1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: I'm your host Coley, and today we have very special guests, 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: personal friend of my brothers, so we had to call 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: it a favorite. 5 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 2: Hello, did I fuck it up? 6 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 3: I should have get a number. There's just three on. 7 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: It because he keeps me Salma sucker, Dicky. 8 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 3: Hello, it's did I'm not say it right? 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: Okay, cool, they're gonna use that one problem. 10 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 2: Osama's in the building. I'm really excited. 11 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: Actor comedian is in the building, very excited to have 12 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: you seen you do stand up in la And that 13 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: was a great time when I got to enjoy l 14 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: A comics. 15 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 3: A lot of people hate l A comedy for good reason. 16 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 3: It's not the it's a lot of people going there 17 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 3: to become fans and not good. The currency of LA 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 3: is let me get famous. The currency of New York 19 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 3: is let me get good. So if you go to 20 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 3: one place, those ideas will permeate within you and you'll 21 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 3: become that type of comic. So that's why I really 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 3: love when comics go to New York for multiple years 23 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 3: because they it gets in their head to be good. 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 2: Well, you get to do more reps in New York. 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 2: So that's what you could do. 26 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: I remember I used to come here with Eagle, and 27 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: Eagle would stay out til four in the morning. He 28 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: brings me back the Philly cheese, chop cheese and then 29 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: a snapple and that's when we catch up. 30 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 3: Y'all. Y'all, you and Egle are look so like it's 31 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 3: crazy in a good way. Not like I'm talking to 32 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 3: Eagle right now, but if it's if he's Ego, then 33 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 3: you're like pigeon. You know, You're like, you're right, it's 34 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 3: the same okay, you know, same concept. Y'all are like 35 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 3: the likable in a very perceptive way. Y'all always observing. Yeah, 36 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 3: I always like assessing. I almost feel like I'm being 37 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 3: assessed by you. 38 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 2: We love you. That's the one thing we have in common. 39 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: But before we get into your story, which I heard 40 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: from Ego was incredible. I tried not to do the 41 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: whole million on one questions because that's why you're here. 42 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: But before we get into it, let's get into the 43 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: halal bagel. 44 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 3: You got its got a fully Arabic podcast today. She's 45 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 3: doing great. 46 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: So typically the guest would be introducing the dish, but 47 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: I want to tell you guys. 48 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 2: A little backstory. 49 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: Usama gave me the task of finding a bagel from 50 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: a halal cart, which is actually impossible, which I told 51 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: him last night and he assured me, no, no, no, 52 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: you got this, which by the way, we are not 53 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: eating halal bagels, but we. 54 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 2: Will go ahead. 55 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 3: What come okay? So okay. So the bigel was trying 56 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 3: to get her to get I told her I would 57 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 3: get it for her, but she was like, I don't 58 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 3: trust you be on time. And here I was at one. 59 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: Ten and I was late. 60 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 3: So I respect you that I absolutely could have. I 61 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 3: worked my whole day around Colleen and now look at us. 62 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 3: So basically, it's a it's like a breakfast cart that's 63 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 3: run by an Arab guy. Usually like it's some small 64 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 3: thing you'll see like bagel, you'll see like some danishes 65 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 3: and muffins on the in the glass case. But it's 66 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 3: like a cart. It looks like a lot cart, but 67 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 3: really it's a breakfast cart that's like out in the 68 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 3: in the morning. So every day I would basically wait 69 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 3: till I couldn't wait anymore, and I would eat one 70 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 3: bagel for that day. And it was a bagel, one sided, 71 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 3: one half of it and just it was butter on it, 72 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 3: and then I would use that until the end of 73 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 3: the night when I have one more bagel. 74 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: So there was would that be the second half of 75 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 2: the first day. 76 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 3: I came back and the guy he's like, yeah, pay 77 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 3: up the second half and it was basically two bagels. 78 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: Excuse me that where I was eat the whole day. 79 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 3: And that was like maybe a couple of months of 80 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 3: just that, and then one day I woke up and 81 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 3: I was like dizzy for a month because I just 82 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: hadn't had nutrients. I just hadn't had one vegetable. I 83 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 3: thought I was dying. I was like, this is all true. 84 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 2: Are you gonna eat? 85 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: You gotta take a bite of this for because I 86 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: know I did not go all around. 87 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 2: I ain't never. 88 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 3: Man, this looks already too expensive. This already looks too 89 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 3: bougie for what I was eating. Like wrapping my bagel. 90 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: The four dollars, so I don't know what he was 91 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: paying the bagel. 92 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 3: I got the bagel, he would frisbee it to my mouth. 93 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 3: This is like in a wrapping. It's like Christmas. 94 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 2: Let's see, okay, this is just a. 95 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 3: It's like a soft bagel. Yeah, hold hold up, hold on, 96 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 3: Oh my god, the struggle bagel. 97 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: But I should have done it's got it early this 98 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: morning and made you eat a cold, top hard bagel. 99 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 2: This is good. 100 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 3: So my eye goes up and down like you. 101 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 2: So take me back too, it's good. 102 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 3: Takes me back? 103 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 2: Probably does it take you back? When was the last 104 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: time you had this? 105 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 3: Literally since since I was poor. I don't eat this anymore. 106 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 3: If I have a bagel, I'm having like all this, 107 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: you know, I'm cream, cheese and ship. 108 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 2: Fancying it up. 109 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 3: Damn, it's been a while. It's been a while, real talk. 110 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: I didn't think I was poor, grown in New York, didn't. 111 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: I didn't really think that I was just like, I 112 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 3: was just happy to do comedy four times a day. 113 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 3: That was my whole mindset. 114 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 2: So this is during your pursuit of comedy career. 115 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, so when I would, I mean, it's Eagle time too. 116 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 3: When I was when I met Eagle, I was what 117 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 3: twenty three in New York give up med school to 118 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 3: do comedy, gave up med school. 119 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: I'm sure those parents were thrilled. 