl that were minors that were booked for that.
00:12:36 --> 00:12:39 And we were supposed to get paid like, I think
00:12:39 --> 00:12:42 it was like 400 bucks a day and it was going
00:12:42 --> 00:12:44 to be like 15 days of filming. So that was going
00:12:44 --> 00:12:47 to be like the best money I had made for acting.
00:12:48 --> 00:12:50 And I only got to do one shoot one day because
00:12:50 --> 00:12:52 they were like, oh, yeah, like, like we can't
00:12:52 --> 00:12:55 have minors. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that sucks.
00:12:55 --> 00:12:57 So I'm only here for like a split second. I know
00:12:57 --> 00:12:59 what that's like. I was in Final Destination
00:12:59 --> 00:13:05 4. Oh, that's so cool. Hell yeah. Yeah. I mean,
00:13:05 --> 00:13:08 I haven't seen it, but what part of the movie,
00:13:08 --> 00:13:09 because, you know, Final Destination, everyone
00:13:09 --> 00:13:11 kind of knows what that's like. Yeah. Yeah. I
00:13:11 --> 00:13:14 was in two different scenes. I was in one scene
00:13:14 --> 00:13:17 that I was in was the, I guess, like the scene
00:13:17 --> 00:13:21 where the racetrack, where, you know, the tires,
00:13:21 --> 00:13:24 I guess, fly into the... the thing I was like
00:13:24 --> 00:13:27 one of the extras in on the racetrack. And then,
00:13:27 --> 00:13:30 um, ironically, I was also in the scene, the
00:13:30 --> 00:13:33 funeral scene for the people who died at the
00:13:33 --> 00:13:36 racetrack. Yeah. At the racetrack. So it was
00:13:36 --> 00:13:37 a, it was kind of funny. That's funny. So like,
00:13:38 --> 00:13:39 canonically, your character is probably related
00:13:39 --> 00:13:41 to someone that passed away. Probably. Like you're
00:13:41 --> 00:13:43 some way involved. You're in an in -law or something.
00:13:44 --> 00:13:46 Yeah. You did, you can't even see me. And I actually
00:13:46 --> 00:13:48 went to makeup and everything and you can't even
00:13:48 --> 00:13:50 see me. Isn't it crazy how, yeah, because like
00:13:50 --> 00:13:54 when I did extra work too, like, dude, it's they'll
00:13:54 --> 00:13:56 pay you like a hundred dollars. So it's like,
00:13:56 --> 00:13:58 you know, it's not like a lot of money either,
00:13:58 --> 00:14:01 but like, you'll be getting paid only a hundred
00:14:01 --> 00:14:03 bucks and they'll still like fucking dedicate
00:14:03 --> 00:14:05 like an entire half an hour to making you look
00:14:05 --> 00:14:09 good in a little trailer. Isn't that nuts? Yeah.
00:14:09 --> 00:14:10 They put like, they put all this like makeup
00:14:10 --> 00:14:12 on me and everything. And I didn't know like
00:14:12 --> 00:14:13 what the hell they were doing. And I was like,
00:14:14 --> 00:14:15 you know, and dude, you don't even see me. Like
00:14:15 --> 00:14:19 you see the back of my head. Yeah. Did anyone
00:14:19 --> 00:14:21 recognize the back of your head? Did you get
00:14:21 --> 00:14:24 anyone being like, Hey, I think that if you saw
00:14:24 --> 00:14:28 me, you'd be like, okay, I can believe that it's
00:14:28 --> 00:14:30 you. You can kind of see, I believe that it's
00:14:30 --> 00:14:33 you. Have you gotten to do anything where someone's
00:14:33 --> 00:14:37 been like, yo, I saw you on this? So this show
00:14:37 --> 00:14:41 called K -Ville. K -Ville? Yeah. And K -Ville,
00:14:42 --> 00:14:44 so very short -lived show, but the premise of
00:14:44 --> 00:14:48 that show was it was after Katrina. Right. And
00:14:48 --> 00:14:51 it was these cops that it was like a cop, like
00:14:51 --> 00:14:52 a buddy cop kind of drama kind of thing. Like
00:14:52 --> 00:14:56 a sitcom or like a drama comedy? No, not even
00:14:56 --> 00:14:58 a comedy, which is funny because it had Anthony
00:14:58 --> 00:15:01 Anderson in it. It had no funny? Yeah, and it
00:15:01 --> 00:15:04 wasn't really funny. It was more like Bad Boys,
00:15:04 --> 00:15:08 right? And it had Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser
00:15:08 --> 00:15:11 in it, the guy who plays as Rip from Yellowstone.
00:15:11 --> 00:15:15 Okay. Yeah, so he was he was in it and so I did
00:15:15 --> 00:15:17 I did a lot I did like that is an interesting
00:15:17 --> 00:15:21 pairing them too. Yeah, it really is, you know
00:15:21 --> 00:15:25 Cuz cuz Cole Hauser is Cole Hauser, you know,
00:15:25 --> 00:15:28 and then Anthony Anderson is Anthony Anderson.
00:15:28 --> 00:15:31 It's kangaroo Jack. It's kangaroo Jack And I
00:15:31 --> 00:15:34 love this dude, but there's a scene like where
00:15:34 --> 00:15:37 you ever seen like a hospital scene where like
00:15:37 --> 00:15:41 like the EMTs Oh, look, and I'm an EMT now. But
00:15:41 --> 00:15:43 yeah, the EMTs like bust through the doors and
00:15:43 --> 00:15:45 the doors like fly open and stuff. I did one
00:15:45 --> 00:15:48 of those scenes. Oh, cool. And so you see me
00:15:48 --> 00:15:52 very well. As an EMT? Well, EMT on the show.
00:15:52 --> 00:15:55 Right, you weren't an EMT. No, I wasn't an EMT
00:15:55 --> 00:15:56 then. But that's what you were like when you
00:15:56 --> 00:15:59 busted through the door. Yeah, yeah. But we had
00:15:59 --> 00:16:02 to do that scene and I had to push the gurney.
