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Just gotta turn out the light. 17 00:00:53,200 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: Oh hey, some things now or change, like your kids 18 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: always leaving tiny toys on the floor for you to 19 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: step on and Gango saving folks lots of money on 20 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: their car insurance. Sweetie I think I left the downstairs 21 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: light on. Please don't make me go. Fifteen minutes could 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: save you or more. All right, I'm your host with 23 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: Sean McDonald and welcome to Money Making Conversations. Each money 24 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: Making Conversation interview talks with entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and entertainers. That's 25 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: what I do on this show. I provide the consumer 26 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: and business owner access to celebrity CEO, entrepreneurs and interest 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: decision makers. You know, I'd like to tell everybody that 28 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: the Money Making Conversation interviews provide relatable information to the 29 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 1: listener about career and financial planning, entrepreneurship, motivation, leadership, overcoming 30 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: the arts, and how to live a balanced life. My 31 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: next guest is a comedy legend. I could only put 32 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: it like that. He is a legend. I had a 33 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: good fortune of meeting him several times when I managed 34 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: Steve Harvey and he made a surprise visit on stage 35 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: when I was producing b Teach Common Views, so I 36 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: know him well. He makes his Netflix original comedy special 37 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: premiere with We'll Do It for Half. I saw it 38 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: twice as brilliantly funny. He's an entrepreneur with restaurants, based 39 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: on authentic Mexican cuisine from his grandmother's traditional recipes. He 40 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: has toured with some of my favorite comedians like Adie Griffin, 41 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: DL Hughley and Cedric the Entertainer, and mostly importantly, he 42 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: is a trailblazer when he's starting his self produced ABC sitcom, 43 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: he stand up comedy specials examins race, ethnic relations, and 44 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: especially the Mexican American culture. Please welcome to money making Conversations, 45 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: my man, George Lopez, how are you serve? Hey, my man? 46 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: You know, uh, I saw the specially send me a 47 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: little link so I can see it earlier. Is I 48 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: want to make sure I saw it before I interviewed you? 49 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: And uh, how do you just George? Okay, first of all, 50 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: when somebody calls you a comedy legend, what is that? 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,559 Speaker 1: How do you feel when somebody says that about you? 52 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: You know, I mean, it's it's so if they were 53 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: if there were doctors, you know, there's so many different 54 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: doctors and different and different variety of fields, you know, 55 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: so someone would say, you know, he's the scientists, he's 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: the biotex science, he's a heart doctor, he's a brain surgeony. 57 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: This guy's a dentist. This guy's a general practitioner O B. G. 58 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: Y N you know, oncologist. So I looked at myself 59 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: as almost a bit of a multi faceted doctor. You know. 60 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: One of the things that on this sporty one year 61 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: journey that I did. You know, I grew up very alone. 62 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: I grew up without a male figure. I never knew 63 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: my father, I didn't know my mother. My grandparents were 64 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: very removed from me. And you know, there was just 65 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: something growing up that made me feel like I was 66 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: different than everybody else, not better, just different. And I 67 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: couldn't put my finger on it, but it was that 68 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: feeling of being different or having a better instinct than 69 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: everybody that surrounded me that made me do something that 70 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: was probably the most terrifying thing anybody could ever do, 71 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: and do it for years without ever seen any improvement. 72 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: So legend in the mind of of of the people, 73 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: but just somebody who you know, worked hard to create 74 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: a different narrative than the narrative that I saw. I'm 75 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: gonna tell you some being a former standard comic, did 76 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: deaf comedy jam did all the all the comedy specials myself. 77 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: I've been blessed like that. So when I saw your special, 78 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: and I've seen your specials in the in the past 79 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: where one of your funny, but all your specials are funny. 