120 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 3: They were so happy. They were like, are you are 121 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 3: you gay too? Please be gay as well. No, they 122 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 3: were so angry, so sad I didn't talk to him 123 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 3: for like the first two years. Classic you know, immigrant 124 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 3: Bengali came here Medigal like the week two we were micers. 125 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 3: You know, so micers you just do as many shows 126 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 3: a humanly possible. I didn't get a real job because 127 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 3: I was like, then I would miss the five pm 128 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 3: micah people who did the temp jobs and the normal 129 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 3: job they would always come to mics at like a 130 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: seven pm and I was like, no, that's two extra 131 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 3: mics I could do. So I basically post made it 132 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 3: all day, had no money, would eat like two bagels 133 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 3: a day, and then I would do comedy from five 134 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 3: to one am every day. And so it was very skinny, 135 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 3: very wayfish very like like I looked like this, this 136 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 3: is my arm, and even now it's not that much better. 137 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 3: But I was very much in that world of like blinders, 138 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 3: I think you need a certain ivitate to like do 139 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 3: comedy well eventually, like you could be obsessed with it 140 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 3: in a way. And I was like very much in 141 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 3: that space of just like I don't care what my body, 142 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: I don't care about my what I put into it. 143 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 3: I just want to do as much comedy as humanly possible. 144 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: So when you say we're going to take it back 145 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: a step, when you say you gave up med school, well, 146 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: does that mean you were a really great student and 147 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: then you shot your parents'. 148 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 3: Dreams Jesus so violent? Yes, yes? 149 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: And then and then did they say, hey, okay, so 150 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: you got about one year or did they put some 151 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: parameters on it. 152 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 3: So I didn't tell I lied to them. I basically 153 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 3: got into med school. There's the thing you can do 154 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,119 Speaker 3: for med school where you can defer for a year 155 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 3: through an extenuating medical circumstance for your parents, going to 156 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 3: help them out. So my mom had like this routine 157 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 3: like bunyan appointment or something like that. Something would just 158 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 3: like just get some like acid for feet. And I 159 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 3: had made that into like I sent a letter to 160 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 3: the medical office of the Admission's office of A and 161 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 3: M like you, my mom got polio, shi leg amputated 162 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 3: all this shit so I could defer free. I had 163 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 3: the doctor's knowne of like a foot appointment, and I 164 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 3: sent that over and then the admitions like, oh this 165 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 3: you need those guys want one year? Differ because if 166 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 3: I just said it was a bunion appointment. They wouldn't 167 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 3: have accepted. They had to be something crazy. So I 168 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 3: definitely lied and told them that my mom had like 169 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,119 Speaker 3: no legs, and they were like, of course, of course, 170 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 3: We'll give you a year. And that year I accrued 171 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 3: money delivering sandwiches for Jimmy John's, so I could at 172 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 3: the end of the year if I needed to make 173 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 3: an escape from my parents, I could do it. 174 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 2: Oh, because you knew that they was gonna come. 175 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 3: For you, absolutely right. So I basically was like, just 176 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 3: so I have escape money. So I told them I 177 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 3: was working at a hospital, which I was not, and 178 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 3: I was really just getting money from Jane John's and 179 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 3: then doing comedy all night. 180 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 2: Oh they didn't even know about the comedy. 181 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 3: No. So that for that year, after med school up, 182 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 3: after undergrad ended, and but before med school was starting, 183 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 3: I was just doing comedy and I was making money 184 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:06,679 Speaker 3: delivery driving. 185 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: Now, now we got to go back a little bit 186 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: deeper again, we gotta know. Okay, so where when, at 187 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: what point did you have the epiphany that comedy was 188 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: definitely something you wanted to do. 189 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 3: You know, I was a funny kid with my friends, right, 190 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 3: I was first funny in class doing like you know, 191 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 3: popcorn reading when someone like, hey, I'm reading. Then I 192 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 3: passed the book two who saw him? And then you 193 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 3: read a section from like a play or something from 194 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 3: Englis Slash. So we were doing Julius Caesar and I 195 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 3: was they gave it to me and it was the 196 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 3: Brutus speech. I think the Friends or the Marc Anthony 197 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 3: was the friends Romans country then my ears and I 198 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 3: made a massive like British affectation like friends, Romens countryman 199 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 3: lending me it is. People were dying and I remember that 200 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 3: was the first time I was like, oh, I'm getting 201 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 3: a group of people to laugh at something I'm doing. 202 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 3: That was the beginning of like the Funny. Then I 203 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 3: did the MCAT, which is the medical school Admissions Program test. 204 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 3: That was like so saying that. Once I finished it, 205 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 3: I had a year in junior year to find out 206 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 3: what I wanted to do. So I was like, let 207 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 3: me try comedy. I really want to do it. I 208 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 3: was just thinking about it. I went to a Hyenas 209 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 3: comedy club in Dallas, which is like I had a 210 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 3: Wednesday open mic and I that's where I started doing comedy. 211 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 3: I was so bad I was. I just wrote like 212 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 3: bin Louden puns, like five minutes have been Lodden puns. 213 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, let's go. And I did 214 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 3: it at like one thirty am with my first mic 215 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 3: and then it was like, waited for five hours to 216 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 3: do it. Got a couple of laughs, and I was like, Oh, 217 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 3: this is this is what I want to do, this 218 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 3: is this is my whole thing. 219 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 2: And at what point did you break the news to 220 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 2: the parents. 221 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 3: It was the day before I left to New York. 222 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 3: I had bought in the ticket I had. They thought 223 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: I was going to medical school. The day before I 224 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 3: left to New York. 225 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 2: I thought you were originally from here. 226 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 3: No, I'm from Dallas. 227 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: Oh so you were out there, and so you you 228 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: break the news along with a plane ticket like boom, 229 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 1: I'm going to I know they're gonna kill me and 230 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: they're gonna need time to I got to. 231 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 3: Escape before they get the weapons. You know, my dad, 232 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 3: I told my parents. I was like, da dad, Mom, 233 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 3: I'm not going to do medical school. I'm gonna do comedy. 234 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 3: My dad, you know, single dad teer, you know that 235 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 3: classic like it can't be gay. But I'm also destroyed. 