00:16:02 --> 00:16:05 through with one of the other actors from the
00:16:05 --> 00:16:07 show he was on it and I had to push the gurney
00:16:07 --> 00:16:10 through with another guy and so we go to push
00:16:10 --> 00:16:13 the gurney and the gurney doesn't move and At
00:16:13 --> 00:16:15 the time I was like, I don't know anything about
00:16:15 --> 00:16:16 stretchers. I don't know anything about that
00:16:16 --> 00:16:18 shit, right? And so I try to push it it wasn't
00:16:18 --> 00:16:20 moving and so the director yelled cut and they
00:16:20 --> 00:16:22 opened up the doors all the cameras and everything
00:16:22 --> 00:16:25 and then and the director was like what the hell
00:16:25 --> 00:16:28 is going on and Anthony Anderson starts laughing
00:16:28 --> 00:16:30 and I look and his hand is like this He was holding
00:16:30 --> 00:16:33 the fucking gurney. I didn't catch it. And I
00:16:33 --> 00:16:36 was like, bro, they're going to fire one of us,
00:16:36 --> 00:16:42 and it's not you. But that was cool. And so we
00:16:42 --> 00:16:45 did that a few times and stuff. But oddly enough,
00:16:46 --> 00:16:48 I don't think it ever made the episode, but it
00:16:48 --> 00:16:52 made the intro. Oh, of the show? Of the show.
00:16:52 --> 00:16:55 That's cool. Yeah. Like the theme song of the
00:16:55 --> 00:16:58 show? Oh, I see. I see how that is confusing.
00:16:58 --> 00:16:59 Or you mean the intro of that episode, like the
00:16:59 --> 00:17:02 cold opening? Like, when they went, like, previously
00:17:02 --> 00:17:06 on K -Ville. Oh, okay. Dude, I've watched the
00:17:06 --> 00:17:08 episode, and it was never on there, but it was
00:17:08 --> 00:17:11 on the previously on K -Ville. That's not that
00:17:11 --> 00:17:13 crazy. You see that all the time. Yeah. When
00:17:13 --> 00:17:16 they recap it, they'll use, like, a different
00:17:16 --> 00:17:18 shot that's more concise or something like that.
00:17:18 --> 00:17:21 Or, you know, when they'll, like, they'll play,
00:17:21 --> 00:17:23 like, a clip for the next episode, you'll see
00:17:23 --> 00:17:25 the clip on the episode, and it's like... The
00:17:25 --> 00:17:26 one from the episode is way different because
00:17:26 --> 00:17:28 they didn't want to spoil it. So they played
00:17:28 --> 00:17:32 like a different cut. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it was
00:17:32 --> 00:17:33 kind of strange, but that was like, that was
00:17:33 --> 00:17:35 my thing. And then after that, you know, I went
00:17:35 --> 00:17:39 to radio really, and then just did radio for
00:17:39 --> 00:17:42 a while. Classic face for radio. Sorry. Oh yeah.
00:17:43 --> 00:17:46 I thought about getting into radio for a while.
00:17:46 --> 00:17:48 Uh, but the, the bet, the bet, the biggest thing
00:17:48 --> 00:17:50 that I've been able to do where like people recognize
00:17:50 --> 00:17:53 me was a Sunny D commercial. A Sunny D commercial?
00:17:53 --> 00:17:55 Yeah. No way. In high school I did like the Sunny
00:17:55 --> 00:17:57 D commercial. I think they were trying to do
00:17:57 --> 00:18:00 like a big like a ad campaign that's like, hey
00:18:00 --> 00:18:02 kids don't really drink Sunny D anymore, let's
00:18:02 --> 00:18:05 make it popular again. And they like put it all
00:18:05 --> 00:18:07 over Nickelodeon. They put it like all over Instagram
00:18:07 --> 00:18:10 and shit. No way. It's like, you know, I show
00:18:10 --> 00:18:12 up in the commercial for like a second. but it's
00:18:12 --> 00:18:14 like I'm a bully in the commercial and it's like
00:18:14 --> 00:18:17 I have two other bullies with me like my little
00:18:17 --> 00:18:18 henchmen bullies and I'm like the main bully.
00:18:19 --> 00:18:21 No way. I'm like bullying this kid but then he
00:18:21 --> 00:18:24 like dances so cool that I'm like damn Sonny
00:18:24 --> 00:18:29 D like makes nerds cool. That was like my role
00:18:29 --> 00:18:32 in the commercial. That's like the only thing
00:18:32 --> 00:18:34 I've done. We're like, you know, it was all over
00:18:34 --> 00:18:35 history I'm so just like everyone in my school.
00:18:35 --> 00:18:37 I was in high school Everyone in my yeah started
00:18:37 --> 00:18:39 sending it to me. They're like what the fuck
00:18:39 --> 00:18:45 Did you tell anybody Like, no. I mean, I never
00:18:45 --> 00:18:47 expected it to be like a thing like that. You
00:18:47 --> 00:18:48 know, I figured like, oh, maybe I could search
00:18:48 --> 00:18:50 it up after it comes out. But I didn't think
00:18:50 --> 00:18:53 it would be like out in place. You know what
00:18:53 --> 00:18:55 I mean? And it was literally like everybody had
00:18:55 --> 00:18:57 it on their Instagrams for like two months. Like
00:18:57 --> 00:19:00 it was, they pushed it so hard. Really? Yeah.
00:19:00 --> 00:19:02 That is, dude, that is so wild. I can't imagine
00:19:02 --> 00:19:04 just like sitting there and just like flipping
00:19:04 --> 00:19:06 through the channels and it'd be like, dude,
00:19:06 --> 00:19:09 that's UL, bro. Like, what the fuck? He's a bully
00:19:09 --> 00:19:14 on a fucking Sunday. I was like, dude, drink
00:19:14 --> 00:19:17 Sunny D. Dude, he's going to kick my ass, dude.
00:19:17 --> 00:19:20 It was funny. I also got like kind of, you know,
00:19:20 --> 00:19:21 just because it was like the coolest thing I
00:19:21 --> 00:19:23 had gotten to do, I was like, oh, I'm like part
00:19:23 --> 00:19:26 of Sunny D now. I'm like a Sunny. I'm a Sunny
00:19:26 --> 00:19:29 D guy now. As if I was a brand ambassador. I
00:19:29 --> 00:19:32 just got into it. I started looking at old Sunny
00:19:32 --> 00:19:35 D commercials, and there's that super popular
00:19:35 --> 00:19:38 one where the dude just opens the fridge and
00:19:38 --> 00:19:43 is like, we got, I see we got purple stuff. Yeah,
00:19:43 --> 00:19:45 dude. I remember Chappelle talking about that.
00:19:45 --> 00:19:50 He's like, oh, we got that Sunny D, yeah. I thought
00:19:50 --> 00:19:51 that shit was, this was before I was into comedy,
00:19:51 --> 00:19:54 but it was just like. Whenever I talked about
00:19:54 --> 00:19:55 the commercial I found the way to like bring
00:19:55 --> 00:19:58 that up dude. I have you ever seen the original
00:19:58 --> 00:20:02 Yeah, I remade this commercial Dude, yeah, that
00:20:02 --> 00:20:05 is fucking cool though, man. Like for real something
00:20:05 --> 00:20:07 there now if I ever like when I'm in the grocery
00:20:07 --> 00:20:10 store and I see something he did I'll grab it
00:20:10 --> 00:20:13 just like call my government babe. Look Right?