80 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: One of them that really made me laugh with when 81 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: you I think Cedric Entertainer was backstage and when you 82 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: ended the show you crawled through your your name to 83 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: get off stage. Man, that laughed so hard on now 84 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: with Joe Herge, What was running through your mind? That 85 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: was funny? Dude, Well, you know we that that one 86 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: we did live at the Kennedy Center. I was there 87 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: for Eddie Murphy's march Wain and then as I stood 88 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: there and I got a couple of jokes off and 89 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: I got a huge response. I thought, you know, if 90 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my HBO special, they wanted to do it, 91 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:58,679 Speaker 1: and a load of way you couldn't find a theater, 92 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: but that being there at any place, I thought, you know, 93 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: I like this room. It's a perfect size, it's a 94 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: great place. You know. Politically, where we were with the 95 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: wall and then everybody was a shade of having the 96 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: American flag upside down because upside down means distress. And 97 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: as we had a meeting months before the production, because 98 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: I had to start to build the set. We were 99 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: under an agreement that the director, Troy Miller, who's an 100 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: incredible director, to the rest of the development crazy stuff 101 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: that we told him that we weren't going to put 102 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: the flag upside down, but he said, hell, no, man, 103 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: We're putting the flag upside down. So it wasn't until 104 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: I got there that day to rehearse that we noticed 105 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: that the flag was upside down. And then he said, hey, gee, 106 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: you know at the end of your show, you should 107 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: crawl under the wall here said man that as I 108 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: said my under that, he goes, yeah, just sit and 109 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: and I did it. Man, Man, I laughed so I 110 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: wouldn't grab my wife had played that back to look 111 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: at this food. He he crawled under his name under 112 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: the wall, and then backstage said it was laughing bad. 113 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: That was just that's what we're talking about. Legendary stuff, man, 114 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: because that's a stand up. You know. I know the 115 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: pressure it takes to be able to go on stage 116 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: be original. And when I look at you when I 117 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: watched this special, man, this is my this is what 118 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: I say about stand up. When I look at a special, 119 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: I go wow. I would never thought of that joke. 120 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: I wouldn't never thought that joke, and that would that's 121 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: your special man and in its own Netflix, and it's 122 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 1: your very first one on them Netflix, and we'll do 123 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: it for half and and just tell us about the 124 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: whole process of getting it over to Netflix and and 125 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: taping it in San Francisco. Well, you know, let me say, 126 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: let me say this before you, because you just stand up. 127 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: So one thing I think inherited and everyone is some 128 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: people everybody has a sense of humor, whether they take 129 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: themselves too serious or they need to lighten up, or 130 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: they're dry. One of the things about about comedy and 131 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: comedian is is even the odds of even getting a 132 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: little bit of light shown on you is so nearly impossible. 133 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: But you know, there's so many guys that I saw 134 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: growing up, and that I saw in the clubs in 135 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties, in the last twenty years that 136 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: were so good, that we're so clever, that we're great writers, 137 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: and whatever fortune, whatever fate, didn't let anything shine on 138 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: those guys. And as as much as the world needs drafter, 139 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: there's a whole group of comedians who are incredibly funny 140 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: that no one will ever hear of That's why whatever 141 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: you do, do it because you love it. Because you 142 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: know there's no guarantee that you're not gonna be one 143 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: of those cats that gets any love. But if you 144 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: feel good about what you do, then that's already becoming 145 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: a success. You know successes and like everybody knows your name, 146 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: people see you. Yeah, that that that's great. But the 147 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: one thing is that you never loosen You're never loosening 148 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: your grip on something that you can't really get a 149 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: grip on. Like I think you work harder when you 150 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: get a little love and you start to do theaters 151 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: and you start to do arena and you start to 152 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: meet the people that you started to to meet on 153 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: the way up. I've seen a lot of guys stayed out, 154 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: but I always worked the hardest when I had my show, 155 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: when I had my taught show, when I had the specials. 