236 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 3: My mom took pots and pans started throwing it. She's like, 237 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 3: what the fuck are you doing? But started throwing shit? 238 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 2: Did she really? 239 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,599 Speaker 3: No, really, it wasn't like it was more like it 240 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 3: was an an aiming at me. She's just so fucking angry. 241 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 3: She's like, what the fuck are you doing? Bawling, like 242 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 3: what are you doing? Because the word comedian in my 243 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 3: in Banglah Bamlay is like drunk. You know the town drunk, 244 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 3: he said, comedian come in, so like when I want 245 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 3: to be a comedian, They're like, you want to be 246 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 3: professionally drunk, which is kind of what happens, but that 247 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 3: they didn't have no concept of what comedy is. They 248 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 3: have no idea. Immigrant you know, people who are just 249 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 3: like get money acchoir and I get it now looking back, 250 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 3: I was pretty petulant to them. I was like, I 251 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 3: should have given them more time. I should have like 252 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 3: been more courteous. 253 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: But also coming from immigrants, you also know that the 254 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: death sentence is real, possible, like you may not live 255 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: another day. 256 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 3: I didn't die because I was good at dodging. 257 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, but you know what I'm saying. 258 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: You know, there's like this inherent fear as an immigrant 259 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: child that you know, like they don't have a problem 260 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: saying like I brought you in this world and I 261 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: may be the one that. 262 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 3: Jamaican right, yeah, Jamaican, she is christ some of those 263 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 3: intense people on earth. Why do you think that Jamaican 264 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 3: is so good at running because their parents are the 265 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 3: raising the running. The first danger is mom, the with 266 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 3: a sandal and a knife. And I bet your mom 267 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 3: she does take no ship, but very dangerous, beautifully sweet sweet. 268 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 3: But it's right there my mom too. If you me 269 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 3: and my mom, you're like, that's the sweetest lady on earth. 270 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 3: The door closes, She's like, get me a stick, I'm 271 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 3: going to kill you and then I'm gonna kill myself 272 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 3: to get you in the spirit world and I'm gonna 273 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 3: find you and kill you. There again, they're. 274 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,719 Speaker 1: Crazy, but come back you You do think that if 275 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,680 Speaker 1: you had to redo it over, you would have given 276 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: them a warning? 277 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 3: No, I know, I wouldn't. I feel bad because now 278 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 3: I know where they're coming from. The hurt, the pain, 279 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 3: the fear that I was a star kid, very smart 280 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 3: in school. In their mind, I'm throwing it all away. Yeah, 281 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 3: and they're terrified of that it's all love based all 282 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 3: their anger and their fear, and they love so much 283 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 3: that it comes out in dark ways. Sometimes it's you know, 284 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 3: literally like you know, but it's like the idea is 285 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 3: like I had, I was also a coward. I was scared. 286 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 3: I didn't know I was gonna do it. I was 287 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 3: still like maybe comedy, maybe medicine for the longest time, 288 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 3: and then I watched this documentary called Zero Dreams of Sushi. 289 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 3: I don't know if you ever saw this, literally, just 290 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,679 Speaker 3: Japanese sushi chefs who's like talking about the idea of 291 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 3: all I want to do is get better at making sushi. 292 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 3: That's my whole purpose in life. And as an immigrant kid, 293 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 3: you never understand that concept because everything's very acquisitional. It's like, 294 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 3: you gotta get this so you can get this, so 295 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 3: you can get this, get this job, get this degree 296 00:12:58,760 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 3: so you can get those jobs. You can get this 297 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 3: needs to get the house. It's all get, get, get 298 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 3: because immigrants work in that way. That's why they came 299 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 3: to America to get. Whereas the idea that you can 300 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 3: live your life inside out, like the idea of the 301 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 3: of the journey and the path and the growth and 302 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 3: the finding the self as the actual purpose was lost 303 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 3: on me. It was such a unique idea that I 304 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 3: saw in that documentary, and once I saw that, it 305 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 3: shifted immediately. I finished that documentary about to take it 306 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 3: that day. Wow, Yeah, it was crazy. 307 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 2: Does your parents know that that one documentary. 308 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 3: In their lives? There? My mom's like, I'm going to 309 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 3: read that Japanese guy, go to Tokyo, find him. 310 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 2: How did you end up even watching it? It was 311 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 2: just like fate. 312 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 3: It was fay. You know, there's some things a little 313 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 3: I like that, you know, some things like that. When 314 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 3: I decided to do comedy, I was like, I was like, 315 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 3: let me just wait for a year, let me just 316 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 3: like sculpe it out in junear you after the m cat. 317 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 3: And then I off a whim told this guy who 318 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 3: wasn't even a close friend. He was a friend ish, 319 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 3: but not a guy I would I would ever tell. 320 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:00,959 Speaker 3: But I didn't tell my best friends. I just told 321 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 3: him and he was the guy who was like, I 322 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 3: already do comedy in hyenas And I'm like, what it 323 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 3: had been? It had gotten real once I asked him, 324 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 3: And this is not a guy I would ever tell 325 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 3: anything to. He's my boy now, But back then, I 326 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 3: was like, why did I tell him? What caused me 327 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 3: to tell him? It's a fascinating thing because he was 328 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 3: the only guy in that whole school that already did 329 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 3: a comedy opened and through his information giving, I was 330 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 3: able to find find. 331 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 2: These And how old were you then? 332 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 3: Twenty twenty years twenty twenty? 333 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: So then you decide, of all places to go, you're 334 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: gonna choose the hardest place to pursue comedy and the. 335 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 2: Most expensive place to live. So you come here, who 336 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 2: are you staying with? How are you? 337 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 3: I'm staying in a Bushwick apartment. It's this subleasing this 338 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 3: one horrific room. It was this guy, the super like 339 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 3: gay guy who was also like kind of a drug dealer. 340 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 3: I think, so he would like deal drugs, bang dudes. 341 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 3: He's small, but he's banging these massive dudes, and you'd 342 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 3: always like send him home, and these guys were crying 343 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 3: in the kitchen sometimes, scary dude. But I would pay 344 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 3: him every month. 345 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 2: And he said, but the dude was small. You said, 346 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 2: he's small, but he was scary. 347 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 3: Scary? 