00:20:13 --> 00:20:15 Hey, remember this? Like, you know, what's up,
00:20:16 --> 00:20:18 babe? Look, the Sonny D guy's holding the Sonny
00:20:18 --> 00:20:21 D ball. Dude, that is awesome. I need to find
00:20:21 --> 00:20:23 that commercial, dude. I need to buy some Sonny
00:20:23 --> 00:20:27 D clothing. Yeah, right? Just start repping it.
00:20:27 --> 00:20:30 Dude, I want to get Arizona green tea. Yeah,
00:20:30 --> 00:20:32 yeah. Oh, dude, there was a meme or something
00:20:32 --> 00:20:36 about an old dude wearing an Arizona green tea
00:20:36 --> 00:20:40 track suit. Dude! No, I don't, but I want to
00:20:40 --> 00:20:43 get one. I'm like so mad. I've been trying to
00:20:43 --> 00:20:45 find one, but they never have it in my size.
00:20:46 --> 00:20:48 You want that because it attracts it? That is
00:20:48 --> 00:20:51 cool. I look like an Arizona can? I don't know
00:20:51 --> 00:20:53 what the fuck it is, dude, but I love Arizona
00:20:53 --> 00:20:55 green tea. Like, bad. I've literally thrown it
00:20:55 --> 00:20:58 into some of my intros, and I know people are
00:20:58 --> 00:21:01 like, what the fuck is that about? What, you
00:21:01 --> 00:21:04 just throw that you love it into the intro? Dude,
00:21:04 --> 00:21:06 I'll just throw a random can. Oh, your can's
00:21:06 --> 00:21:09 just there? Kansas there. You're right, setting
00:21:09 --> 00:21:11 the vibe like, welcome to the podcast. We drink
00:21:11 --> 00:21:15 Arizona. Yeah, right? Dude, yeah. There's been
00:21:15 --> 00:21:17 a lot of Arizona green tea product placement
00:21:17 --> 00:21:20 in my episodes. That's good, dude. They deserve
00:21:20 --> 00:21:23 product placement. The CEO for Arizona is one
00:21:23 --> 00:21:25 of those cool CEOs that's like, no, I'm not changing
00:21:25 --> 00:21:27 the price. I'm keeping it at 99 cents. Right,
00:21:27 --> 00:21:30 and then they upcharge it all the time. Right,
00:21:30 --> 00:21:32 that's not fair. The sons of bitches. But it's
00:21:32 --> 00:21:37 not, yeah, you're right. I don't know. Corporations.
00:21:38 --> 00:21:41 No, I was trying to remember that fucking country
00:21:41 --> 00:21:43 in Asia that's having a civil war right now.
00:21:44 --> 00:21:47 There's a, is it Nepal? Is Nepal having a civil
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 war right now? I have no idea. There's a, there's
00:21:50 --> 00:21:51 this country in Asia that's like, they're going
00:21:51 --> 00:21:54 through a civil war right now. And like every
00:21:54 --> 00:21:56 single gas station here in Austin has one of
00:21:56 --> 00:22:00 them working on it in the gas station. Wait,
00:22:00 --> 00:22:02 wait, wait. They have everybody, somebody working
00:22:02 --> 00:22:04 in the gas station from the Civil War? From this
00:22:04 --> 00:22:07 country that's having the Civil War. Really?
00:22:07 --> 00:22:11 I think it's Nepal. Nepal? Nepalese? The Nepalese
00:22:11 --> 00:22:14 people? Dang. They're kind of like darker looking
00:22:14 --> 00:22:16 Asians and every time I see them, when I first
00:22:16 --> 00:22:18 got here, I would think they're Hispanic. So
00:22:18 --> 00:22:19 I would talk to them in Spanish and be like,
00:22:19 --> 00:22:20 hey, where are you from? And they would just
00:22:20 --> 00:22:24 be like, oh, okay. Dude. Oh my God. That's also
00:22:24 --> 00:22:28 freaking hilarious, man. I saw the, so. my girlfriend
00:22:28 --> 00:22:31 and I, we had like an 11 mile hike, right? And
00:22:31 --> 00:22:34 we finished the 11 mile hike. And this is in
00:22:34 --> 00:22:38 Europe. Yeah. And then they had, I guess, like
00:22:38 --> 00:22:41 some Nepalese guys who were working at this refuge
00:22:41 --> 00:22:43 that we were going to be stopping at and everything.
00:22:45 --> 00:22:47 And, you know, I just started talking to them,
00:22:47 --> 00:22:49 asking them about, you know, like, you know,
00:22:49 --> 00:22:52 hiking and, I told one of the dudes, basically,
00:22:52 --> 00:22:54 I was like, oh yeah, man, I really want to coke.
00:22:54 --> 00:22:56 And he's like, oh, you want to coke? It's probably
00:22:56 --> 00:22:59 because you're fat, huh? And then he walked off.
00:23:00 --> 00:23:03 And then I was just like, I just walked 11 fucking
00:23:03 --> 00:23:07 miles, dude. Like, fuck you if I want to coke.
00:23:07 --> 00:23:10 Was that, that was definitely like the, the type
00:23:10 --> 00:23:12 of Finnish thing where people from Finland don't
00:23:12 --> 00:23:13 know how to make jokes or like they don't know
00:23:13 --> 00:23:16 that they sound rude type of thing, right? Dude,
00:23:16 --> 00:23:19 I think so. I think, I don't think he, what I
00:23:19 --> 00:23:21 think it was is I don't think he realized What
00:23:21 --> 00:23:24 fat man is like, that's the way that I've decided
00:23:24 --> 00:23:29 to cope with it. Yeah. I thought that maybe he,
00:23:29 --> 00:23:31 he like. Maybe thought like, you know big and
00:23:31 --> 00:23:33 he was trying to say big is what I'm trying to
00:23:33 --> 00:23:37 maybe maybe cuz cuz look Hispanic women and older
00:23:37 --> 00:23:40 Hispanic ladies like aunties don't like oh gained
00:23:40 --> 00:23:44 weight fat fuck Now but they mean it like from
00:23:44 --> 00:23:46 a place of like you look like you're healthy
00:23:46 --> 00:23:49 like you're eating Well, this makes me happy
00:23:49 --> 00:23:51 as your relative that you're not skinny, you
00:23:51 --> 00:23:53 know what I mean? Okay, they do mean it as like
00:23:53 --> 00:23:55 it's it's nice. I'm happy that you're getting
00:23:55 --> 00:24:03 fat No, he meant fat. He meant fat as fuck. What
00:24:03 --> 00:24:08 country was it? I think it was Italy. Yeah, Italy
00:24:08 --> 00:24:11 has Coke, right? Coca -Cola. Yeah. And that's
00:24:11 --> 00:24:13 exactly... Because there's countries that don't
00:24:13 --> 00:24:15 sell Coke, like Cuba, where it's like if you
00:24:15 --> 00:24:16 ask for a Coke, they're going to be like, yeah,
00:24:16 --> 00:24:18 where the hell do you want me to get that from?