156 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: So it's just been something that I've never been able 157 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: to relinquish. So going to San Francisco and go into 158 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: the war field and knowing the history of it, knowing 159 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: that Jimmy Henders played their Janni's Joplin Santana Ravana as 160 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: it gas your bed. Everybody that's anybody's been in there, 161 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: and you know you can do it anywhere, but when 162 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: you do it in a place that has historical significant 163 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: going to be Apollo. Chris Spencer asked me to do 164 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: this thing at the Apollo, and going there it may 165 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: not mean anything to anybody else. That's not for me 166 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: to decide. But what it meant to me to be 167 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: on stage with the Apollo, to ryal the road through 168 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: to go do Radio City is beyond you know, anybody's 169 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: true imagination or level of appreciation. I'm just I'm just 170 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 1: kind of honored to be able to do the things 171 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: that I've always wanted to do. And and and thank 172 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: you for explaining that, because I remember I was producing 173 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: bats Comic View and you may not even remember this, 174 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: and j Anthony Brown was hosting that that run or 175 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: Betis Comic View and you came and uh, and we 176 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: were trying to get you to go on stage. Oh no, 177 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: it's not my thing. It's not my thing, you know, 178 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: as y'all. I'm just here to watch and just wish 179 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 1: everybody good luck. And I remember we got you to 180 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: go on stage and you walked on stage, we introduced 181 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: you and the whole room of black people stood up 182 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: and gave you a standard ovation. And that to me, 183 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: you know, because you know, you're always famous with your group, 184 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: you know, like you know, like Jeff's felt he famous 185 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: with his crowd, and you know, and you you established 186 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: your brand of just being a funny guy. But in 187 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 1: my mind, the mex American culture was your what's your 188 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: what's your home run? And when I walked when I 189 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: saw you walk out that George, and these black people 190 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: stood off because you know, black people just like Hispanics, 191 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 1: you know, they don't they don't give it up or 192 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 1: unless they respect it, okay. And when they walked out 193 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 1: there and gave you a standard ovation, man, I went, 194 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: this dude got it, man, he got something extra going 195 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: on in his life. And I just I just That's 196 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: why I call you a legend, man, because when you 197 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: crossed all these different lanes man with respect, that's beautiful, dude, 198 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: that's beautiful. You know. You know I was my grandmother 199 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: raised me, and my grandmother was in my act. I 200 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 1: would say, you know, my grandmother was was racially insensitive, 201 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: like like your grandmother's like everybody's grandmother's especially insensitive. So 202 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: part of my material is about her relationship with African 203 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: American people and then coming to the door not opening 204 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: the door her relationship with black people, saying you know what, 205 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: like I said, I said, my first girlfriend, there's a 206 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: there's a true story, and it hurts and it's still 207 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: funny to this day. Like when I was in the 208 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: seventh grade, there was this girl that looked like get 209 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: Christie Love. She was in seventh grade. Her name was 210 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: Christina Husky, fro, light skin, tall, beautiful, and she liked 211 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: me and all my friends gave me a hard time 212 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: and I would walk with her the class and I 213 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: you know, I dug her and she was cool. She 214 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: lived on the other side of the street from where 215 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: I lived, the main street, and one day I was 216 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: walking home with her and my grandmother. I guess must 217 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: have got off work early and saw me and roll 218 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: the window down and hunk the horn and did a 219 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: U turn on sa orando mission roll the window down 220 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: and says, hey, shat whet your ass home? To call 221 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: me Shaft? When I was walking with this African American girl, 222 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: I know how funding you who Shaft was, but she's 223 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: like a shot get home, you know, And she flipped out. 224 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: So I said, so what what if I like the 225 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: black girl so all I know about no? I said, why, 226 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: why why is it your concern? She those, because I 227 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: don't like them. And if you do, they're gonna see 228 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: me with you, and they're gonna think I like him, 229 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: and I don't. I mean, that's how she thought. And 230 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 1: then and then and then in school, Christina came over 231 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: to me one day and said she didn't feel that 232 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: I should spend any more time with her because people 233 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: wouldn't get it, and it was just becoming an issue, 234 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: and and and we I never walked her the class. 