348 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 2: How was he scary? 349 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 3: You already know those dudes who like small, but they 350 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 3: got the eyes or cream, you know, talking about the 351 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 3: guys who were like I kill people. I climb up 352 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: on them and I kill him. Yeah, so he was 353 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 3: kind of a fearsome dude. Stayed there five hundred dollars 354 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 3: a month rent, no money. That's where I started getting 355 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 3: scared of your parents, definitely, and especially a gay drug dealer. 356 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 3: What that that's their that's their fear. 357 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 2: But they were asking where you were staying at all. 358 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 3: No, no, no, I was just saying what I was 359 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 3: saying them playing blah bah blah. I was keeping everything 360 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 3: very vague just during the time. They didn't like me. 361 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 2: Oh so they weren't even talking to you really. 362 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 3: For a little bit they were talking. Then I at 363 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 3: the earrings. My dad was like, you better get the 364 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 3: hell out of my life for a little bit anyway. 365 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 3: But then one day I realized that he wasn't using 366 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 3: my money to pay anybody. He was using his money 367 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 3: for his own self. So the sublease I was given him, 368 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 3: he was not even using to pay the rent. Then 369 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 3: he got like the cops came and basically locked my door. 370 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 3: I couldn't get into it, so I had to go 371 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 3: climb up the side of the house to get to 372 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 3: my room because he was scared I was gonna confront 373 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 3: him or something like that, because he didn't use any 374 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 3: of my money, so I was I was also kicked out. 375 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 3: So I came up one day the door was locked, 376 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 3: couldn't get in, climbed up the side of my house. 377 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 3: My knee, Why do I still have the scar? 378 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: Hilarious? 379 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe right? My knee hit this piece of glass. 380 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 3: The knee went straight through the glass. But there's a 381 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 3: flap of skin where I could see the bone of 382 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 3: my knee. My knee, and I got my stoff got out. 383 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 3: My knee was flapped, but the whole meat was like this. 384 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 3: It was the meat was like I limped to like 385 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 3: there wasn't a poor neighborhood. So I went to Like 386 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 3: it wasn't even there's no urgin carre. It was like 387 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 3: Joe's bodega and er or whatever. And I went there 388 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 3: and I got like patched up and I got stitches 389 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 3: on one of these needs. And then I was like 390 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 3: homeless for like a couple of days, saying at my 391 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 3: front friend's house, who was a dental school in the NYU. 392 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 3: And then I was like what do I do? My friend, 393 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 3: my boy was a micer and one day he goes 394 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 3: up on stage and he's like, I'm gonna kill myself. 395 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 3: And after that I asked him. I was like, hey man, 396 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 3: I don't know if that was a joke or not, 397 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 3: but you should not do that. And he later told me, 398 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 3: he's like, bro, you're the only guy in my life 399 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 3: that said don't kill yourself. And he happened to have 400 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 3: a really nice place in Williamsburg and he was like, 401 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 3: the day after I told him to kill himself, I 402 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 3: just mentioned that I have no place, and he's like, hey, 403 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 3: just stay with me. So it was like the love 404 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 3: I gave him came back around again. You see what 405 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 3: him saying, Like these small little things in. 406 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 2: Life, right, My God was aligning all these little moments. 407 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,959 Speaker 3: Right. He's like, hey man, you're the only one who 408 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 3: ever cared not to say not to kill myself. He 409 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 3: had a lot of money just from his family, and 410 00:17:58,240 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 3: so he's like, hey, you can stay here for a 411 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 3: little bit. For like three months, stayed there on a 412 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 3: couch cushion on the floor, but we gelled so well 413 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 3: and it was such a good roommate and we had 414 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,199 Speaker 3: a great time together. He was like, hey, man, if 415 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 3: you want to stay here. He's a single guy. If 416 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 3: you want to stay here, you can just stay here, 417 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,919 Speaker 3: and like, you know, pay me what you want. I 418 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 3: was like two hundred dollars. He's like sure. So for 419 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 3: the next four years I lived for you know, and. 420 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 2: This reason you sleep though you still so it was it. 421 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 3: Was the he was a gay thug. Then I lived 422 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 3: in a crackhouse after the gay thug for like two 423 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,479 Speaker 3: years where there's no water supply. It was in Canarsity. 424 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 3: It was like foreclosed house in CANARSI stayed there for 425 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 3: for two years. You know, no water supply. Had to 426 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 3: go to the Planet Fitness to get water back to 427 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 3: my place. 428 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 2: Why you didn't just shower planet. 429 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 3: I did shower a planet, but I need water to like 430 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 3: teeth and sort of like, oh yeah, you. 431 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 2: Were really tugging this out. 432 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 3: All for comedy, all for comedy, but that but that crackhouse, 433 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 3: it was like a room. I stayed in the crackhouse 434 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 3: and I paid no rent because there was a foreclosed house. 435 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 3: Ciphered electricity illegally from Connad like, so we had electricity 436 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 3: and it was it was great. 437 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,360 Speaker 2: And during this time, you're eating bagel. 438 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 3: The bagel, the Bagel, so gay thug crack house has 439 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 3: one struggle era. Once I got the Williamsburg place with 440 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 3: my friend, things started looking up because the crackhouse gave 441 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 3: me disposable income because I hadn't I haven't pay any rent. Yeah, 442 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 3: so no, rant means every month I'm saving a thousand dollars. 443 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 2: Oh you were saving, but you were good with money. 444 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 3: Oh you were good with money. I was there. 445 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 2: We go, okay, well you actually. 446 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 3: You know? Yeah? 447 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, so okay, so crackheaded house, now you're moving up. 448 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 1: You get to Williamsburg. Yes, and now you have a 449 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: roommate situation for four years. Yes, okay. Comedy is skyrocketing 450 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: at this point. 451 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 3: So it's getting better and better, and I finally have 452 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 3: some money to like just live. And now I'm past 453 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 3: Bagel era at this point. So Bagel's done. Yeah, you 454 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 3: seem very happy. 455 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 2: For very heavy, very heavy. 456 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 3: Bagel Ara is done. Now I add the Schmears. You 457 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Schmeer type life out here. 458 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 1: And what accolades are you achieving a comedy because you've 459 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: achieved a lot. So are we getting any shout outs 460 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: to some of those accolades during that period that gave 461 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: you that reassurance. 