00:24:18 --> 00:24:20 Oh, really? When was the last time you've been
00:24:20 --> 00:24:24 back to Cuba? I was like 13. 13? Yeah. It's been
00:24:24 --> 00:24:30 like 14 years. 14, 15, yeah. How would you describe
00:24:30 --> 00:24:32 Cuba to somebody who doesn't really know anything
00:24:32 --> 00:24:35 about it? Just a third world. I think most people
00:24:35 --> 00:24:39 think Cuba is like, you know, just like a country
00:24:39 --> 00:24:42 somewhat similar to America, but they speak Spanish.
00:24:42 --> 00:24:44 Or maybe even if they don't think it's similar,
00:24:44 --> 00:24:47 they don't think it's like that far off. If you
00:24:47 --> 00:24:52 think there's AC in Cuba or medicine or like
00:24:52 --> 00:24:55 enough food for people to eat or toilet seats.
00:24:55 --> 00:25:02 Wow. Like in Cuba, there is no beef. There's
00:25:02 --> 00:25:05 no food in general. There's no medicine. And
00:25:05 --> 00:25:08 just like, you know, nobody has AC. Most houses
00:25:08 --> 00:25:11 are like huts, like not like made out of straw,
00:25:11 --> 00:25:12 but they're made out of like cement. And then
00:25:12 --> 00:25:14 the roofs are made out of like what we use to
00:25:14 --> 00:25:16 put over windows when we get a hurricane, like
00:25:16 --> 00:25:19 hurricane shutters. Yeah, that's what the roofs
00:25:19 --> 00:25:21 are made out of. You know what I mean? Oh, wow.
00:25:21 --> 00:25:23 And it's it's communism. So it's like apart from
00:25:23 --> 00:25:26 it just being not to make this super serious
00:25:26 --> 00:25:29 or anything or political, but. I'm very, very
00:25:29 --> 00:25:32 against communism. It's not a crazy thing for
00:25:32 --> 00:25:33 me to say. I'm not taking a political stance.
00:25:33 --> 00:25:36 I'm from Cuba. Sure. You're from a communist
00:25:36 --> 00:25:38 country. You're against communism. There seems
00:25:38 --> 00:25:40 to be a misconception for people that don't know
00:25:40 --> 00:25:42 what it is on the Internet. And it's insane.
00:25:42 --> 00:25:44 Well, what is a common misconception with? So
00:25:44 --> 00:25:47 I think people think that communism can be good
00:25:47 --> 00:25:50 and that people can live such simple lives where
00:25:50 --> 00:25:52 like your life is easy and enjoyable because
00:25:52 --> 00:25:55 you don't have to worry about things that in
00:25:55 --> 00:25:57 a more advanced country you have to worry about.
00:25:57 --> 00:26:00 And I'll say this, a simple life can be nice
00:26:00 --> 00:26:02 and it can be beautiful and it can be nicer than
00:26:02 --> 00:26:04 like, you know, a complicated life here in America,
00:26:04 --> 00:26:07 but it doesn't mean that it's good. Like I really
00:26:07 --> 00:26:08 shouldn't be arguing with people online, but
00:26:08 --> 00:26:10 I just went back and forth with some guy on a
00:26:10 --> 00:26:12 comment section the other day and he said that
00:26:12 --> 00:26:14 his mom would tell him stories about living in
00:26:14 --> 00:26:17 a communist country and how they would just eat
00:26:17 --> 00:26:19 fish and hang out and laugh. And it's like, yeah.
00:26:20 --> 00:26:22 In communist countries, you can't do anything.
00:26:22 --> 00:26:24 Like you can't just decide, hey, I have this
00:26:24 --> 00:26:26 goal for my life. I want to pursue that. Nobody
00:26:26 --> 00:26:29 has that freedom in a communist country. You
00:26:29 --> 00:26:32 get assigned roles. Like you can't just decide
00:26:32 --> 00:26:34 to pursue whatever career you want. They will
00:26:34 --> 00:26:36 tell you this is what your career will be. You
00:26:36 --> 00:26:38 can want to be a doctor and they'll make you
00:26:38 --> 00:26:42 be an engineer. You know what I mean? Oh, I mean,
00:26:42 --> 00:26:44 I don't have any kind of experience with that.
00:26:44 --> 00:26:46 So this is kind of interesting to hear. Right.
00:26:47 --> 00:26:50 So just like. Cause you have an idea of what
00:26:50 --> 00:26:52 communism is, but just so you can have an understanding
00:26:52 --> 00:26:54 of like how it actually is to live in communism
00:26:54 --> 00:26:57 is just simply lack of freedom. That's all it
00:26:57 --> 00:26:58 is. And I'm not saying that from a perspective
00:26:58 --> 00:27:01 is like America is great because capitalism is
00:27:01 --> 00:27:05 just simply communism means that. We don't all
00:27:05 --> 00:27:07 get to decide what we want to do individually.
00:27:07 --> 00:27:09 Somebody decides that for us because it's for
00:27:09 --> 00:27:12 the greater good. Sorry about that. Oh no, you're
00:27:12 --> 00:27:16 good. But. Usually, those decisions that get
00:27:16 --> 00:27:18 made for the greater good aren't actually for
00:27:18 --> 00:27:19 the greater good. They're for the greater good
00:27:19 --> 00:27:22 of the group that's in control. Right. The elite
00:27:22 --> 00:27:24 of the country. Because everything is supposed
00:27:24 --> 00:27:26 to be like the same, right? Like everybody's...
00:27:26 --> 00:27:29 That's the idea, right? Yeah. So, if you want
00:27:29 --> 00:27:31 to buy groceries in Cuba, you have a ration card.
00:27:32 --> 00:27:34 Like the same way that we had it in World War
00:27:34 --> 00:27:35 II, you know, when we didn't have enough food.