235 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: I never walked her home from school after that. And 236 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: you know, when I was a young kid, still made 237 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: quite an impression on me. But um, you know, in 238 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: order to look at stand up as all of the 239 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: stand up, being racially insensitive to different groups, especially Latinos, 240 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: was part of my mix. So you can't pull one 241 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: thing out and say, you know, he's racist towards African 242 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: American people when I've said worse things about everybody else. 243 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 1: One of the things that made Richard Pryor, or did Gregory, 244 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 1: or you know, George Carlin, or made anybody you Steve 245 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: Cedric D. L Eddie Griffin, who makes anybody anything is 246 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: not if you're gonna shoot the gun, shoot the gun. 247 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 1: Don't hold the gun and not shoot it, then put 248 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: the gun down. So in comedy, if you're gonna take 249 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 1: the shot, take the shot, don't dance around the shot. 250 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: Don't don't don't don't ham and Hall. Don't look at 251 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: an audience and say I can't do that. You know 252 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: so many people. I can't do that. The honesty is 253 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: gets the respect and and the legacy is somebody never 254 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: pulling a punch. 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It's called We'll Do It 292 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: for Half. We'll Do It for Half. When I started 293 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: your interview, George, I told you I'll watch your special twice. Okay, 294 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: and this is why I watch this. But first of all, 295 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. And then I remember, you know, as 296 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: we all were in the beginning, we just won't get 297 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: a stage, so we tell some jokes so we can 298 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: be funny. That's the goal, Just to be funny. Go 299 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: from an opener to a middle act to a headline, 300 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: to get that get that first class ticket and you 301 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: you traveling, and all that good stuff and anything else 302 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: it comes along is a blessing. Okay, that's stuff that's 303 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: the life of a stand up of the average stand 304 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: up comic in this country right now. Now, then I 305 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: with your website and I saw your brand I saw restaurants, 306 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: I saw blue halls, I saw your foundation, I saw 307 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen face mask. I so we can't breathe T 308 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: shirts and so so now when I and I said that, 309 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: then I looked at your special again and I put 310 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: into perspective all that weight that you're now carrying on 311 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: stage with you now when you're performing. So in the beginning, 312 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: you didn't carry all that weight. Employees and COVID ninteen 313 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: and all that stuff. All that's going on stage with 314 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: you now, and that's a lot of people don't understand that. 315 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: To be funny man under that amount of global understanding. 316 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: Gave me a truly different perspective and appreciated your comment 317 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: even more when I saw it the second time. You 318 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: understand where I'm coming from, absolutely, you know, um uh, 319 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: I think everybody liked me when my show started. You know, 320 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: my show wasn't a huge shit, but it did a 321 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty episodes. It did, you know, five and 322 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: a half years on ABC, which I had company, But 323 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 1: that was the family show with an edge. But I'm 324 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: gonna tell you right now that I lost a lot 325 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: of people, including people when I started to vocalize and 326 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: I started to have my opinion on issues, but also 327 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: at the Grammys in two thousand and eight February two 328 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: thousand and eight. The election was in November of eight. 329 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: Chris Rock called me on a Monday after the Grammys. 330 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: Had said, can I give Barack Obama your telephone number 331 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: because he wants to ask you, you know, something about 332 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 1: your support Hillary Clinton's office had sent a facts to 333 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: the office, very impersonal, and I said sure. So I'm 334 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: watching the CNN at one fifty two Barack Obama's campaign 335 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: the Senator and it's a one fifty five and he's leaving. 336 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: And I said, there's no way that this guy is 337 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: gonna call me at two o'clock. If I'm watching CNN 338 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: and he's leaving an event, there's no way call call 339 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: at two third or three two o'clock phone rings low, Uh, 340 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 1: George Ota, Yes, hold for the Senator. Jared's Barack Obama. Ala, Hey, 341 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 1: I saw the TV. Yeah, I said. He said, listen, 342 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: I don't know where you are politically, but you know, 343 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,360 Speaker 1: you know vote means a lot to me. I think 344 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 1: the communities have a lot in common. I said, listen, man, 345 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: you know I will help you. And then I did 346 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,360 Speaker 1: what maybe was the most difficult thing to do in Texas. 