462 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 3: Yes, So now this put on like twenty seven, twenty seven, 463 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 3: and so I'm getting Americans that talent I'm getting I'm 464 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 3: winning those comedy competitions that are like in Albany and 465 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 3: New York, and I'm like getting some notoriety. I'm getting 466 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 3: past the clubs here. That rise is coming. I'm on 467 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,360 Speaker 3: all different like huff Po, BuzzFeed, I'm doing all these different. 468 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: Videos and I have to do this. What are your 469 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 1: parents saying at this era? They see you winning, but 470 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: they also don't see the money. 471 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 3: Right, so really the reputation is more important than the 472 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 3: money first for them or for you for them, right, 473 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 3: So for them, it's like they were very like not talking, 474 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 3: not talking. Then one of my mom's friends comes to her. 475 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 3: She's like, oh I saw him on the TV. And 476 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 3: my mom is like, oh, I guess I do love him. 477 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 2: It was like a mom proud moment. 478 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 3: I love you shit. And then once the auntie started 479 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 3: validating it, all of a sudden, because brown Coach is 480 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 3: very like, what will people say? That's a huge thing. 481 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 3: Money's big, but even more than that is what reputation. 482 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 3: So all of a sudden, a little honor was restored 483 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 3: and the vibe was getting good. And then and now 484 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 3: they're almost too supportive. I wanted to say that right now, 485 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 3: that my parents are very supportive now. Such thing is 486 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 3: it's weird because you know, like immigrant dads, they don't 487 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 3: know how to like be normal. Right, it's either like 488 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 3: get out of my house or it's too much. So 489 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 3: before it was like I don't want to even see you, 490 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 3: and now it's like, you know, I found DNA F 491 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 3: his social Security number. I'm like, what, you're going too far? 492 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 3: Now use it? Use it. He's like very in it. 493 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 3: Now he knows what a pilot season is, like what 494 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 3: you love the pilot season. Everybody is pilot season goal. 495 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 2: But now you don't have siblings. 496 00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 3: I do. 497 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: For the for the younger now, yeah, obviously there was 498 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 1: fear that you were going to create this mayhem. Right, 499 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: so now you have established not only did you break 500 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: the rule and secure secure the position, but now you've also. 501 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 2: Got their support. So right, the little one is so. 502 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 3: You ok, Hey, I got you, I got you. So 503 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 3: it's like older brother was the fuck up for a 504 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 3: long time. He was he was so he was a 505 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 3: rebellious one, very intense My mom was very strict on me, 506 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 3: so she was like, you are. 507 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 2: You remember you're going to. 508 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, fucking liveing like not another one. 509 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,959 Speaker 3: And I saw the last dent for my brother at 510 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 3: the Dutch so he was the fuck up. He was 511 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 3: crazy and now he's cool. He got married. Now he's 512 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 3: like a really good Stalwarts energy that helps the family 513 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 3: a lot. But before he was cray right, my parents 514 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 3: were very invested in me make it because Noel they 515 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 3: had to get there. They had three you know, I 516 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 3: can't believe three blanks. Basically that I busted, says my dad. 517 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 3: And so Noeh was the first blank. I was not 518 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 3: a blank, but I made myself a blank. Jesus arnab 519 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 3: my little brother, thank god, he was a tech whiz 520 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,439 Speaker 3: and so he'd got into coding. He got into and 521 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 3: that it makes mad money. He's like, he worked in Amazon, 522 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 3: he worked a different AI companies. 523 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: He's like a really and they were okay with that, 524 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: even though it's not the tradition, you know, they. 525 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 3: You know, I was selfish. I just left. I didn't 526 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 3: wait to see if NOELH was okay or my mom 527 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 3: was okay. Following your dream is a very selfish concept. 528 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 3: It's very, very selfish, and you have to accept that 529 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 3: that a lot of people don't follow their dreams because 530 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 3: they have like sick moms at home. And that's a 531 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 3: good thing. But truth is, if you want to really 532 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 3: do this, you have to kind of do it for yourself. 533 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's selfish, but at the same time, kind of 534 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: going back to what you said with Eagle earlier about 535 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: like people heye and on you, you kind of have 536 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: to start with that hating. 537 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 2: It's crazy, it sucks. It's at home first right line 538 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 2: of rejection. 539 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 3: No one hates more than your own fucking family. Man, 540 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. Funny you what, I never loved it once? 541 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,640 Speaker 3: And go ahead, go now and knock knock? Who's that? 542 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 3: How about that? You know it is? It is like that, 543 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 3: and it's again it's a lot of love. But love 544 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 3: can gnarl up motivation too, because so much love that 545 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 3: you don't know what's actually best for the person. So 546 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 3: the truth is, when you start in art, the ridiculous constant, 547 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 3: it's almost you have to almost be literally insane to 548 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 3: believe in yourself because first of all, you suck and 549 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 3: everyone says you suck, and they're correct because you are 550 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 3: not You're not good, but all you have is this belief, 551 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 3: and so you have to traverse that belief over and 552 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 3: against logic, against the truth of you being bad. It's 553 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 3: a wild concept. And to actually get there. And then 554 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 3: of course everyone comes back like I already knew. I 555 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 3: always knew it. It was that's from Fred blah blah blah blah. 556 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 3: I tat everything everyone knows, and it's like crazy, how 557 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 3: insane that beginning is. Because you really have to be delusional. 558 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to be delusional. Now. 559 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: I know you had a lot of accolades on your journey, 560 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 1: but were there ever points in that journey where you 561 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: were like, I think that there's a chance this isn't 562 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: for me. 563 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 2: Come on. There had to been absolutely. 564 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 3: Every every bagel I had, I was you know what 565 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 3: I'm saying. I was like, you were. 566 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 2: Literally bottling up water. 567 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 3: There had to been like, oh, this is imagine. I 568 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 3: was like, man, I'm killing it. Then I got two 569 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 3: jugs of water and I'm killing it, you know, I was. 570 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 3: I was doing that. Planet Fitness had a big. 571 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 2: Juga flush the toilets too. 572 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, to p a partty take a ship. I would 573 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 3: go to the planet fitness. 