00:27:36 --> 00:27:38 Right. So that's just how you live in Cuba. You
00:27:38 --> 00:27:40 have a ration card when you want to go to the
00:27:40 --> 00:27:42 grocery store and it's like, you're allowed to
00:27:42 --> 00:27:45 have this much of everything that you need to
00:27:45 --> 00:27:47 have in the house. Wow. The thing is you go to
00:27:47 --> 00:27:48 the grocery store and grocery stores in Cuba
00:27:48 --> 00:27:51 aren't like, they're not like, you know, you
00:27:51 --> 00:27:53 have like a selection of things to choose from.
00:27:53 --> 00:27:54 Like literally you'll go to the can section.
00:27:55 --> 00:27:57 It's like, there might be a couple cans of corn.
00:27:57 --> 00:28:00 There might be one can of like some chef bought
00:28:00 --> 00:28:02 these shit and there might be a pack of hot dogs
00:28:02 --> 00:28:04 or something. And that's about it. You know what
00:28:04 --> 00:28:07 I mean? Really? Like it's just whatever's available.
00:28:07 --> 00:28:08 It's just whatever's available. Whatever Russia
00:28:08 --> 00:28:13 sent us like this last period or whatever. No
00:28:13 --> 00:28:15 shit. So when you like when you came back or
00:28:15 --> 00:28:18 when you came to America, it must have been like
00:28:18 --> 00:28:20 a massive culture shock for you, huh? Well, I
00:28:20 --> 00:28:23 was I was like a baby, basically. Oh, OK. Super,
00:28:23 --> 00:28:25 super young. So I grew up as American. I grew
00:28:25 --> 00:28:28 up as like a Latino American. You know what I
00:28:28 --> 00:28:30 mean? Sure. Just like I'm from another country
00:28:30 --> 00:28:32 and I speak Spanish, but I grew up here. Wow.
00:28:32 --> 00:28:34 You know, like Like people from New York and
00:28:34 --> 00:28:36 shit like that. That's how most people in Miami
00:28:36 --> 00:28:39 grow up. But for my family, most definitely,
00:28:40 --> 00:28:42 like if you ever go to Miami, Miami is almost
00:28:42 --> 00:28:44 like going to a different country. Like in most
00:28:44 --> 00:28:46 places they won't speak English. You know what
00:28:46 --> 00:28:48 I mean? You'll have to like, it'll have to be
00:28:48 --> 00:28:50 like a younger person that's like probably in
00:28:50 --> 00:28:51 high school, they'll speak English. But if it's
00:28:51 --> 00:28:53 like an older, if it's like a 40 something year
00:28:53 --> 00:28:55 old lady, like she's probably only going to speak
00:28:55 --> 00:28:58 Spanish. You know what I mean? So it's like,
00:28:59 --> 00:29:02 It's a culture shock, of course, because it's
00:29:02 --> 00:29:05 a whole different country, but it's like, you
00:29:05 --> 00:29:07 grow up in Cuba from the time that you're born
00:29:07 --> 00:29:10 with the goal. Every single person in Cuba has
00:29:10 --> 00:29:12 the shared goal of leaving Cuba. Oh, gotcha.
00:29:12 --> 00:29:14 That's like every single person in Cuba, that's
00:29:14 --> 00:29:17 their dream, getting out of Cuba. Same way like
00:29:17 --> 00:29:18 everyone in the hood wants to get out of the
00:29:18 --> 00:29:20 hood, like it's the same thing. You know what
00:29:20 --> 00:29:22 I mean? Yeah. So it's like, it's a culture shock,
00:29:22 --> 00:29:25 but it's like, I'm finally getting to experience
00:29:25 --> 00:29:26 that thing that I've always wanted, you know?
00:29:26 --> 00:29:31 Yeah. Yeah, man, that kind of like, I think that
00:29:31 --> 00:29:34 Americans have a tendency to think the grass
00:29:34 --> 00:29:37 is always greener, you know? And they romanticize
00:29:37 --> 00:29:39 other places without realizing that. It's not
00:29:39 --> 00:29:42 just Americans, it's a human being. Yeah, yeah,
00:29:42 --> 00:29:45 yeah, I think you're right. And, you know, by
00:29:45 --> 00:29:47 just like looking at something and just like
00:29:47 --> 00:29:49 looking at a culture and, you know, just being
00:29:49 --> 00:29:52 like, oh, okay, maybe that, I think that might
00:29:52 --> 00:29:55 be like a lot better and everything. But to hear
00:29:55 --> 00:29:58 about, you know, the realities of it, it kind
00:29:58 --> 00:30:01 of puts things into a good perspective, you know.
00:30:01 --> 00:30:03 Yeah, it's like when I think about Australia,
00:30:03 --> 00:30:04 like you hear about Australia and it's like,
00:30:04 --> 00:30:06 it sounds like America and like things are cheap.
00:30:06 --> 00:30:08 It sounds like a really dope place and Australians
00:30:08 --> 00:30:12 have like cool culture. It's like fucking animals,
00:30:12 --> 00:30:16 you know. Crazy. I'll never get used to like
00:30:16 --> 00:30:18 having to check a toilet, you know what I mean?
00:30:18 --> 00:30:21 Oh, for like snakes and shit? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:21 --> 00:30:24 I had a big ass moth outside my window. I mean,
00:30:24 --> 00:30:26 I was at my door today. Me too. Like not outside
00:30:26 --> 00:30:29 my door, but like it was like in the hallway
00:30:29 --> 00:30:31 when I left. Was it like fucking this big? No,
00:30:31 --> 00:30:33 no, it was pretty big, though. It was a I'll
00:30:33 --> 00:30:35 show you a picture. I took it. But you saw a
00:30:35 --> 00:30:38 moth that big. It was huge. It was a I think
00:30:38 --> 00:30:41 it's called the Luna Moth. Really? Yeah. Whoa,
00:30:41 --> 00:30:44 holy shit. I saw one like this one is almost
00:30:44 --> 00:30:47 actual size. Like, yeah. Yeah, it was bigger
00:30:47 --> 00:30:50 than that for sure. Like the wings were. Much
00:30:50 --> 00:30:52 much bigger than the body like you can barely
00:30:52 --> 00:31:02 see the thorax damn son vocabulary boy. Man,
00:31:02 --> 00:31:05 so you coming from Miami and like all, you know,
00:31:05 --> 00:31:07 this performance kind of art and stuff like that,
00:31:07 --> 00:31:09 it was natural for you to hop up on stage and
00:31:09 --> 00:31:12 do like comedy and stuff. For sure. Yeah. I was
00:31:12 --> 00:31:13 nervous as fuck about it. Like everyone, when
00:31:13 --> 00:31:15 they started doing standup, but like being on
00:31:15 --> 00:31:17 stage, didn't feel crazy. It was like the idea
00:31:17 --> 00:31:20 of like, I'm going to, I'm going to like be able
00:31:20 --> 00:31:22 to say something to make them laugh, you know,
00:31:22 --> 00:31:25 like that way. Yeah. Do you, uh, do you ever
00:31:25 --> 00:31:28 feel like, uh, like you, you do get nervous before
00:31:28 --> 00:31:32 you get on stage? Yeah, definitely not as much
00:31:32 --> 00:31:35 as I used to yeah sure I think when I first got
00:31:35 --> 00:31:37 to Austin was probably the most nervous I've
00:31:37 --> 00:31:38 ever been because this is being a new place.