347 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: In South Texas is I would go to these theaters 348 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: and people would be lined up to see me twice 349 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: in an afternoon. I will talk about half an hour 350 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: to be a political the mayor, and they'd be some 351 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: political speeches, and I would go to a half hour, 352 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: maybe four or five minutes, and then I would say 353 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: that I'm gonna support Barack Obama. And they would boo 354 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 1: and they would yell and they would hiss, and I 355 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: would be like, listen, listen, listen this, wait a minute, 356 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: hang out a second. They would walk out on me, 357 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: and then I kept on the message. I stayed and 358 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: I started to say, listen, you have a vote for 359 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: somebody just because she's not African American. And that's how 360 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: you go by the same dayer every time because your 361 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: dad brought it, bought it by the same soup, because 362 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: your mom bought it. I said, there's choices, and we 363 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: shouldn't just follow it. Man. It was the most difficult 364 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: to have your own people turn on you for your 365 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: political stance of getting someone to who's different, who's African American. 366 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: A lot of there's a lot of racial division between 367 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: our cultures as well, and they just they just didn't 368 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 1: get it until I kept doing it and he started 369 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: to do it. But at one time in New Mexico, 370 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: we had a rally out there by you of them 371 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: and they tore the gates down trying to get in 372 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: and they expected twenty thou people. That's fifty thousand people 373 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 1: out there. Wow, you know they're they're learning. It's amazing thing. 374 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: And when I'm talking to you, I'm talking to I'm 375 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: almost talking to a historian. Okay. And that's a compliment 376 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: right there, because when you said, for forty one years 377 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: of comedy, man, because we are people people don't understand 378 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: by common community is good comedians. We really just document 379 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: things and then we twist them on stage. But we 380 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 1: really are telling the truth in a way. If you 381 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: just really broke down what we're saying, we just making 382 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: just make it, make it funny because we made real 383 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: sharp or left or right turns, and that's where the 384 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: humor comes from. But we're really just telling you the truth. 385 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: And when I when I look at COVID nineteen, if 386 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: you don't mind me talking about right quick, it's affecting 387 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: the Hispanic community or Latino community and the Black community 388 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: is being devastated by the COVID nineteen. And then I 389 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: went on the website and I was so happy to 390 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 1: see that you are doing your part providing COVID nineteen 391 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 1: face masks. How did you get into that and what 392 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 1: motivated you to participate at that level? Well, first of all, 393 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: you know what not and and let's not even going 394 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 1: to talk about medical and our medical conditions. So I 395 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: had a kidney transplant in two thousand five from when 396 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: I was married by my wife and gave it to me. 397 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,640 Speaker 1: But this was stuff that should have been detected when 398 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: I was a child. I went to bed, you know, 399 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: kids went the bed, you know, and instead of saying 400 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: that maybe there's something wrong, because there was something wrong, 401 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: I just didn't do it because I drank so much 402 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 1: water I couldn't keep it in. And I mean I 403 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: had a narrow year. I was born early. I went undetected. 404 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: I could have had both my original kidneys. If I 405 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: had come from a culture where when somebody went to bed, 406 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: you take him to the doctor. If I would have 407 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: had a buck testival, I had an m R I 408 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: or something, I could have saved myself. So so the 409 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 1: fact that we ignore situations of our health until clearly 410 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: we can't get out of bed. I knew something was wrong. 