574 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 2: Were you? I know you're the ladies man. 575 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 3: We gotta go there a virgin? 576 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 2: So how were you that whole thing? Were you a 577 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 2: ladies man? During the homeless there? 578 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 3: Yeah? I was out here. I was in the streets. 579 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 2: Did they know? 580 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 3: One time a girl I was trying to never bring 581 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 3: it back to my place because I never had a 582 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 3: good place. But one time a girl is like, I 583 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:13,959 Speaker 3: can't go into my place, and so I'm taking her 584 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 3: back to the crackhouse and so and I'm like in 585 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 3: the kuber and I'm like, you know, I got no water. 586 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 3: I knew I had no water because I had finished 587 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 3: the last little water for the yesterday and twenty minutes. 588 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 2: You even consider taking her back? Like what was meant? 589 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 3: But I was like, I was like, you know, you know, 590 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 3: you know, no, I. 591 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 1: Don't because if I know that I'm taking you to 592 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: the crack house, I'm not. 593 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 2: Doing it well. 594 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 3: So I was going back to that and I was like, 595 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 3: I got no water. I hope she's not thirsty, Please 596 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 3: don't want any water. We go into the house, She's 597 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 3: like I need water. I'm like, fuck, what do I do? 598 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,959 Speaker 3: What do I do? We have no water? She was 599 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 3: half Asian half like French. 600 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like either way, she said, was need water. 601 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 2: She didn't notice anything else wrong. 602 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 3: Because the place is not disgusting. It's like a nice 603 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 3: because it's like there's like a foreclosed first floor of 604 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 3: all the crackheads to hang out, and there was a 605 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 3: second floor. I was like, I just gotta have like 606 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 3: a nice house. So I had a room in that 607 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 3: in that house, and so I take her to the room. 608 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 3: She's like, I'm thirsty, and I'm like, fuck, what do 609 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 3: I do. I go to the fridge and I'm like, 610 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 3: what the fuck, there's juice. There's juice. So I bring 611 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 3: her back some juice and you I don't if you 612 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 3: know this, but if we drink juice when you're thirsty, 613 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 3: now you're more dehydrated. Yes, so now she's even more thirsty, 614 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 3: and we fucked and it was probably you. Actually, it 615 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 3: was so dry from the from the thirst, I mean, 616 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 3: sparks were flying, and it was it was we both 617 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,400 Speaker 3: passed out. I mean we were with young we were 618 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 3: like twenty five, so I like, you know, you're crazy 619 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,199 Speaker 3: on both hens and then we both go to sleep thirsty. 620 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 3: I mean it was it was some refugee level fucking. 621 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 3: The next day, I wake up early, I go to 622 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 3: play Venis. I get the water before she wakes up. 623 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 3: She's like, I'm thirsty, and I'm like, boy, do I 624 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 3: have some water? Your boy got water for you? Now 625 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 3: drink up. 626 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So you were still making it happen. 627 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 3: I was not an evil. I was like, it was like, 628 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 3: I'm always trying to make the girl feel good always. No. 629 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: No, I meant like you still had a well rounded life. 630 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 1: It wasn't just like straight you had fun during this. 631 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,919 Speaker 3: Yes, I didn't see myself a struggle guy. If I 632 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 3: had a struggle mindset, like oh no, I'm so poor, 633 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 3: then I guess I wouldn't have the confidence to hit 634 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 3: on a woman. And I usually had the courtesy not 635 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 3: to bring it back to my place. It was just 636 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 3: never it was not gonna happen without me going back 637 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 3: to my place. 638 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: Do you think it helps to be in an industry where, 639 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: traditionally comics, you have your majority that are struggling in 640 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: the process, right, So do you think it helped to say, well, 641 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm in an industry where honestly being broke is the 642 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: norm for a long period. 643 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 3: It's interesting. I never thought about that. Yeah, the idea 644 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 3: that being broke is part of the journey for so 645 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 3: many and it's like confirmed by so many stories. WTF. 646 00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 3: I was linking to a lot of mark my remember 647 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 3: that time, and that helped me go through all this 648 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 3: because it was every comic had this story of like 649 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 3: bombing hard and like I was, And I was bombing 650 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 3: hard on those times, so I was like, it made 651 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 3: me feel so good to hear them because I was like, oh, 652 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 3: it's analogous to my experience. I never thought about my 653 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 3: life as detracting from my journey or my self belief. 654 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 3: It was never like I was eating that bagel and 655 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this is gonna not work out. 656 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 3: It was more like my own ideas. It was more 657 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 3: like the jokes, like am I good enough at comedy? 658 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 3: Do this? It's never the life events. I was never 659 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 3: concerned with my body or my situation shelter wise. I 660 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 3: was always just like, is my comedy good enough? 661 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: Now? 662 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 3: I don't recommend this to for a lot of people 663 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 3: because to go that extreme, my body fell apart. You know, 664 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 3: I was dizzy for a whole month once I was malnourished. 665 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 3: You don't want to do that be healthy. 666 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: And during all this error, when you're going through this, 667 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: is there any part of you that's like, let me 668 00:29:58,840 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: just call and ask. 669 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 3: They were not gonna give you money. Well, my dad 670 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 3: was in debt because he had been swindled by kind 671 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 3: of a business move that he's a genius, true identic memory, 672 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 3: he's a true genius. Was in the poorest village of India, 673 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 3: Bengali's speaking part of India growing up, and he made 674 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 3: his way through just pure genius alone. But not a 675 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 3: good people person always doesn't really see the snakes in 676 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 3: the water, right, So he was kind of thrown out 677 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 3: of some money that he put a lot of money into, 678 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 3: like he invested, and it was not good. He was 679 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 3: not a businessman, he's not shrewd in that way. So 680 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 3: he was he had no money to give me or 681 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,719 Speaker 3: now my little brother was still in college, Noel was 682 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 3: just graduating undergrad because he had just started getting his 683 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 3: life together. The whole family was in chaos. There was 684 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 3: no money anywhere. And in that time period I left. 685 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're not telling them also that you're drowning. 