00:31:39 --> 00:31:44 Yeah, but um now I'd say like You know if I if
00:31:44 --> 00:31:47 for some reason like the spot has like weight
00:31:47 --> 00:31:49 behind it then yeah I'm gonna be nervous for
00:31:49 --> 00:31:51 sure like roast battle and stuff like that. Oh,
00:31:51 --> 00:31:54 yeah. Yeah, but um, you know just for going up
00:31:54 --> 00:31:56 at the creek Thank God that that's that is like
00:31:56 --> 00:32:00 a that few that feels that feels normal now That
00:32:00 --> 00:32:02 is something that just feels good. It's like
00:32:02 --> 00:32:04 your home stage. It is my home stage, yeah. And
00:32:04 --> 00:32:07 if I spend like two weeks without going up, it
00:32:07 --> 00:32:10 like eats at me. Right, yeah. Yeah, I know how
00:32:10 --> 00:32:14 you feel with that one, man. How do you prepare
00:32:14 --> 00:32:16 differently for like roast battles versus just
00:32:16 --> 00:32:20 going up on stage? I'm, I'm really bad at writing.
00:32:20 --> 00:32:22 I like don't write as much as I should at all.
00:32:22 --> 00:32:24 I need to like get better at that. You know,
00:32:24 --> 00:32:27 I slag a lot. So that's one of the reasons I
00:32:27 --> 00:32:28 wanted to do roast battle because it's like,
00:32:28 --> 00:32:31 there's no excuse. I can't just use old jokes
00:32:31 --> 00:32:34 or like half big premises. I have to like write
00:32:34 --> 00:32:36 five jokes that I'm going to do in the round.
00:32:37 --> 00:32:40 And, um, I've, I've surprised myself by how I've
00:32:40 --> 00:32:43 been able to do it, but also. It's not like you're
00:32:43 --> 00:32:45 not allowed to have help when you're writing
00:32:45 --> 00:32:47 jokes in general, but like it's encouraged with
00:32:47 --> 00:32:49 Roast Battle. Everyone tells you like, hey, get
00:32:49 --> 00:32:51 your comics that are good writers to help you,
00:32:52 --> 00:32:54 your friends that have been on Roast Battle to
00:32:54 --> 00:32:57 help you. So I've had help coming up with jokes,
00:32:58 --> 00:33:00 and I've been able to show myself that I can
00:33:00 --> 00:33:02 write when I decide to, so I'm just going to
00:33:02 --> 00:33:04 start applying that a little bit more just in
00:33:04 --> 00:33:09 general. Yeah, yeah. Have you watched anybody
00:33:09 --> 00:33:12 do anything and kind of learned? you know, from
00:33:12 --> 00:33:15 their kind of style or writing or anything? Yeah,
00:33:15 --> 00:33:17 most recently, I would probably say Javi. Javi
00:33:17 --> 00:33:21 Ramirez. Oh, yeah. Yeah, dude. I fucking love
00:33:21 --> 00:33:24 Javi. Yeah, dude. He's amazing. I watched him
00:33:24 --> 00:33:26 just like in the last few months, just like become
00:33:26 --> 00:33:28 so much better. He was already good at comedy,
00:33:28 --> 00:33:30 but he becomes so much better. He's just like
00:33:30 --> 00:33:33 sharpened up all of his skills and he's done
00:33:33 --> 00:33:36 roast battle and like fucking become one of the
00:33:36 --> 00:33:40 better roasters here in Austin. Yeah. I think
00:33:40 --> 00:33:44 from him, I'm just kind of learning to just,
00:33:44 --> 00:33:47 like, enjoy it a little bit more. You know what
00:33:47 --> 00:33:50 I mean? Yeah, he seems very, like, free -spirited.
00:33:50 --> 00:33:54 Yes, dude. You just see how much he's grateful
00:33:54 --> 00:33:57 for, like, the opportunity and, like, how happy
00:33:57 --> 00:33:59 he is to be doing it all the time. You know what
00:33:59 --> 00:34:01 I mean? Right, yeah. His optimism is infectious.
00:34:01 --> 00:34:03 Like, it really is. And there was a roast battle
00:34:03 --> 00:34:05 he had, not the last one, which was against Nick
00:34:05 --> 00:34:08 V this last week, but before... He went against
00:34:08 --> 00:34:10 Eli Halpert, who was a really good battle, too.
00:34:11 --> 00:34:13 Eli gave him a good fight. But, dude, he had
00:34:13 --> 00:34:15 such great energy for that fight. The whole time,
00:34:15 --> 00:34:18 he was just, like, after a joke would land, he
00:34:18 --> 00:34:19 would, like, be bouncing and, like, fucking flicking
00:34:19 --> 00:34:22 his tongue. I was like, ah! He's just ready to
00:34:22 --> 00:34:25 go. And that inspired me so much. Like, it's
00:34:25 --> 00:34:28 like, yeah, just fucking, just, like, enjoy it.
00:34:28 --> 00:34:30 Have fun. Feel, like, feel yourself if you're
00:34:30 --> 00:34:32 feeling yourself, you know what I mean? The crowd
00:34:32 --> 00:34:36 likes that. Hell yeah. That is a good lesson,
00:34:36 --> 00:34:42 man. Just to make yourself looser. Just feeling
00:34:42 --> 00:34:45 yourself, just having fun, pulling that part
00:34:45 --> 00:34:48 of you that goes like, oh yeah, just the surreal
00:34:48 --> 00:34:50 you and putting it out on stage. Yeah, because
00:34:50 --> 00:34:54 we, our whole, I feel like we, as comics, almost
00:34:54 --> 00:34:58 live in negative space. Yeah. Where we're always
00:34:58 --> 00:35:00 thinking about being on stage, but most of the
00:35:00 --> 00:35:03 time we're not. Right. Right. So then when we
00:35:03 --> 00:35:06 get on stage, it's like we value that time so
00:35:06 --> 00:35:10 much and we we like we view that time as like
00:35:10 --> 00:35:13 such a valuable expense that we got to like we
00:35:13 --> 00:35:15 got to like use it wisely with the jokes we want
00:35:15 --> 00:35:18 to try out and shit. But sometimes like I really
00:35:18 --> 00:35:20 feel like you need to be snapped into like a
00:35:20 --> 00:35:22 hey, dude, you're a funny guy that likes to have
00:35:22 --> 00:35:25 fun and just eat shit. Right. Do that on stage
00:35:25 --> 00:35:28 sometimes. Sure. Like, don't just. Try to like,
00:35:28 --> 00:35:31 uh, take the shot and hit the target every single
00:35:31 --> 00:35:33 time. Like sometimes it's just fuck around, you
00:35:33 --> 00:35:36 know? Right. Yeah. Yeah. I, um, that's, you know,
00:35:37 --> 00:35:39 all of these are valuable lessons to learn with
00:35:39 --> 00:35:42 within standup because when, um, like when I
00:35:42 --> 00:35:44 get up there or when I did get up there a long
00:35:44 --> 00:35:46 time ago, it would be like very, I'd be very
00:35:46 --> 00:35:49 rigid almost or, or I'd over perform, you know?