411 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: So so with COVID and and and uh compromise immune system, 412 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: and knowing that that it could spread the family, and 413 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 1: that it's invisible then and that you had to take 414 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: it serious. It was a no brainer, man, to to 415 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: get involved in the mass, to donate money to charity, 416 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: to try to get people the mass as well. But also, 417 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: you know, let's talk about D L. Hubley, who uh, 418 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: go ahead, uh a symptomatic, So you look at pre 419 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: existing conditions. But also I said this, you know, and 420 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him about this, but I just 421 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: feel like, as as you never want to fall out 422 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 1: on stage, you never want to fall out anywhere. Could 423 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 1: have been driving, could have been anywhere. That may have 424 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 1: been the best thing for him personally, because if it 425 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: had happened in the hotel room, he probably would have thought, 426 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 1: I'm fatigued, I didn't eat, I've been traveling and and 427 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: and look past the COVID until maybe it was further 428 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: along and now it was more serious. So he raises 429 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: the fact that he set out in Nashville a larger 430 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,919 Speaker 1: issue is that maybe we shouldn't be rushing back to 431 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: the clubs as comedians and as an audience because this 432 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 1: is a real, real, real thing, and as hard as 433 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: it is to get by because a lot of us 434 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: don't have disposed income, you only have one life, and 435 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: that's the life that you need to protect. I was 436 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: right talking to George Lopez. Is comedy special examines race 437 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: ethnic relations, especially they have Mexican American culture. Anything different 438 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: than this special of this air and on Netflix up 439 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 1: on June, George Lopez, you know, just being incredibly funny. 440 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: You're being funny in that, dude, you and I want 441 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 1: to take you too special. You do one in English 442 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: and you do one in Spanish. You know that, right? 443 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: That's true? Yeah, So I think I think creating the 444 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 1: narrative of the uncle that was like going to the 445 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: doctor gangurine and Australia disease and our disease, creating a 446 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: also ego also, you know, using wanting to know where 447 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: all the flu comes from, uh, wanting to win other 448 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: people's business. All this whole thing about Karen's and all 449 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: these people, if they have one thing consistently is they're 450 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: all older white women. Because everybody else has found a 451 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: way to mind your own business. When I was married, 452 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: I was very to a woman that if she saw 453 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: a kid without a parent and the parent was sitting 454 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: down two feet away, She's like, you shouldn't let your 455 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: kid unattended, I said, and you're gonna get knocked out, 456 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: you know, in funding your own business. So we as 457 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 1: a culture mind our own business. But when someone thinks 458 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: they're superior to you, they don't have a problem walking 459 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: up to you in a restaurant when you're eating, asking 460 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: why you're not wearing a mask. But if someone sees me, 461 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: or sees anybody of color in a convenience store and 462 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 1: you're starting to throw uh and word around, you started 463 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: to throw some disrespect, you're gonna take. You're gonna take 464 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: a two piece combo right by the five hour energy 465 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: drinks and those vitamins that can stop your heart. You 466 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 1: too much, man, too much, You too much. Everyone, everyone 467 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: of those days has taken what they've deserved. They saw 468 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: that later, go back to your taking flop like a 469 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: like a heavy bag. Yes, yes, yes, well man, I 470 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: appreciate you, George Lopez. Man, uh, I just wanted to 471 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: talk to you man on this on my show, and 472 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: uh kind of come from a different and this is 473 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: the fastest whatever I think it's Yeah, it really is. 474 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: It's like twenty three minutes right now. But I just 475 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: want to let you know just a lot. When people 476 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: come on money, make a conversation. Man, I have no agenda, 477 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: but your greatness need to be discussed. I just want 478 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: to let people hear a little bit of you. You 479 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: because there's a man behind those jokes. Let me say that. 480 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: Let me say that, you know, the restaurants and the 481 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: beer and all that stuff came to me as an opportunity. 482 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: You know. If there's one thing that we have is 483 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: we have an imaginative mind. You can be an inventor 484 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: and come from no place. Everybody who was an inventor 485 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,959 Speaker 1: has come from from not from wealth. They come from 486 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: their own idea. If you have an idea for an 487 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: invention or something you think is different, don't just live 488 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: with that idea. Look online, look for these places. 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