686 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 3: Ohay no, no. So it was a weird, turbulent time 687 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 3: because there was no money in the family, and even 688 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 3: though a good son would have just stayed and helped, 689 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 3: I was like, no, I'm out of here. So there's 690 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 3: shame there in terms of like what I did at 691 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 3: that time. Now not now. Now it's all love this 692 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 3: money everywhere. My dad does a good job. It's like 693 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 3: it's all good. No arn up banking. You know, there's 694 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 3: a time when I had to give my dad some 695 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 3: money for a little bit. But he's he's very very 696 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 3: good now and it's like he works and has a 697 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 3: government job. It's all good. But that time period was 698 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 3: definitely a struggle time. 699 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 2: So but during that point when you chose purpose, there 700 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 2: was that bag of shame that. 701 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 3: Was like not sea, but it was. It was, Yeah, 702 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 3: it was. It was a bag of shame. It was 703 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 3: like purpose was there, but it was like I was 704 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 3: so blindered the whole Dad woke up and I was 705 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 3: like comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comany. 706 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 2: I also kind of knew you had to make it 707 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 2: work because you. 708 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: Had no If you didn't make it work, oh my god, 709 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 1: you would have been no shade to your older brother, 710 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: but you would have been like the. 711 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 2: Chapter of he messed up his life, but he then 712 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 2: turned it around and he went to medal schools. Whatever. 713 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 3: Damn man, My dad's like, why did we come here? 714 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 3: We could have just done this at home, and we 715 00:31:58,440 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 3: gotta have done this at home. 716 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: What was like a defining moment where that you could 717 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: take back where you thought, for sure, okay, that's it, 718 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: I e f and quit. I'm that AnGR or bitter like? 719 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: Was there a moment where it was like, for sure 720 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: a challenging time. 721 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 3: I never thought I was gonna quit in my life, 722 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 3: That's one thing. It was never that there were times 723 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 3: where I had to steal food from grocery stores. That 724 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 3: was a moment where I was like, what's going on here? 725 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 3: You know? I since the moment I started comedy, I 726 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 3: was like, I'm gonna do this till I die. Regardless 727 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 3: of what happens. I just don't care. I'm just when 728 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 3: I chose to devote my life to this thing, I 729 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 3: was like, that's complete, and that's total, and throw all 730 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 3: the ups and downs. I'm going to just do it 731 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 3: with every ounce of my being. The one time I 732 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 3: thought it was gonna be over was when I was 733 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 3: dizzy for a month and I thought I had some 734 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 3: sort of terminal disease, and I was like, dude, I'm 735 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 3: gonna die. I didn't get to do all the things 736 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 3: I wanted to do. But I was also like, it's 737 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 3: weird we has a twenty three year old at the time. 738 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 3: I was like accepting too. I was like, well, you 739 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 3: know truthfully, because I really I was gonna die because 740 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 3: I'd never experience that. It's a wild thing to be dizzy. 741 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 3: I would go to sleep dissy, I'd wake up dizzy, 742 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 3: go to sleep again, dizzy, wake up busy. For a month, 743 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 3: I was just like, what the heck, and so how. 744 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:09,200 Speaker 2: Did you figure out? 745 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 3: I want a doctor? And he was like, they did 746 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 3: an algae test on me. They did I At the 747 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 3: end of the month, I finally at the doctor and 748 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 3: then they were like, you have nothing. You just need 749 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 3: to have one meal and you'll be fine. And then 750 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 3: I started eating finally, and this is my other arm, 751 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 3: the one the wire was the other arm. I was, oh, 752 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 3: my god, I'll send a picture maybe if I find it. 753 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 3: It's just on my arms. It was so skinny. And 754 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 3: once I went before before I wanted the doctor did before. 755 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 3: I was so depressed and I was like, am I 756 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 3: just gonna be dizzy and I'm gonna die of something 757 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 3: early like what that was a real moment where it 758 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 3: was super sad and I was like, dude, I'm I'm 759 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 3: just gonna die before I can do all this stuff. 760 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 3: And then I was like, you know what, I found 761 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 3: a little light. I was like, Leslie, so the doctor 762 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 3: ones just to just to see what's going on. And 763 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 3: then he was like, just eat meals. And to me, 764 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 3: that wouldn't even occur to me because it was so 765 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,840 Speaker 3: comedy coded of it. My life was comedy, I didn't think. 766 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 2: And also when you're young, you kind of like. 767 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 3: Bro Eagle too, eating like dollars license and then like 768 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 3: one cinnabun for the whole day. Ah man, Jesus Christ. 769 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 2: I do have one particular question. 770 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,640 Speaker 1: It was sometimes most of the time, when you set 771 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: out on a purpose, you have like these little deals 772 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: with yourself. Like for me, I think it was like 773 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: if I have a kid, that is when. 774 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 2: I'll just give up. 775 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: Okay, I will stop because I have to choose them 776 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: before myself, like or or once I hit a certain age, 777 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: if I don't make it by this point, I quit. 778 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,359 Speaker 1: Did you have a milestone in mind or deal with 779 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: yourself that was like, okay, if I don't hit this. 780 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 1: Obviously you kept going, but I'm just saying, was there 781 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,720 Speaker 1: any set path, the deal that you made within yourself 782 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: that said okay, if this XYZ happens, that's when I 783 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:58,439 Speaker 1: will say enough is enough. 784 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 3: U I got you, I got you. Yeah, no way. 785 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 2: You didn't make any little deals with yourself. 786 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 3: I get I made fake deal with my mom. I 787 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 3: told her fake shit like if I'm not married by thirty, 788 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 3: I'll just do it. I'll just get married for you. 789 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 3: And she's like, okay, good good night. Ton thirty, she's 790 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 3: like coming to collect. I'm like what, So. 791 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: You didn't have any deal. So you were like, you know, 792 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: get rich or die trying. You were like get this 793 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,720 Speaker 1: comedy and that's it. There's no backup. 794 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 2: But there was no. 795 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,879 Speaker 1: Even like if I have a kid, I will go 796 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,439 Speaker 1: back to medical school one time. 797 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 3: One time. Oh, you know, you're right, you're right, you're right. 