00:35:49 --> 00:35:52 Yeah, that happens to me. Yeah. I would bring
00:35:52 --> 00:35:55 like this. stupid animated thing that was nonsensical.
00:35:56 --> 00:35:59 It's better to commit than to half -ass commit.
00:35:59 --> 00:36:01 Right. I think over -performing is better than
00:36:01 --> 00:36:04 under -performing for sure. Sure. Do you have
00:36:04 --> 00:36:09 a favorite, just normal professional comedian?
00:36:09 --> 00:36:11 Do you have like... Yeah, probably Nick Mullen.
00:36:11 --> 00:36:14 Nick Mullen? Love Nick Mullen. You know, Come
00:36:14 --> 00:36:19 Town? Come town No, I've never heard of come
00:36:19 --> 00:36:24 town But it's a good podcast it was like it was
00:36:24 --> 00:36:26 really popular like before Matt and Shane's blew
00:36:26 --> 00:36:30 up Okay Wow, like around 2016 around there. It's
00:36:30 --> 00:36:33 a it's Nick Mullins Stavros, you know Stavros,
00:36:33 --> 00:36:37 right? Yeah and Adam Friedland You know? Okay,
00:36:37 --> 00:36:39 yeah. So it's them three, they're just like boys
00:36:39 --> 00:36:41 on a podcast just eating shit. But dude, Nick
00:36:41 --> 00:36:43 Mullin is like one of the funniest guys ever.
00:36:43 --> 00:36:45 Oh, hell yeah. I've been dying to see him for
00:36:45 --> 00:36:47 so long and every year Rebecca will ask us like,
00:36:47 --> 00:36:49 hey, who do you guys want me to like try to get
00:36:49 --> 00:36:52 booked this year so that we can see people that
00:36:52 --> 00:36:54 we like? Every year I ask for Nick Mullin and
00:36:54 --> 00:36:56 it's always like, oh, I can't really ask him
00:36:56 --> 00:36:58 to come. Like he decides to do stand up whenever
00:36:58 --> 00:37:01 he wants to. Right, wow. And he's going to be
00:37:01 --> 00:37:04 at Cap City in October. No shit. Which I'm like,
00:37:04 --> 00:37:06 I'm honestly kind of glad he's going there instead
00:37:06 --> 00:37:08 of Crete because I want to watch it. I don't
00:37:08 --> 00:37:10 want to be working. You know what I mean? Right.
00:37:10 --> 00:37:12 I want to like really enjoy it as a fan of his,
00:37:12 --> 00:37:14 you know? Yeah. I'm going with my girlfriend
00:37:14 --> 00:37:17 to see him in October. Oh, that's badass, dude.
00:37:17 --> 00:37:20 That's badass, man. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Man,
00:37:20 --> 00:37:22 if I had to see like one comedian right now,
00:37:22 --> 00:37:25 I think it would probably be Rory Scoville. Rory
00:37:25 --> 00:37:27 Scoville? Yeah, I love Rory Scoville. I think
00:37:27 --> 00:37:30 you've talked to me about him. I don't know his
00:37:30 --> 00:37:32 face. I'll send you some clips of him, but he
00:37:32 --> 00:37:35 has a Netflix special out right now that's really
00:37:35 --> 00:37:41 good. So his dad passed away, and he gets up
00:37:41 --> 00:37:44 on stage, and he starts crying about it. Legitimately
00:37:44 --> 00:37:46 crying? Legitimately crying on his special, right?
00:37:47 --> 00:37:49 And I remember just being like, whoa, this is
00:37:49 --> 00:37:52 really fucking tense. Marlon Waynes did that
00:37:52 --> 00:37:54 once. Oh, really? Yeah, he cried on a special
00:37:54 --> 00:37:57 about his mom dying. Oh, wow. Man. Not that crazy,
00:37:57 --> 00:37:59 I guess. Yeah, I guess it's not that crazy. Maybe
00:37:59 --> 00:38:01 I'm just like so inexperienced with just life,
00:38:01 --> 00:38:04 I guess. I don't know. Right. We haven't died
00:38:04 --> 00:38:07 and we don't have specials. Right. I'm like,
00:38:07 --> 00:38:10 I need to stay away from the coke. But yeah,
00:38:10 --> 00:38:12 no, he gets up there and he broke it. Broke it
00:38:12 --> 00:38:15 good, man. He broke it. He just he fucking when
00:38:15 --> 00:38:18 he finally hit that punch, it was like, dude,
00:38:18 --> 00:38:21 that was perfect. Hmm, that's interesting. Yeah,
00:38:21 --> 00:38:23 so I'll send you some I'll send you some stuff
00:38:23 --> 00:38:26 about it, man But so I hate that we got to wrap
00:38:26 --> 00:38:28 this up already, but it's time. Yeah, it's already
00:38:28 --> 00:38:30 time Yeah, yeah, I'm so sorry about that But
00:38:30 --> 00:38:32 uh, but yeah Is there anything that you you want
00:38:32 --> 00:38:35 to put out or like anything that like is going
00:38:35 --> 00:38:36 on with you or like anything? Anybody can catch
00:38:36 --> 00:38:39 this is your camera banana phone every fucking
00:38:39 --> 00:38:44 Sunday banana phone 10 p .m Yeah, Michael Ridley
00:38:44 --> 00:38:47 is Asian Michael Ridley Candice Smith, you know,
00:38:47 --> 00:38:51 lets me watch child porn Oh my god, are you allowed
00:38:51 --> 00:38:54 to put that in there? I might need to believe
00:38:54 --> 00:38:57 that one, dude Just make sure she knows like
00:38:57 --> 00:39:00 you could tell that that's what I said Like yeah,
00:39:00 --> 00:39:05 I don't say it but you could hear like Yeah,
00:39:05 --> 00:39:07 like they're like, all right, hold on I gotta
00:39:07 --> 00:39:11 make a note for that Like I don't know how I
00:39:11 --> 00:39:14 don't know how that one is received You should
00:39:14 --> 00:39:15 try to get a down here. I think agent would be
00:39:15 --> 00:39:18 so much for a hobby too. Yeah, dude. I would
00:39:18 --> 00:39:20 love to do it I'm thinking about reaching out
00:39:20 --> 00:39:22 to Javi. I haven't done it so far. You work with
00:39:22 --> 00:39:24 him now. He's co -workers with you. That's wonderful
00:39:24 --> 00:39:26 too, man. Yeah, I think I'm going to shoot him
00:39:26 --> 00:39:28 a text. Oh, we're all going to be together tomorrow.