798 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,799 Speaker 3: I was messing with this Dominican girl in Washington Heights 799 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 3: and one day she hits me up and it was 800 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:46,120 Speaker 3: April Fool's Day and she's like I'm pregnant and I'm 801 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 3: like I was like such a kid. I was like, 802 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 3: all right, whatever you need, I'm here for you, blah blah. 803 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,719 Speaker 3: And she's like she's like happy able Fool's Day. And 804 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, I thought you were pregnant 805 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,799 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. She's like, no, I still might be. I 806 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 3: was just wishing you we have people fool. And I 807 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,879 Speaker 3: was like, so for the whole week she's like, come 808 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,720 Speaker 3: to my house and wit to see if I'm pregnant. 809 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,759 Speaker 3: And that whole week I was like it could be 810 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 3: over because she literally made me believe that she had 811 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 3: a kid by me. And I was like I was 812 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 3: like imagining like logistics, like maybe I'll quit for a 813 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,640 Speaker 3: little bit and then we start her grandma lives here. 814 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 3: Maybe just we can use as a babysitter while I 815 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 3: go to shows. Maybe I get a couple more than 816 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 3: I use them as bringers, you know, I make a 817 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 3: couple more kids and I use them for bringer shows. 818 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,360 Speaker 3: I was thinking all these logistics. That was the closest 819 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:32,920 Speaker 3: I ever got to like really being like do I 820 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 3: quit for a second to raise this kid? Because I 821 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,880 Speaker 3: really was like ready to raise this kid. On the 822 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 3: way I was on the way on the one train 823 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 3: up to Washington Heights. That that stop where the McDonald's 824 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 3: is right next to the stop, that's where all the 825 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 3: hoes that, by the way, be safe out there. That one. 826 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 3: That one stop in up Upper West or Washington Heights 827 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,719 Speaker 3: where you get off in the McDonald's right there. Watch 828 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 3: out for any woman that's around that area. They're crazy. 829 00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 3: But she was. She was in that area, and I 830 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,799 Speaker 3: was like going up there that day, like just ready 831 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 3: for a kid. It's so crazy. And I was like, yeah, yeah, 832 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 3: was raise this kid. And then I go to a 833 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,359 Speaker 3: place and then she's like, I'm not pregnant. I think 834 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 3: I cried. I think I cried. And it was so 835 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 3: I was so gratitude heavy that she got pissed off. 836 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 3: He's like, oh, you don't want to hear you know 837 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 3: what if I say you end, we never saw your 838 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,840 Speaker 3: other gag because you're so offended. How happy I was 839 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,320 Speaker 3: that I was not having her kid? 840 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,359 Speaker 1: Who man, you know what, I think that's what makes 841 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 1: you unstoppable. I think the fact that you didn't have 842 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 1: a even I don't think there was a material thing 843 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 1: or a even though the family scared. 844 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, you were thinking more logistic. 845 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 1: Yeah you're not quitting like how can I negotiate this 846 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 1: life feel where I can still keep this thing? I 847 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,040 Speaker 1: think that's what makes you unstoppable. Thank you for sending 848 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: me on this bagel hunt. 849 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,839 Speaker 3: This is your struggle day, This is her struggle right 850 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:55,800 Speaker 3: here finding one bagel? 851 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,920 Speaker 2: Where can everybody keep up with everything? 852 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,399 Speaker 3: Is something I just want to say that. Thank you. 853 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 3: This is great to Thanks for the last minute trauma. 854 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:04,800 Speaker 3: Thank you your. 855 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: Story was just as beautiful. I don't think anyone could 856 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,279 Speaker 1: have told your story quite as beautiful, artistically funny. 857 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 2: As you did. Like I was done all I watched this. 858 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 2: I can go back and watch this. 859 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 3: It's crazy man and her brother, Ego, one of my 860 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 3: best friends in my life, we had the same kind 861 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,480 Speaker 3: of come up as well. So it's very special to 862 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 3: talk to you about this because your your brother was 863 00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:27,799 Speaker 3: literally saw this whole thing. 864 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:29,880 Speaker 1: So I just so you know, I would come to 865 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,880 Speaker 1: New York and Ego would be like, Yo, can I 866 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,680 Speaker 1: get a dollar? It was just for like some slices 867 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,000 Speaker 1: of pizza. And he would stay with my dad, and 868 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: I just remember just being like, yo, he's struggling, and 869 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:45,360 Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters they would be like, he's so spoiled, 870 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,520 Speaker 1: like he has he has all this right, and you 871 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: go to New York and this bro would be like 872 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,759 Speaker 1: had Las struggling for a dollar slices of pizza. So 873 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: he was like, Yo, it's gotta be this hot sauce. 874 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,360 Speaker 1: Sama would be like, I get the slice of pizza, 875 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,239 Speaker 1: poor hot sauce on it, and nests like pepperoni. 876 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 3: And that was the thing I was re is vegetables. 877 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:06,879 Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying, Like you figure it out. 878 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,279 Speaker 3: Follow me at Usama stands up us A m A 879 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,640 Speaker 3: stands up on TikTok Instagram, and then I do shows 880 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,040 Speaker 3: all around a tour nationally. Come check me out, and. 881 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 2: Sometimes you do. Come to LA. So if you guys 882 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,440 Speaker 2: want to actually. 883 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,760 Speaker 3: Laugh, there's five good comics there, Okay, a couple. 884 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: I think Craig con is pretty good, really funny. Taylor 885 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,560 Speaker 1: Ron Taylor is not there anymore. He's in Texas. 886 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,480 Speaker 3: He's in Texas. Ronto's hilarious. Some of the big guys 887 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,279 Speaker 3: who go there, who look famous, they stay in LA. 888 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 3: They're pretty funny. Obviously, Bill Burr, he's blah blah blah, 889 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,480 Speaker 3: but is one of my favorites. 890 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:42,840 Speaker 2: Sebastian is my favorite. 891 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,960 Speaker 1: Look let me just tell you something. Bill Burr is 892 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,319 Speaker 1: my ultimate favorite. Yeah, but Sebastian, so. 893 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,239 Speaker 3: People think he's like dumb. Now listen, when you got 894 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,160 Speaker 3: huge and massively famous, some of the dumbest Jersey people 895 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,799 Speaker 3: kind of glommed on him. And now he's maybe not 896 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,640 Speaker 3: as smart as he used to be. Fine, anyone who 897 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,880 Speaker 3: gets famous gets broader. Okay, watch Aren't You Embarrassed? It's 898 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,200 Speaker 3: the It's the special with his like the V neck, 899 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:12,040 Speaker 3: pink sweater. There's no better bit with act out combinations 900 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,080 Speaker 3: writing on the on a thousand, he was the highest 901 00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 3: beforegot famous, Right before he got famous, that special Aren't 902 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,720 Speaker 3: You Embarrassed? It's so creative and heavy on the bits 903 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 3: and so active and character heavy. It's the best special 904 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 3: I think on Earth and easy at Usama stands up 905 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,839 Speaker 3: and follow my podcast, man, go Bay, my boy? Poor enough? 906 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,919 Speaker 2: All right, thank you guys for tuning in. Peace Out