00:39:28 --> 00:39:31 Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, this is going
00:39:31 --> 00:39:35 to be good, man. But hell yeah, dude. No, I appreciate
00:39:35 --> 00:39:36 you coming on, man. Thank you. And I'm sorry
00:39:36 --> 00:39:38 that it was so short. It's OK. No, I'm sorry
00:39:38 --> 00:39:41 I showed up late, dude. No, no, it's not your
00:39:41 --> 00:39:45 fault. Yeah, I was sitting there trying to think,
00:39:45 --> 00:39:49 I'm like, what the fuck? No, it's all good, man.
00:39:50 --> 00:39:53 If it wasn't for me, if it wasn't for the damn
00:39:53 --> 00:39:57 thing that I have going on, there's always something.
00:39:57 --> 00:40:00 Hey, never complain about good prospects. Yeah,
00:40:00 --> 00:40:03 I'm hoping it works out because I do not want
00:40:03 --> 00:40:04 to have to work. If it does, you'll get to do
00:40:04 --> 00:40:07 this more. Yeah, yeah. And I could work at the
00:40:07 --> 00:40:12 creek more. Get you more guests. Yeah. That's
00:40:12 --> 00:40:16 not why he works there. No, no. If anything,
00:40:16 --> 00:40:19 I work there just to watch and learn, man. Yeah,
00:40:19 --> 00:40:22 no, 100%. My mom tells people all the time when
00:40:22 --> 00:40:24 I'm on FaceTime with her, like when she's just
00:40:24 --> 00:40:27 talking to her friends in Miami, he's going to
00:40:27 --> 00:40:30 a university for stand -up comedy in Texas. Yeah.
00:40:30 --> 00:40:32 Yeah. That's what it feels like. Whenever I work,
00:40:33 --> 00:40:34 dude, and I'm just, you know, like last night,
00:40:34 --> 00:40:35 for example, when I was done, I was just sitting
00:40:35 --> 00:40:39 down watching Banana Phone and just listening
00:40:39 --> 00:40:42 to how they do the show. And, you know, Bananaphone
00:40:42 --> 00:40:45 is really great despite some of the hate that
00:40:45 --> 00:40:47 it gets, you know, like I think it's really awesome
00:40:47 --> 00:40:50 and I think it's a really fun, like fun thing.
00:40:50 --> 00:40:52 But I really just kind of just take it in and
00:40:52 --> 00:40:54 just kind of learn and just sort of be like,
00:40:54 --> 00:40:57 OK, this is what I need to do within my own act,
00:40:57 --> 00:41:00 you know, to try to help me. And then. Of course,
00:41:00 --> 00:41:02 I think to myself, I'm like, could I ever do
00:41:02 --> 00:41:05 that? Like, you know, like... Yeah, no, I mean,
00:41:05 --> 00:41:08 but you know, just to end it off, I know you
00:41:08 --> 00:41:10 got to go, but a great piece of advice for any
00:41:10 --> 00:41:14 comic that my girlfriend gave me is if you're
00:41:14 --> 00:41:17 ever having doubts about comedy, just think to
00:41:17 --> 00:41:19 yourself that that is a good sign because that
00:41:19 --> 00:41:22 means you're not delusional. Because if you're
00:41:22 --> 00:41:24 100 % confident in you making it, you're a little
00:41:24 --> 00:41:27 delusional, which is... necessary for something
00:41:27 --> 00:41:29 like entertainment, but you don't want to rely
00:41:29 --> 00:41:32 on delusion, you know? Yeah. So it's a good thing
00:41:32 --> 00:41:33 that you have doubts. That means that you're
00:41:33 --> 00:41:35 like a normal person and you got to figure that
00:41:35 --> 00:41:38 stuff out. Oh, cool. Well, good. That's good
00:41:38 --> 00:41:41 to be reassured about, you know? Yeah, there
00:41:41 --> 00:41:44 is a lot of times when I'm just like, oh, man,
00:41:44 --> 00:41:46 I'm not good at this, you know, but I want to
00:41:46 --> 00:41:49 be. It happens. It's a practice. It's a good
00:41:49 --> 00:41:51 thing that comedy is the thing where it's like
00:41:51 --> 00:41:53 they tell you like from the start, like, hey,
00:41:53 --> 00:41:54 you're going to feel like that all the time.
00:41:54 --> 00:41:57 Like, I'm not good at this. That's true. That
00:41:57 --> 00:42:00 is true. They warned us a lot. Yeah, it is fucking
00:42:00 --> 00:42:03 true, dude, for sure. But thank you so much for
00:42:03 --> 00:42:04 coming in, man. Thank you, bro. Thank you so
00:42:04 --> 00:42:05 much for having me. Yeah, dude. I'm so happy
00:42:05 --> 00:42:08 to have you, man. Bye, Sonny D. Yeah, bye, Sonny
00:42:08 --> 00:42:11 D. Buy some AGT, you know, Arizona green tea,
00:42:12 --> 00:42:14 baby. Arizona green tea tracksuits on the next
00:42:14 --> 00:42:17 episode. If I come back on, we got to have a
00:42:17 --> 00:42:18 month. When you come back on, I'm definitely
00:42:18 --> 00:42:20 going to have you back on. We're going to do
00:42:20 --> 00:42:22 what I like to call these redemption episodes.
00:42:22 --> 00:42:24 Because it's too short? Yeah, because it's too
00:42:24 --> 00:42:25 short. So when people, when this happens, I'm
00:42:25 --> 00:42:27 like, next one, we'll come on and we'll do it.
00:42:27 --> 00:42:29 We'll do it good. This is going to be great.
00:42:30 --> 00:42:31 So, and that's it. That's the end of the show.
00:42:31 --> 00:42:33 That's a wrap. Thank you for tuning in. Adios.
00:42:33 --> 00:42:34 Thank you.